Religious leaders at around 500 mosques across the UK will deliver sermons today to hundreds of thousands of Muslims condemning street grooming by gangs.
The campaign organised by Together Against Grooming (Tag), a not-for-profit community organisation set up to tackle street grooming by gangs, will see imams and other leaders address their congregations.
The campaign will highlight how the Koran condemns all forms of sexual indecency.
Sermons will also focus on the responsibility placed on Muslims to ensure they do all they can to safeguard children and vulnerable people in their communities.
The move comes after five members of a seven-man sadistic paedophile ring found guilty of grooming vulnerable underage girls were given life sentences at the Old Bailey.
Two other defendants were both jailed for seven years.
Tag spokesman Ansar Ali said: "We have been horrified by the details that have emerged from recent court cases and as Muslims we feel a natural responsibility to condemn and tackle this crime.
"Sexual grooming and child abuse afflicts all sections of society and is perpetrated by people of all ethnic groups.
"The Koran and traditions of our Prophet exhort us to act against evil and injustice, and create just societies.
"This is the start of what will be a nationwide project in which we seek to work with others to eradicate this practice from all communities."
Friday is a religious day for Muslims and consists of the Jummah Salah - or midday prayer - a particularly significant prayer which results in hundreds of thousands of Muslims up and down the country visiting their local mosques to hear the Khutbah, or sermon.
The Tag campaign has been backed by leading Muslim organisations such as Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), the Mosque and Imams National Advisory Board (MINAB), the Islamic Society of Britain (ISB) and independent mosques.
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