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UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid on Wednesday said that a high-proportion of men involved in gang-based child exploitation in the country are of Pakistani descent, according to The BBC.Speaking on BBC Radio 4 Today, Javid – who has Pakistani heritage – said that ignoring the ethnicity of abusers gives “oxygen” to extremists.
The home secretary had faced backlash for a tweet earlier this year referring to “sick Asian paedophiles”.
He said he wanted officials researching the causes of gang-based exploitation to leave “no stone unturned”.
Asked by the British-Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie, who was guest-editing the programme, whether he was concerned that his comments may have fuelled hate crimes, he said he was “very much aware of the need for politicians to be careful with their language”.
Grooming gangs have recently been convicted in Huddersfield, Oxford, and Rotherham.
“There could be – I’m not saying that there are – there could be some cultural reasons from the communities that these men came from that could lead to this kind of behaviour,” Javid said.
The home secretary has called for research into the “characteristics and contexts” of gangs abusing children, arguing that ignoring issues such as ethnicity is more likely to fuel the far-right.
Sources : https://tribune.com.pk/story/1875140/9-pedophiles-uk-pakistani-origin-says-uk-home-secretary/
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