I read an article yesterday in which the writer mentioned how the mainstream press in the UK is calling this an "Asian" community issue. Nowhere else are Pakistanis called Asian... It looks like a deflection to not medieval Islamic culture as a root cause of the problem.
It's not a deflection - Pakistani's, Indians, are all called "Asians" - child trafficking is not a religious issue - and religion is not the root cause. Child trafficking occurs world wide, spans all religions - it just happens that in Rotherham, the Pakistani's are the perpetrator.
It is a deflection as the British see Chinese, Japanese, Malay, Vietnamese and Thai as Asians, and they are not the rapists. It has been a problem for many years due to Political Correctness not allowing the media to state Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Afghani, Somali, Iraqi and of course arab when dealing with muslim criminals. The Asian community is up in arms over the fact and see it as a racist slur against them by the last Labour neo Marxist government