Muammar Al Khadafi

Childrens Minister Tim Loughton has told the BBC Politics show that a combination of racial sensitivity and political correctness kept child sex offences by Asian gangs "under the radar".

In a telling comment the minister stated that "In many cases we are dealing with some closed communities. Closed in terms of things being able to go on under the radar and away from the public glare".

Go the rest of the way and tell it how it really is. That there are parallel communities existing in Britain which are closed to the rest of Britain, communities where we are the outsider and are not welcome.

In many of these communities, which are existing as a separate society within our society, there is disdain and hatred for the British way of life, and for those who are not themselves a part of this closed community.

Those outside the community are lesser people, of no consequence, there to be exploited. That's very much the attitude we see in many cases, not only by those committing the offences, but by their family members and communities who do nothing to prevent them, make excuses, and just turn a blind eye.

Their community comes before ours, it always has done, and it always will.

Authority, terrified of being branded racist, and a desperate not to do anything to shatter the myth of harmonious integration, chose to look away for too long. They still look away for the most part, unable to admit to the real problem.

Quoted by the Telegraph, Lord Ahmed also makes a revealing comment, saying that "It's a new crime, a new trend and we have to talk about it and be robust about it".

When people did try to talk about it many years ago they were almost universally decried as racists. Our politically correct society would rather some things were not talked about, even if that means many children must suffer.

But, it is new crime, Lord Ahmed, we can agree on that. It is also a largely imported crime. The reason it is new to Britain is because the communities who are committing it were quite simply not in Britain until recent decades.

Returning to Tim Loughton, he instantly shoots all hopes any serious action or investigation in the foot with a comment of "I want to send out a message loud and clear that although we have to be aware of certain characteristics of various ethnic communities and be sensitive as to how we deal with them, a BME tag is not an excuse for us not to investigate vigorously any abuse that may be going on"

What characteristics are these that require some special sensitivity which, it would seem, the rest of Britain do not get?

There is still not one politician in government with the courage to bring the enitrety of the problem out into the open. As said before, record ethnicity and religion of all grooming offenders, as well as those of the victims, and let the public know what is truely going on.

Whilst we hedge around with special sensitivities, and cannot bring ourselves to even name the faiths and communities which are committing these offences, we condemn countless children to continued exploitation.