One thing is clear from The Rape Gang Inquiry Report, commissioned by Restore Britain’s Rupert Lowe: this is an Islamic issue. Very Islamic, to use Graeme Wood’s famous phrase.
Researcher Peter McLoughlin in Easy Meat (2016) compiled a comprehensive list of grooming gang convictions: 87 per cent of convicted perpetrators “bore distinctively Muslim names”. For comparison, Muslims make up just six per cent of the British population. Most are Pakistani, although Somalis, Iraqis, Syrians and Romanians also feature – but nearly all are Muslims. Survivors testify that the true number (as nearly all perpetrators have so far escaped charges or convictions) is as high as 98 per cent Muslim.
But why? As the report says, while perhaps not on the appalling scale seen in Britain, such systematic Muslim gang-rape “goes on anywhere that either welcomes mass migration from Muslim countries or contains long-established Muslim populations”. The reasons for this appalling pattern is not some ‘aberration’ or ‘distortion’ of Islam, but deeply rooted in Islamic scripture.
At least eight theological aspects of Islam may contribute to cultural patterns that enable or normalise the sexual abuse of non-Muslim girls. These include (1) the doctrine of Muslim superiority, (2) the principle of loyalty and disavowal (al-walā' wa-l-barā'), (3) male dominance over women, (4) enforced seclusion and veiling of women, (5) forced marriage combined with the absence of a fixed minimum age of consent, (6) the perception of female sexuality as inherently dangerous or fitna, (7) the historical sharia institution of slavery, (8) and the system of dhimmitude.
The Ideological Defense Institute, which includes former Muslims, Arab Christians and Western thought leaders, examines the theological underpinnings of Islamic rape culture in detail. The reasons are not some aberration or distortion of Islam. They are deeply rooted in Islamic scripture. The IDI identifies at least eight theological aspects that enable or normalise the sexual abuse of non-Muslim girls.
The common Western misconception is that Islam is sexually conservative. This is highly misleading. The institution of Islam is hyper-sexualised, with rape and sexual slavery central to Islamic law.
To fully understand Islam’s rape problem, one must grasp six key Islamic concepts.
Morality in Islam, particularly Sunni Islam, is entirely shaped by the Qur’an and the Hadith. Whatever is termed ‘halal’ is fine and whatever is termed ‘haram’ is forbidden. It is, quite literally, no more complex than that.
There is no deeper morality, no universal human rights, no concept of consent that overrides sharia. A Muslim of good standing simply follows what the texts permit. If sharia allows it, it is moral by definition.
Islam principally delineates humanity into two castes of people: Muslims and non-Muslims.
The Qur’an is explicit. Non-Muslims are the worst of creatures, no better than cattle, the clear enemy, dirty and allied against Muslims. Muslims are commanded not to befriend or trust them. Non-Muslims exist in the Dar al-Harb, the Abode of War, to be conquered or subjugated. In this framework, non-Muslim girls are not fellow human beings with rights. They are potential booty.
Within this framework, Muslim women are treated differently again. There is no concept of consent in inter-Muslim sexual relations.
A wife is “fertile soil” for her husband to go to “as you wish”. She may be beaten for disobedience. Sexual maturity for girls is nine years of age, as the example of Aisha demonstrates. There is no word for “rape” in this context – only zina, unlawful intercourse, which does not apply to slaves.
A major and divinely ordained outlet for young Muslim men is the sexual slavery of non-Muslim women.
Slavery is not a quaint relic. It is central to Islam, referenced throughout the Qur’an with the focus on sexual relations between Muslim men and their female slaves. Muslim men may have sex with their slaves even if those females are already married. Women and children captured in war become booty. This is not historical curiosity: it is doctrine.
Prostitution is lawful in Islam under certain conditions. It is specifically provided for in Surah An-Nur 24:33.
A Muslim man may force his young slave girls into prostitution for money. The grooming process – isolating the girl, raping her, stripping her of chastity – makes the subsequent pimping halal under a literal reading. The gangs operate exactly as the verse permits.
Islam leans into carnal pleasures. Contrary to Judaism and Christianity, their paradise is simply the promise of lustful worldly desires – houris untouched by man or jinn, eyes like pearls, as a reward for earthly deeds.
The promise of sexual reward in this world or the next is not incidental. It is woven into the incentive structure for jihad and conquest.
These are not cultural quirks. They are theological. When young Muslim men from Pakistan, Somalia, Syria or Iraq arrive in Britain or any Western country, many bring this moral universe with them. They are in the Dar al-Harb. Non-Muslim girls are slave material. There is no consent required for slaves. Girls as young as nine are permissible. Sharia takes primacy over man-made laws.
The grooming gangs are not a failure of integration. They are the logical application of doctrine to a population of ‘kafir’ girls whose own authorities refuse to name the ideology driving the abuse. Political correctness, fear of ‘Islamophobia’ accusations, and elite denial allowed it to run for decades. The same pattern follows mass migration from Muslim countries wherever it occurs.
Until Western elites confront the hideous truth that Islam has a rape problem, and that the problem is scriptural, not socioeconomic, the sexual slavery, enforced prostitution and mass rape of non-Muslim girls will continue.
The report makes the pattern undeniable. The question is whether anyone in power will act on it.
