Elon Musk, Britain’s Rape Gangs, ‘Multiculturalism’ and Cowardice

by Jeff Johnston | January 16, 2025 | Culture

(Caution: This article deals with sexual assault, with links to some graphic articles and posts.)

Elon Musk has been calling attention to the horrors that took place in towns and cities across England – for decades – as gangs of men, mostly Muslim Pakistanis, groomed, raped, abused and sexually trafficked young girls.

Musk’s posts spotlighted not just the crimes, but also the scandalous coverup of the assaults and trafficking, which were ignored or concealed for years by the media, police, social workers and local and national government officials.

Many who failed to act were fearful of being labeled “racist” or “Islamophobic.” Those fears – and kowtowing to ”multiculturalism” and “diversity” ideology over truth and justice – led to gross injustice and grave harm to young children.

The assaults on thousands of girls have reportedly been taking place since the 1960s, wrote Dominic Green in The Free Press:

The grooming and serial rape of thousands of English girls by men of mostly Pakistani Muslim background over several decades is the biggest peacetime crime in the history of modern Europe. It went on for many years. It is still going on. And there has been no justice for the vast majority of the victims.

British governments, both Conservative and Labour [sic], hoped that they had buried the story after a few symbolic prosecutions in the 2010s. And it looked like they had succeeded — until Elon Musk read some of the court papers and tweeted his disgust and bafflement on X over the new year.

There’s no knowing how many thousands of young girls were abused and raped across England. The Jay Report, an independent inquiry into gang rapes in Rotherham, stated that more than 1,400 girls were victimized from 1997-2013. That number can be multiplied many times over, as similar grooming gangs raped and abused children in dozens of other British towns, including Aylesbury, Blackpool, Bristol, Oxford, and Rochdale.

After reading court transcripts of some of the cases, Musk said, “What was done to thousands of defenseless little girls in Britain was vile beyond belief.” He also called for a new inquiry into UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who headed up the Crown Prosecution Service from 2008-2013, and his role in the scandal.

The Prime Minister and other leaders then attacked Musk for “interfering” in England’s affairs, with Starmer saying his accusers were “spreading lies and misinformation.” Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch also called for a national inquiry, but Parliament voted against it, 364-111.

InThe Daily Telegraph, Sam Ashworth-Hayes and Charlie Peters explained that “the government seems curiously reluctant to dig into the failings of officials.” They added,

This reluctance is not new. Across the country, in towns and in cities, on our streets and in the state institutions designed to protect the most vulnerable members of our society, authorities deliberately turned a blind eye to horrific abuse of largely white children by gangs of men predominantly of Pakistani heritage.

They opined that officials reluctance to address the issue is because “the government’s approach to multiculturalism is not to uphold the law, but instead to minimize the risk of unrest between communities.”

Rather than protecting children and pursuing justice, police and government officials buried the story.

“Britain now stands shamed before the world,” Green wrote, adding:

The scandal is already reshaping British politics. It’s not just about the heinous nature of the crimes. It’s that every level of the British system is implicated in the cover-up.

Julie Bindel, an English radical feminist who works to stop violence against women, was one of the first to begin researching and writing about this issue. She began investigating reports of grooming gangs in the early 1990s, through her involvement with The Coalition For the Removing of Pimping.

But “police and social services appeared to be scared of intervening in these particular grooming gangs” because they “did not want to be labelled as racist,” she said. Similarly, “because some editors feared an accusation of racism,” her first story on the subject was not published until 2007.

She wrote in The London Times,

Schoolgirls in Lancashire and Yorkshire are falling prey to sinister gangs of pimps. Two men have been sent to jail, but the girls’ mothers, not the police, are at the forefront of the crackdown. Why are the authorities so reluctant to get involved?

While sitting in a mall in Lancashire, Bindel watched “well-dressed Asian teenage boys … on the lookout for young white girls,” many of whom “are from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The boys would develop relationships with young girls, hungry for attention and affection, and then hand the girls over to older men, pimps who gave the girls drugs and alcohol – then threatened, raped and abused them. The girls were then sold for sex to other men in the town and often taken on a circuit to other cities.

“If anyone has sex with a girl under 13, there is a strong risk of being arrested for having sex with a minor. Once they reach 13, however, unless the victim makes a complaint to the police, nothing will happen,” Bindel wrote.

She continued, saying, “Pimping is lucrative. According to the Metropolitan Police Vice Squad, a pimp can make £300,000 to £400,000 a year selling a 16-year-old girl. There is, appallingly, no shortage of men who wish to buy them.”

She also pointed out the spinelessness of those who refused to act on behalf of these children, “The ethnic origin of the men was irrelevant, but many of them were allowed to get away with the rape and abuse of young girls because of the cowards who would do anything for a quiet life.”

While she’s right about the cowardice, she’s wrong about the ethnicity not mattering. Apologists for the state claim that white men commit most of the rapes in England, not Pakistani Muslims.

But as reporter Charlie Peters explained in a thread on X, that explanation misses the point. He wrote:

The contention had always been that those of Pakistani heritage were over-represented as abusers, not the majority of abusers. …

Only around 2-3% of the population of Rotherham during the period examined by the Jay Report came from a Pakistani ethnic background. Most abusers of the 1,400 girls therefore came from a population of only around 8,000 people. Clearly they were hugely over-represented.

In addition, since many men were never arrested and prosecuted, it’s impossible to know how many more assaults were committed by this small segment of the population. And why were they not arrested and prosecuted? Officials were afraid of being accused of racism and Islamophobia.

These girls were sacrificed on the altar of multiculturalism; diversity, equity and inclusivity; and political correctness. They deserve better.

Thankfully, as Musk and a few intrepid reporters have brought worldwide attention to this scandal, the British people are clamoring for a full inquiry. A poll from GB News found 73% want a national inquiry, 79% said officials who failed these girls should be prosecuted, and 81% want foreign national groomers deported.

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