On March 7, Jihad Watch reported that the Conservative Party suspended Councillor Derek Bullock (who represents Hulton Ward) for posting an article from Jihad Watch on Facebook. For doing so, Bullock was deemed to be “anti-Muslim.” The Jihad Watch article he posted was about former party chair Baroness Sayeeda Warsi; Bullock added his own comment: “She’s been a cuckoo in the nest!”
He wasn’t far off. Now Sayeeda Warsi is showing her character yet again. This time she’s accusing the former Chairman of Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission — Trevor Phillips — of having “a flawed view of race and integration after he was suspended from the Labour party over alleged Islamophobia.” Jihad Watch’s previous report on the suspension of Phillips is here. Phillips’ comments included one about “Pakistani Muslim men sexually abusing children in northern British towns,” which is true.
Philips has warned since 2016 that Muslims have problems with assimilation. Philips was at the time referring to an ICM poll released to the Times ahead of a broadcast that revealed:
- One in five Muslims in Britain never enter a non-Muslim house;
- 39 per cent of Muslims, male and female, say a woman should always obey her husband;
- 31 per cent of British Muslims support the right of a man to have more than one wife;
- 52 per cent of Muslims did not believe that homosexuality should be legal;
- 23 per cent of Muslims support the introduction of Sharia law rather than the laws laid down by parliament.
The following year, Philips issued an important statement, saying that “Islamophobia awards” were dangerous and painted targets on the backs of Islam critics. And last June, Philips rightly accused “censorious Muslims” of using “Islamophobia” as a “bullies charter.”
Phillips’ warnings are critical and need be heeded. Sayeeda Warsi’s latest accusation about his “having a flawed view of race and integration” is in keeping with her reputation as yet another Islamic leader peddling the Islamophobia subterfuge. Warsi has gone so far as to accuse the Conservative Party of using “dangerous hatred” of Muslims to win an election. In essence, Warsi is advancing the view that anyone who criticizes Muslims or calls out the subversive tactics of Islamic supremacism (including routine assaults on free speech) “hates Muslims.” This is the big lie behind the “Islamophobia”/victimology subterfuge, and is intended to beat down critics of Islam.
Note, too, that “Naz Shah MP, the shadow minister for women and equalities and vice chair of the all-party parliamentary group on British Muslims, said Phillips’ remarks and the subsequent defence of him by some of her colleagues had made her extremely angry.” How could Brits possibly forget that Naz Shah was that same woman who retweeted that innocent victims of Muslim rape gangs should “shut up for the good of diversity“?
The good news is that Phillips’ suspension from the Labour Party is sparking dissent. Labour MPs reportedly “voiced fury over the ’embarrassing’ suspension – accusing Corbynistas of ‘weaponising’ Islamophobia allegations as an act of revenge.”
The UK needs a complete political overhaul to restore sanity and the rule of law.
“Sayeeda Warsi chides Trevor Phillips over Muslim comments,” by Kate Proctor, Peter Walker and Sam Gelder, Guardian, March 9, 2020:
Sayeeda Warsi has accused Trevor Phillips of having a flawed view of race and integration after he was suspended from the Labour party over alleged Islamophobia.
Phillips, an anti-racism campaigner who previously chaired the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), has been suspended pending an investigation and could be expelled.
None of the Labour leadership candidates have commented on his temporary ban or the investigation.
Writing in the Guardian, Lady Warsi, a former Conservative party chair, said: “Phillips’ understanding of race, racism and the barriers to integration has sadly been flawed for many years.
“Anti-racism campaigners have over the years become increasingly bemused at his pronouncements, given he was once chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
“But one thing is clear: Phillips cannot treat Muslims as a homogenised group when it suits him, then later deny they are racialised. Whatever the outcome of Labour’s inquiry into his Islamophobia, there’s no denying he has a case to answer.”
Phillips released a copy of the letter announcing his suspension, in which Labour cited prior statements including his reference to UK Muslims being “a nation within a nation” and comments observing how few wore Remembrance Day poppies.
He has condemned the suspension, which he claimed was a form of political gangsterism from the party under Jeremy Corbyn. Phillips has been severely critical of the Labour leader in the past, particularly on his handling of antisemitism in the party.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Phillips said he was surprised and dismayed by the move, and defended his comments about British Muslims…..
Cicero says
In the UK the threat to freedom of speech and also a normative British Identity is entering a very critical phase. The fight back needs to start now
Hopefully more UK citizens will rally round Trevor Phillips in his defence.
Mischief Maker in the Land says
Warsi, Warsi, don’t you stop,
Just let the blades go chippety chop,
The sword go swish,
And the heads roll down,
Giddey-up! We’re Caliphate bound!
PRCS says
+1
Ray Jarman says
Excellent put!!!
WithPurpleAbandon says
Trevor Philips is a courageous man, at least he speaks the truth. Labour is stuffed to the hilt with antisemites and officials pandering to the muslim vote.
There’s nothing racist about criticizing Islam.
Beverly says
Because Islam is an ideology not a race. An ideology worse than communism.
mortimer says
Yes, Islam is ‘an ideology’, and many Muslims who wish to integrate into the modern world are trying to modernize their practice of Islam. However, most of these are unaware of the fact that Islam is highly codified and impossible to modernize without creating an entirely new, different religion.
‘New, improved’ Islam would turn out to be nothing like canonical Islam. ‘New, improved’ Islam would have to falsify most of the Koran, hadiths and throw out the Sira.
‘New, improved’ Islam would be a complete fantasy based on wishful thinking.
Michael Copeland says
“Islam is not a race. It is an ideology.” – Ibrahim Cooper, CAIR
You see, you are in illustrious company.
Ray Jarman says
I, too, agree that Philips is courageous but he and many others within the Labour party have stood by and permitted the likes of Jeremy Corbin to usurp the leadership. Maybe it is time for the socialists (Philips is a socialist) to form a new party or maybe revitalize the old Liberal Party. Labour under Corbin seems to have become an Islamic party by default.
gravenimage says
+1
mike says
reposting is only and was only letting the world know that the lies the religion of peace spreads
it’s Blasphemy under sharia law to say anything against anyone that practices the religion of peace
if one that follows the religion of peace you have to have 4 witnesses
one can not tell on one another of Islam or say anything bad
if a person for the religion of peace is cough with a gun in their hand with smoking coming from it
just having killed someone
it’s Blasphemy to say they killed the person
so it’s Islamophobia to tell the truth and spread the truth
the UK is going to become a failed country
wake up world
Istvan Vogel says
It seems Trevor Phillip’s is being criticized because of the facts of the UK moslem situation. Of course the truth hurts, especially if you don’t like it! We get the same reaction when you say that half the population are below average intelligence!
mortimer says
He is being criticized for quoting a valid survey/poll of Muslim opinion in the UK. The people who anonymously answered the poll questionnaire, did so honestly. Their honest answers are the real problem here, because the poll results DEMOLISH the fantastic narrative that Islam is benign and Muslims are very similar to everyone else. About ONE-THIRD of Muslims in the UK are VERY DIFFERENT from everyone else.
ONE-THIRD or more of Muslims in the UK are living in the 7th century.
WithPurpleAbandon says
In my opinion, Islamophobia has to be the most undignified and disingenuous defense anyone can bring to the fore, if you consider the fact that adherents of Islam victimize everyone else on this planet. Would a Christian, a Hindu or a Buddhist decry muslim Christianophobia / Hinduphobia / …etc. and get away with such a thing ? No matter how they have been treated ?
Nah. But these people would at least keep their dignity intact, full well knowing that they hadn’t been perpetrating such atrocities themselves against muslims. They would be ashamed at the mere thought of doing this, no matter how many times they get really victimized. And the MSM wouldn’t take notice, anyway.
But muslims, oh no ! The very fact that some people are actually capable of “hurting” them by speaking the truth will set the whole umma standing on its hind legs with indignation. In the West, that’s the muslim prerogative, these days : being perpetually indignant and screaming blue murder.
Muslims are easily offended, it takes absolutely nothing substantial to make them display such a conditioned reaction. Pressing the right button is eaily done. They’re like Pavlov’s dogs, foaming at the mouth.
Questionable defense strategies belong to the muslim world. After all, war is deceit, according to mohammed.
mortimer says
The ‘Islamophobia’ subterfuge is GASLIGHTING … slandering honest dissenters by calling them ‘mentally ill’.
James Lincoln says
WithPurpleAbandon says,
“Muslims are easily offended… like Pavlov’s dogs, foaming at the mouth.”
Yes, I remember studying about Pavlov’s dogs – “conditioned response” – during an undergraduate course in psychology.
Now if muslims could only be “deconditioned” all the way to the “extinction” of their response…
mortimer says
Robert Spencer is right: this is indeed a breakdown of the rule of law. It is now common in UK to punish those who say something that the elites consider politically incorrect, even though it is perfectly legal to utter dissent from the ‘politically correct’ party line.
In fact, ‘politically correct’ only means what is the convenient explanation of events that the Party endorses at any moment. Today, any criticism of Islam is rejected, no matter how valid. Tomorrow, it will be something else.
The punishment of free speech in UK is very similar to the punishment of free speech in East Bloc countries during the Soviet Union. Dissenters are ejected from the PARTY and then SHAMED and sent into exile.
In conclusion, one must ask exactly what is ‘conservative’ about Warsi. She is bringing out her inner Islamist.
mortimer says
correction: I meant to say “Christine Douglass-Williams is right …”
Thanks for this superb, concise exposé of a smear campaign. The emperor’s new clothes are being protected at all cost.
I find it absurd and deeply offensive that a very fine man Trevor Phillips is being slandered as failing to promote ‘integration’. Muslims are required by Sharia law and Islamic tradition NOT TO INTEGRATE and NOT TO RESEMBLE the dirty kufaar.
Apparently, Trevor Phillips STILL DOES NOT KNOW THAT, and Lady Warsi is hiding the fact that she KNOWS that Muslims are required NOT to integrate.
WithPurpleAbandon says
True. The kuffar needs to adapt to Islam, not the other way around. This particular aspect of Islam is hardly ever mentioned in great detail. Supposedly, that’s an even worse criticism anyone can level against muslims : the mere fact that integration simply isn’t possible.
Michael Copeland says
“Assimilation is a crime against humanity” – Erdogan
jca reid says
Phillips only spoke the Truth supported by well clear, researched FACTS. We give too much respect to this Desert Nazi Bandit Death Cult. A respect it simply doesn’t merit. Deport the bloody lot of them! Even the ones born here! They think they’re so superior & their favourite quote is: “I may have been born in a stable (i.e. a non-Islamic country), it doesn’t make me a horse.” They can make their Islamic Paradise back in their homelands or deemed to come from. & NO AID at all from the WEST!!
James Lincoln says
test
Aussie Infidel says
Warsi has gone so far as to accuse the Conservative Party of using “dangerous hatred” of Muslims to win an election.
Warsi needs to acknowledge that ethnic and religious hatred is endemic in her own so-called ‘religion of peace’. Hatred of Jews and Christians is ubiquitous throughout the Islamic scriptures: “O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are [in fact] allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to them among you – then indeed, he is [one] of them. Indeed, Allah guides not the wrongdoing people.” (Quran 5:51). “Indeed, we are disassociated from you and from whatever you worship other than Allah . We have denied you, and there has appeared between us and you animosity and hatred forever until you believe in Allah alone” (Q60:4). Or “The Jews and Christians are the worst of creatures” (Q 98:6).
In the Quran, Muslims are told, to “Fight in the cause of Allah” (Q 2:190, 2:193, 4:84); that “Fighting is prescribed for you” (Q2:216); that “Allah will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved” (Quran 8:12); “Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth (Islam) from those who were given the Scripture (Jews & Christians) – [fight] until they give the jizyah (protection tax) willingly while they are humbled (as dhimmis or second class citizens).” (Q9:29).
Islamophobia is not a product of racism, but simply Muslim propaganda to silence any criticism of Islam. A phobia is an irrational fear of something usually quite harmless – but fear of Islam (ie psychopathic Muslim jihadists) is a very real reaction from Non-Muslims to people who really do want to kill them.
If Muslims want to assimilate into British society (or indeed that of any other country), they should first become Ex-Muslims, and throw Muhammad’s medieval madness on the scrap heap of history where it belongs.
somehistory says
The smart-alec moslim…foolish, creepy moslim (she’s no lady) should find a non-islamic dictionary and read the definition of “race”…”racialised”…stupid term if ever there was one.
And someone should just tell her to buzz off…in a buzzialized sort of way.
islam and its rabid, lying, pretend holier-than-thou, worshippers of satan, make me sick.
gravenimage says
UK: Muslim Baroness Warsi chastises suspended former Human Rights chief Trevor Phillips for “Islamophobia”
……………….
She’s a nasty piece of work. That she is a “baroness” could not be more grotesque.
Merri-joy says
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi is not British – The citizenship of all Muslim’s in Britain should be cancelled!
As the Labor Party has the right to EXPEL / Suspend Membership of their Party – BRITAIN has the RIGHT & RESPONSIBILITY to EXPEL all Muslim’s from Britain – especially the Grooming Gang members and this Baroness!
OLD GUY says
Islamophobia, Bullshitohobia, one in the same.
Linde Barrera says
FREE SPEECH FOREVER.
And anyone who does not like free speech—tough tacks, no backs.