The BBC report on the grooming of 60 young girls for sex by groups of 'older men' but seem to miss out one word. They manage to tell readers that the perpetrators are 'older men' and that the men were connected with a cluster of town centre takeaway restaurants.
By contrast The Telegraph do manage to impart some facts that the BBC just couldn't bring themselves to:
So why so coy BBC, why the inability to mention that the perpetrators are/were Muslims?
By contrast The Telegraph do manage to impart some facts that the BBC just couldn't bring themselves to:
'Earlier this year a Home Office inquiry was launched amid reports of a similar trend of crime across the north of England and the Midlands involving gangs of mainly Muslim men and young girls.
Andy Rhodes, assistant chief constable of Lancashire Police, was quoted as saying that while offenders come from a variety of backgrounds, "in some areas the number of Asian offenders is disproportionate to the population".'
So why so coy BBC, why the inability to mention that the perpetrators are/were Muslims?
"Older" men? That's ageism, that is. Of course the BBC have no idea who they were being groomed, but just make an automatic assumption.
ReplyDeleteActually, we have no idea that they were necessarily being groomed for sex with men. So that's gender discrimination too, and probably heterophobia.