• Friday, April 19, 2024

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‘We can allow no hiding place for child abuse’

Qari Asim has urged the Muslim community to not ignore this matter.

By: Sarwar Alam

  By Qari Muhammad Asim MBE THE Newcastle grooming case involving the sexual abuse of more than 20 vulnerable women and girls has appalled us all. It has clear similarities to grooming cases in Rotherham, Oxford and Rochdale, involving gangs of British Asian men abusing white girls. The perpetrators in Newcastle were from a wider range of backgrounds, but we cannot hide from the fact that the perpetrators of these appalling crimes were mostly Muslims. That means we need to raise the issue and have this conversation within the Muslim community. Everyone in Britain has a responsibility to uphold the…

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