Sexual exploitation of British Sikh girls by grooming gangs has been ‘recklessly ignored’ by police due to ‘political correctness’, claims report

Gangs of predominantly Pakistani men have been grooming British Sikh girls for decades, according to claims in a bombshell report. The study alleges that young Sikh women have been ‘targeted’ by Muslim men who subjected them to sexual abuse. The report by the Sikh Mediation and Rehabilitation Team charity found that police ‘recklessly ignored’ complaints – often for reasons of ‘political correctness’.

The girls would be snared by ‘fashionably dressed adult Pakistani men travelling in flamboyant vehicles to predominantly Sikh dominated areas and schools’, it claimed. 

The Daily Mail has seen a copy of the report, entitled The Religiously Aggravated Sexual Exploitation of Young Sikh Women Across the UK. Described as an exploratory study, it looks at reported cases of abuse against Sikh girls – of Indian background – dating back to the 1970s.

The report said: ‘The research has found verification demonstrating a history of predominantly Pakistani grooming gangs targeting young Sikh females for over 50 years. The over representation of such perpetrators in selecting non-Muslim victims would appear to be indicative of a wider acceptability in certain sections of the community towards the targeting of young females from outside of the Pakistani community and/or Muslim faith.

…reports in the 1980s, Sikhs were complaining about Muslims ‘pestering’ their girls or that their girls were being ‘used as sex slaves’. An organisation, Shere Punjab, was formed in 1989 to combat attacks on young Sikh women by Muslims.

There was controversy in 2008 about a website ‘which appears to be run by young male Muslims and boasts about seducing Sikh women during freshers week at university’. My understanding is that because Sikh girls have been a target in the Indian subcontinent for centuries many young women were more aware of the dangers, and thus predatory young men would sometimes pretend to be a less observant Sikh, or a Hindu (a thread bracelet is a reassuring symbol). Taqiyya as a form of deceit is justified in jihad. And in 2013 a case about six men who targeted, abused and exploited a young Sikh girl in Leicester reached the courts.