In what looks like yet another ecumenical initiative by an adherent to the religion of peace, a 13-year-old schoolboy has stabbed two other teenagers at Kingsbury High School in Brent. The suspect is being held by police, and the counter-terrorism squad is investigating.
To read the report in The Guardian you could be forgiven for thinking that this was an attack by some far-right crazed teenager, possibly white. We are given no name, no nationality and no idea of the motivation. The Daily Mail has no such qualms, headlining its report with the claim that the suspect shouted “Allahu Akbar” – which, roughly translated, means ‘peace and love’ – as he went on the rampage.
It now transpires that he was arrested in a mosque but we’ll undoubtedly be told he is suffering from mental health problems. I think he does have a mental health problem and that mental health problem has a name but, ever mindful of Charlie Hebdo, perhaps it should remain nameless.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has expressed his sympathy to the families of the children who were stabbed. Clearly, he has not seen the headline in The Daily Mail yet or he would probably be blaming the victims for being less than welcoming to his co-religionists.
Much is being made of the reduction in knife crime in the capital which was down by 7% in the first half of last year to a paltry 15,639 offences. I must remember to cancel my order on Amazon for that stab vest.
It is well established that individuals from ethnic minorities are overrepresented in knife crime statistics and all because they are discriminated against and live in deprived areas. Which, of course, is not at all their fault; it is the fault of ‘the system’ and the system is run by white people.
Going out and stabbing someone has always been the standard response to poverty and deprivation. My grandparents, who all lived under straitened circumstances in the North East of Scotland, were always out knifing folk. I used to love to sit on their knees and listen to their ‘stabby stories’, as I used to call them.
But, on a more serious point – as if stabbings were not serious enough – we have about 150 stabbing incidents in schools per year. It looks like most of these do not reach the headlines and it is quite possible that some of these are perpetrated by white pupils.
But we do not know as statistics on the ethnicity of the perpetrators are not routinely published (it is recorded, presumably) and, given that most of the perpetrators are considered minors, their names are rarely published. But, as there are not many Muslim boys called ‘George’ or ‘Fred’, publishing such data may be an indication of ethnicity and religious affiliation.
The last two stabbings of which I am aware, the one referred to above in Brent and the one last year in Sheffield, however, are known to have been perpetrated by Muslims. Unless I am mistaken, no white Methodists in Sheffield are called Mohammed Umar Khan.
Now, I am just saying that maybe, just maybe, people from Muslim cultures – possibly immigrants – are also overrepresented among the perpetrators of school stabbings. Just maybe? This being a free country, and me being an evidence-based kind of a chap, I am holding to that viewpoint until proven otherwise. Proving me otherwise would be remarkably easy and I would look remarkably stupid as a result. Which is a risk I am willing to take.
So far this year there have been some brilliant pieces in TCW Defending Freedom by Gillian Dymond, Peter Mullen, Bruce Newsome and Tim Dieppe on the European caliphate, the Islamic war on the west and the continued turning of a blind eye to the religion and motivation of our ‘Asian’ grooming gangs. We have also been on the Islamic ball with several pieces here in TNC.
We are in the middle of a crisis, and it is entirely of our own making. The priapic hordes of Mohammedans continue to swarm our beaches; our King clearly favours Islam over the religion he is paid to ‘defend’ and even the Reform party – once our only hope of reversing this disastrous trend – is going a bit soft on these matters. It does not help that Farage is packing out the higher echelons of the party with ‘moderate’ Muslims. When the caliphate takes over the UK – and they make no secret of their intentions to do so – we may see just how moderate these Muslims are.
Roger Watson is a retired academic, editor and writer. He writes regularly for a range of conservative journals including The Salisbury Review and The European Conservative. He has travelled and worked extensively in the Far East and the Middle East. He lives in Kingston upon Hull, UK.
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I totally agree with Roger the only way to deal with this bring back hanging for knife crime no matter what the age of the attacker a thin rope is cheaper than a thick rope and Sadiq Khan should get the rope first.