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British Muslims ‘must report grooming gangs or be complicit’

Custodian of Sufi shrine in Pakistan with tens of thousands of UK followers urges community to expose those who exploit children

British Pakistanis must condemn grooming gangs or be complicit in the abuse through silence, a prominent Pakistani cleric has said.

Muhammad Hassan Haseeb-ur-Rehman, who is on a speaking tour of the UK, said British Pakistanis needed to report child groomers to the police so they could face the toughest possible punishments.

“If people from within our own community are involved in wrongdoing, they must be opposed. Remaining silent in the face of wrongdoing is, in effect, becoming complicit in it,” he said.

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