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Thread #154376   Message #3635603
Posted By: MGM·Lion
22-Jun-14 - 11:42 AM
Thread Name: BS: Islamic radicalism . . .
Subject: RE: BS: Islamic radicalism . . .
Try googling, Jim. You will find lots of reports like that from which the following are extracts"-

~M~

theweek.co.uk/politics/8707/muslims-back-jack-straw-pakistani-rape-gangs

Jack Straw is not looking quite as lonely as he was last Friday when he made the controversial statement that there was a "specific problem" involving British men of Pakistani descent grooming young white girls for sex because they think they are "easy meat".
Straw told the BBC: "These young men... act like any other young men, they're fizzing and popping with testosterone, they want some outlet for that, but Pakistani heritage girls are off-limits and they are expected to marry a Pakistani girl from Pakistan, typically."So they then seek other avenues and they see these young women, white girls who are vulnerable, some of them in care... who they think are easy meat."But Straw is now receiving support, not least from members of the Asian community.Mohammed Shafiq, director of the Muslim Ramadhan Foundation youth group, said: "These young men do not see white
 girls as equal, as valuable, of high moral standing as they see their
 own daughters, and their own sisters, and I think that's wrong. It's a form of racism that's abhorrent in a civilised society.""I first raised this two or three years ago and I got a lot of stick within the community from people who said I was doing the work of the BNP and stigmatising them."
The feminist Muslim journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has also backed
 Straw. Writing in the Independent about the Derby gang she says: "The criminals feel they did no wrong. These girls to them are trash, asking to be wasted – unlike their own women, who must be kept from the disorderly world out there
Earlier, Ann Cryer, former Labour MP for Keighley, West Yorkshire, who campaigns for women's rights, said Straw should be commended for bringing up a problem which, she claimed, Muslim MPs were not prepared to confront. Said Cryer: "The vast majority of young Asian men are fine, but there's a minority who do not behave properly towards white women and sweeping it under the carpet will only make matters worse. If these Asian men behaved in the same way to young Muslim girls they'd end up in very hot water in their community."