In Britain, the MP Rupert Lowe, a political Independent, last year raised 600,000 pounds to crowdfund an independent investigation of the Muslim rape gang scandal. Lowe, along with MP Esther McVey, lawyer Graham Smith, and Sammy Woodhouse, a survivor of the rape gangs, heard testimony from other survivors. This was not an official inquiry. Based on the belief that British authorities have systematically tried to downplay the breadth and seriousness of the abuse, for the sake of avoiding conflict with Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities (from which the vast majority of the alleged rapists come), Lowe and his team gathered information independently. Now they are turning it over the to government in the hope that at last, the state will take it seriously. Here is their statement from yesterday.
It is very strong stuff…
