UK NRIs oppose use of `Asian` for criminals |
A British Sikh group has asked the police to refrain from the use of the term "Asian" when referring to criminals with South Asia origins, especially in the aftermath of Rotherham sex-trials that largely involve Pakistani Muslim men, who preyed on teenage girls.The Sikh Federation, UK made the plea following the conviction of four Pakistani-origin men, belonging to a single family, for raping and sexually abusing as many as 15 teenage girls for over 16 years in Rotherham, northern England. Bhai Amrik Singh said one of the demands in the Sikh Manifesto that we published a year ago before the General Election was that the government should encourage public bodies and the media to abandon the use of the term `Asian` when describing perpetrators for reasons of political correctness.The case has been prominently discussed in the media as an example of "Asian grooming gangs", which the group believes divides communities.The issue was also previously criticized in December 2013, when Sikh and Hindu groups started a petition.In a joint statement then, the Hindu Council UK, the Network of Sikh Organizations, Sikh Media Monitoring Group and the Sikh Awareness Society, said communities who themselves fall victim of this emerging pattern of criminality, should not be besmirched by the vague terminology `Asian`.
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