SIR – Firstly, congratulations to our police in Keighley for a tremendous job on the EDL protest (T&A, August 10) It was a well co-ordinated effort. We were glad to see the back of racists without any trouble.

We want to point out that Muslims, just like the Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists or any moral human being are appaled and utterly disgusted by the grooming issue.

If proven guilty, we ask for the toughest penalties – so perhaps evil minds considering such acts, think twice before they fall victims to their lowest bestial nature.

If the EDL were serious about their concerns for the grooming victims, why did they not go protesting to Derby in May, where eight men were convicted of grooming girls between the ages of 13 and 15 years – seven being white males? Is it because the crimes were perpetrated by the people of the wrong skin colour?

At a Home Affairs Select Committee, deputy children’s commissioner Sue Berelowitz quoted a police officer who had told her that “there isn’t a town, village or hamlet in which children are not being sexually exploited”.

It’s a crime repeated across Britain, by people of all colours and ethnic origins. Where the opportunity arises, some men will take advantage.

The precise method, and whether it’s an individual or group crime, depends on the particular setting – be they priests, youth workers or networks on the web.

If we truly care about the sexual exploitation of girls, we need to know that we must look at all communities, across the whole country, and not just at those that play to a smug sense of superiority about ourselves.

Arafat Latif, Madinah Mosque, Spencer Street, Keighley