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UK Grooming Gang Convictions by Muslims

The claim that 90% of people in the UK convicted of grooming/child rape are Muslims is not supported by available national data.

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Jan 13, 2026
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90% of the people in the UK convicted of grooming/child rape are Muslims.

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 ...

Jan 19, 2026
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Muslim population in the uk

The UK’s Muslim population stood at roughly 3.9 million in the 2021 Census—about 6–6.5% of the national population—concentrated in major urban centres such as London, Birmingham, Manchester, Bradford ...