UK: Muslim groups upset over Suella Braverman’s assertion that British Pakistani males formed grooming gangs to rape youngsters

Numerous Muslim organisations from all through the UK wrote to Rishi Sunak to express their deep concern on what they known as dwelling secretary Suella Braverman’s “ill-considered and divisive statement”.

The dwelling secretary has come beneath hearth from Muslim organisations all through the UK. “What’s clear is that we’ve seen a practise whereby vulnerable white English girls, sometimes in care, sometimes in difficult situations are being pursued and raped, drugged, and harmed by gangs of British Pakistani men who’ve worked child abuse rings or networks, it’s now down to the authorities to track these perpetrators down without fear or favour relentlessly and bring them to justice,” said Suella Braverman.

Braverman moreover mentioned that these crimes weren’t tackled in Labour-run areas for concern of being branded as racist.

One of the letters was signed by Dr Shahid Latif, chair of the British Pakistani Psychiatrists Association, who said that he wished the assertion to be withdrawn immediately. “There is simply no other option, and the prime minister ought to publicly distance himself from these remarks. He must understand that they only serve to polarise society further.” He further said, “In this country, Muslims are only recently no longer being associated with terrorism. As a result of such statements, when people think of child sexual exploitation, they immediately associate it with British Pakistanis, which is actually going back to the beginning and starting all over again.”

Muslim organisations in England, Wales, and Scotland described it as “an act of collective punishment for the reprehensible acts of a few,” whereas the Muslim Women’s Network, said Ms Braverman’s “approach…of demonising an entire community and lending credibility to far-right narratives undermines the need to ensure that all victims of child sexual abuse are protected and all perpetrators are brought to justice.”

On April 3, the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak launched a model new Grooming Gangs Taskforce to assist police forces in investigating the extreme draw back of Muslim grooming gangs throughout the nation. As per the official assertion from his office, the obligation drive can have specialist officers to assist throughout the investigation to ensure the criminals behind grooming gangs will most likely be dropped at justice.

I’ll do irrespective of it takes to root out grooming gangs as quickly as and for all.

Here’s how 👇 pic.twitter.com/ZOLoMxippH

— Rishi Sunak (@RishiSunak) April 3, 2023
The draw back of Muslim grooming gangs throughout the UK

In present years, there have been quite a lot of research of weak youthful women, significantly minors, being exploited by organised grooming gangs all through the nation. In October last 12 months, it was reported that Omar, Khalid, Jameel and 21 others have been charged with raping a minor girl for 4 years in Bradford. These grooming gangs typically embody Pakistani Muslim males, the rationale why the mainstream media and even the authorities try and protect them hushed up. An neutral inquiry into the matter revealed as a consequence of political unease, these circumstances have been ignored by the authorities.

Besides the child intercourse abuse, the case moreover pertains to Grooming Jihad, a world topic that has develop into considerably stark throughout the UK, the place Islamists prey on youthful ladies and ladies, exploit their vulnerability and use rape as an instrument to inflict punishment.

In 2020, the police charged 32 males for over 150 sexual offences in opposition to eight underage teenage women in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

The crimes have been devoted between 1999 and 2012 in opposition to the victims, who’ve been aged between 13-16 years throughout the Kirklees, Bradford and Wakefield areas. Reportedly, quite a lot of such victims have been subjected to heinous crimes even after they turned adults.

Nearly 19,000 youngsters have been sexually abused in England in 2018-2019

According to the official figures, it is estimated that just about 19,000 minors in England have been sexually groomed in England throughout the last 12 months, reported Dailymail. The native authorities in England acknowledged spherical 18,700 suspected victims in 2018-19, up from 3,300 5 years up to now. The latest figures confirmed a sharp enhance throughout the number of teenager grooming victims over the last 5 years.

The highest costs of child grooming victims in Britain have been reported in areas along with Birmingham, Lancashire and Bradford. One of primarily essentially the most horrific circumstances was of Charlene Downes who disappeared from Lancashire. She was feared to be groomed by Muslim gangs and murdered. Her physique was allegedly minced into objects and served as kebabs to prospects at a takeaway restaurant throughout the house.