8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
9 (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),
10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.
11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.
For years, in the United Kingdom, there has been talk of sexual abuse by groups of Pakistani Muslims, a subject that has recently been elevated to more public concern by Elon Musk. The Daily Signal reported about a week and a half ago:
The United Kingdom’s Labour Party blocked an inquiry into Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s conduct as the head of the Crown Prosecution Service, which was charged with investigating a massive child-sex grooming operation in Oldham more than a decade ago.
That’s according to The Telegraph of London and other news outlets.
The story has been in the news as of late in large part because of Elon Musk, who has been posting about the numerous child-sex grooming operations conducted by Pakistani immigrants to the U.K. In many cases, British authorities ignored or refused to investigate the gangs for fear of being labeled “racist.”
In Parliament just last week, according to the BBC:
An attempt by the Conservatives to have the government set up a national inquiry into grooming gangs has been voted down by 364 votes to 111 votes, a margin of 253.
The amendment was attached to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which would have been killed had the vote passed.
Earlier in the day, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch argued the government risks fuelling accusations of "a cover up" by refusing an inquiry.
But Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer argued that several inquiries had already been held into abuse carried out by gangs of men and a new probe would only delay the action the victims wanted.
Another Daily Signal story noted:
Starmer has been reduced to the laziest, played-out message; namely, that asking questions about the widespread pedophile rape gangs that operated for years as authorities looked the other way makes you a part of the scary “far right.”
Both Daily Signal stories were written by Jarrett Stepman, who said: "What Musk has done is essentially force an American-style political debate onto the U.K. and even more profoundly, onto a European continent that not only doesn’t have a long-standing free speech culture, but has actively tried to do more to censor their own citizens in recent years."
And, CBN News had this to insert: "CBN News was among the first news organizations in America to expose Britain's Grooming Gang scandal eight years ago." It reprinted a 2016 article, which said, in part:
Some scandals are so massive that they're simply hard to believe. As many as one million white English children may have been the victims of Muslim rape gangs, better known as grooming gangs, in towns up and down Great Britain.
The 2016 article reprint stated:
Former Home Secretary and Parliament member Jack Straw once said, "There's a particular problem involving Pakistani heritage men who target young, vulnerable, white English girls..."
At the time, CBN reported...
...calculations based on convictions show that a British Muslim male is 170 times more likely to be a part of a sex grooming gang than a non-Muslim. And there are no recorded instances of non-Muslims doing this to Muslim girls as part of a criminal enterprise. In one local jurisdiction, it was estimated that 6 out of 7 Muslim males either knew about or were part of a grooming gang.
Returning to current content, writer Dale Hurd noted:
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Starmer claims that when he led the Crown Prosecution Service it had the highest number of child sex abuse prosecutions on record.
And while there were indeed prosecutions, the grooming gangs were never effectively stopped, and the abuse continues to this day.
While Prime Minister Starmer and his supporters say, "there's nothing to see here," there are those that claim that the egregious behavior has never stopped and are shining the light of truth on a story involving events over a decade ago.
We live in a broken world, and we see so many manifestations of evil - including sexual deviancy expressed in different forms, such as the "grooming" of young girls that is being alleged in the U.K., to rampant human trafficking, which is enslaving millions of children worldwide and threatening local communities, to other forms of sexual sin.
It is so easy to become discouraged, but believers should never give up hope - we should be about the business of exposing evil, as Ephesians 5 exhorts us. In our workplaces, schools, and even our churches, we should be aware of events that are taking place and have our eyes open to inappropriate behavior. And, we should also be intent on confronting evil with the light of Christ - that means living out and sharing the gospel at every opportunity. We may never comprehend how our witness will touch people for the Lord.
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