The 'grooming ' gang UK independent report

I don't think that's entirely suprising. The network involved a lot of literally interrelated people, the abuse was carried out by related Pakistani clan members. It was partly how it was able to happen for so long, as they would back each other up and not snitch on each other. It goes without saying that related people are more than likely to have the same religion as one another. If a crime in question were attributed to another highly interrelated group, such as Irish travellers, I would expect Catholicism to be overrepresented for that crime network when compared to the general population.

While the crime was obviously cultural, I do feel it is likely that their muslim faith was a fundamental part of the culture that made such crimes palatable. Views that women and girls are inferior to men is backed up by the koran, as is the view that non muslims are inferior to muslims. Any supremacist belief system that regards one group as superior to another group facilitates a culture where exploitation and animosity towards out groups is more likely to happen. Thus, Christian and Sikh girls were seen as exploitable, due to their inferior status as female and their inferior status as non muslims. Having said that, I doubt scumbags like these were in any way respectful towards muslim girls, it's just abuse towards them didn't play out in the same open fashion.

The denial of this for years by police and politicians is absolutely shameful, as are the repeated accusations of racism that were given to people like Maggie Oliver who tried to publicise this issue and get justice for the victims. Even now, I still occasionally come across newspaper articles and editorials that downplay the ethnic background of the perpetrators. One trick is conflating the particular form/pattern of abuse carried out by the grooming gangs with all sexual abuse of minors in the UK to create the impression that the abuse had no or little ethnic dimension, e.g by stating only x% abuse of minors was carried out by Pakistani muslims, ignoring that a subset of abuse; organised grooming gang abuse, was almost exclusively carried by pakistani muslims in a clan fashion. The other is to focus on the relatively unprivileged background of many of the victims, to suggest that concerns were ignored more because of class issues than because of racial concerns, when the truth is that both were important factors in why it continued for so many years. The worst thing for me is that so many of these cleverly written attempts to diminish the ethnic factor for the abuse are diseminated by people and publications who pride themselves on being progressive, while their progressiveness seems to be undue deference towards patriarchal male attitudes from ethnic minorities with the age old lack of respect for unseemly girls of lower classes.

I've just realised that the report referred to in the OP is from an independent group, and not the government one which is yet to do their work. The Lowe report concludes that 250,000 girls were abused across 149 local authority areas.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/independent-report-alleges-250000-girls-exploited-by-uk-grooming-gangs-6050327?utm_source=rtnewsnoe&src_src=rtnewsnoe&utm_campaign=rtbreaking-2026-06-19-3&src_cmp=rtbreaking-2026-06-19-3&utm_medium=email&utm_content=access0&est=Vmu3P3nYNVzHk8m50J8sHw5rGD1EFIZfqMRiyTiAic6F2tcAbMC%2FzlS7uPtr68l9SQ%3D%3D

It's definitely been in the news in the UK. Now the report itself is very sloppy and obviously idealogically driven. I've read claims that the witness testimony might not all be genuine. I don't know how genuine those claims are, a lot of political discussion on UK forums is like political football, supporting your own team no matter what.

I'm still glad that the issue is being discussed, because even after there was finally acknowledgement that grooming gangs did exist there is still an element of people being dismissed as racists if they bring up attitudes of some muslims towards non muslim women.