Is Telford the New Rotherham?

Horrific reports of widescale grooming and abuse in town dubbed Britain's 'child sex capital'.

[R]eports of grooming in Telford were inputted into police computers wrongly and played down despite an earlier probe that led to seven men being jailed in 2012.

The people arrested in 2012 were seven men of Pakistani descent:

• Ahdel Ali
• Mubarek Ali
• Mohammed Ali Sultan
• Tanveer Ahmed
• Mohammed Islam Choudhrey
• Mahroof Khan
• Mohammed Younis

According to Wikipedia:

There were accounts concerning men who would ejaculate and then urinate in children's mouths, violating them in every orifice, as well as gang-rape by queues of men while girls were held hostage for hours, sometimes days – all the while being forced to listen to the screams of girls in other rooms with other men.

Could a Brexit sentiment sweep Trump into office?

Does it help real-estate mogul Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, whose nativist, anti-immigration, anti-trade-deals campaign has channeled a similar current of anger among a large swath of Republican voters?

While there are similar sentiments at work, a presidential election isn't the same thing as a referendum but the feelings that the average voters have - that their needs aren't being considered is at work in both.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article85877257.html#storylink=cpy

Weird How They Think That

A woman in France was screamed at by two men and hit by at least one of them for serving alcohol during Ramadan.

The incident has been seized upon by the far-right as proof of the spread of radical Islam despite attempts to impose secular principles that underpin the French state.

Sexual Assaults in Germany

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how Germany had created a website to teach immigrants not to rape or sexually assault people. It doesn't seem to have worked.

Three Pakistani men are already under arrest after 18 women filed complaints that they had been improperly touched, fondled and groped during the festival in the city of Darmstadt. Police have said the number of complainants could rise. 

Is This Racist?

People who find this Chinese commercial offensive sure are complaining about it online. Weirdly enough*, more commenters found this similar Italian commercial funny.

Rape, You're Not Doing It Right

Germany thinks that if only asylum-seekers knew how to have sex properly, they wouldn't rape.
Zanzu: My body in words and images is a multi-language sex education site.

Rape used to be about sex, then we were told it wasn't about sex, it was about power. Now it's about sex again.

That should fix the problem.

March Against Fear Cancelled

Because of security concerns.

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

by John McCrae

'Hundreds' of Rapes 'Hidden' by Danish Police

It sounds like the problem is that some were rape and not rape-rape, as Whoopi Goldberg so aptly put it befoe.

  Denmark recorded an average of 395 rape cases every year up to 2014. But an investigation by the Ministry of Justice has revealed the actual number to be closer to 1,100 annually, Metroxpress reported on Thursday.

The majority of the ‘missing’ reports were hidden in police statistics by giving them investigation numbers that did not classify them as rape cases. A number of police departments confirmed to Metroxpress that this was standard practice in cases where there was doubt as to whether a rape had actually occurred.

Can't they all just be grouped under sexual assault/by degree?