250,000 British girls were raped, abused, and tortured by Islamic extremists, according to a report released last month by Rupert Lowe, a member of the British Parliament. The details of the report are revolting.
According to the report, girls were set on fire, branded with an “M” for Muhammad, and raped on livestream by mostly Pakistani migrants. Babies were abused and killed. Christian victims were specifically targeted and mocked by the Muslim radicals during their horrific abuse.
The story is a difficult one for British liberals to handle, as they are obviously worried that any amplification of this story will paint the Muslim faith in a bad light or lend credence to calls for stricter restrictions on immigration from Islamic countries. On the other hand, the story is probably one of the most egregious examples of male chauvinism (to put it very mildly) in recent history that occurred in an enlightened first-world country.
Feminists in Britain and around the world have made it quite clear where they stand. Shropshire Councillor Donnal Rachel released a video hours after the report was released, “debunking” its contents over pedantics on the definition of trafficking and whether a lawyer helped write it.
Opening the video with a sinister chuckle, Rachel remarked, “I’m going to try not to laugh, because it feels mean.”
The Canary, a U.K. outlet that prides itself on “disrupting power” critiqued the report as “remarkably racist and Islamophobic.”
For most of the Left, their silence speaks the loudest. There is no outcry about the systematic rape of a quarter million girls amongst outspoken feminists who have spent the better part of the past decade blindly believing dubious allegations against men such as Brett Kavanaugh and Aziz Ansari, discarding any principle of due process.
For the Left, there is a recurring tension between their politics of gender and their politics of race. In this case, the fact that many Pakistanis hold to a faith that has extremely problematic opinions on women, girls, consent, and marriage itself butts against their insistence that allowing thousands of said Pakistanis into a first-world country will have no ill effects on the women of that country, or the cultural makeup of the country itself.
This is not even the only way in which the Left has had to reevaluate some of its own sacred cows regarding identity politics over the last decade or so. Indeed, even within its own gender politics, the Left has been grappling with a tension between LGBT politics and more classic feminist ideology. What is an open-minded liberal to do when a woman’s sexual privacy is compromised by a transgender-identified man in a female-only vulnerable space? The Left has yet to find a satisfying answer to this conundrum, and is showing no signs of coming up with an answer to the conflict between feminism and open borders either.
THE GREAT RECKONING BETWEEN THE TRAD WIFE AND THE BOSS BABE
It is easy to hear stories of women being abused and feel sorrowful, but distant from the pain they experience. Child brides, forced marriage, rape, and marital abuse are tragically the norm in most cultures around the world. The West’s belief that women are beings equal in rights and dignity is an aberration from women’s historical treatment in society. The feminist Left’s lack of concern for the women in Rupert Lowe’s report signals that even the West risks going the way of the rest of the world and turning a blind eye to rape and abuse. What is so tragic and enraging is that the people doing this will tell themselves they are the kind-hearted ones for being so multicultural and tolerant.
The Right is often unfairly painted as uncaring toward the plight of women in society. They have an opportunity here to showcase how much better off women are in a society guided by conservative values. The American Right, in particular, specifically women on the American Right, can mark this horrific story as a warning for how uncaring the feminist Left really is about their safety if their safety ever has to come at the cost of multiculturalism.
Sarah Wilder is a visiting fellow at Independent Women and a contributor for IW Features.