There are plenty of news stories that are still unfolding right now but need another few days for the figurative and literal smoke to clear. I will definitely be covering them in the days ahead. For today plenty of readers have been asking about my view of the continuing U.K. grooming gangs scandal.
I covered that story here at Balladeer’s Blog extensively beginning in 2014 and it is tragic and heartbreaking that the atrocities STILL go on. My opinions years ago sadly fit just as well here in 2025.
ROTHERHAM REPORT OPINION (September 2nd, 2014) – “Females as young as ELEVEN were being systematically raped and groomed for further abuse by Pakistani Muslims in the U.K for years. Over FOURTEEN HUNDRED VICTIMS (Note: that was the 2014 estimate) have been referred to in just the Rotherham Report with countless other areas of the U.K. weighing in with similar accounts.”
“Another common thread uniting the cases is the cowardly way in which LAW ENFORCEMENT AND GOVERNMENTAL OFFICIALS IGNORED AND/OR COVERED UP THE INCIDENTS OUT OF FEAR OF BEING LABELED “ISLAMOPHOBIC”.
“I DIDN’T WANT TO BE ACCUSED OF BEING ISLAMOPHOBIC” IS THE NEW “I WAS ONLY FOLLOWING ORDERS.” (September 22nd, 2014) – “The atrocities were enabled by U.K. bureaucrats, many of whom willfully ignored the complaints of the rape victims because the assailants were Muslim. Some of the bureaucrats have tried to excuse their actions (or rather their inaction) by plaintively whining that they ‘didn’t want to be accused of Islamophobia.’
“Incredible state the western world is in. It’s easier to turn a blind eye to multiple rapes of girls as young as 11 than it is to speak out on the issue and be dubbed ‘Islamophobic’. Some of the testimony from the few brave souls who DID speak out detailed how punishment came swift and sure”.
“That being said, ‘I didn’t want to be accused of Islamophobia’ truly has become the 21st Century equivalent of ‘I was only following orders’. Both lines are used to excuse one’s gutless and/or unreasoning compliance with a system in which atrocities become permissible. Even routine. And both lines basically translate as ‘I didn’t want to get in trouble by speaking out against the horrors I saw unfolding.” Continue reading
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