Muslim Claims He Didn’t Know Rape Was Illegal; Spared Prison by UK Court
Muslim Claims He Didn’t Know Rape Was Illegal; Spared Prison by UK Court
By Stoyan Zaimov
January 29, 2013
An 18-year-old man in the U.K. who raped a 13-year-old girl was spared a prison sentence by Nottingham Crown Court after he claimed that his Muslim upbringing did not teach him to respect women.
“Although chronologically 18, it is quite clear from the reports that you are very naive and immature when it comes to sexual matters,” Judge Michael Stokes said when handing Adil Rashid a suspended sentence.
Rashid claimed in his defense that he met his 13-year-old victim through Facebook and the two exchanged messages for two months, before they met up in Nottingham. The teen admitted to having sex with the girl, but said that he was not aware that the activity was illegal and constituted rape, because he was raised with a Muslim education and was not aware of the law.
The Daily Mail reported that such crimes usually result in a four- to seven-year prison sentence, but because the judge deemed that Rashid was “passive” and “lacking assertiveness,” it would be unwise to send him to haul because it might cause him “more damage than good.”
The 13-year-old girl, who was not named, confessed to having a sexual encounter with the man to a school friend, who informed one of her teachers. This eventually led to Rashid’s arrest.
In court, the 18-year-old said that he received his education at an Islamic school within the U.K., and had “little experience of women.” The school, which also could not be named, apparently taught him that “women are no more worthy than a lollipop that has been dropped on the ground.”
The man claims that he found out that his actions were illegal only after a family member told him so.
Judge Stokes initially said that Rashid “must have known it was illegal, unless he was going round with his eyes shut,” but defense lawyer Laban Leake successfully argued that his client had a “degree of sexual naivety.”
The Sun added that Rashid also said the girl had “tempted” him into sex and that he later said that he felt bad for his actions.
“I accept this was a case where the girl was quite willing to have sexual activity with you. But the law is there to protect young girls, even though they are perfectly happy to engage in sexual activity,” Stokes concluded.
Elon Musk: Jess Phillips deserves to be in prison over Labour refusal to launch grooming inquiry
Elon Musk: Jess Phillips deserves to be in prison over Labour refusal to launch grooming inquiry
Kemi Badenoch joins widespread criticism of decision, saying rape gang investigation was ‘long overdue’
By Dominic Penna
January 2, 2025
Labour has come under fire after refusing to hold a public inquiry into historic sexual abuse by grooming gangs in Oldham.
Elon Musk attacked the decision as “disgraceful” and Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, said a full national inquiry into rape gangs was “long overdue”.
Jess Phillips, Labour’s safeguarding minister, insisted it was “for Oldham council alone” to decide whether to launch an investigation into alleged exploitation between 2011 and 2014.
A 2022 report found children in Oldham were failed by agencies that were meant to protect them amid alleged grooming by “predominantly Pakistani offenders” in council homes, shisha bars and by taxi drivers.
Oldham council’s Labour group last year agreed to support an independent inquiry, writing twice to Ms Phillips urging the Home Office to support this work.
The minister replied: “It is for Oldham Council alone to decide to commission an inquiry into child sexual exploitation locally, rather than for the Government to intervene…
“I welcome the council’s resolution to do so, as set out in your letter, and to continue its important work with victims and survivors.”
Responding to a report on Ms Phillip’s remarks on his social media platform X, Mr Musk claimed that she “deserves to be in prison”.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1874575303626174956
Mrs Badenoch also shared her view on the platform on Thursday and said: “The time is long overdue for a full national inquiry into the rape gangs scandal.
“Trials have taken place all over the country in recent years but no one in authority has joined the dots. 2025 must be the year that the victims start to get justice.”
Responding to Mrs Badenoch, Nigel Farage, the Reform leader, said: “Talk is cheap. The Conservatives had 14 years in government to launch an inquiry. The establishment has failed the victims of grooming gangs on every level.”
The time is long overdue for a full national inquiry into the rape gangs scandal.
Trials have taken place all over the country in recent years but no one in authority has joined the dots.
https://x.com/KemiBadenoch/status/1874749990842814606
The tech billionaire has emerged as a vocal critic of Sir Keir Starmer and his government in recent months and will have a major role in Donald Trump’s incoming administration.
In further posts, Mr Musk accused Ms Phillips of a “disgraceful” decision and suggested she had rejected an inquiry in order to shield Sir Keir from blame.
He continued: “In the UK, serious crimes such as rape require the Crown Prosecution Service’s approval for the police to charge suspects.
“Who was the head of the CPS when rape gangs were allowed to exploit young girls without facing justice? Keir Starmer, 2008–2013.
“Who is the boss of Jess Phillips right now? Keir Stamer [sic]. The real reason she’s refusing to investigate the rape gangs is that it would obviously lead to the blaming of Keir Starmer [head of the CPS at the time].”
In the UK, serious crimes such as rape require the Crown Prosecution Service’s approval for the police to charge suspects.
Who was the head of the CPS when rape gangs were allowed to exploit young girls without facing justice?
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1874664089894695221
Sir Keir ordered a comprehensive review of CPS guidelines on sexual exploitation as chief prosecutor in 2012, admitting the service had failed a generation of girls who were abused.
He said at the time that there was “clearly an issue of ethnicity” in a number of grooming cases and that prosecutors should not “shy away from that”.
Sir Keir added: “But if we’re honest it’s the approach to victims, the credibility issue, that caused these cases not to be prosecuted in the past. There was a lack of understanding.”
He went on to blame misleading “assumptions, myths and stereotypes” about sexual violence that led prosecuting lawyers to downplay the credibility of witnesses.
Too many still won’t admit the truth about child grooming gangs
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/16/too-many-wont-admit-truth-about-child-grooming-gangs/
Too many still won’t admit the truth about child grooming gangs
We must secure justice for thousands of girls and also ensure that this type of industrial-scale cover-up isn’t repeated
By Suella Braverman
September 16, 2024
There are some people you never forget. For me, I’ll always remember that meeting in Rochdale with the brave women who had survived brutal sexual abuse. They told me how, as young girls, they had been preyed upon, trafficked and raped, mainly by Pakistani and Afghan men.
One woman told me how the violent sexual abuse had started when she was just 12 and how she had thereafter fallen pregnant. I heard how one woman had been raped by more than 150 men by the time she was 16.
They told me how police officers, social workers, teachers and councillors all knew about the paedophilia but turned a blind eye for fear of being called racist. They spoke angrily about how the authorities refused to believe them. The truth was covered up out of fear of inflaming racial tension.
They told me how grateful they were to the handful of professionals like Maggie Oliver – a policewoman whistle-blower – who saved their lives. The truth is that the Rochdale and Rotherham grooming scandals are one of the biggest injustices in our country and no one should ever forget what happened, and what still happens, in many parts of our country.
Last week, sentences totalling more than 100 years were handed down to seven Rotherham perpetrators. Credit must be given to the police and CPS for pursuing these investigations, eventually.
Child sexual abuse cases can take years to build, involve the handling of complex and sensitive evidence and depend on the courage of the victims who have to re-live the ordeal in court for convictions to be secured. The survivors have shown immense fortitude.
As Home Secretary I was passionate about making progress on this national scandal. Last year we set up a specialist task force, led by the National Crime Agency, to galvanise the investigative work with the police. I worked with the task force closely; it secured over 500 new arrests in its first year. Sadly, much was left undone by the time of the general election and so there is still a lot more to do. We must secure justice for thousands of girls and also ensure that this type of industrial-scale cover-up isn’t repeated.
A legal duty on professionals to report sexual abuse is needed to break through the inertia and fear that prevail in many of our organisations. This was one of the key recommendations in the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse and needs to come into force.
The police have been heavily criticised for their mishandling of the Rochdale cases for more than a decade – most recently in an independent report earlier this year. But have there been any consequences for their neglect? None. More accurate recording of the data is needed to smash the taboos around some incidents of child sexual abuse.
As the independent reports confirm, in Rotherham, Rochdale and Telford, the perpetrators were mainly Pakistani. This truth that dared not speak its name was a reason for the institutional silence and that’s why we need to keep talking about it now. This is not to smear a whole class of people but to be honest about a serious problem in some of our towns and cities.
And we need greater powers to deport foreign-born offenders after conviction. It cannot be right that a foreign criminal who has breached our values and rules in such an egregious way can still enjoy residency in our country.
It will require political courage to confront these problems if we are serious about securing justice for the survivors and protecting children in the future. This Labour Government must put child safety above political correctness, but I’m not so sure they will. I hope they prove me wrong.
Elon Musk is demanding prison time for the large numbers of Rotherham, U.K. police officers, government officials, teachers, social workers, news reporters, and other authority figures who, for many years, knowingly allowed large numbers of Muslim men to rape large numbers of young girls, because they did not want to be accused of “Islamophobia.”
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
January 3, 2025
Elon Musk recently tweeted, “So many people at all levels of power in the UK need to be in prison for this.”
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1874423327789551778
Musk is referring to the large numbers of Rotherham, U.K. police officers, government officials, teachers, social workers, news reporters, and other authority figures who, for many years, knowingly allowed large numbers of Muslim men to rape large numbers of young girls, because they did not want to be accused of “Islamophobia.”
Here’s a lot more information on this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploitation_scandal
https://www.economist.com/britain/2014/08/30/see-no-evil-hear-no-evil-speak-no-evil
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