There are two things to know about the British newspaper The Guardian. One is that it is comically, even ludicrously far left. The second is that, though militantly secular in all other respects, the newspaper remains a staunch apologist and Defender of the Faith, as long as that faith is Islam.
Morrissey (he goes by a single name), a former singer for the British pop group The Smiths, and Mancunian by birth, wrote the following on his Facebook page the day of the Manchester bombing:
Celebrating my birthday in Manchester as news of the Manchester Arena bomb broke. The anger is monumental.
For what reason will this ever stop?
Theresa May says such attacks “will not break us”, but her own life is lived in a bullet-proof bubble, and she evidently does not need to identify any young people today in Manchester morgues. Also, “will not break us” means that the tragedy will not break her, or her policies on immigration. The young people of Manchester are already broken – thanks all the same, Theresa. Sadiq Khan says “London is united with Manchester”, but he does not condemn Islamic State – who have claimed responsibility for the bomb. The Queen receives absurd praise for her ‘strong words’ against the attack, yet she does not cancel today’s garden party at Buckingham Palace – for which no criticism is allowed in the Britain of free press. Manchester mayor Andy Burnham says the attack is the work of an “extremist”. An extreme what? An extreme rabbit?
In modern Britain everyone seems petrified to officially say what we all say in private.
Politicians tell us they are unafraid, but they are never the victims. How easy to be unafraid when one is protected from the line of fire. The people have no such protections.
Morrissey
23 May 2017.
And here is how The Guardian reported on Morrissey’s anguished and angry Facebook remarks:
The Manchester-born singer Morrissey has hit out at politicians for their reaction to the bombing in his hometown that has killed 22 people and hospitalised 59 more.
In his statement, the former Smiths frontman claimed that politicians are safe from attacks, while the rest of the country is left vulnerable. The MP Jo Cox was murdered by a rightwing extremist last June.
That last sentence about the murder of Jo Cox is an attempt by The Guardian reporter to undermine Morrissey’s first claim, by suggesting 1) that politicians are not as safe from attack as Morrissey claims (just look at what happened to Jo Cox); and 2) since Morrissey clearly has in mind the Manchester attack, by a Muslim, The Guardian is quick to divert attention to the “rightwing extremist” who killed Cox, implicitly one among many examples of rightwing violence that might be cited.
A response to The Guardian would note, in the first place, that the murder of Jo Cox was practically a one-off; in the past three decades, the only politicians killed in the U.K., aside from Cox, have been Ian Gow, a sitting MP, in 1990, by the Provisional IRA, and a county councillor, Andrew Pennington, killed in 2000 as he tried to protect an MP who was being attacked — not for political reasons — by a certifiably insane killer.
Morrissey’s point remains: politicians don’t have to worry nearly as much as ordinary citizens about Muslim terrorists attacking them, given their state-supplied security; it is the politicians who have the “close protection officers,” the kind who stopped the Muslim terrorist Khalid Massood when he tried to attack the Palace of Westminster. It is not true — and I think Morrissey would now agree — that “politicians are [completely] safe from attacks” — but Morrissey is certainly right to see them as enjoying much greater security than ordinary Britons. They have guards at work and, if of sufficient rank, round-the-clock security. Theresa May does indeed live in a “bullet-proof bubble” and is unable to grasp how uneasy ordinary citizens now feel about their own security. As to 2), the murder of Jo Cox is the only murder by “rightwing extremists” in the U.K. in at least the last half-century, though The Guardian reporter clearly wants us to believe that there were plenty more where that “rightwing extremist” came from.
Finally, Morrissey’s grievance against those politicians who utter boilerplate banalities, or proffer canned compassion, but refuse to properly identify terrorists as “Muslims,” may also have been prompted by his unstated recognition of what British citizens now have to endure beyond the constant threat of terrorism. It’s the grooming-gangs of Rotherham, and people afraid to report the truth for fear of being labelled “racists.” It’s the Muslim-on-Infidel crimes of every sort, as Muslims help themselves to the Jizyah that they believe they have a perfect right to take. There are the is the gigantic cost of every sort of welfare-state benefit, such as subsidized housing, free medical care, free education, unemployment benefits, family allowances, that Muslims disproportionately receive. And, finally, there is the heightened cost of security — think only of the increased cost to guard airports, bus terminals and buses, trains and stations of the Underground, national monuments, museums, libraries, churches and synagogues, Hindu and Sikh temples, Christian and Jewish schools, concert halls, sports stadiums, beach promenades, everywhere that large crowds gather and offer an inviting target.
Morrissey cited government immigration policy among his complaints saying the prime minister would never change her immigration policy in the light of the attacks. It is believed that the bomber named by police, Salman Abedi, was British-born and from Manchester.
The Guardian’s comment that Salman Abedi was “British-born” is meant to mock Morrissey’s criticism of the government’s immigration policy. The Guardian’s point is clear: changing immigration policy would not have prevented Salman Abedi from attacking, for he was not an immigrant, but born in the U.K. This deliberately misses Morrissey’s point. After all, had Abedi’s parents been prevented from coming to the U.K. from Libya in the first place, there would have been no Salman Abedi born in the U.K. to attack the Ariana Grande concert.
Morrissey is furious that the British government, that is, Theresa May, refuses even to discuss the possibility of changes to her immigration policy. That would mean discussing limits on Muslim immigrants, for it is Muslims who are the ones responsible for the wave of terrorist attacks all over Europe, in the U.K., France, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Denmark. The more Muslim immigrants to Europe, the more Muslims will be born in Europe of immigrant parents, and the more of both, of course, the more some of them will become tireless missionaries, in the prisons, on the streets, in the council houses, making converts of those who find that faith a natural psychic fit, for it offers to all, including the confused and the criminal, who are well represented among the converts, an Instant Bruvverhood, a Total Regulation of Life, and a justification for what would otherwise be seen as criminal behavior. The theft of Infidel property can now be justified as proleptic Jizyah. The contempt of some Muslims for Infidel women, resulting in attacks on those who are supposedly, as in Cologne last New Year’s Day, “just asking for it” (by their dress, by their general aspect) can also justify what is, in fact, criminal sexual behavior.
Morrissey wants the U.K.’s leaders to publicly recognize a simple truth that they find so disturbing that they keep trying to avoid discussing: Islam is the cause of Muslim terrorism. No one in British politics, save for those constantly demonized as “far-right,” will point out this obvious fact. Nor another equally obvious fact: the more Muslims – whether immigrants, or children of immigrants, or converts to Islam — the more Muslim terrorists.
Morrissey also appeared to suggest that politicians were afraid to refer to Abedi as an Islamist extremist.
Well, is he right? Are politicians afraid, or not? No political figures in the U.K. who are regarded as respectable (Tommy Robinson, Paul Weston et al having long ago been consigned to the outer darkness as “far-right,” so whatever they say can be ignored) have yet described Abedi “as an Islamist extremist,” or better still, as an “Islamic extremist,” or best of all, simply as a “Muslim terrorist” or even as “a Muslim” tout court. Even now, when it is known that Abedi was a hafiz, that is, someone who has memorized the entire Qur’an, and that in recent months he was wont to chant verses while sitting on the sidewalk, he’s still being referred to only as “an extremist” — only this and nothing more. The mayor of Manchester himself now says that “Abedi was a terrorist, not a Muslim.” Does The Guardian have any examples it can adduce of politicians referring to Abedi as an “Islamist extremist”? No? Why not?
The claim that politically correct leaders routinely refuse to mention Islam when referring to terror attacks carried out by people holding a violent interpretation of the religion is common on the far-right.
This is The Guardian, tendentiously editorializing, as it suggests that the claim by Morrissey that “politically correct leaders routinely refuse to mention Islam” is a common charge on the “far-right.” It’s clear how The Guardian defines “far-right.” It means anyone who is critical of the way the subjects of Muslim terrorists, and Islamic terrorism, and Islam itself, continue to be misrepresented. It means anyone who is critical of Islam, and you are especially “far-right” if your criticism is based on an detailed knowledge of the Qur’an, Hadith, and sira, the texts and teaching of Islam.
Such knowledge makes one especially “far-right.” “Far-right” applies to anyone who refuses to be cowed by those wielding the lexical scimitar “Islamophobic.” It means anyone who is anti-Islam, no matter how far-left in every other respect that person might be. Is the rock musician Morrissey “far-right”? When did he become so? Just the other day, when he said the unsayable on his Facebook page? Are Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Robert Spencer, Ibn Warraq far-right? Did Pim Fortuyn or Theo van Gogh or Oriana Fallaci — all of them well known for having always been on the left — suddenly become “far-right” just as soon as they revealed that they were deeply worried about Islam and the swelling numbers of Believers in Europe? Can The Guardian not recognize that many people who came to some grim conclusions after studying Islam’s texts, and observing Muslim behavior, never were”far-right”? John Quincy Adams, Tocqueville, Bertrand Russell, Winston Churchill come to mind. Were any of them “far-right”? It’s time retire this calumniating label of the mentally lazy, this Homeric epithet mechanically affixed to anyone who refuses to be delighted at Islamic deeds of murderous “martyrdom,” and for some reason insists that the demographic conquest of the advanced civilization of Europe by those who wish for that civilization’s destruction is not a consummation devoutly to be wished.
“In modern Britain everyone seems petrified to officially say what we all say in private,” the singer wrote on his Facebook page. “Politicians tell us they are unafraid, but they are never the victims. How easy to be unafraid when one is protected from the line of fire. The people have no such protections.
“Manchester mayor Andy Burnham says the attack is the work of an ‘extremist’. An extreme what? An extreme rabbit?”
Criticising the prime minister, he claimed that “her own life is lived in a bullet-proof bubble, and she evidently does not need to identify any young people today in Manchester morgues”.
This goes to Theresa May’s remoteness from life as it is now lived in the U.K. by ordinary people.
The musician added: “Also, ‘will not break us’ means that the tragedy will not break her, or her policies on immigration. The young people of Manchester are already broken – thanks all the same, Theresa.”
Morrissey also criticised the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, who he said had failed to condemn the Islamic State group after it claimed responsibility for the attack. A link to the terrorist organisation has not been confirmed by the security services, who are still working to identify whether or not Abedi worked alone or as part of a cell.
The Guardian is offering as an excuse for Sadiq Khan not condemning the Islamic State group — that it was unclear at the time Khan issued a statement about the bombing whether the attacker was linked to the Islamic State group. But Khan issued his statement after the Islamic State group had claimed responsibility; it was that claim of responsibility, that taking ownership of the attack, that should immediately have prompted condemnation of the Islamic State, whether or not it had actually been responsible. Sadiq Khan might easily have issued a statement on these lines: “The Islamic State group ‘claims responsibility’ with its wonted indecency for this latest atrocity by Muslim fanatics. It’s proud of its martyr’s feat, blowing up a bunch of teenagers. The brave muhajideen strike again, this time in Manchester. Our disgust is limitless.”
Here’s what Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim mayor of London, did say:
In a statement released on Tuesday, Khan said: “London stands united with the great city of Manchester today after this barbaric and sickening attack. This was a cowardly act of terrorism that targeted a concert attended by thousands of children and young people.”
Sadiq Khan, a self-described Muslim “moderate,” offers the usual boilerplate (“barbaric and sickening attack,” “cowardly act of terrorism”). He’s no Dick Whittington he, but still he should have the decency to turn again, and now that the identity of the suicide bomber is known, put out another statement, denouncing “this latest atrocity by a Muslim fanatic.” Could he do it? Isn’t it, after all, the truth? What else was Abedi but a “Muslim fanatic”?
Also in line for criticism from Morrissey was the Queen, who he said had received “absurd praise for her ‘strong words’ against the attack, yet she does not cancel today’s garden party at Buckingham Palace – for which no criticism is allowed in the Britain of free press”.
Morrissey’s criticism of the Queen shows the extent of his fury, of his willingness to take on even a much-beloved monarch. It’s impossible to see how The Guardian could fit Morrissey’s remarks on the Queen within any conceivable definition of “far-right.” How upsetting it must be for the biens-pensants to have a rock musician from a famous band now show himself in a take-no-prisoners mood and, mirabile dictu, in the anti-Islam camp.
The Guardian may deplore Morrissey’s remarks, but many others, however, will not only welcome Morrissey’s truth-telling, but hope that now, while he has a suddenly larger audience for his views, thanks in paradoxical but pertinent part to the negative attention given his remarks by The Guardian, he will put that paper on the spot in another Facebook entry.
For this he simply need post a half-dozen Qur’an quotes, with no gloss necessary. There are so many passages from which to choose, both from the 109 “Jihad verses” and others equally unpleasant on such matters as the treatment of blasphemers, and apostates, and women. I wonder if even a single one of those verses has ever been quoted verbatim in the thousands of articles related to Islam that The Guardian has published since 9/11/2001. Perhaps now, in replying to Morrissey’s second Facebook entry, the paper can remedy its oversight.
Here are a few recommendations of Qur’an verses that deserve notice and that Morrissey might post:
Qur’an 2:191-193: “And slay them wherever you come upon them, and expel them from where they expelled you; persecution is more grievous than slaying. But fight them not by the Holy Mosque until they should fight you there; then, if they fight you, slay them — such is the recompense of unbelievers;
4:89: “They wish that you should disbelieve as they disbelieve, and then you would be equal; therefore take not to yourselves friends of them, until they emigrate in the way of Allah; then, if they turn their backs, take them, and slay them wherever you find them; take not to yourselves any one of them as friend or helper.”
8:12;“I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved, so strike [them] …”
8:60: “Make ready for them whatever force and strings of horses you can, to strike terror thereby into the enemy of Allah and your enemy, and others besides them that you know not; Allah knows them. And whatsoever you expend in the way of Allah shall be repaid you in full; you will not be wronged.”
9:5: “Then, when the sacred months are over, slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they repent, and perform the prayer, and pay the alms, then let them go their way; Allah is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.”
9:29: “Fight those who believe not in Allah and the Last Day and do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and do not practice the religion of truth, even if they are of the People of the Book — until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.”
And then Morrissey could post, under these verses, a simple request to The Guardian:
PLEASE EXPLAIN!
Jayell says
The Guardian’s finances are apparently pretty dire and it’s losing money hand over fist. Some people are wondering how it manages to keep going, and the joke is that it’s being kept afloat by job ads from the BBC (the only place, I believe, where the BBC advertises!). Tells you a lot about the BBC, as if we didn’t know it already. An excellent marketing plan for the Guardian to boost its sales might be to print it on convenient-sized rolls of absorbent paper which might be placed in the smallest room of the house. That way people might actually read it before disposing of it in the most fitting way for a paper like ‘The Guardian’.
BC says
Believe it or not the Manchester Guardian as it was then was once a great paper as was the Times before Murdoch got his evil hands on it.
Now it is like looking at the crumbling ruins of a once mighty fortress.
Michelle says
Every time I look in to “comment” (rarely allowed nowadays as 70-90% disagree with the headline and its accompanying rubbish and I am permanently “moderated” anyway= censored 95%)) they have their hand out for subscriptions. They remind me of the UK socialist fairies who supported the Communist bloc in the 1970s and are just as insane in their evangelism. In fact, the more that I think about it, the more certain I am that it has morphed into an Islamic brown tongue version of Tribune.
Kay says
Morrissey’s impassioned plea is necessary. We have been seeing our people slaughtered, followed by demoralizing silence or predictable yet reprehensible tendentious editorializing of the media.
Monty says
I am an expat living in Australia. England is still amazingly beautiful (I was there last September). I could not return to live and I’m not even sure if I’ll ever visit again. I believe (and I hope I am wrong) that it is too late. The UK sold out out to the Middle East decades ago. Saudi Arabia has its hooks too deeply into Britain. When I left over 50 years ago, it was “Great Britain” still. It is just heartrending to see the land of Wesley, Churchill, Newton, Nelson, Bacon and many many others degenerate into a Muslim backwater. The UK government dares not make a stand against Islam. It cannot afford to offend the Saudis.
Don Foss says
But Morrisey himself did not state clearly that it is Islamic doctrine that people are afraid to question or call on the carpet. He was himself vague and unclear.
Richard James says
In Britain posting anything critical of Islam or Muslims on facebook and other social media risks investigation by the Police and prosecution for hate speech.
We in Manchester since the Manchester Arena jihad massacre have been officially warned three times by Greater Manchester Police that we may face prosecution if we use ‘Hate Speech’ or behave in a hateful way towards Muslims.
After all, we’ve only had our children blown to pieces, far less important than the hurt feelings of evil 7th Century barbarians
Meanwhile, Abedi’s home mosque is protected by a Police guard in case one of us mutters under our breath something mildly critical of the Religion of Murder.
Prosecuting Morrissey for ‘Hate Speech’ would be a great triumph for our Muslim-loving elite. He already has a reputation as an eccentric so it would be easy to pin on him.
It’s quite clear who and what Morrissey is talking about.
Benedict says
“PLEASE EXPLAIN!”
People like Sadiq Khan, and others like him, are not in the business of explaining that hateful Quranic words internalized and acted upon are lethal; they know that by now. They are sadistically adding insults to injury in order to increase the anguish of the victims.
mgoldberg says
The left is commited to ending the free market, and statehood except as defined by the ‘progressive’ universalist, globalist mentality. That the left has aided and abetted the rapes, and destruction of a huge section of the children, female children, within britain, speaks loudly how it feels about it’s own people.
They do not count. People do not count to the socialists, and marxists. They will sacrifice them to the ‘greater goals’.
Denial is the end result of lack of free discussion, where ideas are debated, sometimes furiously but debated and assessed based upon evidence.
Here, a man complains reasonably, forthrightly, about the inherent dangers and the lack of assessment by the leaders, and all he gets is dismissal by the Guardian. Only many more of these horrific serial homicidal assaults will catch the minds of the british, but it will not be easy to fight back against the assault of the Sharia, and the Jihad. But first…. Jihad has to be named, and it is the epitome of Islam.
It has to be named, without rancor, without anything but simple factual awareness. Simply naming it will cause muslims to attack, and blame the brits for insult.
But then, the reversal can begin… the cultural reversal of the mindset of the left, and the muslims.
TL says
Where on Earth is there a “free market”, whatever that means?
roger woodhouse says
The rise of Islam particularly in Western Europe can easily be traced back to our patheticly wekl neo Liberal Governments due in part to the aquiescence by the people.The British chracateristic is one of seeking a ‘quie life’which if missinterpreted could be mistaken for cowardice.The succesive British governments(the establishment)have been able to take advantage of this by simply offering more and more ‘welfare benefits’to keep them onside whilst they can get on with the more serious business of securing their own massive incomes and pensions while hiding behind the supposedly more strenuous task of running the country.Isues like ‘terrorism’and particularly ‘Islamic terrorism’is way beyond their pay scale and threatens to bfing their whole world to an end.Hence the total lack of any kind if policy to end it.They are like the proverbial headless chickens .The people are almost at one in their understanding of what needs to be done but Political Correctness holds the country in a vice like grip.We can only look forward to more of the same.The upcoming general election will solve nothing but it only serves to confirm the total lack of any real conviction to solve the nations problem(singular)
LB says
There’s actually a conservative mainstream personality in the UK?? Is this real life?
J_not_a says
I know, eh? Well, just slap my ass and call me Lenny!
Michael Copeland says
Oh dear, here is that old chestnut again, ” a violent interpretation of the religion”.
Come on, Guardian, don’t be shy, tell us what is the “non-violent” interpretation of:
“Kill them wherever you find them” (Koran 2:191, 9:5)
We would be so grateful.
James says
What Mo obviously *meant* to say was “Kiss them wherever you find them”. For Mo was a kind and gentle man of peace.
Allegedly.
Don Foss says
But these are the very words of Allah, the omniscient. Not so perfect though that he could not make himself perfectly understood so that now we have tens of millions of supposedly confused Muslims who “misinterpret” his words. Wow…some “all-knowing” god. His inability to make himself clearly understood has been the cause of 14 centuries of mass-murder and misery among his own followers.
Jessica Greenman says
Nice
sammy says
” I wonder if even a single one of those verses has ever been quoted verbatim in the thousands of articles related to Islam that The Guardian has published since 9/11/2001.”
I can confirm that the said verses and more have been quoted in the Guardian’s comments pages on Islam, because I am one who has quoted them.
I have had many impassioned written dialogues on comment pages, with Guardian readers, concerning the Islamic faith,many who like nothing more than to throw the I (Islamaphobic)word at you for disturbing their erroneous outlook about this insidious belief system.
After some weeks, my efforts to speak the truth was eventually terminated by my computer crashing on attempting to login in to the comments pages.
However, I did provide enough Islamic material to be read, in the time I had, which can only be a good thing, and so nothing has been entirely lost.
Kay says
Good for you. Let’s hope some read and awoke to reality.
jewdog says
As The Guardian guards the status quo,
But even rockers go against that flow.
Look at Europe – it’s burning,
Could the tide at last be turning?
Jack Diamond says
and still more rabbit droppings from what that extreme rabbit must have ingested, which Morrissey can utilize:
Qur’an 9:111 “Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in exchange) is the garden (Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him.”
Qur’an 3:85 “if anyone (even) desires a religion other than Islam, never will it be accepted of him.”
Qur’an 8:38-39 “say to the unbelievers, if they desist from unbelief their past will be forgiven them but if they persist…fight and kill them, until there is no more tumult or dissension (al-fitnah), and that everywhere religion will be unto Allah.”
Qur’an 9:123 “O ye who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you.”
Qur’an 48:29 “Muhammad is Allah’s Apostle, those who follow him are ruthless to the unbelievers but merciful to one another.”
Qur’an 58:22 “You will not find any people that believes in Allah and the Last Day loving those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, even though they were their fathers, sons, brothers, or kindred.”
with footnotes from the hadith, Morrissey can include the Sunnah into the Guardian rabbit holes:
“and it is reported on the authority of Sa’ab b. Jaththama that the Prophet of Allah, when asked about the women and children of the polytheists being killed during the night raid said ‘they are from them.'”
–Sahih Muslim b019 n4301
“Allah’s Apostle said ‘I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped (but Allah) and that Muhammad is Allah’s Apostle, and offer the prayers perfectly and give the obligatory charity, so if they perform all that, then they save their lives and property from me.”
–Sahih Bukhari v1 bk2 n25
“I descended by Allah with the sword in my hand and my wealth will come from the shadow of my sword and the one who will disagree with me will be humiliated and persecuted.”
–Muhammad, last public sermon ibn Hisham v3 pt6 p8
RichardL says
Morrissey is no friend of the house of Windsor. In one of his biggest hits, he said they are polluting the country. He is als a libertarian.
I have been a fan since 1983.
TL says
It has become only too clear that The Guardian is owned and controlled by antisocial pests who live indefinitely without provoking an overwhelming counterattack against them and their perversity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Trust_Limited
jewdog says
The Guardian is a very conservative newspaper in that it reflects and defends the present political order. It is conservative in the worst sense of the term.
TL says
Strictly speaking, a conservative is just a person who prefers the status quo and works to preserve it, whatever its nature. So a leftist outfit like Scott Trust Limited can be conservative AND petulantly reactionary, too, once poked and prodded properly.
Zimriel says
The Grauniad’s smuggery is how we got Representative Greg Gianforte.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
The most famous editor of what was once The Manchester Guardian was C.P. Scott. Known as “Scott of the Guardian,” he held that position for 57 years. C. P. Scott was an old-fashioned liberal and a dedicated Zionist from his earliest days.
Here’s what a 5-second search on-line brought up:
e editor of the Manchester Guardian was the liberal and high-minded CP Scott, who had been a Liberal MP from 1895-1906, and with whom nationalism was a tradition and a passion. Scott first met Weizmann and was won over by him at a party held by the chairman of a medical clinic in which Vera Weizmann was working. Familiar with all the influential personalities in English public life, he was a tremendous asset to the Zionist cause, and through his introductions Weizmann was able to converse withLloyd George, Lord Balfour, Herbert Samuel, and other leading members of the government. It was Scott who argued for the potential importance of Weizmann’s discovery regarding the manufacture of acetone, and who leaked to Weizmann details of the embryonic Sykes-Picot agreement (secret Anglo-French negotiations on how to divide up the Ottoman Empire, including Palestine, after the War). Scott was also the first member to join the British-Palestine Committee, the Manchester organisation that founded the Zionist publication Palestine.”
Needless to say, Scott of the Guardian would be horrified at what The Guardian has become.
Norger says
The comment about Jo Cox is perhaps the most disingenuous in this Guardian article. The MSM always tries to create a false equivalence between the occasional acts of despicable right wing nut jobs and the constant, daily drumbeat of Islamic terror, inspired, nurtured and supported by mainstream Islamic teaching. Has any British politician bothered to observe that the Manchester Jihadist Slaughter of Little Girls occurred on the fourth anniversary of the beheading of Lee Rigby? Would the Guardian care to observe and ponder the implications of that fact?
Ginger says
The Guardian is the choice of newspaper for UK academics and teachers. Enough said.
Frank Anderson says
I started to ask what is “mancunian”, but hesitated and searched the term. The various definitions, descriptions, explanations and examples are quite colorful and far from what I would consider complimentary. WOW! Why would anyone take comfort from being associated with that term? Seems to fit the subject being discussed.
JIMJFOX says
WTF R U gabbling about??
Man·cu·ni·an
manˈkyo͞onēən/Submit
noun
1.
a native or inhabitant of Manchester, England.
adjective
1.
relating to Manchester, England.
You must have searched VERY HARD for any ‘definitions, descriptions, explanations and examples … quite colorful and far from what I would consider complimentary.’
Frank Anderson says
Jim, try it yourself for a good laugh and an exciting education on what people think of Manchester. I live more or less 6000 miles away and really had no clue. I have no reason to agree or disagree with the opinions and descriptions. But it looks like others have a lot to say, and very little of it seems to be what I would consider complimentary.
Boston Tea Party says
I’ve been a big fan of Morrissey since the his work with the Smiths in the 80’s, and actually I think his solo work since has been even better. I’ve seen him live twice.
Just a word of caution to those who aren’t familiar with him. He’s known for writing totally depressing, literate and often hilarious lyrics, he’s always been ambiguous about his own sexuality, and he’s a radical vegetarian/animal rights activist. So if you’re looking for him to be some standard-bearer for traditional conservatism, you’ll probably be disappointed.
That being said, I think it just goes to show how far the West has sunk when any type of free thinker like Morrissey is now branded “right-wing extremist” for his thoughtcrimes.
I think his song “Irish Blood, English Heart” does, however, convey his disdain for the fact that simple pride in one’s country is now considered racist and shameful by much of the left. And I could be wrong, but I also take that one line as meaning that he’s not going to submit to a jihadi beheading.
Irish blood, English heart, this I’m made of
There is no one on earth I’m afraid of
And no regime can buy or sell me
I’ve been dreaming of a time when
To be English is not to be baneful
To be standing by the flag not feeling shameful, racist or partial
Irish blood, English heart, this I’m made of
There is no one on earth I’m afraid of
And I will die with both of my hands untied
I’ve been dreaming of a time when
The English are sick to death of Labor, and Tories
And spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell
And denounce this royal line that still salute him
And will salute him forever
dumbledoresarmy says
Y’know.
That line “Irish blood/ English heart” might also describe another fighter – he who goes by the nom de guerre “Tommy Robinson”.
When he saw a bunch of arrogant jihadists burning a poppy on Remembrance Day he charged straight at them to tear down the black flag of Jihad (that they were holding up in their midst as they expressed their contempt for Infidel soldiers and Infidel countries).
And I don’t think a writer named G K Chesterton would have been surprised by what Morrissey says here, when he shouts incredulously, with withering sarcasm, “An extremist what? An extremist *rabbit*???!!!”, *nor* by Tommy Robinson’s wading into the fray, as he has done, even to the point of being arrested and imprisoned and beaten up by jihadists and hounded by the dhimmified British state.
Because G K Chesterton wrote a book called “The Flying Inn” waaaay back in 1915. Its subject? – a stealth Islamisation of England, aided and abetted by a Nuaym bin Masud, a slithering, sly, sneering creature called “Lord Ivywood”. And how that Islamisation is resisted… with the resistance led by .. a man of Irish background.
The book is full of songs, mostly rollicking semi-nonsensical drinking songs, such as “the rolling English drunkard/ made the rolling English road”.
But there is one, toward the end, that deserves to be *set to music*, today, and sung.. perhaps British jihadwatchers here today might care to forward it to Mr Morrissey, for his attention. A hard-rock accompaniment would suit it just fine.
Here it is – “Who Goes Home?”
“In the city set upon slime and loam
They say in their Parliament, “Who goes home?”
And there comes no answer in arch or dome
For none in the city of graves goes home.
Yet these shall perish and understand
for God has pity on this great land.
“Men that are men again: Who goes home?
Tocsin and trumpeter! Who goes home?
For there’s blood on the field and blood on the foam
and blood on the body when man goes home.
And a voice valedictory,…”Who is for victory?
Who is for Liberty? Who goes home??”
Imagine if, at some weepy memorial full of tears and flowers and tea-lights and teddy bears, and people wailing ‘Imagine’ and similar and wallowing in theatrical grief and mindless sentimentality, the likes of Morrissey were to stamp into their midst, in blue denim and leather jacket, and pull out a steel-stringed guitar, with a trumpeter and a drummer to back him up, and burst forth with *that*. Cut right through the sweetly-anodyne fog like a flame-thrower.
“Who is for victory? Who is for Liberty? Who goes home?”
Alternatively, he could look up what ‘Iron Maiden’ did with another G K Chesterton poem, the hymn “O God of earth and altar’ and do his own riff.
“From all that terror teaches/
from lies of tongue and pen
from all the easy speeches
that comfort cruel men.
From sale and profanation
of honour and the sword:
from sleep, and from damnation
deliver us, good Lord!”
Damo says
How many docile British frogs will be boiled alive before they turn off the tap? Just like AGW, the sheep believe anything that spews forth from the progressive left media
Have another beer, watch another TV show and miss the invasion
God help them
J_not_a says
Kind of surprised that Morrissey is conservative leaning what with his other proclivities. Always been a fan of the Smiths from a way back. Agreed with the poster who said where has Mark E. Smith been, no comment? (The Fall frontman from Salford, Manchester suburb) known to be outspoken, among others. Respect to Morrissey though, refreshing change to the normally nauseating uber left claptrap we usually hear from almost all entertainers these days.
mortimer says
The huge costs in money, instability, uncertainty, lost human energy, lost productivity, fear, anxiety, sickness, inbreeding and loss of human life and loss of loved ones FAR OUTWAYS any benefit of having Muslim immigration. It is much more sensible NOT to have any Muslim immigrants. When everything is added up and two columns of pluses and minuses are compared, there will be a distinct deficit when one side is subtracted from the other.
JIMJFOX says
“OUTWEIGHS”, Mort!
Fred H says
Britain has surrendered. It may not look like it but it’s all over. Our politicians are preparing the ground for an Islamic takeover and/or civil war. They are the ultimate useful idiots. They think they are fighting terrorism but in fact they are giving up. They are terrified of their own Muslim minorities. Their actions are dictated by fear and the jihadis can see this quite clearly. It only encourages them, of course. There is will be no officially sanctioned resistance, because in order to appease the people who will eventually stick their heads on poles outside national parliaments, politicians are using control of the press, modern surveillance technology, the police and the courts to crush freedom of speech: the violence, anti-Semitism and supremacism inherent to Islam can now never be mentioned in the public arena.
However, as creeping Islamic control advances, the fiction that we still have the old freedoms will be perpetuated as propaganda. Eventually, ordinary people who have been lulled to sleep by their materialistic toys and selfish, godless, hedonistic lifestyles will wake up one day to find themselves living in a street being pounded by artillery and sniper fire as the state disintegrates or else in a sharia-conditioned hell, where women are forced to wear burkas and dissenters are dragged off in the middle of the night and beheaded – or both. At that point, all Britain’s dynamism and creativeness will long since have drained away. The country’s death is much closer than people think.
JIMJFOX says
Too true- except beheadings are public entertainment in Saudi & other Islamic wonderlands-
“Pour encouragé les autres”, aside from the fun-for-the-kids aspect.
Boston Tea Party says
As dire as the situation is in the UK, we Americans shouldn’t be too confident of our own situation. We’re all in the same boat–pretty much every Western country has fully embraced the same insane multicultural worldview. At best, we in the US are maybe just a few years behind. I think we’d be wise to consider the words of a great American, Benjamin Franklin: “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
Rick says
Cultural Marxism is a very powerful opponent many don’t know the enemy
Singh the Sikh says
Here is another disgusting piece of journalism – not a single mention of the word ‘Muslim’ or even ‘Islamist’.
Manchester victim Georgina Callander’s family slams British government
MAY 28, 20172:11PM
http://www.news.com.au/world/europe/manchester-victim-georgina-callanders-family-slams-british-government/news-story/3fd7e7f90e8f935279503e794b329b12
rosemary hopkin says
Morrissey has gone up in my estimation. I am fighting T MAYS SMEAR and GANGSTALKING CAMPAIGN SHE started on me in 2010 when she became HOME SECRETARY, WHEN I FOUND OUT ABOUT MUSLIM ACTIVITY in the HEATH HOSPITAL CARDIFF. I AM REFERRING TO HUMAN ORGAN TRANSPLANTS FOR MUSLIMS. The WELSH PEOPLE ARE USED BY MAY S DIRTY SIDE KICKS TO HARASS ME 24/7. IN other words I am A TARGETED INDIVIDUAL.. NOVEMBER 2009 WAS WHEN I STUMBLED ON THIS INFORMATION IN THE HEATH HOSP. CARDIFF. I WAS ( ONE IN A SPECIAL SELECTION OF POTENTIAL DONORS FOR ORGAN TRANSPLANTS FOR MUSLIMS ) 6 MONTHLY APPOINTMENTS MADE THROUGH THE HOSPITALS, SPECIAL BLOOD GROUPS etc etc ONE MAY NOT BE AWARE THAT MUSLIMS CANNOT DONATE THEIR ORGANS …BUT…BUT THEY CAN ACCEPT YOURS .. AS A GIFT..EVEN WHEN YOU ARE BEING KILLED FOR THE HONOUR {sic}
Hugh Fitzgerald says
If you identify with a group whose members are not permitted to donate organs, then you should not be allowed to receive organ transplants Muslims do not donate, and therefore should not receive, organ donations from those their Qur’an tells them are the “vilest of creatures.”
Hugh Higgins says
I always felt something honest and solid in Morrissey’s singing. Now I know why.
dumbledoresarmy says
Tell that to *him*. Go to his FB page. The entry with this wonderful diatribe is *hopping* with comments.
Pitch in and give him some backup.
Odin says
Morrisssey is and always has been a true musical and artistic genius, a man of immense depth and feeling. I am a huge fan of the Smiths and their music, and to hear Morrissey say this has shot up my respect and admiration for him even further.
dumbledoresarmy says
Go to his FB page, where he posted this blazing complaint.
Give it a “love* rating.
Refer him to Conor Cruise O’Brien, a brilliant and blazing Irishman who had Islam’s number, and then some.
Give him the links,
Here’s one – a tearing piece occasioned by the fatwa placed upon Salman Rushdie.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/islam-back-to-the-dark-ages-we-should-not-repeal-the-enlightenment-to-appease-ayatollahs-says-conor-cruise-obrien-1382946.html
“Islam: back to the Dark Ages: We should not repeal the Enlightenment to appease Ayatollahs, says Conor Cruise O’Brien”
“…There is no distinction, in Islam, between the spheres of religion and politics, and no terrestrial limit to the dual jurisdiction of such an official. For infidels to seek ‘harmony’ with Islam is an illusion. The only way of attaining harmony with Islam is by conversion…”.
And then, even more bitterly brilliant, without a single false step, there is *this*: “The Lesson of Algeria: Islam Is Indivisible”.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-lesson-of-algeria-islam-is-indivisible-1566770.html
CONOR CRUISE O’BRIEN
Friday 6 January 1995
“The lesson of Algeria: Islam is indivisible”.
“Fundamentalist Islam” is a misnomer which dulls our perceptions in a dangerous way. It does so by implying that there is some other kind of Islam, which is well disposed to those who reject the Koran. “There isn’t.
“Islam is a universalist, triumphalist and political religion. It claims de jure dominion over all humanity; that is God’s will. The actual state of affairs, with unbelievers of various sorts dominating most of the world, is a suspension of God’s will and a scandal to the faithful. The world is divided between the House of Islam and the House of War, meaning the rest of us….”.
“….What is going on today in the Muslim world is not the advent of some aberrant thing called Islamic fundamentalism but a revival of Islam itself – the real thing – which Western ascendancy and Westernised post-Muslim elites no longer have the capacity to muffle and control. The jihad is back….”.
“…What is going on today in the Muslim world is not the advent of some aberrant thing called Islamic fundamentalism but a revival of Islam itself – the real thing – which Western ascendancy and Westernised post-Muslim elites no longer have the capacity to muffle and control. The jihad is back…”.
Rick says
Who has been fired or resigned because of this horrible failure the security services intelligence services police force and government officials failed failed miserably where is the accountability !?