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excellent coverage and persistence. The extensive history of this case is new to me. That these girls and mothers and advocates have been treated this way and for so long is criminal.

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Male violence towards females is just the everyday roadkill of patriarchy. We're so conditioned to look away that it's not newsworthy unless it can be used by some other narrative or cause like racism. Otherwise it's just airing dirty laundry.

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It's the ethnic component, you shrivelled up bints.

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Thank you, Julie! You are a voice of reason and empathy in this ocean of screams, threats, name-callings and insults. It is always so reassuring to read you, and it feels like somebody, somewhere, knows how the world turns, and as long as we can hear this voice, everything will be all right.

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In Sydney Australia's northern beach suburbs during the '70s and '80s school teachers were grooming and sharing school girls in an abuse ring that very much resembles Britain's grooming gangs. No Muslims just misogynists in a blokey football culture. One teacher was recently convicted of the abuse but was also recently gaoled for murdering his wife in 1982 so he could install his schoolgirl victim in his family home. Staggering.

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The Islamic faith does authorise rape, with the right hand possesses verse, and the men did shout out Allah Akbar when they were sentenced. Racism is a small matter next to child rape, but was blown out of proportion, which delayed justice by a decade or so, which is scandalous. To protect the vulnerable girls, you should deport that whole demographic of Pakistani Muslims. There’s a reason why India partitioned it’s country, to separate themselves from that demographic. Racism is a small matter, sex trafficking is right at the other end of the scale. Get rid of them!

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The Pakistani elders helped to cover the whole thing up. Islamic value system. Anyone who did that was a party to the crime, and those enablers all need to be charged too, to send a clear message. Keeping the peace in that context is utterly criminal, and very wicked.

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Did a single family member of any of these men come in front of the media and express shock or outrage at what their family member had done? Was any family heard from at all?

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Jeremy, men from Mirpur were overrepresented in these cases. Maybe the UK should halt immigration from Mirpur. Seems somethings in the village water well there.

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You are flat out WRONG to assert that ethnicity and mass immigration are not a major factors which contributed to this problem. Studies have shown that it is. However, male violence IS the predominant feature of the endemic child abuse, and white men who are discussing the problem seem to always gloss over this fact. Women need to get more involved in their local politics and hold authorities to account.

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My understanding is that when you crunch the numbers, men from Pakistani background, particularly Mirpur, were vastly over-represented, hence the focus on "pakistani grooming gangs." Was Andrew Tate hanging around men from that background during that time? I think so, going by what he himself said.

How accurate would you say her perspective is?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V47p_4_eTZk

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