//I'm not aware that anyone here has ever defended Muslim (or any other) grooming gangs. The crimes are despicable. Has anyone on AB suggested otherwise?//
No, but you could easily get the impression that some posters hate Robinson more than they do the rapists Robinson is campaigning against.
Some posts express a malicious glee that Robinson is in prison, yet nothing Robinson has done, or is ever likely to do is one hundredth as bad as the acts committed by thousands of rapists who today are free men walking the streets of major towns and cities.
Ought that not be the bigger cause of outrage?
Robinson may indeed be an odious man, but he isn't odious for wanting redress for gang rape. And, whatever, you may think of his methods, he is a reaction to the indifference of all the organs of state to the scandal.
And ought not he be given credit for publicising (at some cost to himself) what others have tried to keep hidden?
This is how Douglas Murray (from the article in AOG's link) puts it:
"...any challenge Robinson presents is all a secondary issue. The primary issue is that for years the British state allowed gangs of men to rape thousands of young girls across Britain. For years the police, politicians, Crown Prosecution Service, and every other arm of the state ostensibly dedicated to protecting these girls failed them. As a number of government inquires have concluded, they turned their face away from these girls because they were terrified of the accusations of racism that would come their way if they did address them. They decided it wasn’t worth the aggravation.
By contrast, Tommy Robinson thought it was worth the aggravation, even if that meant having his whole life turned upside down. Some years ago, after crawling over all of his personal affairs and the affairs of all his immediate family, the police found an irregularity on a mortgage application, prosecuted Robinson, convicted him, and sent him to prison on that charge. In prison he was assaulted and almost killed by Muslim inmates."