The leader of a Muslim boycott of the police following an investigation into Pakistani-heritage paedophile rape gangs will be honoured by the British state for his services to community ‘cohesion.’
Muhbeen Hussain campaigned for Muslims in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, to withdraw from interacting with the local police force, whom he accused of ‘scapegoating’ them in 2015, warning
Any Muslim groups or institutions in Rotherham that do not adhere to this policy of disengagement will also be boycotted by the Muslim community, and they should take all the necessary action to protect ourselves.
These threats emerged as police began looking into allegations of group-based child sexual exploitation (CSE), going back at least as far as 2003. It’s estimated that at least 1,500 vulnerable girls were abused in the town.
Hussain’s Member of the British Empire (MBE) was awarded in last month’s King’s birthday honours list, recognising his “political services to integration cohesion and to British society.” While he formally recognised both the scale of the rape gang cover-up and the high proportion of British Pakistani male perpetrators, his police boycott activity has made his recent nomination controversial.
In February 2025, Rotherham-based Hussain was identified as a key individual on the staff of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on British Muslims ”closely involved in” developing a “highly-contested definition of Islamophobia.” Bizarrely, at least a decade of obstructive action has resulted in Hussain now being fêted by the state while fuelling the legal basis for it to erect an ideological force-field around Muslims in Britain, protecting them from offence and free speech.
