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Quilliam: 84 per cent of child grooming convicts are from Asian background

The Rochdale child grooming case rocked the UK

By: Sarwar Alam

Gangs of Pakistani-origin men target white girls with alcohol and drugs before raping and sexually abusing them because due to their Asian heritage they fail to integrate within British society, an anti-extremism think tank has said in a new report. The study by UK-based Quilliam group calls for greater government support to help integrate British Pakistani people into modern UK society. “We began thinking we would debunk the media narrative that Asians are over-represented in this specific crime. But, when the final numbers came in we were alarmed and dismayed. For both of us being of Pakistani heritage, this issue…

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