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It's fatuous to deny race link in child sex-grooming case, says equality chief Trevor Phillips
By Daniel Martin
PUBLISHED: 22:28, 13 May 2012 | UPDATED: 08:39, 14 May 2012

Equalities chief Trevor Phillips has described as �fatuous� the idea that there was no racial link in the Rochdale child sex grooming case.
Last week, nine men � eight of Pakistani origin and one from Afghanistan � were jailed after being found guilty of running a sexual exploitation ring involving girls as young as 13.
Yesterday, Mr Phillips, the chairman of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, said it would be a �national scandal� if it emerged that social services and schools had not acted on reports of abuse for fear of �demonising� minority communities.
Making a point: Trevor Phillips said it would be a 'national scandal' if political correctness hampered investigations into the Rochdale child sex scandal
He was asked on BBC�s The Andrew Marr Show whether the case illustrated a cultural problem in part of the Pakistani Muslim community about the way men regard white women as �fair game�.
Mr Phillips replied: �Let�s remember the most important thing about this is that these men are criminals; these children are street kids.

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�However, I think anybody who says that the fact that most of the men are Asian and most of the children are white is not relevant, I mean that�s just fatuous.�

He said he was looking forward to an inquiry by the Children�s Commissioner to find out whether others in the Asian communities of Rochdale knew about the abuse, but did not speak out.
�These are closed communities and I worry that in those communities there are people who knew what was going on and didn�t say anything either because they�re frightened or because they�re so separated from the rest of the communities that they think, �Oh that�s just how white people let their children carry on; we don�t need to do anything�,� he said.
Mr Phillips went on to say it would be wrong if action had not been taken to protect children in care for fear of inflaming racial tensions.

The first Rochdale scandal: Eight of the nine men who were jailed this week following an investigation into an entirely separate sex grooming ring
He said: �The other issue would be if anybody in any of the agencies that are supposed to be caring for these children � schools, social services and so on � took the view that being aggressively interventionist to save these children would lead to the demonisation of some group because of the ethnicity.�

'If it is true that people in Asian communities had not spoken out about abuse, or if social services had underplayed it, �then it is a national scandal and something that we would need to deal with urgently�.
Nazir Afzal, the Chief Crown Prosecutor for the North West of England, has said the authorities should have acted sooner to protect girls in care. Speaking on Radio 4�s Broadcasting House, he said he had offered to apologise to a 15-year-old girl whose complaints were not acted upon in 2008, as reported by the Daily Mail last week.
�We are on a journey of improvement,� said Mr Asfal, himself a Muslim. �We have come across victims who deserve better. She deserved better.
�I think women suffer enough without being let down by the criminal justice system.�
He said part of the problem was that some immigrants bring �cultural baggage� with them from misogynistic societies.
�What some communities believe is there is a right of self-determination for men but not women. Women are seen as lesser beings.�
But he added: �By focusing on race, you are diverting from the reality which is men. Most of them were taxi drivers but no one is talking about this as an issue for the taxi drivers� community.

This is a turn about coming from the man who has caused more racial trouble than anyone else in this country, he must be after a knighthood.

What we really want to know is when the other groups who are doing this are caught, LOL, will they all be deported along with their families and friends after they have done their time------------ No i thought not.