ROB BATES
It has been less than a week since Afghan national Ahmad Mulakhil admitted raping a 12 year-old girl in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. The crime was first propelled into the news cycle over the summer amidst allegations that officials in the police and local council were deliberately concealing the nationality of the alleged offenders (his co-defendant, Mohammad Kabir, also an Afghan national, has pleaded not guilty to attempting to take a child, aiding and abetting rape of a child under 13 and intentional strangulation of the girl). The grim case is a high-profile example of the link between migration and sex crimes – and the way many of our institutions try to downplay this obvious reality.
After last week’s conviction, many locals of the tranquil market town may conclude that this appalling sex crime shows the risk Afghan migrants pose to public safety, especially that of women and girls. This is a problem our research at the Centre for Migration Control (CMC) has been drawing attention to. Yet today I can reveal that the news site Reuters is set to publish an article suggesting such a conclusion is unfounded. It seems the site is hoping to ‘fact-check’ a viral social media post which includes a chart based on CMC data showing that Afghans have the highest rate of sexual assault convictions by nationality in the UK at 59.23 per 10,000.
But this statistic is correct, and we have the official Government data to prove it. In March the CMC obtained via a freedom of information request a set of never-before-seen conviction figures from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). It showed, unequivocally, that Afghan males are far more likely to be guilty of sex crimes than Brits. We found that between 2021-2023, Afghans were convicted of 77 sex crimes in England and Wales. This is out of just 13,000 Afghan nationals resident in England and Wales, according to the latest ONS Annual Population Survey in 2021. Dividing 77 by 13,000 gives the astonishingly high rate of 59.23 convictions per 10,000 of population. Many broadsheets, tabloids and broadcasters ran with our research. For the first time, we had official information that showed the huge societal costs associated with mass migration and the high rates of sex offending of Afghan migrants in particular.
It isn’t just these data which show a clear pattern. Figures gleaned from police forces and published by the CMC in January showed that in 2024 foreign nationals were arrested for sexual offences at a rate over three times higher than the national average. In June, a further tranche of MoJ data showed a quarter of sexual assault and rape convictions last year were of foreign nationals, despite them only accounting for 11% of the population.
Reuters‘s self-styled “fact-checker” Chris Harris, however, apparently believes that he knows better than the official statistics. Despite the immense anguish currently being felt in Nuneaton, he has decided it is appropriate – this week of all weeks – to publish a piece that will suggest our research on Afghan sex crimes is misleading or even ‘misinformation’.
The CMC was approached for comment late last night with an imminent deadline for the forthcoming hit piece. Supposedly, the way the CMC has presented its data – data taken directly from the Ministry of Justice – is “false and misleading”. Meanwhile, accredited official nationality statistics from the ONS Annual Population Survey are somehow not sufficiently “reliable”.
This is laughable enough, but the suggestion from this partisan ideologue that his aim is to “help curb the spread of misinformation” really beggars belief. The reality is that it’s anyone suggesting Afghans aren’t overrepresented in sex crimes who’s spreading misinformation.
The case he has put forward against our findings is a fascinating mix of garbled statistical illiteracy and a heavy dose of ideological bias. Rather than heed the words of former department heads at the ONS, IPSO and the Metropolitan Police, who have all corroborated the research methods of the CMC, Harris has concocted his own methodology to produce the result he wants.
It is yet further evidence of a concerted campaign by swathes of the legacy media to deny the British people the truth – to conceal from them what mass migration really means, and what it is doing to our country.
We can see with our own eyes the steady drumbeat of these crimes, committed in every corner of the country and causing long-lasting scars.
In late October, the country heard that another Afghan, Rapualla Ahmadze, had been found guilty in Edinburgh High Court of raping a vulnerable teenager. The monster approached his victim in the early hours of the morning as she sat on a park bench, dragged her into the bushes and threw her on the ground. Savagery enacted on youthful innocence by a man who should not even have been in the country.
Just a day before, the Afghan illegal migrant Shafiullah Rasooli was found guilty in Canterbury Crown Court of sexually assaulting two women in their own homes as he worked as a delivery driver. His defence relied on the cultural practices of his country of origin, alleging that it is a common cultural practice in Afghanistan to grab females by the waist.
And then in June, yet another Afghan, Sadeq Nikzad, was convicted of dragging a young schoolgirl behind a pub in Falkirk town centre and raping her. No remorse was shown during sentencing as he repeatedly screamed “liar” at the judge. Nikzad sought to justify his depravity as a simple case of cultural differences exacerbated by language barriers.
This recurrent reference to ‘cultural differences’ (many would say inferiority) is the heart of the problem, and the very reason why a completely separate study by the Daily Mail – based on FOI requests to all police forces – found Afghans are arrested for sex crimes at a rate that is 20 times higher than Brits.
It is because the norms and socialisation processes of these men are fundamentally different, and immeasurably worse, than those here. Men raised in a nation where women are seen as less than cattle are, of course, more likely as a cohort to demonstrate attitudes and behaviours that these islands didn’t have in the Middle Ages.
It is important to note that Reuters, whose wire service provides news bulletins to the BBC among others, has not reported on a single one of these appalling crimes. Not one. Stories that have horrified the nation were, it seems, were simply not of interest to Reuters.
The country feels at breaking point. The open borders experiment has failed and there is no doubt that radical change is coming. Legacy media like Reuters, trying to fact-check away reality, are the last stand of a dying political paradigm. Their relevance is waning and, bereft of any ideological underpinning aside from vapid internationalism and multiculturalism, these organisations will eventually be swept away. The national conversation has no use for them.
Until that point, though, their grotesque moralising will get ever more desperate. Attempts to circumnavigate the deluge of data showing the chaos caused by mass migration will prove increasingly statistically illiterate, while their attitude towards the silent majority will seem ever more contemptuous. Calling out the scourge of Afghan sex crimes is “misinformation”? Try telling that to the people of Nuneaton.
Rob Bates is Research Director at the Centre for Migration Control. Watch his latest appearance on the Sceptic here.
This article (Reuters Tries to ‘Fact-Check’ Away the Appalling Scourge of Afghan Sex Attacks) was created and published by The Daily Sceptic and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the author Rob Bates
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