Jack Straw is a fucking knobber, isn’t he?
Two blokes have been convicted of abusing girls. The girls are white and the men are from Pakistani origin so Jack Straw feels the need to shout about Pakistani men abusing ‘our’ girls…
Pakistanis, let’s be clear, are not the only people who commit sexual offences, and overwhelmingly the sex offenders’ wings of prisons are full of white sex offenders.
But there is a specific problem which involves Pakistani heritage men… who target vulnerable young white girls.
There is also a specific problem of psychos targeting prostitutes, husbands targeting wives, big kids targeting little kids, female school teachers targeting boy pupils. It’s just some people within one demographic going for people within another just because they are seen as weak or vulnerable.
We need to get the Pakistani community to think much more clearly about why this is going on and to be more open about the problems that are leading to a number of Pakistani heritage men thinking it is OK to target white girls in this way.
Look at that quote. It seems reasonable enough, but let’s do a classic word swap and see…
We need to get the White British community to think much more clearly about why this is going on and to be more open about the problems that are leading to a number of White British men thinking it is OK to target prostitutes in this way.
Sounds a bit stupid now, doesn’t it? Why should it be so, though? From the news I hear, the people that go on prostitute killing sprees are overwhelmingly white British. We don’t get anyone asking why or what are we, as a ‘community’, are gonna do about it?
Straw carries on…
These young men are in a western society, in any event, they 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.
Because they’re vulnerable they ply them with gifts, they give them drugs, and then of course they’re trapped.
Let’s break that quote down.
Young men ‘fizzing and popping with testosterone’ need to find an outlet. Girls of their own background are off limits. Being married into a similar culture, the idea that the girls are pure and sweet and don’t like getting drunk and stoned and having sex is laughable. The sweet innocent girls are, just like in the ‘western society’ a veneer for parents and elders.
Let’s take it at face value that Pakistani girls are off limits to these young men, why don’t these guys just date other girls? What’s wrong with that? The elders don’t have to know. There’s the old ‘just with her for the fuck’ reason to tell his mates.
Jack Straws comments make this case sound like these guys were just going for white girls because they felt they couldn’t pick up girls of their own culture or background. If that was the case they would’ve been picking up and shagging girls of a more appropriate age, not girls as young as twelve. They would probably have picked on any other subset of vulnerable girls as well, but being a predominately white country, vulnerable white girls are the most abundant.
These guys, in whatever culture, whatever society, are nasty bastards. As the judge of the case and the chief exec of Barnardos say, the race of the victims and abusers are coincidental.
The only reason Jack Straw is getting his big wooden racial shit stirring spoon out is because it’s brown people doing stuff to ‘our’ girls.
(Posted using my phone so, please, excuse the spelling)
Well, I’m not a Pakistani, but I am Muslim, and my spouse spent much of the last decade managing a Nursing Unit staffed largely by women and men from the Care Home’s local Pakistani (and Bangladeshi) heritage population. And I can tell you categorical, based on both our experiences, that the idea of Pakistani women being off limits to Pakistani men is TOTAL AND UTTER BOLLOCKS. Shagging about would seem to be just as prevelant among Pakistanis where I live as it is anywhere else in Britain, but perhaps it’s talked about a little less compared to – say – The Jeremy Kyle Show.
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Jack Straw did well to speak up and say this out loud. It’s the worst kept secret ever and people being too scared of looking racist to say it have perpetuated the problem. You say:
“Jack Straws comments make this case sound like these guys were just going for white girls because they felt they couldn’t pick up girls of their own culture or background.”
But this is completely untrue. They go for white girls because they (as in, the sexual predator subset from people of Pakistani origins) see them as “easy” and of “less value” than Muslim girls, who they see as “real women, who you marry”.
Jack Straw at no point said all Pakistani’s do this and those of us who agree with him and don’t vote BNP also realise this isn’t the case.
It’s not often I find myself agreeing with Jack Straw or the Daily Mail let alone agreeing with both and thinking Jack did a good job for once to boot. Don’t make this out to be something it isn’t, it wasn’t racist against Pakistani’s and it wasn’t wrong either. It was exactly on the mark. You only have to look at the photographs of the numerous convicted organised criminal gangs to see with your own eyes the vastly disproportionate occurrence of Muslim names and men of South Asian origin.
Burying your head in the sand won’t make it go away. Well done Jack for being responsible for one of the few positive actions of Labour in recent memory.