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Since 2010 there have been multiple high-profile prosecutions involving predominantly South Asian or Pakistani-origin defendants in child sexual exploitation cases—cases in Derbyshire, Huddersfield, R...
No reliable, consolidated count of Muslim mayors across England in 2025 is provided in the available reporting; fact‑checks say many viral lists are misleading and that only a small number of high‑pro...
The UK’s “grooming gang” scandal refers to multiple high-profile investigations and convictions of group-based child sexual exploitation across towns such as Rotherham, Rochdale and others, with inqui...
Reuters and other fact‑checkers show the viral claim that many English mayors elected in May 2024 were Muslim is misleading: only London’s directly elected mayor, Sadiq Khan, is clearly identified as ...
The claim that many English cities have had Muslim mayors since 2000 is ; reliable, recent analyses identify only a small set of verifiable cases, with Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London) being the clearest ...
The available investigations confirm that group-based sexual exploitation and "grooming gangs" have occurred in the UK and that institutional failures allowed abuse to continue in high-profile cases; ...
The claim that "the UK is protecting Muslim rape gangs" overstates the evidence: multiple official and investigative reports document by police and agencies to prevent and properly investigate group-b...
The claim that "90% of the people in the UK convicted of grooming/child rape are Muslims" is not supported by available national data and is a misleading simplification: official datasets do not hold ...
Available reporting shows concentrated, high-profile convictions and inquiries—especially Rotherham, Rochdale and other grooming cases—where many convicted perpetrators were of Pakistani or British‑Pa...
Current, verifiable reporting shows one nationally prominent directly elected mayor in the UK who is openly Muslim — London’s Sadiq Khan — while claims that nine or a majority of UK mayors are Muslim ...
Available national data do not state a reliable proportion of convicted grooming-gang offenders who are British‑born because ethnicity and nationality are poorly recorded: Baroness Casey’s 2025 audit ...
Reporting and public datasets show dozens of separate prosecutions tied to “grooming gang” or group-based child sexual exploitation investigations across England from 2010–2024; summaries in major out...
There have been , including cases where perpetrators were white and mixed ethnicity, and official studies find that group-based child sexual exploitation offenders are most commonly white. At the same...
George Galloway won the Rochdale by-election with nearly 40% of the vote — polling 12,335 votes in the contest that was dominated by the war in Gaza and Labour’s decision not to stand a full-strength ...
London, Birmingham and Manchester each host large Muslim communities, but they differ in scale and local concentration: Birmingham is reported as the single local authority with the largest Muslim pop...
Over the past two decades there has been at most a modest rise in the visibility of Muslim individuals holding mayoral office in England, but the popular narrative that there has been a large, easily ...
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has not produced a reliable national breakdown of grooming‑gang defendants by ethnicity because ethnicity is missing from the records in a large proportion of cases...
Since the Rotherham and Rochdale trials, media narratives have been central in racialising the concept of “grooming gangs”: high-profile coverage that foregrounded the Pakistani or South Asian backgro...
Local inquiries in Rotherham and Rochdale found that victims were overwhelmingly white British while many convicted perpetrators in those cases were men from South Asian backgrounds, and they condemne...
A simple, single-number answer is not fully supportable from publicly available court data: a 2020 academic review of 498 grooming-gang convictions found 83% of perpetrators were of Muslim background,...