It’s time to stop using the word ‘Asians’

At last

The Telegraph:

n the wake of the Rochdale grooming convictions, it’s time to stop lumping Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus together as ‘Asians’, argues Hardeep Singh.

The British Army polo team in India, c.1854. The colonial British were careful to distinguish between the different groups in Indian society

The British Army polo team in India, c.1854. The colonial British were careful to distinguish between the different groups in Indian society

By Hardeep Singh

5:17PM BST 08 Jun 2012

Is it time to stop using the word “Asian”? In recent weeks Britain’s Sikh and Hindu communities have complained angrily about the use of the misleading term in reporting of the Rochdale grooming convictions of men of Muslim Pakistani descent. Headlines like “Asian grooming – why we need to talk about sex crime”, “Child sex grooming: the Asian question”, and “Grooming offences committed mostly by Asian men, says ex-Barnardo’s chief” show the problem.

Obviously Sikhs and Hindus and other “Asian” non-Muslims, including Jains, Zoroastrians, Christians and Buddhists, don’t want to be associated with sexual grooming of vulnerable white girls. The vast majority of Muslims don’t want to either. The girls targeted in Rochdale, Derby and now in Luton are all non-Muslim. This is nothing new for British Hindus and Sikhs, who have complained about targeting of their girls for decades; Indians refer to the practice as “love-jihad”.

Judge Gerald Clifton, who sentenced the men in Rochdale, indicated they thought the victims were “worthless” and “beyond any respect”. He asserted that one of the motivations behind this was “they were not part of your community or religion”. This is not the first time that this has been suggested: at a Hindu Forum conference in 2007, the then Metropolitan Police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, revealed how the police were working to clamp down on “aggressive conversions” of vulnerable girls. The following year, a blog site called “Sikh4aweek” which called on Muslim “soldiers” to “hunt” down Sikh university students during freshers week was forced to close following complaints to the police and Google. The common denominator: targeting of non-Muslim girls.

It is for the Muslim community and its leaders to decide what is behind the trend, and what to do about it; but it is time for politicians and the press to bear in mind that in the context of these sex crimes, as with violent extremism, female genital mutilation, forced marriage and honour killings, the vague term “Asian” serves no purpose. Worse, it besmirches entire swathes of Britons with roots in the Indian subcontinent. It’s encouraging to hear some brave voices filtering through the political minefield: Baroness Warsi recently hit out at the “small minority” of Pakistani men who see white girls as “fair game”; last year, Jack Straw braved criticism for his claim that some Pakistani men see white girls as “easy meat.” But the problem continues: commentators are unwilling to label the perpetrators “Muslim”, opting instead to hide behind the fudge of “Asian”.

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4 Replies to “It’s time to stop using the word ‘Asians’”

  1. Finally, this is a very important step towards ending the PC surrender to the Moslems.

  2. Real Asians females do not grow body hair and their eyes are sexy in my opinion.

    These are real Asians (random find on youtube):

  3. prison statistic report ending 2011-2012 22 buddists,120 jews, combined sikh and hindu 865, MUSLIMS just over 13.000, every picture tells a story ( this pdf report can be downloaded from the uk min of justice website for free) nev

  4. Cannot agree more!! Why brits always using “Asian” for those clearly “Paki Moslem” Rapists, are all of you afraid of those Paki? Those Paki are not Asian, they are never admit they are Asian, they are always identified themselves as Pakistani, Moslem, Mujaheed, Believer, etc. So let they be what they want to be and stop damaging Asian image.