Schadenfreude is an emotion that should perhaps not be encouraged, but it is hard not to feel a twinge of it when reading this account of Leftists eating their own. I’ve often stated that anyone and everyone who dares to say a word in opposition to jihad terror and Sharia oppression, no matter how mild that word may be, will ultimately be accused of “Islamophobia” by Leftist and Islamic supremacist jihad enablers, and demonized and ostracized as a result. This is true no matter who you are, and no matter how much you may have contributed to the Left’s pet causes in the past. Bill Maher and Sam Harris have discovered that, and now next in the pro-jihad Left’s crosshairs is Nick Lowles, who whines below: “Never mind all the work HOPE not hate has done challenging anti-Muslim hatred, it seems that some ultra left activists believe I’m islamophobic because I have repeatedly spoken out against grooming and dared to condemn Islamist extremism.”
I’ve noted in the past that Lowles’ opposition to “grooming” has been paltry at best, and that his group has been far more interested in demonizing “right-wing” opponents of Muslim rape gangs than actually opposing the Muslim rape gangs, but even that was too much for Britain’s National Union of Students. The poetic justice here is that Lowles’ group Hope Not Hate led the campaign to ban me from entering Britain, defaming me as a racist and fascist — although, when challenged on the BBC, he was unable to come up with a single “hateful” statement I had ever made in the 13 books, hundreds of articles, and over 40,000 blog posts I had written up to that point.
Now Lowles’s gutter tactics have been turned on himself. Will he wake up and realize what he has done, and what is happening to him? Will he realize that the baseless character assassination he so eagerly carried out against other people is now being directed at him, and that the term “Islamophobia” is a subjective one solely designed to smear and discredit people? Will he apologize to those whom he has smeared and discredited by means of this term? That is unlikely. When Stalin had his former friend and comrade Nikolai Bukharin condemned to death for alleged “rightist” sympathies, Bukharin pleaded for his life in a pathetic letter to Stalin from his jail cell, offering his services against other deviants: “I would wage a mortal war against Trotsky, I would win over large segments of the wavering intelligentsia.” Lowles is already pleading with his accusers and defensively invoking his usefulness, pointing to “all the work HOPE not hate has done challenging anti-Muslim hatred.” It will likely be to no avail. He has dared to “condemn Islamist extremism.” He is now an unperson.
“Students Ban Hard-Left, ‘Anti-Islamophobia’ Campaigner… For Being ‘Islamophobic,’” by Liam Deacon, Breitbart, February 18, 2016:
Britain’s National Union of Students (NUS) is attempting to ban or “no platform” Nick Lowles, a man who has built a career denouncing perceived ‘Islamophobia’, because they say he is ‘Islamophobic’.
Mr. Lowles is the leader of the hard left, foreign-funded Hope Not Hate (HNH) campaign group which claims to “campaign to counter racism and fascism”.
But the very kind of mentality that Mr. Lowles has created on the left of British politics appears to have come back to haunt him – with hard-left students denouncing the group for briefly raising the issue of radical Islam.
“Ultra-left lunacy” wrote Mr. Lowles on Facebook today. “So it seems that the NUS black students are opposing a plan to invite me to speak on an anti-racism platform because I’m ‘islamophobic’.
“Never mind all the work HOPE not hate has done challenging anti-Muslim hatred, it seems that some ultra left activists believe I’m islamophobic because I have repeatedly spoken out against grooming and dared to condemn Islamist extremism”, he said.
Adding: “I will be writing about this in more detail in the near future but for now I’m biting my tongue and trying to remain polite and professional.”
Mr. Lowles began the Community Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation (CAASE) campaign alongside the Islamic Society of Britain (ISB) in 2013, a year after the Rotherham grooming scandal began to be exposed. CAASE claims to, “meet head-on the communal challenges raised by child sexual exploitation of vulnerable young girls and women.”
Prior to this, HNH frequently accused those who spoke about grooming of ‘Islamophobia’. Tommy Robinson, the ex-leader of the English Defence League, has even alleged that Mr. Knowles [sic] later “apologised” for not taking the problem seriously enough.
The NUS attack on Mr. Knowles [sic] comes just days after they branded gay rights activist Peter Tatchell ‘racist’ and ‘transphobic’, and a couple of months after they attempted to ban the prominent Feminist Germaine Greer.
In 2014, the student organisation managed to vote decisively to “formally condemn” and oppose “racist” and “islamophobic” UKIP, but declined to condemn this Islamic State (IS) terror group because that too would be “islamopbobic”….


mortimer says
Nick Lowles has broken ranks with PARTY DOCTINE: ‘We NEVER criticize the ‘noble savages’ because we need them to destroy Western civilization.’
For this, Lowles will now be sent to the Siberian Gulag to labor camp. He is now a non-person in the way he tried to turn other critics of Islamic supremacism and misogyny into non-persons.
Will he see the errors of his ways and turn from THE PARTY (of cultural Marxists) entirely?
Cultural Marxists play the duplicitous game of claiming that ‘the Right’ hates Islam, whereas the Left actually hates Islam more than any group. The Left uses Islam and Islam uses the Left.
Lowles is seeing what happens when critical thought is allowed! THE PARTY steps in and shuts down independent thought! THE PARTY and it alone decides what truth is or isn’t…critical thought is presumptuous as far as THE PARTY is concerned.
Ian H says
I doubt the group that condemned him actually has the power to set party doctrine. They are a pretty small fringe bunch, even on the left. And while it is true that wild fruitloop extremism has a certain respectability on the left, they still can’t dictate policy to the rest.
The left wing in the UK is extremely divided at the moment. All their energy is directed to attacking each other for not being ideologically pure enough. The mainstream UK Labour party is self-destructing. You can view this incident as part of this overall collapse of the left.
mortimer says
The tail wags the dog in this case. When ‘ideological puritanism’ takes hold, they are ready to burn witches and even burn the house down.
The Left has not yet determined how they are going to dismount the Islamic tiger they are riding on without being overcome and killed by it.
The Left has abandoned the ‘Islam is peace’ slogan. At present, they are working on the slogan ‘All Muslims aren’t terrorists’, while conveniently ignoring normative Islamic terror doctrine.
The French and Belgian hubs of terrorism and the German mess have taken some of the moronic, moral certainty out of the Left, but they will rally around some other fallacious slogan, no doubt. The Left’s approach is to use simplistic slogans pronounced in a tone of morally superior disdain. It works by paralyzing critical thought with nonsense.
Brian Huggett says
“:The Left has not yet determined how they are going to dismount the Islamic tiger they are riding on without being overcome and killed by it.”
A very descriptive comment to a question that raises itself in my mind. Which of these two groups will ‘blink first’ when it comes to the point of collision?
I am looking for a more realistic power to come to the fore to solve the problem of both these tyrannical ideologies.
Colin says
If this was the Iranian branch of NUS, they’d be voting to hang last week;s comrade Knowlws from a crane in a Terhran square.
Shane says
The traitorous left thinks that they can use Muslims to destroy Western Civilization and the left will rule. No, the Muslims will force the leftists to either convert or submit to Islam. Of course, these gutless leftists will not fight the jihad they will convert or submit.
nacazo says
The “islamophobia” hunter being called islamophobe??? Poetic justice indeed.Proof clear of the uselessmess of the word.
Atheist kufar says
It appears that the hard left is doing a preemptive coup. Islam will get rid of the left support when the time is right. A bit early I would say but it has started. Islam is not only the religion of the sword but s double edge sword at that. Islam makes alliances with the left and then off with their heads. It is all about timing.
WorkingClassPost says
At first the hard-Left, atheistic, political ideology might not seem to have much in common with islam, until we realize that they share one fundamental equivalence – neither believes in God.
RonaldB says
But, then, you have many anti-Jihadists who are atheists. And many Catholic and Protestant (United Methodist Church) and even Jewish, who are Islam enablers.
So, the only rational conclusion is that believe or non-belief in god is not a critical factor in determining one’s attitude towards Islam.
gravenimage says
You are right, Ronald. Thissuicidal “political correctness” cuts across religious and secular lines. It is all too common throughout the West.
Linde Barrera says
“It Takes One To Know One” doesn’t it, poor Mr. Knowles? ??
Ciudadano says
Sweet irony, victim of his own witch-hunter methods.
Karen says
Yes; he lived by the sword, now he might ‘die’ by that same sword.
Sweet irony is right.
Charli Main says
The NSU was penetrated by the Muslim 5th column decades ago. The NSU is now little more than a mouth piece for the “Hug a Muslim” and” Muslims are victims” brigade.
gravenimage says
UK students ban hard-Left “anti-Islamophobia” campaigner Nick Lowles for being “Islamophobic”
Schadenfreude is an emotion that should perhaps not be encouraged, but it is hard not to feel a twinge of it when reading this account of Leftists eating their own.
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Alas, I can feel no schadenfreude here–this just shows how utterly insane things have become. That being said, I don’t have a lot of personal sympathy for the appalling Nick Lowles.
And yes–the Left is eating its own here.
Just as with Islam, where even some violent Jihadists can be considered “insufficiently Islamic”, you also cannot be “politically correct” enough for the hard Left.
More:
I’ve often stated that anyone and everyone who dares to say a word in opposition to jihad terror and Sharia oppression, no matter how mild that word may be, will ultimately be accused of “Islamophobia” by Leftist and Islamic supremacist jihad enablers, and demonized and ostracized as a result. This is true no matter who you are, and no matter how much you may have contributed to the Left’s pet causes in the past. Bill Maher and Sam Harris have discovered that, and now next in the pro-jihad Left’s crosshairs is Nick Lowles, who whines below: “Never mind all the work HOPE not hate has done challenging anti-Muslim hatred, it seems that some ultra left activists believe I’m islamophobic because I have repeatedly spoken out against grooming and dared to condemn Islamist extremism.”
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Yes–more and more, there are charges of “Islamophobia” made at anyone who dares to criticize even the most horrifying aspects of Islam.
Justin Trudeau opposed referring to *Honor Killings* as barbaric, and here Nick Lowles is condemned for speaking out against *child rape*.
The most bizarre thing is this–don’t these moral idiots realize what they are actually admitting about the fundamentally violent nature of Islam if they acknowledge that Honor Killing and raping Infidel children are intrinsic parts of Islam?
RonaldB says
“don’t these moral idiots realize what they are actually admitting about the fundamentally violent nature of Islam…”
With Islam, communism, nazi-ism, and other totalitarian systems involving “the True Believer”, it is being part of the mass movement which is important, rather than the details.
So, once a member, or even a leader, begins to have independent thoughts and judgments, he will sooner or later find himself viewed as an enemy. I guess Arthur Koestler’s “Darkness at Noon” is still the classic novel of the old Bolshevik who finds himself on the dock (and ultimately the block) for having an independent intellectual existence outside of the group thought, even though he still completely agrees with the revolutionary goals of the government which is condemning him.
In a very poignant part of the novel, the original prosecutor of the old Bolshevik himself gets too involved with the actual details of innocence and guilt, and is himself quietly liquidated and replaced with a mechanical apparatchik not the least concerned with real guilt or innocence.
I’m not sure if the fascist mind-set of the student movements in Britain (and the US) can be affected by anything, but my first action would sure as hell be to take away the ability of the Communist and Islamist faculty to assign grades, approve promotions, and judge students. They can keep their salaries.
mortimer says
gravenimage wrote: “they are actually admitting … the fundamentally violent nature of Islam”
Cultural Marxists will resist admitting anything that will foil their shell game. This is the old game of ‘WHOSE ox is gored?’ If it’s my enemy’s ox, I do nothing about it. If it’s my friends ox, then we go all out! But this isn’t equal justice before the law. It’s opportunism.
The game is a visible, observable evidence that Muslims are being used as surrogates to kill the political opposition at the polls and brand them as ‘racist’, even though Islam is not a race.
The cultural Marxists are actually saying, “It is isn’t fascism when we or our surrogate ‘noble savages’ do it.”
gravenimage says
True, Ronald and Mortimer.
Russell Kirk Was Right says
Leftists always eat their own.
Wellington says
“Leftists always eat their own.”
Yes they do. And so is it the case with others who adhere to some totalitarian ideology (and modern leftism is increasingly full of totalitarian impulses as well as full of something else), others being over time Nazism (e.g., the Night of the Long Knives in June of 1934), Marxism (e.g., Stalin having Trotsky axed to death in Mexico) and, of course, Islam, which has seen Muslims slaughtering other Muslims for not being properly Muslim enough for going on 1400 years now. Totalitarianism of whatever kind is replete with deficiencies, not the least of them being the cannibalistic impulse.
gravenimage says
This is so true, Wellington. This is intrinsic to all totalitarian ideologies, due to both to their ingrained oppression and violence, and the fact that no one can ever be ideologically “pure” enough.
Wellington says
The wonder of it all, gravenimage, is that far more don’t see this about modern leftism and Islam. I mean it’s staring everyone in the face, though of course modern leftism is still a JV player in this regard compared to that “champion” of consuming their own——Islam.
Hope you’re doing well in this increasingly goofy world we live in. A good example as of late of this goofiness is how media folk in bunches here in America are mentioning how the polls show that “terrorism” has become the number one concern for many Americans. Yep, it’s always just “terrorism” as reported by the obfuscating media, as though terrorism proceeds approximately equally from all kinds of groups—–Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Hindus, agnostics, atheists, white men in general of course, and maybe, just maybe, even from Muslims. Insane and stupid beyond all measure since almost all terrorism in the world comes from one group only and yet the media insists upon being generic about terrorism.
Can’t make this stuff up. No you can’t. Stay well and sane my friend.
gravenimage says
Doing my best, Wellington–always good to hear from you.
Angemon says
Russell Kirk Was Right posted:
“Leftists always eat their own.”
And, in many cases, it’s the “offspring” who are born and raised in it, rather than “converting” into it, that turn on their “parents” because they deem them to be “ideologically impure”:
http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid
Westman says
Someone on this site proposed the word “Islamoprobia”. It seems that Nick Lowles has probed barely under the surface and been condemned because his assessment didn’t agree with mentally constructed fantasy.
I remember those college days well; a time of discovery and perhaps a change of values based on experiences. Something appalling has happened to create an uninformed mob attitude where once there was both scholastic and social maturing. Many of these “liberals” will have very different attitudes after their own decisions force them into the experience of raising children and having dependents. They are currently free to adopt any stance without cost to the children they don’t have – so they believe. Those who think logically about cause and effect see them throwing away a peaceful future for their yet, unborn, offspring. Someday they will wonder how they ever believed much of the peer dogma.
Probe we will, because the most effective weapon against the fundamentalist, would-be-terrorists, is knowledge. The more the world knows about the jihad ideology of Islam, the more it will resist. The fundamentalists are frightened, because Western adults are becoming aware; constantly educated by violent and reprehensible events and the discussions of Islamic beliefs that follow. The sleeping dog is awake, standing up, and noticing the fleas.
Onward Islamoprobia.
Huck Folder says
“Probe we will, because the most effective weapon against the fundamentalist, would-be-terrorists, is knowledge.”
How about humor and satire?
islamopubia
cair’s islamopoobaas.
billybob says
I am currently listening to the BBC talk show Robert referenced where he encountered Nick Lowles as well as an Imam. Robert was in great form in this debate. How ironic Nick Lowles now stands accused of Islamophobia. What goes around comes around.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/06/audio-robert-spencer-on-the-bbc-takes-on-left-fascist-nick-lowles-and-discusses-the-quran-with-an-im
gravenimage says
Thanks for posting that link, Billy Bob.
Westman says
Ditto, thanks, Billybob.
As predictable, they pulled out the old misrepresented Quran 5:32 and left out 5:33. My own son was quoting that bit of propaganda until I pointed out the real meaning and had him read 5:33. It’s amazing what urban mythology thrives among the youth.
Nimrod says
Not really. The youth seem to base their whole lives on urban mythology.
umbra says
Hilarious. Reality hits him like a tonne of bricks and yet he is oblivious to that fact, while feeling all the pain (and no doubt the “hurt” and hatred too).
billybob says
By the way, I wanted to leave you with this wonderful documentary video I just watched…
Leaving Islam
https://news.vice.com/article/why-i-left-islam-and-now-help-others-who-are-doing-the-same
Now, it being Friday night with the day’s work is done, it’s time for the pub.
Angemon says
True, but between this and Peter Tatchell, the amount of freude in my schaden should be legally impermissible 😉
Well, you know the drill: “first they came for the islamophobes, and I helped them, because I was not an islamophobe. But now they’re coming for me!”
Oh, yeah, I almost forgot about Germanie Greer – a life-long second-wave feminist labeled as “misogynist” because she stated that “transwomen” are not real women.
This little nugget of crystallized insanity should tell you everything you need to now about the NUS.
gravenimage says
Angemon wrote:
Well, you know the drill: “first they came for the islamophobes, and I helped them, because I was not an islamophobe. But now they’re coming for me!”
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Spot on!
Richard Paulsen says
There are lots of persons in Europe making strange decisions for too many years now.
I hope that the agreement between UK and the EU will be good for the UK as for all of Europe. Like among other things that the UK will not take part in any openboarders policy, bailouts or allow to change the pound into the Euro.
There were lots of other good agreements I wish will be good for the UK and all of Europe. Hope that the London Parliament will support it.
Also hope that Germany and Sweden and others will follow suite.
Rita says
“…Schadenfreude is an emotion that should perhaps not be encouraged…”
Oh, I am at present full into Schadenfreude and am fully enjoying it.
BC says
The age old problem of the extreme left and the extreme right is that they cannot see shades of meaning everything is black or white. Everybody has the right to his/her own beliefs however erroneous and stupid they may be. What the Nazis and communists have in common is that they shout down and ban any opinion which is different from their own. There are many on the left still after all that has been revealed who still do not condemn Stalin who in fact was little different from the Nazis in the extent of crimes against humanity. in fact although he was our ally, Stalin’s and communism’s crimes continued after WW2 ended.
The NSU students are in fact working against the democracy they clim to be promoting
BC says
Islamofauxbia is a nonsense dreamed up by the left to shut people up who say anything about Ismicism
and Islamisation.
Nobody hates Muslims, Everybody has the right to his/her own beliefs however erroneous and stupid they may be. What people hate is Muslims trying to impose their beliefs on other people, demanding that others alter their life styles to suit their prejudices, and those who tacitly agree with that aim. Which in fact is a substantial proportion of Muslims as is shown by many polls, including the one conducted in Arabic by al Jazeerah
Paul says
I was so angry when two people were banned from entering the UK
and were prevented from paying their respects to one of our soldiers
brutally murdered by two jihadi subhumans in our capital city.
Do I have Schadenfreude over what has happened to Lowles? Too right!
This is music to my ears and it’s a delight to see these Cultural Marxists
devour one another. Bravo!
Jay Boo says
REALITY banned
Britain’s National Union of Students has voted to ban the existence of REALITY as being too islamophobic.
Paul says
Not that half-witted ‘intellectuals’ at university, or at least those that
call the shots, have any validity anyway, but the NUS refused to condemn
ISIS as that would be “islamophobic”. Never mind the fact that so many
of their victims will be muslims. They have no interest in ordinary
peaceful muslims at all, but are ideologically aligned with the most
violent and psychotic jihadis around. If islam wasn’t so violent, they’d
find another inhuman and totalitarian cause to rally round. That’s what
they’re about and their mask is coming off.
Jack HOLAN says
Do these people work or are they independently wealthy? They see to have an inordinate amount of time to devote to these causes. Perhaps Soros is funding many of them. His fingers and money seem intertwined everywhere.
Jay Boo says
Rug kissing Vanity Junkies shoot up with piety only to crave a bigger rush.
Five prayers a day and a traditional Islamic pig-bath at the local mosque are no longer enough to make Islam’s dirty emptiness go away.
Every Muslim feels empty inside when not making someone else’s life miserable after the prayer dance fix subsides. They hurl charges of Islamophobia hoping to intimidate and deny that they have any problem. Muslims need of a forceful truth about MO’s ideology intervention exposing Islam’s decrepitating filth.
Let’s help Muslims get CLEAN.
Carolyne says
Well, Mr. Lowles. “They came for me and there was no one left to speak for me..” This old saying is quite appropriate in this instance Who will speak for Nick Lowles. No one it would seem.
I suggest that he wear the epithet “Islamophobic” proudly. It might save civilization
mortimer says
But Carolyne, the Leftards are cultural Marxists whose main goal is the DESTRUCTION of civilization.
citycat says
Islamophobia is a fluffy cloudy word.
People do not, especially so many people, have an unreasonable fear of Islam, but have a reasonable observation that is deliberately obscured by the fluffy cloud “Islamophobia”
i don’t believe that people are totally stupid, so i guess that it is wilful avoidence of the truth of Islam that causes students et al to grasp at the straw “Islamophobia”, or is it cowardice? Treachery? Stupidity? Ignorance?
Whoever came up with using the word “Islamophobia” is a traitor to truth, a muslim, or has had his head blagged by an enemy within the infidels.
Whoever, whatever, why, Islamophobia is obviously a nonsense word, and smacks of conspiratorial treachery within the infidel world, and the word Islamophobia is in dire need of deconstruction, or perhaps burning “Islamophobia” to evaporation point.
Mirren10 says
”Schadenfreude is an emotion that should perhaps not be encouraged, but it is hard not to feel a twinge of it when reading this account of Leftists eating their own”
Actually, I shrieked with laughter, reading this. Talk about a boomerang … 🙂
But, will it teach the cretinous Lowles anything ? I doubt it.