British Home Secretary about Pakistani’s
Political commentators and children’s charities have called British Home Secretary Suella Braverman‘s remarks that British-Pakistani men “hold cultural values at odds with British values” “inflammatory” and akin to starting “race wars.”
Ms Braverman came under fire when she mentioned “the predominance of British-Pakistani males who hold cultural values totally at odds with British values” during a Sky News interview about plans to combat child sexual abuse.
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“[British-Pakistani men] see women in a demeaned, illegitimate way, and pursue an outdated and frankly heinous approach to the way we behave,” Ms Braverman said after learning that a Home Office report in 2020 concluded that most child sexual abuse gangs are made up of white men under the age of 30, and that there was insufficient evidence to suggest grooming gang members were disproportionately Asian or black.
Instead, Ms Braverman cited reports from Rotherham, which was rocked by a child sexual exploitation scandal in which five British-Pakistani men were convicted of grooming, raping, and exploiting young girls.
The home secretary also cited Dame Louise Casey CB’s 2015 report, which ironically noted how the British-Pakistani community had been “harmed by association” in the scandal.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who is expected to announce new measures to combat sexual violence against children, said the crackdown on grooming gangs would defy “political correctness.” He did not, however, repeat Ms Braverman’s remarks about Pakistanis.
The government has promised that experienced specialist officers and National Crime Agency members will assist police forces in their investigations into cases of child sexual abuse.
Reaction
West Yorkshire Mayor Tracy Brabin said on a Sky News show following Ms Braverman, “It feels very dog whistle, if I may say, and it doesn’t deal with what is happening on the ground.”
Adil Ray, a British actor and presenter, was among many who pointed out that, according to a 2020 Home Office report, the majority of perpetrators are white. At the time, Braverman was the Attorney General [it was published].“
“Despite heavy competition, and despite her own ethnicity, Suella Braverman may be the most bigoted, cynical, and dangerous politician to emerge from the modern UK Conservative Party in many decades,” British-American political commentator Mehdi Hasan tweeted. This is vile and dishonest behaviour.”
Despite heavy competition, and despite her own ethnicity, Suella Braverman may be the most bigoted, cynical, and dangerous politician to emerge from the modern UK Conservative Party in many decades. This is vile and dishonest stuff: https://t.co/i6sMul37pb
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) April 2, 2023
Former Chief Prosecutor Nazir Afzal, too, drew attention to the disproportionate number of white male perpetrators in child sexual abuse case data.
Home Office research 2020:
“There is no credible evidence that any one ethnic group is over-represented in cases of child sexual exploitation”Suella Braverman knows that 84% of child sex offenders are white British, but chooses to focus on those who are not#Ridge #BBCLauraK
— nazir afzal (@nazirafzal) April 2, 2023
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