Less is later?

Yesterday the BBC finally got around to reporting the latest Northern England sex grooming and child sex case. It was a fairly lengthy article that managed to report that 'The case, involving Asian defendants and white victims' but also added this odd line 'police insist the grooming was not "racially motivated".' Of course 'Asian' in this case, as in so many others before it, is code for Muslim and as for the police insistence... The perpetrators are all Muslims (of Pakistani or Afghanistani heritage). This case is a vile one:

'Some of the girls were beaten and forced to have sex with "several men in a day, several times a week", the jury was told.

One teenager told the jury she was forced to have sex with 20 men in one night.
Another recalled being raped by two men while she was "so drunk she was vomiting over the side of the bed".'

Yet the BBC and the police seem more concerned with trying to snuff out the idea that this case is anything to do with Islam. The BBC do manage to quote Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of of the Ramadhan Foundation, who  accused Pakistani community elders of "burying their heads in the sand" on the issue of on-street grooming. and said:

"There is a significant problem for the British Pakistani community...There should be no silence in addressing the issue of race as this is central to the actions of these criminals.... They think that white teenage girls are worthless and can be abused without a second thought; it is this sort of behaviour that is bringing shame on our community."

Why does Mohammed Shafiq understand what Assistant Chief Constable Steve Heywood of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) does not. He denied that the ethnicity of either the defendants or the victims was a factor:
"It is not a racial issue," he said. "This is about adults preying on vulnerable young children.
"It just happens that in this particular area and time the demographics were that these were Asian men."

Strange how in the North of England this is so often the case.


Today the NEW article the BBC  have on their site is a far shorter one. No mention of religion, no quotation from Mohammed Shafiq or Steve Heywood, just the plain facts of the case with no emotive details. It's almost as though the BBC want to hide the facts; why?


As an aside it is odd how when a Catholic priest is accused of paedophilia the BBC are up in arms and denigrate the catholic church  but when nine Muslim men are convicted of paedophilic crimes, shhh...