When Jen was 17, she was introduced to a gang of Iraqi Kurdish Muslim men who called her and other girls “white trash” and “English pig‑dogs” while they raped and trafficked them across the U.K. to rape gang ”parties.”
Jen decided to speak up in the Rape Gang Inquiry Report “so that religiously-motivated coercive abuse is properly recognized and confronted, even when doing so is politically, culturally, or socially controversial.”
In response, Rape Crisis England and Wales, a U.K. “feminist” social services organization “working to end sexual violence and abuse,” released a statement calling the report racist for pointing out that 95% of the gang members are Muslim and exploited girls because they were white.
“It is unhelpful and irresponsible to attribute sexual violence and abuse perpetration uniquely to specific races, ethnicities or religions,” the organization states. “Framing the issue squarely in terms of immigration undermines joined-up, community-based responses to tackling misogyny and rape culture.”
The organization highlights how much they “commend the courage of the survivors who shared their horrific experiences” and how important it is for victims to be “believed and supported.” The organization even has an anti-racism statement where they explain, “just as sexual violence and misogyny are a continuum, we also know that racist violence is too.”
Yet, when rape survivors notice they are victims of racism at the hands of an ideology that views white women as property, the organization releases a statement condemning the report for being hateful towards Muslims.
The report explains how the perpetrators of the rape gangs “operated under an honour and shame clan code that treated non-Muslim girls, especially white working-class girls, as property available for sexual use because these girls had no male protectors who could retaliate.”
The girls in the report were told they were “white trash” or “‘kuffar’ who merited punishment.” Some girls were forced to get abortions, some miscarried, and others were even trafficked to the Middle East and forced into Islamic marriages, according to the report.
“They hate dogs, they hate pigs, and they’d put women on that same level,” Jen said in the report.
Muslim gangs began grooming a 10-year-old girl named Chloe after her father died. She’d go “missing for up to three days, during which time she was passed between taxis, drugged, abused, and raped,” the report says. “In every case, the perpetrators were 20 Muslims, and primarily Pakistani.” Chloe also said she was taken into mosques where imams declared that white women who dressed “inappropriately” were “free game.”
Eleanor’s grooming started at age 13 while she was in and out of a children’s home. By the time she was 17, her abuse had escalated, and she was sentenced to prison for stabbing her abuser. “I had friends that were Muslim … and this never happened to them,” she says. “The men would treat them differently.”
Dr. Ella Hill, a survivor of the Rotherham rape gangs, says Islam was the driving force behind the abuse of white girls: “I was told white girls are trash. They are all whores. They don’t obey Allah, so they deserve to be punished.”
Yet, the rape crisis organization, designed to help and “believe” rape victims, completely invalidates their experiences by calling their testimonies “unhelpful” and “irresponsible.”
The organization’s “anti-racist feminist values” put them at a crossroads: believe the female victims or sympathize based on the perpetrator’s skin color. A large portion of the report notes the systemic failures of cops and social workers. Many victims refrained from seeking help and believed the gang rape groups were able to continue due to U.K. locals being afraid of racism allegations.
When victims or their parents tried to report the abuse, they were often accused of racism. In one instance, a call operator told a victim’s mother: “You should just be glad your child is being taught a different culture.”
One social worker, according to the report, told a 14-year-old victim that she could live with her 30-year-old “boyfriend,” so long as they didn’t share a room. Another social worker removed Jane’s written report of what happened to her from recent filings, despite previous filings and police reports showing that Jane wrote about her abuse experience.
A whistleblower social worker who worked in children’s social care for almost 40 years raised concern in the report that “the local council prioritised reputational and financial considerations over child safety, leaving ongoing risks unaddressed.”
The Rape Crisis Organization’s statement is another example of systemic failure at the hands of social services. The organization and other social services that failed these young girls prioritize being a moral police instead of fulfilling their duty to protect the most innocent.
They continue to give in to the fear of being called racist. And if it doesn’t stop, more little girls will continue to be harmed.
