Skandalen i Rotherham

Den stora skandalen i brittiska Rotherham har nu utretts och brittisk press är fylld av rapporter:

Misplaced political correctness by Rotherham’s Labour led council combined with a staggering culture of denial allowed more than 1,400 vulnerable girls to be routinely abused by gangs of Asian men, a withering report has concluded. Children as young as nine were groomed, trafficked and raped by members of the town’s Pakistani community, but a desperation to avoid being labelled as racist, meant councillors turned a blind eye to the appalling abuse for 16-years.

Daily Telegraph

Den politiska effekten kan jag inte bedöma, men Rotherham och andra städer där frågan nu diskuteras är styrda av Labour.

Utredaren:

 “The issue of race is contentious, with staff and members lacking the confidence to tackle difficult issues for fear of being seen as racist or upsetting community cohesion.

 “By failing to take action against the Pakistani heritage male perpetrators of CSE in the borough, the Council has inadvertently fuelled the far right and allowed racial tensions to grow, it has done a great disservice to the Pakistani heritage community and the good people of Rotherham as a result.

“This has allowed perpetrators to remain at large, has let victims down, and perversely, has allowed the far right to try and exploit the situation. These may have been unintended consequences but the impact remains the same and reaches into the present day.”

The Times avslöjade det hela:

Fear of being branded racist was said to have had a crippling effect on the willingness of staff to confront a crime pattern in which white children were groomed and used for sex by organised groups of men. Most of the offenders were from the town’s Pakistani community. Crimes included “rape with a broken bottle and girls being ordered to kiss perpetrators’ feet at gunpoint”.

When articles in The Times exposed the street-grooming scandal in 2012, the council’s response was to dismiss the investigation as a “politically motivated” attack on a Labour authority by the “Murdoch press”, the report said. By declaring the articles to be untrue “with no apparent grounds for doing so”, it showed “extraordinary complacency”.

Regeringen:

Eric Pickles, the communities secretary, said the Casey report confirmed “a complete failure of political and officer leadership” in Rotherham.

He announced a “most exceptional” package of emergency intervention measures including the appointment of five commissioners to take control of the council. Every seat on the authority will be put up for re-election in 2016.

Rotherham was, he said, a council paralysed by “complacency, institutionalised political correctness” and “blatant failures of political and officer leadership”. “The crimes committed against children are so appalling, the council’s remedy so utterly inadequate, that the government cannot in good conscience turn a blind eye.”

I den brittiska debatten diskuteras alltså nu hur unikt Rotherdam varit eller är.

Diskussionen om multikulturalism får givetvis näring av det som nu redovisats.