Behind veneered speeches about “cultural differences” and “cultural incompatibility,” there has been a failure to properly assert the truth that the children who were raped were targeted specifically because they were white and not Muslim. These men were not targeting members of their own community. They were targeting those they believed held dhimmi status (a second-class social position given to non-Muslims in a conquered land). MP Robert Jenrick faced media criticism for merely stating that the mass immigration of alien cultures was the genesis of this catastrophe; but he didn’t go far enough.

Ultimately, these systematic rapes were (and are) acts of war against a people whom they consider to be conquered. These children are the victims of a religious war that they didn’t know they were fighting. If we do not acknowledge this, then we cannot have an honest conversation about immigration policy in the West. It would be preposterous to expect, for example, that mass immigration from Hungary to England would similarly result in the gang rape of British schoolchildren. Our feigned ignorance on this matter represents a political cowardice that betrays these children and condemns the next generation to a similar fate.