Easy Meat, Inside Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal

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Easy Meat, Inside Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal is a book by Peter McLoughlin.

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Whilst police forces in the North-West of England are considered the most expert in dealing with this type of criminal activity, the problem is now nationwide. The grooming problem appears to have started with Muslim gangs grooming Sikh girls in Birmingham in the 1980s, but by the the start of the 21st century it appears to have extended to include all the major towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire. And given recent convictions in Oxford, Barking, Ipswich and the north-east of England, it looks like the gangs are working in most of the country.

From the earliest evidence in the 1980s, it seemed that Muslim gangs were targeting Sikh girls in the Midlands. The Muslim gangs could have singled out Sikh girls due to the long-standing resistance of Sikhism to Islamic domination. Or it could have been more contingent: that Sikh girls were nearby and it would be easier for the Pakistani Muslims to minimise suspicion by pretending they were Sikhs, luring Sikh girls more easily than white girls with this deception. Whatever the root cause, the available historical evidence currently points to Sikh girls being the first victims of the Muslim grooming gangs in Britain.

According to a Muslim youth worker in the programme, it all started when the Sikh gang “handed leaflets out saying that Muslim youths are coming round our schools... they are abducting our girls... and they are raping them an putting them into prostitution.” 6 The description in this written warning to the Sikh community (and maybe Muslim community) about the behaviour of the Muslim grooming gangs is entirely consistent with the phenomenon as it extended its reach across the whole country over the next 25 years.

In that story, the Labour MP for Keighley, Ann Cryer is quoted as saying “I believe there is a very strong cultural reason, it’s nothing to do with the religion lets [sic] make it quite clear, its [sic] to do with the Asian culture, which wants these young men to marry these very young girls from their village...” Cryer said that it is because they do not want arranged marriages with “very young girls from their village” in Pakistan that Muslim men “look for very young girls through this organised sex ring that we are seeing in Keighley.” She does not explain what part of “Asian culture” would lead the parents to want their sons to marry “very young girls” from Pakistan, nor why this should lead to “organised” rings of men who seek to exploit “very young”, non-Muslim girls near Bradford, and get them addicted to drugs and alcohol and then turn them into prostitutes. Ann Cryer left it up to the population of Britain to assume that Hindu and Sikh and Buddhist men were also doing this, as these activities were supposedly part of “Asian culture”, rather than men from one specific religious group.

As we will see next, in Britain this grooming phenomenon appeared to start with Muslims grooming Asian (Sikh) victims in the West Midlands in the 1980s.

A Sikh media group says that Britain cannot defeat the Muslim grooming gangs “unless the politically correct lobby stop putting up a smokescreen to hide the fact that this issue is about the Muslim community.” Other Sikh organisations have claimed that Muslim men were going to great lengths in order to seduce and/or convert Sikh girls (the Muslim men would change their names to Sikh names, wear jewellery that indicated the wearer was a Sikh). Sikh websites have claimed that, as far back as 1992, Muslim men were given specific instructions from Islamic fundamentalist organisations, groups which seeks to re-establish the Caliphate. ... What can be objectively verified, is that these claims were to be found on Sikh websites as long ago as 2004 (and possibly much earlier). Thus, in 2004, at the height of the controversy concerning the Muslim grooming gangs in Bradford, there were good reasons for the media, the multiculturalists and the child-care professionals to have known about the claims being made by Sikhs.

Serious attention needs to be paid to the decades-long abuse of Sikh girls by Muslim gangs: they were being abused by Muslim gangs in the 1980s and are still being abused in 2013. Sikhs took many steps to try to warn society about this, from creating pressure groups to risking imprisonment. Other non-Muslim communities never responded in the same way; when white non-Muslims spoke of the overwhelmingly Muslim grooming gangs, they were accused of “racism”, and thus marginalised and ignored. Some of this must come down to greater solidarity within the Sikh community, and with them having their own organisations (such as the Sikh Awareness Society) dedicated to warning Sikh schoolgirls and their parents.

The convicted men were Muslim, the girl was Sikh, and some of the abuse had indeed taken place at the restaurant the Sikhs attacked. Furthermore, if the police did know about these crimes, it is clear that nothing was being done about this, before the Sikhs attacked the restaurant: the predatory Muslim men were only prosecuted once the Sikhs had drawn attention to these crimes by taking the law into their own hands. As one Sikh organisation stated about this case in Leicester in 2013: “it appears that racially motivated grooming of girls by groups of Pakistani Muslim men stems from 1990s onwards and is being underplayed by the Police, media and politicians fearing political correctness.” Another significant feature of this case is that the victim “told police that boys at college had paid her for sex before she met the men”, which suggests she may already have been the victim of Muslim grooming activities before she met these six men.

On 2 Sep 2013, BBC’s Inside Out programme focussed on the forgotten Sikh schoolgirl victims of the grooming gangs. Whilst the BBC should be commended for finally making this programme, they made no mention of the history of the predations of Muslim grooming gangs on Sikh girls between 1988 and recent years. Furthermore, considering that these grooming gangs have been in operation in Britain for so long, it is only since 2011 that there has been any admission by the media that the gangs truly existed. And it is only since the Home Affairs Select Committee reported in July 2013 that we can say that the government has acknowledged that the Muslim grooming gangs existed. Even then, we saw that some left-wing members of the committee attempted to get the committee to deny there was any association at all between Asians (i.e. Muslims) and these grooming offenders. Significantly, when the BBC news website reported on the programme, not once did the BBC website report mention that the claims made by the Sikhs in the programme were that the perpetrators are overwhelmingly Muslim. The BBC news report implies that it was Sikh men who were grooming Sikh girls! So, as one part of the BBC is giving coverage to Sikh activity to stop gangs of Muslims grooming Sikh schoolgirls, another arm of the BBC is trying to conceal what the programme was actually about.

The earliest manifestation of the Muslim grooming gangs, which we can establish with some objectivity, is in 1988. That year, in Wolverhampton, there were violent confrontations between Muslims and Sikhs. Sikhs formed into gangs to protect young Sikh girls from being groomed by gangs of Muslim men. The main Sikh gang was called Shere Punjab. Some of the gang members received criminal convictions because of their attacks on Muslim gangs.

According to a Muslim youth worker in the programme, it all started when the Sikh gang “handed leaflets out saying that Muslim youths are coming round our schools... they are abducting our girls... and they are raping them an putting them into prostitution.” The description in this written warning to the Sikh community (and maybe Muslim community) about the behaviour of the Muslim grooming gangs is entirely consistent with the phenomenon as it extended its reach across the whole country over the next 25 years.

The Sikh gang Shere Punjab said they gave the police the names and car registration details of those Muslims involved in grooming non-Muslim girls. Police claimed they would sort out the problem, if Shere Punjab “stepped out of the way.” Chief Superintendent David Love is interviewed in the programme and denies that they were ever given any of this information, and denies that they ever received any information about the girls being abducted. After 25 years, it may be impossible to establish the truth about these claims. However, the story from these Sikhs seems credible, since 20 years later police forces in other parts of the counter were also refusing to act on information supplied by the family of grooming victims, including photographic evidence and car registration numbers.

Following the violence cited in the BBC programme from 1988, there was a report in The Independent newspaper in June 1989: 13 Sikh men were on trial for vigilantism, (presumably a prosecution carried over from the previous year). Note how the headline of this 1989 report (quoted below) describes the Sikh girls being “used as sex slaves” by the Muslim gangs, and in the body of the story the Sikhs describe how the Muslim gangs use these Indian girls for “sex and prostitution.”

We can find no record that Muslim grooming gangs were ever the target of arrests and prosecutions at this time, and none of the expert reports describe any prosecutions before the early to mid-1990s. We can find no evidence that the authorities did anything to stop the Muslim grooming gangs, but came down heavily on the Sikhs when they tried to intervene in their absence. Three of the Sikh men in this case received criminal convictions for trying to stop the Muslim grooming gangs. One would expect the police to have prosecuted members of the Muslim gangs too (after all, 24 were arrested in the summer of 1988). However, there is no sign that the police, the media or the child-care professionals took any notice of the Sikhs’ allegations of “sex slavery”. There is every reason to believe that in these circumstances, the Muslim grooming gangs continued, and if anything were emboldened by the success of their operations. As we will discuss later, Sikhs in Wolverhampton using violence to stop a Muslim grooming gang in 1988 was repeated again in 2013, only this time in Leicester.

It was in 1998 that the Sikh Awareness Society was founded, which was started specifically to educate Sikh girls about how the grooming gangs work.

In 1998 the Sikh Awareness Society was set up to educate Sikhs (and the wider community) about the continuing activities of the Muslim grooming gangs. Clearly, the problem with the grooming gangs in the West Midlands had not gone away.

Here is what the SAS website said in 2007: The Sikh Awareness Society (SAS) was established in 1998 amongst growing concerns of the “grooming” of our youth. In Britain today Sikh youth are still actively targeted on the basis of their religion and history. This historically linked hate-crime causes much emotional distress to the families involved with the majority of these cases ending up in abuse... We initially started out in “problem areas” i.e. towns/cities where we knew of serious hate-crime in the past. We quickly came to realise it is a national problem and far more deep-rooted.

If the media had picked up on the work of SAS in the late 1990s, then the entire debate on the grooming gangs would never have blamed “Asians” in general. That the problem was fundamentally religious rather than racial would have been clear to all.

Sikhs were also involved when violence erupted at a school in Derby in 2001. This violence occurred because of the existence of a document where devout Muslim fundamentalists appeared to be encouraging young Muslims to seduce Sikh and Hindu girls into Islam. Thus, according to a report in The Telegraph at the time: A Muslim group calling itself Real Khilafa [sic] has been trying to whip up trouble by distributing a letter encouraging young Muslims to take out Sikh girls to get them drunk and convert them to Islam. The letter has incensed the considerable Sikh community...The letter claims that the Koran authorises Muslims to use violence or deceit in order to convert or subjugate “kafirs.”

In that story, the Labour MP for Keighley, Ann Cryer is quoted as saying “I believe there is a very strong cultural reason, it’s nothing to do with the religion lets [sic] make it quite clear, its [sic] to do with the Asian culture, which wants these young men to marry these very young girls from their village...” Cryer said that it is because they do not want arranged marriages with “very young girls from their village” in Pakistan that Muslim men “look for very young girls through this organised sex ring that we are seeing in Keighley.” She does not explain what part of “Asian culture” would lead the parents to want their sons to marry “very young girls” from Pakistan, nor why this should lead to “organised” rings of men who seek to exploit “very young”, non-Muslim girls near Bradford, and get them addicted to drugs and alcohol and then turn them into prostitutes. Ann Cryer left it up to the population of Britain to assume that Hindu and Sikh and Buddhist men were also doing this, as these activities were supposedly part of “Asian culture”, rather than men from one specific religious group. ...But the quotations of contemporaneous reports of what Cryer actually said in 2003 show that in claiming that it was to do with “Asian culture” rather than religion, she had led the public to believe the problems were nothing to do with Islam. Since Islam comes from Arabia rather than Asia, and since Asia has many religions and cultures other than those of Muslims, the public was led to believe that what was happening in Bradford involved criminal grooming gangs of many different religions. But Cryer was talking to Muslim leaders in order to get the grooming gangs to stop; there was apparently no need for her to talk to Hindu or Sikh leaders to get their youths to stop grooming young white girls. Thus, even at the time, Cryer should have been able to perceive the difference between Muslim culture and Asian culture.

But it was never picked up by the national media. This is notable, considering that in 1988 Sikhs had been involved in gang violence with Muslim grooming gangs in Wolverhampton, and ten years later when the Muslim gangs were still preying on Sikh girls with no attempt by the agencies of the state to stop them, Sikhs set up the Sikh Awareness Society in 1998. And as we have seen above, Sikhs were again embroiled in violence in Derby in 2001, following claims that Real Khilafah, had been instructing Muslims to groom non-Muslim girls. 59 In the light of these many incidents where Sikhs were warning about the grooming gangs, it is astonishing that in 2005 the national media should ignore claims that Islamic organisations in England were allegedly running campaigns to encourage such grooming activities. In addition to these many incidents between 1988 and 2001 where Sikhs had been agitating and campaigning against Muslim grooming gangs, this story in Luton broke just one year after the national controversy over the Edge of the City documentary.

By this time, more Sikh organisations were also making the incredible claim, that as far back as the early 1990s, other fundamentalist Islamic groups were advocating that Muslim men in Britain should deceive non-Muslims girls and seduce them into Islam. The Sikh websites claimed that these devout Islamic organisations were telling Muslim men to target vulnerable girls (plain or ugly girls, who would be unaccustomed to attention), deceiving them into thinking that the Muslim man was genuinely interested in a relationship and possibly even marriage. The claim was that devout Muslims were instructed to “be ambiguous about their own backgrounds by for example only describing themselves as Asian,” in order to have greater success with this deception. 61 Perhaps when Sikhs drew the attention of multiculturalists, feminists, or left-wing activists to this in 2004, these activists could dismiss the claims as being beyond belief: certainly such mendacity and cunning does not accord with what those brought up as Christians would expect from religious people. Nevertheless, by this point there had been multiple reports that fundamentalist Islamic organisations were encouraging behaviour similar to that of the grooming gangs. It would be dogmatic of anyone with this information to dismiss the idea that the activities of the grooming gangs were entirely compatible with Islamic doctrine.

This ambiguity - blurring the distinction between “Muslims” and “Asians” - has been continued by the police, media and social services themselves, right up until 2013.

And years later, the (supposed) fear of Muslims rioting was used as an excuse not to arrest and prosecute the actual gangs who were raping schoolgirls. Since police were so brazenly refusing to enforce the (possibly inadequate) laws to protect these schoolgirls, what other avenues were open to concerned organisations to stop the grooming activities? We have seen from the events in Bradford in 2003 and 2004, that the Muslim community would not do anything to stop the gangs. Thus, at this stage, the only option left would have been to educate the schoolgirls about how the grooming gangs work, so that the schoolgirls could possibly protect themselves from being victimised, when everyone else had failed them. It is no surprise that, over the many years that these grooming gangs were operating, Sikhs had often resorted to violence to stop the grooming gangs.

The fact that the British institutions are using the same euphemistic concept employed by the Dutch proves the child-care professionals and national agencies in Britain know that the problem is not unique to Britain, and these organisations know that in the Netherlands the perpetrators are not Pakistani Muslims but mainly Moroccan and Turkish Muslims. This shows the lie to all the reporting that this is “Asian gangs” and that the cause of it is “Asian culture.”

We disagree with this simplistic analysis. Ann Cryer was not entirely right: she blamed “Asian culture”, instead of Islam. Yet wherever a non-Muslim Asian has been convicted for grooming gang activities, such ethnicity has proven to be the exception not the norm. And furthermore, non-Muslim Asians have counted far more significantly among the victims of the grooming gangs than among the perpetrators. There is not one case where it was non-Muslim men grooming Muslim girls, and that despite the fact that 95% of the men in Britain are not Muslims. Recently the Muslim Women’s Network produced a report on the Asian children who were victims, and they had to admit that “Asian/Muslim female victims are most vulnerable to offenders from their own communities as the overwhelming majority of the offenders were from the same background as the victims.” There is no evidence at all that non-Muslim men are grooming Muslim children, but ample evidence that Muslim men are directing their grooming at non-Muslim schoolgirls.

Did they know about the existence of the Sikh Awareness Society, established in 1998? If experts had publicly discussed that evidence relating to Sikh victims, then it would have been impossible to use the accusation of racism to silence the few white people who were trying to draw attention to the grooming gangs: it would have been clear to everyone that the issue was not Asian men grooming white schoolgirls, but Muslim men grooming non-Muslim schoolgirls.

In their 2013 report, the Home Affairs Select Committee claims that “communities” failed to deal with it. This cannot be interpreted as anything other than code for the phrase “the Muslim community failed to deal with it.” As we have seen, in 1988 Sikhs risked prison sentences to deal with it when the police failed to constrain the Muslim grooming gangs. In 1998, Sikhs created the Sikh Awareness Society in another attempt to stop their girls from falling prey to these gangs.

If the media and the authorities had paid attention to the grooming of Sikh schoolgirls in the 1980s, 1990s and beyond, then the issue of Muslim grooming gangs could have been tackled without the issue of “race” ever being raised. Instead, the authorities shirked their responsibilities to protect the Sikh schoolgirls, leaving Sikh men (Shere Punjab, and latterly, the Sikh Awareness Society) to deal with the problem as best they could, given the lack of action and the denials by police and child-care professionals, and the silence of the media. To the extent that the BNP could exploit these Muslim grooming gangs, it was because of 15 years of systemic failures by the authorities and the media. As the Sikh Media Monitoring group said, efforts to tackle the problem needed to focus on the Muslim community: “it’s a small element who treat white and Sikh girls as sexual playthings, and we aren’t going to tackle it successfully unless the politically correct lobby stop putting up a smokescreen to hide the fact that this issue is about the Muslim community.” If the child-care professionals, the police and the media had been acting on the evidence (from 1988, 1989, 1996, 1998, 2001) that Sikh girls were being groomed, then the BNP could not have made this a case about “Asian gangs” preying on white children. But because of the indifference of the metropolitan elite to the cultural conflict between Muslims and Sikhs, the criminal behaviour of Muslim men preying on Sikh girls (and white girls) was ignored. Whilst propounding multiculturalism, the metropolitan elite refuse to learn anything about Islam; the elite give lip-service to “diversity” but refuse to countenance the idea that other cultures might have radically different values.

Sikh Media Monitoring are not the only group to have criticised the media and the authorities for misdirecting attention, and pretending these gangs were “Asian” rather than “Muslim.” In May 2012, a joint statement was released by the Network of Sikh Organisations UK, The Hindu Forum of Britain, and The Sikh Media Monitoring Group UK denouncing the use of the word “Asian” to describe these grooming gangs. 8 They said the word “Asian” was used in order to stop people from realising that the vast majority of the criminals were Muslims, and that the vast majority of the victims were non-Muslim girls. And as was the case with most of the white victims, the cases where the victims were Hindu or Sikh, the cases never reach the courts.

Even in 2013, when for a decade the evidence has been mounting that these groups are overwhelmingly Muslim in both Britain and the Netherlands, the parliamentary inquiry seems to be deliberately ignorant or profoundly racist.

It is as if the politicians think that only Asians can be Muslim, even when the media are talking up Mo Farah (a Muslim from East Africa) at every opportunity. There are black and Asian Muslims who are outstanding sportsmen. There are white and black and Asian Muslims who are terrorists. Are our elected politicians so stupid and so racist that they cannot see that Cat Stevens, Mohammed Ali, Malcolm X, were all Muslims who were not Asian? Moreover, not all Asians are Muslims. Or are the elite just playing word-games, thinking the public are so stupid they can be easily misled? 10 “Muslim” is not a racial category, but the esteemed Parliamentarians seem to find this concept exceedingly difficult to grasp. Showing that there are black members of grooming gangs tells us nothing about the religion of those black people. This generic use of the word “Asian” not only enabled Muslim criminal behaviour to be concealed amongst the law-abiding behaviour of Sikhs, Hindus and Buddhists, but meant that Sikh and Hindu men would end up being associated with the criminal behaviour of Muslim men, even when their own sisters and daughters were among the victims targeted by these Muslim gangs. Moreover, by commentators and pressure groups insisting that the issue involved “Asian” rather than “Muslim” gangs, it concealed what could turn out to be the specific motivation for this crime: Muslim culture and Islamic doctrine. And this is why Andrew Norfolk’s work was so pivotal: by analysing the (mostly Islamic) names of those convicted, he was able to demonstrate the association between being convicted of a grooming offence and being a Muslim man.

We have shown how there were numerous occasions in the twelve years preceding Edge of the City, when Sikhs were warning about Muslim grooming gangs preying on Sikh schoolgirls. Perhaps not surprisingly, the BNP showed no interest in those Sikh victims, but the media, sociologists and the advocates of multiculturalism had also ignored these stories. The extent to which the BNP could claim the long-standing problem of Muslim grooming gangs as positive publicity for their agenda was directly related to the preceding 10 to 20 years in which politicians, police, social services and the Muslim community refused to do anything about the grooming gangs.

Notice how there is no concern for Sikhs, Hindus, etc. who have been tarred for at least a decade with the association that the grooming gangs are “Asian.” There only seems to be concern for Muslims.

It would seem that journalists claim they avoided reporting on the grooming gangs because it had been turned into an issue about race, and the journalists did not want to do anything to assist then BNP. However, even if the BNP wanted the scandal to be about race, there was nothing stopping journalists from learning about the Sikh victims, and thus concluding that race was not the issue. No organisation seemed to spend any effort finding a way to deal with the grooming gang phenomenon, whilst not helping the BNP. So they left the gangs to prey on schoolgirls, and (with a couple of notable exceptions) they left the BNP alone to raise the subject of the grooming gangs.

If the separation of religious belief from nationality and skin colour had been articulated, and the Asian Sikh girls being groomed by Asian Muslim men had not been ignored, there would be no difficulty in understanding that the core issue here is religious belief and culture, not racial or national origin. Since the National Union of Journalists is a major sponsor of Unite Against Fascism, we cannot say if the apparent inability of journalists to distinguish between biology (“race”) and ideology (“Islam”) comes down to stupidity or the political allegiance of journalists. The journalists who showed courage and professionalism are few.

The country needs to know if the scale of the problem is as large as CROP’s estimates suggest. ... How much information did they have, and how credible was it? Why has the problem of the grooming of Sikh girls by these gangs been kept off the national agenda from 1988 to 2013? Did Islamic fundamentalist organisations encourage Muslim men to go out and deceive and groom non-Muslim women?

Another Pakistani forum has a post from 2000, which says: “It is permissible to have sex even with a prostitute (free of cost) once you take control of her by force and declare her a kafir.”

Tensions between Sikhs and Muslims in Derby, UK

RASHMEE Z AHMED, TIMES NEWS NETWORK

LONDON: With spiralling tensions between Sikhs and Muslims, Britain may be facing a threat more deadly than the anthrax-laced letters terrifying America, in the form of a single, poisonous, unsigned sheet of paper that has been doing the rounds of the northern English city of Derby for many weeks.

The letter, purporting to come only from a shadowy, unknown militant Islamist organisation, Real Khilafa, urges young Muslims to convert as many Sikh girls as possible to Islam.

Muslim leaders say the letter is a hoax and designed to whip up communal tension.

The British government is to investigate the origins of the letter, which local leaders warn might easily tip an already-tense city into open violence.

Earlier this week, police had to quiet what they described as "disturbances" between Derby’s Sikhs and Muslims, after a Sikh man was badly injured and taken to hospital. Some Sikhs now say they are boycotting Muslim shops in the city.

Transcription Real Khilafa Letter

A Message to Moslem Youth Real Khilafa - A Political Reality From Dr. K M Farukh. For Private Circulation


We are each and every weekend having stalls where we give out literature about Islam. We have these stalls in may [sic] areas especially in areas where there are a lot of kafirs (Sikh Hindu Jews AND OTHER NONBELIEVERS) We would like to extend our activities further. We are in many ways surprised that so many Moslems have come to buy our books and provide funds for relieving the distressed Moslems of the world especially in places such as Kossovo and Kashmir. The government and local authority is not interested in our cause as they would rather fund Gurdawaras and Gays and Homos. We have many interesting books about Islam showing why Islam is the only human way of life and other so called religions are animalistic. The teaching of the great Prophet Mohammed must be passed on until the whole world is Islam. The world will only thus be saved. We call upon our fellow youth to come and join us in our mission - universal and global Islam. The job is big but nothing is impossible.


If the Kafir non believer does not accept by gentle persuasion or reasoning then other methods which are allowed for in the holy Quran must be used such as - going to war with the kafir or converting them by manipulation. We need to send out our boys to bring the Sikh girls into the umma or community of Islam.


This task is getting easier by the day as the Sikh and hindu [?] girls are not taught (as is done in Islam) much about their religion at all. They have a westernized upbringing and the school college and university campus is the ideal place for our youth to carry out their duties easily in this way.


It is easy to take the Sikh girls out on a date as they generally like a good drink and from these gradually they can be brought into Islam. This is not a hard job at all as the Kafir women they like Moslems. Hardly surprising as we are attractive and intelligent compared with Kafirs. This is common sense and everybody knows. Otherwise why would Indian films have so many Moslem actors. There is not a single Hindu or Sikh actor in Pakistani films. We need more funds desperately to carry on our job and we need volunteers from amongst the youth specially. Come and join us this weekend and every weekend - we will be in an area near you.


We need your help at this crucial time when our moslem brothers and sisters are being killed in countries all over the world.


THE REAL KHILAFAH MOVEMENT - THE EYES THE EARS THE VOICE OF Islam WATCH THIS SPACE

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In the United Kingdom again, the phenomenon of Grooming Gangs have gone largely unreported in India, even though, India is one country that perhaps faces the lion’s share of Jihadi activity. Grooming Gangs are mostly made up of Muslim men in the UK, who prey on young girls and even women, identify their vulnerability and rape them repeatedly as a punishment for being non-Muslim. Several people in the UK have termed this ‘Rape Jihad’ even though the authorities in the UK refused to act decisively against these gangs for fear of allegations of being racist.

In his book, ‘Easy Meat’, Peter McLoughlin records that Sikh groups were aware of the phenomenon and were trying to warn everyone before anyone else. Even last year, when Labour MP Sarah Champion was fired from Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet for calling out the ethnicity of the rapists and alleging that there had been attempts to cover it up for far too long. Hindu and Sikh organizations had commended the MP and the states that Hindu and Sikh girls were raped and groomed by the gangs for decades. Thus, calling the groups and the rapists “Asian” is a gross affront towards Hindus and Sikhs who have also suffered as a consequence of the authorities’ hesitation towards tackling the crime.

According to a study by the Sikh Mediation and Rehabilitation Team charity, Pakistani men have been grooming Sikh girls in Britain for decades for sexual abuse and rape. The study also claims that the Police ‘recklessly ignored’ complaints about reasons of ‘political correctness’.The report was accessed by Daily Mail. It says, “The research has found verification demonstrating a history of predominantly Pakistani grooming gangs targeting young Sikh females for over 50 years.” It also asserts, “The over-representation of such perpetrators in selecting non-Muslim victims would appear to be indicative of a wider acceptability in certain sections of the community towards the targeting of young females from outside of the Pakistani community and/or Muslim faith.”

The report says that the failure of local authorities to recognize the menace has allowed such networks to flourish. It says, “Over the course of three decades, Sikh community leaders in the West Midlands repeatedly assert that when families or community representatives contacted the police regarding the abuse of children, their information was consistently met with disinterest and their claims met by inaction.” And “With the emergence of multiple similar cases across the UK, the perceived failure to act has now been attributed to the ‘political correctness’ that inhibited authorities and agencies from addressing the racial and cultural dimensions understood as causative factors behind the abuse.”

According to the report authorised by Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham to investigate the historic failings of police and social workers, a paedophile network of about 100 suspected assaulters is accused of exploiting 57 young girls in south Manchester in the 2000s. The report states that the gang primarily consisted of Asian men, who hooked their victims on drugs, primed, and sexually abused them. One girl, aged 15, died after being injected with heroin by a 50-year-old man. The report, which was published after a two-year enquiry, stated that vulnerable girls in care were groomed and abused in “plain sight”.

The report was a scathing indictment of the Greater Manchester Police (GMP) which is believed to have been biased in tackling grooming gangs comprised of predominantly Asian Muslim men. Stating that “fears over race relations” ran high, it stated that the GMP and city council shelved an investigation because officers were wary of “many sensitive community issues” around enforcing the law in south Manchester in 2002 and 2003.

The Detective Superintendent, while submitting his findings to the report panel, claimed that though his investigative decisions were not influenced by the concerns about inciting community tensions, the senior officers in the gold command group were of the opinion that the impact had to be “clearly considered”

What happened in the UK with respect to Grooming Gangs was rather evident, to all but those who wish to water down crimes committed by members of the Muslim community – Muslim men were preying on non-Muslim girls and women in wage a sort of ‘Jihad’ that many have termed ‘rape jihad’.

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