The Law Is A Feeble Protection For Young Girls
The mass abuse of young girls in Oxford, UK.
It is an education in how little we actually know about what is going on around us.
I am a pessimist and tend to assume the worst, but never imagined this.
Yet though it disgusts me, it does not much surprise me.
Like everyone who has any kind of public position, I know that an accusation of racism – even an entirely false one – could ruin my life.
I know it as I write these words.
If Thames Valley Police or Oxfordshire County Council and its social workers deny that their wretched responses to these crimes were influenced by the same fear, then I simply do not believe them.
Then there’s the issue that dare not speak its name.
When we set the Oxford case beside other recent events in Rochdale, we find that in both crimes the men were Muslims (often mosque-going ones).
How important is it that the convicted rapists and perverts in most cases regarded their victims as barely-human degenerates, ‘kufr’, unbelievers who didn’t count ?
It matters.. But non-Muslims should not be smug about it.
It reminds me of the assertion by Anthony Blair at the start of his Iraq War in 2003 that our Islamic enemies ‘hate our way of life’.
Because, as he said it, I thought: ‘Yes, and I too hate our way of life.’
I loathe the outcome of the sexual revolution, the Great Innocence Robbery that has replaced the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure.
What an opportunity it has given to the evil and the selfish.
You don’t have to be Muslim to take advantage of the rape of innocence, believe me.
I have come to expect that children ‘in care’ are left almost completely unprotected from our modern hell of loveless sex, binge-drinking and casual drug-taking.
The very word ‘care’ sounds to me like a yellow, sarcastic sneer.
But one of these girls had a home and parents who thought they were in charge.
Those parents begged the police to act.
They took her befouled clothes to them and were turned away.
Can you imagine their despair ?
The authorities, whom they had relied on, and who are supposed to stand between us and evil, were not interested.
And so, on a filthy bed in a squalid house somewhere near you, these crimes and others like them still go on, and in most cases nothing will ever be done about it.
Moral panic ? .. I long ago gave that up.. Nobody listened.
(An extract from an article by Peter Hitchens, 19.05.2013)
