Again in 1987 when Star Trek the Subsequent Technology first appeared on the small display, viewers had been launched to the character of Tasha Yar. Regardless of the utopian setting of Star Trek, Yar was from the distinctly dystopian planet of Turkana IV.
What was so dystopian about Turkana IV? Viewers weren’t given a lot to go on, apart from that Yar spent her childhood attempting to keep away from ‘rape gangs’. The producers of Star Trek couldn’t have identified that, at across the identical time, that dystopia was changing into a actuality in England.
If you wish to know the complete horrors of what truly occurred in cities like Rotherham and Rochdale over years, take your decide of any courtroom transcript and you’ll be totally depressed.
The crimes themselves had been wicked sufficient, however the truth that they had been successfully aided and abetted by the authorities who refused to behave and even, now and again, criminalised the victims, provides to the shame the entire affair has positioned on this nation.
It’s well-known that lots of the perpetrators of those crimes had been Pakistani males. It has been famous that there was typically a racial factor to the crimes, with victims typically known as “white slags” and Pakistani Muslims described by some perpetrators as being from a grasp or superior race.
What’s much less well-known is that even in Pakistan itself, the rape and kidnapping of younger women from outdoors the Muslim majority is a removed from uncommon incidence.
It’s estimated that yearly round a thousand younger women in Pakistan, principally from Christian and Hindu minorities, are kidnapped after which forcibly ‘transformed’ and married to a Muslim.
Many circumstances contain rape, gang rape and circumstances resembling slavery. As in England, the authorities can not at all times be relied upon to help victims or their households.
Worldwide Christian Concern (ICC) gave one instance of a 12-year-old woman, who in 2020 was kidnapped and ‘married’ to a 45-year-old man and shackled in a cattle pen. The police had been initially abusive and derogatory in direction of her dad and mom after they filed a grievance, however ultimately rescued the woman after six months in captivity. Her kidnapper escaped justice. This is only one of many such tales from Pakistan. Sadly, there are numerous extra.
Having imported massive numbers of individuals from such a tradition, is it any marvel that now we have seen related scenes in England? One can solely think about the shocked pleasure of the Pakistani rapist when he realised that he may indulge his most wicked fantasies on native women, collectively together with his pals, and the locals’ response can be simply to permit it.
Justice has nonetheless not been carried out.
