An opportunity was missed by the five Tory candidates during their June 17 debate to respond intelligently to the charge of “Islamophobia.” They might have taken issue with, instead of blandly accepting, the use of this word. They might have informed viewers that, after all, it is not unreasonable, certainty not “Islamophobic” (that is, exhibiting an “irrational fear and hatred of Islam and of Muslims”), for people to be alarmed about Muslim attitudes and observable behavior. That debate audience might have been informed that there are 109 Qur’anic verses commanding Muslims to “to fight” and “to kill” and to “smite at the necks of” and to “strike terror in the hearts” of the Unbelievers. But no one was prepared to mention those verses about violent Jihad. And what a salutary effect it might have had on millions of BBC viewers had any of the Tory candidates quoted Muhammad, for Muslims the Perfect Man and Model of Conduct, who had boasted in a hadith that “I have been made victorious through terror.” No Muslim could deny the existence of this remark, and their silence, or their transparent attempts to somehow twist its meaning, would be telling. And how would the television audience have reacted had they been told that one Qur’anic verse (3:11) describes Muslims as “the best of peoples” and another describes Unbelievers as “the most vile of created beings”?
After the debate, to the BBC’s great embarrassment, and consternation among Muslim apologists, it was discovered that Abdullah Patel, the imam in Bristol who had originally started the whole discussion about “Islamophobia” by claiming he had “seen firsthand the main effects” of this hatred, had tweeted antisemitic comments and mocking remarks about rape. This were not discovered until after the debate, because he had deliberately suspended his twitter account before he was vetted by the BBC so that those tweets could not have been seen, and then, after the show, Patel promptly reactivated his twitter account.
Here is what he twitted about Jews — as all-powerful paymasters of those who dutifully do their bidding on behalf of Zionism:
“Every Political figure on the Zionist’s payroll is scaring the world about Corbyn. They don’t like him. He seems best suited to tackle them!” In another tweet he suggested that the solution to the Arab-Israeli problem would be to remove Israel entirely from the Middle East and set it down in the middle in of the U.S. Patel asked in another tweet “how long are they going to hide behind the Holocaust cry”? And he had this to say about Gaza: “Auschwitz was a monstrosity. But the concentration camp in Gaza is the modern day Auschwitz. The Jews got justice, th (sic) Muslims deserve theirs.’ That was enough to convince people of his antisemitism.
Another tweet by Patel on the subject of rape blamed the victims: “Let’s make something clear: ‘Generally, men are the predators, but women need to realize this and be smarter. It takes 2 to tango, and if you put yourself in that position, don’t expect every man to pass up the opportunity to take advantage of you. Don’t be alone with a man!”
In Patel’s view, men are not to blame for rape. They are naturally predators; they can’t help it; it’s the fault of women if they are raped. He chastises them: “Don’t expect every man to pass up the opportunity to take advantage of you. Don’t be alone with a man!” British women were horrified; few realized that this view of rape is hardly unique to Abdullah Patel, but is shared by a great many Muslim men.
Both the antisemitic tweets and the rape comment set off a firestorm of criticism of Abdullah Patel. The Islamic girls’ school where he taught, and the mosque, Masjid e Umar, where he served as imam, have “suspended” Patel pending further investigation. And what at first looked like it would be a solid win for the forces of Islam, with the five candidates agreeing that “Islamophobia” in the Tory Party should be investigated, instead ended in an embarrassed shambles at Abdullah Patel and his views, now unearthed, on “Zionists” and on rape.
This debate could have been used, in part, as a teaching moment, a way to introduce a wide audience to the most disturbing Qur’anic passages. But none of the candidates saw fit to do so. Instead they all nodded in agreement at Savid Javid’s proposal that “Islamophobia” in the Conservative Party should be investigated. Baroness Warsi, the Muslim Conservative who sits in the House of Lords, who has made “Islamophobia” her signature issue, must have been well pleased. Fortunately, Abdullah Patel’s tweets then became the story, deflecting attention from the promise to look into “Islamophobia” in the Tory Party.
But whoever turns out to be the candidate — as of this writing, on June 23, Johnson and Hunt are still in the running — and once the Tory prime minister is chosen by the 160,000 Tory faithful, there will be interviews, articles, speeches by him to shore up support in the broader public. In any general election, the Muslim vote can be written off by the Tories; that vote will go to the Labour Party’s Jeremy Corbyn. The Tory candidate has to rally to his side those voters whose main worry is the Muslim presence in the U.K. and who until now have found themselves without adequate representation in the major parties. Then he will be able, if he is unafraid to adduce textual support from the Qur’an, to skeptically dissect the supposed scourge of “Islamophobia” and to bring forcefully to the British public’s attention the many Jihad verses in that text. It’s long past time for some palpable hits to be scored against the “religion of peace.” In the debate the Tories held on June 18, all we witnessed was a very big miss.
Angemon says
Playing the filthy infidels like a fiddle…
Don McKellar says
Remarkable how any person can be so naive as to believe a single word out of a moslem’s mouth. And how can they not see that deception is going to occur at every turn to advance Islam? After all that’s been done and said by moslems, you have to be either stupid as a rock or completely delusional with politically correct piety. Or both in some cases.
Rufolino says
The Tory Party policy towards Islam can be characterised by a single word which says everything:
…APPEASEMENT.
jewdog says
With 1.7 million citizens of Pakistani origin, the center of gravity in Britain is shifting in a very negative direction. How long will it be before we see a British Asia Bibi, or would that be Tommy Robinson?
Don McKellar says
I would say that it’s more than shifting in a very negative direction — it is being dragged into a death spiral. About the only hope they have is for the Brexit Party to win the next elections with a majority. If they don’t, then Britain will have passed the point of no return. Just like America would have had the evil bitch won in 2016.
gravenimage says
And it is already so bad that Britain would not give Asia Bibi asylum because Jihadists would not like it.
Dylan Cromwell says
You’re using words written in an ancient text as evidence of intent to do harm to Western civilisation, by members of its own citizens. Every religious text is outmoded and contains passages justifying or otherwise inciting behaviours deemed incompatible with Western democracy. The Bhagavad Gita demonises women. The Torah demonises homosexuals. Such incompatibilities come to be seen for what they are and eventually absorbed into the liberal consensus of good people, of all creeds and faiths. As indeed one day will yours.
FYI says
Actually the koran needs to be investigated for illogicality
1.”lo!this is a conclusive word”
koran 87:13
really?
{“Above it are nineteen” koran 74:30.Nineteen WHAT allah?Nobody knows and nobody CAN know because it is an open sentence:you put anything you like after it..isn’t that an INCONCLUSIVE expression?So how can the koran be CONCLUSIVE?}
“Above it are nineteen”: …Ninja warriors,Best selling Robert Spencer books,starships..?What allah,we want to know..?
2.allah’s criterion of k4:82 suggests that ,if the koran has contradictions in it then it cannot be from God.
k4:85 allah PERMITS intercession
k74:48 muhammed PROHIBITS intercession
So muhammed denies ,defies and contradicts allah..so by alllah’s criterion of k4:82 i the koran cannot be from the actual God
3.”This{koran} is no pleasantry”
koran 87:14
you are right allah:and it makes no sense either.
islam doesn’t even get the religion of Moses right{ Moses is NOT a muslim}
“Abraham was not a Jew nor yet a Christian” k 3 v 67
Why would Abraham be a Christian?No Christian would think that.Yet in islam there is this ridiculous denial of the fact that the Biblical prophets were JEWISH.
That’s because in islam all Jewish prophets of the Bible were actually muslim.
hans says
Its seems that h
https://www.amazon.de/Syro-Aramaic-Reading-Koran-Contribution-Decoding/dp/3899300882te Koran was written in Arameic,only then it make sense.
John Allan says
Islamophobia? That’s the function of questioning what Islam is, what it stands for, why the ‘good’ Muslims don’t address the problem of the bad ones. So any number of us are Islamophobic.
What Islam needs is a metaphorical kick in the arse to sort ITSELF out, instead of blaming non-Muslims for all of its ills and for its self-generated poor image.
Dylan Cromwell says
Why has my comment been left ‘awaiting moderation’? You’ve allowed other comments made after mine to be displayed. You’ve allowed other comments that appeal to clear logical fallacies. I’m not practicing hate speech nor inciting antipathy toward the central thesis put forth by the article. So I can only assume that what I wrote doesn’t support your narrative?
marc says
new commentators are sent for manual moderation
Steve Meikle says
you just have to wait for approval, as i did. my posts were approved just today after a two day wait, it is the way it is; and I understand this.
Dylan Cromwell says
Okay, thanks guys.
John Allan says
They need to concern themselves with the man-on-the-street voter, not the adherents to a religion that is not, and never should be, mainstream in the UK.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“Justin Trudeau Urges Canadian Muslims To Make Themselves ‘Important’ To The Conservative Party”
https://ca.yahoo.com/news/justin-trudeau-urges-canadian-muslim-231436069.html
gravenimage says
Yes–disgusting.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Islamophobia of course means fear of those who observe Islam, Moslems, and not fear of Islam in the abstract. Any Infidel who does not fear Islam is either totally uninformed, brainwashed, stupid or mentally retarded… sometimes all at once.
The British government should investigate the lack of fear of Moslems, Those people should be called Islamophiles, and with due derision.
Dylan Cromwell says
The British government does not need to “investigate the lack of fear of Moslems”, nor do we need any converse term like ‘Islamophillia’, because it is entirely obvious why there is no fear. That someone has to spell this out for you is testament to your ignorance, but let me give it a try: Moslems are normal people, with the same propensity for good or evil as everyone else. Your misattribution of the characterisations of a tiny handful of extremists to a larger group, such as the Moslem population of Britain, is the very definition of Islamophobia. This needs to be pathologised because it is anathema to the truth of our actual communities, which are slowly integrating. We have a long way to go, because we who embrace the diversity are not the problem. The elitist, monolithic aspects of Islam ARE being dropped in the pursuit of unity. If you doubt this then visit a mosque in Manchester or Birmingham, you will be surprised.
gravenimage says
Tory Candidates All Agree That “Islamophobia” In Their Party Must Be Investigated (Part Two)
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Insane that there is no pushback on this–not even from the Tories, Britain is sadly far gone.
And yes–it is mainstream for Muslims to blame the victims for rape.
Steve Meikle says
how much if this is because the post modernist mind does not believe in any such thing as truth, and so is left with nothing but feelings? God help a culture so rotted away as to be only feeling spineless mindless jellyfish which actually condemns us few who still believe in such things as reason fact and evidence, we who regard emotion as having no relevance to matters of truth, as haters
I came up with the dictum that truth is the new hate speech all by myself but was then pleased that others had seen the same thing.
that this is true is itself terrifying
David says
” I hate to tell you this, but it is the truth: Islam is evil” My version of your dictum. My evidence:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/violence.aspx
John Butler says
He asked the contenders if “Words had Consequences”, and to a man they fell over themselves to condemn ‘Islamophobia’.
Thirty Thousand Islamic terrorist attacks since 911, including the barbarism of Bataclan, the cartoonists, Westminster Bridge and on and on….. all inspired by ‘words’, the words of his ‘Holy Book’, the Qur’an, which again and again within its covers has been the inspiration for these brutal acts against innocents.
Yes, mate, words have consequences. The real threat comes from the Qur’an and pusillanimous politicians brown-nosing to his supremacist cult.
Jayell says
“Muhammad, for Muslims the Perfect Man and Model of Conduct,….”
Why don’t people just point out that, if Mohammed were alive and pursuing his career today as per 1400 years ago, he’d have ended up in a high-security prison? ‘Perfect Man and Model of Conduct’? If Mohammed’s ‘religion’ (sic) had a system of canonisation like the RC Church, Al Capone would now be a latter-day saint!
David says
With friends like muhammad, who needs enemies?
AntiIslamicman says
There is no such thing as Islamophobia
Andrew E Walker says
Hugh, you do not help your argument by allowing your opponents to confuse fear with hatred. Phobia is an irrational fear, but miseo is the Greek for hatred, from which we get the word misogyny. They are separate concepts, and you only play into their hands if you allow them to mix up what are two separate notions.
David says
By all means have an enquiry into Islamophobia. Expose those incriminating verses! Get Lord Pearson involved. He is the best authority, and it will be difficult to shut him up. He knows his subject