Race shouldn't matter. Yet it somehow does.
This should not be so. We are all humans. Some of us are paragons, helping our fellow men and spreading a bit of good into the world. Most of us are ambivalent, not going out of our way to be actively good or actively evil, merely falling on either side of the 'nice/bastard' scale.
Some of us, however, are monsters, preying on the helpless, the victims, the abused. Why? Because, again, we are humans; we have our flaws, our imperfections, and our animalistic past still resonates extremely strongly, despite the vestiges of intelligence we impose upon it.
These distinctions do not focus on the colour of someone's skin or the GHod they purport to follow. They merely focus on how strong we are, as people, to control those dark impulses that occasionally rise, unwanted, from the depths of our inscrutable psyche.
Most of us are able to. Some of us aren't. And those people fully deserve the retribution the rest of civilized society imposes upon them.
But who those people are has very little to do with whether they're pakistani, muslim, white or catholic.
These men are South Asians. As, apparently, are the majority of 'street' groomers in the north.
But the priests who abused choirboys were white. As are the majority of offenders arrested for pedophilia-related offenses.
Does that say something about either race?
Enough about that, then. These men are evil, much more so than the drunken rapist or the emotional assaulter. Why? because they preyed on those who couldn't fight back, who couldn't think for themselves, who felt abandoned by the society they were born into. And they did it with forethought, and calculated malice.
For this, they deserve the worst British society gives them. Not for what they look like or for what GHod they worship.