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Holy Smoke: did Muslim leaders help conceal the grooming gangs scandal? A fierce exchange of views

Holy Smoke: did Muslim leaders help conceal the grooming gangs scandal? A fierce exchange of views

Update: 2025-01-17
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Welcome to one of the most heated exchanges of views in the history of the Holy Smoke podcast. In this episode, Damian Thompson talks to the distinguished Islamic scholar Dr Musharraf Hussain about the controversy surrounding the Muslim background of some of the accused in the crimes of Britain's 'grooming gangs'. 



Damian draws an analogy between the Catholic hierarchy's cover-up of sex abuse by priests, and what he claims was the role of certain local Muslim community leaders in restricting debate about, and investigation of, abuse committed by men from Pakistani families. To say that there was no common ground between Dr Thompson and Dr Hussain would be putting it mildly, alas...



Produced by Patrick Gibbons.
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Holy Smoke: did Muslim leaders help conceal the grooming gangs scandal? A fierce exchange of views

Holy Smoke: did Muslim leaders help conceal the grooming gangs scandal? A fierce exchange of views

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