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After the film was withdrawn, one of the mothers sent Annie Hall a text message: "It's a real shame when votes come before young girls' lives."

For many white girls growing up in fairly traditional communities, the unfamiliarity of boys and men from different ethnic backgrounds can be exciting and attractive. 

"The man I thought was my boyfriend used to dress really well and always smelt nice," says Sophie, "and I thought it were dead nice the way he talked, and even his manners seemed better than boys I were used to."

Emma Jackson knows exactly how the pimping gangs operate in Rotherham because she was also a victim of one. When Emma was 12, she was befriended by Asian boys around her own age who soon introduced her to relatives in their twenties and thirties. 

Emma had no idea she was being groomed and brainwashed until one day, totally out of the blue, she was taken to wasteland and raped by the gang leader. The attack was watched by laughing gang members and recorded on a number of mobile phones. 

"People ask me why I kept going back to Tarik, even after he raped me," says Emma, "but he threatened to firebomb my home and rape my own mother if I tried to escape."

Emma now gives support, through a charity set up to prevent the sexual abuse of children, to a number of victims of pimping gangs and has found that the girls are being targeted at an even younger age. 

"The gangs want virgins and girls who are free of sexual diseases. Most of the men buying sex with the girls have Muslim wives and they don't want to risk infection. The younger you look, the more saleable you are."

One youth worker in south Yorkshire told me that because religious Muslims are being pressurised to marry virgins within their own extended family networks, it means that some are more likely to view white girls as easily available and "safer" than Pakistani girls.

When I first wrote about the issue of Asian grooming gangs in 2007, my name was included on the website Islamophobia Watch: Documenting anti-Muslim Bigotry. So was that of Ann Cryer, the former Labour MP for Keighley in Yorkshire, who had been at the forefront of attempting to tackle the problem, after receiving requests for help from some of the parents of children caught up with the gangs in her constituency. 

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Anonymous
June 30th, 2011
10:06 AM
I suppose the idea is that someone with a religion is automatically righteous, I have found by experience that religiously minded people are actually the ones you've got to watch out for, They may deny it but muslims are taught to look at anyone else as not worthy, we're all human at the end of the day, and humans are regularly really bad to each other. Young men regardless of race or religion want to have sex, its the reason were all here (not god!) just because theyre bacwards culture decrees otherwise, doesnt mean it wont happen, religion does NOT make you immune from human urges. ask the vatican!

Ray Wheland
June 2nd, 2011
6:06 PM
Ah, is this another benefit of the rainbow Nation, foisted upon the natives by the liberal elite ? If only they realised that they are even more despised by Muslims than the natives , with their gay/women's right's agenda.

Anonymous
May 21st, 2011
8:05 AM
15 years ago, I and two other social workers were suspended for writing a report stating 'the girls, sisters, aged 10 and 12 years were groomed and raped by a group of Asian taxi drivers' our crime was to use the word Asian.

Laura
March 8th, 2011
9:03 PM
I feel very strongly on the issues around sexual exploitation and grooming of young girls as young girls are innocent and naive and are not aware that when they are recieving this attention from young boys and then men it is all part of a process and there is only one way it is going to end up and that is the young girls poising their innocence. I have 2 young daughters, my eldest being 6 and I am already frightened for their safety as being a support worker for 16-25 year olds I come across the grooming process regularly. I feel that people need to be more aware as before I worked with young people I knew nothing about grooming. Since it has been in the media recently i have being trying to find training in or around the Bradford area for myself and my colleagues on sexual exploitation and grooming as I feel passionately about raising awareness on the subject and looking at ways to try and prevent it in the future. After lots of searching I have been unsuccessful so would be very grateful if anybody knows of any they could post it on here for me please I can start to actively try to prevent grooming as much as possible.

jennie wedd
March 4th, 2011
8:03 PM
Whilst I feel many of the comments made in this article are fair, I feel it is important to point out that Pakistani men do exploit and abuse their own women also.Men that can rape, abuse and violate women in public, are also capable of undertaking the same abuse behind closed doors. I know this because I have worked with Asian women, and I have heard their stories and listened to their frustration at how their experiences have been normalized in the media as how Asian's live. Unlike the broader community, Asian women have the dual disadvantage that they are related to their exploiter, they do not have the support of the extended family and some do not have the awareness of who and how to tell. Asian women, are threatened with " honor killings" and rape for being "whores", and within their communities. Asian women have to carry the weight of shame, humiliation and guilt for their abuse not the perpetrators. I feel to deal with sexual exploitation effectively, more has to be done to include the voices of ALL women affected by this issue and to ensure that a process is put into place that allows perpetrators to be prosecuted quickly, with minimal risk to the victims.

jane manby
January 22nd, 2011
10:01 AM
While I agree with your comments and sentiments in this article I would like to add some things. I live in a small northern town just outside Bradford, the area has a very hight Asian population and rather than being Pakistani it is very mixed with Muslims of many nationalities. My daughter are now all over 25 but when they were at home and at school they were constantly stopped by groups of Asian men in cars and asked for sex. We were even stopped and asked for sex when out in a group of five, myself and four teenage daughter. This is a problem that has grown over the last 20 years, but is seen as being a problem in cities but when I talk to friends who live in similar area they say things are the same. My friends also express a feeling of isolation as they feel they cannot express what they believe to be true, that this goes hand in hand with areas of high Muslim populations, for fear of being labelled racist. Also it is not seen as being a problem in small towns. While I agree that not all Muslim men are looking to groom young girls as prostitutes very large numbers of Muslim men of all ages are happy to stop young none Muslim girls with the intent of getting sex. These girls are not sophisticated Lolitas that could pass for 16 plus but little girls who look their age (one of my daughter would have passed for 12 at 18.) My daughters went to school with Muslim boys and they all knew that they were regarded as easy and useful for sex till they got married. My daughters worked with a high Muslim work force at where the married Muslim men there saw the white women as easy and were hitting on them all the time. All cultures, races and religions have paedophiles. The way that Islam teaches the superiority of Muslims by extension means that non Muslims are inferior and this is taught and implied through religious teaching and Islamic culture. Muslim women are superior, to be superior others must be inferior. This thinking allows people to do extreme things and believe they are doing nothing wrong. White girls are loose and asking for it. It also means that others in the Muslim community to turn a blind eye to it. Remember this had been going on a long time, decades, there will be a lot of Muslim men who know it has gone on. Until the Muslim community acknowledges that they have a problem with some of their young men and take action to deal with it there will not be a resolution to this issue.

Narc
January 11th, 2011
3:01 AM
A response with some police stats to Jack Straw's 'easy meat' comments. http://fb.me/CPcV0Fc9

Leon Haller
January 7th, 2011
12:01 PM
Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. Racial liberalism is the essence of liberalism.

nina
January 6th, 2011
11:01 AM
More muslim should come out in public and denounce these beasts, they :the perpetrators: are the ones being not only racists targeting only white girls but misogynists as well, shame on everyone in power who can stop this racist abuse of white girls but choose to stay silent for fear of being branded racists. you spineless cowards!

Anonymous
January 5th, 2011
9:01 AM
Good article on a subject yet to be raised to the level it deserves. Grooming of white girls for sex is endemic wherever Muslims settle and is sanctioned by the Qur'an. To say that it isn't an ethnic issue is to ignore the facts - something the West Midlands police have been doing for years.

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