by Rakib Ehsan, spiked
We can’t keep feigning surprise when illegal migrants from misogynistic cultures sexually abuse women and girls.
Seven Afghan men – five of whom entered the UK on a small boat – have been charged with 40 offences after an investigation into a grooming gang in Norwich. Of the remaining two, one came to the UK concealed on a lorry and another arrived through ‘a port’, according to the BBC. All arrived illegally, none speaks English and all are classified as ‘refugees’. The charges relate to two girls, aged in their early to mid-teens at the time of the alleged offences, which police say occurred between August 2023 and May 2025.
The UK’s illegal-migration crisis is now very much a public-safety emergency. Norwich is a place with a rich history and is traditionally one of the better English cities to live in. The latest charges show that there are few places in England now insulated from the sexual criminality which has become an undeniable feature of mass illegal immigration.
The news from Norwich might leave us shocked, but not surprised. Few will also be surprised by the perpetrators’ background. While it is important to guard against sweeping generalisations of entire nationalities, and worth recognising that Afghanistan is a diverse country, attitudes to women there are uniformly terrible. According to the Georgetown Institute’s Women, Peace and Security index, Afghanistan is the worst nation on Earth for women’s wellbeing.