Barbara Kay: If only Britain took rape gangs as seriously as Israel took October 7

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In stark contrast to the Israeli hostages, U.K. hostages’ society at large did not “have their back.” Accounts of rape gang survivors showed they were thrown under the bus by police, social services, teachers, high-ranking politicians and much of the media for reasons directly linked to the ruinous ideology of multiculturalism, which proscribes judgmentalism of immigrant behaviours that are based in western standards of morality.

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The rape perpetrators were overwhelmingly Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslims according to the report. Fear of being labelled racist or Islamophobic plus concern over voting banks froze the hearts and stayed the hands of those who, in a healthy society, would have been the victims’ natural protectors and rescuers.

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As a result, the Lowe report notes, even courts could not be counted on for justice. Judges in rape gang trials entertained defence arguments such as, in the case of one Somali defendant, that forced sex was part of his “culture and tradition,” justifying a “cultural sensitivity” discount in sentencing to avoid “empowering the far right” or damaging “community cohesion.”

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Fish rot from the head down. In 2012, the Crown Prosecution Service, then under the leadership of Keir Starmer who is now the outgoing prime minister, dropped a case against a rape gang in spite of copious evidence against them. This led the Greater Manchester Police to drop a wider investigation into regional rape gangs, effectively extending a licence for operational freedom.

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The June 2022 review of the rape gang scandal, “Operation Linden,” updated in January 2025, by the Independent Office for Police Conduct, “tiptoed around the heritage and religion of offenders,” according to a 2025 article by Dominic Adler, a 25-year veteran of the Met’s anticorruption command, tasked with “sensitive investigations into police wrongdoing.”

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Adler cites two root problems for police inaction: “austerity-ravaged services (that) are ill-equipped to deal with large-scale disorder,” and “the politicisation of policing, and its role in supporting the state-mandated policy of multiculturalism.” He calls the scandal “the quintessence of two-tier policing.”

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The Conservatives have not always covered themselves in glory on this file, but they did call for a national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs in January 2025. Labour voted en masse against it, defeating it 364-111. Starmer dismissed public concern as “far-right” agitation. Only sustained pressure forced the government to commit to a parliamentary inquiry to be completed by March 2029.

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For advocacy and support, rape gang victims could only depend on courageous, but few-and-far-between police whistleblowers and bold political dissenters who were attacked as “racists” or worse for their pains. Charismatic citizen warriors supported them as well, resisting creeping Islamization in general and the gangs in particular: notably the infamous Tommy Robinson, who for all his flaws, kept public concern over the gangs on a lit front burner despite draconian state efforts to shut it off.

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Beholden to nobody, the Lowe report does not, in its analysis and recommendations, kowtow to the crippling ideological shibboleths that created this lamentable blot on Britain’s social history. It calls for maximal sentencing, deportations and even a referendum on the re-introduction of the death penalty for the worst crimes.

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Much like Ilana Gritzewsky, the Lowe report is a voice of accountability confronting the U.K. Parliament with the words, “And you, our nation’s social, cultural and political elites, chose silence and denial. Please look at me. Do you believe us now? Will you apologize?”

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Reem Alsalem will never interrogate her double standards on sexual violence against Jewish girls and women, much less apologize to the women she has scorned. Why should she? The UN has neither “citizens” to answer to, nor “honour” of the kind ethnic Britons understand or admire. The U.K. does have citizens to answer to. And as for honour…?

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