UK Minister for Women and Equalities states “all of us as women in society are unsafe”
No discussion on the rates of Muslim v non-Muslim threats/risks to Muslim women and non-Muslim women! Virtue signalling garbage that avoids the key issues.
PETER HALLIGAN
From here:
All women in society are unsafe, minister says as Piddington locals raise fears
“Asked if they were right about their safety concerns, women and equalities minister Ms Phillipson told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg: “
Sadly, yes, women are right to be fearful in society more widely about the attitudes and the normalisation of attitudes towards women and violence against women that I’d hoped we’d made more progress on, and I hoped we put behind us.”
She did not mention the attitudes of Muslim immigrants in particular.
Instead she ‘deflected’
“The minister continued: “The reality is, of course, most women who experience violence in our country experience it from a partner or a former partner and many women lose their lives to that violence, but that’s the end point.
From Brave AI:
“Approximately 80 women in England and Wales are killed by a current or former partner each year, which averages to 1.8 women per week or one woman every five days.”
“Recent data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) indicates that in the year ending March 2025, an estimated 2.2 million women in England and Wales experienced domestic abuse, representing a prevalence rate of 9.1% for females aged 16 and over. This figure encompasses various forms of abuse, with 6.1% of people experiencing abuse by a current or ex-partner in the last year.
“The Crime Survey for England and Wales (year ending March 2024) estimates that 5.2% of Muslim women experienced domestic abuse in the last year. This prevalence rate is lower than the 6.6% recorded for the adult female population as a whole.
However, experts and organizations such as the Muslim Women’s Network UK highlight that this data may not reflect the true scale of abuse due to:
- Under-reporting: Cultural barriers and fear of stigma often prevent victims from seeking help.
- Coercive Control: Specialist services report high levels of coercive control and abuse among Muslim women, with perpetrators often being husbands or parents.
- Intersectional Risks: Muslim women face additional vulnerabilities, including forced marriage, honour-based abuse, and isolation, which can trap them in abusive relationships.”
That’s about as far as ‘official data goes – victim data – yes, perpetrator data NO.
“Official statistics from the Crime Survey for England and Wales provide prevalence rates by the victim’s religion but do not disaggregate data by the perpetrator’s identity. For the year ending March 2024, the survey estimates that 5.2% of Muslim women experienced domestic abuse in the last year, compared to 6.6% for the adult female population as a whole.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has confirmed in response to Freedom of Information requests that data linking victim religion to perpetrator religion is not available.
While the ONS provides domestic abuse victim characteristics disaggregated by religion, it does not include the religious affiliation of the perpetrator, making it impossible to calculate the specific figures requested.”
Accurate and specific data on levels of asylum seeker crime is intentionally withheld from the British public:
“The Office for National Statistics (ONS) explicitly states that it does not hold breakdowns of crime by asylum seeker or migrant status. Consequently, official statistics on women attacked or killed by a stranger are categorized by the victim’s ethnic group or general offender characteristics, but do not isolate offenders based on their immigration or asylum status.”
It would be interesting to see staistics on arranged marriages, polygamy rates, first cousin marriages, female genital mutilation etc that are part and parcel of some Muslim sects. Similarly statistics on how many Muslim women are raped or beaten by their husbands would be informative though this would strike at the heart of the misogynistic Muslim religion (beating or raping your wife is legal under Sharia law.
Crime statistics might be available from Sharia courts, though I doubt they would be made public”.
“There is no definitive count of Sharia councils in England, with estimates ranging from 30 established bodies to as many as 85 operational councils, though the exact number remains indeterminate due to informal operations.
Regarding cases of “wife beating,” these bodies are not legally recognized courts and do not maintain public statistics on domestic violence proceedings; however, investigations and parliamentary inquiries have highlighted serious concerns that some councils have:
- Condoned or ignored domestic abuse, with reports of women being pressured to return to abusive husbands.
- Failed to protect victims, such as instances where councils advised husbands to take anger-management classes instead of facing legal consequences, while victims withdrew police complaints.
- Supported extremist values, including claims that some councils condoned wife-beating or ignored marital rape, as noted in the Casey Review and Home Affairs Committee reports.
The Islamic Sharia Council and similar bodies primarily handle religious divorces and family disputes, operating as advisory entities whose decisions are not legally binding under UK law, meaning they do not formally “hear” criminal cases of assault in a judicial capacity.
Back to the MSN article:
“Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will ensure there will be security on the Ministry of Defence (MoD) Bicester site if it goes ahead, she added.”
Mahmood is a devout Muslim.
Mahmood is responsible for the policy of ‘safe routes’ for fellow Muslim asylum seekers and for the payment of £660 million to France to ‘police’ small boats departures from France:
From Brave AI:
“The UK government has agreed to pay France up to £660 million (approximately $892 million) over a three-year period ending in March 2029 to curb small-boat crossings in the English Channel. This agreement, signed by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez on 23 April 2026, replaces a previous deal worth around £480 million that expired in March 2026.
The funding is structured with a £500 million baseline for increased patrols and surveillance, plus a £160 million “payment-by-results” component.
The additional funds are contingent on success; if the new tactics do not significantly reduce crossings within the first year, the UK can withhold the remaining balance.
The deal funds approximately 1,100 enforcement officers, enhanced technology like drones and helicopters, and a new 50-strong riot police unit trained in crowd control to deter migrants from boarding boats.
Why not fund the “French RNLI” (the Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer (SNSM), which is the French equivalent of the UK’s Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). To tow the small boats back to the French coast rather than have the RNLI ferry the occupants on to the UK once they cross the notional midway point and make the assumption that every boat is in difficulty with lives at risk?
“We have many people within our country that we are required to accommodate, we want to reduce that number, and we are reducing that number”, Ms Phillipson added.
She also told the programme: “We will look very carefully at any concerns anyone raises, of course women feeling safe in our country is a top priority for me.”
I suggest that a single Muslim man in the presence of three non-Muslim women poses far less threat than three Muslim men in the presence of a single non-Muslim woman.
There was no discussion of this point between the two non-Muslim women!
Onwards!!!
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