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In the 2008 action thriller Taken, a white teenage girl and her friend are abducted in Paris by an Albanian sex-trafficking ring that systematically kidnaps, drugs, rapes, and sells young girls into sex slavery, with the active and passive complicity of the police and wealthy elites.
According to the newly released Rape Gang Inquiry Report, in the United Kingdom, the movie’s premise is more fact than fiction. In fact, the truth is far worse than fiction. The report, organized by Independent MP Rupert Lowe and containing extensive testimony from survivors and whistleblowers, alleges that over the last 50-plus years, at least 250,000 white British girls from all over the United Kingdom have been subjected to repeated rape, trafficking, torture, forced conversion and marriage, and even death at the hands of organized Muslim gangs, largely of Pakistani origin.
The report makes for a horrific and harrowing read, describing in sometimes graphic detail how “networks of perpetrators built coordinated operations that transported victims between locations, supplied them with drugs and alcohol, recorded abuse for distribution and blackmail, and passed girls between multiple adult men.”
Lowe’s Report expands upon previous investigations such as the Jay Report that focused on grooming gangs in Rotherham and Baroness Casey’s National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. It alleges that the rape gangs were and are a national reality and not just a local pattern, and that the scope, scale, and organization of these gangs was far more vast than previously documented.
The report describes a consistent pattern in the grooming-to-rape-to-torture pipeline. “Girls as young as 11 were initially befriended by a young Muslim man who then treated the young child like an adult and would then start providing them with alcohol, drugs, and cigarettes. After a few months the girls would then be collected from school gates, care homes, and streets in taxis. They were taken to houses, flats, restaurants, and hotels where they were raped repeatedly by groups of men, tortured, filmed for blackmail, and told they were “white trash” or “kuffar” who merited punishment.”
More than that, the report identifies the wholesale complicity of civic institutions in the trafficking and abuse. “Police forces ignored repeated reports, criminalised victims instead of perpetrators, destroyed evidence, and allowed known rapists to walk free on bail. Social care services undermined protective parents, placed children in trafficking hubs inside children’s homes, closed cases despite clear indicators of exploitation, and retaliated against whistleblowers. The NHS recorded genital injuries, multiple sexually transmitted infections in children as young as 13, pregnancies caused by rape, and suicide attempts, yet discharged victims back to their abusers without safeguarding referrals or trauma care. Schools observed older men collecting girls at the gates, heard disclosures of rape on school premises, and responded by excluding victims rather than protecting them.”
Christians must recover the use of imprecatory psalms. These situations are precisely why the Lord included such prayers in the Scriptures.
The report points to mass immigration as a root cause, and it describes how a commitment to multiculturalism and fear of being called “racist,” as well as the desire to secure votes from Islamic immigrant populations, contributed to the political and institutional betrayal. Twelve-year-old white girls don’t vote; thirty-year-old Pakistani men do.
The report also doesn’t pull punches regarding the religious and cultural drivers of the abuse, including eight theological and legal aspects of Islam, from the Islamic belief that Muslims are superior over non-Muslims, to clan loyalty, to religious sanction for rape of non-Muslims.
The breadth and depth of the report is staggering and led one commentator to conclude that “grooming gang” is too mild of a description for what is alleged. These young girls “were subjected to a program of overtly racialized sexual torture and humiliation designed to maximally degrade them and kill them in their souls. And this was ‘acceptable’ because they were White and not Muslims. … This detail fundamentally alters the character of these crimes. This was not horny men out of control or even cross-cultural understanding gaps around the age of consent. This was a targeted program of ritualized torture and subjugation as a means of ethnic domination. In other words, these gangs are conducting war against the White British using serial child rape and torture as a form of conquest.”
In Taken, the foreign grooming gang and its powerful enablers are dealt with by an ex-CIA operative and father with “a particular set of skills.” His composed and violent rescue of his daughter provides catharsis to the audience appalled by the crimes. But vigilante justice is an insufficient response to crimes of this scale. Sustained, international action is necessary.
The first action ought to be public repentance for every form of moral abdication and enablement. The British people must repent of the multiculturalism, colonial guilt, and fear of man that enabled these horrors. They must turn back to Christ in sorrow and weeping, and, like the people of God in Lamentations, set their hope fully on the steadfast love of the Lord, which never ceases.
Second, all Christians must recover the use of imprecatory psalms. These situations are precisely why the Lord included such prayers in the Scriptures. “Break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD!” (Psalm 58:6). “O LORD, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth! Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve! O LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?” (Psalm 94:1-3).
Third, the British people must channel their rage in righteous and effective ways. Demand that the prime minister call for a new election. Engage in a general strike, like the Polish Solidarity movement in the 1980s, until he does. Elect a government that will expose those responsible, bring back the death penalty for those who have committed these heinous crimes, and denaturalize and deport any foreigners who are complicit.
Perhaps Britain can recover the spirit of the English expressed in Kipling’s poem “The Beginnings.”
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late
With long arrears to make good,
When the English began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy-willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the English began to hate.
Their voices were even and low,
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show,
When the English began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd,
It was not taught by the State.
No man spoke it aloud,
When the English began to hate.
It was not suddenly bred,
It will not swiftly abate,
Through the chill years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the English began to hate.
May God awaken and purify the anger of the British people and may He act on their behalf, until justice rolls down like the waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.