[Dawn] British minister and co-chairman of the Conservatives Party Baroness Sayeeda Warsi has said that a small minority of Pak men believe that white women "are a fair game."
Warsi's comments follow the sentencing of nine men (eight of Pak origin) for plying white girls, as young as 13, with alcohol and drugs so they could be used for sex.
"There is a small minority of Pak men who believe that white girls are fair game. And we have to be prepared to say that. You can only start solving a problem if you acknowledge it first," the Baroness was quoted as saying by reports in British media.
UK's first female Mohammedan minister said religious leaders must isolate such men who treat white women as "third-rate citizens."
"In mosque after mosque, this should be raised as an issue so that anybody remotely involved should start to feel that the community is turning on them," she said.
Following the case, the Greater Manchester police did not highlight race as one of the major factors in the crime but Warsi insisted that "cultural sensitivity should never be a bar to applying the law."
Manchester Paleostine Solidarity Campaign says BDS should include any references to Israel's wildlife.
LONDON -- Anti-Israel activists sharply criticized the socialist British daily the Morning Star for referring to Israel's national bird the hoopoe in its daily quiz.
In a letter to the newspaper, Linda Claire, the chairwoman of Manchester's Paleostine Solidarity Campaign, asked why it had referred to the bird after it has "always been the newspaper you could rely on to support the cause of the Paleostinians."
"Maybe you don't support the methods chosen by the international solidarity movement of BDS [boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel] to assist the Paleostinians in their struggle for freedom and justice," she said, adding that this included any reference to Israel's wildlife.
"Despite its condemnation of zionists [sic] it yet finds space to include an item in its daily quiz about Israel's national bird. Is the Star not aware there's a cultural boycott going on?" Claire's husband, George Abendstern, asked in another letter.
"And then, despite it's [sic] condemnation of the Bahrain Grand Prix and rightly so, it then goes on to tell us who won. For goodness sake comrades, get your act together," Abendstern continued.
After a letter appeared condemning the couple's stance, the anti-Israel activists said, "It was not the bird we object to but what this bird represents -- the racist and apartheid State of Israel."
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