To those who don't believe that grooming gangs are cultural issue: 75% of gang groomers are Asian. Asians only make up 7.5% of the UK population. 17% are white - with whites making up 86% of the population.

My point was that the 'them' in this conversation were 1.8 billion Muslim people and were indeed being tarred with the same brush - as having a single collective point of view. I didn't use the word racist because I didn't believe the view was racist on its face, but at the very minimum this was an example of 'othering' a large group of British people based purely on a stereotype of their religion.

There are violent extremists in every group of people, always, tackling that in the British Muslim community is as important as tackling that in the Irish community, and wider British community because all have unfortunate histories of violent extremism.

Wearing a headscarf of any design is not an example of extremism or violent extremism - it's a deeply common view and practice in virtually every world religion.

Where do I advocate ignoring the issue exactly?

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