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The former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission said it was time to call a spade a spade, otherwise the torturous crimes would not be prevented.

He accused the BBC of trying to avoid being accused of stigmatising a community by failing to address the perpetrators in high profile cases in Newcastle and Rotherham were Muslims who would have claimed to be practising.

Instead, the BBC this week branded 18 people convicted of grooming and raping girls as young as 13-years-old in Newcastle an Asian gang.

This was an evasion of the truth, Mr Phillips said, adding it was time for people to accept these men are not just dark-skinned perverts.

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They are Muslims, and many of them would claim to be practising

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In a comment piece for the Daily Telegraph, he said: It insults the largest single ethnic minority group in the UK - Hindu Indians who consider themselves Asian and the many East Asians who have the UK their home.

Neither group has been even remotely associated with these crimes.

What the perpetrators have in common is their proclaimed faith. They are Muslims, and many of them would claim to be practising.

It is not Islamophobic to point this out, any more than it would be racist to point out that the most active persecutors of LGBT people come from countries where most people are, like me, black.

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If we are going to call a spade a spade, then we should do so without embarrassment. But our elites have replaced their old fear of being called racist with a new bogey. It comes to something when the BBC prefers to risk being condemned for racism than expose itself to the charge of Islamophobia.

He said it was not just Muslim gangs behind paedophilia, but said their motives were different.

He said: Most white abusers join paedophile rings in order to satisfy their sexual desire more easily. These gangs, in contrast, are motivated by greed, machismo and contempt for people not of their ethnicity.

These crimes will never be prevented unless and until we can speak openly about what is talking place.

Unfortunately, we still have some way to go.

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