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Grooming Gangs
Britain's own institutions looked away for over a decade. The far right then used that failure to blame a religion, not the men who broke it
Thousands of British girls were raped and trafficked while police and councils avoided acting for fear of the story it would tell about race. The men who did it then had their crimes turned into a slogan against a faith that forbids everything they did.