I hate Islam.
I detest it. I despise it. I loathe it. I abhor it. I’m really not very keen on it.
It is a religion invented by an illiterate seventh-century goat-herder who married a six-year-old girl. Along with the ideas of Karl Marx, Islam is the worst set of ideas ever to be vomited into the world.
It is intolerant, it is anti-democracy, anti-capitalism, anti-free speech, anti-women, anti- almost everything that is good in this world.
Its spread has crippled the Middle East and Africa and is now crippling the West, thanks to our deranged cretin politicians who have allowed millions of its adherents to leave their benighted homelands and settle here.
And yet. What about two of my elderly mother’s carers, who are Muslim? They both seem like nice women. They care for my mum, wash her hair, make her sandwiches, do little jobs for her. They’ve softened my mum’s attitude to immigrants, whom she riled against for decades (“Your dad thinks I’m right of the BNP” she said to me a few years ago.) She smiles when she tells me they are embarking on a fast because of Ramadan. Our conversation went something like this when I told her I think all that stuff is crazy:
Mum: “Well, we Christians do all our things too.”
Me: “I’m not a Christian! I think all religions are bad. But Islam is the worst of them all. It’s awful.”
I think our exchange reveals the problem we are facing. People struggle to separate their personal relationships with immigrants (or immigrant-descended) and the wider issue of demographic change.
I once went out with a nurse of Spanish heritage who wouldn’t support any anti-immigration policies because she felt they were against her, because the parties espousing them would have stopped people like her parents coming to the country.
Yet this is, in a way, the evil genius of the immigration movement. And why it will never stop; it will only get worse. Ali in the corner shop appears to be a nice fella you get on with. How heartless would it be to support parties who, if they had been in power at the time, would have stopped him from coming to this country and opening his corner shop which has served the community so well.
It’s a waste of breath saying that such shops existed before he came to Britain, and such native-run shops exist in parts of the country still ‘unblessed’ by diversification.
I may have already used enough dangerous phrases in this article to ensure it’s shadow-banned (or banned) by Substack or Google, but let’s try for a few more. (By the way, Substack just put a red squiggle under ‘Substack’ to indicate it’s a misspelling – surely they can give that word a free pass…? Come on.)
Islam is hate. Islam is dumb. Islam is oppressive. Islam is incompatible with all that made the West the remarkable place it used to be. Bit by bit it is taking over Britain. Every election more Muslims are elected. They get ever higher in institutions and in government – one of them is now home secretary. The Labour government’s new ‘Protecting What Matters’ paper is the latest signpost in the destruction of the UK. Previous signposts included everything from the Salman Rushdie fatwa, the election of Sadiq Khan as London Mayor – and, later, knighting him – to Parliament celebrating Ramadan in 2025, and more recently the Birmingham police banning Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, and Muslims on patrol on horses in Manchester.
It’s the political and social blocs they form that is so pernicious. Everything but everything gets warped.
Then there’s the fact that more than 80% of Muslim women don’t work, the highest of any group in that category (my mum’s carers are exceptions). Instead they claim benefits paid for by the hapless British taxpayer, taxpayers funding their own demise.
I can only imagine the amount of tax avoidance in much of the ‘working’ Muslim community. I was once told that the authorities forbade investigations into this in case it hurt community cohesion. Where have we heard that before?
We are becoming the first country in history to be wiped out by being nice.
One could also mention: the Pakistani rape gangs operating up and down Britain for decades; Islamists being responsible for 94% of all terror-related deaths in the UK in the past 25 years; worldwide, Islamic terrorists carrying out nearly 50,000 deadly terror attacks since 9/11 alone; ‘honour’ killings; voting fraud; cruel animal slaughter; critics of Islam in fear of their life; cousin marriage; niqabs; antisemitism… The list goes on. And they wonder why folk have a fear of Islam!
The Establishment know Muslim immigration has been a catastrophe but they will never say that because they would have to admit they have been wrong, and they don’t do that.
I like dogs. I like alcohol. I like scantily clad women. I like a flutter. I like speaking my mind. I don’t like theocratic regimes. How could I ever be good friends with a Muslim? (It might sound strange but I knew this from an early age when a Muslim neighbour wouldn’t let me and a pal take home the worms and insects we’d dug up in her garden with her young son. Long story.) I’d be civil to them, as I of course am to my mother’s carers, but it’d be impossible to form a solid, strong friendship with one. Scale this up to population level and we have a problem. Integration can never truly happen. We have a Balkanised future – at best. At worst we are crushed beneath the heavy hooves of the Islamist movement, ushered in by the likes of witless Green Party MPs who dress like 1970s children’s TV presenters, and we become their subjects.
Michel Houellebecq’s Submission is actually a pretty mild version of what could happen.
I would say resist all you can. But resistance is pretty much illegal now, and will become even more so. What can we do, where can we go? I had a letter published in the Daily Express 25 years ago in which I said ‘Where can white Brits escape to when there is nowhere left to escape to?’ I repeat that question now.
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All good stuff and nothing to disagree with EXCEPT (as the writer acknowledges) being against Islam isn’t in any way also an endorsement of the ‘lunacies’ of other religions. It doesn’t take much research to grasp that many of the articles and comments on ‘far-right’ alt media are full of equally bigoted ‘Christian’ opinion, that these people also can’t wait to impose on everyone else believing that they know best, understand morality and interpret scripture in ways that are 100% correct (even if wrapped up in mock humility and normally with lashings of meaningless ‘Judeo-Christian’ shared heritage thrown in).
So, assuming (with good reason) that Catholicism is one of those “lunatic” religions, I’m interested to know if you would disagree with one of Catholicism’s chief lunatics, St Thomas Aquinas (theologian) who argued (way back in the 13th century) that immigrants should not be permitted to participate in the governance of their “new” country for at least three generations. Until that point, he argues, they are still attached to their original homeland and culture, so should not be in a position to meaningfully affect the culture of the nation to which they have relocated. Makes sense to me. I mean, although we keep saying that “the lunatics are running the asylum [country]” under Labour, maybe some lunatics do, sometimes, get it right. Hmmm?
Russell David – please leave us a forwarding address when you are convicted. I want to send a card. I’m sure the Free Speech Union will sell some.
Forgot to say that, without a doubt, the Woke brigade and other atheists will dismiss Aquinas’ argument as one of those “far right Christian bigots”, although – laughably, there are many on blogs who ask, in bewilderment, if Catholics actually ARE Christians.” You really couldn’t make it up.
Specifically I meant those ‘Holy Joe’ writers over at TCW and the comments their ramblings receive from the ‘holier than thou’ brigade who’d be happy to lend a hand to the Moslems in enforcing their similar ideals of society and family life (much as they might deny it).
Patricia, you are grown up and sensible enough not to be triggered if someone doesn’t get (or even want to) the tenets of any Faith that isn’t violent in its ‘conversion’ methods.
BTW it’s never a good thing, in my opinion, to base the strength of personal views on the valudation of T. Aquinas or St. Paul etc. speak your own mind, it’s equally as valid as the saintly long dead.
Nathaniel,
Rest assured, if there’s one lassie in this world who speaks her mind, it’s me, moi, not to mention, myself. But who among us is so knowledgeable and insightful and downright clever in all aspects of life and death, that we do not need, and/or cannot learn from the words, writings, influence of others with, perhaps, greater minds that our own, or in my case, mine, me, myself, etc ? Does nobody influence your thinking? Really? Have you never reflected on the writings of others and been impressed enough to quote them in conversations or blogs? Really?
I’m surprised at your comment about TCW – I used to contribute there myself, at one point. I’m also somewhat surprised at your reason for having a go at the “Holy Joe’s” over at TCW – the fact that (I’m assuming here) said Holy Joe’s believe in the traditional model of family, mother, father, married, with children, all living under the same roof (as do Muslims) and you don’t want that “imposed” on our wonderfully well ordered society, currently brimming with happiness as our society “enjoys” free choice in how we decide to DO family. Now, that DOES surprise me! Islam does get some things right – it was launched several centuries after Christ and so Christ’s teaching would have been there for the taking – and those early Muslims DID take it! You’ll see plenty of shadowing, so to speak, of Christianity and, in particular, Catholicism. They even have some prayer beads!
Maybe I’ve misunderstood your meaning but I fail to see any other way to interpret the following: “… [the] ‘far-right’ alt media are full of equally bigoted ‘Christian’ opinion, that these people also can’t wait to impose on everyone else believing that they know best, understand morality and interpret scripture in ways that are 100% correct.”
I’m assuming that the above example of family life (now termed “traditional” to distinguish it from the “anything goes” family types) is one such imposition? If I’m wrong, I apologise but if there are no specifics given in these kinds of exchanges, I become Sister Patricia of the Ever Assuming, Ever Burning Candle. I’m now in daft mood mode. Please forgive.
The reason our society is in a heap of confusion and immorality of one kind or another, is because of the false idea that we can do away with “religion” and make our own decisions, without reference to those greater minds I mentioned above – where I should also have mentioned the objective natural moral law. We are in a mess because we’ve chucked God out and decided to go it alone. I’m afraid that, grown up and sensible or not (thank you!) I DO get triggered when I see the mess of life around me – both within and without my own family and families of friends – because of the Adam & Eve mindset, that we all know better than God. That was the first sin, the sin of pride and disobedience to God’s moral law (hence, greater minds than mine opine, Adam & Eve immediately realised they were naked and tried to hide from God – a clue that their sin in some way raised their awareness of themselves as physical beings). So, while it’s acceptable for Godless people to rearrange the entire social and moral order, so that “anything goes” – and too bad about the fallout. The fallout, of course, includes the increasing levels of mental and physical health issues and widespread unhappiness. We’ve lived through the move from relativism where we all decide what is right and wrong for ourselves to nihilism where we no longer can distinguish right from wrong – and yet still people decry all mention of God as being some kind of lunacy. No, Nathaniel, it’s lunacy to deny God and to live a Godless life. End of.
I’ve rambled on here and all to get to this point. Russell David is OK to say he hates/loathes Islam – he is quick to discount himself as a religious person, perish the thought, but despite that denial of Christ, I’m here to let him know that if he WERE a Christian, he should know that the two things we MUST hate are sin and heresy, the latter being false teaching about God. It won’t help him if the Thought Police knock on his front door, but it’s consoling, I hope, on some level. Well, not really, if he recalls Christ’s own words about salvation: “If you deny Me in the presence of men, I will deny YOU in the presence of My father in Heaven”. I should have checked the Gospel, chapter and verse, but it’s been one of those days. And that warning is in there, Russell. Believe me.
‘End of’. How comforting it must be to know that your beliefs are the only ones that are right. Nobody is allowed to have a different opinion? Alternative beliefs and thoughts are not valid? That is as infuriating and arrogant as people who end every post or comment with ‘FACT’.
Patricia:”So, assuming (with good reason) that Catholicism is one of those “lunatic” religions”
It is! and, to paraphrase John Cleese’s messiah follower in The Life Of Brian: ”I should know, I used to be one!”
It took the rantings of an insane Irish priest (Is there any other sort?) to bring me to my senses aged 11 and I have refused the bribery, threats and corruptions of ALL religions ever since.
Oh well, Mick, I stand/sit corrected. At 11 you had the knowledge and insight to “come to your senses” about Catholicism, being so bad, lunatic religion. I’m impressed. I’m also wildly jealous – why has nobody tried to bribe ME? I stay in the Church and hopefully will do until my dying day, but not because I’ve been bribed or threatened. I wonder what other insights you had at that young age – school? Or could you see the value of attending school despite all its flaws, such as teachers insisting that you do the boring work as well as the fun bits and giving you detention for not handing in homework or being naughty in lessons? You didn’t see that as bribery, threatening or corruption? Just sayin’
Where there are individuals, there will always be corruption. Take a look around you. But the Church itself is not corrupt – I won’t say more because I tend to give theological lectures once I’m up and running and I’m aware that Christ warned us not to cast pearls and to shake the dust – stuff like that. You’ve rejected His Church, and it’s not right for me (or anyone else) to force you to remain or return to it, so I’ll simply finish by wishing you a very happy Feast of St Patrick! Smile!
Patricia, unless you are a ‘born again’ type, you follow the religion you follow because of where you were born and what religion your parents told you to follow.
And I wouldn’t have a problem with any religion if those who believe were content to follow it and let the rest of us be, but they aren’t and want the rest of us to follow their rules too.
See: 25 moslem MP’s in the House of Commons / 26 C of E Bishops in the House of Lords
The difference with islam is that moslems are an invasive species – wherever they go they take over and subjugate / eliminate any other religion, because that is precisely what they are told to do by their religion.
UKIP are not in the least bit shy about promoting Christianity. They are the only British polit party to do so to my knowledge.
I personally wish all Muslims would it would relieve the world of a heavy responsibility,starting with their leaders naturally.
I meant to say DIE
There is no reply button at the comment from col1664 col1664 so here is my brief response.
While there is nothing at all wrong with following the religion into which you were born, just as children take their lead from parents in everything else under the sun until they can look into things for themselves, and while I did attend Mass and so on as a child born into a Catholic family, there came a time when I was 14 years old, I believe, when something a schoolteacher said in the religion class made me realise that beliefs are of central importance, that not all religions are true and that we had a duty to know and understand our Faith. She emphasised the importance of reading and getting to know our doctrines and so I set about doing just that.
So, I’ll leave it there, except to say that, if you perhaps understood the nature of Christian Faith more, you would not see those exhortations to believe in Christ as impositions being imposed on you, any more than you (I’m sure) see birthday/Christmas gifts as being imposed on you. Gifts are to be welcomed and treasured. Nothing more than the gift of true Faith.
Now I really WILL leave it there!
The aggressive dissemination in this country of the islamic faith is a despicable manifestation of a cowardly invasion that is ably assisted by useful idiots. Idiots exemplified by the ludicrous likes of the, recently elected, green MP and others cast in her flawed mould.
Humerously, this ridiculous woman has cos played as a plumber. She went to Wickes, purchased a shifting spanner, picked up an instructive leaflet or two and learnt to drink tea with twelve sugars thus became fully qualified as a tradesman (ain’t no such word as tradeswoman, definitely not never no such word as tradesperson but I quite like the alliterative nomenclature of plumbists like Madame Spencer: tradestrans tossers).
Take heart though, come the islamic revolution gay guys like David Paulden, AKA Snaggle Toothed Zac, will be the first against the wall. No wait, my mistake, they throw happy people like him from tall things, it’s Marxists that go against the wall so Lady Spencer would have to pay for her own special bullet. Zac baby would only have to hire his own tall crane.
We live in interesting times but no more than any other era.
Plus ça change.
Funny thing is, I was dragged up as a Catholic, draw yer own conclusions from that and I can remember having a few discussions and the occasional disagreement with the local Catholic clergy. The discussions were reasonable, not much rancour going on apart from on one occasion when a young, inexperienced Priest got a bit angry. Can’t say I blame him though, I was only twelve and obviously had all the answers.
Here is the really weird thing, it still puzzles me, even more so in the light of the muslim predilection for murdering non muslims in general and specifically wanting to kill apostates.
Not once was I threatened with death by any of the Priests that I annoyed. Prety sure that not one of them wanted to kill me.
How bizarre is that?
Are you sure, Roger? I mean, really sure that your priest only got a bit angry?
It’s well known, after all, that every Catholic priest is a paedophile, a child abuser, and, the worst of the worst. Every last one of them. Well known fact.
And, I mean, I don’t know you, obviously, but just from reading your comment here, I have to ask: are you really sure that not one of those priests wanted to kill you?
Er… I mean, I’ve only read you comment above and I ….
Anyway, you said it yourself… bizarre is the word!
Isn’t Islam just an amalgam of both Judaism and Christianity, hence why cannot it be peaceably accommodated with them?
The so called religion of peace does take itself very seriously and with no quarter given.
No Rick – Islam is in a class of its own. Different in every way.
Yet again, there is no reply button at the Kangarabbit’s comment so I’m replying here just to say that your anger with my “End of” is obvious. Not so obvious is what is YOUR opinion about my entire sentence, taken in context: “… it’s lunacy to deny God and to live a Godless life. End of.”
Well, do you agree or disagree? If so – why? If not – why?
Or let us know if you don’t actually HAVE an opinion on this (eternal) life or (eternal) death issue. Please and thank you!