Left unconsidered by the Leftist hate group “Hope Not Hate” and the Mirror is the possibility that Islamic law, with its denial of the freedom of speech and the equality of rights of women, non-Muslims and others, as well as its imperative to conquer and subjugate non-Muslim populations, might actually be a threat to the British way of life. No, to consider such a possibility would be “Islamophobic.” The fact that anyone in Britain has a negative view of Islam is solely a manifestation of “Islamophobia,” and there is no possibility whatsoever that the teaching of Islam and the behavior of believing and devout Muslims could have anything to do with it.
“Islamophobia ‘going mainstream’ as poll finds 31% think religion poses a threat,” by Nicola Bartlett, Mirror, July 15, 2019:
Islamophobia has gone mainstream, with liberal, middle class voters also expressing anti-Muslim views an anti-racist group has argued.
People continue to see Muslims overwhelmingly more negatively than any other religious group according to research with 31% of the population believing that Islam poses a threat to the British way of life.
Some 18% of people have an extremely negative view of Muslims according to a poll by anti-racist group Hope Not Hate.
There’s a general decrease in the share of people who see Islam as a serious threat to Western civilisation.
44% agree, down from 52% in our 2017 Fear and HOPE poll, alongside a decrease in concern about islamist extremism.
But there’s also a huge age gap in perceptions of Muslims.
Only 8% of 18-24 year olds see Muslims extremely negatively compared to 22% of all people aged over 50….
Rosie Carter, senior policy officer and report co-author for Hope Not Hate, said: “Anti-Muslim hatred has long been a serious problem on the right but it is now increasingly spanning the political spectrum.
“This is a cancer that will only get worse if people don’t stand up against it, whether that’s politicians, the media or anyone else. We all have our part to play in countering Islamophobia.”
mortimer says
31% of Brits are living in reality. The MIRROR management are not living in reality.
ISLAMIC SCHOLAR AHMAD SIRHINDI wrote that non-Muslims should be treated ‘like dogs’ :
“Kufr (non-Islamic societies) and Islam are opposed to each other. The progress of one is possible only at the expense of the other and co-existence between these two contradictory faiths is unthinkable.”
“The honor of Islam lies in INSULTING kufr and kafirs. One who respects kafirs, dishonors the Muslims. To respect them does not merely mean honouring them and assigning them a seat of honor in any assembly, but it also implies keeping company with them or showing considerations to them. They should be KEPT AT ARM’S LENGTH LIKE DOGS.
… If some worldly business cannot be performed without them, in that case only a minimum of contact should be established with them but without taking them into confidence. The highest Islamic sentiment describes that it is better to FOREGO that worldly business and that NO RELATIONSHIP should be established with the KAFIRS.”
INCOMPATIBLE.
Emilie Green says
Only 31%?
Despite all the murders and destruction that Muslims have done in the UK and on the Continent, it’s only 31%. Well, Muslims are not about to stop following the example of their Perfect Man.
CRUSADER says
Islamophobia Awards 2016:
Worst anti-Muslims of the year to get ‘Racism Oscars’
Columnist Katie Hopkins, Prime Minister David Cameron
and the Metropolitan Police are all up for unwelcome gongs
at the 2016 Islamophobia Awards….
Comments:
Does British teach man to treat women as children and beat them?
Does Britain teach those that are unbelievers to chop their heads off
and their fingertips? — read their book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLB6cXYi8uU#action=share
Emmie says
Katie Hopkins deserves an Islamorealism award!
Patrick B. Ludwig says
“Only” 31%? What is the percentage of English Native Non Muslims in the UK today? 31 %?
Terry Gain says
Given that criticizing Islam will get you a visit from the police and reporting on the sentencing of Muslim rapists will get you sent to a maximum security prison, there is good reason to believe that the number of people who are concerned about Islam is much higher.
Save Europe says
I agree Terry. I seem to recall it was almost 50% about a year ago. May have been Pew, I saw it in.
Think it was somewhere around 45-48 percent from my recollection.
Uriah Sheep says
We need to destroy th is link between Islam and race. Until we do that, the Communists (let’s face it – that’s what they are) and the Islamists are going to get what they want sooner rather than later.
mortimer says
Agree that there is a false link between an ideology and a race. A man who joins Islam and then leaves Islam does not magically become an Arab in his DNA and then revert in DNA to what he was before.
Disagree that they are ‘communists’. Mussolini said that fascism is the collaboration of socialism and the owners of businesses.
What we see today is the collaboration of international BILLIONAIRES with socialism to create one world economy to facilitate the moving of the BILLIONAIRES’ capital and factories from one country to another with the least amount of bother. To do this, the BILLIONAIRES require complete control over the peoples of the earth and their governments. They are working on suppressing the freedom to dissent against their conspiracy.
The BILLIONAIRES are using Islam a PRETEXT for abolishing the freedom of expression.
James Lincoln says
mortimer says,
“What we see today is the collaboration of international BILLIONAIRES with socialism to create one world economy to facilitate the moving of the BILLIONAIRES’ capital and factories from one country to another…”
Four or five years ago, if I had heard someone say this, I would have quickly written them off as a conspiracy theorist. Now, not so much…
I’m still not 100% sure that you’re correct. There are benevolent billionaires in the world. Pres. Trump is actually one of them. He can be VERY tough, but he truly wants the United States to prosper – and be safe. That being said, for some billionaires in the world, you are certainly correct. I’m just not sure that they make up the majority…
Much thanks for the thought-provoking post.
Giacomo Latta says
The Left and Muslims are losing the war in linking Islam to race. Of course, Islam is not something you find on someone’s skin; you find it between their ears. The aforementioned groups now would have us fight against racism and Islamophobia. Still a subtle link of two unconnected issues.
mortimer says
What does Rosie Carter think about AL WALAA WAL BARAA, Islam’s teaching of APARTHEID ???
-Imam Abdul-Latif ibn Abdur-Rahman Rahimullah said, “It is not possible for someone to realize Tawheed (Islamic faith) and act upon it, and yet not be HOSTILE against the mushrikeen (i.e. wrong worshippers). So anyone who isn’t HOSTILE against the mushrikeen, then it cannot be said that he acts upon Tawheed nor that he realizes it.” [ad-Durar as-Saniyyah 8/167]
-“The doctrine of al Walaa wal Baraa is the REAL IMAGE for the actual practice of this faith.” – source “Al Walaa wal Baraa According to the Aqeedah of the Salaf”, by Sheikh Muhammad Saeed al Qatani, authoritative Saudi Sharia lawyer and imam at the Abu Bakr and Al Furqan Mosques in Mecca. – https://islamfuture.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/al-wala-wal-bara-according-to-the-aqeedah-of-the-salaf-parts-123/
-Shaykh Ahmad ibn ‘Atiq said:
“There isn’t in the Book of Allah the Exalted – after the issue concerning the obligation of tawheed and the forbiddance of its opposite (kufr=wrong belief)- any issue which has as so many proofs, nor so clearly explained, than the issue of al-walaa’ and al-baraa’.”
– Dr. Muhammad Saeed Al-Qahtaani said: “Thus, it is clear that Al-Wala’ Wal-Bara calls on Muslims to “love” their fellow Muslims and hate the non-Muslim (or Kafir).”
Clearly, al Walaa wal Baraa is Islamic apartheid. Is that OK with Rosie Carter? Will she criticize it?
Angemon says
I wonder if it might have something to do with all those muslims murdering for their religion…
Right – the “old, white people are bigots” trope. I wonder if there’s a reason to why they zoomed in on the “extremely negatively” instead of simply “negative”…
CRUSADER says
GASLIGHTING
How to deal with gaslighting — TED Talks….
Gaslighting is an emotionally abusive tactic that makes the victim question
their own sanity and perception of reality.
Reality is canceled and denied, all is upside-down, nothing means anything,
chaos, confusion… manipulation as narcissist’s tool…
How to manage and cope?
Strategies:
————–
1) Remain DEFIANT by standing firm, trust your reality
2) Protective Anger —> CONFIDENT RESILIENCE
3) Recognize that accountability won’t be realized
4) Logic and Reason will not be applicable
5) Let go of the Wish for it to be Different — be free of the Tumult
6) Do not believe in broken promises and false assurances
7) Solution to not being heard? Healthy Detachment / Disengage
8) Put your concerns FIRST — distance yourself from whiplashing
9) Be vigilant about clarity and verify certainties in an uncertain world
10) Say what needs to be said, regardless, as it is testimony
11) Champion freedom of speech
(In this important talk, Ariel Leve shares some of the life-saving strategies
she adopted as a child to survive her mother’s gaslighting.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4P2Qwh1QCU
Joe says
The younger people have been indoctrinated at school. If they start asking questions such as, “Is Islam a race?”, they are disciplined. More older people look at the facts which is why they live with the reality that Islam is strong influenced by a warlord, Mohammed. But the difference is mostly the indoctrination that passes for “education”.
tim gallagher says
After several terrorist attacks in the UK, after the rape gangs and the other barbaric Muslim behaviour, I also can’t believe that only 31% of people in the UK have a negative view of Islam. So many slow learners. The other day, here on Jihad Watch, there was that report that 50% of Germans had a negative view of Islam. That’s quite a bit better. But, then again, I was thinking that people might not tell the people who do surveys what they really think. In the recent election here in Australia, the Labor party was expected to win according the polls, but they were beaten. After the election, many commentators said that people ( the “shy voter” they were called) didn’t tell the people doing the polls what they really were thinking. Maybe they were embarrassed to say that they held tough, politically incorrect views. I hope far more people in the UK are awake to what a barbaric ideology Islam is, because if they are not, then the UK is in enormous trouble.
Joe says
It is not only embarrassment; it is harassment. If the government knows that you know some hard fact such as “Islam is not a race”, they could retaliate in a number of ways. When the government becomes too powerful, people keep their mouths shut.
tim gallagher says
I think you’re right, Joe. I’ve never been asked what I think by a pollster but I’m not sure I’d cooperate with them and tell them what I think. Then again, I’ve been writing to our politicians for 20 years and telling them that they should stop Muslim migration so, I guess, they might have me on some kind of list of trouble-makers. I think there’d be a lot of people on such a list. I don’t really give a damn. Maybe, when you’re almost 70 years old, you don’t care that much. When it comes to the damage that Islam is doing and will do in the future, I find it is impossible not to lobby our politicians.
KWJ says
I filled out surveys for a researcher at the university. They even paid you $5.00. It was a general feelings scale questionnaire fro 0-100% applicable to my community. It asked how you feel about the police, trusting doctors, firemen, how the mayor is doing, how you feel about black people, Black Lives Matter and Muslims. The latter two got low percentages from me but I complained in the feedback that without an explanation it just looks anti-Muslim.
Since I interact with black people every day in my community whether at stores or on my street, that rating was high. So no racism against blacks. (I don’t like how BLM operates and how their members talk.)
You have all these Muslim organizations pushing Islam into the West, Muslims who say they want sharia law, making demands for exclusive accommodations, propaganda, anti-Semitism, etc. then you might not like Muslims who partake in all that. Worldwide Islamic terrorism isn’t so much a factor as how they were indoctrinated with Islam and by whom. Also, those who want blasphemy laws are anti-free speech and are contrary to our laws and way of life; those Muslims won’t be well-liked either as well as the over 50% polled once in Britain who said homosexuality should be illegal and Allah’s laws are superior over Britain’s laws.
The question should be “How do you feel about Islam?” and then “How do you feel about devout followers of Islam?” If they think what the Qur’an says is truth and is applicable for all ages, that’s a problem since the Qur’an hates unbelievers and jihad is incumbent upon all Muslims. I also have a problem with the amount of lying I encounter in discussions with Muslims and their refusal or denial to take self-responsibility whether historically or in societies today.
The media and academia aid and abet this victimhood because they keep covering up things and news. There have been plenty of documentaries and videos out of England over the years that clearly show how and why Muslims are wearing out their welcome and their deflecting blame on others is getting old and ineffective.
I don’t think it needs to be said that EVERY single Muslim thinks the same but millions do. If there are lax Muslims or have no interest in Islamic supremacy then they should say so and don’t bother weakly defending Islam. I hear more these days from Muslims, “I’m proud of my religion.” When a woman says that I shudder. Proud of what?
tim gallagher says
Thanks for your comment, KWJ. I agree with everything you say and, especially, with your last comment there about Muslims saying they are proud of their backward, barbaric religion. I feel exactly as you do, proud of what? I can’t see anything in Islam to be proud of, and I just see it as a revolting ideology that has brought enormous misery to the human race. There have been so many millions of people slaughtered because Islam’s vile teachings. I believe that Islam, in endless ways, is incompatible with any civilised, decent society.
Kay says
Just listened to the squad’s take down of POTUS.
Omar refused to answer a direct question of whether she supports Al Quada. If you were inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt, you’d accede that it’s Islamophobic to even ask such a question. No one challenged her on that. So now that she spoke it, does it make it true? (sarc)
gravenimage says
Yes–I saw some of this insanity on MSNBC.
Christopher Watson says
The figure of 31% seems very low. It has been thought that up to 50% of those questioned in some surveys to lie or alter their answers to a more positive answer. It should be realised that questions about religion, particularly Islam, is now a very sensitive subject. The present laws on speech and talking about Islam are becoming more clouded and ambiguous. Even politicians are now loathe to talk about Islam and would rather avoid any mention of the subject.
Westman says
I suspect it’s like the polls before Trump was elected. No one will tell an aggressive leftist poll taker what they really think and the polling organization starts trumpeting a falsehood. They could get more accurate results just listening at the local pub. Listening to something that contradicts their agenda, and accepting it, is beyond their emotional maturity.
Rev G says
But if you have seen the latest Robin Hood movie you just know that it is the Muslim that is fair and noble, the “English” are the savages
gravenimage says
More whitewash of Islam, Rev G.
gravenimage says
UK poll: 31% believe Islam poses a threat to the British way of life, Mirror laments rise of “Islamophobia”
…………………..
In other words, a few Britons are on to the fact that Islam is violent and seeks the destruction of civilized British values–of course dhimmi tools lament this. They wish everyone were still in denial about Islam as they are.
Relic says
31%
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Fp-omNXCw
CRUSADER says
Katie Hopkins: : Why do Muslims always go to Christian countries?
“Isn’t it because Christian lands are free and tolerant and open?”
Katie Hopkins quizzes Worlds Apart RT host Oksana Boyko
about why Muslims “always go to Christian countries”….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpSn10bRZb4#action=share
sidney penny says
“This is a cancer that will only get worse if people don’t stand up against it, whether that’s politicians, the media or anyone else. We all have our part to play in countering Islamophobia.”
Could Rosie Carter, (from Hope Not Hate) ,please explain Islamophobia for me.
CRUSADER says
ACT!!! for America — for example….
http://www.ACTforAmerica.org/issues
Terry Gain says
I would ask Rosie Carter why she thinks people are wary of Muslims given that it is politically incorrect to have such beliefs and the propaganda is all pro Muslim, her use of the expression Islamophobia to describe a legitimate fear being a case in point.
Rooster says
Only 31%? Then England has been conquered by Islam. A theocracy that exist to dominate the free people of the world. How sad for the British to succumb to such an ending. America is facing the same end if it doesn’t wake up! Free people cannot afford to trust the wolves in sheep clothing, Muslims!
Tom says
Unfortunately for the average Brit they have consistently been fed propaganda that tells them diversity and multiculturalism is a way to strengthen their society.
Then Islamic terror raised its ugly head and the propaganda machine had to go into high gear to make Brits believe that those who follow Islam are peaceful and benign and that it is only a few radicals that give Muslims a bad rap. The ultimate victim myth was born.
All the while the Muslim Brotherhood was chipping away at the foundation of democracy in the UK and the Brits in their apathetic way left it all up to their government. The very government infiltrated and subverted by the Muslim Brotherhood.
But now the Brits are beginning to awaken from their slumber to find their political house in shambles, their government a disaster, and their culture threatened by Islam.
It is surprising that 31% are actually awake to the threat of Islam, but it should be many more.
Too little, too late ? Maybe we shall see.
Mixtli says
Shame on Oksana Boyko, either she’s lying or she doesn’t know her history, saying that muslims only come to christian countries because said countries invade and war against their countries, but who was the invading force since the Pedophile(pbuh)was made victorious through terror, 1,400 years of muslims invading Europe, Africa, and the Subcontinent, creating war, taking of sexslaves, hostages, demanding ransoms, Islam truly is Evil itself.
gravenimage says
Yes–this is utterly false.
No Muzzies Here says
31% dared say it. The other 69% were too scared to say the truth, or are genuinely convinced that Islam is the best thing that could ever happen to the UK.
UNCLE VLADDI says
More muslims = more experience of islam = increased islamophobia, exactly as it was designed.
Ginger Snap says
It is time to wake up and smell the coffee! We see what has happened in England and France. Police are afraid to go into No-Go zones. If they do mayhem begins. Squatters have effectively taken over the cities. Squatters’ violence and intimidation deters the country’s and city’s laws from being followed. Keep ignoring and defending these squatters, and kiss your city/country good-bye.
ntesdorf says
John 16:2
“They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.”
Christ already warned us of Muslims.
Peter says
I S L A M O R E A L I S M is not a “phobia.” It is rational, logical, and objective.