U.K. grooming gangs and the evil that dare not speak its name

JERUSALEM – The topic of the largely Muslim grooming gangs that operated in working-class areas of the U.K. and in which thousands of white girls and barely pubescent young women were routinely sexually abused over a more than 30-year period is one of the most shameful in recent British history. The issue apparently had died down a little, until two interconnected events brought it rocketing back above the surface.

The Rochdale grooming gang ringleader, (50 men who sexually abused or raped...