While the alternative news channel GB News has produced a detailed documentary about the so-called grooming gangs, the networks of Pakistani men that abused young girls in towns like Rotherham, it’s harder to find the equivalent at the BBC. The top story at the state broadcaster is instead a documentary about a grooming scandal that was made up, leaving the viewers with the impression that the problem is exaggerated and only someting racists worry about.
GB News has just released «Grooming Gangs: Britain’s Shame,» which can be viewed here:
Grooming Gangs: Britain’s Shame – Watch GB News documentary in full
The documentary is shocking, even though this is a topic that’s becoming well known. It tells of how the local authorities in Rotherham were well aware of what was going on with Pakistani men who abused young, vulnerable, largely English girls. They held them captive in flats for weeks at a time, made them dependant on alcohol and drugs, and organised mass rapes that have destroyed the lives of thousands of girls. Some were even killed. These were often girls who were under the «care» of the social services, because they were easier targets. But also girls from relatively intact families were subjected to grooming – where they were showered with attention, given gifts and alcohol, and then horribly abused. The programme features interviews with some of the victims, and it is awful to hear about how they had their childhoods destroyed by men who saw them as «easy meat» instead of human beings.
The progamme also reveals how people employed in various social services agencies and the voluntary sector, who worked directly with the girls, fought against a system that refused to recognise what was going on.
Time after time, reports were filed away, employees were reshuffled so that they couldn’t help the girls, and the police and other authorities let the perpetrators get away.
Their opinion was that the girls were unreliable witnesses, and that the abuse was «consensual.» The human rights of the men were more important than those of the girls, and parents who tried to get their daughters out of the flats they were held in were told that they would risk their children’s lives if they entered them.
One father tells of his despair at not being allowed to get his daughter, even though he knew exactly where she was.
The girls of Rotherham were let down
Both individuals and the system let the girls of Rotherham, and at least fifty other British towns, down badly. The debate is now raging about the need for a natioanl enquiry to go through the cases again, but Labour is so far saying no.
They believe it should be up to the local authorities to decide whether to order a new, local enquiry. This has provoked Elon Musk and others to criticise Labour politicians such as Jess Phillips, who he accuses of failing in her role as safeguarding minister.
«She deserves to be in prison,» he’s said on X. Keir Starmer, who was Chief Prosecutor for five years while the gangs were active, is also complicit, according to Musk, and he is not the only one who thinks so. That he, as well as Phillips and other politicians from both Labour and the Conservative Party have shown a lack of leadership and duty of care in this matter is clear.
This lack of care is still going on today. Under Starmer, those jailed in connection with the gangs are being released early, further insulting the victims, The Standard reports.
It is well known that it was the fear of being accused of racism that held the authorities back from dealing properly with the grooming gangs, or rape gangs as some say they should be called. Even if 61 men have been convicted so far, it took ten years from when the first tip offs were submitted to the police until any convictions were made.
It wasn’t just the authorities that failed – the media were reluctant to cover the case. Channel 4 showed the first documentary about the grooming gangs in 2004, but the release was delayed by several months as the channel was told showing it could fuel racial tensions.
Andrew Norfolk in The Times was the first journalist that covered the case in 2011, after receiving tips about what was going on in Rotherham. Norfolk was called a racist, but still decided to pursue the story, and his coverage became crucial for the development of the case.
Later on, information from other towns and cities emerged, and gradually the scope of the scandal unfolded. Despite a number a enquiries, reports and convictions, it’s clear that a lot could have been done much sooner, and that the needs of the rapists had priority over the needs of the victims.
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Grooming gangs – still active?
This is a story that is still not over. Nothing indicates that grooming gangs are a thing of a the past. This is why documentaries like the one by GB News are so important. It is uncomfortable, but necessary that Britain faces up to how it let down its young, vulnerable girls.
The BBC is the country’s state broadcaster, financed through the licence fee. Its role is to be a source of reliable, factual, comprehensive information. So why is the first thing that pops up when you search for «grooming gangs BBC» a programme about a girl who made up a story about being groomed, and ended up in prison for her offences?
It’s hard not to notice the woke, liberal leftie bias of the BBC in their coverage of this particular case. The documentary, on BBC Radio 3, focuses on the one instance where the grooming gangs were innocent, but rather the object of a made-up story.
The BBC uses the programme as a political tool to dissuade people from concerning themselves with the grooming gangs and their crimes, to tell them that it’s an exaggerated problem and that talking about them is racist.
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To be fair to the BBC, they have published articles and documentaries about the gangs. But you have to dig deeper to find them, and their focus has been to avoid linking the gangs to certain groups of the population.
They have shied away from grappling with the cultural and religious aspects of the gangs. But it is a fact that almost all of the perpetrators were of Pakistani origin, and Muslims. They have decided not to interview people like Dr Taj Hargey from the Oxford Institute for British Islam, who claims that imams at British mosques promote grooming and abuse of non-Muslim, ie British, girls, because they are «easy meat» and not one of them.
Hargey is a Muslim himself, and says fundamentalist Islam is the issue at several British mosques. GB News, on the other hand, recently did an interview with Dr Hargey that is worth watching.
Sugarcoating the truth
BBC, along with the rest of the liberal elites, are not doing themselves a favour by sugarcoating the truth. That includes their Norwegian equivalents, like Nazneen Khan Østrem, a British-Pakistani/Norwegian journalist who claims in an interview on NRK Nyhetsmorgen that the grooming gang members were «mainly white.» Not only factually incorrect, but ignoring the fact that Pakistani men are hugely overrepresented in these kinds of crimes.
Even so-called conservatives, like Tim Stanley in The Telegraph, excuses Islam and the medieval culture that so often follows as recently as two days ago under the headline «Islam is not to blame for the grooming gangs«.
It’s so far removed from reality, and so naive, that it really makes you wonder what’s going on. People are fed up with excuses, and that is why GB News is becoming increasingly important, like Document here in Norway (of you’ll forgive me beating my own drum).
This is why Trump won in the US, and why Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Elon Musk, Nigel Farage and other alternative political forces all over Europe are on the upsurge.
But the old establishment doesn’t give in so easily, and are trying their best to stay relevant, even if they are continuously failing. As the balance moves in the direction of the new regime, it will be harder for them to get away with it, and the deceit of the politicians, authorities and large parts of the media might finally be fully exposed.
