Oxford, Newcastle, Manchester and Calderdale are local authorities backing a report that critics believe will silence whistle-blowers raising the alarm about child abuse.
This report says that using the term ‘Asian grooming gangs’ is a repetition of ‘age-old stereotypes and tropes about Islam’ of ‘sexual profligacy and paedophilia, or Islam and violence’.
This, the report concludes, ‘heighten[s] the vulnerability of Muslims to hate crimes’, the Times reports.
Labour has adopted this definition and the report, produced by the all-party parliamentary group for British Muslims, which is co-chaired by the health secretary, Wes Streeting.
It comes as new unreleased data suggests
Pakistanis are up to four times more likely to be responsible for child
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