Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk has been using his X platform to spread vitriolic and baseless accusations against Pakistanis and the British government, alleging that they are enabling child sexual abuse. Musk's claims are based on a cherry-picked decade-old case and ignore official UK data showing that white individuals are overwhelmingly represented among convicted abusers.
A disregard for facts or obfuscation of truth is what those on the extreme of far-right rely on to find an enemy, create fear and sow hate in furtherance of their politics.In November, the Labour government published groundbreaking data on the ethnicity of child sexual abuse victims and perpetrators. / Photo: Reuters
Cherry-picking a decade-old case in Britain, that came to be known as the 'grooming gangs' scandal, Musk has been on a spree of vitriolic posts for about a week, amplifying them to his over 211 million followers. It is worth mentioning that according to official UK statistics, 'Asian' is a broad category encompassing individuals of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Chinese or other South Asian origins.The 'grooming gangs' scandal refers to a series of criminal cases in England where organised groups sexually exploited young girls, primarily in the north and Midlands, between 1997 and 2013.
Nazir Afzal, a former chief prosecutor for North West England between 2011 and 2015, and of Pakistani heritage, had noted that South Asians were overrepresented in specific forms of street grooming highlighted in high-profile cases such as Rotherham and Rochdale.
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