While turning a blind eye to all this, the UK government worked assiduously to ban Pamela Geller and me from entering the country. The UK Home Office’s letter to me explained that I was being barred from entering for the crime of saying that Islam had a doctrine of violence against unbelievers, which is akin to the crime of pointing out that grass is green. The thing is, many of these Muslims who regularly speak at UK universities openly avow that Islam has a doctrine of violence against unbelievers, and the UK government doesn’t bat an eye. Apparently it is fine to believe that in the UK, as long as you’re actually in favor of such violence.
The enemies of freedom are in the driver’s seat in Britain, and they are prolonging the ride as long as they can.
“100 extremists a year lecture at universities: Fanatics given a platform to spread hatred of the West despite ministers demanding crackdown on radicalism,” by James Slack and Eleanor Harding, Daily Mail, July 1, 2015:
Universities are providing a platform for more than 100 Islamist extremists every year, a disturbing report will reveal next week.
The fanatics are being allowed to make speeches at leading academic institutions despite ministers calling for a crackdown on radicalism.
The study says that more than 20 students who attended UK universities have been convicted of terrorism, or have lost their lives waging jihad in Syria.
They include young men guilty of planning a ‘dirty bomb’ attack and a plot to blow up a crowded London night club.
The report was compiled by the Student Rights group, which is a project run by the Henry Jackson Society – a respected Westminster think-tank.
It revealed that a string of student bodies have refused to participate in the Government’s anti-extremism strategy, Prevent.
Rupert Sutton of Student Rights said: ‘Universities should be the best place to challenge extremist ideas, yet at present this is simply not happening – something that must change if we are to successfully oppose on-campus radicalisation.
‘Extremism on university campuses is a very serious issue, as the evidence presented in this report shows. Worse, the dominant narrative around Prevent remains a negative one – often fuelled by the very extremists it seeks to oppose, who campaign to undermine attempts to challenge the problem.’
Researchers carried out an exhaustive survey of social media and university websites and other literature to log speaking events.
Last year, there were 123 speeches by extremists, which featured claims such as ‘the West is waging a war against Islam’. There were also 145 events in 2013 and 132 in 2012. While the far Right hosted a handful of events, the lists were overwhelmingly dominated by Islamic speakers.
The Student Rights report says the speakers have ‘expressed views which promote the idea that there is a Western war against Islam, support individuals convicted of terrorism offences and express intolerance or opposition to non-believers’.
The hardliners also oppose democracy and speak in favour of being governed by religious or sharia law.
According to the report, the university which tops the league table for hosting extremists over the past three years is Queen Mary, in East London. Westminster, Kingston, King’s College and Aston University complete the top five.
The speaker who appears most regularly is Hamza Tzortzis of the Islamic Education and Research Academy, which tried to make men and women sit apart during a debate at University College London.
Tzortzis has been criticised for stating that apostates (non believers) who fight against the Muslim ‘community…should be killed’. He also reportedly said: ‘We as Muslims reject the idea of freedom of speech, and even the idea of freedom.’
Other speakers welcomed on to campuses have attacked the ‘scourge’ of homosexuality.
The student unions at King’s College London and the School of Oriental and African Studies said they would not take part in Prevent unless compelled by law and would educate students on the ‘danger’ it poses.
The National Union of Students pledged to ‘block or cease accepting’ any Prevent funding.
The NUS Black Students’ Campaign called on all universities to ‘condemn/disassociate’ from the key programme, which it claims ‘attempts to demonise and isolate Islamic societies’. The NUS passed a motion claiming that Prevent had resulted in a ‘racist witch-hunt in the tradition of McCarthyism’….
ICH says
UNREAL
we are all so stupid
jihad3tracker says
Hello, ICH — Please let me parachute down into your swimming pool, to mention Deborah Weiss at Counter Jihad Report (link below).
She was not on my radar until a few days ago. The article linked is one on the magnificent “Bridge” project at Georgetown’s ACMCU, run by John Esposito.
Take a few minutes to read it — Ms. Weiss astutely shreds the crooked logic / sheer fantasies / outright lies that Bridge conference propagated about the “Islamophobia industry”.
Note Roland Schatz’s name in paragraph twelve. He is a bloviator at Harvard; perhaps some of us at Jihad Watch would enjoy emailing him with Independence Day greetings . . .
jihad3tracker says
OOOOPS ! Here is the link : http://counterjihadreport.com/2015/05/20/deborah-weiss-exposes-georgetowns-orwellian-bridges-initiative/
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BC says
Thanks for that
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Good site, J3. Thx for the tip.
mortimer says
Yes…and the language of Western politicians is ORWELLIAN!
‘War is peace…hate is love…Islam is peace…nothing to do with Islam.’
Jaladhi says
Islam is a religion of terror and murder, plain and simple!! All these so called Islamic scholars and imams should be fired and deported to to ME and never allowed to reenter the West. Islam should only be taught by real scholars such as Robert Spencer who tell the truth about Islam and Muslims, also the Islamic apologists and pretend scholars(you know who they are) of the West should be banned and fired!!
Alissa says
All traitors of western culture should be expelled along with them. Obama, Biden, Cameron, May just to name a few should be stripped of citizenship and sent packing.
Angemon says
Always the victim, aren’t they?
Huck Folder says
Reggin abdallah abd mohammed.
Xero_G says
I must admit that some elements of Islam are perhaps troublesome, such as; the call for genocide against Jews, world domination by force, terrorism, torture, discrimination against women, child marriage, honor killings, execution of gays, apostates, amputation of limbs for theft, to mention a few.
But who are we to criticize? Islam is a major world religion so it must be respected and tolerated.regardless whether we agree with it or not. Personally, I don’t believe it’s helpful to horrifically torture and kill those who you don’t agree with, but I realize I must be tolerant in today’s society.
Georg says
I see what you did there.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
But who are we to criticize? Islam is a major world religion so it must be respected…
I first became suspicious of your posting, Xero, when you failed to mention that Islam is one of the three Abrahamic faiths. But you are right, if a little soft on the subject. Hillary, who will be our next president, calls for making it a felony hate crime to criticize any religion, and we all know by the rampant Islamophobia swirling across the globe that the one religion up for criticism is the Holy Islam. As the NUS Black Students Campaign points out, criticism of Islam is driven by racism.
But at least you have company in your endeavor: Hillary.
nicu says
Close all Mosques and so called Culture Clubs and ban the Burka !
mortimer says
There’s a culture of JIHAD CHIC among Muslim youth that TEACHERS are not reporting because of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.
They don’t want to be accused of RACISM.
jayell says
Mr. Spencer and Ms Geller aren’t the only ones getting this kind of treatment courtesy of the UK establishment. Without embarking on a long list, there must be dozens who have been silenced or arrested just for telling the truth about Islam. For example, that politician chap who quoted Churchill’s famous criticism of Islam and muslims in a public speech, and found himself arrested! But the biggest one of all is Mr. Nick Griffin (formerly chairman of the BNP) who, whilst following up the Keighley paedophile abuse business way back before 2006, found himself in danger of being put away for up to 7 years just for saying that ‘Islam is an evil and wicked faith’! (That sort of thing is now regularly finding its way into correspondence pages and comments in a less and less covert form in the Press without arrests being threatened – how very, very strange!)
But the BEST bit is to do with all the crowing and back-slapping going in ‘high circles’ as a result of the MP’s voting down Cameron’s bid to get militarily involved with the anti-Assad faction in Syria about a couple or so years ago (now seen as just about the best thing that could have happened). How very, very odd that NO-ONE (but NO-ONE!) has had the decency to recognise in public that the crucial ‘No’ vote in the UK Parliament that stopped Cameron in his war-mongering tracks came about as a result of a letter sent personally to British MP’s by a group of Syrian MP’s begging them NOT to get involved, and that this letter was skilfully worded by none other than the ‘unmentionable’ Mr. Nick Griffin when he was in Syria as an MEP on a special European delegation. How do I guess that this is the truth? Because it was plastered prominently all over the BNP website for weeks with descriptions of how Mr Griffin stayed up all night with this group of Syrian MP’s to make sure that they got the letter worded exactly right; and, of course, it worked. Why is this probably not a fanciful fabrication by the BNP? Because if it had been, all the ‘official’ news media (all the dailies, etc) and (of course) the BBC would have been on to it like a pack of hyenas, and taking great delight in publicly tearing the BNP and Mr. Griffin to shreds in the process. They couldn’t do that, of course, because the truth would have come out and they’d all have eggs over their faces. But do we hear so much as a word of thanks or recognition for the ‘odious’ Mr Griffin & co.? Do we cocoa! This, friends, is the Great British Establishment for you. So don’t get despondent when they give you all the bullsh*t, Mr. Spencer. They’re not worth a twopenny you-know-what.
BC says
It is incredible that preachers in mosques can say anything they wish no matter how inflammatory. Radicals can even get on UK chat shows and also say whatever they wish, including calling for the overthrow of British institutions and the establishment of Muslim law. However let anyone say anything critical of Islam in public and they are immediately charged with inciting hatred and pilloried by the mainstream media to boot
Georg says
I’d bet my bottom dollar there are many, many more than 100 spouting anti-Western propaganda. Of the two hate fountains at my university I encountered in “Asian Studies” some of the more odiously offensive and ridiculous claptrap put forth, in no particular order, was:
An obviously anti-Western tone and curriculum
A novel where the author laughs as the Twin Towers collapse (I wrote an e-mail complaining to the professor about this and the reply was, “Some of us have a hard time admitting the truth.” Following this, in all seriousness, was a recommendation to purchase her soon-to-be-released book.)
An admonishment to the class, concerning Afghanistan, that “Maybe some people aren’t ready for democracy.” My thoughts: Gee, we can hardly tell. We don’t care what people are ready for after 9/11 — get ready. We’ve had it and we’re not over there to help the Afghans, we’re over there to protect ourselves.
An assertion that Muslims visited the Americas long before Europeans. Evidence? 1) Olmec heads in South America which are, according to Al Doofus, not actually likenesses of Native Americans but of Islamic Malians.
2) Algonquin Native Americans’ use the prefix “Al” after the Arabic “al” translating as “the”. I have some Native American friends who didn’t appreciate this assertion in the slightest. He also told some absurd tale about Europeans first encountering Native Americans and them exhibiting knowledge of Arabic/Islam. It was hard to remain stoic for these two…
Mocking American automobiles. Whether they’re relatively poor or not, I don’t think it’s really appropriate for a professor, and foreigner no less, to get his anti-American jollies off this way. My thoughts: Better than all them Middle Eastern cars…
A cup doesn’t fall off a table because of gravity, but because Allah wills it to.
Muhammad was intelligent and a nice guy.
Muhammad rode a magic space horse which propelled itself using wings in a vaccuum and didn’t explode, despite its body heat and the lack of any pressure in space.
It was/is okay that Muhammad had sex with a 9-year-old.
Vague accounts which were non-sequiturs about white people being racist and mean
NO acknowledgment of Arab/Muslim wrongdoing anywhere, anyhow
Racist lampooning of Westerners — specifically white (for instance, freckles mocked)
Blaming the West for all the world’s problems
Denying Muslim agency in any instance where they are obviously misbehaving while affirming Muslim agency in any instance where they are doing good.
Claiming humans originated from a clot of blood.
Claiming the reason some children die miserable deaths is to prevent them from doing wrong later which would result in them going to hell (Please go tell that to a leukemia patient). I asked, “If Allah knew he was going to do something which would result in him going to hell, why would he make him in the first place and have him go through such suffering?” The teacher sort of smirked and changed topics.
Semester-long-grievance-fest. I’ll never forget an Indian girl going on and on about how oppressed she is in the United States while Indian women were being killed by having metal rods shoved into their vaginas and innards on Indian buses.
A classmate being infuriated a Westerner asked a man wearing Hindu-appearing garb if he was allowed to drink alcohol. She ripped into a classmate who took exception with her fury as being, “Racist”.
Cold looks and aggrieved silence by certain classmates who I won’t elaborate upon.
An assertion that some guy way back when who challenged Islam died of mouth cancer because he chose to use his mouth to challenge Islam… Real classy.
Professor laughing with another about the inevitability that the US would bomb Iran.
Two classes in which I thought I learned nothing whatsoever of use and in which I had been continually demoralized for 6-months each. But I learned a lot about the world that’s worth knowing. And that we’ve no choice but to stop the tide.
Tequila Not Taqiyya says
“An assertion that Muslims visited the Americas long before Europeans. Evidence? 1) Olmec heads in South America which are, according to Al Doofus, not actually likenesses of Native Americans but of Islamic Malians.
2) Algonquin Native Americans’ use the prefix “Al” after the Arabic “al” translating as “the”. I have some Native American friends who didn’t appreciate this assertion in the slightest. He also told some absurd tale about Europeans first encountering Native Americans and them exhibiting knowledge of Arabic/Islam. It was hard to remain stoic for these two… ”
Yes they assert that they visited everywhere before everybody else. Because their perverted supremacist doctrine says that if they were there then they own the land.
Mo says
@ Tequila Not Taqiyya
Off topic, but your screen name is hilarious! (I almost slobbered my iced coffee here!)
Holy Prophet APF says
Did you notice that the acronym for his screen name is TNT? This is not a coincidence.
Tequila Not Taqiyya says
🙂
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
On a related subject, it is known that Africa was once home to the world’s most advanced civilizations. So far advanced, in fact, that they had flying saucers. Imagine that, the forebears of Afro-Americans flying at thousand of miles per hour just above the jungle canopy.
So there is no reason to deride the primacy of Moslemo civilization. Did you know that they invented mathematics? They also invented medicine. Moslems are real smart people, in fact they will tell you they’re smarter than Jews, and that’s a mouthful. This is why they’re so easily offended by criticism, and request that they be handled with kid gloves, or not handled at all.
particolor says
A far safer option if You don’t want MER’s 🙁
sinantara says
One story that went around the globe till it became common knowledge was that when Neil Armstrong arrived on the moon, he distinctly heard the azan, the call to prayer, and on the spot became a Muslim. Later he public Mr. Armstrong denied that he heard the azan and had converted but who cares?
Peggy says
Albanians will also tell you that they were in Kosovo before the Serbs too and that those Serbian churches and monasteries were all Albanian but Serbs had converted them to theirs. Mind you there isn’t any proof that they were there before the Serbs and every time I asked them to produce some they either ignored me or said that Serbs destroyed all of it.
So they claim that Kosovo is theirs and they somehow managed to convince the west into fighting for it on their behalf.
Wonder if the US will agree now to give them their land because we all know that Muslims were there first too.
They life, steal and try to change history at every opportunity. If we let them get away with it then we are the fools not them. They work for their own interests and get us to do the same. For uneducated, primitive creatures they have achieved a lot.
What does that say ab out us?
mortimer says
Let’s try to understand this:
1) In UK, it’s legal to preach the violent overthrow of the government and merciless slaughter of indigenous British people.
2) In UK, it’s ILLEGAL to criticize the violent overthrow of the government and merciless slaughter of indigenous British people.
3) Conclusion: British politicians are trying to make indigenous British people national COMMIT SUICIDE.
Georg says
That looks about to be it, yes.
mortimer says
ISLAMIC STUDY GROUPS create jihadists. Many such groups are in universities. No Islamic study groups should be allowed in universities, since they are per se creating VIOLENT, SUPREMACIST SUBVERSIVES.
ISLAMIC STUDY GROUPS in universities are EXTREMELY DANGEROUS…DEADLY…LETHAL.
Can you understand, oh wise ones in the INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITIES?
Peggy says
For as long as they keep pouring money into our universities, we are going to teach whatever they tell us.
mortimer says
ISLAMIC STUDY GROUPS are the ROPE we are selling them to hang us with!
Wellington says
Actually, if Robert Spencer still wants to get into the UK, it’s actually very simple how he could do this——–just convert to Islam, then he could get in there and also do what only Muslims are allowed to do in Britain. i.e., tell the truth about Islam. Yep, that simple.
JamesonRocks says
Excellent idea!
duh_swami says
If he stayed he could go on welfare, get a million dollar house to live in and cash payments to him, his 4 wives and 37 children…
Life is good in the UK if you play your cards right…
abad says
Colleges and universities in the west are one of the central places where Muslims try to indoctrinate young, impressionable minds into the Religion of Peace(TM). Luckily I finished my higher education as an adult student, was well-grounded in the Bible, and could not be sold a line from any Muslim about the lies of their religion. The Bible is very clear on stating who the Father of the Lie is – Satan, AKA Allah, the False Deity.
Peggy says
That’s why we have to make sure our kids know the horrors of Islam before they start uni. We can’t afford to let them go there without a clue. Start telling our kids early on. Expose them to a life with God and give trhem evidence of how Islam works. Let them read books written by people like Robert and Mark Styne, Brigitten Gabriel and others.
Alissa says
And make sure you keep informed about your children’s public school curriculum and so called “field trips” to local mosque for indoctrination. This is going on all over North America and Europe.
mortimer says
Spencer wrote: “The enemies of freedom are in the driver’s seat in Britain, and they are prolonging the ride as long as they can.”
The ‘drivers’ are big Gulf oil and their Islamist monarchies that are EXPORTING JIHAD and laughing at us because we are dependent on their oil.
We must develop other portable fuels and stop using oil for transportation. When we do, they won’t have vehicles they can use to fight us.
Alissa says
Yes and in the meantime buy Canadian oil.