Sikh Awareness Society

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Over the last 7 years Sikh Awareness Society (SAS) has travelled up and down the breadth of the UK, delivering seminars, workshops, working with young people and families. Assisting the community that are in need by reason of addiction to alcohol, drugs, abuse, exploitation.

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. .... 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. Source: Easy Meat, Inside Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal

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