The Pakistani Rape Gang Inquiry Has Just Been Handed to a Pakistani Muslim Politician
One of Labour’s most prominent Pakistani Muslim politicians, Shabana Mahmood, now inherits responsibility for the National Inquiry into the Pakistani grooming gangs scandal.
Is anyone really surprised that Keir Starmer has appointed Mahmood as Home Secretary?
This is no routine appointment. The Home Secretary will shape the scope, independence, and credibility of the inquiry. And yet the very communities whose daughters were betrayed are now told to place their trust in a politician from the same background as those most implicated in the abuse.
So the question must be asked: what are the odds that our new Home Secretary will lead without fear or favour? Especially as Mahmood is quoted excluding both politicians and the Pakistani communities from the 'moment of reckoning' she herself referenced.
"Whether local authorities, children's services, police officers, all sorts of people you would feel you can trust, and that trust has been fundamentally shaken, if not totally broken, in some of these places,"
History tells us victims were abandoned precisely because of fear and favour. Fear of damaging so-called “community relations.” Favour shown to political allies from the bloc vote supplying Pakistani clan leaders.
Which is why I have a few direct questions for our new Pakistani Muslim Home Secretary:
- Will she acknowledge the overwhelming over-representation of Pakistani Muslim men in the gang rape of vulnerable white girls?
- Will she accept that these crimes were both racially motivated and, in the minds of perpetrators, religiously justified?
- Will she commit to tackling cultural practices, such as first cousin marriage and gender segregation, that continues to damage communities and entrench abusive norms within Britain’s Pakistani diaspora?
Until she answers these questions, not only will trust remain impossible, concerns will remain as to whose interests she is really serving.
Jonathan Walker
I am Raja Miah. It is now seven years since I first started to expose how politicians protected the rape gangs.
Labour Party leaders tried everything to stop me from exposing what took place. They fabricated evidence and used Greater Manchester Police and the CPS to try and maliciously prosecute me. I spent over three years on bail as case after case collapsed in court. My mother died before I could clear my name.
The truth is now undeniable: the Pakistani rape gangs are real, their victims number in the hundreds of thousands, and the cover-up continues.
The National Inquiry we fought for is about to begin. This is our one chance to ensure it isn't another whitewash. But only if enough people know what really happened and are prepared to fight back against the next attempt at a cover up.
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