Yakoub Islam provides some links on blogs and articles discussing Jack Straw’s racial slur that ‘men of Pakistani heritage’ are more likely to want to rape young white girls. One link he doesn’t post is Chris Dillow’s examination of the evidence for Straw’s charge.
With the removal of convicted liar Phil Woolas from his job as MP for the Oldham East and Saddleworth constituency, perhaps Straw was making sure the Labour Party was not seen as soft towards demonised minorities in the run up to the by-election there this week. (The only reason Oldham East and Saddleworth is having a by-election is because Woolas was found to have lied about his Liberal Democrat opponent during last year’s general election.)
And you can always rely on the ludicrous and self-important middle-class liberal concern troll Yasmin Alibhai-Brown to inject herself into a story involving the ‘minority’ group, with which she has a superficial attachment and which only ever serves as a vehicle for her self-promotion. You won’t be surprised to be read that she ‘agrees’ with Straw.
All of which puts Straw, and those claim agreement with him (like Alibhai-Brown and Adil Ray), on par with the increasingly deranged bigot Mad Mel.
thabet, 
Abu Noor Al-Irlandee, and 1 other are discussing. 
cbarwa and 
thabet 7:27 am on January 12, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Having said all that, this sort of thing is stupid too:
The writer concludes:
Moron.
Abu Noor Al-Irlandee 2:18 pm on January 12, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I agree Thabet…and my religious beliefs are such that I would say there actually are good arguments against some liberal cultural values and the culture of sexual freedom, but the idea that such things lead to rape is not one of them. And no, this is not the first time I’ve read/heard it, and yes, I actually find it scary that more than a few people seems to think this argument makes sense.
thabet 3:19 am on January 13, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I actually think Western Liberals (capital letters!) forget their own beliefs are born of a particular era, time, location, etc and many, many people don’t believe in these values (as if people don’t argue over these values in Western countries too). One can, and I believe should, be critical of these values (it is not as though liberalism is uncontested), but the above sort of stuff is really strange arguments a lot of my own (Western) Muslim friends make.
aziz 9:51 am on January 12, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
basically, Alibhai-Brown is your Asra Nomani?
thabet 1:57 pm on January 13, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Only worse.
Yakoub Islam 8:37 pm on January 12, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Many thanks, Thabet. Just amending the blog to include this link. I’m trying to make sure links to major UK Muslim media stories, including this one, are posted on The Daily Terror.