Is Love Jihad haunting UK : Sikh and Hindu groups protest against sex gangs

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London : Hindu and Sikh groups in United Kingdom have up-roared against the grooming sex gangs of British Pakistani males targeting of White, Sikh and Hindu girls. Hindu and Sikh groups say that the Pakistani sex gangs have targeted Hindu and Sikh girls but the cases are rarely reported as they seldom reach the courts.

To highlight the sexual targeting of White, Sikh and Hindu girls by Pakistani grooming gangs in the UK, UK based Sikh Awareness Society (SAS) has produced a hard-hitting film documentary on Love Jihad, the term might be new to UK but famous and exercised in India.

Sikh Awareness Society has said that it has felt compelled to produce this documentary in light of the recent interim report on child exploitation by the Deputy Children’s Commissioner Sue Berelowitz – which we feel totally whitewashed this issue – as well as to challenge Government/Police silence on this matter. The documentary is produced in conjunction with Times journalist Andrew Norfolk.

Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Gangs and Groups

The Office of the Children’s Commissioner has published a revealing and shocking report on  “Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Gangs and Groups”. This Interim report published in November 2012, is based on the reality that each year thousands of children in England are raped and abused from as young as 11 years by people seeking to humiliate, violate and control them and the impact on their lives is often devastating.

What report says…

The report unveils the fact that the offenders were found to be 96 per cent male. Of the 753 offenders whose ethnicity was known, 49 per cent were white and 46 per cent Asian. The victims were 87 per cent female 91% white and mostly aged from 12 to16.

Thousands of children in England have been sexually exploited by gangs or groups of men or are at high risk of sexual exploitation, according to a report released Wednesday. There were 2,409 victims of child sexual exploitation in gangs or groups from August 2010 to October 2011, the inquiry by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner found. Another 16,500 children in England were identified as being at high risk of sexual exploitation during the year from April 2010 to March 2011.

Maggie Atkinson, Children’s Commissioner for England, described the report saying, “I thought I was the only one, the only one in the world, as a wake-up call for UK.”

The report is based on the findings from the first year of a two-year study, based on evidence from the government, police, local authorities, health services, voluntary workers and young people.

In fact, many Sikhs and Hindus in the UK also feel angered when media reports quite often describe the perpetrators of these crimes as ‘Asian’ – when neither Sikhs nor Hindus were involved in those particular cases.

In criminal trials involving multiple offenders from towns and cities including Bradford, Rotherham, Blackburn, Oldham, Manchester, Burnley and Derby, most of the convicted men were members of the British Pakistani community.

Download : Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Gangs and Groups_Interim_Report_-_November_2012

Taking the serious note of the gangs of British Pakistani males is involved in the sex crimes targeting of White, Sikh and Hindu girls, the SAS found it in relation with the Term ‘Love Jihad’ used as a tool by Islamic forces to target Hindu girls in Pakistan and India.

Love Jihad is well known in India but it is yet to mark its impact in UK.

SAS has intended a mass distribution of this film to raise awareness and to help counter the incompetence shown in tackling this abuse by the Government and Police.

Click here to see Film : Reality of Sexual Grooming Gangs in the UK (Interview with Andrew Norfolk by SAS

SAS statement says, “We feel that there is a minority of males in particularly the Pakistani community who hold religiously-prejudiced views against non-Muslim girls whom they see as cheap sexual playthings. This has lead to cases of rape and abuse of these girls without any feelings of remorse or guilt from the perpetrators of these crimes.”

The joint statement was released by the Network of Sikh Organisations in UK, The Hindu Forum of Britain, and the Sikh Media Monitoring Group UK. It says the reluctance of the media and the government to discuss the "disproportionate representation of Muslims in such cases" and the fact victims are "almost always non-Muslim girls" is adding to the cause of far-right groups such as the BNP.

It said blanket use of the word "Asian" was "unfair to other communities of Asian origin". "We believe that in this case the government itself is sanctioning the use of term Asian as a way of clouding responsibility," the groups say.

The statement say, "We believe that political correctness stifles debate and will not facilitate a frank and mature discussion or solutions to get to the root of why the above pattern is emerging in these crimes and how to help find a solution to the problem.

Source : News Bharati