A 14-year-old girl was raped by a man who'd been in Britain less than a week. The government's response was a leaflet.
A new Spiked investigation lays out named case after named case, Leamington Spa, Nuneaton, Brighton beach, Bristol, Manchester, all Afghan or Eritrean asylum seekers, all convicted of raping women and children after entering Britain illegally. Police in Nuneaton were secretly briefed not to reveal a suspect's immigration status. The Ministry of Justice went to court this year to block release of foreign offending data a think tank had already been approved to receive.
Here's what shames me most as someone who fled a country where women's bodies are policed by the state: Britain's own Home Office is now handing newly arrived asylum seekers information booklets explaining that both people must consent to sex, and that sex with a child under 16 is illegal. Think about what that admission actually means. The state knows exactly what it's importing, and its response was a leaflet, not a screening process.
The countries these men overwhelmingly come from, Afghanistan, Iran, Eritrea, are places where a woman's body is not her own. FGM in 9 out of 10 girls. Domestic violence written into law as acceptable so long as it leaves no visible mark. State-enforced modesty backed by violence. Pretending that culture arrives at Dover and simply disappears is not compassion. It's negligence dressed up as virtue.
I watched governments look away from exactly this kind of denial before. It never ends well. Britain needs to stop calling this racism and start calling it what it is: a state that has decided protecting its own reputation matters more than protecting women and girls.
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