Many of my friends are horrified moderate muslims and are warning that extremism, particularly Muslim extremism, has found a powerful democratic voice, bolstered by mass immigration and cowardly politicians from the mainstream parties.
The rise of extremism, particularly Islamist extremism, is a growing concern for many moderate Muslims as well as many other citizens in Britain, who fear its increasing influence through democratic processes, mass immigration, and what they perceive as a lack of strong opposition from the two mainstream politicians.
Adnan Hussain, the independent MP for Blackburn, has criticised free speech because “it means protecting the right to offend Muslims”, but in fact “free speech is the right to offend Christians, Jews, Muslims and everyone else including Llamas”Furthermore, tensions between India and Pakistan are raising fears that sectarian divisions could escalate on British streets.
Evidence of pro-extremist sectarianism is visible in London protests, where controversial and potentially illegal signs are displayed with little apparent intervention.
Disturbingly strong rhetoric is also reportedly prevalent in some extremist mosques and madrassas across the UK. This influence seems to be extending into local councils and even Parliament. And this week we saw Iranian extremists seek to launch a terrorist attack, at least one of the arrested terrorists being someone who came over from France on a small boat, claiming to be an asylum seeker.
Pro-extremism sectarianism is already seen in the protests in London where the police are too cowardly to do anything about the highly illegal and criminal signs being displayed whether “from the river to the sea” or “the only good terf is a dead terf” and much more severe rhetoric is being spouted in the extremist mosques and madrassas of the UK with impunity. It is also fast infecting our local councils, Parliament itself and many of our great institutions, with Labout MPs now openly saying that its MPs were unlikely to get re-elected in some parts of the country, because of the rise of Islamist extremist political parties. One recent Labout MP said to Camilla Tominey “Leicester is lost, as are parts of Birmingham and Bradford,” he conceded. “We won’t get elected in some of these areas again.”
The Labour Party’s vote share has significantly declined in heavily Muslim-populated areas, causing alarm among moderate Muslim voters who worry about the fundamental reshaping of Britain by Islamist extremists.
Whilst Reform did well, few noticed that the local elections once again witnessed the elevation of a number of Islamist candidates, who previously would have stood for Labour, but are now standing in their own right – without being tied to a national party- but with one aim – to insert Sharia Law and Islamic practice in place of today’s law and society.
In Burnley Central East, Maheen Kamran was elected as a Muslim n independent, beating Labour, on a ticket of segregation of the sexes, getting 38% of the vote and beating Reform’s 30% with the incumbent labour getting only 14%. She called for the end of “free mixing” between Muslim men and women.
These individuals, who might previously have stood for Labour, are now campaigning independently for a Muslim vote and Sharia Law to supercede English Law.
Suspended Labour counsellor for Nelson East, Azhar Ali, was dropped by Labour for saying that “Israel allowed Hamas’s attack on October 7 in order to get a green light to do whatever they bloody want”.
Pro-Gaza Sohail Asghar (Green Party: Accrington West and Oswaldtwistle Central) regularly promotes the posts of people associated with Holocaust denial and anti-semitism, but despite cases such as Lucy Connolly and ex-police pensioner Julian Foulkes, she remains, as a Muslim MP, immune from this partisan police force as despite these concerns, Labout remains blind and unable to perceivthe impact of political pandering to the extremist wing of Islamist groups.
For example, Labour has been refused to address the issue of Halal slaughter, despite EU concerns about animal welfare standards and possible repercussions for the agricultural industry in the UK for doing nothing.
Labour and the Metropolitan police openly operate , and has been criticized for its approach to a two-tier policing on demonstrations, operating a laissez-faire process for any pro-Gaza demonstrations.
Labour pretends not to engage with groups like the European Islamic Centre (EIC) which is associated with the Islamist ideologues Jamaat-e-Islami and Abul A’la al-Maududi, but their ministers, like Jim McMahon, minister for Local Government and English Devolution , attend events hosted by the EIC during Ramadan
. The Government also insists it has a “non-engagement policy” with the Mulsim extremist body, Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), and yet Stephen Timms, the minister for Social Security and Disability and other ministers, regularly attends their events.
Simultaneously, the government, while officially having a non-engagement policy with the Muslim Council of Britain, has seen ministers attend their events.
Labour MP Tahir Ali’s call to prohibit the “desecration of all religious texts” has also been viewed by some as prioritizing the protection of Islam but not other religious doctrines over the general principle of free speech and the government’s emphasis on tackling “Islamophobia in all its forms” without a similar focus on other forms of religious discrimination is another fundamental attack on free speech, because all Mulsims are already adequately protected from discrimination under the Equality acts.
Iqbal Mohamed, the MP for Dewsbury and Batley, arguing against a ban on first cousin marriage in the Commons, suggesting that “ordinary people see family inter-marriage overall as something that is very positive”, despite the overwhelming medical evidence to the contrary.
And the disgraceful “dog whistle” comments of Lucy Powell MP’s in relation to the raising of a public statutory enquiry for the child rape gangs operating with the full knowledge of Labour members and the police, something that is still going on today
Last month, a group of 20 Labour MPs petitioned the prime minister of Pakistan to build a new airport in Mirpur, the ancestral homeland of a majority of Britain’s Pakistani population, whilst we have an economic crisis caused by the benefit costs of the daily arriving batallion of young men of muslim descent, of fighting age, and who have been brought up to hate the West and British and to treat white women as 3rd rate species, exactly the same way as the Nazi treated Jews, …and we can’t afford to give heating allowances to our pensioners.
Yet we have Hamit Coskun, 50, who was initially charged with intent to cause distress “against the religious institution of Islam” after allegedly burning a Quran, but two-tier Kier’s CPS has accepted that blasphemy was abolished as a common law offence s in 2008 forcint the CPS to amend the charge. Where is Hamit Coskun’s Human Rights, protecting his right to free speech and freedom of expression and protest …seemingly and astonishingly vanished in this Human Right Age where the wrong chicken nuggets can stop deportation.
Even within the Conservative party, there are signs of shifting positions, with some Tory MPs signing a letter advocating for the UK to recognize Palestine, a move seen by some as emboldening Hamas, and just this week, Oghenochuko Ojiri, who has appeared on BBC show, pleads guilty to eight offences under Terrorism Act for supplying Art to a suspected Hezbollah financier.Yet the BBC responded with “well its just selloing a bit of art” – No, it’s not, it’s money laundering – substituting illicit funds into art which is readily transportable and readily sellable anywhere in the world to finance terrorism. Ojiri knew when he did this that Mr Ahmad was subject to sanctions and had apparently received advice about the deal breaking sanctions law, and there were discussions produced in evidence where Mr Ojiri is party to a conversation where it is apparent a lot of people have known for years about his terrorism links. Mr Ahmed was a “major Hezbollah financial donor who used high-value art and diamonds to launder money and fund the group and is accused in the USA of evading terrorism sanctions by using front companies to acquire more than $160m (£120m) in artwork and diamond services to fund Hezbollah. – yet he got bail!
Finally, the appointments of Indhu Rubasingham, who previously declined to host the UK Jewish Film Festival, to lead the National Theatre, and Minouche Shafik, who oversaw a period of significant anti-Semitism at Columbia University, to head the Victoria and Albert Museum, have also drawn scrutiny.
Where in VE80 week are the protections to Britishness and Britih Culture that so many thousands of British people gave their lives for?