Rupert Lowe’s Rape Gang Enquiry has been published, and is here. Where it isn’t is anywhere in the Main Stream Media, nor under passionate discussion in Parliament, where a sparsely populated House of Commons seems to have received it with a general sense of ennuie. They’ve heard it all before… or at least, have studiously missed debates on the matter to avoid hearing about it.
I gather that some of the great and good have criticised the report because it’s unofficial and not the amazingly expensive and inconclusive government whitewash, to be expected this year, next year, sometime or never. It wouldn’t be surprising if it’s been sidelined simply because Rupert Lowe’s name is associated with it, when the preferred narrative is that his party is crudely fascist and/or has published the report to boost its votes in the recent by-election. When you can only see politics, truth is irrelevant.
In fact the report is in any case only even necessary because the gang rape, torture, criminalisation and murder of a plausibly estimated >1/4 million disadvantaged girls (but not exclusively girls) over what now appears over seventy years has been consistently suppressed on all sides, out of cultural partiality. Seventy years is longer than it took the Victorians to abolish slavery.
Nevertheless we all knew about it already, though those ordinary folk unfortunate enough to follow only the MSM have been primed to think it was all the invention of Tommy Yaxley-Robinson, originally known as Stephen Real-Name, and therefore not only unimportant, but racist. When you can only see propaganda, truth is irrelevant.
What concerns me here is the lack of religious response to the whole sordid and interminable situation, rather than the report itself. Most Muslim organisations seem to be in denial that there is any problem in their communities at all, though that may indicate what kind of people have gained the status of “spokesmen” for Muslims. Such “community leaders” previously dismissed the Muslim Quillian Report on the topic as both methodologically unsound and Islamophobic. But according to Tim Dieppe of the excellent Christian Concern, the victim “Taylor” gave testimony to police which included:
“Before they raped me, they would chant ‘Bismillah Hir Rahman Nir Rahim.’”
(Translation: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious and the Most Merciful.)
Working-class girls’ knowledge of Arabic being, generally, sketchy, this is unlikely to be fantasy, and the lack of any shocked public disavowal by Muslim leaders that anyone would use this sacred phrase to justify violent rape suggests either indifference to their Prophet, or maybe that they don’t view the two things as contradictory. When you only see tribe interests, truth is irrelevant.
More worrying to me is the lack of a widespread Christian sense of outrage, other than from laudable organisations like Christian Concern and the much frowned-upon “Far Right” Christians like Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom. When you only see social class, truth is irrelevant.
The institutional cover-up of this abominable evil over decades doesn’t seem to be high in the concerns of individual Christians one meets. It seldom seems to be mentioned in public prayers, or at least not as much as the evil Putin or Trump, and the hope of world peace (when there is no peace, saith the Lord).
The denominations and umbrella organisations like the EA seem altogether too civil about the whole issue. Concerns are expressed, rather politely and making sure to be religiously inclusive, whilst the government’s proposals for the protection of children are patiently awaited. The related government attempts to protect Muslims from “Islamophobia” are met, by the same Christian leaders, with suppliant hopes that it won’t lead to adverse consequences for the expression of Christianity – which consequences are the whole aim of the exercise.
What nobody seems to factor in is that a nation that has consistently failed to exercise just retribution for the moral destruction and physical abuse of 250,000 of its children, whilst many thousands of care professionals, police, judges, and local and national politicians have laboured to cover it up or even participate in it, is consequently a nation under God’s judgement. As for the minority communities complicit in the cover-up, whether for reasons of cultural solidarity, intimidation, or religion, whilst Allah may not judge them, Christ surely will, for he shows no partiality to rich, poor, native or alien.
We may assume that most people in Judah did not make their children pass through the fire to Molech. But those they failed to prevent from from doing so were enough to condemn the whole nation to exile. The Church of Christ, in all its denominations or non-denominations, is intended to be a prophetic people. Like the prophet Ezekiel, Christians are watchmen for their own nations, whether those nations are genuinely Christian, or ruled by some other ideology, or even by Molech. And to Ezekiel, God said:
“Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the people of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. When I say to a wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ and you do not warn them or speak out to dissuade them from their evil ways in order to save their life, that wicked person will die for their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood. But if you do warn the wicked person and they do not turn from their wickedness or from their evil ways, they will die for their sin; but you will have saved yourself.
“Again, when a righteous person turns from their righteousness and does evil, and I put a stumbling block before them, they will die. Since you did not warn them, they will die for their sin. The righteous things that person did will not be remembered, and I will hold you accountable for their blood. But if you do warn the righteous person not to sin and they do not sin, they will surely live because they took warning, and you will have saved yourself.” (Ezekiel 3:17-21)
And so it seems logical, and necessary, for a Christian writer, like me or anyone else, to do what they can to warn everyone in Britain – whether in Parliament, Council chambers, newsrooms, police-stations, classrooms, churches, or mosques – that if you do not condemn those who commit such acts, and where it is your office, punish them – then you too will be accountable for their blood at God’s judgement. His laws are not to be mocked.
And what price “social cohesion” in the Day of his wrath?
