Weasel Words
After all, we are not seeing similar cross racial abuse featuring different combinations of ethnic groups.
We can be relatively confident that there are no gangs of native white males targeting young Asian or black children, for you can be sure that if there were, the police and media would have tracked them down and loudly exposed them by now.
So why is it occurring overwhelmingly within this same single demographic? Can it really just be multiple coincidences as the police would have us believe?
By referring to “racial motivation” the guardians of law and order are seeking to blur the issues involved.
What we are seeing here may or may not not be a racially motivated crime, but certainly it is down to the clash of two cultures, how one culture perceives another and how, by forcing two such alien cultures to interact society has placed the young and vulnerable members of the native culture at significant risk. It is that fact which the police with their weasel words about “motivation” seek to obscure.
Posted by Sarah Maid of Albion at 11:32 4 comments
UPDATE: The judge says they WERE racially motivated!
Sex grooming gang ringleader, 59, who branded judge a ‘racist b******’ sentenced to 19 years in prison as gang are jailed for total of 77 years
- Judge says nine-strong gang partly preyed on five girls, aged between 13 and 15, because they were from different ‘community and religion’
- Judge Gerald Clifton dismisses defendants’ claims that prosecution was ‘triggered by race’
- But legal counsel for one of the convicted men says he will launch an appeal on the basis of a tweet by BNP leader Nick Griffin
- Opportunity to catch the paedophiles missed after complaint four years ago
- As many as 47 vulnerable girls were plied with alcohol, gifts and money
- They were then passed around for sex with ‘several men a day’
- At least one victim forced to have sex with 20 men in one night, police say
- Former Labour MP Ann Cryer says gang were left to it because police feared being branded racist
- Muslim leader warns that some British Pakistani men ‘think that white teenage girls are worthless and can be abused without a second thought’
- Labour MP Keith Vaz warns against opening Pandora’s Box over race relations by blaming a particular race or religion for grooming girls
By James Tozer and Nazia Parveen
UPDATED: 06:51 GMT, 10 May 2012
Judge Gerald Clifton: Condemned the gang while dismissing allegations of racism against them
The ringleader of an Asian sex-grooming gang has branded the judge a ‘racist b******’ after he and his fellow gang members were jailed for a total of 77 years yesterday.
The extraordinary outburst came after Judge Gerald Clinton accused the gang of targeting white girls because they were not part of their ‘community or religion’.
Detectives are now preparing to make more arrests after they revealed they suspect up to 50 mainly Pakistani-born men took part in the abuse.
But despite the judge’s hard-hitting comments, police in Greater Manchester continued to insist that the men’s race and religion were not factors in their crimes.
Yesterday senior politicians clashed over the case – with one former Labour MP claiming police and social workers ignored complaints because they were ‘petrified of being called racist’.
With experts on paedophilia insisting street grooming by Muslim men was a real problem, the judge made it clear he believed religion was a factor.
He jailed the 59-year-old ringleader for 19 years and eight other men for between four and 12 years, telling them they had treated their victims ‘as though they were worthless and beyond all respect’.
He added: ‘I believe one of the factors which led to that is that they were not of your community or religion.’
But he branded outbursts by some of the men claiming the prosecution was racially-motivated ‘nonsense’, telling them they found themselves in the dock because of their ‘lust and greed’.
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- Police fears of being branded racist ‘left grooming gang free to abuse teenage girls for two years,’ says former Labour MP
- I try to block out what happened. That dirty old man took advantage of me… I was just a child: Rape victim’s sickening ordeal at hands of sex grooming taxi driver
- An obsession with racism that left vulnerable girls at the mercy of sex predators
- The Rochdale sex ring shows the horrific consequences of Britain’s ‘Islamophobia’ witch-hunt
The gang raped and abused up to 47 girls – some as young as 13 – after plying them with alcohol and luring them to takeaways in Heywood, near Rochdale.
Detective Inspector Michael Sanderson, of Greater Manchester Police, said none of the convicted men had ever shown ‘the slightest bit of remorse’.
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Lawyer: Alias Yousaf, solicitor for Adil Khan, confirms he will lodge an appeal against the conviction
The longest sentence of 19 years was imposed on the 59-year-old ringleader, who cannot be named for legal reasons. After a series of outbursts – including reducing a female juror to tears and insulting prosecutor Rachel Smith – he was banished from the dock.
Yesterday he refused to attend Liverpool Crown Court to hear the judge jail him for rape, aiding and abetting rape, trafficking and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child.
Judge Clifton said it was no wonder he had struck fear into his young victims, branding him an ‘an unpleasant, hypocritical bully’.
He said the girls had been raped ‘callously, viciously and violently’ after being attracted by ‘flattery, free food and alcohol’.
He branded allegations that the prosecution was racially-motivated ‘nonsense’ and added: ‘This was triggered by your lust and greed. These sentences would apply to all defendants whether they be white or Asian.’
Evil: Abdul Qayyum (left), 43, was sentenced to five years for conspiracy. Mohammed Amin (right) 45, was handed five years for conspiracy and sexual assault. The gang’s 59-year-old ringleader, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was sentenced to 19 years in jail
Monsters: Abdul Aziz (left), 41, was given nine years for conspiracy and trafficking for sexual exploitation. Mohammed Sajid (right), 35, received 12 years tor conspiracy, trafficking, one count of rape and one count of sexual activity with a child
Scum: Hamid Safi (left), 22, was given four years for conspiracy and trafficking but not guilty of two counts of rape. Adil Khan (right), 42, was found guilty of conspiracy and trafficking for sexual exploitation
Kabeer Hassan (left), 25, was jailed for nine years for conspiracy and rape. Abdul Rauf (right), 43, was found guilty of conspiracy and trafficking for sexual exploitation and jailed for six years
Two men were acquitted on Tuesday, while a twelfth alleged gang member, Mohammed Shazad, 40, fled to Pakistan last year.
Detectives believe the victims were shared around a much larger gang, but efforts to trace them have been hampered by the fact that the girls only knew them by their nicknames.
Greater Manchester Police investigated a complaint by a 15-year-old victim that she had been raped in 2008, but prosecutors opted not to press charges and the abuse continued.
Police have played down the racial backgrounds of the men, saying the girls – mostly from broken or ‘chaotic’ homes – were targeted because they were vulnerable, not because they were white.
Backing them, Keith Vaz, the Labour chairman of the home affairs select committee, yesterday told the Today programme that highlighting the Pakistani origin of all but one of the gang risked giving ammunition to the far-Right.
But Martin Narey, former chief executive of children’s charity Barnardo’s, told the programme there was a ‘real problem’ which had to be confronted.
‘There is very troubling evidence that Asians are overwhelmingly represented in prosecutions for such offences,’ he said. Mr Narey added that ‘vulnerable girls on the street at night are generally white rather than more strictly-parented Asian girls’.
He was backed by Ann Cryer, a former Labour MP in Keighley, West Yorkshire. She said: ‘This is an absolute scandal.
They (the police and CPS) were petrified of being called racist and so reverted to the default of political correctness. They had a greater fear of being perceived in that light than in dealing with the issues in front of them.’
The abuse began at two takeaways in the Heywood area of Rochdale, including the Balti House (pictured), which is under new ownership
Also under new ownership: The Tasty Bites takeaway – now renamed Bakar’s and sold on to new owners – was the other takeaway at the centre of the scandal
Kabeer Hassan, 25, of Oldham, was yesterday jailed for nine years for rape and conspiracy.
Abdul Aziz, 41, of Rochdale, was jailed for nine years for conspiracy and trafficking for sexual exploitation.
Abdul Rauf, 43, of Rochdale, was jailed for six years for trafficking and conspiracy. Mohammed Sajid, 35, of Rochdale, was jailed for 12 years for conspiracy, rape, sexual activity with a child and trafficking.
Adil Khan, 42, of Rochdale, was jailed for eight years for conspiracy and trafficking.
Mohammed Amin, 45, of Rochdale, was jailed for five years for conspiracy and sexual assault.
Abdul Qayyum, 44, of Rochdale, was jailed for five years for conspiracy.
Failed Afghan asylum seeker Hamid Safi, 22, of Rochdale, was jailed for four years for conspiracy and trafficking.
VICTIM, 15, REVEALS HOW SHE WAS ‘LET DOWN’ BY POLICE
A victim of the ring said she was ‘let down’ by police and the Crown Prosecution Service (file picture)
A victim of the ring said she was ‘let down’ by police and the Crown Prosecution Service because the issue of Asian gangs grooming young white girls was ‘unheard of’ at the time.
The girl, who was 15 when she was targeted by the gang, reported the abuse to police in August 2008 but the CPS decided not to prosecute because they did not believe a jury would find her ‘credible’.
After reporting the abuse she suffered for four more months at the hands of the gang and continued to be forced into having sex by her ‘friend’ – a teenage girl who was acting as a pimp for the men.
She said the problem got ‘worse’ after telling the police.
‘I felt let down. But I know that they (police) believed me… but… because they said to me at the end that something should have been done but the CPS just would not – what’s the word? – prosecute is it?
‘It’s like, then, in 2008 it weren’t really heard of… Asian men with white girls.
‘It was just unheard of. I’ve never heard of it. Now it’s going on everywhere. You think of Muslim men as religious and family-minded and just nice people. You don’t think… I don’t know… you just don’t think they’d do things like that.’
The girl, now 20, only escaped the gang in December 2008 when she fell pregnant and moved away. She was then made to wait until August 2009 for the CPS to tell her they were not taking the case to trial.
She called the men who abused her ‘evil’ and said she hopes they pay for their crimes.
‘They ripped away all my dignity and all my last bit of self-esteem and by the end of it I had no emotion whatsoever because I was used to being used and abused daily,’ she said.
‘It was just blocked out, it was just like it wasn’t me any more. They just took everything away and I just think hopefully they’ll pay for what they’ve done.’
Was there a BNP mole on the jury?
Inside knowledge? BNP leader Nick Griffin tweeted that seven of the sex grooming gang had been found guilty while the jury was deliberating
At least one of the gang is to appeal against his sentence following claims that a mole in the jury room was in contact with the British National Party.
As the jury was making their deliberations under conditions of strict secrecy, BNP leader Nick Griffin tweeted that seven of the defendants had been found guilty.
Urgent inquiries established that he was correct about the jurors’ current thinking, leading defence barristers to allege that one of their number must have been in communication with the extremists.
Mr Griffin later suggested he had heard about the verdicts on Facebook – apparently on the page of far-Right splinter group, Infidels of Great Britain.
The judge rejected a defence application to discharge the jury, saying there was no way details of their deliberations could have leaked out.
But yesterday one of the men’s solicitors insisted his right to a fair trial may have been compromised as a result and an appeal was planned.
Alias Yousaf – whose client, Adil Khan got one of the girls pregnant when she was 13 – said: ‘We are left with no option but to conclude that the confidentiality of the jury’s deliberations must have been breached and we submit the proper inference should be drawn that there must have been improper communication from within the jury room to Nick Griffin and perhaps others.’
He added that it was necessary ‘to identify the perpetrator and to hold them to account for any interference or tampering with the jury’.
Adil Khan, 42, only stopped abusing the child after six months because she got pregnant. The baby was aborted and Khan denied knowing the schoolgirl until police presented DNA evidence that proved he was the father.
Fury: A British National Party member protests outside Liverpool Crown Court yesterday
In a rebuke to those who had cast aspersions on the jurors, Judge Clifton yesterday praised the ‘painstaking and conscientious’ efforts of all 12, saying the entire nation owed them gratitude.
‘Anybody who may have doubted this jury should bear in mind the way that you have analysed the evidence and returned the verdicts,’ he added.
Mr Yousaf also rounded on Merseyside Police, accusing them of failing to do enough to protect lawyers involved in the case.
They were subjected to intimidation and even violence from far-Right protesters outside Liverpool Crown Court, causing two barristers to withdraw early in the three-month trial.
In response, Assistant Chief Constable Chris Armitt said his force’s high-profile presence outside court – at a cost of around £300,000 – had resulted in ten arrests while facilitating ‘lawful protest’.
Among those held was Liverpool’s National Front mayoral election candidate, Peter Tierney, 55. The antiques dealer was later charged with a public order offence.
Three days into the trial, a 100-strong mob attacked the takeaways in Heywood, near Rochdale, where most of the abuse had taken place. Police were pelted with bricks and windows smashed.
VIDEO: VICTIM OF GROOMING GANG SPEAKS OF HER ORDEAL
These BARABRIANS must be PUNISHED with DEATH for abusing younger age Girls. I am an Asian and disgusted to see these BARBARIANS in the UK preaching their BARBARISM openly in the UK, The UK government IS VERY SOFT against these BARBARIANS
if this not 100% Barbarism against NON-MUSLIM women or NON-MUSLIMS, then what is this? I am a HINDU Asian and my children facing abuses from the Muslim Majority Children in London schools where the Muslim children humiliating other religious children by using various sarcastic ways.
I know that this is overwhelmingly a MUSLIM problem rather than an “Asian” problem. The offenders are overwhelmingly Muslims of Pakistani descent, but the media is too scared to accurately report on the problem for fear of being politically incorrect and inciting “Islamophobia”. So, when they mention ethnicity at all, they hide behind this code-word “Asian”.
Hindu people have been terrorised by Muslims for over a thousand years, as I’m sure you’re well aware.
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