Victims Of Islamic Cultural Extremism.
Why not victims of any other religion or victims of organised crime? Muslims are not responsible for all the grooming of young, predominantly white young girls in the UK, nor are they responsible for all of the violence that happens on our streets where white youths are the victims, so why are we singling out Muslim related crime? Quite simply because they often get away with it. Any white family cutting off their daughter’s clitoris would be prosecuted and jailed; at Rotherham they hid behind the race card and blamed cultural differences. Muslims routinely hand their young daughters into slavery (arranged marriages to much older men) and have set up their own little court system to justify their actions (there are now Sharia courts operating throughout the UK).
In the case of the young girls targeted by Muslim grooming gangs there is a clear sectarian element to these attacks. The victims are never “good Muslim girls” but predominantly white working class girls who are viewed as “easy meat” and “fair game”. The justification for such attacks can be found in Islamic teaching and indeed various “Muslim leaders” have made derogatory comments about the victims being little better than prostitutes, as though that gave these men justification for their rape and abuse.
In the case of white male victims of Muslim targeted crime we all know about the brutal killing of Lee Rigby (“which had nothing to do with Islam”). So far Woolwich local council have refused to have a proper memorial at the actual site of his killing because “it may become a shrine to far right extremists”. But how many of you have heard of a 15 year old Scottish lad named Kris Donald? He was kidnapped by a group of Muslim youths in 2004 intent on revenge for a supposed slur on their religion during an argument in a nightclub. They targeted Kris, kidnapped him, and during a 200 mile car ride subjected him to the most horrific torture before stabbing him 13 times, dousing him in petrol and setting him on fire. Although the Muslim youths involved were convicted of “racially motivated murder” the local council refused permission for his family and friends to hold a remembrance service at the scene of his murder last year to mark the 10th anniversary of his death in case it inflamed tensions with the local Muslim community.
We would like to help the families of victims such as Kriss and Lee challenge such decisions.
However we are not just trying to help non Muslim victims. We also aim to help Muslim women who have been victims of Muslim related crime. FGM is a particularly barbaric Muslim related practice which was made illegal in the UK in 1985. As yet it’s a crime for which no one has been successfully prosecuted. We believe that if the parents of any girl who has suffered such grievous bodily harm, and that’s what FGM is, are living in the UK they should be prosecuted for arranging to have this done to their daughters. We would very much like to help a victim bring such a case to court.
Another of our aims is to help Muslim women living in fear of their male relatives, perhaps because they are dating an “unsuitable” man and fear becoming a victim of honour killing by their outraged fathers or brothers;or maybe they are having doubts about their faith. Islamic “apostacy law” means that it is a crime to renounce Islam punishable by death and whilst a man may do so and probably survive here in the UK, it is that much harder for a woman to escape from her zealous relatives. Many simply do not have their own credit cards and money with which to plan and execute their escape. We would like to help.
Anne Marie Waters and David Britain, co-founders of VOICE