Man of Honour
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Who said anything about demonising? It is helpful, effective and efficient to target the populations and the areas where crime has been shown to occur. I have never said it should be used as an agenda - I actually think you are completely missing the point - investigations are not being pursued and people are not being prosecuted and children were not helped because of an agenda. Whether that agenda is Islam, Catholicism, media popularity, or political position I frankly don't give a flying **** - children should be protected and people actively stopping them from being protected for some warped PC ideal cause should be challenged.
No-one should be hidden from facing the consequences of their actions and the denial and the 'it's not helpful' remarks are the not helpful things. Or did you think the BBC shouldn't have had any self-examination of their past and current actions because that too wouldn't 'be helpful'. I find it distasteful that people have suffered because we are not allowed to challenge certain groups because they are protected. So I guess we are very very different in our opinions here.
If you look at the WHO data it is clear child abuse is more prevalent in some cultures and we know from crime statistics and data in this country it is more prevalent in some cultures and institutions and amongst certain individuals - the common component being those people who exercise power over children and who have the ability to prevent sanction against their actions.
You've taken a general comment and made it specific so I think we're talking at cross-purposes. You may be entirely without bias in how you approach the subject but that's not a universal trait so that is why I noted that it is sometimes an issue with people using incidents to tar whole groups with the same brush.
I've not said or suggested that there shouldn't be investigations and appropriate punishments handed out or that any group should be exempt from inspection and being held to account for their crimes. If you've picked that up from my posts then something has got lost in there and I can't have expressed myself well.