It sounds too horrible to be true: Predominantly Muslim gangs reportedly kidnapped, raped, and trafficked 250,000 young white girls in Britain over a period of decades, and authorities repeatedly looked the other way due to “political correctness,” the woke ideology preaching that men from certain foreign countries could only ever be considered victims, not perpetrators. A horrifying new report provides further evidence clarifying the phenomenon, however, and it reveals the astonishing extent to which woke ideology can blind people, even to direct threats against Britain’s vulnerable young girls. The Rape Gang Inquiry published a report Tuesday finding that these “coordinated operations” extended “to all corners of the country,” in 149 local authority districts, about 40% of all such districts. Member of Parliament Rupert Lowe, leader of the Restore Britain party, led the initiative, and his report heavily criticizes both the leftist Labour Party and the establishment Conservative Party. The report accuses Labour leaders of having “framed legitimate concerns as ‘far-right’ agitation,” and claims the government “failed to impose mandatory ethnicity recording or launch a full statutory inquiry despite clear evidence.” Why ignore or suppress the investigations? Because they’re politically inconvenient. “Political correctness, fear of accusations of racism, and fear of losing electoral support from certain demographics have taken precedence over the protection of British children,” the report states. Naturally, Rupert Lowe has an axe to grind, and the British government is running a separate investigation into the issue, but there’s good reason to take Lowe’s report seriously. The rape gang issue is politically explosive—and extremely problematic for the woke leftist worldview. The Rape Gangs The report lays out the general process: predominantly young Muslim men would entice girls as young as 11, giving them attention, drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes. After a few months, taxis would pick the girls up and take them “to houses, flats, restaurants, and hotels where they were raped repeatedly by groups of men, tortured, filmed for blackmail, and told they were ‘white trash’ or ‘kuffar’ who merited punishment.” “Survivors described daily rapes, ‘red rooms’ of extreme torture, trafficking between cities, and institutional disbelief that compounded their suffering,” the report adds. The report notes that there is no exact figure for the victims, but estimates 250,000 victims over a period of decades. A British newspaper put the reported figure for one year at 18,700. The Rape Gang Inquiry ReportDownload A Politically Incorrect Story The report says most of the men in the rape gang networks came from Pakistani Muslim backgrounds, though Somalis, Iranians, Syrians, and Turks also took part as well. The report connects the threat with increased immigration levels, particularly after “the start of orchestrated mass immigration” under Tony Blair. As if that weren’t politically incorrect enough, the report cites aspects of Pakistani Muslim culture that treat “non-Muslim girls, especially white working class girls, as property available for sexual use.” It cites certain theological aspects of Islam that allow forced marriage and sexual slavery for non-Muslim captives. The U.S. State Department designates Pakistan as a country of particular concern on religious freedom, noting that police have killed members of religious minorities or failed to protect them from violent mobs. International Christian Concern reports that every year, Muslim men abduct approximately 1,000 Christian, Hindu, and Sikh women and girls, marry them, and force them to convert to Islam. According to the Left’s ideology, countries like Pakistan are poor because the evil white colonizers oppressed them, and Britain needs to make things right. The truth is far more complicated. Many immigrants from places like Pakistan do assimilate to Western culture and contribute to Western society. Enabling this assimilation on an individual level, however, is a unique strength of Western countries and cannot be taken for granted. Many non-Western cultures lack our respect for individualism and religious freedom, and we have to remain vigilant for potential threats. That’s not to say every Muslim, every Pakistani, or every Pakistani Muslim should be unwelcome—it is to say that we need to vet immigrants to protect the vulnerable. A Preventable Tragedy If Lowe’s report is correct, British authorities could have prevented this tragedy. Rather than take into consideration that certain Pakistani Muslims might bring problematic parts of their culture with them, authorities reportedly ignored the threat. “Authorities at every level—including the police, social services, health services, schools, licensing bodies, and politicians—knew the patterns, possessed the intelligence, and still failed to protect the country’s children,” Lowe’s report states. “The perpetrators operated with impunity because the state enabled them.” Lowe’s report presents a list of recommendations, including improved data recording ethnic and religious patterns among offenders, stronger sentencing, and a comprehensive deportation effort. It also recommends greater family involvement and closing gaps in British law that failed to protect victims. The West needs more than just tinkering around the edges if we are going to address civilizational threats like this. We need to believe in ourselves again—in the goodness of our heritage and the necessity of preserving it from malign forces. The only practical solution to mass immigration that enables violent crimes in a Western country is the systematic deportation of perpetrators. These rape gangs showed no mercy to their victims, and the law should treat them as the serious threats they are. We cannot stand for any ideology that would let such a thing happen.