Britain’s Shameless Appeasement of Islam

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You know what it’s like in London, there’s never a mosque around when you need one. I recall the Muslim takeover of SW1 late last year, when thousands of pro-Palestine supporters found themselves caught short, and decided that Downing Street would have to do for a spot of al fresco prayer. As the Adhan blared at a dizzying volume, the Old Bill watched on meekly from the periphery; an arrest about as forthcoming as a bacon sandwich. I remember thinking then, this was not a good look for Britain. 

Clearly I’m not the only one, as there’s been tough talk from the Tories of late. Suella Braverman got her two penneth in first, “This is no longer the great country I knew. Islamists are bullying Britain into submission” she wrote. Notice the ridiculous use of the term ‘Islamist’: the suffix ‘-ist’ simply means someone who believes, so according to the Tories the problem isn’t Islam, it’s just those who actually believe in Islam. Work that one out. 

Sunak was cagier still, refusing to name the enemy and having to rope the ‘far-right’ into the equation just to get the words out: “There are forces here at home trying to tear us apart…our streets have been hijacked by small groups, who are hostile to our values and have no respect for our democratic traditions.” Sure Rishi, all those ‘far-right’ Brexit-voting bastards – not the 90% jihadis comprising MI5’s terror watchlist. 

You can’t blame the government for trying though, the electorate has spotted something is up. When the police devote all their energy to persuading us we don’t understand the nuance of words like ‘jihad’, ‘genocide’ and ‘intifada’, something’s got to give. Of course, Westminster isn’t overly concerned about the antisemitism – but they can’t have the plebs voting the wrong way, either for Gorgeous George Galloway or worse still for Reform!

Whatever the official Downing Street line regarding the Islamic influence on Britain however, the actions of our elected representatives, the police, the judiciary, and our faith leaders all suggest much the same thing: Islam is now in the ascendancy, and homage if not naked appeasement is the only viable response.

Consider the raft of measures recently announced to placate Britain’s restive Muslim population: the £1million Muslim War Memorial plans which took extraordinarily precedence in Hunt’s budget; the £117million set aside to protect Muslims from the rise of attacks following the Israel-Hamas war (for the record, antisemitism is up 1,353% compared to the dubious claims of a 140% rise in ‘Islamophobia’); not forgetting of course the drive to ban ‘Islamohpobia’ outright, which Starmer will almost certainly push through. It’s hard to dismiss this as mere coincidence. 

Westminster certainly proved it had no stomach for the fight last month, as MPs began to resign in the face of death threats, and House of Commons’ speaker Lindsay Hoyle caved instantly to Muslim intimidation. The nation’s spiritual leader meanwhile, the Archbishop of Canterbury, came up with the most Christian message in his arsenal: a Ramadan homily with all the sincerity of a hostage video. 

On the ground, the police have decided it’s easier to arrest those objecting to genocide rather than the mob demanding it. Our judiciary busies itself exonerating child rapists with community orders, and jailing the ‘far-right’ for selling stickers about them. And the state broadcaster is now so blatantly partisan, it lionises the rapists as victimised asylum-seekers, with the despicable justification: “in many ways less sexually experienced than the girls they were supposed to have attacked”.

The more sinister aspect to this, is the direction the authorities are headed in. The government of the day has just redefined ‘extremism’, focussing yet more on thoughts (ideology) rather than actions. Extremism apparently now looks like this:

The promotion or advancement of an ideology based on violence, hatred or intolerance, that aims to:

1. Negate or destroy the fundamental rights and freedoms of others; or

2. Undermine, overturn or replace the UK’s system of liberal parliamentary democracy and democratic rights; or

3. Intentionally create a permissive environment for others to achieve the results in (1) or (2).”

Keir Starmer’s Labour government-in-waiting meanwhile is chomping at the bit to reintroduce the blasphemy law in all but name, with the likely criminalisation of ‘Islamophobia’ – the insane definition of which is “a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness”.

The unifying thread here is the silencing of those ‘noticing’ the Islamic extremism on the streets of Britain, rather than those ‘committing’ it, and it’s hardly a surprise. The nation’s terror threat is at the highest level since 9/11, and the government has been warned extremists are ‘using the war in Gaza as a ‘recruitment advert’’. The government’s robust response? Foreign Office staff are being trained not to refer to Hamas as ‘terrorists’, as the term is ‘unhelpful’. 

Whatever they say, it’s clear by their actions the authorities have already surrendered to Islamic extremism. And by their every move, we can infer they’d prefer the populace did too – if they know what’s good for them, that is. 

Frank Haviland is the author of Banalysis: The Lie Destroying the West, and writes a Substack here.

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