The document was entirely reasonable. It’s clear from the treatment of Muslim rape gangs that Muslims are a protected class in the UK. So believing, in the teeth of all available evidence, that Muslims are persecuted in a sign that one is imbibing jihadi grievance propaganda that is used to justify jihad violence. But the truth is not permitted to be spoken these days in shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain.
“UK police pull ‘outrageous’ pamphlet on Islamic extremism,” MENAFN, January 19, 2020:
LONDON: Britain’s anti-terror police were forced to withdraw a document that said believing Muslims were oppressed was a sign of extremism after uproar from rights groups, local media reported.
The Metro, a British daily, reported a 12-page document released by counter terrorism police in southeast England was intended to give examples of behavior to look out for that could be considered “extremist.
The document was called “Safeguarding young people and adults from ideological extremism, and listed several extremist groups. Chief amongst them was Al Muhajiroun group. The organization has already been banned for supporting terrorist Islamist groups, but controversy arose over what police considered to be their other extreme views.
The document read: “Al Muhajiroun promotes the view that Muslims are persecuted in the UK by the government and media. You may hear someone state this view or voice concern for ‘oppressed Muslims’ in other countries.
It was this kind of wide-ranging accusation that lead several Muslim and rights groups to voice concern that freedom of speech could be undermined.
With protests in India over a controversial citizenship law perceived to discriminate against Muslims, and increasing global alarm over Chinese treatment of its Muslim Uighur minority, the fear was that Muslims could be shut out of debates, already widely reported by mainstream media, for fear of being seen as extremist.
The document did not just include outright extremist groups like Al Muhajiroun and neo-Nazis. It is also included Extinction Rebellion, an activist environmental group that engage in disruptive civil disobedience to raise awareness about climate change….
Jayell says
By not treating these ‘Asian’ gangs with the full force of the law as soon as their heinous crimes and offences against other citizens were reported is indeed treating them like some sort of privileged elite, rather similar to the kind of ‘special consideration’ that royalty, visiting dignitaries, Heads of State and persons with diplomatic privileges would get; the reason being either to avoid undermining the UK’s established social fabric or to avoid provoking some kind of international incident. But these gangs hold no special position whatsoever in UK society (in fact whether or not they can be considered part of ‘UK society’ at all is debatable), and they most certainly have no right whatever to any special international status. So why are these muslim gangs treated with kid gloves, rather like the entitled emissaries of some conquering power – as indeed would have happened with servants and representatives of the Third Reich had Hitler invaded the UK in the 1940’s? This did not make any sense until I watched Tommy Robinson’s recent award-acceptance speech at the Danish Parliament (can be viewed on Rebel Media), in which he described how the Saudis have bought their way into the UK establishment and news media. And, no doubt, not just the Saudis, but the Qataris and also every other antediluvian islamic Middle Eastern state with more money than their primeval brains can cope with. So if anyone got the impression that the UK establishment has gone as rotten as medieval barrel of fish with a police force correspondingly bent to typically-twisted middle eastern standards, we now know how the rot got into the barrel. It’s interesting to hear the UK EU-Remainers whingeing about how Brexit would reduce the UK to a vassal-state depending on US trade deals, but here we have evidence of a backdoor islamic middle-eastern takeover that’s clearly already in place, funded by oil money. At this rate we’ll all be waving our copies of the Qur’an at compulsory Friday prayers in the local Parish Mosque, just as ‘Mein Kampf’ would have been required reading in schools had Hitler succeeded 80 years ago.
PS – The South Yorkshire Police apparently can’t apparently name the officer who refused to deal with the serious complaints of a victim of one of the notorious Rotherham muslim grooming gangs? Now, why’s that? Could it be that this officer didn’t have what one might call a ‘quintessentially Yorkshire name’?
Zaheer Hasan says
“Asian Gangs” is a misnomer and insult to Asians. Call these gangs BRITISH Asian (aka Pakistani gangs or people with Muslim heritage from Pakistan and Afghanistan). Distinguish them from other Asians and zero in on the perpetrators. Asian is not correct. Most of these criminal activities are carried by Afghani-Paki Muslims and British Muslim converts. the common denominator is Muslim and Islam. That’s what you need to emphasize. thanks
FYI says
Here is an oppressed Group that faces constant online abuse,personal insults and threats of violence to them and their families and all because they were grown up and sensible enough to leave islam.
Those “apostate” ex-muslims:they too are often subject to being accused of “islamophobia” which is preposterous as they did not do anything wrong.
Ex-muslims {who are now Atheists,Agnostics,Christians etc} are perfectly ENTITLED to be critical of an intolerant religion they were subjected to from birth,to be freethinkers and free to choose for themselves what they want to believe in.
It always impresses me when people are mature and courageous enough to leave islam as it is not easy to do so;islam has a death penalty for “apostasy”.
“If sombody discards his religion,KILL him”
Sahih Bukhari vol 4 bk 52 no 260
What sort of religion is so insecure that gives such a threat ?
I have no sympathy for anybody who converts to islam and ends up dead or in jail as the evidence is out there that you should stay well away from islam.
You chose that path then you must deal with the consequences.
keith says
Examples such as this show everyone why the UK is finished as a western nation.
When it becomes unacceptable to speak the truth about ANY group within a society, or for that matter any event that occurs, then that nation is screwed!
What I find to be most worrying is that the government is allowing this to happen, for what ever reason, the British people will probably wake up and stand up for their own freedom, but, you have to wonder if it will be in time to save their homeland.
Rueben_Singh says
Many years ago Hugo Young who used to write for the Guardian, before it became a islamist rag, warned that islam/moslems would become a protected class. He died in Sept 2003
He warned of the dangers of islam. Sadly he is not too well known or remembered.
Well worth researching.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/06/september11.politics
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link, Rueben.
gravenimage says
UK: Cops pull “outrageous” document that said that thinking Muslims were persecuted in UK was sign of “extremism”
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What is outrageous about this?
Itinerant says
Also Martin Bright in the Grauniad 5 years later:
‘Right showing left the way on radical Islam.’
‘It’s fascism by any other name and it’s time that all political factions joined forces to fight it’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/jul/30/labour.religion
Briight also helped write the Policy Exchange report ‘When progressives treat with reactionaries,’
“which identified an ongoing Foreign Office policy to develop links with Islamists abroad and in Britain.”
His expose of “Whitehall’s love affair with Islamism” is unfortunately just as relevant in 2020, it accused the Foreign Office of “pursuing a policy of appeasement towards radical Islam that could have grave consequences”- no kidding.
https://www.policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/when-progressives-treat-with-reactionaries-jul-06.pdf
How things have changed with that rag.
Rueben_Singh says
There are a few on the left of the spectrum who know the very real malevolent nature of islam and the danger that it holds for all of the lefts supposed principles. Even Peter Tatchell who used to walk around with placards stating “moslems and gays unite against bigotry” (I kid you not) is now regarded as an islamophobe. The left are the ones we have to wake.
Itinerant says
Slight correction Bright DID write the Policy Exchange report, while the preface is by Jason Burke.
David, Thailand says
Problem with that, aside from being thoroughly daft and typically British, is that Islam teaches the very existence of infidel faiths is persecution of Islam, which makes every Muslim an extremist.
Glad I left the country, sad to see it go down the pan with so few people even noticing, while those who do notice are scared to speak.
gravenimage says
Yes–Muslims consider the very existence of Infidels to be “persecution” that calls for violence.