Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner continues to pursue her near-hysterical obsession with criminalising and shutting down the free speech of folk who dare to question religious genocide and rape. Meanwhile British-Bangladeshi writer and media commentator Dr Rakib Ehsan, writing on the UnHerd website challenges this:
“Though it is important to combat sweeping generalisations, definitions of Islamophobia should not fuel institutional paralysis by detracting from the fact that Islamist extremism remains Britain’s principal terror threat and men of Pakistani Muslim heritage are disproportionately represented among GLCSE (Group Localised Child Sexual Exploitation) prosecutions.”
Meanwhile, author and freelance journalist Yousra Samir Imran, writing in Hyphen, a website that describes itself as the leading media platform on Muslim life in the UK and Europe, contends that racism and Islamophobia are flourishing in the UK and the man most to blame for this is one Tony Blair. He is, she says, not just responsible for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that killed thousands of Muslims, but for painting Muslims as extremists in the years since, while questioning Muslim allegiance and Britishness.
According to Imran, ‘To build bridges with disappointed Muslim voters, Starmer must disregard Blair’s advice and instead listen to Muslim MPs, councillors and community leaders who know the Muslim community best.’
Starmer, she wrote last July, must not make the same mistake again if he doesn’t want to lose the Muslim vote, which as she points out, he has already begun to.
Interestingly, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets is now under full political control of an exclusively Bangladeshi-Islamic male-only political party, that goes under the Moniker of ‘Aspire’. This is one such example of Muslims breaking away from the Labour party.
With all attention focused on Islamophobia, the rise of political Islam has been studiously ignored by politicians (including feminist ones) and the mainstream media alike. Yet in the case of Aspire, an individual previously banned from office for electoral fraud and “undue spiritual influence”, namely one Lutfur Rahman, is back in charge running his private empire.
Back in 2015, Rahman was found guilty of corrupt and illegal practices, when he and his supporters were found to have used religious intimidation through local Imams – and vote-rigging, as well as falsely branding his Labour rival a racist to gain power.
Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, the French academic who has been investigating the Islamic Brotherhood for three decades, has described how the organisation had implanted itself in Britain more successfully than any other European country, except for Belgium. Indeed, Britain, under both this and the previous Government’s watch, is an example of a country that is all too eager to accommodate Islamic extremism.
It appears to be the Labour government that is making this all so much worse, not the alleged and mythical ‘far-right extremists’. They are aggravating the situation by demonising indigenous British citizens, leading to groups forming their own online echo chambers, fomenting a kind of confused hatred that doesn’t know on which side to pitch itself. Starmer’s government are pitching communities against other communities, deliberately demonising ordinary working-class British people in order to justify their claims against them.
How ironic is it then that the Labour party, which continues to pointlessly prostrate itself before Muslims with promises of Islamophobia legislation on the grounds of ‘inclusivity’, is also alienating law-abiding Muslims who wish to integrate into British society and are also worried by Islamic extremists? Reform UK, however, would embrace such individuals.
Far from being a unifying force, the Labour party’s policies are deeply divisive. Labour lost more than 300,000 votes last July, in areas with the highest concentration of Muslims. In Bradford West, a popular Muslim enclave, we witnessed the largest single drop in the Labour vote share (44.5 percentage points).
The ‘phobic’ obsessed Starmer and his hand-wringing cohorts have failed to read the political barometer in this country. Aside from the horror of the events of last year, his obsession with the ‘far-right’ (an entity he is singularly unable to even define) has blinded him from the real problem – the rise of political Islam in the UK which no one, apart from an extremist minority – on both the left and the right, want. If we are not to be riven by sectarianism, this is something that neither he nor the rest of the political and media establishment can afford to ignore.
The Labour Government is tone deaf – and blind – to the views of millions of ordinary British citizens, including those of different cultures and origins.
The party currently tipped to win the next election has a Muslim chairman in Scots-born Zia Yusuf, who might even lead Reform UK one day. And so, it seems it is the Labour government itself that stands in the way of political and cultural unity in this country.
How’s that for ‘inclusivity’?!
Kim Rye is a former Fleet Street copytaker, freelance journalist and political commentator.
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Put simply it’s a failure to grasp that Islam isn’t just a religion, it’s a way of life with inflexible, unchallengeable rules for everything – many of which are incompatible with how non-Moslems want and expect to live their lives in the current century. Islamaphobia is perhaps the justifiable default stance of anyone who wants personal freedom.
Furthermore, it is becoming increasingly difficult to see how Great Britain can remain a viable, vaguely democratic state without the eradication of islam which is entirely incompatible with the British way of life and which the vast majority do not want.
Completely agree, unfortunately most people still have zero interest in this and prefer to believe that all religions, and none, are equally ‘nice’/acceptable choices and by the time they realise the truth and are forced to live an Islamic lifestyle (or else!) it will be far too late. I also find it concerning that adherents of Islam already occupy positions of authority, even in national spheres and major political parties where they should instead be held to account for their unsuitability given their beliefs and loyalties to an alien creed.
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The problem with using the term “political Islam” is that it is often linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and consequently thought of as a modern phenomenon, often in response to some prior cause external to Islam and this creates the assumption in the minds of many that somehow “political Islam” is distinct from “religious Islam”.
However, Islam has always been political in the sense that Islam was political from the outset and it is better to see the political aspect of Islam as the weft to the warp of the religious aspect in the overall fabric of Islam.
What we are seeing is more political activism on the part of growing (in demographic as well as numerical terms) Muslim population who see increasing opportunities to reform society into a more Islamic one which is an inherently political intention.
Labour would rally votes from the deceased if they could