As the purveyor of a family-friendly website, I have been reluctant to join in the popularization of the epithet "cuck" - as in "cuckold", as in "cuckservatives", etc. Yes, yes, as a practical matter, most mainstream conservatives are hopeless squishes who haven't conserved a single thing and for whom, as I complained to John Oakley in Toronto the other day, no hill is ever the hill to die on. But cuck-talk's not my bag, and, as a Chaucer fan, I dislike the way it advances the cyber-porn fetishist's re-definition of "cuckold" - a man who is not only aware of his wife's infidelity but turned on by it - as opposed to its ancient meaning, of an oblivious fool of a husband who discovers too late he's now grown cuckold's horns.
Oh, and also I see that one of the super-butch pseudonymous warriors over at YouTube calls me a "cuck" for being so "beta" as to interview a girl. So Mr "Schuldkult" has apparently further re-defined "cuckold" and, indeed, "beta male" to mean anyone who consorts with women: Apparently a real man prefers to sit in his bedroom and maintain the "purity of his instrument", as Mimi Rogers complained of her ex-husband Tom Cruise.
Nevertheless, I think we should make an exception to our general "cuck"-free-zone rule for the case of contemporary Britain, which is literally descending into the United Cuckdom - that is to say, an entire nation that sits back and accepts that its women are to be preyed upon. Eight days ago The Sunday Mirror reported on "Britain's 'worst ever' child grooming scandal". The headline editor's sub-quotes are most prudent: This is the "worst ever" at the time of writing, but who knows what'll come along next week? This time it's the Shropshire town of Telford:
Hundreds of young girls raped, beaten, sold for sex and some even KILLED
If you're saying, "Hey, wait a minute. Telford? Surely you mean Rotherham? Or Rochdale? Or Oxford? Or [Your Town Here]?", well, yes, this story reads (especially for yours truly, who spent several days with the poor damaged young 'uns of Rotherham) with a certain numbing familiarity:
"Hours after my second termination, I was taken by one of my abusers to be raped by more men.
"The worst moment came just after my 16th birthday when I was drugged and gang raped by five men.
"Days later, the ringleader turned up at my house and told me he'd burn it down if I breathed a word of what had happened."
As in Rotherham and everywhere else, all this was happening in plain sight. The Spectator's Douglas Murray:
Every arm of the state – including council staff, social workers and the police – allowed the mass gang-rape of children to go on in their town. And we learn – once again – how fear of accusations of 'racism' meant that the identities of the culprits were hidden and cases were not investigated.
Because, as in Rotherham, it was white working-class girls being gang-raped by "Asian" men - "Asian" being the coy euphemism for Muslim males of Pakistani origin, notwithstanding that it's immensely insulting to Indian Hindus, Sri Lankans, Chinese, etc. When Douglas indicts the various "arms of the state", we should also add the politicians - Labour and Tory - for whom these stories are not helpful to the multiculti narrative. Which is why, in the week of Telford, they chose to ban and deport more explicit threats to public order and social tranquility such as, er, Lauren Southern and Brittany Pettibone. But, as Douglas notes, we should also indict another arm of the state - the dominant national broadcaster. The BBC was so panicked by the mass sex-slavery of Shropshire children by Pakistani men that, as the German media did after the Cologne assaults, they chose not to cover it at all. It wasn't on the BBC News homepage, or the BBC England homepage, or even the BBC Shropshire homepage - although in fairness, after 36 hours of negative online comments, someone from BBC Radio Shropshire managed to file a report on the subject that you'd be forgiven for not spotting because it got less prominence than a compilation called "My Telford", the usual bit of feelgood community boosterism.
When the child-sex crimes of lifelong BBC presenter Jimmy Savile were posthumously exposed, Commander Spindler of the Metropolitan Police piously announced:
Jimmy Savile groomed a nation.
But Savile's old enablers at the Beeb and Spindler's colleagues in the British constabulary are also grooming a nation. They're grooming Britons to accept that the serial mass gang-rape of English girls is just a social phenomenon, part of the natural order - regrettable perhaps, but nothing to be done about it; and thus the mountain of human debris is merely a small price to pay for the benefits of vibrant diversity. Which means the real problem is these ghastly types boorish enough to draw attention to the sacrifice of English maidenhood to the volcano gods of multiculturalism. By contrast, the BBC knows that the proper response is a brief story on Radio Shropshire followed by Part 457 of the "My Telford" diversity fairytale.
As I told Mark Steyn Club members last year of my meeting with the victims of Rotherham:
To Mad Ash and his fellow 'Asians', the likes of Jessica and Katie are 'white slags'. To Her Majesty's Constabulary, they're mere 'Paki-shaggers', and thus unworthy of valuable police resources. The girls recall the night Mad Ash's brother Bannaras was in his car having sex with a twelve-year-old. A 'jam sandwich' - a police cruiser - pulled up alongside, and the officer rolled down the window. 'She's just sucking my c**k, mate,' said Bannaras Hussain.
The cops drove away. It must have been an abiding image for Jessica, for Katie, for Bannaras Hussain's twelve-year-old, for the girl who would later testify that all three brothers pissed on her like 'a pack of animals', for a thousand and more 'Paki-shaggers' and 'white slags' all over Rotherham, year in year out, for decades: The police driving away ...and leaving them.
Jessica kept a detailed diary of what had happened to her. She took it to the cops. It 'disappeared'. There was one kindly officer, but the others told him to back off, and, when he didn't, he died in an accident. Katie puts the word 'accident' in air quotes. Rotherham is a land of coincidence. 'Some of these things can happen, but not all of them, not in one town.'
And not all the same coincidences, all the same rationalizations, the same write-offs of "Paki-shaggers" and "white slags", in town after town after town. And the same insistence by authorities that this time they've learned their lesson, and it won't happen again. Until the next time, in the next town, in Yorkshire, in Lancashire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire...
And still the police and the social workers and the politicians and the media roll up their windows and drive away.
Oh, they can get worked up over ancient disc-jockeys who copped a feel on "Top of the Pops" in 1973 and thereby committed what the illiterate coppers call "historic" sexual abuse. But, in the face of truly "historic", truly unprecedented sexual abuse of thousands of English girls day in, day out, year after year, all they can manage is a fatalistic shrug. "Cuckolds" in the contemporary sense is a good word for the British state's attitude to what's happening. So is "wittols", the 16th century neologism for those who are aware that they're being cuckolded and go along with it. It seems reasonable to assume that the mass sexual exploitation of young girls is occurring in every English town with even a modest (as in Rotherham) "Asian" population, boundlessly cocksure and assertive, and a feeble British officialdom too cowed and appeasing to resist. The real word for what is happening is evil - for a society that will not defend its youngest and most vulnerable girls is surely capable of rationalizing many more wicked accommodations in the years ahead.
To channel Chaucer, British officialdom in Shropshire and elsewhere does not "demen of myself that I were" a cokewold - believe itself to be a cuckold; it simply accepts that, with all these different cultural traditions, a town shal nat been inquisityf of where its daughters are every night. A prudent sensitive man confines himself to celebrating diversity, and of all those complicating factors he nedeth nat enquere.
What happened in Telford is shameful; when a nation declines to be ashamed, that is far worse, and very telling.
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Mr Steyn it is becoming increasingly and alarmingly apparent that this is no long Hyacinth Bucket's England and I am quite sad about it.
I just think of Tommy Robinson to find my answer of why men dont speak out. Lawfare used against him, thrown in jail many times, yet still he speaks out. There are not many so brave as he but his treatment by the so called keepers of the law is far more severe than that meeeted out to the rapists, and the average bloke in the UK can see that. They are not dumb.
I dont think vigilanties is the answer, although tempting because the vigilanties end up running the drugs and crime and prostitution themselves, the answer is that the authorities must be shamed into acting. That means some tough reporting, and shaming the media into acting. Only then will the wheels turn.
That will only haqppen when the people are so enraged that they march in their millions on parliament house to keep their children safe. Again and again.
British men aren't cuckolds, they're eunuchs.
As Chaucer's Reeve said, "His wyf is swyved, and his doghter als."
John Bull's wives, as far as I've heard, aren't suffering the attentions of "Asians", but his daughters certainly are.
I was going to say, a la Peter Brimelow, this will come to blood. But then it already has, hasn't it?
What's to be done?
Political reform? Rather hard when the parameters of speech are restricted, when trying to organize a group might be deemed criminal speech or get you an "anti-social behavior" tag.
Lawfare"? Doesn't seem to likely given the legal precedents already set. Laws without swords are mere pieces of paper, and the hands that do have the swords are ok with a certain amount of anarchy for a "good cause".
Vigilante action? Rather hard to coordinate in a surveillance state. The first ones to try it will find out that the constabulary can be forceful and violent when it needs to be.
A mass vesper a la the uprising in Greece when the natives killed thousands of officials of the Roman Empire in a night? Again, rather hard to co-ordinate. The police are fortified in buildings. And is my local bobby really that bad? Bad enough to kill? And, again, there's the tyranny part in "anarchotyranny" that's ready for reprisals.
An army coup? How many native Brits are in the army? Are they prepared to shoot fellow citizens and leaders or will centuries of tradition inhibit that? "I mean, surely, it hasn't come to that, right?" will be asked in whispers in the officer's mess. And will every unit participate or will some take up arms for the status quo?
A miraculously roused government undertakes mass arrests and deportations? Will they get everybody they want? Are they willing to take the heat for "innocents" to die in front of tv cameras while that is done because I doubt the targeted "Asians" will go quietly? Will those who escape the dragnet go on a killing spree in revenge amongst civilians? Lots of tools for murderous mayhem in a technological society.
Will a culture suicidally committed to the "rule of law", "tolerance", mercy, and compassion really ever unite enough to do any of these? Or will it end on a bended knee muttering to itself that submission shows its superiority?
No, my own dark thoughts for a solution, if any is to be found, is what White Cossack Ungern-Sternberg preached against the Reds: "merciless fanaticism" to defeat them.
The window for anything else is getting narrower every day.
Large-scale, organised sexual abuse of infidel youth, aided and abetted by state authorities entrusted with their protection, is one side of the equation. The real rot that is the pre-condition for these scandals, as noted by John Rogitz below, is the demise of the family and the community at large; society itself has turned a blind eye for reasons more complex than political correctness (which has been the media's role). In England, the phenomenon represents the "intersectionality" of the decaying social order of the native population (the expansion of Dalrymple's "underclass"), and the ascendancy of exploitative Islamic ideology. The state remains as complacent and/or complicit as it's always been.
Where were the fathers? The fathers are not on the scene (either by choice, or unjustly denied access by family courts, as John Ward mentioned), or worse still (particularly in the case of random step-dads), they've been involved in the same type of abuse of these children domestically. These girls aren't from stable, loving families— that much is certain.
As for the part played by various arms of the state, it's likely to be far more sinister than mere political correctness, with corruption extending to business and even "pleasure". Paedophile networks are rife, and the sexual exploitation, prostitution and enslavement of children is increasingly prevalent in the globalised and Islamised West. The police et al are "more like pimps" in some cases, as Ray W noted. Which raises the question: Why is the criminality of the authorities not being addressed?
Maybe British women should try to spare their infant daughters an ugly fate by putting them up for adoption in the US the way Chinese mothers who would have preferred sons do.
Mark-
Since the Muslims are the "Dukes" in the multi-culti hierarchy, this is simply the reinstatement of "prima noctis" or "prima nocta". Rest assured that if any of the girls had complained about white yobos making them feel slightly uncomfortable they would have been rounded up. #TimesUpForCivilization
'Paedophilia', 'pederasty', 'rape', 'sexual assault', 'sexual warfare', 'child sacrifice', and 'human sacrifice' all seem more appropriate terms than 'cuckhold', which somehow implies that the welfare states of Britain and elsewhere do not know what is happening merely because there is no public acknowledgement.
But the destroyers of western civilization know at some level that what they are doing is a monstrous crime and that they must pay the price. Rather than accept the damage to their reputations and 'legacies' at the personal level, they are sacrificing theirs and other people's children. This is a monstrous evil of Old-Testament scale: Manasseh serving Moloch. If conservatives are doing nothing, it is because they are complicit, not because they are weak or ignorant.
There is actually nothing new to see here. Do not look to those occupying positions of leadership to solve these problems. Christianity did not supplant the Roman empire or the barbarian kingdoms from the top down but from the bottom up. Neither did it supplant by violence like some common everyday revolution. Those who know the truth need to not only preach it but practice it at an individual and family level. The Alpha Course is helpful for inquiring souls.
There you go again Mark, "What is happening is EVIL". The Groomers are not evil, they are misunderstood, products of their environment. In Westside Story, the Jets sing to Officer Grumpy why they do what they do.
The "Boomer's" in the UK, USA and Western "winning" nations had no problem taking God out of the classrooms, with it went the reality of the existence of EVIL. Next went the respect for the Nation, "One Nation Under God" and you didn't even have to stand. Then came secular science and we had intellectuals way to "smart" to accept that there could be a God. Then learned Judges proclaiming that the Ten Commandments could not be shown in public, you could kill you're new borns, but NOT pray to an entity known as God. Come on Mark, get with it, get hip, Evil is so "Yesterday". THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO MARK
There will be furtive and restless searching in the halls of sleep tonight.
Not being particularly well versed in the classics, I'd always thought that cuckold derived from the behaviour of the cuckoo bird. This bird lays its eggs in the nest of a host species and when the chick hatches, usually sooner than the host eggs, it gets rid of the hosts eggs and/or young in favour of itself. So this is a very apt analogy to what is happening in the UK and other places that Islam can get a foothold.
It's been said that Fascism would return under the guise of anti-Fascism. One might say that evil has arrived under the guise of a religion of peace.
I wonder what the effect would be if the English had the same rights to gun ownership as we do. Is there no more compelling example of the need for self-defense than having your 12 year-old daughter gang-raped? A well-armed militia might well be tempted to clean out such immigrant neighborhoods. If this persists, I can't imagine that it won't happen. Someday. What should be a proud society should only take so much.
Really, that's your solution?
If the men of that community can't bother to get out of the pub to even investigate what is going on, do you really think that if these brave souls were armed to the teeth that they would do anything?
The problem is to do with what motivates them and what they are prepared to risk, not in how they are going to attack the problem ... even hassling their local MP or local cop shop would have been better than doing nothing - which is what they did and I expect they are doing in countless other towns across England (and maybe the West as well) ...
Mark talks a lot about the metaphorical 'hill to die on' with issues but if we don't stand and fight each issue then eventually it moves from the metaphysical to real life and becomes literally a hill to die on (even if you don't want to fight) ...
Surely WWI & WWII have taught us that we have to stand and fight and be prepared to die for something ... my argument is that we have largely lost our Christian belief system and therefore are not prepared to die (or even stand up for) anything ...
Re both comments a parallel and thoughts: The dynamics are very similar to the situation described in the book "In Broad Daylight' by Harry McLean about a criminal who terrorized NW Missouri small towns for about 30 years. Everyone's armed there, but he was clever and was able to avoid justice again and again by a simple strategy: if no one files a complaint, the law doesn't intervene, if no one testifies, there's no case. He did most of the witness intimidation himself and he hired a Kansas City lawyer who easily out-manuvered the county courts that were not used to dealing with such cunning and thuggery. Each time the communities thought he was at last headed for prison, he was back.
His three wives, the underage ones he picked up at the school yards and threatened to burn their parents' homes down... they agreed to sign off on 'marriage.'
So, it's more than just a gun or righteous outrage - these guys know how to play the courts - the Machine, and how to turn it against the violated. Until the legal system is reset to 'Justice' and enforces it, the citizens are at an enormous disadvantage, because if one acts, he's (since the point was focused on men and protecting their families and streets) isolated and cut out - no safety in numbers. It's hugely demoralizing - part of the big goal - intimidate people. Does this sound familiar in this subject?
In the case of 'In Broad Daylight" the town had gathered together as news of the man's release - not going to jail after trying to kill an elderly shopkeeper - again, after all the testimony, sheriff's evidence, the weeks of creepy stalking of everyone the man thought was cooperating with the police, and that he was coming to confront them. He was gunned down, in broad daylight, in front of the entire town, by someone. The law, local, county' state and federal, descended on the town. The town had begged for years for help, including the sheriff's department. It showed up in force when someone finally dealt with it without them.
But they'd learned their lesson from their tormentor: no one saw anything. No witnesses, no case.
The entire NW part of the state overnight had all sorts of crimes disappear - that one man had done most of them. The relief was felt everywhere.
But sadly, the town still is paying for that day - locked in a 'silence' code, distrustful of outsiders (many who had been undercover agents trying to get a tip - hard to act like a local when the town has 200 residents who've known each other since birth and with no statue of limitations on homocide, they still show up from time to time, hoping to get a tip, since 1981. If they had only put out all that effort to get that guy - before the desperate town with its back against the wall did.)
The law didn't protect the citizens, didn't protect the girls he'd beaten into becoming his wives so no rape charges. After, there were changes made in state law that would have put that guy behind bars at least thirty years earlier, too little too late.
So, the mass of citizens have to feel like they can win again - organizing together, getting good advice. Good governance makes sure that good people are never backed into corners. But is anyone takiing this seriously in UK? It'll have to be ground up - the top looks likes it's AWOL.
Sounds similar except for the fact that your story was about one devious & cunning criminal ... however I suggest the stories from England are much much more sinister as they come from many towns, with gangs of Muslim men preying on young girls over 10-15 years and even longer ... unbelievable!!
These stories are not just about one bad apple in the barrel types they paint a very disturbing trend that continues to this day - even after the Government, police & community workers know about what has happened they are not looking for it anywhere else ... these institutions are, to a degree, complicit with these sickening crimes ...
But your story does end with a form of justice ... when the govt, police, courts & even laws are ineffective in the face of evil, then someone will take action ... often these sort of things lead to civil war if not revolution ... not always the outcome we would want but think about the events that lead to many of the greatest upheavals in world history ...
But what troubles me the most about these towns in England is why the men did nothing? Think about it - would you do nothing?
I'm not a big proponent for vigilantes but if ever there was a scenario that would make me consider this action, this would be it ... at least the men could have got together and spoken to the leaders of the Pakistani community and shared their concerns - that would be a start, wouldn't it?
But over years and years they turned a blind eye ... can they sleep at night? And you may say 'but they didn't know it was happening' ... the old German citizens living near the concentration camps excuse - sounds good until the scale of the atrocities are known - then it sounds like a bald lie ....
Isn't the small story the same only being replicated across neighborhoods and cities? Why didn't the men of the town do anything? Well, they did - they kept sending the man to the law, the law kept bouncing him back and he harrassed the people until he slipped and went over the line and the sheriff could arrest him. He shot a deputy who was scheduled to testify. The deputy quit the area and never went back.
Decent men have families - how far does one go when he'll be torn from his family? They're staying low, when it arrives breaking in their back door, then see. The system divides people so they have to learn how to stop falling into that trap. It's an ancient, but always effective tactic - until people reject being manipulated by it.
Isn't it behavior common in that situtation? It's always one guy against the system. Remember the big mafia trials in Italy? No one said anything until it became clear that the justice system had found a spine and members were actually going to prison, that they couldn't go out and kill the witnesses, that their intimidation power had been stripped from them, their networks gutted. Once that happened, everyone offered everything they knew. That requires critical mass shift.
What needs to change is the circumstances. Plainly, the goverance isn't going to, so the ground game has to be changed, by the people on the ground - in a smart way. Starting with safety in numbers.
The leadership of the Pakistani communities... well, their culture is tribalism. Their policing is mob tribe unity to repel attackers and to protect their own. It's actually a system born out of necessity - in places of no central law enforcement authority, so one protects one's family/tribe -- against other tribes.
Pakistan itself has what's called, "Tribal Authority' areas - that is the government authority in those areas extends only to the gravel edge of the roads, outside that is completely controlled by local tribes. So, that government can't control much of it either. One notices however that the tribes don't necessarily get along, in fact that's pretty much the region that contributes to the well-known phrase, 'warring tribal groups.'
So, wouldn't expect much from talking with 'leadership; a number may be genuinely sympa, but are under huge pressure to get every concession they can, and always push for more. With two codes of law - one for tribe members and one for everyone else, the outsiders are always to be exploited. No one should accept an excuse that the leadership is blind deaf and dumb to the situation, if they were able/wanted to crack down on their members they would have already. It's not everyone, though, just certain gangs and they're probably doing other crimes, too. Who knows how much money every family and business in those communities has to pay up to support them - or else?
The ground game needs to be stepped up, starting with loud rejecting of egrecious labels that are put on people who speak up, to make them appear to be unreasonable. How is it that some neighborhoods are no-go zones? Did they not group together to overwhelm? How about grouping together to overwhelm for what's right, not for what's wrong?
The other thing here isn't being talked about - noticed today M. Mark brought it up in the newest post. It's caste and class. It is absolutely factoring in in UK among the British - the nobility distancing itself from the commoners, with little or no sense that they're all in the same boat. The elites vs the deplorables. The British commoners have been groomed from birth re their lot in life, by birth. Irony - how Hindu is that? Isn't it the society of the conquerers over the conquered? How related by blood are British nobiltiy to so-called British commoners?
Well, Pakistan, carved out of India is also caste-bound. Be interesting to see which caste is doing all this thuggery and who controls them. And from where does the word 'thug' come? Guaranteed all Paksitanis could give quite the background - they know who to avoid in their society. But that would be real anthropology and informed cultural awareness - not the fake stuff that's peddled in schools and news. People aren't winning because they've been deprived of the correct information they need to fight intelligently and effectively.
Just thoughts to the points raised to keep the discussion and ideas brewing. :)
I don't think you are following my train of thought ... maybe not reading between the lines ...
When I say the local men should have talked to the Pakistani leadership, I mean a serious 'talk', you know one about actions and consequences, one that they would take with them and dwell on for 4-6 weeks as they think things over ...
Also don't get too caught up on the Pakistani details, these men grew up in England and probably have few ties back to the homeland ... their Pakistani background is not the problem - their Muslim faith is ...
Ah, well, there's 'talk' and then there's as Louie L'Amour's gunslinger Sackett characters would say, "Did you read them the book or just show them the pictures?"
These communities are very tight, so the homeland traditions stay very strong, reinforced by extended families and crime networks. Unlike the adult arrivals who will never achieve bi-lingual or be fully acclimated, it's common for first generation to effortlessly segue from the 'British' face and the 'Tribal' face. With that, it's easy to be all things to all people. This can be used for good or for bad, depends on the individual.
Having lived in Muslim majority countries most of our lives, we have observed that culture absolutely influences how people practice and interpret Islam. It varies quite a lot. Hence all the battles and squabbles to 'bring everyone in line' with the 'correct view.' But, which one is it? Sunni? Shite? There's a term often used in Christianity: syncretism' - a blend of pagan and Christianity. It absolutely exists in Islam as well. Does anyone think any Pakistanis believe Nigerians practice the 'correct' Islam? Or that Saudis believe Pakistanis do? Ghaddafi often complained about not being considered an equal in Islam - he being a Berber-Arab metiz.
Not finding that the current explanations available to the general public in Britain are very accurate or well-informed by knowledge based on genuine familiarity with the critical dynamics of these cultural variances. If the problem isn't understood correctly, the solution will be flawed or outright wrong - creating more trouble, not less.
Now that we think of it, Louie L'Amour's Tennessee mountain Sacketts were highly tribal - they converged when any one Sackett was threatened. "Had their backs'." According to the storyline, it ran in their blood... from the ancestral homeland... England.
I would hope that William Bennet's suggestion would be implemented here in the US if this sort of evil were being perpetrated against young girls in American communities across the nation. Certainly the constant attack on manhood by the left who have infiltrated the public schools and universities is an attempt to keep young men from growing up with the impulse to defend young women. Where are the young men the same ages as these young women? Are they so cowed and neutered as to turn a blind eye to the destruction of what would have been the future mothers of their offspring? Yes, the whole world needs Jesus, but even the barbarians at the gates of Rome thought their families worth defending.
Another thought is how clearly the enemies of freedom spell out their intentions and plans and how fast Westerners are to stick their fingers in their ears and say LA LA LA CAN'T HEAR YOU. They wanted to shut up speech at Speaker's Corner, build a mosque at Ground Zero. A sculpture of Baby Jesus was smashed or beheaded in Belgium, a Cathedral was stormed in France with the battle cry and it was not Abba Hu Akbar, but close to that...Sculptures of Mary are beheaded, commuters blown up, Jews stabbed, concert goers bombed, acid thrown in faces, girls and women and young boys raped, and yet it's all still a mystery to our betters in politics.
That's just Europe (for now). The mainstreaming of Louis Farakahan and the "Women's Movement" is a taste of how the wind is blowing in North America. Once again, the Jews will be the proverbial canary in the coal mine. Liberals who tolerate the rabid and rancid Jew-hatred from these corners will find themselves, shortly, on the receiving end of the ire of the identity politics extremists and their bedfellows, radical Jihadists.
And where is "Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith" on all this? At least under feudalism royalty looked out for the peasants
So I was curious and pulled up the title reference from Chaucer, which I was forced to read when I was young but only remember the weirdness. Still weird. But the "Miller's Tale" reference reminded me of the more memorable "Whiter Shade of Pale" song by Procul Harem, which includes a refrain of "...as the miller told his tale." So I naturally wondered if this band of Brit kids from the 60s fantasizing about harems were actually channeling Mark's observations, or vice versa, and dug up some history. Turns out the lyricist (Keith Reid) was later asked that same question and was quoted as denying a connection: "I'd never read The Miller's Tale in my life. Maybe that's something that I knew subconsciously, but it certainly wasn't a conscious idea for me to quote from Chaucer, no way." Can't expect modern Brits to be familiar with Chaucer. North Carolina kids either. I do feel more cultured from the experience, though. Thanks, Mark!
You call out the seriousness of this situation and the complete abrogation of duty by large sections of the community very well, however you seem to make the argument that this is mainly a Muslim immigration issue.
Yes there is a clear argument to be made that the Muslim culture is diametrically opposed to the Christian culture that Britain is founded on.
But think very clearly about what is allowed to happen here in a local community over many years and you must see that there is a much wider moral dilemma taking place. Normal citizens who must have heard rumors of what was happening did next to nothing!! Why no push back from the men of that community - who reading this would not take action if you heard a sniff of this sort of thing in your town?
People no longer believe in God, so morals are now relative, there are no absolutes, therefore who cares if young girls are raped. This is only an issue if you have morals!! Without them - big deal ...
These revelations in England are the most obvious proof we have that society without God (even when the foundations are there in law) will come apart at the seams eventually, immigration or no immigration ...
Quick thought - if the immigrants were Christian would this be happening?
Correct, Ken. There has been a comprehensive decline of virtue at the family level. I think a new generation of Britains is awakening to the fact that the last few generations of have been derelict in their duty to pass on the inheritance and have instead squandered it on such follies as sex, drugs and rock and roll.
A society without a God is rapidly supplanted by one with. That's what we're witnessing ... a religious war one side refuses to acknowledge, and which the other side will surely win therefore. You can't even say "religious war" without being branded a total loon as a member of any of the soon to be extinct societies.
Mark, After reading your description how young girls are being abused, terrorized and even killed by Muslim grooming gangs I cannot escape from thinking that the Russian poison attack could not have happened to more deserving nation than Britain. Actually, call Britain a nation is misnomer it is a geographic entity. A nation upholds the law mainly when it applies to protecting young and vulnerable children in particular girls. The widespread rampant corruption of British law enforcement makes me want to throw up. I patently disagree with some member suggestion that the girls be armed and shoot up their abusers. If anything, the enablers of this horrific crime needs to be put to death and their heads impaled on the top of the walls of the Tower starting with Theresa May,all the politician that voted for this abuse under the guise of diversity, the law enforcement members that actively protected the abusers and the media that covered it up.
Another demoralizing, disgusting story of western stupidity and surrender. These young girls and all the other countless victims of myopic British policies and an apathetic police force that will be next are suffering on the "peacetime" front lines at home due to England's political foolishness, cowardice and incompetence.
Imagine if so called "Conservative" PM May led the nation instead of Churchill during the brutal war of survival against the Nazi war machine. If this idiocy is not stopped, history will likely record these perilous times as the surrender of English civilization during peacetime--one unabated brutal scandal and one PC compromise at a time. Just as Mark has predicted for years.
The UK police force is far from apathetic on this issue. They actually vigorously defend the perpetrators. Were that not the case things wouldn't have gotten this bad.
Heartbreaking. After reading this, I was struck by whether this could happen here, too, with the large influx of immigrants and the increase in child sex crimes. There would be no media/political cover-up here,would there? But, I realized that here in LA, we have had decades of media/political cover-up of child sex abuse in Hollywood. So it can happen and is happening here.
As far as I know it is allready happening in Canada. With Bill C103 any criticism of Islam and Muslim is hate speech and is prosecuted by the state and actively covered up by the Media
Just think about it those girls were supposed to be as they grow up the mother's of the future generation of Britons, essentially what those grooming gangs have done to them amounts to genocide of native population of Britain. They never will be mothers and the children of the Muslim grooming gangs will take over the villages and the cities where this is going on, not only by fertility of the Muslim women but by that forced infertility of the native girls.
Put the cat amoung the mice.....train and arm a group of young white girls to infiltrate then shoot a big pile of these smelly pigs....theres your answer.
Pretty weak solution - let the girls do it ... women and girls need the protection of men! I know that is not PC today but it holds true in all societies ... how about the men of the community stand up and be MEN!
I know it's a radical thought but not not 80 years ago many young men 17-21 yrs old fought and died to save England from a terror ... now they can't even protect their own daughters because they might get called racist ..
I have always liked the infiltration idea. It takes a tough kind of human being to do that kind of work. They can be killed and tortured if caught by the perps. Why are they not recruiting Pakistanis themselves as undercover agents to infiltrate the groups? Pay them a commission for every abuser they bring in and keep the infiltration campaign up until the whole bunch are cleaned out. However long it takes. But the infiltration into just that group of abusers apparently would be only one prong of the infiltration campaign. The people have to rise up in numbers demanding a solution to this deplorable situation.
I have said this before and I'll say it again - The British (at least the English) police are the most useless on Earth. I love Blighty but it's the Wessex countryside for me where a certain amount of stubbirn yeoman independence remains in force. Whenever you interact with an urban "bobby" you get the feeling that they would prefer to be anywhere except right there interacting with YOU. This is a force that would rather knock themselves out celebrating the "First Afghani-Pakistani Transsexual Woman-Trapped-In-The-Body-of-a-Man-Presenting-As-A-Shetland-Pony" who makes Superintendant than actually investigate crime.
I am not surprised the Limey Constabulary refuses to go after these goons. That would be hard and create "bad feelings." Far better to cruise along and take the wolrd of "comunity leaders" that there is nothing to see here. One thing I would also like to know is where are the British feminists in all this? They are among the most strident on Earth. This must be one of those places where "intersectionality" is in effect meaning - "Ladies - You Have to Take (at least) One For the Team."
Why is there no hammer of justice coming down on these barbarians? I thought the definition of a country was there had to be a common language, shared customs, borders and a common law. Think we have a case of what The Kinks sang about forty years ago: "Living on a thin line, there's no England, now." The lyrics are quite apropos. Just seems the citizens never received an answer to the questioning refrain! Be men! Stand up for your children, by Jove, even if you find standing up for your land too much of a bother.
Liberals, especially youth, protecting minorities in spite of, or perhaps because of, antisocial defects is common in most developed countries. If it works, they'll eventually assimilate. Before the liberals demand assimilation, or the antisocial minorities decide to join the dominant culture. enough pain must be induced to cause the changes in either behavior. Apparently that threshold hasn't been reached yet.
When it all comes down to having to sacrifice the children to the gods of political correctiness and foreign barbarians brutalizing them in their hometowns, it seems the country has reduced itself to a very primitive one. What are we supposed to do for the children of England if their guardians won't stand and defend and protect them? Better get the young girls into martial arts now and simultaneously gather up the abusers, including those who help to cover up the crimes, to a detention island off the coast of Iceland using solar and wind power for energy sources to provide creature comforts. I hear the ice caps are giving way to sandy beaches. While the detainees are there they can all have their genders altered.
Perhaps this whole just "Keep Calm" theme has run its course and it is time for folks to get a little rowdy.
Time for girls to only go out in groups with plenty of Mace and a guard dog or two along was what I was thinking. Girls aren't taught to protect themselves adequately from friends and family or strangers, and instead are blamed for whatever happens to them. So time for Mace and guard dogs and brass knuckles. Accepting cultural diversity doesn't have to mean accepting unlawful behavior or promoting child abuse of any type.
Ah, but that would be counter to the mantra of 'We won't let them change us!'. Of course regardless of if there is a response or not they have been changed; it's a question of whether the change makes them stronger or weaker.
The left instead lights a few candles, sings 'Imagine' and 'Don't Look Back in Anger' and calls it a day.
And after a concerted effort they have everyone move along because there's nothing to see here.
Ain't things just Grande...
This is a larger problem than Britain alone. I won't link to it because it is a graphic and disturbing list of atrocities but Gatestone Institute published an update on the increase in sex assault crimes in Germany and the cover up or lack of follow through by police there, see Germany: Migrant Rape Crisis Still Sowing Terror and Destruction. Sweden has also had an increase and previous reporting on the topic suggests that murder and physical attacks on the population have increased to the point that police are overwhelmed and simply can't keep up with those let alone less violent sexual exposure or less violent rape. In the more recent article about cases in Germany it is clear that traveling in groups or even with your father is not adequate protection. Gangs of young men encircle small groups of women and girls and rape all of them. A father who tries to protect a young girl or boy has been known to be beaten for his attempt to prevent exposure or attack on his child or children. Cultural diversity has value but when women and girls fear to use public transport or to visit other public places like a cemetary then it is no longer a civilized society it is a wild wild west of unlawfulness.
The question of cuckold is a separate issue but possibly related. The question of grooming is involved - if society makes it clear to girls that they are expected to simply cooperate or worse physical harm will occur to them then they will learn to just take it and hope it doesn't go on too long or cause too much pain afterwards. I was abused as a child and it left me without adequate understanding of my rights - good girls cooperate and don't talk about it or they are hurt worse. Well in modern times it seems that nothing has changed unless you are a rich woman who was touched inappropriately - that may be wrong but it belittles the two days of hospital time that a brutal physical rape might cause. It belittles the lifelong infertility that a more brutal assault might cause. Two sets of rules is not a good way to run an equal opportunity society. Whatever color skin or national origin men and boys need to be held accountable for not attacking women and girls or younger boys. Allowing some crimes to be dismissed because we aren't talking about immigrants or refugees is leaving society less safe and setting the example for all men and boys that women and girls are not worthy of protection and that fathers are in danger if they try to stand up to the danger themselves.
Larger groups of girls and women with larger numbers of guard dogs and brass knuckles and Mace across the regions that are affected may be the answer - a strong and immediate show of unity against unlawful uncivilized behavior is needed promptly or the problems will likely continue to grow worse and spread across more areas.
What men and women who are concerned about being touched inappropriately may not understand is that physical assault actually hurts and can cause lasting damage to organs and to the entire immune system. Instead of worrying about ancient concepts of purity or lack of purity it would be nice to be able to openly talk about the actual underlying physiological risk of autoimmune disease. That rapist might be giving a woman autoimmune disease that she will have to cope with for the rest of her life and may be passed to any children she has. Protecting women and girls is also protecting their future children and grandchildren. A woman's eggs include the DNA that will produce the eggs of the infant girl so grandchildren are at risk by a woman's experiences. Dwelling on shame and religion is ignoring actual science that supports the underlying goal of protecting women and girls from exposure to antigens. Providing actual education to girls about the health risks of antigens that aren't their own makes more sense then simply dwelling on ancient messages of shame and morality or evil - labels are just words that stand for the level of knowledge that was known at the time. We know more now and can share the correct labels - antigens that aren't your own can affect your health and your children's health whether the antigens are from a stranger or a friend or a relative who doesn't respect personal or moral boundaries.
Britain: a completely stupid little country. It's what Canada wants to be when it grows up.
I don't think England is a stupid country. But it does seem a bit like the Shire, when Frodo and the boys came galloping home to find their old home in ruins.
Didn't Frodo and the boys have to provide the leadership to overturn things? I guess there aren't any in England any more. I rather wonder about the USA.
It is difficult to overstate how decadent, corrupt, gutless, arrogant and conceited the English political elite is.
The Westminster Parliament and the system it represents are completely dysfunctional, the whole thing is nothing but a pantomime, a parade, from ditzy royals to idiot dukes, to utterly shallow archbishops, the whole performance long ago let process override purpose.
We have had the ludicrous faux outrage last week in Parliament over supposed Russian attempted assassinations, but not a word about Telford, or any of the other mass rape, mass abuse and murder of these girls.
This unconcern of the political elite for the lower classes is not new: The British establishment trafficked hundreds of thousands of white children, some as young as 4, into slavery in Virginia, Canada, Africa and the Antipodes, over centuries.
They also completely failed to address the education challenge from Germany, France and the USA, that cost Britain whatever technological edge it once had.
Britain participated in wars against Germany twice in the 20th century for reasons that have never been satisfactorily explained.
Chamberlain once said during his premiership "there is nothing that can be done about unemployment". Compare that to the energy he expended adjudicating minor border disputes in Eastern Europe.
It is very sobering, actually heartbreaking, to read the reaction of officialdom to the condition of slum children evacuated from British industrial cities in 1940; malnutrition to the level of near starvation, wearing rags, inadequately or completely unshod, covered in lice and other vermin.
The undeniable fact is that this situation is unfolding exactly to the upper class plan. Opposition to mass 3rd world immigration was the largest single political belief of British people through the 50s, 60s, 70s to the present day, yet it was encouraged by both parties in total defiance of popular opinion.
Mr. Steyn used a metaphor once about a gallon of ice cream having a quart of dog poop added. Two observations may be made from that; One, the ice cream is not recoverable, and two, the mixture will become more putrid over time.
Sorry about the long post, but this really burns me.
Say on. The best hope of America snapping out of its hypnosis is the story of England.
Could not agree more. My mum was a working class Englishwoman who emigrated to the U.S. to marry my GI father. I have been going back to Somerset for decades to visit relatives and the disintegration, corruption and general rot within British institutions is palpable. The police are pathetic, there is no sense of pride or history and everyone in politics is doing there best empty-headed Tony Blair impression except the Corbynistas who seem to be channeling Lenin after his stroke. The hollowed-out Anglican Church may as well be a Tim Horton's for all the spiritual comfort that they can offer.
Last time back in England I was in London and visited Westminster Abbey. The Westminster Boys Chorus was rehearsing for an upcoming program. For awhile the Abbey was filled with the matchless sound of great Anglican hymns reverberating amongst the tombs. It was transporting, joyful and magical. For a moment you were cut off from the political squalor outside and could understand for a moment what it once meant to be English and to share these experiences with other Engishmen. I am sure that I was one of only a few in the Abbey who felt that way.
That trapped puppy crying in the overhead bin, with society a few feet away but afraid to rock the plane; instead letting it die; is like what has been happening to these children in England.
Very well spoken Mr. Cranfill.
Yes I hadn't heard the details about the puppy incident and that is a heartbreaking image and apt analogy for modern society in many places. Yazidi women and girls who were forced into marriages were known about by neighbors and nothing was done to help them. It likely would have been a risk to the neighbors to attract attention of ISIS forces but in the UK or US what risk? attracting attention to civilized behavior?
Not wanting to rock the plane/boat, not wanting to appear culturally insensitive to someone else's religion is no reason to allow mistreatment of girls. There is too much acceptance of blaming females for any trouble that occurs. The term cuckold is ancient, dating back to 1250 and a satirical poem called The Owl and the Nightingale. The cuckoo bird lays eggs in other types of bird's nests and they parent the offspring who may be larger and hungrier than the nesting bird's infants. In the poem the Owl and the Nightingale are both females and they are arguing over who's song is better and within the argument is included a discussion of infidelity. The owl makes the case that a well cared for wife wouldn't stray. The poem is lengthy and is left open ended, the birds leave to seek an impartial judge to hear their case. I would support the owl's case - there are no cuckoo's in my nest just two potential kidney donor's with a rare blood type that doesn't match my own - and I am left with severe autoimmune disease. Knowing the physical risks might make more women hesitate to let anyone in her nest. Women don't share too many unpleasant details of childbirth with younger girls and women because the babies are worth it - life is a blessing but also a danger. Honesty and genetic counseling and nutritional counseling could help protect women and their children from the autoimmune risks associated with foreign DNA being intermingled as it is between the mother and her child.
There is only one path for English fathers to take if the police won't protect their daughters: vigilante justice.
Unfortunately, the English father seems to be, yes, too cuckolded to do anything about it. The outrage of having one's daughter subjected to an "Asian" gang rape should vastly outweigh the fear of being called a racist for stringing up a few Paki rapists from the local lamp posts.
It is as I always say to my friends when the subject comes up: When Muslims become such a preponderance of Europe's population that they no longer have to move their sharia through the shadows, either Europe will burn in the flames of sectarian violence, or European civilization will go silently into the night.
Good luck, England. Though my hope for you dies a little with every headline like this.
Clark- You've hit on an aspect of this national outrage that should shock the cowed British populace but doesn't in any meaningful sense. The predictable racist charge from the left for even discussing this mass rape of their young girls is a far greater crime against humanity than were the actual rapes. It wasn't only the media refusing to cover these horrendous crimes but the police also mostly looked the other way. This is a culture so intellectually crippled by political correctness that I see little chance of it prevailing against a primitive religion determined to destroy it from within. Bin Laden was dead on stating that Islam was the strong horse in the coming culture war. A devout young Muslim will give his life (and to kill) for the sacred cause without a second thought. Does he have any counterpart in Europe willing to pay the same price to defend western culture? Sad to say but that's more of a rhetorical question than one requiring a serious answer. Any hope I might have had for England died some time ago.
Maybe the British need a national holiday for a "Bring your son/daughter to see the Death Wish re-make" day. I'm not the biggest vigilante justice guy out there, but at a certain point, what do you do when the levers of government let you down so badly?
By the way, and this may not be a popular opinion, but I thought the Bruce Willis version was great.
Sadly, as in parts of the US and indeed the western world generally, a large proportion of fathers are absentee and either don't give a damn or are prevented by the man-hating divorce laws from contact with the girls.
I saw a tv book review yesterday - it claimed that western civilisation will save us all (I paraphrase) - western civilisation is so far down the path of depravity and evil that it offers no hope for us. The western churches have lost belief or faith in God. Only the Eastern Orthodox Church offers sanity and hope. And yes, I am a convert to Orthodoxy.
Mark continues to identify only the lesser half of the problem - a corrupt elite culture - and not the more dismaying half, which is a decadent, enervated folk culture. Long before the UK had an omnipresent surveillance state, it had British families who understood that familial responsibility meant care, nurturing, and supervision of 12 year old girls who might otherwise fall into the clutches of primitive people.
I find it difficult to believe that many of these girls came from intact families or from any family unit that shared a sense of responsibility for one another. It strains credulity that a parent does not know that his or her teenage daughter has fallen in with a pack of raping savages, or that once made aware of it, does not do more than simply wait patiently for years if need be until officialdom comes to the rescue.
I understand that that modern western government has demanded societal acquiescence in the commandeering of the supervision and regulation of all aspects of human conduct, and that, as with the people on the United flight listening to a dying puppy, it fosters a lamentable inertness fit for a rabbit, not a man. But we must not elide over the only cultural rot that matters - that of the people - in rightfully condemning the corruption of a decadent government.
Completely agree with your comments about family and societal context; that said, I think you'll find Mark has addressed those issues in multiple other articles and in his books.
Excellent comment, John.
The UK police are more interested in hunting down those guilty of so called hate crime than the scum who carried out these rapes, in fact a police report has recently surfaced that said the sex (rape) between a 14 year old girl and an one of these Pakistani adult males was "consensual". This is in a country where the age of consent is 16. Maybe the Speakers' Corner event was a false dawn but I do feel that things are starting to change. Groups like The Football Lads Alliance and the For Britain Party are forming alliances that will surely grow to an important political force. If not then the country that my dad fought for and his mates died for is lost forever.
You have to also understand that these Pakistani Muslim overwhelmingly vote for the Labour party. All of the places where this has happened are Labour constituencies. They were scared of losing votes so covered it up. Especially Rotherham.
The children were from poor families. Single parent or care homes. The Pakistanis actually went to the care homes to pick them up.
It is far worse than you can imagine.
It will be going on now. Probably in the rest of the UK.
These Pakistanis will jump straight on the race card too. From what I have seen and read they are very racist to every other non-pakistani in the world.
If it's this bad in the UK, then how bad must it be in the rest of Europe?
Your comment about Labour strongholds reminds me of the crime rate in Dem strongholds in the US (Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, etc). Very sad.
Yep. Rape who you want but remember to vote for your local lefty crony.
They all knew and blamed the girls. The councillors, police and care workers. Actually sounds like they were the pimps.
This reads like a disturbingly sad passage from a Dickens novel. Only it seems as if now there are a lot more Fagins now, fewer Charles Dickens writing about them, and even fewer people reading about them.
What an odd coincidence. Just this morning I was thinking about the child rape scandal in Rotherham. And it occurred to me that one of the reasons for the lack of enthusiasm on the part of the authorities is one they admit to: they don't want to look bigoted. They don't want to be accused of being hostile to Asians, or Pakistanis, or Muslims. They tell us this much. This is why they threaten the victims with charges of "hate speech crimes" for complaining.
So change the complaint to what it really is. Don't say, "My daughter was raped by an Asian, or Pakistani, or Muslim." Say "My daughter was raped by a child rapist." The authorities can try to dodge responsibility by talking about decent Asian, or Pakistanis, or Muslims, but they can't talk about decent child rapists. Bringing up the charge of bigotry against the children is just trying to change the subject. Don't let them have the chance to change the subject. Make the subject the real one.
It would also help if these parents banded together into some sort of Neighborhood Watch, both to scare off the rapists, and to stand together at town council meetings, and to write to the national newspapers and news programs. A paper might ignore a letter signed by one outraged parent, but it can't ignore a letter with a hundred signatures on it. The same applies to the town council meetings. This many children raped means there are an awful lot of angry parents -- they should throw their weight around.
Thanks for that Mark. From our Finest Hour to the abyss of self-degradation in half a century.
Even Sweden with its massive imported rape problem comes nowhere the depths of self-abasement as England in letting aliens rape their underage daughters with impunity. That takes a special kind of low possibly unprecedented in the history of humanity.
And we're talking about England, not Britain. This hasn't happened in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.
And my fellow Englishmen have the utter nerve to be outraged and scandalised instead of hanging their heads in shame.
We literally did, in my living memory, have the best police force in the world. As much as our police have their share of the blame, we let our police be destroyed by political correctness. But there's not even the slightest wisp of the collective guilt we should all feel as a nation, let alone facing up to the counter-jihad war measures needed to destroy this evil in our midst.
No Mark. We are that word that begins with 'w' that you do use. A nation of them.
We'll never restore our pride unless we learn the meaning of the word shame, and the word's no longer even in our vocabulary.
Add the mix that the regular occurrence of elections offers the fig leaf of an outlet to achieve political change when of course in Britain you have three three parties which differ only in the speed at which they wish to transform Britain into airstrip one. Of course even Orwell didn't have the foresight to anticipate the particularly bizarre phenomenon of Asian grooming gangs, the literal sacrifice of the female youth to sexual predations to appease the gods of multiculturalism. The regime in Britain is tempting fate with what it is doing. We shouldn't kid ourselves here and assume that this is a unique feature of English life. I wouldn't be shocked if similar things were occurring in Canada and the US and was similarly swept under the rug.
When I read these stories of the actions police and governmental officials in England, I always wonder how long it will be before the affected girls and their families take the law into their own hands and violently strike back in a major way. When I put myself in the families' shoes, I can't ever decide if I would attack the police station and local council or the rapists first. Pakistani rapists' motivations are of course entirely despicable, but can be understood to be the actions of depraved evil humans. The actions of the police in looking the other way while female children are raped and beaten are in my opinion completely incomprehensible. The police and councils who have done this are vastly more evil than even the rapists. Those sworn to "protect and serve" doing the opposite should be punished with the death penalty. It hurts me to say it, but the UK is lost to Muslim depravity. France and the rest of the EU are better off with "Brexit," whether they know it or not.
Respectfully, you seem to think that these are just a bunch of isolated incidents and that the police aren't actually involved.
I'm sure money and motivation and manpower moves through the mosque network. There's an organised movement to destroy British society and it has players and influence throughout all levels of power in the UK. People are paid, intimidated, or sympathise with the cause; and make no mistake but it's a cause that's being pursued here.
Theresa May is essentially Sadiq Khan, but on the Federal Level.
I said in another comment on this page that much will depend on the military and the choices it makes. Since posting that I've recalled a saying that the British military is basically 'lions led by donkeys' so I don't see a lot of hope there either.
You're seeing what can happen to a country when its citizens don't have the right to bear arms.
No, I realize the police are corrupt and involved. They so obviously are. That is my point when I say, "I can't ever decide if I would attack the police station and local council or the rapists first." I believe that the UK police, like is so often the case in the US (See FBI), are more often a danger than a security for the average joe who just wants to live in peace.
My patience for Douglas Murray has run out. In his "high brow" vernacular he has "isolated a problem" and wrote a book about it for which I am sure he has received a reasonable recompense.
Ah yes, we have a problem...
I am sick to death of his intellectual approach as it is pretty clear that this "problem" touches him not.
You can be as meditative as you want Mr. Murray as this is not a subject that you live with.
In fact, I have never heard him say "Tommy Robinson" that he didn't say "I don't agree with him."
How about, Mr. Murray, you go live in Luton as a white, male homosexual and see what your freedom is whittled down to?
It is the ivory tower telling those on the street how much they commiserate with them.
Pure rubbish and no good for anyone.
Either get over to speaker's corner and put your life on the line or get lost.
Mark replies:
That's grossly unfair to Douglas: First, the point of free speech is to defend the rights of those you "don't agree with". Second, I've personally heard him defend on stage Tommy Robinson, protest his treatment by the authorities, and utterly revile the British state's vindictive pursuit of him.
As to whether this problem "touches him not" because his life is not "on the line", I am well aware that Douglas lives with a high level of death and other physical threats. Indeed, one way to tell that a person gets serious death threats is that he doesn't boast about it. We are all entitled to fight this thing according to our gifts, and Douglas is about the only person mainstream Brit broadcasting will even let on the airwaves to argue the matter, where he usually demolishes his opponent.
It's foolish to reject such talents. Pissing over eighty per cent allies is a good way to ensure this thing will be lost even quicker.
Hi Catherine
I agree with Mark that we shouldn't shun even tepid outrage over this atrocity. I will be interested in the British response should the "Asian Men" also start abusing and killing gay Brits, a politically protected identity group in
the U.K.
There will be no response. Just like in the US, when gay men are massacred (Orlando night club, 2016), the fact that Muslims murder gay men precisely because they are gay is glossed over and ignored. Clearly gays, like other liberal US interest groups, see liberal political victory over conservatives as a more existential issue than protection from Muslim mortal hate. Go figure.
Sorry to hear that your patience with Douglas Murray has run out, but I expect he'll manage without it.
Not only is he the only mainstream British voice which consistently and fearlessly speaks out about the threat of Islamic extremism, and the link with uncontrolled mass immigration, but he does so from a position of strength, precisely because his remarks are well informed, carefully researched and powerfully delivered. He gives absolutely no quarter to his political opponents and takes their arguments apart line by line, which is how this ideology must be taken on.
He deserves the full throated support of anyone who wants to see it beaten.
Perhaps you fail to appreciate the enthusiasm of the British Left for accusing every critic of islam of wanting to repeat the Holocaust with gas chambers for muslims,..and the police and lawyers are only too happy to jump in to arrest and prosecute anyone who even hints at the need for a Solution. Pointing out that "there is a Problem" is about as far as any law-abiding citizen can go.
One additional point - over the years, the British state has developed a great enthusiasm for taking children away from their parents, "into care" as they call it...something in the region of 10,000 children a year. Many parents have fled the country to Ireland or elsewhere to avoid losing their children. A high proportion of the victims of the muslim rape gangs are girls who were "in the care" of local authority social workers.
Hence the need for a cover up, not just to preserve the fantasy of multiculti, but also to hide the fact that children in care suffer far worse abuse than anything their parents were ever accused of.
The only glimmer of light in the darkness is the growing "islamophobia" of the general public. Tommy Robinson is becoming more and more popular.
I saw a good definition of "Islamaphobia" yesterday: knowing more about Islam than you're supposed to.
Well if that's true, is this a case of class snobbery. E.g. if its true that the vast majority of these abused girls are in 'care' might it be the case that the lack of prosecution has something to do with residual discrimination within the English society towards lower class whites? A terrible thing to say, but then the class distinctions in England were, by our American standards, quite terrible.
I lived in Barkshire a very long time ago, and the class distinctions were still very strong. If that combines with the abhorrent cowardice and multiculti pandering, that cold help explain the silence.
I hope if I was a Dad and they did this to my child, I'd exact revenge on some of them, no matter the cost. There is little to me more disgusting than allowing children to be abused.
Good one.
Overheard internet comment: "American blood was spilled in Europe to save Britain -- for this?"
This is an excellent question. But an even better question would be "British blood was spilled in Europe to save Britain - for this?"
How can this collective psychosis take hold of an entire country, and indeed of all Western civilization?
Technically it wasn't to save Britain, but to keep the storm troopers from spreading here. Britain and Europe happened to be in the neighborhood. As for bad things happening to them, they've kind of had it coming since that 1776 thing. Too bad they were stronger back then. The current crowd would have been much easier to evict.
The real concern should be whether their current defects are contagious. Apparently they are, somewhat. Fortunately, some of us seem to be immune. Hopefully enough are.
No doubt the current crowd of Brits would be easier to evict from American soil, but the inverse is also true. The current crowd of Americans would be hard pressed to evict them if they were still here.
We have more than enough who would.
The same castration trend played out here in the USA at the Parkland Florida high school and, like the UK, our children paid the price. As Edmund Burke famously said, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Sadly, we're in the process of permanently abdicating our ability to act for the good of our children to a faceless self-serving bureaucracy that does not have our best interests at heart.
Well said. And in both the US and the UK, it is the socialists who are doing nothing and criminalizing anyone who tries to do something. It depresses me so to listen to any more of the news in either place. Scum like Comey, McCabe, and Mueller masquerading as "crime fighters" in the US and the despicable police letting little girls be raped and beaten in the UK.
Where is religion in any of this horror? The Pope said ...., oh, sorry. The Pope in Chile said shut up. The Bishop is always right.
They are only noticing now? Must be the worst kept secret ever! Please see mystery novel "When the Music's Over" by Peter Robinson in 2016 covering both topics.
I watched video coverage last night of the rally last week at Speakers Corner in London, and it is a supplement that makes the things Mark has warned about all century viscerally real, and it is gut-wrenching. I think it's hard for audiences in safe places, away from it all, to connnect facts they may detachedly acknowledge in the abstract, with the reality that girls, age 11 and up, are - in the words of the Muslims who are drugging, torturing, assaulting, selling, and killing them - only white "trash" to rape. This story becomes different when it becomes no longer a story. I don't know if I will ever forget the voice of a British man calling out over a sea of Muslims at Speakers Corner last week, "Stop raping our children. Take your false prophet and sod off!"
The attitudes in the US - that everything mass-immigration-related can be absorbed - is tantamount to treason.
I'm about to sound very American, but here in America there used to be, and may still be, a thought and a force that dreams of responding to abuse of a daughter or sister or girlfriend with a shotgun. The impotency of the police only became obvious when the public backed off on self-determination and self-protection. And, yes, a gun can drastically even the odds against a gang, which is why some of us still cling to them, and to the idea.
Well said. We keep our guns close at hand even as we pray never to be forced to use them.
The rapid decline of British (English?) manhood is a stark warning. If you will no longer defend your daughters there is nothing you will risk anything to defend.
Thanks, I could not have said it better.
As an Englishman, I say, please world, hold us in contempt. Hold us on contempt and derision. We don't have the shame to hold ourselves in contempt, please do it for us. I know we're beneath contempt, but please, for old times sake, please do it for us. Being treated with the utter contempt that any nation that lets its underage daughters be raped is the only thing that might bring us to our senses, although we're probably so far gone we'll just sulk and retreat to our safe space, while Muslims are raping our daughters next door.
This is a key point: shame. Rape of children in Sweden and Germany has not really changed the situation much.
If words were... (on second thought they are....) colorful threads, you would have (you actually do...) weaved an exhilarating tapestry...
Or travesty.
The fact that the fathers of all these girls took no action to prevent or stop this is more surprising than any of the other negligent parties. You would think out of hundreds of daughters abused there would be at least one guy who would go into full Liam Neeson/Taken mode, or try to.
Two issues with going Full Liam Neeson in 21st century Britannia
1. If you so much as consider even posting such thoughts on FB, the 10 guys who should be trying to prevent child rape will blow through your door 1984 thought criminal style
2. Not much available to go Liam Neeson with other than a rolled up copy of The Guardian
Some tried. Two fathers who went to one house where their daughter were being raped, the police came and arrested them, the fathers mean.
I recommend watching a video clip of Pettibone's interview - done in Vienna, since the UK imprisoned and deported her to prevent her from doing it there - of Tommy Robinson. He describes, in less than two minutes, how one Oskar-Shindler guard saved his life. British authorities had imprisoned him and were "giving" him to the same five Muslims who, six months earlier, Tommy watched in court be sentenced to 30 years, after they were stopped in a car with "IEDs, guns, and bombs" on their way to kill Tommy.
And no one was killed? How?
Mark, you are a hero for your reporting on this nationwide scandal. Thank God you are such a tenacious person, as you've already shown. I don't know of anyone else covering this on an ongoing basis. A country that shows such unconcern for the suffering of its subjects is comparable to North Korea in my eyes and it should receive the same treatment. Can we impose sanctions on the UK and cut off imports until they get rid of the perpetrators either by imprisoning them or permanently deporting them to where they or their families came from?
As a Brit, I wish you could.
The police could probably sit outside the majority of Pakistani run kebab shops and eventually find something criminal. If they are not paedophiles, they are bypassing the gas.
The big Leicester explosion was probably down to this.
You are not allowed to say Pakistani on BBC. Just south Asian is closest. Not even south west Asian.
It is disgusting. They probably won't even get deported.
As you said it is not fair to other Asian's being put in the same group as these scumbags.
The rest of the Pakistani community don't do anything about them either.
Leicester was caused by them using petrol.
Enh, I keep repeating this, but the reason the Brits use "Asian" for people from Pakistan/India/Bangladesh is because those are the countries from which the large majority of their Asian immigrant population come. I would not like to guesstimate the Sri Lankan population of the UK, but it can't be large. (And there remain a lot of Muslims in India proper, despite partition.)
We are simply used to "Asian" meaning Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Thai/Vietnamese, because those are the populations we mostly see in the US. For the Brits, it's different. After the dismantling of the Raj, there remained an awful lot of people with British passports, who did what anyone would do in their stead. Unlike the people doing the same thing now, they at least had a legal right to it -- and by "it" I mean "moving to England," not any sequelae.
If I understand correctly, the gangs are not Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, or Indian; they're primarily Pakistani, and the less you can identify a specific group, the more they can blend into the crowd under the umbrella term "Asian". If a more general term is purposely being used to give them cover, that's not an Asian: That's an evasion.
The modern "real man" as you reference: I question not only the purity but the instrument and their ability to maintain either the purity or the instrument, or anything (truth, reality, dignity, real language).
Having read Chaucer in the Middle English, I am a subdued fan. I found the Wife of Bath boringly monotonous. But she would be able to handle those youtubers of "virile moniker."
Regarding the vulgar tossing of innocence to the trash of Great Britain, those rapefugees who have become a protected class in the land of Chaucer, there can only be outrage. And there can only be the final conclusion of hell to pay for the politicians (whoever is left holding the cuck).
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Count on it.
The UK is fully and utterly and royally (see what I did there) screwed.
Societies that sacrifice their own children end up in the dustbin of history-where they belong.
Laura,
those of us who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, alongside US soldiers, confronting the very same ideology, which informs the attitudes that have given rise to this shameful and sickening abuse, would prefer not to believe that the United Kingdom, and all that it has historically been, will be consigned to the dustbin of history, where you appear to feel we belong.
There have been terrible wrongs here, as is now thankfully revealed for all to see clearly and to feel ashamed (and as a British subject, I am ashamed of what has happened in my country), but to conclude that the UK is dead and buried is to misunderstand.
The British people, officials and private citizens, have been terribly disorientated by ideologues, who have plausibly argued, over many years, that 'right is wrong' and 'up is down'; the slippery doctrine of post modernism, and the moral confusion which arises therefrom, has caused people to confuse respect for another person's religious belief (generally a good thing), into a slavish unwillingness to challenge wrongdoing in anyone with a 'protected characteristic', which includes both race and religion. This has been supported by force of law, and above all British people respect the law.
The far left ideologues of the UK broadcast media have a great deal of responsibility for this moral confusion, as Mark makes clear, but so do the far left ideologues who presently dominate Her Majesty's Official Opposition; their doctrine of political correctness has been allowed to dominate public dialogue for a generation.
I sense this is changing. More people are now prepared to challenge it head on; on radio, on television debates and above all online.
Ultimately this will lead to a change in the law. The law changes slowly in this country, but change it does. Politicians will also be very much more sensitive to public concerns after Brexit.
The rot has gone very deep, and the damage done is heartbreaking, but the tide is turning, and the UK is waking up.
No offense James, but it is my opinion that situation in the UK has gone a long way past "being prepared to challenge it head on; on radio, on television debates and above all online." How can online talk stop the years long rape and torture of little girls in multiple UK cities? There is nothing to talk about. There has been talk enough and "Government Inquiries" galore ("Telford? Surely you mean Rotherham? Or Rochdale? Or Oxford? Or [Your Town Here]?"). Thinking talk makes any difference to child rapists and their official police protectors is merely fooling yourself.
How about actions with guns and bombs in the streets of every English City? I understand that the subjects of the UK have had their firearms taken, but you still have knives, clubs, shovels, and picks don't you?
As pointed out by Mark in his multiple writings, Europe and the UK are on a downward slide to Hell. Talk won't save you.
No offence taken Charles (I'm not a progressive after all), but what you refer to is Civil War.
No serious person in the UK is advocating any such thing, and in any territory in which anarchy is permitted to reign, children are even more vulnerable than in the most venal and corrupt state.
'Talk' changes election results, and politicians change the law and prosecute criminality, when the public pressure them to do so at elections.
Talk is what we have in a society that aspires to be civilised.
James,
Some good points but I'd argue that almost all the core issues remain and are metastasizing to other parts of the national body. I hope you're right and I'm wrong but I just don't see it.
James, I am sorry to tell you this, but a land that permits organized gangs of vile human dogs, repeatedly and in locations all across its land, to rape, beat, and torture its poor and weak young girls is most definitely not civilized, regardless of its people's aspiration
When I heard of Rotherham some years ago I found it very hard to believe that such depravity on the part of the English police and government could occur for any reason. My few visits to the UK found the place and people to be quite pleasant. I could not and do not understand how a free people could allow such to happen and when it was fully uncovered to not violently punish the guilty, especially including the state actors. Then, afterward how could the UK government not have taken steps to ensure that such a horror didn't happen again?
Given what has occurred It seems to me that it might be time for Civil (or maybe Total) War in the UK and much of Europe. I wish you the best of luck when and if it comes.
But you should also understand something else . Most Americans are tired of sending our sons to the Middle East to fight and die so that Muslims can move to Germany and the UK, collect welfare and rape young girls. If the clash of cultures of a thousand years ago is returning to the world in a major way, maybe it is better to use our weapons of mass destruction and be done with it or them.
Further, unlike 75 years ago, Americans are aware of what is happening in Europe and the UK. We are aware, but do not understand, how and why your countrymen are surrendering to the Muslim hordes without a fight. I am old and will not be called, but I will not support in any way my sons being called to defend your country in a world war a third time. That is in part why President Trump was elected. He will not kowtow to the Iranians, the Syrian "refugees," and the other Muslim hordes invading your country. Nor will he, or the American, people kowtow to a feckless UK Government that won't defend its own children.
James, the United Kingdom is breaking my heart. I mean it. I have been writing for many years about the decline of the UK and it pains me tremendously. Also, allow me to say that I deeply respect you for serving your country, that is an honourable calling and I commend you for your service and thank you.
You have identified the problem and its intellectual and philosophical antecedents. That is of course a good thing and that is why you are someone who will try to change things. You say people are reaching their tipping point and trying to change things there, but I fear that the demographic situation in the United Kingdom may prevent real change from occurring.
There is a demographic reality that cannot be turned back.
And, there is an information monopoly, a social media/elite conspiracy against free speech and a completely brainwashed British constabulary, judiciary, education system and media among other pillars of society. These factors combined, unfortunately, make me very pessimistic about the situation in the United Kingdom specifically and in Europe in general.
The rot is very deep indeed. I would be delighted to be wrong (and I don't say this lightly because I love being right, I mean I really, really, really love being right). In this case, I would be absolutely delighted to be wrong. It may sound harsh but I do indeed believe that societies that sacrifice their children do not survive and shouldn't. If the UK, I mean the citizenry of course, turns its back on the rot-on the child sacrifice and leftist insanity, then I am the first one to cheer it on and say long may it prosper as a free, liberty loving society that reveres and protects its children (and women and the vulnerable) I really hope that you are right and that I am completely wrong.
Have the English people become so cowed that they will not defend their own children? What is it then I wonder that will rouse them from their apathy?
When the affluent are impacted
It is a consistent theme among such anecdotal reports as have been made public that parents of children, who were groomed by the gangs which operated in Rotherham and Rochdale (and presumably Telford) sought the protection of public officials, most notably policemen, and were simply ignored.
What is more the psychological aspect of the grooming gang's control over the victims, meant that many were simply too afraid to tell their parents (or anyone else) what was happening, for fear of reprisals.
This is not evidence of an unwillingness on the part of the people of England to defend their children, it is a failure of public authorities.
The English people, to whom you refer, still manage to produce some very hard and determined Infantry Battalions, proven in recent conflicts, and they are drawn from a population which has not forgotten how to defend ourselves.
These crimes occurred under a smokescreen of political correctness in media reporting, as well as a monumental failure of public officialdom. Those who are guilty, will be made to account for their complicity, where guilt is found.
I don't think so. There was the case in Germany not long away when a teenaged girl was raped and murdered by a migrant. Before the body was even cold, her parents (one was an EU official as I recall) called for tolerance and for people to not hate all migrants, and donate to a migrant charity in their daughter's memory.
James, in addition to your descriptions for the failures to protect these young girls, one that you didn't mention is the' upper class' ruling elite turning a blind eye to the plight of the' lower class'; the sense of class superiority still remains in England, and is also a feature of the Leftist Elite everywhere in the West ( they don't sacrifice anything themselves - sacrifice is for everyone else.) The the upper and ruling classes own children are not the ones being raped by Asian gangs, or living in or near no-go zones, or going to schools with immigrant problems. It will be the working and lower class, who are the ones suffering for the decisions of the ideologues of post-modernism in their governments, that rise up, as they have had to do on other occasions over the centuries. But rise up Britiain will; in fact Brexit was Step One.
True, one would think that that horrific incident might of been a wake up call, but at this point I think the affluent would chalk it up as a "one off." I'm thinking more of how quickly upper middle class suburbs shutdown the idea of low income housing in their school district or having a metro line which originates in the inner city stop in their town or how quickly the NJ legislature is trying to make property taxes a charitable donation. When the affluent are impacted change comes quickly
Dear Luftwaffe: Come back. All is forgiven.
As deranged as those people running the Nazi regime were, the typical German soldier was probably no more radical than the typical British soldier as they both would have come from working class Christian families. In WWI there's the Christmas Truce in 1914, when the combat halted for Christmas day and the two sides came out to play soccer against each other.
There is no such commonality at play here, and any Muslims that don't speak out against it at this point are complicit by their silence.
Tommy Robinson read Martin Sellner's speech at Speaker's Corner on the weekend. Mr. Sellner wrote the speech while imprisoned by the UK authorities as he tried to enter the country to speak at Speaker's Corner. If you look through some of the YouTube videos of Tommy Robinson's appearance you can find some that were filmed from within the large Muslim group that gathered there to prevent the speech from happening. It becomes obvious from comments that it's an organized opposition but it was unsuccessful because too many people showed up to support Tommy Robinson. Eventually, after agitating for a bit one of the Muslim leaders told them to back off across the area to a coffee shop where they would 'get organized'.
Anyone that is aware of even half of the incidents that have happened and still thinks all of these Islamic assaults on the UK are just a coincidence is far beyond naive and essentially wilfully ignorant. If they are in an official position then they're quite possibly criminally negligent or possibly even complicit.
As I've said before on here, the formerly Great Britain is lost. Aside from Nigel Farage I can't see anyone in their political class doing anything to arrest the destruction of their society by Islam. Some people like Tommy Robinson will continue to agitate for action, but the government is already actively trying to crush them. It's looking like there will only be one way for this to be resolved, and much will depend on where the military puts its allegiance; with the people or with the politicians.
Sweden is next, and Canada is running a close third with Belgium.
I'm more confident they will come to their senses and correct their problems. This was actually foisted on them by the EU, and Brexit was an important first step in their recovery.
We should start a pool on when they will resolve this. My bet would be fairly soon.
Sadly, I think you're far too optimistic though I wish I could share your belief. Aside from Nigel Farage I haven't seen anything at all in the UK political sphere that even remotely resembles a recognition of the problem much less a willingness to address it.
I don't know much at all about UK political history, but it seems to me that the tragedies of demographics unfolding in the UK and France are a result of an acceptance that anyone from a former colony has a right to live in the former colonizing country. I think this policy shift happened in the 1970's and would have probably been an outgrowth of the developing white guilt complex pushed by the Humanities in the universities, but as I said I'm not sure. The change obviously led to massive immigration from completely conflicting cultures and of course goes hand-in-hand with multiculturalism pushing it as a good thing because 'Diversity is Our Strength!'.
Perhaps someone could set me straight on this policy as it's something that I recall reading long ago but haven't a reference for now.
I'm betting with you on this David.
"This was actually foisted on them by the EU". That is incorrect, the 3rd world invasion of Britain was well under way by 1972. EU rules explicitly allow member nations to control their borders.
This has been a bipartisan policy of Lab/Con since the docking of the Empire Windrush in 1948.
What it actually shows is how voiceless the lower class people in Britain, the vast majority, actually are. BREXITEERs claim to be reclaiming their sovereignty, you never had any, and the referendum result is meaningless as Britain is now going to be totally stitched up, a member of the EU but now with no say whatsoever in EU affairs.
Churchill said Americans get it right after trying everything else. Same could be said of Britons.
Re: Cuckold. I prefer eunuch, I think it much more accurately describes congressional Republicans.