The UK Grooming Gangs and the Cowardice of the West
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From the Free Press, this is Honestly, and I'm Barry Weiss. It's the biggest peacetime crime and cover-up in British history.
Well, the UK's rape grooming scandal, let's call it a rape scandal, not really about even grooming, it's just about people raping young, often underage girls, is a grotesque stain on Britain's standing as a world leader in morality and the rule of law.
Thousands of young girls, mostly children, were groomed and raped by immigrant gangs across the UK over a period of decades.
One evening in 2006, a 12-year-old girl went into this police station. She reported that she had been molested in a local graveyard. The police officers here told her to sober up and come back later.
Police turned the girls away.
She was accosted by two further men who took her away in a car and raped her. They gave her money for a bus fare and dropped her in the streets in this town in Greater Manchester. She was picked up...
Detectives were discouraged from investigating the crimes.
Many senior police officers were fearful of intervening because they may be branded racist.
Politicians and prosecutors did their best to sweep it under the rug.
There was cowardice from the police. There was cowardice from social services. There was potential cowardice from others.
Journalists, at least many of them, skipped the biggest story of their lives.
The scale of the raping of children by these gangs is so wide and has gone on for so long and was allowed to happen because of various agencies not doing their job properly. It is such a serious matter. So many lives have been destroyed. We must do everything possible to ensure it never happens again.
A culture of silence came to envelop the United Kingdom. Why? Why did that happen? And who's to blame? And why are we talking about it right now?
The PM's plans overshadowed by vicious attacks from the world's richest man. Elon Musk using his social media platform X to launch an onslaught against the PM, accusing him of being complicit in the rape of Britain for failing to tackle grooming gangs, while personally attacking one of...
The fact that Elon Musk has forced this back to public attention and essentially looks like he's going to hold the government and indeed the entire bureaucracy, the police, the home office, everybody to account is astonishing. And the effect of this, I think, is going to be accelerating political change.
Today on Honestly, I speak to two women who spoke out years ago about what was happening when many people wanted to look the other way. They are Julie Bindle, the British feminist and author, and author and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Both took tremendous risks in highlighting this story, while a lot of other people looked the other way. Bindle is a longtime feminist and the author most recently of Feminism for Women. She also writes a popular substack. Hirsi Ali, a Free Press contributor, is also the author of many books, including Prey, Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights, which helped bring attention to the scandal in 2021. Today, Julian Ayan explained what happened, how these rapes and murders were covered up in the name of preserving social harmony, how it's arguably still happening, why Elon Musk is suddenly tweeting obsessively about it, and how Britain's ruling class is being forced to reckon with the scandal that it had until recently successfully ignored.
— The prime minister has mentioned previous inquiries. He is right. There has been an inquiry into child sexual abuse, but it wasn't about the rape gang scandal. In its 468 pages, it mentioned Rotherham just once. Is the prime minister confident that we know the full extent of rape gang activity? In Rotherham alone, there have been over 1,400 victims.
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