Mr Haque’s murderers were racists — so why won’t anyone admit it?

31 July 2010

/article_images/articledir_12345/6172898/1_listing.jpg

Rod Liddle attacks the dangerous liberals who refuse to accept that young black males often come from a culture that celebrates violence, misogyny and racism

5) Because of course they were black.

This last fact will have been the least shocking to you, I suspect. You had guessed that ages ago, hadn’t you? Perhaps as a consequence of a subconscious racial prejudice within yourself, or perhaps because of a sad realisation of how things actually are, in the poorer quarters of London where black people make up at most 25 per cent of the population. As we now know the majority of street assaults, gun crimes and a disproportionate number of other crimes are believed by the police to be committed by young black males. Thirteen kids have been killed in London this year, again, from the information we have, the overwhelming majority of the perpetrators were black.

Do socio-economic factors play a part? Of course, but they are not the clincher, as you would understand if you just looked at the statistics; why don’t similarly deprived Bangladeshi, or Pakistani, or white British kids commit as much crime? The clincher is the culture in which these children are immersed. A culture of one-parent (that’ll be mum, then) families and a disinclination to education, and further inflamed by the mindless misogynistic, homophobic and self-pitying machismo of rap, ragga and da law of da streetz. Exactly, in fact, what stopped the black Labour MP Diane Abbott from sending her kid to the local state school, worrying all the while that he might be subsumed in a violent, criminally inclined gang culture. And yet if you are white and try to articulate this fact, you will be called a racist (probably by Diane Abbott, or the Guardian, or the hapless Press Complaints Commission), and people will point out that white people commit crimes too (no, really, are you sure?), as if this obviated the problem which we have before us — a problem which has been allowed to flourish directly as a consequence of the patronising and truly racist multicultural credo.

Here’s the thing. If poor Mr Haque had been black and his attackers white, they’d be cutting the turf for the commemorative community centre right now and David Cameron would be making anguished and impassioned speeches to the press, perhaps concluding by singing a verse of ‘Ebony and Ivory’. But this was a racist murder, like several others, which will not be allowed to live in the memory, which has less cachet. A disgrace to Mr Haque and his granddaughter.

Previous page 1 | 2 | 3

More articles from: Rod Liddle | this section

Print this article | Email to a friend | Permalink | Comments (3)

Post this entry to: del.icio.us | Digg | Newsvine | NowPublic | Reddit

Post comment

mike carroll

August 5th, 2010 7:26am Report this comment

Excellent piece from Rod. I take it we wont be naming a street, school or airport after poor Mr Haque then? God rest his soul.

Bob goblet

August 16th, 2010 1:25pm Report this comment

Life seems to have no value, it is taken from people like Mr Haque like stealing sweets from a pick n mix. It's done for fun and because they can. If a life is taken by someone black or White in such a premeditated way they should never be let out. The killers of James Bulger cost the tax payers hundreds of thousands of plans for new identities and now one is back in prison for child porn? Anyone who attacks someone like Mr Haque or James Bulger alike deserves to left in prison and never be able to eligible for release. Animals like that don't deserve human rights, victims deserve human rights not monsters who attack the innocent and defenceless people.

Stephanie Tohill

August 16th, 2010 5:44pm Report this comment

"Here’s the thing. If poor Mr Haque had been black and his attackers white, they’d be cutting the turf for the commemorative community centre right now and David Cameron would be making anguished and impassioned speeches to the press, perhaps concluding by singing a verse of ‘Ebony and Ivory’."

As my brother's (black) friend in Birmingham was murdered, cut up and dumped by his two (white) housemates into bin bags and it was not reported as a racist murder I am not sure this is accurate. Likewise the young (black) girl hacked to death in Catford by an older (white, East european to boot) was not said to be a victim of a racist attack. I think this is your own personal greivance mentality coming to the fore.

Nor am I sure how 'multi-culturalism' feeds this as I am not sure how one of the things you mention (be it single-parent families, mysogynistic/homophobic music and and male braggadacio) is encouraged by anyone, anywhere in our society.

I think the one point on which we can agree is how woeful these sentences were. A complete embarrassment to the judicial system. I wonder how the families (both offender and victim) are dealing with this.

Post comment