Cultural terrorism as dangerous as bombs and bullets
GEORGE ORWELL wrote in 1941 that “the gentleness of English civilisation is its most marked characteristic”. How poignant those words now sound today as our society is plagued by alien barbarism and cruel exploitation.
The apostles of political correctness talk of the joys of diversity but mass immigration has led to the wholesale import of primitive, misogynistic, often brutal values that are utterly inimical to those of traditional, well-ordered Britain.
The widespread incidence of abuse inflicted on vulnerable white girls by predatory Asian, overwhelmingly Muslim, sex gangs is a prime illustration of this social breakdown. After recent scandals in Rotherham, Peterborough, Derby and Oxford – the city of Newcastle upon Tyne has now joined the list of places to be scarred by these vicious activities.
On Tuesday a group of 17 men and one woman were convicted of rape, assault, trafficking and inciting prostitution in the area. As in all the previous cases most of the convicted perverts had immigrant backgrounds, hailing from Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Iraq and Iran. Nearly all their 108 victims were white teenage girls, some of them from care homes.
A13-year-old described how she was drugged then driven to a flat, where she was repeatedly gangraped under a Kurdish flag. There could be no greater symbol of the moral degradation that multiculturalism has inflicted on modern Britain.
In recent decades we have been forced to live in the shadow of violent Islamic extremism. But the rapacious Muslim sex gangs demonstrate that we should be equally concerned about cultural terrorism. Fear, intimidation and savagery come not just from the threat of bombs and knives. They also come from brutish practices that should have no place in Britain.
The British jihadists who pledge allegiance to IS and want to destroy our liberal democracy have their moral equivalents in the pitiless grooming gangsters. Both take inspiration from an ideology that lacks any sense of humanity and holds women in contempt. Both ally their macho swagger to a burning racial hatred for their host society and its people. One Newcastle gang member, drug supplier Badrul Hussain, was recorded as saying that “all white women are only good for one thing, for men like me to f*** and use as trash, that’s all you women are worth”.
Yet even now in the wake of Newcastle there is still a refusal to face reality. Yesterday Labour MP for Rotherham Sarah Champion asked pathetically: “Why are we not commissioning research to see what’s going on?” Her tone of bogus bewilderment is typical of progressives. But what we need is not more expensive research but raw honesty.
The explanation for this nightmare is staring us in the face, as Sarah Champion knows only too well from Rotherham where no fewer than 1,400 girls were groomed and assaulted by several Muslim gangs between 2007 and 2013.
In an act of wilful folly our politicians decided to turn many of our urban neighbourhoods into outposts of the Middle East, Africa and Asia, with all their attendant sexual violence and intimidation. Nor is the cultural terrorism confined to the predatory gangs. It can also be found in the growing catalogue of acid attacks, the institutionalised acceptance of Sharia courts, the spread of misogynistic dress codes such as the burka and the prevalence of female genital mutilation, all developments that would have been completely unthinkable in Britain before the era of mass immigration. Other disturbing features of this moral decline are reflected in human trafficking, organised welfare abuses, ballot box fraud, exploitative labour on poverty pay, overcrowded housing and the erosion of free speech in the face of Islamist grievance.
In a further indicator of cultural terrorism’s tightening grip on our society, the National Crime Agency reported yesterday that “modern slavery is more prevalent than previously thought”. Explaining that there are now 300 police operations into this phenomenon “affecting every large town and city”, the agency claimed that the current estimate of 13,000 slavery victims in Britain is far too low. “We have been shocked at the scale of what we have seen,” said Tom Kerr, the agency’s director of vulnerabilities.
He should not have been surprised. The damage inflicted by uncontrolled immigration, running at more than 600,000 arrivals a year, is inevitable.
TONY BLAIR’s aide Andrew Neather wrote that the last Labour government opened the floodgates in order “to rub the Right’s nose in diversity”. But it is ordinary British people who have paid the price as their traditional moral code has been destroyed and their social solidarity obliterated.
The authorities like the police, town halls and social services, who should have been upholding decent values, instead allowed cultural terrorism to flourish in our midst because of craven anxieties about accusations of Islamophobia and racism.
Too many officials, keen to uphold the flawed creed of multiculturalism, swallowed the fashionable propaganda that ethnic minorities are always the victims and white people always the oppressors. So they ended up colluding with pitiless racist, misogynistic criminals to deny justice to abused, under-age girls.
Despite the welcome verdicts this week in Newcastle it will take far more than one case to save our civilisation after years of this cowardly institutionalised paralysis.
‘Nearly all 108 victims were white girls’