ET Editor: The grooming gangs scandal is back in the headlines. Some survivors have quit the inquiry, saying it is being watered down. The Prime Minister has responded, vowing that the inquiry will look at the Islamic motives of the perpetrators. Jeremy Fowler has returned from working in northern Iraq, shocked to see what's happening in the UK. Here is his take on a Christian response...
We returned from eleven years’ serving in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2021, knowing there was lots of work we could do helping UK churches reach out to Muslims. But we didn't anticipate that, once back in England’s ‘green and pleasant land’, one part of our work would be raising awareness about the sexual enslavement of white British girls at the hands of mainly-Pakistani Muslim gangs.
We knew what ISIS had done to poor Yezidi girls, and it was with horror that I started to read that similar crimes had been committed in the UK—in East Oxford in fact, where we now serve. And the chief inspector for that extensive police operation has told the BBC the crimes are still going on.
