London, May 12 (ANI): Anti-Islamist groups in Britain are exploiting the conviction of nine Asian men accused of grooming vulnerable white girls as young as 13 for sex, to create a 'climate of hate' against Muslims, community leaders have warned.
The men, jailed for a total of 77 years, were convicted of a wide range of vile paedophile, rape and grooming offences, and it was claimed that they saw the naive white girls as 'mere trash'.
According to The Guardian. Muslim groups in the UK said they have seen an upsurge in hate mail and abusive phone calls since the trial ended this week, and community leaders are bracing themselves for more Islamophobic attacks on individual Muslims and mosques across the country.
"We are already receiving hate mail and hate phone calls even though we issued a very strong statement condemning those involved," the paper quoted said a spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain, as saying.
"If it can happen to MCB, you can just imagine what ordinary Muslims are facing as they go about their day-to-day business," the spokesman added.
Eight of the nine men convicted at Liverpool crown court for their involvement in a gang that sexually exploited girls were of Pakistani heritage.
Muslim groups claimed far-right organisations such as the British National party and the English Defence League (EDL) have used the trial to demonise and abuse the entire community.
Fiyaz Mughal, from Faith Matters, a new helpline to monitor anti-Muslim attacks, said the Islamophobic hatred prompted by the case had added to the 'poison' against Muslims.
"This is dangerous for community relations. There's lots of discussion about 'Muslim paedos', like saying the prophet married a young girl. All of this disgusting talk is adding to the poison against Muslims," the paper quoted Mughal, as saying. (ANI)
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David, Thailand
May 13, 2012 at 5:40 PM
Hamid
May 13, 2012 at 10:34 AM@Ocelot:
Exactly. Nothing more needs to be said - other than to ask the question why the real trash who created this situation - was allowed into the UK in the first place.
Ocelot
May 13, 2012 at 9:28 AM"imagine what ordinary Muslims are facing as they go about their day-to-day business"
..just imagine what ordinary naive white girls are facing from an immigrant population that sees them as "mere trash"
"This is dangerous for community relations."
I'd say gang raping a 13 year old seen as infidel trash is worse than any of the perceived backlash.
Truthiocity
May 13, 2012 at 8:51 AMYou made an error. The BNP is right wing but the EDL is not.
The EDL has a multi ethnic membership and is open to everyone regardless of race religion or gender identity. It has sikh, jewish, gay and multi ethnic members.
The leadership of the EDL have many times spoken publicly in support of gay rights, womens rights, the rights of minorities, and equality under the law.
They are only against religious fundamentialist radicals. The sorts of dangerous radicals who commited the Mumbai attacks.
Are you saying that only right wing fringe people could be against the Mumbai attacks?
It is those sorts of radicals who labled the EDL as "right wing" without proof. This was to marginalize them from the general population who are otherwise in favor of everything the EDL publicly stands for.
keeley
May 13, 2012 at 2:51 AMthats because us northern girls are sick of being treated with disrespect by pakistani men, i was also abused by them as a young girl, we have had enough of it and the spineless muslim pakistani community doing and saying nothing! atleast finally they have condemned the acts, one of the perpetrators was former islamic imam for crying out loud!
"Anti-Islamist groups in Britain are exploiting the conviction of nine Asian men accused of grooming vulnerable white girls as young as 13 for sex, to create a 'climate of hate' against Muslims, community leaders have warned."
Er, no, it's actually Muslims that create that climate of revulsion in civilised people.