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EPISODE · Dec 19, 2025 · 1H 7M

Bondi, Grooming Gangs, and Islam: How should Christians Respond?

from About Abortion · host Dave Brennan

In this episode Dave is joined by Jeremy Fowler to discuss how we should respond - at a Church level, at a political level, and at an personal level - to the horrors of the grooming gangs in the UK.How important is it to investigate the alleged link between Islam and such atrocities?How do we differentiate rightly between Muslims and Islam?Does the Bible speak into gender-based violence and systemic abuses?What is the Christian response to these things?Why has the Church been so quiet?What does this have to do with abortion?Jeremy Fowler is a writer and speaker specialising in the Kurdish world and Christian-Muslim relations. He is an elder at Magdalen Road Church, Oxford (FIEC).MORE INFO ON JAN 5TH DAY OF FASTING:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aIfREKTbHCw06sBBdQMZ5-INwhKtb_bHRozpOmzPu2M/edit?tab=t.0Abortions as part of the abuse and cover-up:https://righttolife.org.uk/news/press-release-grooming-gangs-abortion-loophole-mps-call-for-law-change?utm_source=chatgpt.comhttps://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2019-05-14/debates/349FA275-CB65-45C0-87C7-EE16D1FD1B0A/GroomingGangs?utm_source=chatgpt.comOne girl experienced 8 forced abortions over her 12 years of abuse.Jeremy’s article in Evangelical Timeshttps://www.evangelical-times.org/grooming-gangs-a-christian-response/Dr Mark Durie’s article UK Grooming Gangs and Islamhttps://christianconcern.com/resource/report-uk-grooming-gangs-and-islam-by-mark-durie/Jeremy's further reflections on the Grooming Gangs can be found on his Substackhttps://open.substack.com/pub/jeremyibrahim/p/grooming-gangs-understand-the-problem?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=webRead more about Jeremy's work and his work on a biography of Cumberland of Kurdistan (d 1938)https://open.substack.com/pub/jeremyibrahim/p/my-work-as-a-writer-and-speaker?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=webRead more about Jeremy's work and his work on a biography of Cumberland of Kurdistan (d 1938)https://open.substack.com/pub/jeremyibrahim/p/my-work-as-a-writer-and-speaker?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=webTo book a speaker e.mail [email protected] To join the movement to end abortion go to cbruk.org/joinPlease share this video.

In this episode Dave is joined by Jeremy Fowler to discuss how we should respond - at a Church level, at a political level, and at an personal level - to the horrors of the grooming gangs in the UK.How important is it to investigate the alleged link between Islam and such atrocities?How do we differentiate rightly between Muslims and Islam?Does the Bible speak into gender-based violence and systemic abuses?What is the Christian response to these things?Why has the Church been so quiet?What does this have to do with abortion?Jeremy Fowler is a writer and speaker specialising in the Kurdish world and Christian-Muslim relations. He is an elder at Magdalen Road Church, Oxford (FIEC).MORE INFO ON JAN 5TH DAY OF FASTING:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aIfREKTbHCw06sBBdQMZ5-INwhKtb_bHRozpOmzPu2M/edit?tab=t.0Abortions as part of the abuse and cover-up:https://righttolife.org.uk/news/press-release-grooming-gangs-abortion-loophole-mps-call-for-law-change?utm_source=chatgpt.comhttps://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2019-05-14/debates/349FA275-CB65-45C0-87C7-EE16D1FD1B0A/GroomingGangs?utm_source=chatgpt.comOne girl experienced 8 forced abortions over her 12 years of abuse.Jeremy’s article in Evangelical Timeshttps://www.evangelical-times.org/grooming-gangs-a-christian-response/Dr Mark Durie’s article UK Grooming Gangs and Islamhttps://christianconcern.com/resource/report-uk-grooming-gangs-and-islam-by-mark-durie/Jeremy's further reflections on the Grooming Gangs can be found on his Substackhttps://open.substack.com/pub/jeremyibrahim/p/grooming-gangs-understand-the-problem?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=webRead more about Jeremy's work and his work on a biography of Cumberland of Kurdistan (d 1938)https://open.substack.com/pub/jeremyibrahim/p/my-work-as-a-writer-and-speaker?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=webRead more about Jeremy's work and his work on a biography of Cumberland of Kurdistan (d 1938)https://open.substack.com/pub/jeremyibrahim/p/my-work-as-a-writer-and-speaker?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=webTo book a speaker e.mail [email protected] To join the movement to end abortion go to cbruk.org/joinPlease share this video.

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