Britain’s Rape Gang Report Connects Islam to Systematic Abuse of Children

This article is the second in a three-part series on Britain’s Independent Rape Gang Inquiry Report. Part One explained the report and why American families should care. Part Two examines the connection between Islamic theology and rape gang crimes. Part Three will cover Britain’s institutional failure to protect children for fear of appearing racist.

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

Organized gangs of primarily Pakistani Muslim men sexually abused at least 250,000 British girls over three decades, Britain’s Independent Rape Gang Inquiry Report revealed earlier this month.

The groundbreaking report suggests Islam influences the formation and conduct of “grooming gangs.”

“While the foundational system is tribal rather than purely religious, Islamic elements provide ideological justification, communal shielding and strategic expansion [for rape gangs],” it asserts.

The Report singles out Islamic theology dictating the ways Muslim men relate to non-believers, women and one another.

The Quran emphasizes Muslim believers are superior to non-believers, who are frequently described as inferior, corrupted or worthy of judgement (Surah 8:55).

The written testimony of Dr. Ella Hill, whom the Rotherham rape gang victimized when she was just 15, reads:

She further recalled being punished for “not obeying Allah.”

Classical sharia rules on war, which solidified during medieval times, taught Muslim believers they had a “right and duty” to take slaves from conquered, non-Muslim nations. Male slave owners could have sex with female slaves without violating Islamic marriage codes.

Most modern Muslims likely wouldn’t consider themselves at active war against nations, like Britain, which are not explicitly Islamic. But the Report argues “grooming gang” perpetrators may still use traditional Islamic slave doctrines to justify their crimes.

Many victims described being forced into domestic slavery. In one horrible case, a perpetrator from Rotherham branded his victim with the letter ‘M’, for Muhammad, to mark her as his property.

Andrew Norfolk, the journalist who first exposed the Rotherham, Rochdale and Oxford “grooming gangs” in 2011, made a similar observation in a now decade-old interview.

“Some of these [Muslim] kids have got an idea, probably because it’s quite convenient for them, that Britain’s been designated a land of war, so certain things have become permissible in terms of ‘the enemy,’” he commented.

“I think some of the guys think it’s okay to do stuff to white girls that they wouldn’t dream of doing to Muslim girls.”

Britain’s rape gangs disproportionately target white British women, likely, in part, because of their failure to uphold Islamic norms of sexual purity.

The Prophet Muhammad described women as “fitna,” a term meaning, “A severe trial that can involve seduction or temptation leading people astray from faith.”

Islamic restrictions on women’s dress and freedom of movement aim to control this temptation, the Report hypothesizes. The strictures may make women who don’t adhere to Islamic norms seem “sexually available.”

“One consequence of the sharia-derived culture of covering and seclusion is that a woman who appears in public without covering or remains outside the protected space of the home may be culturally perceived as unguarded and therefore sexually available or promiscuous,” the Report explains.

Dr. Hill experienced verbal abuse reflecting this prejudice.

“I was told that all Muslim girls are good and pure, and stay virgins until marriage, but all white girls are slags, and they all sleep with hundreds of people,” she wrote.

“[I was told] white girls show the curves of their body so they are asking for it.”

The Quran appoints men “guardianship” over women. In practice, sharia law gives men authority over nearly every aspect of women’s lives, including where they go, how they dress and who they marry.

One survivor of Britain’s rape gangs, Sarah, was the victims of two forced marriages. Her first husband divorced her according to sharia law — he said, “I divorce you,” three times out loud.

She was immediately married to another abuser. In public, her “husband” forced her to wear full modest dress, according to Islamic law, and walk five feet behind him in pubic.

Notably, once married, sharia law prevents a woman from refusing her husband sex. She also cannot protect herself from physical violence. Rotherham survivor Dr. Hill recalls:

Islam also doesn’t meaningfully recognize an age of consent.

In his 2016 interview, Norfolk noted:

“I was told that according to their faith community, girls are old enough for sex when they start their periods [at age eleven],” Dr. Hill recalled.

The Islamic principle of loyalty and disavowal — allying oneself with what pleases Allah and against what displeases Allah — informs the “specifically Islamic collectivism” which author, activist and Report contributor Ayaan Hirsi Ali believes underpins British rape gangs.

The principle draws on Quranic verses like Surah 3:28, which warns Muslims against relying on those who do not believe in Islam.

The principle of loyalty and disavowal exerts fierce pressure on group members to protect the community from dishonor.

On one of her ill-fated escape attempts, Sarah reported her abuse and false imprisonment to the police. She told the Report a Muslim police officer came into the interrogation room, turned off the tape recorder and told her to drop her allegations. He claimed she didn’t have enough evidence.

The principle of loyalty and disavowal also informs the honor-and-shame-based dynamics Hirsi Ali observes working in many British rape gangs — the same dynamics observed in countries across the Middle East and North Africa.

In these cultural systems, family honor rests on the “conduct, modesty and virginity” of the female members of a house. Challenges to and violations of honor are punished with physical violence, up to and including honor killings.

“When I tried to escape, I was told that I had offended their honor, so they had to spill my blood,” Dr. Hill wrote in her testimony. “They did this in an honor attack.”

But it is not dishonorable to sexually abuse non-Muslim girls under this cultural system, Hirsi Ali observes, “particularly white British girls perceived as unguarded, dressed in Western styles and lacking male protectors.”

“The risk calculation shifts,” the Report explains. “No retaliation is expected from the girl’s family or community, so some young men feel emboldened to treat her as property and then approach, assault, groom, share among the group and sell her services.”

No crime takes place in a vacuum. The Report presents convincing evidence that the people who committed the organized rape of white girls across Britain — primarily Pakistani Muslims — appear to be influenced and driven by Islam.

That’s a major finding. It suggests immigrants often transport value systems from their countries of origin to their new country. It also illustrates that the act of moving from one country to another doesn’t guarantee cultural assimilation.

Though many rape gang perpetrators came from second-, third- or fourth-generation immigrant families, the Report found the cultural systems that clashed so harshly with British values had not softened with time — they had only become more entrenched.

America offers its citizens robust religious liberties. It also has a rich history of offering immigrants a chance at the American dream. But does that mean America must allow the free practice of religion, no matter the ritual? Or allow anyone to cross our borders, regardless of the traditions and value systems they espouse?

Absolutely not.

Common values are not guaranteed. They require common understanding and buy-in from citizens. Americans should ponder how to uphold and protect America’s founding values as we begin our 251 year.

Evidence of the abuse of hundreds of thousands of British children sat in front of British officials’ noses for years. It was never uncovered — not because no one knew about it, but because no one wanted to be called a racist.

More on Britain’s institutional failures in Part Three.

Additional Articles and Resources

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Iranian Women’s Soccer Team Reminds Americans What It means to Fight for Women’s Rights

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

Equipping Your Church to Respond and Prevent Abuse

Finding Healing From Sexual Assault

Focus on the Family Resources: Healing From Sexual Abuse

Focus on the Family Resources: Abuse

How to Help a Victim of Sexual Assault

Protecting Your Child From Sexual Abuse

Resources: Overcoming Sexual Brokenness

Sexual Assault and Rape: Help for Teens

We Need to Talk About It: Child Abuse Prevention

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