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Are white girls "easy meat" for sex abuse?
Former Home Secretary Jack Straw has said he believes some Pakistani men in Britain see white girls as "easy meat" for Sexual Abuse. Mr Straw was speaking to BBC Newsnight after two Asian men who abused teenage girls in Derby were given indeterminate jail terms. Newsnight's Jackie Long has been looking at an issue rife with Controversy and conflicting views....

Straw sex abuse remarks spark row
The Blackburn Labour MP spoke out as two Asian men who abused girls in Derby were given indeterminate jail terms. Keith Vaz, chairman of the home affairs select committee, said it was wrong to "stereotype an entire community" and a proper inquiry was needed. A Barnados spokesman said vulnerable Children of all races were at risk. Mohammed Shafiq, director of the Muslim youth group the Ramadhan Foundation, rejected any suggestion that the abuse was "ingrained" in the UK's...

Labour MPs criticise Jack Straw over sexual abuse comments
Senior Labour politicians and charities have criticised former Home Secretary Jack Straw over his comments that some Pakistani men in Britain see young white women as easy targets for Sexual Abuse....

Pakistani men see white girls as 'easy meat', claims Jack Straw
Former Home Secretary Jack Straw has accused some Pakistani men in Britain of seeing young white women as "easy meat" for Sexual Abuse....

Sex abuse case prompts Straw plea
Former Home Secretary Jack Straw has said he believes some Pakistani men in Britain see white girls as "easy meat" for Sexual Abuse. Mr Straw was speaking after two Asian men who abused teenage girls in Derby were given indeterminate jail terms. He called on the Pakistani community to be "more open" about the problem. He told the BBC's Newsnight programme: "Pakistanis, let's be clear, are not the only people who commit sexual offences, and overwhelmingly the se...

Probe into grooming of teen girls
The issue of the grooming of vulnerable teenage girls for sex is being investigated by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop). The work coincides with the jailing of two Asian men who abused several girls aged between 12 and 18 in Derby. Former Home Secretary Jack Straw has been criticised for suggesting there was a racial element to grooming. Ceop was set up in 2006 and its staff include police officers and members of organisations such as the NSPCC. A Home Office spokesman...

Are white girls really 'easy meat'?
Jack Straw, the former Home Secretary, claims that some Pakistani men see young white women as prime targets for sexual grooming. Is he right, asks Andrew Gilligan...

MP: Some Pakistanis target 'easy meat'
LONDON, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- A British member of Parliament stoked ethnic issues, telling The Daily Telegraph Pakistani men were capitalizing on white women as "easy meat" for sale. Former Labor Party Home Secretary Jack Straw made the remarks in an interview about the convictions of two Pakistani men for the Sexual Assaults of girls between the ages of 12 and 18 in Derby. "There is a specific problem which involves Pakistani heritage men ... who target vulnerable young white girls," Straw said. "We ...

It is a culture of child sexualisation, not Pakistani attitudes, that puts girls at risk
The ringleaders of the gang: Abid Saddique (left) and Mohammed Liaqat (Photo: PA) Is there a bigger hypocrite than Jack Straw, who following the Derby paedophile case has provoked outrage by saying on Newsnight there is a problem with Pakistani men and their attitude to white girls? He said: “These young men are in a western society, in any event, they act like any other young men, they’re fizzing and popping with Testosterone, they want some outlet for that, but Pakistani heritag...

Former UK Home Secretary: Muslim Men See White Girls as Easy Meat
If you want an example of the official “Conspiracy of silence” that has allegedly allowed hundreds of vulnerable white girls in some towns to be abused by Asian men, the case of Ajmal Mohammed, a 43-year-old from Blackburn, might seem to be it. In 2004, Mohammed, an amateur cricketer in the Ribblesdale league, took a schoolgirl to a Manchester Hotel Room and got her drunk - to celebrate, he said, her 14th birthday. The child ran away. Police were called, but he denied having se...

Concerns over grooming
Is sex abuse grooming a growing problem in the UK? The words of Martin Narey, chief executive of Barnardo's, which runs a number of projects working with hundreds of sexually abused teenaged girls. Child Sexual Exploitation by older men who groom them - not on the Internet, but on the street - is finally getting widespread public attention. The Derby case, which saw the ringleaders of a gang which groomed and abused teenage girls in Derby given indeterminate jail terms, has provided shockin...

Richard Dawkins & Peter Tatchell Debate Immigrant Values In The UK
In an interesting episode of the BBC's Big Question series, famed LGBT Activist Peter Tatchell and Richard Dawkins debate others on the Right Wing and anti-gay attitudes brought by some in Britain's burgeoning immigrant communities. Dawkins goes off beautifully at 15:00. Labels: Immigration, Islam, LGBT rights, Peter Tatchell, religion, UK New! Share this on Facebook: Share ...

Reform agenda 'behind schedule'
Q&A: What is a quango? The Coalition Government is behind schedule on 12 key reforms to the Criminal Justice system, Immigration and counter-terrorism, it has emerged. He cited the delayed counter-terrorism review as an example. Details on the latest progress made by each government department on fulfilling policy pledges have been set out by Downing Street. Its transparency website brings together a range of information - including timetables for implementing policies as part of a bid to b...

Crow attacks 'partying' bankers
What do Investment Banks do? Q&A: What is a Stress Test? Business Secretary Vince Cable is "standing idly by" as Bankers are set to be paid billions in bonuses, a union leader has said. The RMT's Bob Crow said Bankers were still "partying like it's 1999" despite government calls to curb bonuses. BBC business editor Robert Peston says the coalition is now resigned to billions being paid out, albeit at lower predicted levels than in 2010. Last month Mr Cable sa...

Retail boss in inflation warning
One of Scotland's leading Fashion Retailers has warned a "tidal wave of Inflation" is about to break over the clothing sector. Mr McGeogh said the increase in tax from 4 January was set to be overshadowed by other pressures, from cotton prices to freight costs. He also told BBC Radio Scotland's Business Scotland programme it was "a terrible mistake" to allow people to stay on in jobs after the age of 65. He claimed workers from that age could be less productive and...

UK warns aviation of possible al-Qaida attack
LONDON - The British Government has warned the aviation industry of a possible al-Qaida attack, security sources and the BBC said on Friday. The BBC said it had obtained a letter from the Department of Transport addressed to the air transport sector which explained the reason for heightened threat. “There are indications that al-Qaida may be considering an attack against a UK airport or aviation sector target,” it quoted the letter as saying. “The economic, political and psycho...

Control orders set to split all three parties
Nick Clegg will give an indication in a Speech tomorrow of how the government is going to resolve the issue of whether to abolish, retain or replace control orders, introduced in 2005 to combat Terrorism, and a toxic subject entirely capable of splitting all three political parties. At one level the announcement will be a headline battle of spin. Has Clegg (against control orders) or the Home Secretary, Theresa May, (in favour of them) won? Have controls orders in any meaningful sense been ref...

NoW phone-hacking case should reopen Ed Balls
Ed Balls called on David Cameron to review his decision to retain former News of the World editor Andy Coulson (above) as his director of communications. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images Ed Balls, the shadow Home Secretary, today called on the head of the Metropolitan Police to reopen the investigation into phone hacking by the News of the World. He said Sir Paul Stephenson might decide that an independent review of the Met's inquiry, or a review by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Con...

US priest accused of pedophilia dies in Martinique
Laurence Brett, a former priest who vanished twice amid accusations that he sexually abused more than two dozen Children in the U.S., has died in the French Caribbean island of Martinique, a Hospital official said Friday. Brett died at the Pierre Zobda Quitman Hospital in the capital of Fort-de-France, said Joelle Louisor, a Hospital administrator. She said she did not know Brett's cause of death. But the Hartford Courant newspaper in Connecticut reported he apparently fell down some stairs and ...

Nursery closes as care worker accused of sexually abusing child
A nursery has been closed after a 20-year-old care worker was accused of sexually abusing a child in his care there....

Church has moral obligation to reveal truth in sex abuse scandal
Every act of Sexual Abuse of a minor by a priest is a crime, both in civil law and in Catholic Church law. Indeed, from teenage years onward, people know that Sexual Activity between an adult and a minor is both legally and morally wrong. So, in discussing Sexual Abuse of minors by priests, we are not talking about the actions of a schoolyard bully. We are talking about the actions of a criminal. Certainly, the church is well-positioned nowadays to respond to allegations of Sexual Abuse by pri...

Videos show abuse of disabled women
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Investigators in California say they are trying to identify men videotaped sexually abusing Disabled women. Authorities said someone left a package at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's headquarters containing 100 hours of footage of men who appear to be assaulting severely Disabled women, the Los Angeles Times reported. Investigators said the attacks appear to have occurred at residential care centers and they suspect most of the attackers are employees. Authorities T...

Grim truth: Abuse was the cause
The Milwaukee Catholic Archdiocese is in Bankruptcy court because, said Archbishop Jerome Listecki in a message to be played at churches Sunday, "priest-perpetrators sexually abused minors." Listecki spent the past week saying that repeatedly, in speeches, to reporters, all over the archdiocese's website. It is an admission of a grim truth many bishops for years were loath to speak, though they seem over that now, with repeated apologies from The Pope, from other bishops and from Lis...

Chiropractor convicted of abuse
OSKALOOSA, Iowa (AP) — An Oskaloosa chiropractor convicted of sexually abusing patients has been sentenced 12 years in Prison. KCCI-TV of Des Moines says Jason Ebelsheiser was sentenced on Thursday in Mahaska County District Court in Oskaloosa. He was convicted in October on one count of third-degree Sexual Abuse, two counts of assault with intent to commit sexual abuse and one count of tampering with medical records. ...

Update:U.N. Shame:Thousands of Congo Rape Victims in 10 Years
Update: January 7, 2011:  It happens AGAIN. Dozens of women were raped in a coordinated attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo on New Year’s Day, Doctors Without Borders said Thursday. The humanitarian agency said 33 women were raped in Fizi, South Kivu, in the eastern part of the war-torn country. “Women had been restrained with ropes or beaten unconscious with the butt of a gun before being attacked, some in front of their Children,” said Annemarie Loof, an official...