its a british newspaper. in the UK “asian” means south-asian.
And hindus, christians, sikhs etc. from the subcontinent are angry that the newspapers are using the term “asian” instead of muslim.
Fun fact - hindus, christians, sikhs and parsis from the subcontinent are HEAVILY UNDERREPRESENTED IN PRISONS - close to 0% and the ones that ARE there are for white-collar crimes.
Muslims from the same ethnic/racial background are OVERREPRESENTED by 4 times in prisons.
BAD prison to be a non muslim!!
No aryan nation over there i guess!