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04-05-2023
LONDON: London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called on Home Secretary Suella Braverman to withdraw her racist comments and apologize for falsely linking Pakistani men with sex grooming.
UK Home Secretary Braverman has been accused of peddling extremist far-right lies about Pakistanis after she singled out British Pakistani men over concerns about grooming gangs as she accused authorities of turning a “blind eye” to signs of abuse involving young people.
“What’s clear is that what we’ve seen is a practice whereby vulnerable white English girls, sometimes in care, sometimes who are in challenging circumstances, are being pursued and raped and drugged and harmed by gangs of British Pakistani men who’ve worked in child abuse rings or networks,” she had said.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Geo News, Khan said that Braverman has said that “sex predators are Pakistanis but this is factually incorrect and goes against the findings of the Home Office report which said in an independent report that the majority of those involved in sex grooming are white Britons”.
The London mayor said that there was a huge problem with the Home Secretary’s falsehood as many people will think that “every Pakistani is involved in this and this is very dangerous”.
Khan accused the Home Secretary of doing “dog whistle politics”.
He said: “It’s important that we educate people and don’t generalize on the basis of religion and color.”
Asked if he supported the demand calling by hundreds of organizations and communities for the home secretary to withdraw her comments and apologies for the offence she has caused, Khan called on Braverman to withdraw her comments and apologies.
He said: “These remarks are dangerous and factually incorrect.”
Faith leaders, community groups, professional forums and activists have come together to issue an unprecedented condemnation of Braverman’s racist, Islamophobic, irresponsible, and divisive rhetoric on child sexual exploitation linking it with Pakistanis.
The home secretary’s racist and inflammatory comments from a series of interviews have been labelled as “inflammatory and divisive rhetoric that is sensationalist and contradicts her own department’s evidence”. (Int’l News Desk)
