Pakistani Collectivist Political Culture at the Root of the Rotherham Pathology
An article from the Daily Telegraph points up ethnic differences in political culture that enabled the horror that unfolded in Rotherham (Rotherham: politics ‘imported from Pakistan’ fuelled sex abuse cover-up – MP). Although we at TOO have stressed the pathology of the White community for not prosecuting industrial-scale rape of White British children by Pakistani males for fear of being labeled a “racist,” it goes without saying that the Pakistani community must bear ultimate responsibility.
Part of the Pakistani pathology was that such large numbers of men would engage in such behavior. But in addition, the industrial-scale rape of children had to have been common knowledge within the Pakistani community because of the large numbers of men involved.
Nevertheless, nothing was done to stop it. As Tobias Langdon notes, White sex criminals do their deeds secretly and in private because they are well aware that such behavior is looked on with horror by the vast majority of other Whites. This is what one would expect in an individualist culture.
However, Pakistan is a typical Middle Eastern collectivist culture, so the emphasis is on supporting one’s own kinship group, no matter what. This is also the case in the Orthodox Jewish community, another typical Middle Eastern collectivist culture (see here on the SY’s, a group of Syrian Jews living in New York). The Mesirah phenomenon in these Orthodox Jewish communities has led to covering up a wide range of crimes, especially sex crimes against children and financial crimes.
The Telegraph article:
An unhealthy brand of politics “imported” from Pakistan is partly to blame for the cover-up of mass child abuse in Rotherham and other British cities, a campaigning MP has claimed.
Simon Danczuk, who helped expose a pattern of grooming of white teenage girls by men from a Pakistani background in Rochdale, where he is the Labour MP, said a culture of intimidation and closing of ranks within parts of the Asian community had mired politics in towns and cities across northern England for years.
He said Asian councillors were under constant pressure from the community to “conform” and other politicians acquiesced for fear of being accused of racism, failing to face up to evidence of abuse as a result. …
Mr Danczuk said the elements of Pakistani political culture itself were partly to blame for the cover-up.
“There are cultural issues around the way politics are done in the Asian community which have to change,” he said.
He said he had personally come under pressure from Asian councillors and members of the community for speaking out as well as being warned by prominent figures in his party.
He pointed to the way in which two Muslim councillors in Rochdale had provided character references for one of the perpetrators of the Rochdale abuse.
“Politics are done differently in Pakistan, it is a cultural difference we have imported some of that into some of these northern towns and cities and I think we have to face up to the fact that we can’t carry on doing politics like that.
“It is not healthy and the direct consequence is that we end up having to tackle issues like has been faced in Rotherham.”
He described it as “a looking after your own” within the Asian community which other politicians had accepted.
“Pressure was applied, that’s what will have happened to Denis MacShane and he went along with it,” he said, referring to comments last week from the disgraced former MP for Rotherham who said he had shied away from the issue because he was a “Guardian reading liberal leftie”.
Pakistani politicians perforce view their job as protecting the community at all costs. Indeed, as with the Mesirah practice in the Orthodox Jewish community noted above, it would be expected that any Pakistani who complained publicly about Pakistani sex crimes would be ostracized from the community and rejected by his family.
But Mr Danczuk added: “Being an Asian councillor isn’t an easy job compared to being a white councillor, the pressure on some of the Asian councillors is immense.
“They will get phone up at midnight, the amount of casework compared to white areas is completely different, the community almost owns you – you are expected to deliver or they will vote you out.”
He added: “It is a mild form of intimidation – if you don’t conform you will be voted out.”
Other Labour politicians are acknowledging the pressure they faced not to raise the issue:
[Danczuk’s] outspoken remarks came amid claims that prominent Labour Party figures attempted to silence the few politicians who spoke out about the issue.
Ann Cryer, the former MP for Keighley, said she had come under constant pressure from the “politically correct brigade” when she raised the issue.
Ann Cryer said that Ken Livingstone, the former Mayor of London, was among those who had challenged her for speaking about the issue.
The degradation of these girls didn’t end with the gang rapes:
Meanwhile it was reported that more than 100 babies were born as a result of girls being raped in Rotherham.
Sarah Champion, the current Rotherham MP, said one of the most upsetting aspects of the scandal was that babies born to some victims were taken away from them and their mothers will never see them again – something she said “spoke volumes” about how victims were treated.
Finally, a glimmer of good news:
There were also claims that police are planning a wave of arrests in cities such as Manchester as child abuse inquiries reach a new phase.
But arrests and imprisonment are not enough. A healthy society would repatriate the entire Muslim population of Britain. Their political culture is deeply ingrained and more than likely part of their ethnic heritage. It will not change, despite the hopes of Mr. Danczuk.
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