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The British police often ignored complaints of rape of English girls by Muslim gangs. Schools, healthcare centers and the mayor of London also looked away.
Yet the denials cannot survive British lawmaker Rupert Lowe and his Restore Britain party. They have issued a wake-up call to Britain and Western Europe.
The Lowe team compiled a scathing, fact-filled report on Britain’s years of “grooming gangs” that have seduced and kidnapped hundreds of thousands of innocent teenage girls for brutal sex trafficking.
“As is the case with many decent, hard-working Britons, I was unaware of the sheer scale of the evil that has been, and continues to be, perpetrated by chiefly Pakistani Muslim men against vulnerable young white women and girls in communities up and down our country,” the charismatic Mr. Lowe wrote in the 200-plus-page “Rape Gang Inquiry Report.”
Mr. Lowe, a 68-year-old millionaire and member of Parliament, has emerged as a dominant figure in the British movement to save the country and Western civilization.
Activists fear a burgeoning Islamic population that wants to instill harsh Shariah customs oppressing women, especially non-Muslims, and encouraging violence.
British politicians have failed to confront the Muslim sex offenders for fear of being called racists. What’s more, Islamists now make up an increasingly powerful voting bloc in national parliamentary and local town council elections, according to the Lowe report.
“The Rape Gang Inquiry was necessary because the state and its institutions have failed catastrophically over decades,” it reads. “Police, social services, schools, the [National Health Service], licensing authorities, and governments allowed these gangs to operate with impunity.”
“The Rape Gang Inquiry examined the systematic targeting of vulnerable girls, overwhelmingly White British, by predominantly Muslim Pakistani gangs across towns and cities throughout the United Kingdom,” the report says. “The evidence put to the Inquiry confirms that this scandal constitutes one of the most horrendous failures in the history of the country.”
It continues: “The scale of the crimes committed is staggering. It has been previously established that, at the very least, 250,000 young white girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and lifelong trauma.”
Mr. Lowe’s relentless public demand for deportations has prompted a shift by policymakers.
Last summer, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, leader of the leftist Labor Party, ordered a national inquiry. The investigation formally began in April, just as Mr. Lowe was finishing his independent expose based on police reports, court documents and testimony from whistleblowers, parents and victims.
Amid these inquiries, an earthquake happened. In local council elections in May, Labor lost nearly 1,500 seats, while the anti-Muslim immigration Reform UK gained more than 1,400.
British voters were telling Labor something: They see their cherished, steeped-in-history country slipping away.
The Lowe effect is spreading across the continent. On June 17, the European Parliament took, for it, the extraordinary step of voting 418-218 to approve new rules that speed up deportations. The crackdown creates hubs to hold fake asylum seekers before a destination country is found.
The reason that Muslims snatch young White teens is rooted in the Quran and an Islamic belief system that grants them superiority over nonbelievers.
“Perpetrators from Pakistani Muslim and other Muslim backgrounds operated under an honor- and shame-based clan code that treated non-Muslim girls, especially white working class girls, as property available for sexual use,” the inquiry reads. “This pattern was reinforced by eight theological and legal aspects of Islam.”
The Pakistani gangs often recruit girls right at school gates, from halfway houses or off the street. They first entice them with kindness, then drugs, alcohol and cigarettes. From there comes sexual servitude.
“They were taken to houses, flats, restaurants, and hotels where they were raped repeatedly by groups of men, tortured, filmed for blackmail, and told they were ’white trash’ or ’kuffar’ who merited punishment,” according to the report. “Many became pregnant while still children.”
The report narrates individual tragedies.
“Chloe” enjoyed a stable life until her parents divorced and her mother remarried a man who sexually abused her. The horror sent her into the streets, where she met young Pakistanis who took her and a girlfriend on taxi rides and plied them with alcohol. Eventually, Chloe found herself being raped in cars.
When her mother reported her missing, police found her but dismissed her complaints of being raped, deeming her a prostitute. They never questioned the men. At age 13, Chloe told social workers that she was being raped. They counseled her on contraception.
A clinic gave her a diagnosis of chlamydia in her throat and vagina, as well as gonorrhea, genital warts and pelvic inflammatory disease.
The police arrested her for being drunk but took no action to investigate the rape gang controlling her.
Taken to mosques, Chloe recalls imams saying that women who dressed inappropriately were “free game.”
A women’s aid group eventually found a home in Scotland for Chloe and her daughter, born to a rapist father. Chloe told the Lowe inquiry that she was raped by “hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds” of men.
“Fiona” came from a dysfunctional family and ended up in a child care facility. From there, Pakistani gang members seduced her at age 13.
Reads the Lowe report: “The children’s home received [more than $6,000] per week to care for her and failed miserably. Fiona suspects the management avoided proper investigation for fear of being labelled racist.”
When Fiona’s mother telephoned the police to describe the “Asian men” who had taken over her daughter’s life, the officer told her, “You can’t describe them as Asian men because that’s racist. You should just be glad your child is being taught a different culture.”
The same criminals raped her and other girls in a “party house” to celebrate the Muslim holiday Eid.
“I was beaten regularly,” Fiona told the inquiry. “I was drugged, filmed being raped, and the footage was distributed. I sustained broken bones, facial injuries and severe trauma.”
• Rowan Scarborough is a columnist with The Washington Times.
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