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[anotheoldgit]

Yesterday I posted a question regarding a Gang of Asian men who were jailed for abusing young white girls as young as 12.

http://tinyurl.com/27kl46p

For some reason I notice it has been removed, without any exclamation.

This was a legitimate news story, so why was it removed?

[lilsecret]

Here's an exclamaton !

[douglas9401]

Lilsecret, an exclamaton is a vocal robot. :)

[chrissa1]

If you want an explanation, ask the "boss". I glanced at it yesterday but saw the usual rants and thought, "I can't be bothered to get involved".

[naomi24]

The last I saw of it you, AOG, seemed to be blaming the crime on the religion, which of course is absolutely ludicrous. I can't see why a post would be removed for that reason though - far better to expose ridiculous prejudices and challenge and beat them by rational argument than stifle and hide them and allow them to fester and grow. Having said that, perhaps it wasn't that at all. Maybe something else happened after you posted that. I don't know. You could try asking the Ed.

[askyourgran]

At least you weren't removed aog. I read it too it was disgusting and they have been sentenced.

[bednobs]

hi, you need to email the ed. When this question also gets removed, will you post again to ask where it's gone?

[Dris]

Ive had a couple removed.Nothing wrong with them -one was about Netiquette which the Ed consequently covered so my thread was redundant and I agree.The other was about avatars -nowt wrong with the thread just got heated (you couldnt make it up) that was removed as well.
I dont query anymore -its their site and they will moderate as they see fit.
I do query about being suspended for bugger all though.

So to summarise I wouldnt bother my arse querying it.Have a nice Sunday :)

[boxtops]

I saw it - indeed I contributed to it - but I didn't see later posts, sounds as if someone might have objected to the way it was going. If anything it wasn't the story which was pulled, it was the way it was being represented as being a purely Asian/Muslim crime, which of course it isn't, worldwide - others commented on that when I saw it, people of any race and religion can and do get up to these vile things. It must have been reported, and the Ed just didn't like the way it was heading.

[dotty.]

But in the law of this country, wouldn't it be considered a racially motivated crime anyway? which would mean any debate including a racial aspect would be valid.

[society]

When 'fights' starts on a thread perhaps you could just close it and not remove it, Ed? I haven't seen that particular thread and would have like to seen it and make my own judgment. As well as the many other closed ones which I was never able to view...

[naomi24]

Actually I think any debate is valid, dot. We can stop people talking, but we can't stop them thinking about things we don't want them to say.

[boxtops]

No dotty, IMO - the fact that the gang arrested were all of one background is fairly irrelevant, there were a group of Poles arrested a while back for pimping, black guys have been reported as having young girls brought in from abroad who thought they were coming for housemaid work - it's the crime, not the people who are perpetrating it, which the courts were interested in. Not confined to one racial or religious group at all, I don't think pimps are that fussy. Again - IMO.

[anotheoldgit]

Included in the removed question, I also posted a statement by Scotland Yard no less, which began:

/// Scotland Yard is treating the evidence with care because it has sensitive racial overtones. ///

Since I haven't been given an exclamation, it would appear that AnswerBank is also treating my question with care, for the same reason.

[naomi24]

AOG, if you mean explanation, say explanation. Once is a mistake - twice is just careless.

[NazNomad]

Removed, yet you feel it necessary to drag it all up again?

Learn from it.

[society]

He cannot spell 'explanation' :-)

(just teasing Aog)

[jackthehat]

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[dotty.]

I've read the link to the story now, there seems to have been some racial aspect to it mainly because all the blokes being of the same cultural background and all the girls being not from that same background. What would have happened to these men if they had tried to commit the same abuse against girls of that age from their own culture? The fact that they scoured the area for a specific type of girl is relevent isn;t it?

[anotheoldgit]

boxtops

/// the fact that the gang arrested were all of one background is fairly irrelevant, ///

In this case, as in the Stephen Lawrence case the attackers racial origin is very relevant, this was just as much a racial crime as was the Stephen Lawrence case.

And that crime has gone down into the annals of crime, for some reason.

Because I called these abusers paedophiles, one poster said that "Paedophilia had nothing to do with it", well I think it has, since the report stated that some of the girls were only 12 years old.