The Labour MP who represents the grooming hot spot of Rotherham has performed an about-turn to demand a national inquiry into the scandal.
Sarah Champion said that “nothing less than a national inquiry into the failings of those in authority to prevent and be accountable for their failings” would restore public faith.
Only a week ago the MP warned that an inquiry would mean “another 10 years of waiting”.
Since the beginning of the new year, I’ve written about some of the ghastly child abuse in England that is deliberately ignored by the authorities. In particular, I addressed the “grooming gangs” that exploit young girls, as well as the government’s repeated failures to rescue Sara Sharif. These topics are unlikely to be discussed at the dinner table; horror-genre writers could not author passages as nightmarish as the stories relayed by the victims or judges.
Much as summer follows spring and lootings follow natural disasters in major cities, media narratives about “Islamophobia” quickly follow every Muslim terrorist attack.
How long it takes varies depending on the death toll, how shocking the attack is, and what else is in the news.
A poll this week in France found that 78 per cent of respondents are in favour of proscribing the wearing of Muslim headscarves at universities and also for classroom helpers on school outings.
The poll was conducted after comments by the Interior Minister, Bruno Retailleau, in a newspaper interview. ‘Helpers [on school trips] don’t have to wear headscarves,’ he said. ‘The headscarf is not just a piece of cloth: it’s a banner for Islamism, and a statement of women’s inferiority in relation to men.’ In the same interview, Retailleau promised to stem immigration into France because it ‘is partly linked to Islamism’.
Retailleau’s remarks underline the huge gulf that separates the governments of France and Britain in regard to their attitude towards political Islam.
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Pakistanis are up to four times more likely to be responsible for child sex grooming offences reported to police than the general population, previously unreleased data suggest.
Figures from all 43 forces in England and Wales show 13.7 per cent of child sexual exploitation “grooming” offences in the first nine months of last year involved Pakistanis. In 2023, they accounted for 6.9 per cent of the grooming crimes reported to police.
This is proportionately between two and four times higher than their representation in the general population where Pakistanis account for 2.7 per cent, according to the 2021 census.
The subversions of the British Education system in Batley (2021) and Wakefield (2023) demonstrate on a small scale the tactics of Islam as laid down by Mohammed in the seventh century CE. There is a brutal simplicity to the three mechanisms which have ensured that Islam has spread across the world and through the ages, and which currently make it an urgent threat to British values.
Yet British officials knew what was happening on a rampant scale. It was impossible not to know.
In our pages, over a decade ago, I scoffed at a colleague who had suggested that ISIS — the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, which used to be the Iraqi franchise of its now rival al-Qaeda — might be concerned that Western nations were on to its rape jihad. Even if we indulged the fantasy that jihadists were possessed of the civilized sensibility that would trigger such a concern, I countered that “the shocking Rotherham rape jihad scandal” that had erupted in England would assure them that “the West is far more likely to look the other way than to mobilize against this signature sexual abuse.”
Three women who were left devastated by historical child sexual exploitation in Oldham have told the BBC ministers should have spoken to survivors before deciding not to conduct a government-led inquiry into grooming gangs in the town.
Jane and Amelia, who survived abuse more than 15 years ago, and Sarah, whose son was exploited in the town while he was in care, called on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to meet them and hear their stories.
Ministers rejected Oldham Council’s request to conduct an inquiry, saying the council should lead it.
There are a lot of animals who should be rotting in jail.
Sitting on the front row of a war court on the US’s Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of the world’s most notorious defendants, appeared to listen intently.
“Can you confirm that Mr Mohammed is pleading guilty to all charges and specifications without exceptions or substitutions?” the judge asked his lawyer as Mohammed watched on.
“Yes, we can, Your Honour,” the lawyer responded.
An alleged terrorist is no longer teaching at Carleton University following backlash.
Hassan Diab, 71, was convicted of having taken part in a 1980 Paris synagogue bombing that left four dead and dozens injured.
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It is always interesting to watch a dam burst. In the past week, as Elon Musk and other prominent Americans discovered the British ‘grooming gang’ scandal, British politics has suddenly had to face up to something it has spent a quarter of a century trying to ignore. One would hope that the claim that thousands of underage girls had been gang-raped by thousands of men in cities across the country would be a subject of profound concern for our politicians. Who did this? Why? How can we help the victims and prevent any reoccurrence?
But no society asks questions to which it does not want an answer. The language used about this mass crime has been coyly euphemistic. Take ‘grooming’. Can you say that the girl in Oxford who was repeatedly drugged and raped by men who threatened to kill her and branded her buttocks with ‘M’ for ‘Mohammed’ was merely ‘groomed’?
Over three-quarters of Britons support a fresh investigation into child sex abuse by what are called predominantly Pakistani grooming gangs, something the labour government of Sir Keir Starmer has set itself hard against.
The survivor of a grooming gang has called on the Government to launch a national inquiry into the scandal.
In an exclusive interview with The Telegraph’s Daily T podcast, the 38-year-old, who wrote a book about her ordeal under the pen name Gaia Cooper, demanded action from Sir Keir Starmer.
The mother of two, raped by multiple Muslim men after being groomed as a 14-year-old in 1999, said: “We know how many people were killed in Grenfell. We know how many people died at Hillsborough. We don’t know how many survived this.
The rape-gang scandal makes it abundantly clear that liberalism, as it has been practiced for decades in the West, is the suicide note of a civilization.
I just came back from three days on Mount Athos, the Orthodox Christian monastic enclave on an isolated peninsula in northeastern Greece. To enter Athos and its archaic monastic culture is to leave time, at least for a few days. To come back down the mountain and go back to the world is to return to history. And these days, history is moving vividly and fast—and for Europe, towards some sort of cataclysmic reckoning.
What more can be said about the Islamic rape gang scandal in the United Kingdom? Not enough. Not enough until something massive and substantial happens to right what has gone very, very wrong in that country, which has been cursed by its ruling class in government, academia, media, and other institutions.
