Another aspect of dealing with these refugees that we must be aware of is the recent political minefield surrounding their morality and innocence. While some like to demonize their being, and paint them all as bloodthirsty savages, the other group seems to think them innocent of any wrongdoing, and rebuffs any accusation against them as 'racism ' or 'xenophobia '. Both opinions are bigoted and do not accept the true humanity of these people, with all of its good and bad. However, this concept of a 'politically correct ' culture does little to solve current tensions, and makes it impossible to act if members of one ethnicity are found guilty of a crime, less one be labeled a 'racist '. One simply needs to look to the east towards the race
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However, as if now well-known due to widely reported cases of gang-rape punishments in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier, tribal traditions of rape and misogynistic violence are often justified on religious grounds and even seen as a form of Islamic hygiene by certain communities" (Thompson …show more content…
News stations that did report on the matters had their content censored, and were labeled as 'Islamophobic ' to ruin their credibility. It has been noted that, “In two cases cited by the Jay report, 'fathers tracked down their daughters and tried to remove them from houses where they were being abused, only to be arrested themselves when police were called to the scene" (Thompson 35). In another case, "One Rotherham detective interviewing a girl who had been gang-raped by five men refused to list the case as one of sexual abuse as he believed it to be 'consensual ': The girl was 12" (Thompson 35).
Fearing backlash from the native population, the Rotherham city council ordered police reports that showed child exploitation, with the specific locations and persons within the Pakistani community, destroyed, out of fear of instigating 'race riots ' if discovered. This may have been a somewhat reasonable position, had the city done anything to help these girls, but the abuse had stretched on for 16 years before it was ended. It was not until a worldwide backlash at the situation emerged that Rotherham rid itself of this
However, as if now well-known due to widely reported cases of gang-rape punishments in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier, tribal traditions of rape and misogynistic violence are often justified on religious grounds and even seen as a form of Islamic hygiene by certain communities" (Thompson …show more content…
News stations that did report on the matters had their content censored, and were labeled as 'Islamophobic ' to ruin their credibility. It has been noted that, “In two cases cited by the Jay report, 'fathers tracked down their daughters and tried to remove them from houses where they were being abused, only to be arrested themselves when police were called to the scene" (Thompson 35). In another case, "One Rotherham detective interviewing a girl who had been gang-raped by five men refused to list the case as one of sexual abuse as he believed it to be 'consensual ': The girl was 12" (Thompson 35).
Fearing backlash from the native population, the Rotherham city council ordered police reports that showed child exploitation, with the specific locations and persons within the Pakistani community, destroyed, out of fear of instigating 'race riots ' if discovered. This may have been a somewhat reasonable position, had the city done anything to help these girls, but the abuse had stretched on for 16 years before it was ended. It was not until a worldwide backlash at the situation emerged that Rotherham rid itself of this