I was written to recently by a friend who has an interest in this subject, and who had this to say.

"I'm amused by Steve Shaw's reaction to 'our' post :)

How about this one - worth risking the wrath of richie for?

This thread SHOULD be about disentangling the fact that race and religion are interwoven with each other as represented in the term Islamophobia.

When European men traffic women or groom vulnerable young girls on the street they are rarely referred to as 'Christians' whereas British born men of Pakistani origin are automatically referred to as 'Muslims' in the media and posts like akes
I can't recall the recent (or earlier) English paedophile ring preying on nursery children being defined by religion

In fact, many people in the UK do not follow the strictures of the religion they may have family allegiance to
Having a Muslim or Christian name does not necessarily mean practising that religion; clearly the young Asian men mentioned in connection with grooming pubescent (British) girls are not following the teachings of Islam

What disturbs me as well as Barbara Ellen in The Observer, Sunday 9 January 2011* is the fact that much of non-Asian Britain is apparently comfortable to view many British girls as drunken, worthless, sub-human trash.
If you want corroboration of this just wade through some of the threads on mudcat where some members have parroted the media role in portraying endless coverage of drunken "ladettes" out on the lash and being sick into gutters etc

While Mohammed Shafiq's comments about Asian men not viewing white women as equal or valuable as "their own daughters, their own sisters" this applies equally to anyone, male or female, British or otherwise who implies that these 'sluttish' young women may be contributing the risk of rape etc while placing their own family on higher moral ground
As Ellen notes in her article,
"Whenever sex workers are murdered, there is an effort to frame them as daughters, sisters and mothers, precisely because this is the easiest way to humanise them.""


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