British Pakistani communities need to acknowledge the grooming gang scandal - Yorkshire Post Letters

I suppose we should be grateful that we are going to get an official grooming gangs inquiry which will consider whether ethnicity, religion and culture played a part in these terrible crimes. Of course, we already know the answers - the offenders were mostly of Pakistani Muslim heritage and their many thousands of victims were non-Muslim young women and girls.

We also know that these crimes could not have gone on happening in cities and towns up and down the country over several decades without the ideologies of anti-racism and multiculturalism causing politicians, police officers and social workers to consistently look the other way.

Given that we have known these basic facts for many years, do we really have to wait for the inquiry to end before we can move to resolve this, and I use the word advisedly, crisis?

The only possible resolution for this vast scandal is for the imams and other leaders of Britain’s Pakistani community to take ownership of this issue and lead their community in admission that the offenders were mainly drawn from their community, apology, introspection and making such changes to their culture as are necessary to end these vile crimes.