Whilst The BBC in this article valiantly avoids reference to the ethnic background of the defendants in a messy little case, we at least get some clue as their names are all printed :
Teenage girls were treated as “sexual commodities to be sold or gifted”, a jury in a child prostitution trial has been told.
Nine men deny a range of sexual offences against seven girls in Shropshire.
The men, who are aged between 21 and 59 and from Telford, face more than 50 charges at Stafford Crown Court.
Charges include rape, controlling child prostitution and sexual activity with girls under the age of 16.
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The men on trial are Ahdel Ali, 23, Murbarek Ali, 28, Mohammed Ali Sultan, 24, Tanveer Ahmed, 39, Mahroof Khan, 33, Noshad Hussain, 21, Mohammed Islam Choudhrey, 52, Mohammed Younis, 59 and 34-year-old Abdul Rouf.
And, if the names were not enough of a clue then the helpful court artists picture should fill in the blanks for the slow witted :
Fairly brave for our dear old BBC to be nearly saying what everyone was thinking but alas they failed to mention Asian at all in the article despite there being many local press reports about similar cases up and down the land.
Step forward then The Telegraph who do actually break with MSM convention and make a point of referencing the ethnic background of people involved in a separate and somewhat more sinister case :
Police have arrested ten men suspected of grooming vulnerable teenage girls for “sex parties”.
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Up to 39 girls have been identified by detectives as potential victims or witnesses of the abuse by the gang,
Nine were arrested in a series of raids on homes across Manchester and Salford. The tenth was arrested in Buxton, Derbyshire.
The suspects, aged between 18 and 28, are thought to have targeted girls as young as 14 by plying them with alcohol and drugs before abusing them at impromptu sex parties.
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Police have become increasingly aware of a trend that has seen vulnerable white teenagers targeted by predominantly Asian men.
Terry Sweeney, assistant chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, said the force was now “fully prepared” to acknowledge the issue of ethnicity.
Unfortunately, the police there appeared to decide to backtrack on their point slightly :
However, he emphasised that on this occasion the alleged perpetrators were a mix of Asian and white men.
It’s about damned time that the National press started spelling out exactly what until now has mostly been the preserve of local rags. A little late though I think given the size of the two cases here.
Julia, calling a native of Pakistan a Pakistani is the linguistic equivalent of calling a native of England Englandish. A native of Afghanistan is not an Afghanistani, they’re called an Afghan or Afghani, a native of Kazakhstan is a Kazakh, a native of Tajikistan is a Tajik, a native of Uzbekistan is called an Uzbek.
All this “You can’t call them Pakis as it’s offensive or derogatory”, is bollox. The only people who find the word Paki offensive are trendy lefties (read that as Westerners with white guilt syndrome) or an Indian (especially if you call him one).
The word “Pak” (in both Urdu and Farsi) means “pure”, a “Paki” is someone from the land of the pure. Not a lot derogatory about that, that I can see.
Like Budvar, I loathe the term ‘Asian’. In fact, as soon as I see or hear it, I now mentally exchange it for ‘of Pakistani origin’…
And the ‘Mail’ has photos of all defendants.
Budvar and Julia – you both actually make a damned good point there that has never actually registered with me before – I think it is because in the local language where I live Asian is a synonym for a person of Pakistani origin. I will certainly remember both your points next time I read Asian in the press.
Are these so called “Asians” native to Siberia, Taiwan or perhaps even Mongolian? I think not.
So not only tarring other nationalities with the paedophile brush, it isn’t even geographically correct to call them “Asian” either, as they’re not from Asia but the Indian sub continent. I suppose you could call them “Indian” but I think quite rightly those of a Sikh or Hindu persuasion might take offence.
So let’s stop beating around the bush in an unsuccessful attempt to “Not cause offence” and call these people who they are using the “P” word, and by that for those under any dilusion I of course mean Pakis.