Lowe’s ‘Rape Gang Inquiry Report’ purposefully silenced brown survivors’ voices
Content warning: this article contains discussion of child sexual abuse, exploitation, and the silencing of victims. On 16 June, Rupert Lowe – leader of the extreme-right Restore Britain announced the publication of his ‘Rape Gang Inquiry Report’. Today, we amplify the account of survivors whose voices were excluded from the report to serve its racist, Islamophobic ends. Lowe’s report: ‘vulnerable, young white women’ As the Canary previously explained, Lowe’s report wholly lacked the methodological rigour necessary for such a study. Instead, it deployed Islamophobic conjecture to arrive at a foregone conclusion that group-based child sexual exploitation is: perpetrated by chiefly Pakistani…
