In 2018, a report by a Sikh activist organisation, "Sikh Youth UK", entitled “The Religiously Aggravated Sexual Exploitation of Young Sikh Women Across the UK" made allegations of alleged similarities between the case of Sikh Women and the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal. However in 2019 this report was criticised by researchers and an official UK government report lead by two Sikh academics for false and misleading information. It noted: ""The RASE report lacks solid data, methodological transparency and rigour. It is filled instead with sweeping generalisations and poorly substantiated claims around the nature and scale of abuse of Sikh girls and causal factors driving it. It appealed heavily to historical tensions between Sikhs and Muslims and narratives of honour in a way that seemed designed to whip up fear and hate"".