New revelation about grooming gangs is yet one more way progressives have let women down

Women around the western world keep learning, again and again, that their interests too often come second to other groups. In the UK, a reckoning is now underway after decades of left-wing feminists and activists ignoring the sexual abuse of young women at the hands of so-called “grooming gangs” — many of whom are made up of South Asian immigrants.For years, these vulnerable teens and young women were denied justice.And activists didn’t speak up for them because calling out these alleged assailants wouldn’t be politically correct.It’s a symptom of a worldwide progressive instinct to put women second behind other “vulnerable” groups.

Here in the US, feminists have sneered at women who say that they do not want transgender females in their bathrooms or locker rooms or prisons.It sends a message: Women are a protected class … unless they’re one-upped by another, supposedly more oppressed population.

Then they become sacrificial lambs for the intersectional cause.A report published June 16 by Member of Parliament Rupert Lowe claims young British girls have been groomed and sexually abused en masse, often by Pakistani and Muslim perpetrators, across some 149 districts in the UK. It called out the “systematic targeting of vulnerable girls, overwhelmingly white British, by predominantly Muslim Pakistani gangs,” which Lowe claims amounts to “one of the most horrendous failures in the history of the country.”According to the report, which was a non-government independent inquiry led by Lowe, Muslim grooming gangs have been active in the UK since at least the 1950s.It claims that 87% of offenders convicted for child sexual exploitation have “distinctively Muslim names,” per court records and official inquiries.The young women victimized by grooming gangs, some of them very young teens, have experienced abuse, gang rape, STIs, forced pregnancy and abortion, and even coerced Islamic conversion.And this isn’t the first report to suggest tha...