THERE is a time to be angry. There is a time when it is a sin not to be angry. This is such a time.
I have served in the armed forces. I have been a prison chaplain. I have been a minister in one of the roughest parts of Glasgow. I am not naive. Yet I was unable to finish reading the details of the atrocities committed by a mainly Pakistani Muslim rape gang on white girls. some of them pre-teen. These vile acts were committed prior to 2013 yet have came to light last week. Why were they hidden? I think we know the answer.
The great Dutch theologian, church leader and prime minister Abraham Kuyper never lost sight of the kleine mensen, the little people. He knew that the supposedly insignificant working-class people were ignored by the main parties and needed protecting. Our secular progressive elites have no interest in or concern for the ordinary working-class people of Britain. When a nation abandons the Bible, the most vulnerable pay the heaviest price.
These were not grooming gangs: dogs are groomed. These were paedophile rape and torture gangs. Neither was this confined to Rochdale; paedophile rape gangs have been operating in towns and cities throughout the UK. Poor white girls from broken homes were viewed as legitimate targets for rape and exploitation by men from a faith known for its disdain of women.
This happened with the complicity of those charged with protecting children. In a case from Bradford a 15-year-old girl was placed as a foster child in the family of her rapist and made to marry her abuser in an Islamic ceremony with her social worker present. During this period she was forced to convert to Islam and treated as a domestic slave.
Mainly Pakistani Muslims preyed upon poor, vulnerable white girls. They were pimped out to others across Britain. Police and social services were so scared of being called racist or Islamophobic they did nothing to protect the girls or arrest the perpetrators. Sometimes they were ordered to do nothing. One girl claims to have been raped by 150 men; this began when she was 13. Some girls were murdered.
The depth of the contempt the white progressive managerial class has for the white working class is all too evident; their oikophobia is rampant. The primary responsibility for these horrific acts belongs to the mostly Pakistani Muslim perpetrators. Yet it was the weakness and systemic failures of those with responsibility for protecting their own girls which should make us angriest. For them progressive ideology, especially immigration and multiculturalism, was so important that it was worthwhile sacrificing tens of thousands of working-class white girls.
Ultimate responsibility lies with our politicians. These politicians are keen on punishing hate crimes. If there was ever a hate crime it was when groups of mainly Pakistani Muslims targeted vulnerable white girls on racial and religious grounds for industrial-scale rape and torture. These hate crimes were ignored.
These horrific crimes would not have been allowed to continue unabated if our politicians had not prioritised multiculturalism and vote gathering, a combination of progressive ideology and moral corruption. The white girls were simply the wrong victims, their suffering got in the way of the progressive narrative. If it had been Asian girls the story might have been different.
This scandal touched the whole of Britain, yet the current Labour government refuses to hold a national inquiry, as Laura Perrins wrote in TCW yesterday. It is to be left to local authorities with limited resources to investigate these crimes. One doesn’t need to be cynical to ask who is being protected and which voting bloc appeased.
It does the Conservative Party little good to try to assume the high moral ground and call for a national inquiry. They have just emerged from 14 years in power when they did nothing. The police would not have ignored these crimes without strong political backing and instruction.
A law enforcement officer came to the conclusion that a 12-year-old who told police she had sex with five adults had done so in a ‘100 per cent consensual [way] in every incident’. Thankfully, he was overruled.
There was the time when a 13-year-old was found half-naked and drunk in a house with a group of seven adult Pakistani men. It was the girl who was arrested, charged and eventually convicted of being drunk and disorderly. The men were not even questioned, never mind arrested. By way of contrast, fathers who attempted to rescue their underage daughters from the houses in which they were being held and raped were arrested.
From the copper on the beat to the highest-ranking officer, not one police officer has been disciplined or lost their job and pension. The same police who turned a blind eye to these crimes are still policing us.
There has been a mass dereliction of duty amongst the media who pride themselves on ‘speaking truth to power’. With a few brave exceptions, such as Andrew Norfolk of the Times and Charlie Peters of GB News, they have chosen to ignore the elephant in the room.
Our progressive elite are so out of touch with the people of Britain they can only see through woke spectacles. Dr Ella Cockbain of University College London wrote in 2013 that she was concerned that the existence of child abusing networks run by South Asian men was ‘fuelling racist rhetoric’. She was so blind to reality that she opined: ‘It can seem that the greatest effrontery about grooming is not the abuse of children but the interracial sex itself.’
The progressives simply cannot grasp how deeply they hold their fellow countrymen and women in contempt. They cannot possibly admit that they look down on the white working class. After all, being liberal-progressives they are the good guys. They are the enlightened. They are the moral arbiters. They are the ones who understand the whole picture. There is a certain parable about specks of sawdust and planks of wood which springs to mind (Matthew 7:3-5).
Professor Alexis Jay, who conducted an inquiry into the mass rapes in Rochdale, wrote: ‘The authorities involved have a great deal to answer for.’ To date no police officer has been disciplined, no social work director sacked, no politician held to account. While unwilling to protect the most vulnerable in society, the progressive managerial class are more than willing to protect their own.
This societal calamity was papered over. That is no longer the case. The mass rape of white British girls is the most egregious example of the high-handed disdain the progressive powers that be have for the indigenous working class.
