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hrmjustin

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Thu Aug 28, 2014, 06:28 PM Aug 2014

U.K. Officials Afraid Of Stirring Anti-Muslim Sentiments May Have Ignored Hundreds Of Sex Abuse...

U.K. Officials Afraid Of Stirring Anti-Muslim Sentiments May Have Ignored Hundreds Of Sex Abuse Cases: Report


Religion News Service by Trevor Grundy

CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Muslims have reacted with horror to a sensational report revealing that 1,400 children were subjected to rapes, abductions and beatings by gangs of men, mostly of Pakistani origin, in the northern English town of Rotherham.

In the report, Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Rotherham (1997-2013), lead author Alexis Jay writes that police and government officials turned a blind eye to the horrifying reports reaching them from abused children — almost all of them teenage girls — because of fear that, if widely known, they would stir up anti-Muslim feelings in Britain.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/28/uk-muslim-sex-abuse_n_5731610.html?utm_hp_ref=religion

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