Ten: ‘Street-grooming’, sexual abuse and Islamophobia: an anatomy of the Rochdale abuse scandal1
Recent years have witnessed a focus on cases of ‘street-grooming’. The purpose of this chapter, primarily, is not to look at the complexities of child abuse (though, this is touched upon) but the way this has become a ‘moral panic’ that has focused on the ‘alien’ culture of Pakistani Muslim men and their attitudes towards women and children in general, and white women and children in particular. Politicians and media pundits have used the small number of cases where Muslim men have been involved in abusing young girls as ‘evidence’ of the incompatibility of Muslim and Western cultures. The case here is that the ‘grooming scandals’ are an example of a racially induced moral panic.
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