Yes, it happens everywhere, we know this. The world is a cruel place.
My assertions do not come from my experiences in Bradford alone, though it's a good example.
The issue is regarding attitudes toward infidel children from SOME muslim men, and the distinct possibility that they may be influenced by the religion that issues fatwas upon those who decry it. It is about attitudes towards women and whether or not the problem with child grooming in the UK is disproportionately carried out by muslim men.
Any stats or evidence to support the notion that other religious groups are doing the same thing to non-believers would be interesting to read.
You are not providing any stats or evidence that support a broad-brush theory about 1.5bn Muslims around the world or even the 1.5m in the UK. You also need to be able to rule out all other likely variables.
I accept that people often persecute, look down on and abuse less powerful groups or 'outsider' - be that based on ethnicity, caste, nationality, religion or poverty. People in every part of the world have been guilty of this. However you are trying to spin some grand meta-narrative out of some guys in Bradford. How about testing how well your theories work in other places and at other times? How about applying your theories to the role of Christianity in european imperialism and colonialism? How about explaining why so many non-muslim men behave in an identical manner - ie exploiting the most vunerable / available / convenient / 'cheapest' and also labelling their victims as 'trash'?
Just to show you where I'm coming from with this, have a quick read towards the end of this recent Economist article where the reporter in India explains how the lower caste women in the village, despite being 'untouchable' due to obligatory contact with dead animals and their neighbourhood being used as the village latrine, are also coerced into providing sex on demand for the village men:
A village in a million
"...There is an exception to the caste divide in Shahabpur, which many Muslim and Hindu men enjoy. For a few rupees or handfuls of rice, they are said to demand and get sex with dalit women, typically just after sundown, when the villagers troop out to the fields to ablute. At an informal gathering of Muslim men outside the house of Anwar Ali—an upstanding clerk, who also housed your correspondent—it was estimated that perhaps 40% of the village’s non-dalit men upheld this ancient tradition. According to Sarju, until Sushila lost her youthful good looks, he suffered near-nightly terrors from drunken patel youths, who came clamouring for her outside his hut..."
So how does your theory about Islam explain this? By the way Bradford has a population of 300,000. Dalits in south asia number maybe 200,000,000.
How about testing your theory out on a country with large numbers of Muslims and Christians, for example the 150 million people of Nigeria (50% Muslims, 48% Christian, 2% Other)? I don't know if this would support or contradict your theory but surely it a wider picture is better than taking a tiny sample?
Surely we need to take a far wider view of pimping, prostitution, rape, trafficking, child abuse etc occur, who tends to be victims and who tend to be oppressors. Basing a theory on some vaguely defined 'muslim' guys in Bradford is fairly worthless in drawing any bigger conclusions. To say anything worthwhile you need to look at the patterns in all parts of the world and identify what they have in common. Islam can't be much an explanatory factor if exactly the same things are happening where it is not involved at all. Taking the wider view it looks far more like it just happens to be an "incidental" variable in Bradford. If it wasn't that they would be out doing the same thing and dressing it up as caste or race or class or citizenship (ie. the self-described 'superior' using the 'inferior' for sex, labour, profit or punching practise). Also not only across the modern world but throughout history - how much of an explanation is "Islam" when European (for example) armies have gone on rampages of rape and murder? Surely a safer conclusion is that men throughout history have been doing this, and that they are labelled Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Bhuddist, 'other' or 'none' hasn't stopped them - or made them more or less likely to do so.
In other words, if you genuinely want to work out the role a variable plays you need to look at enough examples of where it is and isn't present. I suggest that there are enough contemporary and historical examples of non-Muslims doing the same thing worldwide that your theory of it's role is very weak, not plausible at all really. I am however willing to be shown differently and will look at your evidence and examples with an open mind.
