Showing posts with label Group: Pakistanis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Group: Pakistanis. Show all posts

Saturday, 19 May 2012

UK: Tory cabinet minister Baroness Warsi calls on mosques to act after Rochdale grooming gang scandal

UK: Tory cabinet minister Baroness Warsi calls on mosques to act after Rochdale grooming gang scandal

Via the Daily Mail:
Muslim cabinet minister Baroness Warsi today dramatically hit out at the 'small minority' of Pakistani men who see white girls as 'fair game' for sexual abuse.

In comments following the Rochdale grooming scandal involving nine Muslim men, the Conservative Party co-chairman admitted that race was a factor.

She urged Muslim leaders to address the issue and ensure that men who regard white women as 'third class citizens' are isolated by their communities.
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Wednesday, 9 May 2012

UK: The truth about 'Asian sex gangs'


UK: The truth about 'Asian sex gangs'

Via the Guardian:
In January 2011 the Times proclaimed a "conspiracy of silence" around groups of Pakistani men sexually exploiting white British girls. Political correctness and fear of appearing racist had trumped child protection, the paper claimed.

Soon the terms "Pakistani" and "Asian" were being conflated, much to the disgruntlement of other British Asians and a heated media debate ensued around the "Asian sex gang" problem.
Jack Straw demanded the Pakistani community take responsibility, while BNP leader Nick Griffin gleefully decried "Muslim paedophilia", campaigning with natty slogans such as "Our children are not halal meat". The EDL were regulars at major trials: either in the courtroom taking notes or outside spitting hate.

The defendants in question are at most nominally Muslim. Practising Muslims certainly aren't supposed to have sex with children. But race has proved a contentious and enduring feature of this crime's coverage

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Via the Telegraph:
In recent years police forces and social work departments across Britain have generally failed to tackle it for fear of being seen as racist.

Instead, they have cited official figures that paint a more generalised picture of sex gangs springing up in a variety of ethnic communities.

But the reality is that in pockets across Britain vulnerable white teenagers are being groomed and then trafficked to satisfy the cravings of Asian men, the vast majority of them Pakistani.
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Via the Manchester Evening News:
A Muslim group said the Rochdale sex grooming scandal has exposed a section of the British Pakistani community who believe ‘white teenage girls are worthless and can be abused without a second thought’. 

Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of campaign group the Ramadhan Foundation, insisted race was central to the crimes and blasted Muslim community elders for ‘once again burying their heads in the sand’.

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Tuesday, 1 May 2012

Serbia: One dead in Pakistani-Afghan clash

Serbia: One dead in Pakistani-Afghan clash

Via B92:
A man was murdered in the early hours of Tuesday near Subotica in a fight that broke out between two groups of illegal immigrants from Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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According to the newspaper's source with the Serbian police (MUP), both groups were hiding on a farm near the northern Serbian town when the Pakistanis attacked the Afghans.

After this, the Afghans reportedly decided to retaliate, with the incident resulting in the murder.

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Friday, 20 April 2012

Bradford: Cousin marriage tradition becoming more entrenched

Bradford: Cousin marriage tradition becoming more entrenched

Via the BBC:
The tradition of marrying a cousin is becoming more entrenched among British-born Pakistanis living in Bradford than it was a generation ago, writes Winifred Robinson.

This has been the surprise finding of the Born in Bradford research project . It's a huge long-term study of 14,000 mothers and babies in the city, the largest ever undertaken in the UK. Half of the families in the project are Asian.
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Sunday, 15 April 2012

UK: Lord offers bounty for capture of Obama, Bush

UK: Lord offers bounty for capture of Obama, Bush



Via Al Arabiya:
A controversial British parliamentarian of Kashmiri origin, Lord Nazir Ahmed, has announced a bounty for the capture of U.S. President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush according to a report in Pakistan’s Express Tribune newspaper Sunday.

Ahmed, who became the first Muslim life peer in 1998, made these comments in Haripur on Friday to express his solidarity with chief of Laskhar e Tayyiba, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, upon whom the United States placed a $10 million bounty last month.

Ahmed described the bounty on Saeed as “an insult to all Muslims and by doing so President Obama has challenged the dignity of the Muslim Ummah,” Express Tribune quoted him as saying.

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Monday, 9 April 2012

UK: Horrific story of the British child bride

UK: Horrific story of the British child bride

Via the Daily Mail:
A successful businesswoman has told of her agony after being forced into an abusive marriage at the age of five - despite living in Britain.

Samina Shah, who is now in her 40s and too frightened to reveal her real name, spoke out after revelations that Britain's Forced Marriage Unit had handled the case of another five-year-old girl last year.

Mrs Shah said she believed she was being dressed for her fifth birthday party on the day of the Islamic ceremony which effectively ended her childhood.

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Sunday, 8 April 2012

UK: Scotland Yard's racism crisis deepens as vile abuse of Asian shop manager is revealed

UK: Scotland Yard's racism crisis deepens as vile abuse of Asian shop manager is revealed

Via the Daily Mail:

The racism crisis engulfing Scotland Yard took a dramatic turn last night as an officer was exposed for abusing an Asian takeaway manager.

In an appalling drunken outburst, PC Philip Juhasz, 31, told the Pakistani to ‘go back to your f****** country’. The disgraced officer faces the sack for gross misconduct after being convicted of a racially aggravated public order offence.

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Sunday, 11 March 2012

Austria: Catholic convert speaks out after fleeing her Muslim family following 'honour killing' threat

Austria: Catholic convert speaks out after fleeing her Muslim family following 'honour killing' threat

Via the Daily Mail (h/t DW):
Miss James, who grew up in a rural village near the Kashmir mountains, said her problems began when she was 15 and the family lived in the Austrian city of Linz.

While she enjoyed the freedoms of Western culture, such as wearing lipstick and eyeliner, her conservative parents, who were brought together in an arranged marriage, disapproved.

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So began three years of violence between them, Miss James claimed, based on her refusal to be in a forced marriage and the embarrassment it caused the family's Pakistani peers in Austria.

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Thursday, 16 February 2012

UK: Mosques praised for Pakistan flood efforts

UK: Mosques praised for Pakistan flood efforts



Via Asian Image:
A mosque has been praised for its fundraising efforts in Pakistan.

In the wake of the worst floods in the country's history last year, Lal Hussain, Chairman of the Muslim Culture Welfare Association, was praised for his part in the Mosque Campaign at the House of Commons.

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