YellowRibbon

Mehdi Hasan has reviewed the evidence. The inquiry report. The testimony of 250,000 girls. The decades of rape. The police who looked away. The councils who called victims racist. The DNA. The convictions. The dead. His verdict? Bullshit. Not mistaken. Not exaggerated. Bullshit. The same word he uses for internet conspiracy theories, he uses for state sponsored child rape. The same sneer he reserves for flat earthers, he directs at Sammy Woodhouse. At every girl who was called a liar. At every mother who was ignored. At every father who was arrested for demanding justice. Mehdi Hasan, who called non Muslims cattle in sermons, who compared homosexuals to paedophiles, who was fired from every platform that employed him, has determined that the rape of working class white girls is bullshit. Zack Polanski reposted. The man who apologized for criticizing police who stopped a terrorist. The man who blamed Elon Musk for attacks on Muslims while he excuses attacks on Jews. The hypocrite who calls himself anti racist while he smears rape victims. The man who calls billions of people animals calls 250,000 raped girls liars. And they cheer. The Confession I called non Muslims cattle, and I treated their daughters like cattle too. I saw the reports. I knew the numbers. I knew the Pakistani Muslim men were raping white working class girls by the thousand. I knew the police protected them. I knew the councils called the victims racist. I knew because I helped create the climate where calling it out was Islamophobia. I called it bullshit because the rapists looked like me. I called it bullshit because the victims were kuffar, cattle, animals, the unbelievers I preached against in my sermons. I called it bullshit because Sammy Woodhouse is white and working class and female and I have spent my career learning to despise people like her. I was fired from MSNBC, The Intercept, every platform that employed me, because I am poison. Because I cannot tell truth. Because my entire identity is built on denial. Because if I admit the grooming gangs were real, I admit I am complicit. I admit my community has a problem. I admit I spent decades calling critics racist while children were raped. I am Mehdi Hasan. I called your daughters liars. I called their trauma bullshit. I called their rapists victims of Islamophobia. I am the reason they covered it up. I am the sneer that protected the gangs. I am the hate preacher playing journalist. I am complicit in every rape I denied. And you exposed me.