Andrew Cadman
On Wednesday, not a single paper led with the terrible, heart-rending
news from Manchester on yet another grooming gang scandal, centering on the death of Victoria Agoglia (warning: extremely harrowing). A system that successfully shut down existential matters of debate
not just for years but for decades, where repeated scandals concerning
the mass rape and deaths of young girls are swept under the carpet while
campaigners face years of abuse and harassment from the authorities, is
broken indeed.
When will we have an honest debate on Islam and the terrible
subcultures it incubates within it? Although it would clearly be wrong
to demonise all Muslims and all interpretations of Islam, how much
longer can we ignore the dangers of a faith with a rapidly growing
demographic whose holy book and prophet preached, in part, violent
sectarianism, misogyny, the legitimisation of rape and the acceptability
of sex with girls as soon as they start to menstruate? How much longer
will we deny the undeniable: that such theology is highly likely to
create the barbarous cultures that prey upon young girls? Instead, we are edging ever closer to Islamophobia laws."
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