Saturday, 8 January 2011
Sexploitation - Not Just A Pakistani Issue
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As we know, ex- Home Secretary Jack Straw has been accused of "stereotyping" after suggesting some men of Pakistani origin see white girls as "easy meat", and groom them for sexual exploitation. This is understandable as far as it goes, because, as has also been pointed out, most sex offenders are white, and black girls are also targets for predatory gangs such as the squalid crew from Derby, whose crimes can be read about HERE, and whose leaders,Abid Mohammed Saddique, 27, and Mohammed Romaan Liaqat, 28, both married men, are pictured above. However, I think that Straw's remarks can be applied to all communities in the UK. The exploitation of vulnerable young girls is clearly a serious issue that is going largely unreported. All communities need to deal with this issue, and Mr Straw's comments - whatever we may think of them - will hopefully focus our attention upon it. As long as young girls take to the streets, predatory gangs of all cultures and colours will be looking for them.
Geoff Parry
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If Jack Straw was being as simplistic as has been reported, then I don't agree with him, but as he has been the MP in Blackburn for more than 30 years, I wonder whether his opinions have been oversimplified.
ReplyDeleteI can imagine that in the early stages of these exploitative relationships, young white girls may be lured by older, more exotic-seeming males. The attraction of the "other" is a familiar phenomenon. This is made easier by the fact that white girls often enjoy more freedom, and therefore are more at risk. Plus there are simply many more white girls in Britain. I'm not convinced that this a new variation of the old white slavery myth; more a matter of greater availability.
If Jack Straw had this kind of thought in mind, then fair enough. If not, we can do without scares based on false assumptions and deceptive generalisations. Evil comes in all colours.
In the meantime, those 26 girls are, as the police officer said, undoubtedly traumatised for life.