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Originally Posted by Stuart
What they did was bad, regardless of the race of the victims.
I think the reason that they didn't bring race into it is simply that if they did, it is likely that a lot of people would then have focused on the race of the perpetrators and how they were treated by the police, the victims almost forgotten.
The Police have made great strides in dealing with racism amongst Police officers, but there are those who will still leap on the slightest chance that they have been racist.
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Not sure that denying the problem is the way forward though.In cases like this we ask various groups like the
Ramadhan Foundation to speak out against these people from within their community but why should they bother if we deny it happens.
This sort of crime happens in all communities and is of course wrong and should be dealt with harshly but when it is aggrevated by racial hatred then instead of denying it we need to address it full on instead of pretending it doesn't exist
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Originally Posted by Stuart
Personally, I think their race is irrelevant. If they raped someone, they did a bad thing. Regardless of either their race, or their victim's.
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Their race is irrelevant ,i agree but to deliberately target white British girls because they are white and British is very relevant.
However ,having said that we do only have the defendants claim that they where racially motivated which could be true but they could also be trying to aggrevate a already emotive subject out of pure malice ,and in the interests of a fair discussion(and the cool light of day
) it occures to me that i can't remember the last time i saw groups of Pakistani,indian, etc girls hanging around a kebab shop,so maybe to satisfy their evil intentions they had no choice but to target white British girls