One_Stop_Shop
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Agree, it was/is.
pk you still haven't put forward a single constructive point about what to do about all of this.
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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.
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, she 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?
Agree, it was/is.
pk you still haven't put forward a single constructive point about what to do about all of this.
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.
he'll just keep going on about sex jihadis, romeo jihadis, and the muslims wearing bling who also have a bluetooth and listen to the words of radical clerics which on one hand has no affect on them acting in a totally western way but on the other hand sends them into crazed rapists.
I hate Islam, not Muslims.
No it isnt Pakistani, its tribal Kashmiri, the majority of Biritsh Muslims in the north of the UK are from a very small number of valleys in nwhat Pakistan calls Azad (ie liberated) Kashmir - Hindu converts under the Moghuls, where the tribal part is much bigger than than the Muslim part
Most of these peoples did NOT ask their women to wear veils until the Deobandi movement swept Indian Islam in the early/middle 19thC - however, Kashmir, though once under the sway of the Kings of Punjab, have always been hostile towards outsiders.
What you have is bunch of mountain dwelling tribes, basically left alone under the Brit Raj, who then invaded by both India and Pakistan - a shock at best - my main surprise in Bradford was that the English and Asian communties, even tho they had been to school together almost never mixed - the hostility is palpable'
Mountain tribe dropped into another feirce tribal crew, Yorkshiremen - they seem to wish to hurt each other, and it runs deep
Child abuse, sexual abuse, pimping, grooming, prostitution, sexual slavery, trafficking, rape, gang rape and so on - all happen in the americas, europe, the middle east, africa, southern asia, south-east asia and the far east, each of which has roughly 1bn population - so everywhere basically. Obviously the make-up of the criminal gangs (and the victims on which they prey) vary from place to place, but that doesn't seem to make much difference. It's the same kind of shit going on. Obviously there are differences with what people can get away with in some places - for example some really brutal murder sprees in mexico or the systematic rapes linked to the wars in the democratic republic of congo. But even richer, apparently lower-crime or more stable countries often have extensive hidden abuse, trafficking and violence going on.Well then it is really up to you to provide evidence of non-muslim men going out in gangs, and drugging and raping little girls.
islamaphobe
Shame it's addressing statements I didn't actually make though, eh?
But it sums up your position, one based on anecdotes, conjecture, blinkered ego-ism and a bit of googling.
I admit I may have got confused with your speculation about those recently convicted listening to extremism tapes and your experiences with Bradford pimps.Sometimes you blur fact and fiction but hey don't we all like to garnish our lives a bit , make them a tad more interesting then say engineering.
Can't really be arsed to read the whole thread, but has anyoneone mentioned the reason why the BNP are not making a meal of this? It's because the white blokes convicted in connection with this are BNP members.
Child abuse, sexual abuse, pimping, grooming, prostitution, sexual slavery, trafficking, rape, gang rape and so on - all happen in the americas, europe, the middle east, africa, southern asia, south-east asia and the far east, each of which has roughly 1bn population - so everywhere basically. Obviously the make-up of the criminal gangs (and the victims on which they prey) vary from place to place, but that doesn't seem to make much difference. It's the same kind of shit going on. Obviously there are differences with what people can get away with in some places - for example some really brutal murder sprees in mexico or the systematic rapes linked to the wars in the democratic republic of congo. But even richer, apparently lower-crime or more stable countries often have extensive hidden abuse, trafficking and violence going on.
Historical examples are too countless to list, but the most obvious are linked to warfare or military occupations.
All this is done by people (overwhelmingly men) who are are nominally Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Bhuddist, 'other' or 'none'. Their victims are very often from poorest sections of the population, internal or extrnal migrants fleeing poverty or warfare. So sometimes the exploitation and abuse happens to be 'cross-community' due to sheer opportunism. Sometimes it is 'within-community'. Sometimes it is combined with a high degree of racism or other prejudice, sometimes it is more 'colour-blind' and bound up with general poverty, drug addiction, violence and social breakdown.
You want to make a big thing out of the role of Islam in this by pointing to a handful of examples. I am suggesting that if you are seriously proposing this as a theory then let's apply your idea to the big picture. I am suggesting that it does not work very well as a theory because this abuse is widespread amongst non-muslim populations. Pointing to a tiny handful of cases in one location and ignoring the vast global picture is not very convincing.
An alternative theory is that many men worldwide go out looking for sex, select their targets opportunistically and if there is nothing stopping them some of them will simply take what they want violently. Or maybe they will be able to pay money instead and a pimp will provide the coercion. This may or may not be overlaid with other prejudices, but that is largely incidental to the more general pattern. My argument is that this theory better fits the current and historical record than yours, but I am willing to keep an open mind.
A Muslim pointed out to me yesterday that the men who have carried out this systamatic abuse come from a culture in which their own personal lives have been 'controlled' by others from their childhood and that its possible, whilst not being excusable, that if English people lived in a world in which they were not only promised in marriage to others before they went to School but that there was every likelihood that the person they were being expected to marry was their own cousin that maybe they would grow up with a fucked up attitude towards controlling the personal lives of others.
No specific culture comes out of this one with any credit.
I cant see what evidence there is for the Koran encouraging the molestation of children. It does accept the prevailing mores of its first adherents in 7thC Arabia - something we would not be happy with today - but those behaviours were pretty widespread at the time. Jinnah, the "Founder" of Pakistan, did not think they would prevail once the Colonial rule of the Brits was removed, seems he was a bit wrong about that.
While we're on about grooming and explotation, anyone remember this?
'The worst of the 150 or so allegations of misconduct--some of them captured on videotape--include pedophilia, rape, and prostitution. While a U.N. investigation into the scandal continues, the organization has just suspended two more peacekeepers in neighboring Burundi over similar charges. The revelations come three years after another U.N. report found "widespread" evidence of sexual abuse of West African refugees.'
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/081zxelz.asp
In this case the victims were all African, the abusers mainly white, or to be more specific, French (Including one senior nonce the French govt whisked back to Paris and refused to have prosecuted, despite having all his abuse videos!!)
Its got sod all to do commands from deranged claw handed clerics, much more to do with power and the mutual antipathy between communities who view each other with suspicion and distrust. Much easier to target what you already dislike - people rarely attack things they hold in high esteem
Are we ready to have a watch of the report on Newsnight regarding this matter??
A very telling piece with inteviews with a charity that works with young victims of sexual abuse and also the filth on the frontline of investigating sexual assault.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00xggg1/Newsnight_10_01_2011/
It starts 30 mins in.
pk, blinkers at the ready!
Are we ready to have a watch of the report on Newsnight regarding this matter??
A very telling piece with inteviews with a charity that works with young victims of sexual abuse and also the filth on the frontline of investigating sexual assault.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00xggg1/Newsnight_10_01_2011/
It starts 30 mins in.
pk, blinkers at the ready!
You really have no humility. How tedious. That coke really fucked with your ego.
So you agree there's not a disproportionate level of rape coming from people with a Pakistani background?
Or are you still too self-righteous to hold your hand up?