"The line that was being peddled was that Jack Straw was talking rubbish"
No - the being peddled was that Keith deliberately distorted it to fit his racist agenda.
Straw commented on what he believed to be an over-representation anmonfg certain communities, but went on to point out that many of the people concerned were behaving no differently than youths from other communities who indulged in underage sex.
I doubt of less than half of the pupils in the last two terms of my school hadn't had sex with someone of the same age - we had no Muslims in our school.
What Straw made as an opinion was taken up as a definitive statement and the outcry that followed was not in the actual statement but the fact that it was being taken out of context by people like Keith and Teribus to promote an Islamophobic hate agenda.
This pair continue that quest.
There is no documented evidence to suggest that the Muslim community is any more prone to underage sex than any other, in fact, the moral standards are are higher than those in Britain.
Those Muslims who were involved were misfits, not typical of their communities - Jack Straw was referring to 50 cases.
Both Teribus and Keith are now openly declared racists, which is what I was hoping to establish.
The former is stereotypical with his little Urban Legend anecdotes and his crude thuggishness
Jim Carroll