More indication that shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain is near its demise as a free society.
“The UK Welcomes ISIS Brides, Jails Critics of Islam,” by Bruce Bawer, American Spectator, August 2, 2021:
The prosecution of people for their opinions — especially their opinions about Islam — is nothing new in the land of the Magna Carta. Just a couple of examples out of many: in 2013, a number of British citizens who’d responded to the shocking jihadist murder of soldier Lee Rigby by criticizing Islam on social media were arrested at their homes “in the middle of the night”; in 2016, London police took into custody a public-relations executive named Matthew Doyle for “inciting racial hatred on social media.” His crime? After a jihad attack in Brussels took 31 lives, Doyle tweeted that he’d asked a Muslim woman to explain the massacre.
In 2015-16 alone, there were “more than 15,000 hate crime prosecutions” in Britain. But apparently that wasn’t enough for the kingdom’s zealous professional crime-fighters because on August 21, 2017, Alison Saunders, the director of public prosecutions in the UK, announced that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) was stepping up its commitment to punishing the online expression of “extreme views on race, religion, sexuality, gender and even disability” that were “perceived by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice.”
That’s not all. On October 16 of last year, Twitter UK proudly boasted that it had “come together with the independent members of the Cross Government Working Group on Anti-Muslim Hatred (AMHWG) as part of a shared commitment to counter hateful conduct online.” What’s the AMHWG? It’s a body “made up of representatives from Muslim communities, independent experts, and academics,” plus several U.K. government departments, including the CPS, the Home Office, the Cabinet Office, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, and the National Police Chiefs’ Council.
In short, the U.K. is taking the online criticism of Islam very, very seriously.
This is the same country, of course, where the police, social services, and other authorities — including several of those who are active in the AMHWG — systematically ignored the mass rapes of hundreds of English girls by Muslim “grooming gangs” over a period of many years in cities like Rotherham and Rochdale. That disgraceful inaction eventually came to a partial end only because people like Tommy Robinson and Maggie Oliver made a lot of noise about the gangs, as well as about the inaction. But more and more stories of indolence and pusillanimity on this front keep coming to light. Just last weekend, for instance, came news of an independent report concluding that children in the Bradford area “suffered horrendous abuse” at the hands of Muslim rapists “while authorities charged with protecting victims were too frightened to act because the offenders were from immigrant communities.”
Similarly, even as British authorities have been cracking down brutally on the critics of Muslim terror, how have they been treating the aiders and abetters — and perpetrators — of that selfsame terror? Just ask Samia Hussein. A West London girl, she flew to Syria in 2015 to join ISIS. A few months later, she lost an arm in a U.S.-U.K. coalition airstrike on a building in Raqqa in which ISIS was storing weapons; ISIS had deliberately housed her and other women and children in an adjoining structure on the assumption that the coalition wouldn’t want to harm women and children.
Samia was later captured by Kurdish forces; in February of last year, she was allowed to re-enter Britain, where she was held by London police under the Terrorism Act 2000, which permits the detention of suspected terrorists for two weeks, tops. She’s one of several hundred people who left Britain to become terrorists in Syria and who’ve since been quietly admitted back into the country. (All this happened while commentators across the U.K. were bewailing the fate of another ISIS recruit, Shamima Begum, who lost her British citizenship and was denied entry to the country.) By the way, guess how many of these hundreds of returnees have been convicted of terrorist acts? Fourteen.
Presumably the courts have been too busy trying ISIS critics to try ISIS fighters….
Gila says
Of course there is a lot to criticize about Islam as an ideology. Various verses in the Quran and Hadith promote hatred and bigotry against non-Muslims (eg Quran 8:12, 9:5, 9:29) and antisemitism (eg Quran 5:13). The history of countries with Islamic rule is one of oppression against Christians and Jews who were treated as third-class dhimmis with far fewer rights than Muslims, and in India millions of Hindus were actually massacred by various Muslim rulers because as polytheists they did not have even the limited protection of dhimmis.(until made honorary dhimmis because there simply too many Hindus to murder them all). Modern scholarship is revealing that the traditional Islamic narrative of the 7th century is not backed up by historical evidence and facts, and that it appears to have been essentially an invention for political reasons by the Abbasids from the mid 8th century and onwards, redacted back by later commentators. While of course every Muslim should be free to practise their religious beliefs freely as regards themselves, no one has the right NOT to be offended or to impose their beliefs in any way on other people. Absolutely appalled at what has been happening in Britain, especially with regard to thousands of children whose lives have been destroyed by vile rape and abuse by gangs of mostly Muslim men. We need to put children’s and women’s rights, indeed equal human rights for all human beings, above dark age prejudices and inflammatory anti-infidel teaching from any Islamic bigots.
Terry Gain says
Kudos to Bruce Bawer for what is a typical post.
If you can’t criticize any and every ideology – without advocating violence and discrimination against the adherents of the ideology – then you do not have freedom of speech. Britain has abolished freedom of speech without debate and the consent of the people. Canada is one election away from the same pitiable state.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Terry.
Bob says
Living in Birmingham UK most of my life I have seen the transformation of my city since the 1970’s to present day. That’s 50 years of change and if we do not get a political party that cares for it’s white majority then it’s the end of the country. It has bent over backwards to accommodate those from other countries and lands and their cultures but it’s always want, want and want more. I don’t recognise this country as England anymore. We need Christian morals back!
mortimer says
Yup. Politicians want Muslim votes and this will only get worse if the majority remains so divided.
john smith says
Bob, I also live in the UK, thankfully I don’t live in a city and it is still predominantly white where I live. I hardly ever visit a city, the last time I did was a couple of years ago and I certainly did notice the difference. Though I have nothing against black people or any race in particular, this country is no longer the same country that I was born in.
islam is the problem here in the UK, and our politicians are playing a major role in the destruction of this country.
However we do have a political party that does care for this country and we must all get behind it. It is called For Britain, and it’s our only hope.
gravenimage says
Yes, scary, My mother was born in Brimingham in much saner times.
Walter Sieruk says
This madness strongly indicates the infiltration and gradual subversion of the stealth jihadist into the legal governmental system of the United Kingdom.
Rufluc says
You’ve hit the nail on the head Walter. The spread of Islam throughout our various governmental departments and authorities is covert, targeted and insidious in every way. And they use the PC excuse of ‘Islamophobia’ to resist and overcome any obstacle they face that could hinder their progression and desire for full outright control.
We have seen the way that Sadiq Khan has flexed his Muslim influence over the control of London, England’s capital city. Holding large Muslim gatherings as a show of his growing authority in a ‘sabre rattling’ way. And despite probably being the worst London Mayor ever, he’s assured full support and votes from the millions of Muslims that are now beginning to dominate London.
They are steadily gaining in strength. Closing in on the parliamentary corridors of power, whilst BoJo and his merry PC MP cohorts bumble on blind and ignorant to what’s closing in on them and the British people.
Jayell says
‘UK welcomes Islamic State brides, jails critics of Islam’…..
Really? Maybe that’s the self-styled ‘political elite’ in White hall, but certainly NOT the people of the UK who usually know nothing about this sort of thing unless someone on the internet spills the beans. And, by the way, this is the first I’ve heard about any ‘Cross Government Working Group on Anti-Muslim Hatred (AMHWG), which no doubt is being subsidised by my Income Tax bill (obviously without my knowledge – like all hundreds of £millions being spent on entertaining the thousands of ‘asylum seekers’ currently illegally crossing the channel). I wonder if this ‘AMHWG’ has anything to do with the people who were informing UK police chiefs that certain complaints from under-age girls were to be considered as ‘unfounded’ and no action to be taken?
Walter Sieruk says
This madness is a reminder of old British song called “The world turned upside down.”
mortimer says
The censorial campaign by British elites against any criticism of Islam is certainly linked to Britain’s dependency on oil from Islamic countries.
If UK can find other sources of energy besides ‘Islamic’ oil, then the freedom of expression may return and we may be able to fight a successful ideological campaign that will free tens of millions of Muslims from their backward, misogynistic Death Cult.
Jim says
The problem is not the Muslims alone. The non-Muslims need to take a different attitude. They need to change their attitude toward their own values and try to start defending them. If one’s values do not matter, then we can hardly expect others to respect them.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Jim.
Rueben Singh says
Britain is done for.
How many of you have seen this on the TV news ?
Please circulate.
https://www.turbulenttimes.co.uk/news/front-page/who-cares-about-sarah-hussein/
gravenimage says
*Horrifying*, Rueben. Sounds like an Islamic “Honor Killing”.
john smith says
Ruben, I heard absolutely nothing about this awful crime and I live in the UK
Rueben Singh says
Britain is done for.
How many of you have seen this in the TV news.
Please circulate
https://www.turbulenttimes.co.uk/news/front-page/who-cares-about-sarah-hussein/
tim gallagher says
The UK does seem to be in big trouble when it comes to dealing with islam. I often wonder why the UK does not, so far at least, have a big anti-islam political party like the one the Le Pens have in France. Also Geert Wilders seems to be part of a quite powerful political party. I hope that the UK does get a Le Pen type party, a big and strong party, soon.
john smith says
Tim we do have a Le Pen, her name is Anne Marie Waters I’m sure you’ve heard of her, but sadly her party (For Britain) is almost unheard of by most of the British public. She gets no coverage by any TV channel or the MSM.
tim gallagher says
Yes, john, I do know about her. I remember seeing her being interviewed and I think she was actually in Australia when she did the interview and I was very impressed by her. But what i wonder about is why the political movement led by the Le Pens is so big in France, and I think the party that Wilders is involved with is pretty big as well, but, in the UK, nothing big so far seems to have happened. I have wondered about this for many years. Australia also has only very small parties that are tough on islam so far. The One Nation party reached around 10% of the vote at its height and I think gets maybe 8% now. I know that France, with over 8% Muslims, is in big trouble so maybe that explains it, but it is something that has puzzled me for quite a few years. I know what you mean about how the media won’t give coverage to the anti-Muslim parties or will run them down as being terrible and Islamophobic and racist.
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
This is something that kills me every day – just how much the average UK citizen around me has been dog-trained to worship and fawn over Islam.
If you’re talking about people from UK who went to join ISIS and came back…. (yes they were allowed to come back) – there are people who take the attitude of “Well, it’s none of our business if they decided to go to Syria and behead a bunch of unbelievers. IT’S THEIR RELIGION!!!”.
And these people consider themselves to be some kind of sage or philosopher, as they bleat such pitiful and repugnant sentiments, which they believe to be “down to earth wisdom”…
There are no drugs, legal or illegal, that can help me deal with the awful reality of our country now.
Trump being cheated out of power was just too much for me, my mind doesnt know where to turn next.
gravenimage says
Ugly and insane stuff, Rob. Even if these fools care nothing for the victims of the Islamic State, don’t they realize that they will be victimized by these same Jihadists in Britain itself?
James Lincoln says
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says,
“This is something that kills me every day – just how much the average UK citizen around me has been dog-trained to worship and fawn over Islam.”
Yes, the results of the political elites / muslim apologists / imams brainwashing UK citizens.
All aided and abetted by political correctness, pathological altruism, and cancel culture…
john smith says
Totally agree with you Rob R, and I know how you feel, because that’s exactly the same way that I also feel.
gravenimage says
Bawer: UK welcomes Islamic State brides, jails critics of Islam
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Terrifying stuff. Thanks for the work of Bruce Bawer.
I had not heard of the Cross Government Working Group on Anti-Muslim Hatred (AMHWG)–sounds pretty orwellian.
It looks as though they let Muslims decide what constitutes “hate”.
https://antimuslimhatredworkinggroup.wordpress.com/about/
Almost all the members are Muslim, including Imams and Muftis and those sporting Islamic beards and Hijabs. Imam Asim is the “government adviser on Islamophobia”. Akeela Ahmed condemns British efforts to defend against Jihad terror.
john smith says
Well that’s a new on me an anti muslim hatred group. What the hell do they want? Do they expect us to love them while they are murdering us. I for one most definitely wont be joining.
God I hate islam. Sorry about the plagiarism
OLD GUY says
Hey when you allow the muslim world to fund your universities and political organizations they are buying power and propaganda for their cause. In America the Saudi’s are major contributors buying influence in our education system as well as political parties. Between the Saudi’s and China a large portion of our stock market is in their hands, Thats scary. The old saying follow the money is still true today.