British idiots

Gregory Katz has an Associated Press article out of Rochdale, England (photo):

She was lonely in the way only an adolescent girl can be: no friends, no boyfriend, not much of a relationship with her parents. So she felt special when a man, decades older, paid attention to her, bought her trinkets, gave her free booze.
Then he took her to a dingy room above a kebab shop and said she had to give something back in return. His demands grew: not just sex with him, but with his friends. It went on for years, until police charged nine men with running a sex ring with underage girls.
The story of Girl A, as she became known in court, is tragic by any measure, but it has also become explosive. Because there is no getting around it: the girls are white, and the men who used them as sex toys are Asian Muslims, mostly Pakistanis raised in Britain. And it's not just Rochdale; roughly a dozen other cases of Asian Muslim men accused of grooming young white girls for sex are slowly moving to trial across northern England, involving up to several hundred girls in all.
In today's Britain, which prides itself on being a tolerant and integrated society, the case has stripped away the skin to expose the racial sores festering beneath. It is also feeding an already raw anger against the country's Asian Muslim minority, in a movement led by far-right groups at a time when the economy is stalled. "You can't get away from the race element," says prosecutor Nazir Afzal, a British Muslim with family roots in Pakistan, who ended several years of official indifference to the girls' plight and finally brought the perpetrators to trial. "It's the elephant in the room."
The Rochdale men do not fit the classic profile for sex offenders in Britain; the majority of paedophilia crimes are committed by white men who target boys and girls via the Internet. However, there is a consensus among prosecutors, police, social workers, and leading national politicians that "street grooming", which happened in Rochdale, is largely dominated by Asian men.
Mohammed Shafiq, a British Pakistani who directs the Ramadhan Foundation in Rochdale, has angered some in his own community by suggesting that police at first did not pursue the case aggressively for fear of appearing racist because of an obsession "with the doctrine of political correctness". Shafiq says that a "tiny minority" of Pakistani men feel white girls are worthless and immoral and can be abused with impunity. "They know if they took someone from the Asian community, it pretty quickly is going to be found out," he says. "But those white girls are available, so they think they can get away with it."
The men in the Rochdale sex ring were remarkable only in their ordinariness. They were part of British life, but on the fringes, the sort of people most Britons don't really notice when they pass them on the street.
Most of the men were first- or second-generation Pakistanis, raised mainly in Britain. Only one had faced previous sex charges: ringleader Shabir Ahmed, at 59 the oldest in the group, who was accused of repeatedly raping a young girl in a separate case. Ahmed, known to the girls as "Daddy", was convicted recently of thirty counts of rape in that case.
The men were finally brought to justice after health workers reported a large increase in the number of underage girls in the Rochdale area claiming to have suffered sexual abuse. The next year, Afzal, the new regional chief of the Crown Prosecution Service, reversed the earlier decision by prosecutors and decided to press the case in court, with Girl A at its core. "It was a no-brainer," Afzal told the Associated Press. "She was immensely credible. And the police now had evidence of a wide network."

Rico says that this will only fuel the latent anti-immigrant feelings in the UK; if it happened here, of course, the KKK would be burning crosses on their lawns...