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UK “Equalities” chief admits: Muslims won’t assimilate

Apr 10, 2016 10:33 am By Robert Spencer

It was Trevor Phillips who first gave the spurious propaganda term “Islamophobia” an intellectual veneer. Now he is admitting he was wrong all along, and has enabled and abetted the creation of Sharia enclaves in Britain and all over Europe. So what is he going to do about it now? Can the damage done to Britain be repaired? Does Phillips or anyone else have the will to try to repair it?

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“UK Equalities Chief Who Popularised The Term ‘Islamophobia’ Admits: ‘I Thought Muslims Would Blend into Britain… I Should Have Known Better,’” by Raheem Kassam, Breitbart, April 10, 2016:

The former head of Britain’s Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), Trevor Phillips, has admitted he “got almost everything wrong” on Muslim immigration in a damning new report on integration, segregation, and how the followers of Islam are creating “nations within nations” in the West.

Phillips, a former elected member of the Labour Party who served as the Chairman of the EHRC from 2003-2012 will present “What British Muslims Really Think” on Channel 4 on Wednesday. An ICM poll released to the Times ahead of the broadcast reveals: 

  • One in five Muslims in Britain never enter a non-Muslim house;
  • 39 per cent of Muslims, male and female, say a woman should always obey her husband;
  • 31 per cent of British Muslims support the right of a man to have more than one wife;
  • 52 per cent of Muslims did not believe that homosexuality should be legal;
  • 23 per cent of Muslims support the introduction of Sharia law rather than the laws laid down by parliament.

Writing in the Times on the issue, Phillips admits: “Liberal opinion in Britain has, for more than two decades, maintained that most Muslims are just like everyone else… Britain desperately wants to think of its Muslims as versions of the Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain, or the cheeky-chappie athlete Mo Farah. But thanks to the most detailed and comprehensive survey of British Muslim opinion yet conducted, we now know that just isn’t how it is.”

Phillips commissioned “the Runnymede report” into Britain and Islamophobia in 1997 which, according to both Phillips himself and academics across the country, popularised the phrase which has now become synonymous with any criticism – legitimate or not – of Islam or Muslims.

Durham University’s Anthropology Journal noted in 2007: “It has been a decade since the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia was established, a Commission that through its 1997 report, “Islamophobia: a challenge for us all” (“the Runnymede report”) not only raised an awareness of the growing reality of anti-Muslim and anti-Islamic hostility in Britain, but also marked the onset of what might be described as ‘the first decade of Islamophobia’. In doing so, the Runnymede report propelled the word ‘Islamophobia’ into the everyday common parlance and discourses of both the public and political spaces.”

Phillips says his new data shows “a chasm” opening between Muslims and non-Muslims on fundamental issues such as marriage, relations between men and women, schooling, freedom of expression and even the validity of violence in defence of religion. He notes – echoing an article on Breitbart London just two weeks ago which reveals a growing disparity between older and younger Muslims in Britain – that “the gaps between Muslim and non-Muslim youngsters are nearly as large as those between their elders”.

And while he is cautious to note that many Muslims in Britain are grateful to be here, and do identify with role models such as Hussain and Farah, there is a widening gap in society with many Muslims segregating themselves.

“It’s not as though we couldn’t have seen this coming. But we’ve repeatedly failed to spot the warning signs,” he admits.

“Twenty years ago… I published the report titled Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All, we thought that the real risk of the arrival of new communities was discrimination against Muslims. Our 1996 survey of recent incidents showed that there was plenty of it around. But we got almost everything else wrong.”

His comments will come as a blow to those who continue to attack elements in British society who are concerned about Muslim immigration and integration, and in fact may even go some way to shoring up comments made by U.S. Presidential candidates Donald Trump and

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) seeking to slow down or pause the rate of Muslim immigration into the West.“We estimated that the Muslim population of the UK would be approaching 2 [million] by 2020. We underestimated by nearly a million. We predicted that the most lethal threat to Muslims would come from racial attacks and social exclusion. We completely failed to foresee the urban conflicts of 2001 that ravaged our northern cities. And of course we didn’t dream of 9/11 and the atrocities in Madrid, Paris, Istanbul, Brussels and London.”

“For a long time, I too thought that Europe’s Muslims would become like previous waves of migrants, gradually abandoning their ancestral ways, wearing their religious and cultural baggage lightly, and gradually blending into Britain’s diverse identity landscape. I should have known better.”

And Mr. Phillips even acknowledges that the mass sexual grooming and rape scandals that are plaguing heavily Muslim populated towns across Britain are because of Muslim – not ‘Asian’ – men. He writes: “The contempt for white girls among some Muslim men has been highlighted by the recent scandals in Rotherham, Oxford, Rochdale and other towns. But this merely reflects a deeply ingrained sexism that runs through Britain’s Muslim communities” – in a nod to those who have long protested this to be the case in the face of political, media, and even police cover ups.

Even left wing columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown told him: “[W]e [liberal Muslims] are a dying breed — in 10 years there will be very few of us left unless something really important is done.”

Phillips comments: “Some of my journalist friends imagine that, with time, the Muslims will grow out of it. They won’t.”

And indeed he lays the blame at the feet of the liberal, metropolitan elite, media classes: “Oddly, the biggest obstacles we now face in addressing the growth of this nation-within-a-nation are not created by British Muslims themselves. Many of our (distinctly un-diverse) elite political and media classes simply refuse to acknowledge the truth. Any undesirable behaviours are attributed to poverty and alienation. Backing for violent extremism must be the fault of the Americans. Oppression of women is a cultural trait that will fade with time, nothing to do with the true face of Islam.”

“Even when confronted with the growing pile of evidence to the contrary, and the angst of the liberal minority of British Muslims, clever, important people still cling to the patronising certainty that British Muslims will, over time, come to see that “our” ways are better.”

In terms of solutions, Mr. Phillips opines on “halting the growth of sharia courts and placing them under regulation” ensuring that school governance never falls into the hands of a single-minority group, “ensuring mosques that receive a steady flow of funds from foreign governments such as Saudi Arabia, however disguised, are forced to reduce their dependency on Wahhabi patronage” and an end to the “silence-for-votes understanding between local politicians and Muslim leaders — the sort of Pontius Pilate deal that had such catastrophic outcomes in Rotherham and Rochdale”.

Mr. Phillips’s comments echo those of the Czech president, and research from across Europe that revealed attitudes amongst Muslims on the continent have hardened. The younger the Muslim, the more likely they are to hold hard-line views, one recent study found.

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  1. Norwegian says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 10:44 am

    :O

    That it was?! *rubbing eyes*

    Ok, I remember getting out of bed…spending time with my family…drinking cofee in the sun (very nice day in Norway…)

    *reads again*…

    I think I am awake…I must be…

    😀 😀 😀

    😀

    • Westman says

      Apr 10, 2016 at 11:25 am

      It’s true! You are getting less sleeping…less sleepy…..yes, that is sunshine streaming through the shineola.

      Let’s watch the European “elite” leaders try to stuff this jinn back into the bottle. Geert Wilders will be quoting Trevor Phillips in The Netherlands Parliament to the dhimmi elite.

      • Norwegian says

        Apr 10, 2016 at 1:42 pm

        “The former head of Britain’s Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), Trevor Phillips, has admitted he “got almost everything wrong” on Muslim immigration in a damning new report on integration, segregation, and how the followers of Islam are creating “nations within nations” in the West”

        These words need to på printet on large canvases, on acryllic glass…engraved in large metal plates and hang on walls and in corridors of schools…

        It need to be written in big bold letters at the entrance of all newspapers and TV stations for the years to come. Just to remind staff when they walk in for a new day half asleep…:D

    • billybob says

      Apr 10, 2016 at 2:08 pm

      I had to check my calendar to be sure it wasn’t April Fools Day.

      • Mark Swan says

        Apr 10, 2016 at 5:53 pm

        Mr. Phillips

        “revealed attitudes amongst Muslims on the continent have hardened. The younger the Muslim, the more likely they are to hold hard-line views, one recent study found.”

        So based on a survey taken among Muslims who have nothing in Islam
        to teach them not to lie…we have some numbers which could be doubled that…We now see that the new generation is going to be more of a problem than the older ones.

        One explanation might be that…it’s the information age…they access the real Quran and in ways older generations did not…they are more Quran literate.

        • vcragain says

          Apr 11, 2016 at 7:42 am

          They also have access to anything any extremist ever wrote down anywhere ! Unfortunately it is currently ‘in fashion’ among younger Muslims – we have to hope it is a passing ‘fad’ , but I really do not see how we fight it without actually causing even more of them – that is why the West is being so careful with it’s rhetoric, but this admittance of Muslim attitudes hopefully will make a few people wake up to the potential war the West faces. I do hope he is not bumped off for this.

        • ECAW says

          Apr 11, 2016 at 7:52 am

          ” I do hope he is not bumped off for this.”

          Really? Every movement needs the odd martyr. It could raise the whole tone of the debate at this point, and there would be some poetic justice in it wouldn’t there?

    • Kakodaemon says

      Apr 10, 2016 at 4:56 pm

      The key word is “former commissioner” Funny how all the generals and government types always acknowledge the truth only after they are out the cesspool.

      • Mark Swan says

        Apr 10, 2016 at 6:03 pm

        Yes and He recommended

        “ensuring that school governance never falls into the hands of a single-minority group, “ensuring mosques that receive a steady flow of funds from foreign governments such as Saudi Arabia, however disguised, are forced to reduce their dependency on Wahhabi patronage” and an end to the “silence-for-votes understanding between local politicians and Muslim leaders”

        If He did this and it is public…He had better watch His butt.

  2. John Galt III says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 10:46 am

    Tommy Robinson

    This website needs to support this heroic Englishman before the British government murders him.

    Where are you, Robert Spencer? You must speak up on this man who is exposing Islam in Great Britain.

    • ZULU says

      Apr 10, 2016 at 11:08 am

      Ezra Levant: Interview with Tommy Robinson
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzDgCMk3nyM

      Tommy Robinson: “People were pulling strings” to try to get him killed in prison
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQRqZAaRUQ4

      The Glazov Gang-Tommy Robinson, Part I: Enemy of the State.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPJJwU-nYgI

      The Glazov Gang-Tommy Robinson, Part II: Rotting in Solitary.

    • Angemon says

      Apr 10, 2016 at 12:54 pm

      http://pamelageller.com/2012/09/video-tommy-robinson-edl-leader-at-sion-911-international-freedom-of-speech-congress.html/

      http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/10/and-heres-to-you-tommy-robinson

      • revereridesagain says

        Apr 10, 2016 at 1:15 pm

        There’s a defense fund appeal up for Tommy at http://gatesofvienna.net/

      • Mark Swan says

        Apr 10, 2016 at 6:24 pm

        Thanks Angemon for the links.

  3. David M says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 10:51 am

    Things are heating up on the Greece-Macedonia border. Police have tear gassed asylum seekers after they tried to break through the fence & threw stones. Looks like an invading army to me.

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-10/macedonian-police-use-tear-gas-on-migrants-at-greek-border/7314726

    • Norwegian says

      Apr 10, 2016 at 7:28 pm

      If I was a fly on the wall at mainstream-media HQ…

      “You fucking bitch! Is this all you got?! These are only pictures of angry young men trying to tear down a fence, throwing rocks and growling aluahlihu akbar! This looks bad! What?! You saw a few women and children further back?! Photos?! Let me see! Ah, this is brilliant! It will get the crybullies, old tarts and parots at Facebook and Twitter going!”

      To my surprise the commentaries in one of the biggest newspapers in Norway on this atempt was ery negative and those who commented saw what I just said further up…

      • RichardL says

        Apr 11, 2016 at 12:51 am

        Hey Norwegian, in Germany comments also are 100% on our side recently. The pendulum is swinging back all across Europe….

  4. ECAW says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 11:12 am

    Yes he should have known better but at least he’s finally seen the obvious and it couldn’t come from a more influential source. Hopefully more people will start to voice what they currently only think.

    His proposals are only waving a feather duster at the problem though. The very first thing must be to say no more Muslims and to get rid of those that shouldn’t be in Britain.

    If only some MPs’ daughters had been gang raped, if only the offices of the Guardian had been bombed, if only an academic working in Islamophobia Studies had been beheaded. How much quicker we would have got to this point.

    • ECAW says

      Apr 10, 2016 at 11:20 am

      and here’s another straw in the wind:

      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3532474/Sadiq-Khan-isn-t-fit-Mayor-London-links-extremists-declares-Theresa-Tories-turn-heat-Labour-candidate.html

      NB “top and search” should be “stop and search”.

      • Yaffle says

        Apr 10, 2016 at 5:12 pm

        Khan has an eight-point lead with a month to go
        http://www.standard.co.uk/news/mayor/sadiq-khan-eight-points-ahead-of-zac-goldsmith-in-latest-poll-a3217256.html
        A victory for him is likely to be a major step forward in the Islamification of the UK capital (one-eighth Muslim and growing fast)

        • Wayne says

          Apr 10, 2016 at 8:32 pm

          It may be what we need to expose Islams true face to the brainwashed masses

  5. Marty says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 11:25 am

    A Labour councillor has been suspended for shockingly offensive anti-Semitic tweets,
    The discovery of Aysegul Gurbuz’s vile comments is the latest in a series of anti-Semitic scandals to hit the Labour Party.
    The 20-year-old student is alleged to have called Adolf Hitler the ‘greatest man in history’ and said she hoped Iran would use a nuclear weapon to ‘wipe Israel off the map’.
    This child is a headscarf wearing mohammedan & comes from Luton which is now a muslim enclave.

    • ECAW says

      Apr 10, 2016 at 11:40 am

      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3531852/Labour-councillor-20-suspended-claims-called-Hitler-greatest-man-history-latest-anti-Semitic-scandal-hit-Corbyn-s-party.html

  6. St. Michael Defend Us says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 11:26 am

    They are still pussy-footing around the real problem, which is ISLAM. In this case, “assimilation” is a euphemism for “leave Islam”.
    There have been, and still are, plenty of ethnic groups in the USA who may be poorly “assimilated” depending upon what standard is used, but, no one has to worry about them being violent and murderous en masse on the basis of their ethnicity.
    The ONLY immigrant group with that issue is that of MUSLIMS from anywhere.

  7. Yann says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 11:40 am

    Some respect for this guy. You need to have courage to say “I was wrong”.

  8. Cameron says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 11:51 am

    Do something about the violent street gangs pushing sharia onto everyone they can. Use riot police and detain anyone who uses violence until they can be deported. Increase police patrols in Islamic ghettos and give them very close backup. Anyone with any sort of major criminal record that is part of the islamic gangs should be detained as soon as possible and either deported or removed from the streets and into prison or house arrest.
    Restore law and order.
    detain known troublemakers and inciters of violence and sharia.
    completely disassemble the sharia courts and free the women from the sharia constraints that they have been subjected to.
    Confiscate and convert, otherwise demolish any mosques that are involved in illegal activities.

  9. Edgar Allen says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 12:07 pm

    Founder of modern Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew: “I think we were progressing very nicely until the surge of Islam came … I WOULD SAY TODAY, WE CAN INTEGRATE ALL RELIGIONS AND RACES EXCEPT ISLAM.”

    http://singapore920.rssing.com/chan-12389522/all_p33.html

    The Straits Times on the claim by Lee Kuan Yew, published in his new book Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going, that Muslim integration in Singapore is failing

  10. Georg says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 12:32 pm

    Wow… Thank you so much for posting this historic article. Just may be this is a harbinger of tectonics to come.

  11. RCCA says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 12:35 pm

    Would be nice to see the percentages of Muslims holding hard line views broken down by age groups.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Apr 10, 2016 at 5:24 pm

      Breakdowns and percentages are interesting, but they do not define Islam, nor can they alter it. Isalm is defined only by its source texts. They contain plenty of hard lines.

  12. marblegranite says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 1:06 pm

    You mean, Raheem Kassam never knew? Oh well, stay calm, stiff upper lip, just live by it…until it kills you.

  13. Angemon says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 1:11 pm

    So what is he going to do about it now?

    Indeed. If it were me realizing the magnitude and repercussions of such an error, I’d devote all my available time and effort to try to undo it.

    • Yokel says

      Apr 10, 2016 at 6:27 pm

      Let’s see. The TV programme that these reports are building up to will air on Wednesday evening on Channel 4.

  14. salim says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 1:38 pm

    I agree its nice of him to tell the truth but it has become a pattern that officials in power only tell the truth before or after they are in office.

  15. Leon Kushner says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 1:44 pm

    It takes a lot of guts to admit that you were dead wrong on something so important. I congratulate this man for both coming to his senses (better late than never) and to publicly challenge his earlier mistaken ideology and trying to educate modern day leftists on this existential threat.

  16. billybob says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 2:16 pm

    This just blows away the position of first speaker for the resolution, Louise Arbour the Munk Debate which took place at Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall on 1st April 2016. Check out my blog…

    http://ichabodcrain.blogspot.ca/2016/04/cultural-marxism-in-canada.html

  17. Shmooviyet says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 3:37 pm

    The report on ‘islamophobia’ in Britain was prepared in 19 NINETY-SEVEN, yet it took him almost 20 years to notice/admit assimilation wasn’t happening…

    Is it paranoid to feel a bit suspect at Phillips’ lamentation, after all the damage that’s been done?

    • Custos Custodum says

      Apr 10, 2016 at 8:32 pm

      It doesn’t matter whether Phillips’ “lamentations” are genuine (as I believe they are – his silence was fakery), or whether this is some sophisticated “let’s get out in front of this” PR exercise.

      The huge news is that a man of Phillips stature now raises the issue openly – this is clearly a tectonic shift of some sort, whatever may be “underneath” it.

      When you are at the epicenter of a major earthquake, you experience violent shaking, destruction etc. Whether this was caused by a Type A earthquake or a Type B earthquake (or the rare Type Q) may be a fascinating discussion for seismologist, but is of little relevance to the person buried in the rubble.

  18. jewdog says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 3:47 pm

    Quite an admission fom a higher-up in the Islamic Republic of Britain. If he had written his article in Egypt, people would assume that he’s aligned with al Sisi and yawn. That’s because many intellectuals in the Muslim countries have become wise to the challenge from Islamic hard-liners – you don’t see them letting in those migrants in the UAE, and many Egyptians rejected Morsi. The intellectual elite in the West, on the other hand, is far more naive. Now, as this guy’s revelation shows, they are paying for their ignorance. Will they wake up before it’s too late? Nah.
    By the way, he was “equalities chief”. At the rate Britain is going they will need an Islamic supremacist chief.

  19. Arthur says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 4:03 pm

    If you ask me, this is just a politician sensing the winds have changed and trying to keep himself from becoming irrelevant.

    He needs to be held accountable for the damage he has done, not lauded for trying to catch up with public opinion.

  20. mortimer says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 4:14 pm

    Quote: “Trevor Phillips, has admitted he “got almost everything wrong”

    Since he got it wrong and since his report is responsible for causing thousands of rapes of English girls, Muslims murdering British people in subways, added police everywhere…will Phillips be punished in any way? Is he conscience-stricken for the damage he made possible or just simply making an observation?

    Should it not be possible to sue civil servants who cause grief to society of this magnitude? Not only in UK, but in countries that followed the UK’s mistaken example.

  21. D says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 4:35 pm

    At last we hear sense.

  22. revereridesagain says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 4:36 pm

    In at least some degree, the blood of every victim of Muslim-on-“kafir” violence — Tommy Robinson included — is on the hands of those who have evaded the nature of Islam and the danger it poses to everyone who refuses to share that vicious ideology. So yes, Mr. Phillips and his fellow evaders owe us not just apologies but positive efforts towards…

    “halting the growth of sharia courts and placing them under regulation” ensuring that school governance never falls into the hands of a single-minority group, “ensuring mosques that receive a steady flow of funds from foreign governments such as Saudi Arabia, however disguised, are forced to reduce their dependency on Wahhabi patronage” and an end to the “silence-for-votes understanding between local politicians and Muslim leaders…

    and that’s just for bare-bones starters. Much more will have to happen, and many more minds will have to be changed, before we can hope to see any of these people held legally accountable for their actions.

  23. Trey says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 6:01 pm

    Last time he made a similar documentary, Things we won’t say about race, and yet, it caused some controversy for like a day two and then was swiftly forgotten about and the media just criticised it and ignored it. I fear the same thing will happen again…..

  24. dumbledoresarmy says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 6:04 pm

    Better late than never.

    Get behind him now and PUSH, British jihadwatchers.

  25. Ordinary Joe says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 7:48 pm

    This awakening is becoming a trend. I started researching islam myself after the murderous acts by isis over the past two years and I was shocked by what I found. The public’s awareness of this cult has never been higher, keep spreading the word everyone and one day even the pathetic liberals might get it too.

    Also, if you have not seen Stephen Coughlins ‘red pill’ briefs check them out here;

    http://vladtepesblog.com/stephen-coughlin-red-pill-brief-all-10-videos/

  26. james collins says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 8:21 pm

    i would not bet on this man being alive a year from now …. the truth will surely hurt him

  27. Custos Custodum says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 8:22 pm

    Trevor Phillips is being INCREDIBLY brave.

    Unlike 99.99% of the opinion-shaping elite:

    (1) Philipps bluntly acknowledges that he was flat-out WRONG about something. This in itself is almost unheard of in an age of “narrative” (lie) peddling and PR fakery.

    (2) Even more astounding, Philipps dares tell the truth about Islam and Muslims. He is undoubtedly aware of the risks to his reputation (smear campaigns) and indeed to his life, but has evidently decided to brave those risks.

  28. Georg says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 8:25 pm

    Please note, Trevor Phillips does NOT wish for Muslims to integrate.

    If only his desires were as they seem to be in the Breitbart article. Among other things, he feels:

    “Continuously pretending that a group is somehow eventually going to become like the rest of us is perhaps the deepest form of disrespect… Because what you are essentially saying is the fact that they behave in a different way, some of which we may not like, is because they haven’t yet seen the light. It may be that they see the world differently to the rest of us.”

    [people of certain backgrounds in the UK are not going to change their views] “simply because we are constantly telling them that basically they should be like us”.

    Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3418620/Muslims-not-like-just-accept-never-integrate-says-former-racial-equalities-chief-Trevor-Phillips.html#ixzz45TKh6GMR

    It seems his views have become more, and not less, dangerous. Whereas he once hoped for integration, he now admonishes us to accept their supremacist ideology and behaviors without taking exception, or else we are deeply disrespectful (and we know what words will soon be coming after those). In the article he rebukes non-Muslims, not Muslims. We should have known from his previous ethos Muslims can do no wrong and we no right. So for him, we first failed by not integrating them sufficiently (which was of course discriminatory), and we now fail by wanting their integration (further discrimination).

    In short, we had better submit, or else. Not exactly news.

    • Georg says

      Apr 10, 2016 at 8:42 pm

      And please, all, let us never commit what is “perhaps the deepest form of disrespect”; Even if in their ways are “some of which we may not like”

      • Tommo says

        Apr 11, 2016 at 3:34 am

        Monkeys.

    • ECAW says

      Apr 11, 2016 at 12:59 am

      More details about Phillips earlier admission here:

      https://ecawblog.wordpress.com/2016/01/27/trevor-phillips-tells-the-truth-about-integration/

      Still haven’t heard back from Dave yet…

      • Georg says

        Apr 11, 2016 at 9:25 am

        Nice post. What is important to distinguish here is that Phillips does want change. He wants us to change for and accommodate a culture openly hostile to our own.

        It’s not that he’s admitting wrong. In a sense, he is saying he was right, but just not right enough. Intentionally or not (and I have my suspicions), he has done well to muddy the waters and speak out of both sides of his mouth… At least for those not able or willing to ascertain what it is he has done and said, where he stands now, and what his recommendations and intentions are for the future.

        By his words and actions it is apparent he doesn’t care for Britain. What else could we have expected from such a person, and what would we expect from such a person in the future? We quite simply have people at the helm who think badly of what they commandeer. It’s that simple and yet it goes on.

  29. Wayne says

    Apr 10, 2016 at 8:28 pm

    This was no blood y accident this was purposeful.
    Islam has declared war quite literally in Sharia law “reliance of the traveler revised edition P846 and 23 where they abrogate Christianity and Judaism to non religions and obligate killing all non Muslims on pain of apostasy. It’s protected by apostasy law should any Muslim disagree, discuss or consider. This was done in 1994 and agreed by all Islamic sects 56 countries and Palestine and since 1994 the Islamic army has been piling into the EU ethnically cleansing areas with the use of rape fear and intimidation helped by wankers like Trevor Phillips. Well Mr Phillips you won’t even lose your cushy job let alone get the hangman’s noose you deserve. As a foriegner yourself what gives a low IQ neanderthal like yourself the right to change my country? How fucking dare you you scumbag! Here’s hoping the people wake up the quicker the better. Bring out the guillotine. Then treat the Islamic army to the bloody defeat they deserve

  30. Matthieu Baudin says

    Apr 11, 2016 at 1:39 am

    “…In terms of solutions, Mr. Phillips opines on “halting the growth of sharia courts and placing them under regulation” ensuring that school governance never falls into the hands of a single-minority group, “ensuring mosques that receive a steady flow of funds from foreign governments such as Saudi Arabia, however disguised, are forced to reduce their dependency on Wahhabi patronage” and an end to the “silence-for-votes understanding between local politicians and Muslim leaders — the sort of Pontius Pilate deal that had such catastrophic outcomes in Rotherham and Rochdale…”

    Trevor Phillips is effectively washing his hands of responsibility for the mess we are all in. His suggested solutions are pathetic; little managerial steps to blunt the edge of a violent climate created by an entrenched ungrateful minority. After spending the past twenty years helping to demolish the reputations of those who have highlighted the current Jihad crisis, he’s now in a privileged position to consider emigrating to New Zealand or Australia to start a new life in countries that are still many years behind the U.K. in the Muslim immigration conundrum.

    • Tommo says

      Apr 11, 2016 at 4:09 am

      Australia and New Zealand many years behind UK? I don’t think so. Particularly in Aus where the police have had battles with Muslim jihadis and countless security risks. New Zealand is taking Saudi money to establish Islamic courses at universities and allowing in hundreds of Muslim students as a result. Meat production in NZ is dominated by Muslims and all export meat is Halal and unlabelled as such. The home meat market is nearly all Halal. Mosque building is underway in both countries and taking advantage of generous government grants. The same is happening in building and converting buildings to Muslim only schools. With a population of just 4.5 million New Zealand is ripe for a takeover.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 11, 2016 at 8:27 am

      MB wrote: “Trevor Phillips is effectively washing his hands of responsibility for the mess”

      He may be trying to reverse some of the damage he caused now that he’s realized he was wrong. That would be responsible.

      However, he has no position now from which to reverse that damage…he would have to be the immigration minister.

      Who cares what this has-been thinks? Are the political elites and media elites worried? Will they now read Islam’s foundational source texts? Not likely.

  31. Tommo says

    Apr 11, 2016 at 3:49 am

    In the light of Trevor Philips admission that he got it wrong will he consider repaying the money received under false pretences while head of the Equalities Commission and for the damage done to this country by his administration in squandering OUR human rights in favour of those of immigrants?

  32. mortimer says

    Apr 11, 2016 at 8:20 am

    A black man who has had enough ‘diversity’.

    Did Trevor Phillips read up on the Islamic slave trade and its 120 million dead African bodies?

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Apr 11, 2016 at 9:35 am

      If I recall correctly (the article that discussed this particular topic was a while ago and I can’t produce the link right now) Mr Phillips awakening began to happen when he encountered a dear little old Afro-Caribbean black lady (a Christian) in one of the heavily-Islamised regions of the UK, who told him a few home truths about how the local encroaching Mohammedans had been attacking, threatening, bullying and driving out the likes of herself.

      Anyway, let’s not quibble about when or how. The important thing is that he *has* begun to wise up, whatever it was that did the trick. Every person has their own ‘aha!’ moment and what does it for one person is not necessarily what does it for another.

      • m says

        Apr 11, 2016 at 10:06 am

        DDA…THANX!

  33. mortimer says

    Apr 11, 2016 at 8:34 am

    Trevor Phillips wrote: ““It’s not as though we couldn’t have seen this coming. But we’ve repeatedly failed to spot the warning signs”

    Boneheaded! Yes, they could ‘have seen this coming’ if they had bothered to read the Sira, hadiths, Koran, Sharia law, Islamic history, canonical commentaries and modern fatwas and sermons from mullahs already in UK. BUT THEY DID NONE OF THOSE THINGS!

    They merely ploughed ahead following their CULTURAL MARXIST THEORIES that are now thoroughly discredited and proved to be FALSE.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 11, 2016 at 8:44 am

      Western elites like Trevor Phillips are CULPABLY NEGLIGENT in the matter of their carelessness in learning about Islam BEFORE making policy decisions. Their gaping LACUNA of ignorance about Islam makes practically ALL of them UNFIT to be on any committee where Islam is discussed.

      • mortimer says

        Apr 11, 2016 at 9:48 am

        Trevor Phillips slandered everyone who tried to warn him and the West about the jihad threat.

        Trevor Phillips, will you apologize?

        • Shmooviyet says

          Apr 11, 2016 at 1:58 pm

          @Mortimer:
          Excellent comments and question for Mr. Phillips.
          The “islamophobia” charge came from him and his cohorts years ago. He cannot erase the slander simply by admitting muslims won’t assimilate.
          A day late and a pound short; the damage IS and will continue to be done, regardless whether he’s seen the light for himself and is saying so.

  34. My Shari'a Moor says

    Apr 11, 2016 at 10:03 am

    Freedom ISN’T free. (Liberty)
    Free men are NOT equal. (Capitalism, Republicanism)
    Equal men are NOT free! (Socialism, Islam)
    Nothing changes much in the ol’ human condition, DOES it!

  35. hammar says

    Apr 11, 2016 at 1:34 pm

    The whole world is going to need to fight these un-civilazied mutineers. They are nothing
    but dogs in pants.

  36. Dan Jones says

    Apr 11, 2016 at 2:13 pm

    They will only assimilate if you follower their pedophile leader… not gonna happen…

    More End Time News At:
    http://www.shininginthedark.com/?page_id=6088

  37. Ordinary Joe says

    Apr 11, 2016 at 7:10 pm

    Tommy Robinson, needs help urgently.

    Can you help?

    http://gatesofvienna.net/2016/04/tommy-robinson-legal-defense-fund-an-appeal/#more-39328

  38. Darrius says

    Apr 12, 2016 at 6:58 am

    no sh#t Sherlock.

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