> two years later, another review would be published in the sage journals entitled, "failing victims, fuelling hate: challenging the harms of the muslim grooming gangs narrative"failing victims, fuelling hate: challenging the harms of the muslim grooming gangs narrative". > the study's central thesis is that the "muslim grooming gangs narrative", driven by the "rightwing media", has "helped collectively demonise british muslim communities, especially young muslim men". > likening this categorisation to the moral panic over mugging in the early 1970s, which stereotyped young black men as potential muggers, the grooming gangs narrative is simply the latest victim in a "broader tendency to racialise crime in political and popular discourse", the study authors contended.  > a home office report explicitly stated that efforts to combat grooming gangs should not focus solely on one community or culture, as high-profile cases do not necessarily represent the norm. > associate professor in security and crime science doctor ella cockbain and co-author tufail (cited in the study above), said it was "time to call off the witch-hunt. we need finally to accept what credible research has been telling us for years: that child sexual abuse is not a 'muslim problem' but is endemic to virtually all communities". > fast forward to 2025, and researchers are still publishing similar conclusions. > following jess phillips' decision to reject a request for a public inquiry into child sexual exploitation and elon musk's barrage of tweets, tahir abbas, professor of radicalisation studies at leiden university, reexamined the impact of media and political biases and the systemic failures that have allowed cse to persist. > he concluded that while it is true that some high-profile cases have involved men of pakistani heritage, broader data suggests that the majority of offenders are white.   ming-gangs-uk-inquiry-muslim-keir-s tarmer
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