"Jim, the authors did not say their report should be burned."
Neither has anybody else.
They said that it should not be used as a 'Paki-bashing' exercise - they said it should not be taken out of context, they warned of it being abused, as I believe it has been here.
It was an honourable, honest attempt to tackle a problem.
The findings came to no hard-and-fast conclusions but opened a road to honest and difficuly debate on an extremely dangerous subject.
This is not honest debate; your statement:
"let us accept that this is a crime that the culture (not the religion) of the Pakistani community is largely responsible for"... is incoherent socio-babble of the worst kind - foreigners are culturally inferior and therefore should be treated with suspicion - it is a definitive statement by somebody whose ignorance - and agenda - has been demonstrated, to my satisfaction at least, again and again on this forum.
Your arguments, as far as I'm concerned, not only demean other cultures now settled in Britain, they demean the work of the people you have quoted to back up your disingenuous arguments and whose warnings in the Guardian article you have blatently ignored.
Jim Carroll