{"id":70082,"date":"2025-01-08T09:12:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T09:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=70082"},"modified":"2025-01-08T09:12:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T09:12:49","slug":"grooming-gangs-are-being-cynically-weaponised-to-divide-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/08\/grooming-gangs-are-being-cynically-weaponised-to-divide-us\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Grooming gangs are being cynically weaponised to divide us&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1x7TVQ.img?w=768&amp;h=432&amp;m=6&amp;x=638&amp;y=98&amp;s=1156&amp;d=876\" alt=\"A reader says the scapegoating of Muslims feels part of a broader trend (Picture: Getty\/Metro)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In recent months, my identity as a British\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/muslim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Muslim<\/a> student has felt increasingly under siege.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/grooming-gangs-are-being-cynically-weaponised-to-divide-us\/ar-AA1x7Kvc?ocid=BingNewsSerp&amp;cvid=ad9b709f66674c14ab36764bfb8b7e5d&amp;ei=25\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>In recent months, my identity as a British\u00a0Muslim student has felt increasingly under siege.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Elon-Musk.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70083,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70082\/revisions\/70083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}