Britain’s Dogma of Multiculturalism Was a Key Enabler of Pakistani Muslim Rape Gangs

Jules Gomes examines where his home country went wrong – and how the U.S. could repeat its mistakes if we’re not careful.

OLDHAM, ENGLAND - JANUARY 20: Nick Tenconi, Interim Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and Chief Operating Officer of Turning Point UK (centre) poses with banners during a protest calling for justice for victims of sexual abuse and grooming gangs, outside the council offices at City Centre on January 20, 2025 in Oldham, England. Some victims of so-called grooming gangs are demanding a new investigation into historical child sex abuse cases here. The government recently rejected such a request, sparking criticism from political opponents and even US businessman Elon Musk, although Oldham council opted to set up its own investigation. (Photo by Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)

As a Briton of Indian origin, I had a massive culture shock when I took a day trip from the fairytale town of Cambridge in 2000 to visit parts of London dominated by Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi immigrants. As I stepped out of the Upton Park metro station, I blurted out: “This is just like an Indian city. Look how dirty everything is.” In Wembley, I saw immigrants spitting in the streets while chewing paan (betel leaf). Wembley council had put up posters advising residents to refrain from spitting in public.

When I returned to Cambridge, I had an even greater culture shock: None of my white British colleagues wanted to hear about how the Third World had made its home in the First World.

When visiting Israel on a fact-finding trip with a dozen other Anglican clergy, I was tickled pink when our Arab-Christian tour guide occasionally quipped: “We will soon be coming to an Arab Muslim settlement. You can smell it before you can see it.” My fellow clergy (who were all white) turned purple with embarrassment.

As I was considering a vocation as a military chaplain, the major in Her Majesty’s Armed Forces with whom I was interviewing told me I would have to bow down to the Golden Calf of Multiculturalism. “We can’t tell Fijian soldiers not to beat their wives,” he explained. “It’s part of their culture, and we have orders not to judge their cultural practices.”

Contrasting the social practices of immigrants from the Indian subcontinent with white Britons or the drainage facilities of Muslim Arabs with Israeli Jews was a violation of the First Commandment — the new infallible dogma of Great Britain: Thou shall not criticize thy neighbor’s culture because all cultures are equal.

Who Am I to Judge?

Unless you have been living in a hermetically sealed igloo, by now you have heard of the scandal of Britain’s rape gangs, which were made up almost entirely of Muslim men originating from the city of Mirpur in northern Pakistan.

These predators have groomed, abused, assaulted, and gang-raped more than 250,000 white working-class British girls in at least 50 towns and cities (including Oxford, Rotherham, Oldham, Huddersfield, and Manchester) since 2001. The victims’ accounts in media reports and court records are stomach-churning and traumatic even to read.

A small sampling: Louise was raped by more than 100 men in Telford. Sixteen-year-old Lucy Lowe was abused by taxi driver Azhar Ali Mehmood, for four years before he burned her Telford home, killing Lucy, her unborn child, her sister Sarah, and her mother, Eileen Linda. Mehmood abducted his child by Lucy, Tasnim, from the home.

“The rape gangs scandal was a product of multiculturalism, which in practice meant the authorities turning a blind eye because victims were mostly white and their abusers largely ethnically Pakistani,” writes Guy Dampier, a researcher at the Prosperity Institute, a British think tank.

Melting Pot, Salad Bowl, or Simmering Cauldron?

In 2008, I began a lecture tour around England warning of the consequences of what I termed “prescriptive multiculturalism.” My lecture was titled “Multiculturalism: Melting Pot, Salad Bowl, or Simmering Cauldron?” White people from the working class attending my lecture would respond positively; those from the middle and upper classes accused me of stirring up racial division.

I was just waking up to the shocking reality of how this toxic dogma would destroy on an industrial scale the lives of over 250,000 girls in a First World country that lectured the Third World on gender equality. And it wasn’t just white girls who were victims.

From local Sikh contacts, I was learning what the mainstream media was then failing to report: Perpetrators were also targeting Sikh girls in Britain in a manner similar to the sexual predation (and abduction) of Sikh, Hindu, and Christian girls by Muslim men in Pakistan.

Multiculturalism Becomes Infallible Dogma

“How did multiculturalism evolve from being a descriptive term for the confluence of different cultures to a prescriptive political doctrine?” I asked. I noted how the practitioners of prescriptive multiculturalism were discriminating against the natives — i.e. white Britons, English, and Christians — by adopting a scorched-earth policy to local beliefs, traditions, culture, and customs in favor of those imported by immigrants.

I explained:

Prescriptive multiculturalism is patronizing at best; it is pernicious at worst. It assumes that people like me are so different that we are unable or unwilling to fully adapt and integrate into our host country. It assumes that people like me are so different that we must stay different. It assumes that my primary identity is my cultural and ethnic identity and I would like to have it that way. It is inclusion based on assumed difference rather than inclusion based on commonality. It exalts immigrant cultures at the expense and offence of indigenous cultures when it advocates banning “Christmas” because it might offend people of other faiths.

But it was too late. Britain had already enshrined multiculturalism as an infallible dogma. In 2000, the Runnymede Trust published its report on The Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain, arguing that “Britishness” was defunct. Britain was no longer a nation but “a community of communities.”

“We are proposing a major cultural change,” the report boasted, “indeed, a cultural revolution.” Indeed, Britishness was a “post-national” national identity. Britain’s parliament, academia, and the state-funded BBC enthusiastically endorsed the infallibility of multiculturalism, and declared its critics as heretics who were racist white nationalists, or even worse, louts and thugs.

So how did multiculturalism lead to the Pakistani-Muslim rape gangs?

Pakistan’s Rape and Gang-Rape Culture

First, multiculturalism promoted ethnic-religious ghettos in Britain in which immigrants continued to exercise the cultural practices imported from their home countries with impunity. Muslim-dominated British towns became the home of Sharia courts, female genital mutilation, honor killings, forced marriages, jihadi extremism, and rape gangs.

“Pakistan’s rape culture led to the UK grooming gangs,” Kunwar Khuldune Shahid, a Pakistan-based correspondent for The Diplomat, admits. He explains: “Pakistani grooming gangs are inspired by violent misogyny and rape apologia rampant in Pakistan.”

Muslim sociologists writing in the Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences candidly admit that the culture of rape “persists as a prevalent quandary in the societal fabric of Pakistan” and acknowledge that “the rate of rape in Pakistan is still alarmingly high.”

In a dissertation submitted to the National University of Modern Languages in Islamabad, Farah Bano, a Pakistani Muslim scholar, cited government statistics showing that more than 10% of the rapes committed in Pakistan are gang rapes.

According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, gang rape occurs every four to eight days in that country, while rape is committed against a woman every two hours.

The British rape gangs “have been inspired by the anti-women customs of Pakistan,” Shahid explains:

There is a gory mix in the country of Islamic supremacism, primitive tribalism and violent misogyny, which encourages some men to prey on girls. That many of these girls are underage has little sway on these men, since both their religious beliefs and customs see all females who have reached puberty as being fully grown women.

If Pakistani Muslim men have little respect for their own women (who they tend to protect in Britain from what they see as Western sexual freedoms by imposing on them the burqa and other practices) why will they have any respect for Western women who they view as lower on the “honor” scale, deem less human because they are not Muslim, and see as “easy meat,” “fair game” and easily available for sex (a common stereotype about Western women in the Indian subcontinent)?

Blaming the White Man

Second, prescriptive multiculturalism as an infallible dogma made it impossible for victims to complain and be heard.

According to former Minister for Immigration Robert Jenrick:

To sustain order in multicultural Britain, the state considered it necessary to apply the law selectively. For decades the most appalling crimes from diaspora groups were legalized and actively covered up to prevent disorder. The rule of law was abandoned to sustain the myth that diversity is our strength, destroying the lives of thousands of working-class white girls in the process.

The authorities “were petrified of being called racist and so reverted to the default of political correctness,” observes former Labor MP Ann Cryer. In 2004, a Channel 4 documentary into abuse in Bradford was delayed after police forces warned the evidence of “Asian men targeting young white girls” could inflame racial tensions.

This is precisely why media and government authorities colluded in using the euphemism “Asian” — a misnomer since the term covers every group from Filipino Catholics to Chinese Daoist to Indian Hindus.

Most egregiously, the government stepped in to defend its dogma of multiculturalism when in 2020 the Home Office published its report titled Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation: Characteristics of Offending. The report does not mention the word “Muslim” (except once in citing a book in the bibliography). It mentions “Pakistani” six times, mostly attempting to obfuscate.

The report shockingly concludes: “Research has found that group-based child sexual exploitation offenders are most commonly white.”

The dogma of multiculturalism could not be allowed to fail since all cultures are equal. Actually, lest Britain become a simmering cauldron, the powers-that-be had to resort to Plato’s “Noble Lie” and prove “white” Western, Christian culture to be worse that Pakistani-Muslim culture.

Never mind the British government needed to sacrifice 250,000 white working-class girls on Molech’s altar of multiculturalism. After all, they were “easy meat” and “fair game.”

Dr. Jules Gomes, (BA, BD, MTh, PhD), has a doctorate in biblical studies from the University of Cambridge. Currently a Vatican-accredited journalist based in Rome, he is the author of five books and several academic articles. Gomes lectured at Catholic and Protestant seminaries and universities and was canon theologian and artistic director at Liverpool Cathedral.