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Thread #135090   Message #3111121
Posted By: Steve Shaw
10-Mar-11 - 11:12 AM
Thread Name: BS: Muslim prejudice
Subject: RE: BS: Muslim prejudice
Once again, Keith, you betray your penchant for selecting bits which you think reinforce your racist argument and ignore the inconvenient bits. From the same article:

The authors, Helen Brayley and Ella Cockbain, from UCL's Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science, said they were surprised their research, confined to just two police operations in the north and Midlands, which found perpetrators were predominantly but not exclusively from the British Pakistani community, had been cited in support of the claims that such offences were widespread.

Their comments follow claims that a culture of silence has impeded investigations into a hidden pattern of offending by British Pakistani gangs sexually abusing hundreds of young white girls...

...But Brayley and Cockbaine, whose six-month study was cited as evidence, said they were worried that limited data had been extended "to characterise an entire crime type, in particular of race and gender". They challenged claims that white girls were deliberately sought out by offenders. "Though the majority … were white so too were the majority of local inhabitants." Comparing the percentage of white people in the areas with black and ethnic minorities, their data, they said, showed "black and ethnic minority girls over-represented among the victims".

They added: "This challenges the view that white girls are sought out by offenders, suggesting instead that convenience and accessibility may be the prime drivers for those looking for new victims."


Just shows how selective you've been, Keith. Here we have two women who actually spent months researching this, not Jack Straw, Keith Vaz and Ann Cryer, who simply megaphone about it.