A British organization supposedly dedicated to believing and supporting rape survivors is now calling their testimonies “unhelpful” and “irresponsible” because the victims identified their abusers as Muslim men who targeted them specifically for being white.
Rape Crisis England and Wales released a statement condemning the Rape Gang Inquiry Report, which documented how 95% of gang members were Muslim and deliberately exploited girls because of their race. The organization, which claims to be “working to end sexual violence and abuse,” argued that “framing the issue squarely in terms of immigration undermines joined-up, community-based responses to tackling misogyny and rape culture.”
The survivors who came forward tell a different story.
Jen was 17 when a gang of Iraqi Kurdish Muslim men began trafficking her across the U.K. to rape gang “parties.” The men called her and other victims “white trash” and “English pig-dogs” while they abused them. She decided to speak up in the inquiry “so that religiously-motivated coercive abuse is properly recognized and confronted, even when doing so is politically, culturally, or socially controversial.”
The report details how perpetrators “operated under an honour and shame clan code that treated non-Muslim girls, especially white working-class girls, as property available for sexual use because these girls had no male protectors who could retaliate.”
Victims were told they were “kuffar” who merited punishment. Some were forced to get abortions. Others miscarried. Some were trafficked to the Middle East and forced into Islamic marriages.
“They hate dogs, they hate pigs, and they’d put women on that same level,” Jen said.
A girl named Chloe was just 10 years old when Muslim gangs began grooming her after her father died. She would go “missing for up to three days, during which time she was passed between taxis, drugged, abused, and raped,” according to the report. “In every case, the perpetrators were 20 Muslims, and primarily Pakistani.” Chloe said she was taken into mosques where imams declared that white women who dressed “inappropriately” were “free game.”
Eleanor’s abuse started at 13 while she was in and out of a children’s home. By 17, she was sentenced to prison for stabbing her abuser. “I had friends that were Muslim … and this never happened to them,” she said. “The men would treat them differently.”
Yet the same organization that proudly displays an anti-racism statement and insists victims must be “believed and supported” has chosen to side against these women. Their statement claims it is “unhelpful and irresponsible to attribute sexual violence and abuse perpetration uniquely to specific races, ethnicities or religions.”
The report documents systemic failures by police and social workers. Many victims never sought help because they believed authorities were afraid of racism allegations. When victims or their parents tried to report abuse, they were often accused of being racist themselves. In one instance, a call operator told a victim’s mother: “You should just be glad your child is being taught a diffe…” The source text cuts off, but the message is clear enough.
Rape Crisis England and Wales now faces an impossible contradiction of its own making. Its “anti-racist feminist values” have forced a choice: believe female victims or protect perpetrators based on their religion and ethnicity.
