The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #149089   Message #3468426
Posted By: DMcG
19-Jan-13 - 06:42 AM
Thread Name: BS: Muslim men and white girls - again
Subject: RE: BS: Muslim men and white girls - again
As someone whose natural tendency is to be a "bleeding heart liberals who support all things minority" I don't think that is a true parallel, leveller. If it is the case that any one group shows a higher tendendency to unacceptable behaviour than another (be it Muslim, Roman Catholic clergy or anyone else), then it it perfectly proper to identify it and put pressure on the leaders of that group to distance themselves from it and for them to take action to stress to their followers it is abhorrent. That's not in itself racist/prejudiced. On the other hand to present the information in a way that implies it is widespread amongst Muslims, Catholic priests or whoever, is racist/prejudiced.

In the case of Jimmy Savile there is not the slightest evidence that being a white Roman Catholic is any more relevant than being a DJ, or a BBC-sanctioned entertainer, or any of many other possible groupings. Now I don't have any of the figures necessary to say whether the OP's assertion is correct in saying this is more common with Muslim prepetrators than any other group, but it seems a perfectly reasonable thing to analyse the court records and see if there is any statistical significance to the claim and if so to act upon it.