Grooming Gangs: Why Are They Back in the News? (Episode 1)

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For almost 70 years young white English girls (mostly aged between 13-14 years old) have been groomed by Pakistani Muslim men for sex, often being raped and then tortured and passed around to other Muslim men over-and-over again, yet no one within the government, nor in the police force, nor even amongst the girls social workers came to their aid. And when asked why, they all responded that they said nothing due to "Community Cohesion" (in other words, they were fearful of being labeled "Islamophobic", or "racist").

It is only now, after a 219-paged report which came out in June of 2026 by Rupert Lowe MP called "Rape Gang Inquire" that we know that the number of girls who were groomed and then raped could be over 250,000!

Yet only a handful of the Muslim perpetrators have been convicted, while absolutely no one from the UK government, nor the police force, nor any social workers responsible for these girls have been named or shamed, or even tried, to say nothing of being convicted.

This series of three discussions looks at the statistics behind this sexual grooming, and asks why the vast majority of the perpetrators are Muslim men who are mostly from Pakistan, and then asks the thorny question concerning whether there is something intrinsic in Islam which either permits these atrocities to happen on such a large scale, or refuses to control the men who participate in it?

The panel is led by Tim Dieppe, who works for Christian Concern, one of the only organizations in the UK that has actually worked with and helped these girls, and advocated for them in public.

Also on the panel is Sonia Daman a theologian of Islam and Christianity who is doing her PhD thesis at the moment on this very issue with women who are being abused by men in Islam, not just in the UK, but all over the Muslim world.

Joining her is Elizabeth Peltola, who has a Master's Degree from the London School of Theology (LST) on the subject of women in Islam, and Dr Jay Smith, who has over 45 years of engaging with Muslims publicly on similar issues.

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