Muslims are political animals, and by animals I mean they move in a pack (sorry to disappoint all you race-baiters out there; at no point am I suggesting they look like animals). In a recent Tower Hamlets by-election, a morbidly obese taxi driver who admitted he has no experience in politics or how to handle cash won over his rival, seasoned Labour candidate Victoria Obaze.
The UK is a nation of lazy voters (hence Sadiq Khan becoming the Mayor of London, and now the Lord Mayor for Sheffield is a 28-year-old Muslim Somali refugee by the name of Magid Magid). After the London mayoral election, Maajid Nawaz wrote an article on how it was the mosques and the Islamists who voted Khan into the Mayor’s office; he also stated that at some point Khan will have to pay back to his voters with some favours for having voted him in. Votes come with a price in today’s Islamicised UK.
The new Lord Mayor for Sheffield is a race-baiter. He does not trouble himself with British values. He states that the Monarchy is outdated and that he would not raise a glass in a toast to the Queen (why run for the role of Lord Mayor, then?). This is all very divisive stuff. Magid has moved to the UK from Somalia and has become the city’s youngest Lord Mayor, in spite of looking like a rapper or a gangstah, replete with leather jacket and gold bling. His nominee for the next Poet Laureate is an incredibly bad rapper by the name of Otis Mensah. Compare him to Lord Tennyson and get an idea of what a UK Poet Laureate should be capable of in terms of literature and language. Magid’s mayoral portrait features him squatting on top of the railings in the town hall, replete with Doc Marten boots (made famous by the allegedly racist skinheads). The man evinces a complete lack of visual respect for the office.
Magid ran for Lord Mayor in spite of the fact that he found the office to be quite archaic, and at his inauguration speech he had the themes from Star Wars and Superman play as he entered the stage to take his place on the podium. He has displayed zero respect for the UK’s history and traditions. He is publicly stating that he is black and Muslim (why should skin tone and religious beliefs come into play when a person is supposed to be representing ALL skin tones, faiths, and nationalities in their city?). If he identifies as a black mayor, then he is promoting racism and creating racial division. If he is also identifying as Muslim, then he is publicly implying that he is sharia-compliant. Mayors and public figures should remain racially and religiously neutral. In the UK, we have anti-discrimination laws to ensure that no one, regardless of skin tone or gender or sexual persuasion or disability, is discriminated against. We also have agencies in place to ensure those laws are upheld, from tribunals and unions through to police and legal institutions.
There is an incredibly sycophantic article written by a gay journalist that exemplifies the type of voting we are seeing in the UK today – identity politics. The journalist gushes over Magid’s good looks (which I can’t see, but which he describes as being “smoking hot”), and he even goes so far as to say that one look at Magid and you need smelling salts to recover from the overwhelming impact that his manliness and good looks have upon one’s psyche. Whatever happened to voting for people because of their experience and policies?
These are the types of morons who pass as voters and journalists today. I’m not against a black rapper being awarded the title of Poet Laureate if he’s worthy of the role. The UK has a long tradition of excellent writers whom he would have to surpass or equal in order to be worthy of the award. I spoke recently to a black Londoner who told me that whites are the only people who don’t vote with a pack mentality (that’s if and when they vote, of course). The man is a motorcycle courier, delivering items to all of the zones and boroughs of London. He witnesses the racial and tribal division in each community, and sees the way people are not integrating or interacting with each other. His final words to me have resonated in my mind for the past three days. He said to me: “If the UK were ever to find itself under attack from another country, I doubt any of these people would sign up for military service in order to protect UK’s values.”
Magid Magid is too young for office, not fit for office (in my opinion), is disrespectful of the role of Lord Mayor in England, and will not offer any solutions to the problems we currently face. It’s my opinion that he will add to our problems. Changing systems that are outdated or outmoded is fine, but let’s not do it by creating further racial and religious division. Instead, try giving thanks to the host nation that took you in as a child refugee. Either go back to Somalia or elsewhere in Africa if you love their values so much, or do your best to uphold the rule of law in the UK, your adopted homeland. Don’t try to turn it into Somalia. And, please, do not allow our standards of literary excellence to drop purely because you want a Poet Laureate to be some black rapper. If there are any black rappers out there worthy of the award, then at least choose one who is equal to his or her predecessors.
We’ve had things too good for too long in the UK, and as a result, we’re taking things for granted and sitting on our couches watching TV while these political animals are at the voting booths and taking seats in local councils and Parliament, and attempting to institute laws that would stifle our freedom of speech and movement. It’ll be our undoing if we UK-identifying people, regardless of skin tone, don’t also start voting in a pack to maintain in order to uphold British values.