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Thread #146055   Message #3412516
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
01-Oct-12 - 09:15 AM
Thread Name: BS: Racism in the UK media
Subject: RE: BS: Racism in the UK media
Just replying to Al.
Is that allowed Jim?
I must not "rattle your cage" or I will deserve more abuse from you.

I posted on some media racism earlier.
Did you miss it?

The Times last Monday.
"The Times has published several articles about a pattern of crimes across northern England and the Midlands involving groups of men, largely of Pakistani heritage, and the sexual abuse of white girls aged from 12 to 16."

Do you still deny there is an over-representation Jim?

The Guardian this time.
"There is a small minority of Pakistani men who believe that white girls are fair game," Warsi told the London Evening Standard after the jailing of nine men for their part in a child sexual exploitation gang. "We have to be prepared to say that. You can only start solving a problem if you acknowledge it first."

Warsi, who is Britain's first Muslim to have a full cabinet seat, spoke out after the nine men from Rochdale were jailed for a total of 77 years at Liverpool crown court last week for sexually abusing young girls. The victims, the youngest of whom was 13 when the abuse began, were passed around the group of men for sex after being plied with food, alcohol and drugs.

Vaz, the former Europe minister who is now chairman of the commons home affairs select committee, said he did not believe the crimes were a "race issue".

But Warsi, who was prompted to speak out after her father condemned the abuse as "stomach-churningly sick", took a different view in her Evening Standard interview. "This small minority who see women as second class citizens, and white women probably as third class citizens, are to be spoken out against," she said.

Still deny it Jim?