Finally, the "UK Grooming Gangs and Islam" made public, by Dr Mark Durie

A new article entitled: “UK GROOMING GANGS AND ISLAM”, written in October of 2025, by Dr. Mark Durie (Melbourne School of Theology, Christian Concern) was published by "Christian Concern". Dr Jay Smith and Hatun Tash came together just before Christmas to take a look at Dr Durie's article on the UK Grooming Gangs and unpack its significance; Jay introducing the material in the article, and Hatun responding to what she was hearing. This video is their collaboration on that article. What exactly did the article say? According to Dr Durie's research, he found that: -There were 50 Towns and Cities, and 85 authorities, in the UK where Grooming Gangs have been active. -Though the exact number of girls is not known, he did find out that 19,000 girls were sexually exploited in just ONE YEAR, yet the grooming gangs have been active for Decades, so the number could be in the tens of thousands. -There were 800 cases which were brought for prosecution which were then closed with no further action, though no one seemed to know why. -Police, Social workers, and MPs who were approached by the girls being raped for help avoided the topic due to appearing racist, or out of a fear of creating tensions within the Muslim Asian communities. -Dr Durie found that most of the girls being groomed were between 14-15 years old, and most lived “in care”, and came from broken homes. -Groomers used “Psychological control over time to facilitate repeated rape by many men over an extended amount of time”. -Police in London said that there were 1,125 assaults a year just in London by taxi drivers, mostly by Muslim drivers. -90% of forced marriages in the UK were by Muslims. But it wasn't just in the UK... -In the Netherlands: 5,000 Dutch girls (aged 13-14) were lured into prostitution by Moroccan “lover boys”. -In Minneapolis: 29 Somalis were charged with trafficking young girls for sex in 3 states. -In Australia: 9 Lebanese Muslim men gang-raped 60 young females, but only 7 cases were looked at by the courts. -In Pakistan: 1,000 non-Muslim girls each year are kidnapped & forced to convert & then marry their abductors, with little to no recourse for the girl's Christian families. -In Egypt: There were 50 abductions in just one parish (both married & unmarried-), where they were quickly converted & then married to Muslims, with no recourse for the girls families. After noting the problem, Dr Durie considered the Challenge that “Religion shapes Culture”. -He noted that Western nations are so secular that they don’t understand religious influences in immigrants, so that “A Population that has fundamentally turned its back on its faith cannot understand the religious motivations of others…” (Rafael L. Bardaji) -Islam believes in "Al wala' wa-l-Bara", which means “Loyalty and Disavowal” or “love Islam and hate all others for the sake of Allah”. -He noted that the police reports only list ethnicity, origin, and the race of the perpetrators, but none said anything about religion, or the fact that the vast majority of them were Muslims. -Even in interviews, the Interviewers never mentioned the religion of the perpetrators, even when victims pointed to Islam as the reason for their rapes (2020 Triggernometry Interview of Dr Ella Hill by Foster & Kisin). -Baroness Casey’s report noted 222 times that the Ethnicity were listed as Asian men, and 111 times that they were Pakistani, but only once did it mention the religion Islam, though 87% of the convicted rapists since 1997 had Muslim names, and they were almost entirely from Pakistan! It was obvious that the religion for Baroness Casey had little to nothing to do with the problem. -Dr Durie noted that no Asian Chinese, Christian, Sikh, or Hindu grooming gangs exist, only Muslim grooming gangs (Quote, pg.12). Dr Durie then went into the problem which he termed “Islamicate”, meaning that there were Societal Characteristics influenced by Islam, yet not found in Islamic law (i.e. Zina = Illicit sex). He noted 8 influences, or Cultural Patterns which he found in these gangs, including: 1) Muslim Superiority (found in Surahs 3:110; 8:55, 48:28) 2) Loyalty & Disavowal (al-wala’ wa-l-bara = love of Allah & hate of others); found in Surahs 3:28, 5:51-56, 60:4. 3) Male superiority over all women (Surahs 4:34, 2:223, 228). 4) Female Seclusion (S.33:33, 59). 5) Forced Marriage (Nikah = marriage & intercourse, so that silence when raped is consent). 6) Female sexuality is dangerous (women desire sex so that men are vulnerable, thus the reason for rampant 'Female Genital Mutilation' (FGM). 7) Slavery for women (Men have complete control of their wives and those 'Which their right hand possesses', thus sex with captives is permitted (Surahs 4:24; 23:6; 70:30) 8) Dhimmitude (Conquered non-Muslim communities are protected, yet abused, and not permitted any positions of power within the community) © Pfander Centre for Apologetics & Polemics - US, January 10, 2025 (127,380)