Rotherham, 'Islamophobia' and internalised British shame

After years of race propaganda, society has started to believe it is bad

Is the Prime Minister to blame?

As a nation, we are finding it hard to get our heads round the cruelty and depravity of the grooming gangs, as well as the corruption and cowardice of the police and other officials who so shamefully protected them.

The appalling magnitude of the scandal, which went on for decades, is brought to light by pieces like this one in the Telegraph, which lays bare the whole sickening story. It’s the details that stick in the mind. In addition to the rape, torture and murder, I find myself haunted by this:

“As the Jay Inquiry into Rotherham found in 2014, in at least two cases fathers tracked down their daughters and attempted to remove them from the houses where they were being abused. The police arrested the fathers.”

Let that sink in. The officers who carried out those arrests need to be – metaphorically at least – taken outside and shot.

In Rotherham, we are told, police told a father that his 15-year-old daughter might “learn her lesson” from being raped and refused to take action. The town “would erupt” if the routine abuse of white children by men of Pakistani heritage became public knowledge, they said. In other instances, officers arrested child victims for being “drunk and disorderly” rather than the men who were abusing them and plying them with alcohol and drugs. Those cops need dealing with as well. Punish them to the fullest extent of the law.

But it just can’t sink in, can it? This is one of the darkest and most debased chapters in our country’s recent history, the culmination of decades of politically correct brainwashing. Just when you think you’ve seen it all, you stumble across a tweet like this one (by Sulaiman Ahmed, a self-proclaimed “journalist” with 625,000 followers):

“Anyone involved in grooming gangs are horrific human beings but let’s be clear this is Zionist propaganda intended to redirect the public. The objective of the Zionists has always been to redirect public thought about Israeli crimes to hatred against Muslims.” At the time of writing, this bilge has been viewed more than 250,000 times.

Who is to blame for this societal mess? Sir Keir Starmer, who was Director of Public Prosecutions for much of this time? Jess Phillips, who scotched the proposed inquiry? (It is hard to forget her victory speech at the last election, in which she lamented the intimidation and harassment she had faced from pro-Gaza activists during the campaign. “This election has been the worst election I have ever stood in,” she said, amid heckling from Gaza thugs. Her campaign had been forced to make regular calls to the police, she revealed, with volunteers being filmed in the street and having their tyres slashed. Perhaps they ground her down.)

Do we blame the social workers, like the one who attended the Islamic wedding of a 14-year-old rape victim to her abuser? Do we blame the police? The council? The answer, of course, is all of the above, as well as the successive governments since the Blair era who oversaw a policy of excessive immigration, blithely welcoming the ghettoisation of our towns and the open disdain for integration.

But the blame must also lie with the cultural elites. For decades, they have been subjecting our nation to a multi-front psychological assault that so eroded our sense of selfhood that people ended up covering up child abuse because they were afraid of being branded “Islamophobic”.