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UK: Muslim mayoral candidate delivers BBC video manifesto entirely in Urdu

Apr 23, 2017 2:10 pm By Robert Spencer

“It remains unclear whether Mr Aslam is in fact unable to speak English or whether he simply refused to do so.”

Either way, it’s an indication of the direction in which Britain is going. Before too long, thanks to Blair, Cameron and May, the idea of any candidate for office speaking English could seem a quaint relic of the past. And anyone who opposes the galloping Islamization of Britain in any effective way is vilified and hounded by the British government.

“Manchester Mayoral Candidate Delivers Video Manifesto Entirely in Urdu,” Breitbart London, April 22, 2017:

A British mayoral candidate has caused controversy after delivering a video manifesto on the BBC website completely in Urdu.

Mohammed Aslam, who is an independent candidate for Greater Manchester ‘Metro Mayor’, appeared on the BBC News site’s “minute manifesto” series, in which each candidate is given one minute to spell out their policies.

However, the corporation appears to have had to dub over Mr Aslam’s speech after he delivered it in a foreign language.

Janice Atkinson, an independent member of the European Parliament, tweeted saying: “If you can’t/won’t speak English you have no right to stand in elections. You cannot represent our people, culture and values. Stand down.”

It remains unclear whether Mr Aslam is in fact unable to speak English or whether he simply refused to do so.

According to the BBC website, Mr Aslam was born in Faisalbad, Pakistan and moved to Manchester 17 years ago. He is the director of a property letting company, and says he wants to make the area “more developed and a modern region”….

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  1. Lucia Bartoli says

    Apr 23, 2017 at 2:19 pm

    Bring back you British pride–especially today 23 April the feast of St George or has Great Britain put him in the dust bin in favor of dome pedophile blister mohammed?!
    (Not even an upper case “m” for that evil creature. He is what George slayed (in many ways)

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 23, 2017 at 3:02 pm

      Lucia, here is a disturbing story covered here at Jihad Watch on St. George’s Day last year:

      “UK city council says city “too multicultural” to celebrate St. George’s Day”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/04/uk-city-council-says-city-too-multicultural-to-celebrate-st-georges-day

      Britons have actually been forced by authorities to take down St. George banners at times. More self-hatred and suicidal madness.

      • Lucia Bartoli says

        Apr 23, 2017 at 5:02 pm

        How truly truly sad!

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 23, 2017 at 5:07 pm

          Patriotic Britons need to stand up for their civilized society–while they still can.

        • Lucia Bartoli says

          Apr 23, 2017 at 5:09 pm

          If you don’t you’ll all be speaking Urdu or whatever the jihadists deem the new law to be

  2. Michael says

    Apr 23, 2017 at 2:23 pm

    Well, they don’t want to represent ‘our culture.’ They want to crush our culture. Little steps at a time. Only resistance day by day to these ‘small’ incursions and tests, will stop the advance. Or least slow it. What will the people allow? How far will tolerance go? Will tolerance tolerate the destruction of democracy and free speech and civilization itself?

  3. gravenimage says

    Apr 23, 2017 at 2:41 pm

    UK: Muslim mayoral candidate delivers BBC video manifesto entirely in Urdu
    ………………………..

    Deeply troubling that this is happening in Britain.

    Just glad to see some pushback. Thank you, Janice Atkinson.

  4. Islam the religion of killers says

    Apr 23, 2017 at 3:51 pm

    He’s probally setting up to become the victim here and make a big wail and fuss …
    “they are being racist by not letting me use “my” language””

    if he’s been here 17 years he can speak english alright, and especially if he is running a real estate letting company … you couldn’t do that without english.

  5. Katnis says

    Apr 23, 2017 at 4:13 pm

    I find this odd. Clearly, he is not speaking to the bulk of the population, those who speak English. He is targeting another group, those who speak Urdu.

    Why?

    I don’t care who he is or what his position is on policy. That move would lose my vote.

  6. Keith says

    Apr 23, 2017 at 5:14 pm

    The BBC shouldn’t have dubbed it at all. If he wants to talk to only one small section of the city it just goes to show that he is only interested in that one community and not all inhabitants of Manchester.
    How many votes would he have got from non urdu speaking portions of the electorate, not enough to win the election.

    • Lucia Bartoli says

      Apr 23, 2017 at 6:07 pm

      The nation is Englandand the language is — English! Good Lord! What insanity!

  7. Tom says

    Apr 24, 2017 at 12:36 am

    I wonder why the Brits have allowed their society to degrade to the point where a candidate for office as Mayor of a major metropolitan city can produce his manifesto in any other language other than english.

    It is understandable that a candidate who’s primary language is not english may have their manifesto also translated into their native language specifically for those constituants in his native community.

    However considering that the responsibilities of Mayor in any british city or town requires that they serve all constituants, not just those of their native community, and considering that there are numerous different ethnic groups that make up the average british community, along with the native british peoples, it should be a stipulation that all documents submitted for any government position must be in the common language of english.

    If this clearly biased individual is allowed to run for mayor then the Brits have lost any hope of ever saving their culture.

    • Michael says

      Apr 24, 2017 at 12:37 am

      Good points, Tom. One might reasonably conclude that the people he intends to serve, are not native Brits. That Brits allow it, is the real issue.

      • Dave Pearson says

        Jun 13, 2017 at 4:37 am

        The real problem is our Governments, they have let thousands of muslims into Britain, allowed them to form their own communities, they openly speak in their own foreign language and generally very bad English.
        It is a major problem caused by the Government, playing at Political correctness, generally not listening to the general English people, or even asking the peoples view, they just throw the race card to shut one up.
        What will our race and religion become, obviousely not English or Christian.

  8. Jayell says

    Apr 24, 2017 at 6:38 am

    The official policy of the British Raj in India was efficient administration with minimum cultural interference and maximum involvement of local talent, increasing as time went on. There were only ever about 2-300,000 British nationals maximum on the entire Great Subcontinent, therefore it’s quite likely that Mohammed Aslam’s forefathers hardly ever came across a genuine ‘British’ person and would have known very little about proper British culture. So when when they started coming across to the UK to fill their pockets (no more than that, I’m afraid) they weren’t really expecting such a foreign land with a foreign culture (that’s if they were bothered thinking about that aspect at all) and consequently experienced something of a culture-shock. Their response by and large was to retreat into their own communities – which turned into increasingly isolated ghettos – and carry on exactly as they had ‘back home’, running their own shops and businesses in their own way, speaking their own languages, wearing their own clothes,eating their own food, watching/listening to their own media, etc., etc. They deliberately ignored ‘British’ culture, which also meant ignoring the English language and becoming ignorant of wider British society to the extent that, for example, they get confused about electoral fraud and submit results to surveys of the ‘Asian’ community showing that 75% of them are convinced that the UK is a muslim country (with a Head of State who is Head of an established Christian Church!!!??!!)!!! Clearly, they live in their own world which must be nice and comfortable for them so long as they can find their way to the Social Security office and the Doctor’s surgery and the tax man leaves them alone.

    So that’s where Mohammed Aslam with his Urdu manifesto come from, surprise, surprise! And the BBC’s involvement in this is also not a great revelation. I find it interesting that one of Aslam’s main aims is to ” make the area more developed and a modern region”…. Clearly, he doesn’t seem to realise that Manchester was at the forefront of the original Industrial Revolution well over 200 years ago, and has remained in heavily involved in technology and progress to this day. Maybe he’s still thinking about the village he came from 17 years ago, or perhaps just his present area of Manchester, which probably now resembles the village he left 17 years ago! Whatever, he can no doubt be forgiven for a bit of ignorance about the UK, since they don’t print the national dailies or British history books in Urdu.

    • Dave Pearson says

      Jun 13, 2017 at 4:49 am

      When you mention their getto’s, they may have been isolated, but they are growing at horrendouse rates, toppep up with the farcicle imigration, every day in my hometown of Leeds, I see more and more foreeign asian faces daily, when will this ever change, I am glad that I am an old man now and eill have a smaller amount of time to see what Britain will become.
      I wonder if all these muslim so called martyers are in Paradise with 70 virgins each, will there be any room for me, the other problem is I only speak English.

  9. Frederick Middleton says

    Apr 24, 2017 at 9:44 am

    Imagine a mayor of Karachi who was fluent in English but spoke no Urdu, preposterous!

  10. sidney penny says

    Apr 24, 2017 at 10:11 am

    According to the BBC website, Mr Aslam was born in Faisalbad, Pakistan and moved to Manchester 17 years ago.

    Wonder if Faisalbad is near Abbottabad( where bin Laden was found hiding?.

  11. Lioness says

    Apr 24, 2017 at 11:26 am

    In Canada we had a Member of Parliament in 2011 who addressed the Parliament in Tamil. Originally from Sri Lanka, she apparently, did not think that our official languages – English and French – have any merit. Not sure why she was not booted out after such disrespect, but fortunately she lost the last elections.

  12. antoninus says

    Apr 24, 2017 at 12:36 pm

    There are a lot of large towns in the north of England that could be taken for Pakistan high streets. More minarets than Mecca. not a white face or a white shopkeeper for miles.The whites have all moved to the suburbs to get away from them and their stinking curries. The Mayor is a paki, the Councillors are paki, the school governors are paki, the majority of the schoolkids are pakki, halal meat is served in all the school canteen etc. etc, they breed more kids than us so sooner or later they will over run the whites by sheer numbers.We are all, or soon will be F**ked.

    • Dave Pearson says

      Jun 13, 2017 at 5:00 am

      I totally agree and like your comments, specially using the word paki, what that actually means nowadays is that theyre not just pakis, theyre from all over the middle east, they have brought their ignorance with them.
      If Benefits and Council housing was only allowed for the true English people, there would not be a paki in England, we have to thank our Governments for this foreign invasion, they have turned a blind eye to the growing problems, ufortunately it may be too late now.

  13. Terry says

    Apr 24, 2017 at 1:22 pm

    How is he going to interact with his constituents if he can’t have a face to face discussion?

    Please share this important video.

    1400 shocking years of Islam in 5 minutes – Muslims are scared of this!!!

    https://youtu.be/Uj8J62BqRMo

  14. Ollie Akbar says

    Apr 25, 2017 at 1:40 am

    This is insanity. Thank God we have a President that sees the threat posed by Islam. Good luck U.K and Europe. I frankly think that you are in for decades of trouble.

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