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Grooming Gangs and the Failure of Social Science

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Posted By: 4250Luis, 3/1/2026 10:43:47 AM

I recently came across a work of anthropology which, more than anything else I’ve read, explains the context in which the predominantly Pakistani (and most notoriously, Mirpuri) grooming gangs developed in Britain. The work is Professor Alison Shaw’s 1980s fieldwork on the Pakistani community of Oxford, which she wrote up in A Pakistani Community in Britain (1988), and subsequently revised in Kinship and Continuity: Pakistani Families in Britain (2000). Like most academic books, it is absurdly expensive to buy, but the revised edition, which is the one I have, is available to download on Anna’s Archive.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: MindMadeUp 3/1/2026 11:21:26 AM (No. 2074733)
They rape White women because their Muslim community gives them permission to do so, and the White British community punishes as "racist" anyone who says Muslims permit the rape of White women.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: DVC 3/1/2026 11:55:42 AM (No. 2074741)
"Social" and "science" are imiscible, like oil and water. There is no actual 'social science' only a mishmash of faux, sciencey psychobabble which has been considered useful for far too long. This began with the Barbary pirates sailing to the British Isles (and the northern coasts of the Med) to kidnap and enslave white woman. It was so common that there are dozens and dozens of old paintings of this white women as slaves story. Today, the British have invited the white slavers to live in their country and they protect them from even disapproving speech, let alone actual legal consequences. Brits won't protect their women.....that is proof that as a culture, a society, as a country, they are done.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: felixcat 3/1/2026 12:17:39 PM (No. 2074754)
The late Queen Elizabeth must have known about these grooming gangs. Maybe not all the gory details but she had to know. Did she ever say or ask anything of her ministers about what was being done? Or did she just view it as Muslim men will be Muslim men with lower class white females?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: JimBob 3/1/2026 12:37:56 PM (No. 2074762)
Ladies and girls -Everyone- should be SAFE to walk down the Street. Period. It sounds to me like this is what happens when Political Correctness takes over the justice system. These RAPISTS should be Castrated, thrown in Prison for a couple of Decades, then Expelled back to Butt-Humpistan,
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Ruhn 3/1/2026 1:32:46 PM (No. 2074798)
A lot to unpack here but a few observations: The Brits lost their mojo in the 20th century. Two world wars decimated their best, most able, and most courageous men. They also lost their empire. Add to it that British society has slowly turned away from G-d. I used to live in England in the late 1970s and even then you could witness the societal decay, cold indifference, and moral wandering in the wilderness, especially in the urban areas. At the same time, British society retained their class system, a by-product of the Norman invasion that never went away. There is still a snobbishness of the British upper (and middle class) that looks down on the working class. Those girls who were on the receiving end of the Pakistani grooming/rape gangs for decades all came from working class backgrounds. The upper class could care less and the broken, dysfunctional working class homes where the state became 'big brother', didn't really care about what happened to their own daughters, either. This is a native society in free fall that has lost all grasp of its roots, its heritage, and its pride. They will be subsumed by an intolerant minority that holds their hosts in contempt. The only real solution is deport every non-native Briton. But this generation has lost its nerve to even think that.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: DVC 3/1/2026 2:59:56 PM (No. 2074817)
One hundred likes for #5. Right on the money. Americans can't easily grasp the coldness of British class structure. Not going to the "right school" is an unpardonable failure in Britain.
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I recently came across a work of anthropology which, more than anything else I’ve read, explains the context in which the predominantly Pakistani (and most notoriously, Mirpuri) grooming gangs developed in Britain. The work is Professor Alison Shaw’s 1980s fieldwork on the Pakistani community of Oxford, which she wrote up in A Pakistani Community in Britain (1988), and subsequently revised in Kinship and Continuity: Pakistani Families in Britain (2000). Like most academic books, it is absurdly expensive to buy, but the revised edition, which is the one I have, is available to download on Anna’s Archive.
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