Will inquiries into grooming gangs consider the religion of its perpetrators? Will investigators hear the testimonies that reveal Qur’anic measures and verses have substantiated perpetrators behaviour as legit in their own eyes? The Qur’an is explicit in the belief that men are above women (Qur’an 4:34a). For vulnerable girls, orphans, and females who become ‘the owned’ –aka abused English and Sikh girls from Rotherham as an example– can be taken for ‘marriage’. Will Islam, Imams, Muslims be mentioned alongside other labels, such as Anglican, the Church, which are also under investigation? What about secular abusers? Will victims find justice and their abusers held to account?

How do we love our Muslim neighbours well? How can we better understand Islam and respond to it biblically?

Imagine if all tensions could be resolved, our insulters dealt with, and if justice prevailed. Imagine a judge who understands every word and deed (Proverbs 10:22, Romans 14:10-12), who knows the way to peace and freedom for all…

Trials and arrests allow for no mistake, and when rulings disagree with your cause, calls for hatred and harm ring from mansion owners, sitting rulers, down to street-dwellers. Hatred reigns, communities hurt, families divide.

For some, evil is committed only by a select group, and if your own group engages in similar deeds, it is no longer considered evil. For others evil is done only by a certain religious group, or an ethnic group. But thine own group shalt do no wrong.

Make no mistake - we are evil.

But there is a way to secure transformation and healing…