British Sikhs and Hindus have launched an online petition asking politicians and media to stop using vague terms like ‘Asian’ while talking of child sex grooming by gangs as it besmirches their communities.
Four leading religious groups — the Hindu Council UK, the Network of Sikh Organisations, the Sikh Media Monitoring Group and the Sikh Awareness Society — have sponsored the online petition, The Times said on Tuesday.
Political correctness should not stop the Government from identifying ‘an emerging pattern of criminality’ perpetrated by some British Pakistanis against predominantly white girls, they were quoted as saying by The Times.
The petition has called on British politicians and the media to stop using vague terms that ‘besmirch’ their communities. “By masking the identity of perpetrators by using the vague terminology ‘Asian’, we are unable to have a mature discussion or get to the root cause of an emerging pattern of criminality,” the organisations claim.