He also noted that some Muslims in Britain were creating a nation within a nation and had no patriotic regard for the British state as it is currently constituted.
What did Phillips say that was false?
It doesn’t matter. Labour, and the British intelligentsia as a whole, is at war with reality. Britain has gone insane, and its demise as a free society is well underway.
“Labour’s race vendetta: Equality champion Trevor Phillips claims he was suspended from party for ‘Islamophobia’ as ‘Corbynista payback’ for his criticism of its handling of anti-Semitism crisis,” by James Tapsfield and Zak Newland, Mailonline, March 9, 2020:
Former equalities watchdog Trevor Phillips today blamed ‘gangsterism’ and ‘Corbynista payback’ after he was suspended from Labour over allegations of Islamophobia.
The anti-racism campaigner, who previously chaired the Equality and Human Rights Commission, faces an investigation and could be expelled from the party.
He was among a group of 24 public figures who last year declared their refusal to vote for the Labour Party because of its association with anti-Semitism.
However, Mr Phillips revealed he is now being investigated over past comments, some of which date back years, including remarks on Pakistani Muslim men sexually abusing children in northern British towns.
Comments about the failure of some Muslims to wear poppies for Remembrance Sunday are also thought to be under scrutiny.
Other remarks refer to the sympathy shown by some in an opinion poll towards the motives of the Charlie Hebdo attackers.
However, Mr Phillips today mounted a robust defence. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, he said: ‘I’m surprised about what is and always has been an open and democratic party decides that its members cannot have healthy debate about how we address differences of values and outlooks.
Labour’s ‘draft charge sheet’ accuses Trevor Phillips of using language ‘which targets or intimidates members of ethnic or religious communities, or incites racism, including Islamophobia’.
He is also accused of engaging in conduct that ‘may reasonably be seen to demonstrate hostility or prejudice based on race, religion or belief’, involved ‘Islamophobic actions, stereotypes and sentiments’, and ‘undermines the party’s ability to campaign against racism’.
Grooming scandal
In a 2016 pamphlet, Mr Phillips wrote: ‘The most sensitive cause of conflict in recent years has been the collision between majority norms and the behaviours of some Muslim groups.
‘In particular, the exposure of systematic and longstanding abuse by men, mostly of Pakistani Muslim origin in the north of England.’
Remembrance Day
Mr Phillips describe a visit to an industrial site where many African and eastern European immigrants worked but noticed a marked difference in those who were planning to mark Remembrance Sunday.
He wrote: ‘Poppies were everywhere. One group had clearly adapted to the mainstream, the other had not.’
‘Nation within a nation’
In 2016 Mr Phillips was quoted in a Times story on a survey of values, referring to ‘the unacknowledged creation of a nation within the nation, with its own geography, its own values and its own very separate future’.
‘Let us be clear about this. They say I’m accusing Muslims of being different.
‘Well, actually, that’s true. Muslims are different and, in many ways, I think that’s admirable.’…
Sam says
What a joke? Quran/Islam itself having phobia of other religion..
Proof-Just read Quran what Allah says in Quran about Jews, Christains, polytheist (Hindu). Calls them as Kafir
mortimer says
Yes, Sam, over 60% of the Koran is KAFIR-O-PHOBIA. The Muslims are PROJECTING what they are doing onto the dirty kufaar.
They are accusing the kafirs of hating Muslims … in fact, Muslims are commanded to hate kafirs ‘for the sake of Allah’. (Al Walaa wal Baraa).
Allah hates the kafirs and wants Muslims to hate them too. The Koran is mostly ‘hate speech’,
maemae77 says
That’s all they have to do and they all know it too. As long as people are willing to bow to their demands, those people will impose Sharia Law on their own people without even knowing it. This is why Muslims don’t belong in our society. They’re a bunch of snakes and their ideology just reinforces their supremacy over all others. That’s how Islam is designed.
Henry Mansfield says
I noticed that Breitbart carried a short piece on this earlier and left a comment name-dropping Robert Spencer and Jihad Watch. I mentioned that Spencer often cites the exact lines in the Quran that justifies this ‘grooming gang’ behavior.
I’ve been checking Jihad Watch pretty much daily for years along with a few other blogs that hinted at the Muslim pedophile network that’s operated for decades, long before the first successful prosecution in Rotherham. Knowing from a few reports that the ‘gangs’ had so little fear of being caught that they made no attempt to hide what they were doing gives me the idea that cops and social workers were taking bribes from the ‘gangs’.
Someone like this Trevor Phillips (willing to state the obvious) terrify such people, who would want as much silence on the subject as they could engender
mortimer says
Excellent. And yes, I assume the cops were told to stand down on it. Some VIPs or their family members may have been participating in the grooming gang and the police were told not to investigate. Police commanders at the top knew what was happening. Now that many of the knowledgeable commanders and detectives are retired, they should leak the information to the media if they have any honor.
mortimer says
This is a case of the Left eating its own. They maintain their lies even after they have been caught.
Profoundly dishonest people … Corbyn and his coterie of virtue-signalling liars. Power is their only creed.
Chistopher Watson says
The Police taking bribes? I doubt that very much. It was probably much more political. Those in power did not want to accuse those of a Pakistani origin and didn’t want trouble or being accused of racism. An accusation of racism is the end of ones career. In the NE of England whole towns are inhabited by Pakistanis and the police are aware that accusations of grooming or rape can result in rioting. Notice that even after the trials of Pakistani ‘rape’ gangs very few government officials or police have been ‘retired’ or lost their jobs.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Christopher.
Henry Mansfield says
Here in the USA we have a history on that subject.
The infamous Pinkerton Detective Agency was really a badge carrying private army that enforced the interests of corporations during the settling of the West, and even the coal/steel towns of Appalachia well into the 20th century saw them acting as ‘strike-busters’.
The growth of organized crime during our Prohibition saw massive amounts of corruption in big city police departments as ‘hits’ were carried out in broad daylight without a single arrest ever being made.
It was with that history in mind I speculated on some money changing hands between the gangs and government officials. You’re probably right, but if a few instances are proven it wouldn’t exactly shock me.
mortimer says
The US has a full time group of investigators that tries to find judges who are accepting bribes. People who are behind in their payments will sometimes accept a bribe. I think the vast majority of police are scrupulously honest. Bribery is an intrinsic part of Islam given a place of honor in Mohammed’s last commands.
PRCS says
Anne Marie Waters
Youtube
James Lincoln says
Excellent video, thank you for the link PRCS.
Anne Marie Waters sums up the muslim situation the UK very accurately and succinctly.
PRCS says
You’re welcome, and yes—she does.
Jocelynn Cordes says
Thanks for linking. I love this woman–she is so clear-sighted. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a mealy utterance from her yet.
PRCS says
Agree.
Giacomo Latta says
”born to be muslim”?
What a half-witted commentator?
Kathy says
“What a half-witted commentator”? Which commentator are you referring to here? Please explain your comment.
Krishna says
UK politics and free speech is joke
Tom says
Even the most left wing people can actually have open eyes but will pay the political and social price for speaking out about what they see. Labour used to be the party of the average working family. Under Corbyn it has morphed into a mixture of Stalinist and Nazi with a strong flavour of Islamism, with its own brown shirt contingent that bully and harass any in the party that dare to step out of the Corbyn ultra left wing, dare we say communist, political policies.
The left turning on itself and consuming its own is not unexpected and welcomed, but for it to be happening to such high profile lefties is unusual. It just shows how corrupted the Corbyn Labour Party really has become.
Can’t wait for its full demise.
mortimer says
Very well said, Tom. I too can’t wait for the next defection from that pack of liars. Now they have slandered Mr. Phillips a seemingly very ethical man.
Tom says
Mortimer my recollection is that it was Phillips in his role as Chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission penned a report that was the first to use the word Islamophobia in the UK. His use of the word rocketed it into the public domain and into a weapon for Islamists and politicians like Corbyn to use against any critics of Islam.
mortimer says
Labour used Trevor Phillips and now they threw him under the bus, rather than acknowledge his valid, thoughtful, well-founded remarks. Such vile opportunists.
FYI says
The rape gangs are MUSLIM.Everbody knows that.
They also tend to be PAKISTANIS:or as the British MSM,Police,Politicians,muslim council of Britain calls them….
“Asians”.
I call them {by their name} P-A-K-I-S-T-A-N-I-S:muslim rapists.
mortimer says
Googlestatistics identified Pakistani Muslims as the MOST FREQUENT searchers for SEX on the internet, including the most searches for the most horrible perversions.
The Pakistani culture normalizes pornography. A Muslim organizer in Britain who arranged speaking appearances for notable Pakistani preachers found they refused to speak in the evenings, because that is when they were used to watch pornography on the internet.
Plain Speaker says
Yes, anti-white racist foreign deviants, which, when you think about it, is a very accurate definition of Muslim rape gangs.
Time for “Operation Plain Speaking”.
carpediadem says
This is NOT racial!
Stop conflating Islam with race, it leads to massive distortions in reportage and understanding of the issues and Islam itself.
Plain Speaker says
FAO carpediadem
Are you literate? I was not at all conflating Islam with race. I’m well aware Islam is a belief system not a race.
I was saying Muslim rape gangs, who are targeting and attacking young white girls, are largely composed of anti-white racist foreign deviants.
it is the fact that the victims of these rape gangs are young white girls that makes the people who are carrying it out anti-white racists – and foreign deviants.
Got it?
Janice Mermikli says
True. if they were just generically Asians, they could be Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian (by which I mean native Hindus, for the most part), Burmese, Thai, etc. However, they are none of these. They are almost exclusively from Pakistan and are not from the tiny and persecuted Hindu and Christian communities within that country.
As for Pakistan itself, it has only one thing to recommend it and that is that the people there play cricket – a remnant of the time of the British “Raj”, when the whole region of present-day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were India, before partition.
The love of cricket is the only civilized element in Pakistan. Present-day India (also a cricket-loving country) is forging ahead as a soon-to-be super power, whereas Pakistan is mired in the backwardness of their religion. If Pakistan wants to progress, it must ditch the fundamental islamism with its angry mobs of protesters and support for terrorism and become instead both secular and tolerant.
Jocelynn Cordes says
Except what to do with the fact that the entire nation seems composed of murderous psychopaths? How else does one explain the ubiquity of Muslim “mobs” rampaging and killing in the most grotesque fashion?
There’s something wrong, there, down deep.
mortimer says
Bravo, Mr. Spencer for this: “the British intelligentsia as a whole, is at war with reality”.
Truer words were never spoken.
Michael Copeland says
“the unacknowledged creation of a nation within the nation…”
Yes. That is Islamic teaching.
We must build a nation within a nation – Channel 4 Undercover Mosque
“Establish Islamic Emirates” – placard
“Democracy go to Hell” – placard
PRCS says
‘Behead those who insult Islam’.
GreekEmpress says
Mr. Phillips will be lucky if he doesn’t get the Tommy Robinson treatment and get thrown in the slammer.
PRCS says
Due to his political/social stature: doubtful.
But….
mortimer says
Mr. Phillips has said things that Muslims do not wish to be revealed about Islam … and Islam doesn’t permit a DHIMMI to CRITICIZE A MUSLIM. Trevor Phillips is finding out about Islam the hard way … from the outside!
Instead, I suggest he study Islam’s ESSENTIAL TEACHINGS, including the BLASPHEMY DOCTRINE and RELATED PUNISHMENTS, RETRIBUTION DOCTRINE, the DHIMMI DOCTRINE, PUNISHMENTS FOR DHIMMIS ‘AT WAR’ with Islam and the RAPE DOCTRINE of Islam.
Yes, Islam has a doctrine concerning HOW TO RAPE. Islam permits the rape of KAFIRS and there is no punishment in Sharia for doing so.
Mr. Phillips should have informed himself before stating his well-meaning, but uninformed comments.
Here it is for those who want to be prepared:
From Sharia manual Reliance of the Traveller’:
“The (DHIMMI) agreement is also violated (A: with respect to the offender alone) if the state has stipulated that any of the following things break it, and one of the subjects does so anyway, though if the state has not stipulated that these break the agreement, then they do not; namely, if one of the subject people:
-5- mentions something impermissible about Allah, the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), or Islam.” – Reliance of the Traveller’ Chapter ‘O’ 11.10.05.
Sharia permits anyone to kill those who verbally oppose Islam, since they are at war with Islam:
“There is no indemnity obligatory for killing a non-Muslim (harbi) at war with Muslims.” -Reliance of the Traveller, o4.17, p.593
Jaydam says
For over a century, the Labour party was once the proud and unashamed supporter of the working man and women in the U.K.
Fast forward to the 21st century, and we now have a Labour party that ignores millions of their loyal “Working Class” supporters, and now supports and encourages millions of immigrants,.. who have poured into the U.K. over the last 50 years – ( because they knew the vast majority of them would become Labour supporters in future elections ).
And by the way, the reason they suffered their worst election defeat in December 2019 ( since 1935 ), was because they deliberately ignored the will of 17 million voters, who voted to leave the European Union and also championed the U.K into staying in the EU. ( Their Biggest Mistake )
Add to the that, ignoring dozens of Muslim grooming gangs, who have been abusing and raping thousands of young vulnerable women, who live in Labour run towns and city’s across the U.K.
So well done to Trevor Phillips for exposing this corrupt political party who wish to turn the U.K into a multicultural ghetto, who they can rule over, just like their friends in the European Union.
James Lincoln says
I have read and reread the feature article regarding the statements made by Trevor Phillips.
They are all truthful, accurate, and evidence-based – but it does not matter.
Unless the UK can finally accept the truth about islam – and repair the damage already done- they are doomed as a free society.
That being said, the cancer may have already fully metastasized…
Rob says
It was the Blair and subsequent Brown governments that brought these un-assimilatable migrants here. Of course Labour don’t want to admit to their role.
gravenimage says
UK: Labour suspends anti-racism campaigner for “Islamophobia” for noting Muslim rape gangs are Muslim
……………………..
Grotesque–this is perfectly true. And it has nothing to do with race.
James Lincoln says
Rightly true, gravenimage.
If islam is a “race”, then how can muslims give Caucasians / Hispanics, etc., a chance to convert to islam?
gravenimage says
+1
PRCS says
Consider the race of these Muslims for a moment:
https://www.newsweek.com/2015/04/03/hardliners-nightmare-religious-tolerance-europes-only-majority-muslim-country-318212.html
David says
Interesting article, but we need to consider Albania’s history.
Albania was unlucky enough to be under communist dictatorship – the appallingly evil Enver Hoxha – a fervent admirer of Stalin – who ruled from 1944 till his death in 1985.
The communist regime eventually collapsed in 1990. So for forty-five years after the World War 2, religion was banned and all those who tried to practise religion actively hunted down and persecuted.
After 45 years of this, it’s bound to take time for Islam to recover.
Albania might be tolerant of religions other than Islam at the moment, but for how much longer will this continue?
The article admits that extreme versions of Islam are growing in Albania.
Kathy says
This is a very interesting article. I think the situation in Albania is fairly typical of a people who have been forced to adopt a religion against their will, basically also against their natural inclinations, and then later on denied the right to practice this “adopted” religion for an extended period of time. For most of them, once they are allowed to resume practice of this alien religion, they will just cherry-pick the parts of the religion that they felt comfortable with, like holidays and celebrations for instance, and largely ignore the parts they don’t feel happy about – like women being forced to cover their faces or undergo genital mutilation, or people being expected to murder anyone who doesn’t conform to certain interpretations of the religion….
Marigold says
The left of politics need more like Mr Philips but then the left are obsessed with their Utopian ideals aren’t they?
Jayell says
‘He (Phillips) also noted that some Muslims in Britain were creating a nation within a nation…….’
Wrong on one point. ALL muslims have a duty to ‘create a nation within a nation’, and this trend in gathering pace as more and more muslims are to be seen on UK streets in islamic garb (this never used to be the case); plus the takeover of British life as islamic culture is foisted on the population against their wishes and often without their knowledge. A ‘multicutural society’, the oxymoronic concept of which the Left is so proud is, in fact, a nation (or nations, plural) within a nation.
AntiIslamicman says
Islam teaches hate towards other religions so this accusation is a total joke. Labour are the Anti Semitic Party their leader is a known you know what…
WyoLyo says
And Britain cancelled all eight of Franklin Grahams venues because he is a hate monger. Britain is lost.
maemae77 says
Labor just enforced Sharia Law. It’s against Sharia Law to speak ill of Islam. This is how much of a snake Islam is. You’re following it before you realize your even following it. Be careful fellow patriots. This is exactly how Islam creeps in.
Anne Smith says
Labour cannot tolerate any criticism of Islam or of Muslims, however much they may break the law because the Labour Party relies on the votes of the Muslim community.
They have won seats and control of Councils by relying on the Muslim vote which is often helpfully delivered as a huge block vote by “Community leaders”, in some cases (Peterborough) organised by Labour Muslims who have actually already done time in jail for electoral fraud.
Labour is content to allow anti-Semitism in its ranks as the maths show that there are only 200,000 Jewish votes, but 3 to 4 million Muslim votes to be courted.
Kathy says
If we stopped using the term ‘Anti-Semitism’ (which is anyway a misnomer) and instead instituted use of the term ‘Judeophobia’, do you think that Jews would be able to wield the same clout that the Muslims have with their claims of ‘Islamophobia’? After all, the use of the term ‘phobia’ indicates an irrational fear of someone or something, rather than simply being ‘anti’ someone or something.
Ah, but there is one aspect of the equation that is missing where the Jews are concerned: in general, they are far to timid and docile for their own good. Maybe they need to take a leaf out of the Muslim handbook and become more aggressive, run amok when the urge takes them and violently attack anyone who they feel has insulted them in any way, however obscure….