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It seems like Rotherham the case you highlight in Oxford is another case of Muslim grooming gangs. Isn't it odd how the authorities fail to act in these cases? There seems to be a pattern of ignoring abuse when the abusers are muslim. Why do you think that is? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10060570/Oxford-grooming-gang-We-will-regret-ignoring-Asian-thugs-who-target-white-girls.html Oxford grooming gang: We will regret ignoring Asian thugs who target white girls What a god-awful mess this country has got itself into over multiculturalism, and once again our fear of racism will lead to the betrayal of hundreds of young girls What a god-awful mess this country has got itself into over multiculturalism, and once again our fear of racism will lead to the betrayal of hundreds of young girls Because saying you take responsibility is the new not taking responsibility, stupid. All that remains is for the panel on tonight’s Question Time to do a little gentle hand-wringing about the Oxford horrors before it concludes that no particular group is implicated in these vile, misogynistic crimes. And, once again, the fear of racism will have trumped sexism, and hundreds of young girls – or the “hollow shells” of girls, as one tearful copper called them – will be betrayed. Then we can all sit back comfortably and wait till the next hideous court case comes along, probably in Bradford, where at least 30 men have been arrested in the past few months over child sex-grooming allegations. Sue Berelowitz may believe the perpetrators could turn out to be Buddhist podiatrists. But I wouldn’t count on it. At least some good has come from this spate of incredibly distressing cases. Those brutalised young women have not testified against their tormentors in vain. Courageous Muslim writers and community workers have spoken out with repugnance and great moral clarity. Kris Hopkins, the MP for Keighley and Ilkley, believes the police crackdown in Bradford reveals that the political correctness that made the authorities reluctant to act in the past is gone. Maybe. But what remains is a political class still far too timid to challenge growing and alarming separatism in Muslim education and law. It is 30 years since I first taught English to Bangladeshi women in their flats in Tower Hamlets, and I still remember how those smiley, interested ladies shrank and cowered when their husbands came home. Only one thing can permanently change the misogynist behaviour of certain Pakistani men and that is the education and empowerment of their daughters. Female emancipation drags societies with even the darkest attitudes towards the light. But what hope is there of those girls getting the education and status they need to take their men to task? Back in January, there was a profoundly disturbing case at Nottingham Crown Court. Adil Rashid, who had “raped” an underage girl, was spared a prison term after the judge heard that the naïve 18-year-old attended an Islamic faith school where he was taught that women are worthless. Rashid told psychologists he had no idea that having sex with a willing 13-year-old was against the law; besides, his education had taught him to believe that “women are no more worthy than a lollipop that has been dropped on the ground”. If the fresh-faced Rashid had picked up that view in a madrassa in Karachi it would be profoundly depressing, though not surprising. But the school he attended was in Birmingham, for heaven’s sake! Although it cannot be named for “legal reasons”, the school is voluntary-aided – mainly funded by the taxpayer. At this hugely popular Islamic school, where a majority of pupils are from a Pakistani background, boys and girls are taught in separate classes; a segregation policy no normal comprehensive could get away with. Rashid’s barrister said: “The school he attended, it is not going too far to say, can be described as a closed community.” So, the defence against a rape charge by a young Muslim living in 21st-century Britain was not just ignorance of the law (which should be no defence at all). It was that the law and, indeed, the values of the wider country, were irrelevant in his Islamic school, even though it was a state institution funded by citizens who would go straight to jail if, for instance, they tried to have sex with a child. The fact that the judge accepted Rashid’s defence shows what a god-awful mess this country has got itself into over multiculturalism. I reckon Britons in a hundred years’ time will look back at us in outraged astonishment for allowing Islamic schools to flout the laws of the land and teach boys that women are worthless. All Islamic schools should be obliged to introduce mixed-sex classes, so boys can learn at first hand that girls are their equals, or those schools should be closed. If you teach boys that a female is no better than a lollipop that has been dropped on the ground, eventually you produce a pimp who thinks that you break a girl’s spirit as though she were a horse, before branding her with your initial. That man and those attitudes have no place, no place at all, in Britain now.

You forgot Bradford.

It is certainly a plan. It shouldn't be that difficult to do either as they conveniently put up signs in some foreign text. Certainly local child abusers have given me more reason for a boycott than folk fighting terrorists who are bombarding their civilian population with high expolosive rockets. Do you have a link to the web page. I'd like to give it a like? Is this the one? https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boycott-Muslim-businesses/1458385737773807?fref=nf

I saw another case reported on TV where police found a 13 year old girl in bed with a Pakistani man who was a know sex offender. She was arrested and the man allowed to go free.

Yorkshire win cricket county championship. :clap::clap::clap:

That would be called conspiracy. A rubbish football team can lose a match 10 nil. That's incompetence. If they deliberately allow the other team to score that is conspiracy.

Of course it isn't incompetence. Incompetence is when things are missed because folk aren't capable of doing the job. This was a deliberate act almost certainly due to those in positions of power not wanting to upset an ethnic minority, or quite likely because some in power were from that same ethnic monority and wanted to cover for their friends, family and community.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-23820054 Rotherham councillor Jahangir Akhtar steps down over claims Allegations against Jahangir Akhtar have been referred to the police The deputy leader of Rotherham Council has stepped down over claims he knew about a relationship between a girl in care and a suspected child abuser. Jahangir Akhtar's decision follows the publication of one woman's account of being allowed contact with the alleged abuser from 1999, when aged 14. The Times newspaper reported Mr Akhtar is related to the alleged offender and was aware of their relationship.

How does the lending of private sector banks lead to £1.3 trillion of government debt? ---------- Post added 11-09-2014 at 21:12 ---------- I doubt that the financial services industry is responsible for much of the £1.3 trillion of government debt. There were only a few banks that were "bailed out" and the bail out was in the form of a buy out of shares in those banks. The shares are now worth almost what was paid for them and the rest of the UK financial services sector paid £65 billion in taxes last year. That's 11.7% of total tax receipts in the UK and is pretty much typical of the contribution made year upon year for decades. (It was £63 billion in 2012) I have to agree with you about the profligate spending though. Government debt is only built up if the governmen spends more than it collects through taxes. http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/business/economic-research-and-information/research-publications/Documents/research-2013/total-tax-contribution-of-uk-financial-services-sixth-edition.pdf The sector paid an estimated amount of total taxes, (including both taxes borne and taxes collected), in the region of £65.0bn, or 11.7% of total UK government tax receipts. This is 3.2% higher than our estimate of the contribution of the UK financial services sector in 2012 (£63.0bn; 11.6% of the total UK government tax receipts).

OJ Simpson. Michael Jackson. Bernie Ecclestone. We've seen it all before.

There are a couple of places where pavement parking really gets my goat. The first is at the top end of Greenhill Avenue alongside the traffic triangle with the B6054. Someone there regularly parks several cars completely on the pavement making folk with prams have to push them in the main road on a major road junction. The other is the top section of Whirlodale Road. The houses up there are massive and most have ample parking for 5 or 6 cars. The pavement is seperated from the road by a 10 foot wide grass verge and yet loads of folk stick their cars slap bang in the middle of the pavement. Why, and how do they get away with it?

It seems the council were clearly aware of what was going on almost to the point of aiding and abetting the groomers and rapists. The question is why would a council and its officers cover up rapes of 1400 local girls by Pakistani grooming gangs?

There's always one who will gloss over the facts and claim the sun is shining despite the floods being a foot deep in your living room.

And Mugabe controls the polls and the count. The elections are a mere sham.

Actually I thought Cameron was pretty impressive in Scotland today. He actually made some rather valid points to the audience that may have swayed them. Miliband on the other hand seemed to wave his arms around and just recite slogans. He gave the impression of a man out of his depth and unsure of what to do about it. One thing is clear. If Scotland votes yes both those 2 will be out on their ears. I suspect neither would be leading their party into a general election. ---------- Post added 10-09-2014 at 19:46 ---------- It's you that is posting the rubbish. The Soviet Union, China, North Korea, Cuba all hold general elections. That doesn't mean there is an oposition that could be elected. Zimbabwe has held elections but as the votes are counted by the party in charge there isn't a chance of a change of government. It is a one party state.