Outrage as Wikipedia changes grooming gangs article to ‘moral panic’ from the ‘Far-Right’

The introductory paragraph states that the “Muslim grooming gang panic is a moral panic alleging that Asian (specifically South Asian, Pakistani and Muslim) men are sexually abusing young White girls in the United Kingdom.”

It adds that “Right-wing and far-right activists, as well as more mainstream individuals, helped popularise the terminology in the 2010s.”

The grooming gang scandal was first exposed on a national scale by Andrew Norfolk, a reporter with The Times, who in 2010 noted that Pakistani men dominated court records for this kind of abuse, particularly in the South Yorkshire town of Rotherham.

More recently, abuse rings made up predominantly of Pakistani men have been exposed in Telford, Rochdale, Newcastle, Oxford and Bristol.

GB News analysis last year found over 50 different towns and cities where this sort of abuse had been detected.

A survivor of abuse from Rotherham, speaking on condition of anonymity, told GB News: “It was a scandal where over 1400 children were raped and trafficked around England. I don’t see how they can class it as a ‘moral panic’ when every authority would not act because of racial tension.”

She added: “It was swept under the carpet. It’s a scandal and it always will be, no matter what some people who are trying to muddy the waters say.

The page was formerly titled “Muslim grooming gangs in the UK”, but the name change occurred today

The page was moved in order to ‘reflect how the subject is dealt with in reliable sources’