“It was announced that Boris Johnson would replace a promised inquiry into allegations of Islamophobia within the Conservatives with a more broad-brush review of how the party handles discrimination complaints.” Kudos to Johnson!
Every immigrant community faces social, employment, integration, discrimination, and other cultural challenges, and the Muslim community holds no monopoly on such challenges. Discrimination is also found within immigrant groups. Muslims do not need a separate status.
In fact, no community except the Muslim community has had members so frequently dominate the headlines. We have seen jihad murders of infidels with screams of “Allahu akbar,” rampant rape gangs, calls for curbing the freedom of speech; the slaughter (and ongoing genocide) of Christians and the persecution of other minorities, floggings, female genital mutilation, child marriage, forced conversions, Sharia courts in Western countries and more. The West has been defending itself against on jihad terror since 9/11, and is losing due to the kind of propaganda displayed in the article below, which is one-sided as usual, and once again employs the “Islamophobia” victimology canard. It goes so far as to state:
I have reported on numerous stories that involve British Muslims. I have consistently noticed that political rhetoric has an impact on people’s perception of their own ability to participate in the public sphere.
Whatever that means! Open discussion in the public sphere about all aspects of Islam and Muslims has been all but banned. Islamic supremacists cannot handle challenges to their religion, or insults, without threats of violence and punitive action. They cannot handle Western light humor about their religious ideology, nor any criticism of their religion. Nor do they tolerate discussion about the global abuses committed by Muslims against religious minorities. Anything that upsets Islamic supremacists is forced underground with complaints about “Islamophobia.”
Jihad Watch reported in August:
“The Conservatives will face an independent inquiry into Islamophobia, party chairman James Cleverly has confirmed. The investigation comes after a YouGov survey for Channel 4’s Dispatches programme found that 56 per cent of the Tory membership thought Islam was ‘generally a threat’ to the British way of life and just 22 per cent thought it was ‘generally compatible.’”
If anything, the survey should have elicited open, candid discussion about why such beliefs exist. But that discussion has been virtually shut down due to Islamic supremacist intimidation tactics and a guilt-trip about Muslim victimhood, as is laid out here by Samira Shackle.
An example (among endless others) about the effects of the “Islamophobia” intimidation strategem: in November, Conservative councillor Mary Sherwin was left in an emotional state after being beaten down by the “Islamophobia” battering ram and called “racist.” She was arbitrarily suspended from the Bosworth Conservative Association on accusations that she did not understand.
And British taxpayers are the ones footing the bill for such “investigations” about “Islamophobia.”
The Daily Mail reported:
Cash has been used by the European Union to fund a ‘ludicrous’ report branding Boris Johnson as a central figure in Islamophobia….Brussels gave £109,000 for the study to a think-tank in Turkey, even though the country is outside the EU. The review placed Mr Johnson alongside far-Right leader Tommy Robinson as ‘central figures in Britain’s Islamophobia network’.
Yes, in Turkey. It does not take much to discern the agenda of such initiatives that are being continuously foisted upon infidel countries, backed by states belonging to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation — the world leader in promoting the “Islamophobia” subterfuge.
It is not “shameful” in any way that Britain’s new leader has “reneged on the inquiry into Tory Islamophobia.” It is, rather, to be applauded. The West should not and must not conform to Islamic norms as dictated under the Sharia.
Earlier in December, the UK’s largest Muslim group — the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) — even slammed the left-leaning BBC for not condemning “Tory Islamophobia.” Nothing appeases Islamic supremacists except conformity to their rules and mores. The MCB also “instructed” that “candidates and parties campaigning in the general election must commit to tackling racism and Islamophobia to win the support of Muslim voters.”
“It’s shameful that Johnson has reneged on the inquiry into Tory Islamophobia,” by Samira Shackle, Guardian, December 23, 2019:
A few years ago, I was reporting a story about Prevent, the government’s counter-extremism programme. I interviewed various Muslims from around the UK who had interacted with the programme in one way or another. Many wanted to be anonymous. These were ordinary people, not activists, and for many it felt too risky to draw attention to themselves, even if they had not been accused of wrongdoing. “We’re already seen as terrorists,” one young woman told me. “Just look at the way people talk about our community.”
I thought about that young woman as it was announced that Boris Johnson would replace a promised inquiry into allegations of Islamophobia within the Conservatives with a more broad-brush review of how the party handles discrimination complaints. There is compelling evidence that the Conservative party has a specific problem with Islamophobia. During the election campaign, the party continued to back several candidates who had made Islamophobic statements; a dossier of social media comments found that 25 Tory councillors had posted racist material including descriptions of Muslims as “barbarian” and “the enemy within”. The prime minister himself has ridiculed burqa-wearing women as looking like “letterboxes”. A poll in June conducted by YouGov for the anti-racist organisation Hope Not Hate found that more than half of Conservative party members believe that Islam threatens “the British way of life”.
Beyond the diluted focus of the investigation, the choice of chair suggests something other than the “zero tolerance” of anti-Muslim prejudice that Johnson has promised. Swaran Singh has previously written that “the racism charge” forced politicians to “act before they have had time to think”. He has also contributed to Spiked, an online publication whose editor, Brendan O’Neill, has dismissed Islamophobia as an “invented term” designed to “chill open discussion about aspects of Islam”.
Of course, Singh does not necessarily share O’Neill’s views, but it is worth noting that this is often the terrain on which discussion of Islamophobia takes place – as an issue primarily of semantics, about whether Islam is a religion or a race, a question of free speech and “legitimate criticism” of a religion or an “ideology”. Questioning the very concept of Islamophobia has become another weapon in the rightwing culture war. Just last week Melanie Phillips wrote a column for the Jewish Chronicle; the headline on the website, complete with scare quotes: “Don’t fall for bogus claims of ‘Islamophobia’”. This is a simple but effective deflection from the profoundly serious consequences of systematic discrimination.
Since 2013, the number of reported hate crimes has doubled in the UK; around half of all incidents of religious hatred relate to Muslims. But Islamophobia is more than hate crimes or racist rhetoric. Structural racism means a closing down of opportunity. It means limited space in the public sphere. It means disenfranchisement and underemployment and unequal treatment. Certainly, there have been some breakthroughs in terms of British Muslims in political office and other areas of public life – Sadiq Khan as mayor of London, Sayeeda Warsi as Conservative party co-chair (a post she held from 2010-12). Yet this remains the exception rather than the rule.
A 2017 report by the Social Mobility Commission found that Muslims living in the UK “are being held back from reaching their full potential at every stage of their lives”. The research found that young people from Pakistani and Bangladeshi backgrounds (the largest British Muslim communities) are more likely to succeed in education and go to university than some other groups, but that this does not translate into the labour market.
Within the economically active population (16 to 74 years), only one in five of the Muslim population is in full-time work, compared with more than one in three for the overall population in England and Wales. It also found that nearly half of the Muslim population – 46%– live in the most deprived local authority districts. This socioeconomic and class disadvantage has serious implications for access to resources, attainment, and the availability of jobs. Coupled with more direct racial discrimination – such as stereotyping by teachers and employers, and the fact that people with names that sound “foreign” are less likely to get job interviews – this is a toxic mix.
I have reported on numerous stories that involve British Muslims. I have consistently noticed that political rhetoric has an impact on people’s perception of their own ability to participate in the public sphere.
The disastrous mishandling of Birmingham’s “Trojan horse” affair – in which schools in primarily Muslim areas were accused of fomenting extremism – led to many parents and other local people retreating from governing bodies. This went far beyond the handful of individuals accused of wrongdoing. Several people I interviewed, not just in Birmingham but elsewhere in the country, cited the incident as a reason not to get involved in local politics or services at all. “Whatever we do we are referred to as a national security threat, so why bother?” one Muslim parent told me……
ToBeFrank says
The majority of “Muslims” suffer from “Truthophobia”.
keya says
Also “Kafirphobia”
John says
islam suffers from it,s belief it is superior to everyone else and everyone else must obey them or die. Pretentious islamobigotry .Made up one for them. Satan,s Advocates.
Robin Searle says
The Islamic faith warrants all the criticism that it gets plus more from those fearful of recrimination!
Rajaram says
To each immigrant the west/America should insist on a written consent that the immigrants will abide by the law of the land, and integrate themselves with the prevailing culture of the land. Sadly this is not done and they(west/America)allow themselves to be trapped under the clever rhetoric of Islamaphobia! This rhetoric is a wily trick invented by the Islamic Brotherhood of Egypt to surreptitiously dominate the west/America and ultimately establish a powerful Islamic Caliphate without any direct war, because it is the surest way. Wake up from your deep slumber Europe and America before it gets too late, or else your hard won status and freedom will fly to the wind!!
keya says
If Muslims have a bad name then what have they done to dispel it. They keep mostly silent against the atrocities committed by their coreligionists. Either they whine or try to be victims themselves.
They should wonder why are the other communities doesn’t come under fire.
Michael Copeland says
Samira Shackle has “Pakistani aunties and uncles” (on her Twitter), so she may have an interested view.
She equates “descriptions of Muslims” with “racist material”. This is not possible: Islam is not a race.
She assumes it is shocking (and “racist”, which it is not) that some councillors had described muslims as “the enemy within”. Yet that is the status that Islam INSTRUCTS for muslims. The Koran stipulates
“the disbelievers are ever to you a clear enemy” 4:101
A Saudi Government ruling against muslims joining Western armies declares
“… Muslims should not be recruited into their Army, whether they are Arabs or non-Arabs,
because the unbeliever is the enemy of the believer.”
https://clarionproject.org/islamist-village-slated-texas-revenue-goals-1-millionyr/
Shackle assumes it to be shocking that “more than half of Conservative party members believe that Islam threatens “the British way of life”.” Could that perceived threat be linked to the statements of muslims themselves in Britain such as these?
“There will be no House of Commons.”
“You cannot accept the rule of the kaffir [non-Muslim].”
“You … have to live like a state within a state, until you take over.”
“Muslims must grow in strength … then take over.”
Imams in Britain, Undercover Mosque, Channel 4, 2007
And placards such as these:
Democracy go to Hell
Muslims reject democracy and secularism!
Freedom go to Hell
Liberalism go to Hell
Freedom of expression go to Hell.
British police go to Hell
Anglian Soldiers go to Hell
British Government terrorist government
Down with England
“Our campaign … will be – Rotten Britain, and destroying the foundations of Western civilization. So … be part of the project of forbidding man-made law … and calling for the Sharia.”
Anjem Choudary in London, from Norwegian State Television NRK documentary, “British Sharia Courts”
Gates of Vienna, 17 October 2011
“One of the goals of immigration is the revival of the duty of jihad and enforcement of power over the infidels. Immigration and jihad go together.”
Abu Baseer in London
Melanie Philips, Londonistan
Shackle dismisses Brendan O’Neill, for saying Islamophobia is an “invented term”. However, it is indeed an invented term. It was specifically adopted by The International Institute of Islamic Thought as a silencing device to use against critics. It deflects attention away from the issue to make it an ad hominem matter. The problem is that too many people fail to recognise that.
Shackle goes straight from complaints about discrimination to employment figures for muslims. It is as if the alleged discrimination is the only cause. Obviously employment is influenced by a host of factors: it is not the consequence of only one.
Ray Jarman says
Michael Copeland,
+++++++++++++++++++1 Excellent points and thanks.
Eur says
Muslim lives matter….but but Are muslims aware of the killings that muslims commit? (Terrrists..ok but also muslims and in the name of alah)Are they aware of the state of submission that Coptic Christians live in Egypt? How is the life of any atheist in any Islamic country? Are Muslims aware of the lack of rights that any citizen has in any Islamic country? For example, in Morocco, a Muslim family girl cannot marry a non-Muslim boy, a non-Muslim family cannot adopt a child unless the couple converts to Islam … it is incredible, of course the lives of Muslims matter, all human lives have the same value … but we all have the same rights,here and in Morocco,Argelia,Egypt…The world is not only for Muslims, fascist egoists
gravenimage says
Not only do most Muslims know about this, many approve.
Student of History says
Well done Boris. For now you seem to have deserved the people’s confidence and winning the election. Keep it up and things may actually go well for the UK.
Student of History says
Forgot to add to a moslem, anyone who is not is by definition islamophobic.
elee says
Inquite, damn it……..search far and wide for real objective truth……..millions of Brits need to know what they have admitted to their green and peaceful land.
elee says
Typo, sorry, of course it should be…..Inquire, damn it……..
Tom says
2020 ….. Hindsight of what has brought us to this point in our recent history should be ringing alarm bells for the west.
Perhaps this year is the time for those in the west who have hindsight and knowledge of the Islamic onslaught against our way of life should stand up and tell our politicians “No More !!! It MUST stop NOW.” Those who want to integrate and become western can be allowed into our countries, but those who betray our trust must be sent packing.
Gork says
Muslim lives don’t matter as long as they continue to harass and defame every single other race, creed, or religion.
Crusades Were Right says
Note the smiling going on in the pic. Whenever the “victims” of “racism” in Western countries are protesting against their “oppression”, I often notice that they seem to be beaming like Cheshire cats.
Funny that, isn’t it?
AntiIslamicman says
How can you investigate something that does not exist.
Crusades Were Right says
In the UK, apparently…
…”Muslim Lives Matter”…
…but it’s definitely NOT “OK To Be White”.
lol
Crusades Were Right says
When are we going to see an inquiry into CHRISTOPHOBIA?
Should I hold my breath? lol
gravenimage says
UK: Johnson called “shameful” for “reneging” on inquiry into Tory “Islamophobia”
“It was announced that Boris Johnson would replace a promised inquiry into allegations of Islamophobia within the Conservatives with a more broad-brush review of how the party handles discrimination complaints.”
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More signs of sanity from Boris Johnson!
R Cole says
Glad Boris didn’t bow to this Islamic authoritarianism. Believe it was Theresa May who set up the Islamophobia inquiry.
She was an advocate for globalism cultural Marxist, on which Muslims are getting a free ride at the moment.
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Boris just did what the Left do, for example when they are faced with Muslim antisemitism. Rather than condemn it outright, they say they will condemn all forms of hate!!
Much to do about nothing!!
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Interesting the Guardian article…
…implies the reason only 20% of British Muslim population is in full time employment has something to do with discrimination or racism, knowing there are identical unemployment statistics for Muslims throughout western Europe. And that in fact, the UK government has introduced measures to get them out to work – at least if they wish to marry a foreign nation and return to live as a married couple in the UK.
Prior to this, a Muslim family living on welfare or state benefits would return to Pakistan or Bangladesh, to marry off each one of their children born in the UK.
Then the newlywed couple would return to the UK to start a life, again on welfare or state benefits – which include free housing, food, and medical. And when this newlywed’s children reach their teenage years, the same arranged UK-foreign born marriage practise will be repeated.
Though Guardian would argue that these people are not given enough.
What distressed the socialist Left was that the UK government in the last few years, has placed restrictions on such fetching marriages, saying anyone who wishes to bring in their foreign spouse needs to be earning over £350/wk, so that these newcomers won’t be put a burden on the state. But the Left argue their rights are being violated.
A lot of this Islamic immigration is feet on the table.
And essentially the immigration policy is in the hands of the immigrants, who are mostly married to relatives from the old country, who are often illiterate or have a low level of schooling.
And it is this fetching marriage practice that allows Muslim communities, from the UK, to France to displace all other groups. In some areas they’ve completely taken over.
Anyone who has ever tried to stop this immigration has been called a racist by the likes of the socialist Guardian. But none of them are talking about how are you going to pay for an immigrant population that is growing faster than all other groups, mainly through marriage immigration, and who are heavily dependent on everyone else.
France is really feeling it. Most of France national debt is the cost of immigrants and immigration, which cost them more than the corporate and personal income tax revenue combined. And we are already seeing mass protests when the government tries to raise a little more tax here and there.
It’s clear by now, that while Muslims are allowed to come to Europe, the vast majority have no interest in being European and integrating in any way.
It reminds me of that terrorist who was invited to speak at that Leftwing event near London Bridge and then he attacked everyone. Some good old fashion common sense should be applied with the immigration policy too!!
If integration means preventing an immigrant from becoming a terrorist, we should remind ourselves this is not the Twilight Zone, this is real, and we have to be a lot more selective with who we are letting in, in the first place.
Tom says
Common sense ….. but to those on the left who are determined to turn the west into an economic basket case in order to gain and keep power, it will be decried as Islamophobia and racism.
The UN Compact on Migration is yet another tool of the left to flood the west with third world migrants and give them instant citizenship and all the rights of citizenship.
If calling for a stop to the cultural and economic suicidal plunge that will result in what Churchill called “The equal spreading of misery” is Islamophobic then so be it. But stop it we must if we are to save what is left of our western culture and society.
Immigration control must be strictly implemented as soon as possible and the only way to achieve that is to vote out the left and elect those who, like Boris, have a backbone.
Battle says
I hope someone told the protestors “Christian Lives Natter” Hindu Lives Matter” “Buddhist Lives Matter” “Women’s Lives Matter” “Teenage Girls Lives Matter” “Alleged Dishonorers’ Lives Matter” “Alleged Adulterers’ Lives Matter” “Alleged Unbelievers’ Lives Matter” “Jewish Lives Matter” and “Alleged Not Moslem Enough Lives Matter.”
E T says
OH DEAR, What happened to all the “Islam will rule.”, Shari’ah Law will prevail.” signs? I was just getting used to the Hyde side of Islam.