'Here’s a brochure on consent': The West’s absurd response to migrant sexual violence

From Ceuta to Britain, women and girls are paying the price for unchecked illegal immigration and failed integration, while governments offer pamphlets instead of tougher borders, proper vetting, deportations and real protection from sexual predators.

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Article by Rebel News staff

Tonight, on The Ezra Levant Show: migrant sexual violence in Ceuta, the UK government’s asylum-seeker brochure, and the failure to protect women and girls.

Will the UK Home Office’s shiny new brochure, filled with reminders about consent and gender equality, convince newly arrived migrants to stop committing rape? That question exposes the absurdity at the heart of the West’s current border and integration policy.

In Ceuta, a small Spanish enclave on the North African coast, the numbers are staggering and horrifying. Tens of thousands of migrants, mostly from Morocco, with others from across Africa, entered the territory in late July. Most were returned, but thousands remained. In the weeks that followed, authorities and police reported 15 sexual assaults, including alleged rapes, among the remaining population. The victims were not only women and girls. Boys were victims too.

This is not speculation. The situation became serious enough for Spanish authorities to intervene. But instead of simply removing offenders or holding those responsible to account, the response has included plans to transfer hundreds of migrant women and girls to mainland Spain.

Think about what that means. Authorities have determined that these migrant girls are at such serious risk that they need to be moved to safety, while the men they are supposedly being protected from are allowed to remain. And what about the Spanish women and girls still living in Ceuta? There is no evacuation for them, no comparable special protection, just the hope that they will not become the next victims.

The situation has become so dire that residents in Ceuta’s El Príncipe and Sidi Embarek neighbourhoods have taken matters into their own hands. Locals have organised patrols, established guarded camps and opened their homes to hundreds of migrant women and girls. Community efforts have reportedly sheltered more than 750 people.

Community leaders say these measures have prevented further assaults and stopped the situation from becoming even worse. Then there is the attitude expressed by some of the migrants themselves.

In interviews and social media clips, some remarks have been deeply disturbing. One migrant, when asked about the consequences of rape, reportedly focused on the risk of contracting an STD rather than the trauma inflicted on the victim. Another openly spoke about his interest in “British girls”.

If these statements accurately reflect the attitudes of those making them, this is not simply a matter of explaining Western law or handing someone a pamphlet about consent. The question is whether governments are confronting the behaviours and attitudes that put women and children at risk.

In London, an elderly man was reportedly raped outside a church by an Eritrean asylum seeker who had been granted leave to remain. In communities across the UK, there have also been reports of schoolgirls changing their routines and avoiding public spaces because of fears about harassment and sexual violence.

The UK’s Rape Gang Inquiry has highlighted serious failures in the way authorities responded to the organised sexual exploitation of vulnerable girls, including the failure of institutions to properly investigate and protect victims.

And what is the government’s answer?

A glossy Home Office booklet.

It explains that men and women are equal, that consent matters, and that breaking the law can affect an asylum claim. It reads like a primary-school lesson, not a serious strategy for dealing with sexual predators. Patrick Christys captured the absurdity perfectly: “Quick! Someone give this Somali man a Home Office brochure! That’ll sort him out.”

People who come to Western countries are expected to obey the law and respect the rights of others. That should not be controversial. But if governments are unwilling to properly screen people entering the country, prosecute serious offenders, remove those who have no right to remain, or protect vulnerable women and children, then a pamphlet about consent is hardly going to solve the problem.

The UK’s long-running grooming-gang scandal exposed a pattern in which vulnerable girls were abused while institutions failed to act. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse and subsequent investigations have documented serious institutional failures, including cases in which authorities did not adequately respond to warning signs.

For years, too many officials and institutions seemed more concerned about avoiding controversy than protecting vulnerable girls. Real protection requires more than slogans. It requires governments to acknowledge failures, investigate offenders, prosecute those responsible and, where the law permits, remove people who have no right to remain.

Women and children should not be expected to change their lives because governments are too frightened or too ideologically committed to confront the consequences of their own policies. Until governments are willing to put the safety of women and children ahead of political convenience, the people paying the price will continue to be the most vulnerable.


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  • Paul Scofield
    commented 2026-08-20 22:41:26 -0400
    The UK brochure to convince illegal foreign invaders to stop committing rape is, laughable, as Mr. Abrahams remarked. How about offering the miscreants who can’t keep their Abduls in their pants a diet high in minerals, preferably brass and lead? Maybe a hotdog as an appetizer, too!
  • Matt Abrahams
    commented 2026-08-20 21:07:30 -0400 Flag
    “Will a new UK government brochure convince migrants to stop committing rape?”
    I laughed so hard when I heard that I damn near fell off my chair!
  • Jane Vandervliet
    commented 2026-08-20 21:07:03 -0400 Flag
    I am Islamophobic as in I am a woman and I am afraid of the evil political ideology that is Islam. Islam is primarily about Muslim men controlling women and children for their sexual pleasure. People need to know that Sharia Law, Islam’s Law, even permits the rape of babies.
  • Bruce Atchison
    commented 2026-08-20 20:47:07 -0400
    White liberals just don’t get it. People tend toward evil. Islamists show how barbaric their culture is by the crimes they do. And since the Quran says men can take non Muslim girls as rape slaves, that’s what they do. It’s time we keep calling this out. We might not be able to in the years to come.