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Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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210 total appearances

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Honestly with Bari Weiss
The UK Grooming Gangs and the Cowardice of the West

Exactly here I agree with Julie, that what the British have come to call grooming gangs, that is the systematic sexual abuse of white working class girls and women by men, mostly Muslim, was dismissed as their slags. I've heard the phrase white trash over and over again, and so there's a class element to this.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
The UK Grooming Gangs and the Cowardice of the West

But what I found in a chapter in Prey, I called it the playbook of denial, was the same reasoning that was applied to look away from the abuse of Muslim women was also applied to the abuse against now these white girls, not just by men in power, but by feminists, mostly by feminists. And what I found was what I would call layers of fear. It was almost like the mafia in the 1980s.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
The UK Grooming Gangs and the Cowardice of the West

But what I found in a chapter in Prey, I called it the playbook of denial, was the same reasoning that was applied to look away from the abuse of Muslim women was also applied to the abuse against now these white girls, not just by men in power, but by feminists, mostly by feminists. And what I found was what I would call layers of fear. It was almost like the mafia in the 1980s.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
The UK Grooming Gangs and the Cowardice of the West

But what I found in a chapter in Prey, I called it the playbook of denial, was the same reasoning that was applied to look away from the abuse of Muslim women was also applied to the abuse against now these white girls, not just by men in power, but by feminists, mostly by feminists. And what I found was what I would call layers of fear. It was almost like the mafia in the 1980s.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
The UK Grooming Gangs and the Cowardice of the West

Anybody who knows the story of the mafia, they know that different groups of people in society were afraid for different reasons. And during this period, I remember there's nothing I could say because sometimes I would talk to government officials in different countries and they would say, don't quote me. I would ask, can you give me the statistic in your country?

Honestly with Bari Weiss
The UK Grooming Gangs and the Cowardice of the West

Anybody who knows the story of the mafia, they know that different groups of people in society were afraid for different reasons. And during this period, I remember there's nothing I could say because sometimes I would talk to government officials in different countries and they would say, don't quote me. I would ask, can you give me the statistic in your country?

Honestly with Bari Weiss
The UK Grooming Gangs and the Cowardice of the West

Anybody who knows the story of the mafia, they know that different groups of people in society were afraid for different reasons. And during this period, I remember there's nothing I could say because sometimes I would talk to government officials in different countries and they would say, don't quote me. I would ask, can you give me the statistic in your country?

Honestly with Bari Weiss
The UK Grooming Gangs and the Cowardice of the West

Now, in Britain or in Sweden, I talked to Germans, France, and they would say, no, we don't collect statistics. on the basis of religion, then I would just ask a simple straightforward question and say, what about sexual violence committed by foreign born or the children of foreign born men against women? I didn't even say against white women or black women, just women.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
The UK Grooming Gangs and the Cowardice of the West

Now, in Britain or in Sweden, I talked to Germans, France, and they would say, no, we don't collect statistics. on the basis of religion, then I would just ask a simple straightforward question and say, what about sexual violence committed by foreign born or the children of foreign born men against women? I didn't even say against white women or black women, just women.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
The UK Grooming Gangs and the Cowardice of the West

Now, in Britain or in Sweden, I talked to Germans, France, and they would say, no, we don't collect statistics. on the basis of religion, then I would just ask a simple straightforward question and say, what about sexual violence committed by foreign born or the children of foreign born men against women? I didn't even say against white women or black women, just women.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
The UK Grooming Gangs and the Cowardice of the West

Now, that stat was presented to me in different countries in different ways. One of them was, we have the stat, but we can't publish it. Another one said, I can give it to you, but you can't cite me, which makes my book useless. So at some point, I resorted to just giving anecdotal accounts of these women and what was happening to them in every single country.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
The UK Grooming Gangs and the Cowardice of the West

Now, that stat was presented to me in different countries in different ways. One of them was, we have the stat, but we can't publish it. Another one said, I can give it to you, but you can't cite me, which makes my book useless. So at some point, I resorted to just giving anecdotal accounts of these women and what was happening to them in every single country.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
The UK Grooming Gangs and the Cowardice of the West

Now, that stat was presented to me in different countries in different ways. One of them was, we have the stat, but we can't publish it. Another one said, I can give it to you, but you can't cite me, which makes my book useless. So at some point, I resorted to just giving anecdotal accounts of these women and what was happening to them in every single country.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
The UK Grooming Gangs and the Cowardice of the West

Now, I really want to emphasize this. It's not a disagreement. I think it's very important to get all of these perspectives on the table to get a full picture. I'm coming at this by saying it's very important to understand not just why social workers were silent, why the police were silent, why politicians are silent.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
The UK Grooming Gangs and the Cowardice of the West

Now, I really want to emphasize this. It's not a disagreement. I think it's very important to get all of these perspectives on the table to get a full picture. I'm coming at this by saying it's very important to understand not just why social workers were silent, why the police were silent, why politicians are silent.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
The UK Grooming Gangs and the Cowardice of the West

Now, I really want to emphasize this. It's not a disagreement. I think it's very important to get all of these perspectives on the table to get a full picture. I'm coming at this by saying it's very important to understand not just why social workers were silent, why the police were silent, why politicians are silent.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
The UK Grooming Gangs and the Cowardice of the West

We're going to uncover all of that, and it's very, very important that we uncover that. But let's also do the other side. Why is it that these men are committing these crimes in this way? What is wrong with the families and the wider community of these men? Why do they tolerate it against their own women and then against women that they don't think of as their women?

Honestly with Bari Weiss
The UK Grooming Gangs and the Cowardice of the West

We're going to uncover all of that, and it's very, very important that we uncover that. But let's also do the other side. Why is it that these men are committing these crimes in this way? What is wrong with the families and the wider community of these men? Why do they tolerate it against their own women and then against women that they don't think of as their women?

Honestly with Bari Weiss
The UK Grooming Gangs and the Cowardice of the West

We're going to uncover all of that, and it's very, very important that we uncover that. But let's also do the other side. Why is it that these men are committing these crimes in this way? What is wrong with the families and the wider community of these men? Why do they tolerate it against their own women and then against women that they don't think of as their women?

Honestly with Bari Weiss
The UK Grooming Gangs and the Cowardice of the West

And we have to answer that question. And once you go down that path, then you open the door to the issues of immigration, the failure of integration, the role of Islam in this. And the one key question that Europeans simply don't want to talk about, which is that what do we do about it?