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Richard Eldred – Daily Sceptic July 13, 2025

Muhbeen Hussain, who threatened Muslims with being ‘boycotted’ by the Muslim community in Rotherham if they cooperated with South Yorkshire Police’s inquiries into the grooming gangs operating in the northern town, has been awarded an MBE for “services to integration” and “cohesion”. The Express has more.

It is not known who nominated Muhbeen Hussain for the gong after he previously called on Muslims in Rotherham to “take all the necessary action to protect ourselves” and sever ties with local law enforcement.

Mr Hussain made the call in October 2015, just a year after it was revealed police had failed to investigate thousands of allegations of abuse and rape of children and young girls in the former mining town. At the time his campaign group warned: “Any Muslim groups or institutions in Rotherham that do not adhere to this policy of disengagement will also be boycotted by the Muslim community.”

Speaking to the BBC when he was pushing for the boycott, Mr Hussain said there was an attempt to “scapegoat” Muslims and that the police had failed to protect the community from the far-Right.

It’s since been admitted by senior former government figures that some departments and local agencies did not want to reveal the scale of the grooming scandal to journalists.

Months earlier an inquiry by Alexis Jay found with Rotherham social services “there was a widespread perception that messages conveyed by some senior people in the council and also the police, were to ‘downplay’ the ethnic dimensions of [child sexual exploitation]”.

Mr Hussain now runs the allparty parliamentary group on British Muslims. He holds a House of Commons pass sponsored by Naz Shah, the MP for Bradford West. Mr Hussain’s MBE for “political services to integration cohesion and to British society” was announced last month.

Worth reading in full.

Stop Press: Several leading figures on the right have commented on this on X, including Dominic Cummings and Robert Jenrick:

 

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