Hindu and Sikh organizations in the UK have hailed Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s “brave and principled” stand on addressing the serious issue of “dominance” by British-Pakistani men in grooming gangs operating in the country.
The United Faiths group also urged the government to acknowledge the motivation behind such gangs, which they said specifically targeted non-Muslim (Sikh, Hindu and white Christian) girls. The group released a statement responding to the issue of “religiously and racially motivated” sex grooming gangs and said it was in support of Braverman’s comments.
Last week, the Home Secretary said the perpetrators of such crimes were a “group of men, almost all British Pakistanis”. He also called on officials to turn a blind eye to incidents of abuse “for fear of being called political correctness, for fear of being called a racist, for fear of being called a bigot”.
In its statement, the faith group said it “unequivocally supports the Home Secretary’s brave and principled stand in addressing this serious issue”. “As UK faith representatives, we support the ongoing efforts of Home Secretary Suella Braverman who, in the face of some considerable hostility, has boldly spoken out about the over-representation of British Pakistani men in sex grooming gangs operating around the UK Have talked,” read the statement addressed to Braverman.
The statement explained its stance by saying that there was sufficient evidence from several independent investigations into the cases – Rotherham, Telford and Rochdale – that supported the Conservative Party MP’s position on the “sensitive and difficult” matter.
“We as faith communities want the government to acknowledge one of the motivations behind these gangs. We believe the evidence points to an inconvenient truth. Namely: non-Muslim girls (this includes Sikh, Hindu and white Christian girls) have been systematically targeted in the UK because of a form of religiously and racially motivated hatred. We believe that when the perpetrators are brought to justice these victims The ‘other’ should be treated as an aggravating factor for the purposes of enhancement of punishment.
The group asked the government to help the Pakistani Muslim community deal with this “stain” on an otherwise majority law-abiding community. It said a survivor in the Rotherham case had confirmed she had been targeted for being a “white slag” and a “non-Muslim”.
The statement also said that Gerald Clifton, the judge who sentenced the men in the Rochdale case in 2012, had made a similar observation. He had said that Muslim men targeted their victims because they were not part of the perpetrators’ “community or religion”.
“The British Sikh and Hindu communities have been complaining about Pakistani grooming gangs since the 1980s, prior to high-profile cases such as those in Rotherham, Telford and Rochdale, but the complaints have fallen on deaf ears. A television report on BBC1’s Inside Out program in 2013 was the first high-profile media cover of the targeting of Sikh girls, as was coverage in the Times following the sentencing of the men in Leicester. In recent years, Hindu and Sikh community groups have attempted to highlight the targeting of girls within their communities,” the group claimed in a proposed television report. BBC The issue was pulled in 2018 due to “fear of offending the Muslim community”.
The group further stated that the inaction of the government and police has resulted in the “unfortunate result of a hate-filled narrative driven by far-right groups”. It also said that police failures to protect girls from grooming gangs contributed to rising communal tensions, which “negatively affected social cohesion”.
“While it is good that the ethnicity of offenders is now being recorded, we believe that there is a need to further explore the racial and religious-based motivations behind a significant proportion of convicted offenders in places such as Telford, Rotherham, Rochdale and There needs to be open discussion. Victims deserve justice and deserve to be heard. The first step is to be able to freely and fearlessly discuss the various motivations behind this pattern of criminality. Don’t be censored for fear of being labeled ‘Islamophobic’.
The supporting statement was signed by Lord Singh of Wimbledon, who is the director of the Network of Sikh Organisations; Mohan Singh Khalsa of the Sikh Awareness Society; Dal Singh Dhesi of the Sikh Youth Movement; Anil Bhanot, who is the Hindu Council UK’s Director of Interfaith Relations; Satish K Sharma, who is the director of Global Hindu Federation among others.
However, Braverman’s comments were rejected by the British Pakistani community and rejected by Pakistan as being “discriminatory and xenophobic”. Braverman pointed that out in an interview last week, where she was talking about the government’s plans to tackle child sexual abuse sky News British-Pakistani men hold “cultural values contrary to British values”.
,[British-Pakistani men] views women in a demeaning, illegitimate manner, and pursues an out-of-date and frankly heinous approach to the way we treat them,” Braverman said even after he was informed that a 2020 The Home Office report concluded that most child sex abuse gangs are made up of white males under the age of 30. According to the report, there is not enough evidence to suggest that members of grooming gangs are more likely to be Asian or black. Were.
However, Braverman pointed to reports of the Rotherham child sex abuse scandal, in which five British-Pakistani men were convicted of grooming, raping and abusing young girls.
A day after Braverman’s comments, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced plans to set up a new task force to crack down on gangs. It will have specialist officers to assist police forces in live child sexual abuse and grooming investigations to crack down on those grooming children for sexual exploitation, according to a report in the news agency. PTI,
The report states that the UK is home to the largest Pakistani community of around 1.5 million; Most of them are second generation citizens born and raised in the UK.
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British Hindu, Sikh Groups Hail Home Secretary Braverman’s Stand Against ‘Pakistani Grooming Gangs’
Hindu and Sikh organizations in the UK have hailed Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s “brave and principled” stand on addressing the serious issue of “dominance” by British-Pakistani men in grooming gangs operating in the country.
The United Faiths group also urged the government to acknowledge the motivation behind such gangs, which they said specifically targeted non-Muslim (Sikh, Hindu and white Christian) girls. The group released a statement responding to the issue of “religiously and racially motivated” sex grooming gangs and said it was in support of Braverman’s comments.
Last week, the Home Secretary said the perpetrators of such crimes were a “group of men, almost all British Pakistanis”. He also called on officials to turn a blind eye to incidents of abuse “for fear of being called political correctness, for fear of being called a racist, for fear of being called a bigot”.
In its statement, the faith group said it “unequivocally supports the Home Secretary’s brave and principled stand in addressing this serious issue”. “As UK faith representatives, we support the ongoing efforts of Home Secretary Suella Braverman who, in the face of some considerable hostility, has boldly spoken out about the over-representation of British Pakistani men in sex grooming gangs operating around the UK Have talked,” read the statement addressed to Braverman.
The statement explained its stance by saying that there was sufficient evidence from several independent investigations into the cases – Rotherham, Telford and Rochdale – that supported the Conservative Party MP’s position on the “sensitive and difficult” matter.
“We as faith communities want the government to acknowledge one of the motivations behind these gangs. We believe the evidence points to an inconvenient truth. Namely: non-Muslim girls (this includes Sikh, Hindu and white Christian girls) have been systematically targeted in the UK because of a form of religiously and racially motivated hatred. We believe that when the perpetrators are brought to justice these victims The ‘other’ should be treated as an aggravating factor for the purposes of enhancement of punishment.
The group asked the government to help the Pakistani Muslim community deal with this “stain” on an otherwise majority law-abiding community. It said a survivor in the Rotherham case had confirmed she had been targeted for being a “white slag” and a “non-Muslim”.
The statement also said that Gerald Clifton, the judge who sentenced the men in the Rochdale case in 2012, had made a similar observation. He had said that Muslim men targeted their victims because they were not part of the perpetrators’ “community or religion”.
“The British Sikh and Hindu communities have been complaining about Pakistani grooming gangs since the 1980s, prior to high-profile cases such as those in Rotherham, Telford and Rochdale, but the complaints have fallen on deaf ears. A television report on BBC1’s Inside Out program in 2013 was the first high-profile media cover of the targeting of Sikh girls, as was coverage in the Times following the sentencing of the men in Leicester. In recent years, Hindu and Sikh community groups have attempted to highlight the targeting of girls within their communities,” the group claimed in a proposed television report. BBC The issue was pulled in 2018 due to “fear of offending the Muslim community”.
The group further stated that the inaction of the government and police has resulted in the “unfortunate result of a hate-filled narrative driven by far-right groups”. It also said that police failures to protect girls from grooming gangs contributed to rising communal tensions, which “negatively affected social cohesion”.
“While it is good that the ethnicity of offenders is now being recorded, we believe that there is a need to further explore the racial and religious-based motivations behind a significant proportion of convicted offenders in places such as Telford, Rotherham, Rochdale and There needs to be open discussion. Victims deserve justice and deserve to be heard. The first step is to be able to freely and fearlessly discuss the various motivations behind this pattern of criminality. Don’t be censored for fear of being labeled ‘Islamophobic’.
The supporting statement was signed by Lord Singh of Wimbledon, who is the director of the Network of Sikh Organisations; Mohan Singh Khalsa of the Sikh Awareness Society; Dal Singh Dhesi of the Sikh Youth Movement; Anil Bhanot, who is the Hindu Council UK’s Director of Interfaith Relations; Satish K Sharma, who is the director of Global Hindu Federation among others.
However, Braverman’s comments were rejected by the British Pakistani community and rejected by Pakistan as being “discriminatory and xenophobic”. Braverman pointed that out in an interview last week, where she was talking about the government’s plans to tackle child sexual abuse sky News British-Pakistani men hold “cultural values contrary to British values”.
,[British-Pakistani men] views women in a demeaning, illegitimate manner, and pursues an out-of-date and frankly heinous approach to the way we treat them,” Braverman said even after he was informed that a 2020 The Home Office report concluded that most child sex abuse gangs are made up of white males under the age of 30. According to the report, there is not enough evidence to suggest that members of grooming gangs are more likely to be Asian or black. Were.
However, Braverman pointed to reports of the Rotherham child sex abuse scandal, in which five British-Pakistani men were convicted of grooming, raping and abusing young girls.
A day after Braverman’s comments, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced plans to set up a new task force to crack down on gangs. It will have specialist officers to assist police forces in live child sexual abuse and grooming investigations to crack down on those grooming children for sexual exploitation, according to a report in the news agency. PTI,
The report states that the UK is home to the largest Pakistani community of around 1.5 million; Most of them are second generation citizens born and raised in the UK.
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