When minorities attack other minorities

Jon passed along a link to a Melanie Phillips article:

What happened was that a rumour spread by pirate radio stations went round the Afro-Caribbean community in the run-down Lozells road area of the city that a 14 year-old black girl had been gang-raped by between three and 25 Pakistani men. Reports of what happened next are confusing and inadequate, but in the disturbances that followed a black Christian was set upon by up to 11 armed youths and stabbed to death as he walked home from the cinema, a mixed-race man was shot dead and an Asian taxi-driver was attacked.

By any standards such occurrences are deeply disturbing. If this had been white on black violence, there would have been a media feeding frenzy and the newspapers would have been full of reconstructions, analysis and instant opinions and recriminations. Instead, there has been near silence. The reason is obvious. The cult of multiculturalism holds that all minorities are victims of the majority, and therefore minorities must always be blameless. When two minorities start beating each other up, therefore, politically correct Britain is paralysed. By definition, it cannot divide up the actors in the drama into good guys and bad guys. There can be no minority bad guys. It dare not investigate what actually happened, who started it and who was to blame because no minority can ever be blamed without incurring the dreaded labels of 'racism' and 'prejudice'.

This is indeed one of the weakest points of the whole mandated multicultural experience: the majority culture is always assumed to be the aggressor, the oppressor, and the guilty party. When that assumption is not supportable, there's an intellectual void: it can't have been members of a minority at fault . . . even if the only individuals involved were all officially "minorities". Usually, the police would get the blame in this sort of situation, but even the most creative mind would have difficulty making that charge stick.