The Foreign Office (FO) on Wednesday took exception to British Home Secretary Suella Braverman\u2019s \u201cdiscriminatory and xenophobic\u201d remarks on Pakistani men, saying that they painted a \u201cmisleading picture\u201d.<\/p>\n
A day earlier, Braverman said that British-Pakistani men \u201chold cultural values at odds with British values\u201d.<\/p>\n
During a Sky News interview about plans to tackle child sexual abuse, she spoke about \u201cthe predominance of British-Pakistani males who hold cultural values totally at odds with British values\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201c[British-Pakistani men] see women in a demeaned, illegitimate way, and pursue an outdated and frankly heinous approach to the way we behave,\u201d Braverman commented after she was informed that a Home Office report in 2020 concluded that most child sexual abuse gangs are made up of white men under the age of 30, and that there was not enough evidence to suggest members of grooming gangs were disproportionately more likely to be Asian or black.<\/p>\n
Braverman instead pointed to reports from Rotherham, which was rocked by a child sexual exploitation scandal in which five British-Pakistani men were convicted of grooming, raping and exploiting young girls. The home secretary also cited a 2015 report penned by Dame Louise Casey CB, which ironically noted how the British-Pakistani community had been \u201charmed by association\u201d in the scandal.<\/p>\n
Her comments were largely criticised by political commentators and children\u2019s charities as \u201cinflammatory\u201d and akin to initiating \u201crace wars\u201d.<\/p>\n
Responding to Braverman\u2019s remarks in a press briefing today, the FO spokesperson said that the remarks painted a \u201chighly misleading picture signalling the intent to target and treat British Pakistanis differently\u201d.<\/p>\n
Baloch stated that the UK home secretary had \u201cerroneously branded criminal behaviour of some individuals as a representation of the entire community\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe fails to take note of the systemic racism and ghettoisation of communities and omits to recognize the tremendous cultural, economic and political contributions that British Pakistanis continue to make in British society,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Foreign Office (FO) on Wednesday took exception to British Home Secretary Suella Braverman\u2019s \u201cdiscriminatory and xenophobic\u201d remarks on Pakistani men, saying that they painted a \u201cmisleading picture\u201d. A day earlier, Braverman said that British-Pakistani men \u201chold cultural values at odds with British values\u201d. During a Sky News interview about plans to tackle child sexual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[554],"class_list":{"0":"post-323983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-foreign-office"},"yoast_head":"\n