Originally published at crisis magazine
Britain is back in the news for its mishandled child gang rape scandals. This is a continuation of a crisis that has been ongoing in the U.K. since at least the year 2000. While many believe these to be decade-old crimes that now only need to be investigated and closed, it is much more likely that they continue to occur. This is because the underlying motivation behind them still exists. First, some backstory for those unfamiliar.
For at least two decades, English schoolgirls as young as 12 were groomed by groups of Muslim men and systematically drugged, threatened, and repeatedly raped. They were not only literally passed between these men in houses of horror, they were told that if they did not return on another day, for a recurrence of their victimization, their parents would be killed and their houses would be burned down.
When some of those girls eventually overcame the immense terror of what had happened to them and informed authorities, entire police departments, local city councils, and the nation’s Crown Prosecution Service refused to investigate out of fear that they would be viewed as racist and that they would create “community unrest.” The anticipated reaction of the
