Brendan O’Neill is right: “The intention is as clear as it is repellent: to send the message that it isn’t Islamism that’s the problem – it’s ‘Islamophobia.’” But this endeavor has been going on far longer than the brouhaha over Lee Anderson. It goes back to incidents such as the British government’s persecution of Tommy Robinson and the banning of foreign foes of jihad violence and Sharia oppression from entering the country. Many, if not most, of the “respectable” critics of “radical Islam” had little or nothing to say about those incidents, and now they, and Britain at large, are reaping the rewards of their cowardice and pusillanimity.
“The shameful silencing of radical Islam’s critics,” by Brendan O’Neill, Spiked, February 25, 2024:
What Tory MP Lee Anderson said this week was dumb. But what the cultural elites are doing on the back of Anderson’s comments is outright sinister.
They are using his outburst about ‘the Islamists’ having ‘control’ over London mayor Sadiq Khan to distract attention from the very real threat Islamists pose in 21st-century Britain. They are holding him up as oafish proof that the ‘real threat’ is the ‘far right’ and ‘Islamophobes’ – gruff gammon like him – not those mystical ‘Islamists’ people keep banging on about. They are exploiting the Anderson scandal to achieve something they’ve wanted to achieve since the 7 October pogrom and the orgy of bigotry it licensed in Britain and other Western nations – that is, shift the public’s attention away from Islamism and back to ‘Islamophobia’. It is one of the most cynical political manoeuvres of modern times….
And yet, for all their daftness, the reaction to Anderson’s comments has felt wildly overblown. Not to mention transparently self-serving. Political influencers have not contented themselves with criticising him, or branding him a raging Islamophobe, if that’s what they want to do. No, they’ve made him into the archetype of ‘Islamophobic Britain’. They’ve crowned him King Gammon, who merely gives voice to a phobic derangement that is all-pervasive. The irony is too much – they damn the conspiracist mindset that sees Islamists as the puppeteers of public life while promoting their own unhinged theory that actually it’s Islamophobes who haunt every corridor of power.
Khan says Anderson’s blather is symptomatic of a ‘massive increase in Islamophobia’. The Scottish first minister, Humza Yousaf, says Anderson’s comments are proof of ‘how acceptable and pervasive Islamophobia has become in our society’. We now know that ‘Islamophobia is rampant in the Tories’, says the Guardian’s Owen Jones.
This giddy extrapolation from one loudmouth’s musings on a TV show to the end of tarring the entire nation as ‘Islamophobic’ is not only cynical – it’s ominous. The intention is as clear as it is repellent: to send the message that it isn’t Islamism that’s the problem – it’s ‘Islamophobia’. Worse, Anderson-bashers are implying, if not outright stating, that critics of Islamism pose a larger threat to the nation than Islamism itself. Especially its right-wing critics, those ‘far right’ goons like Anderson and Braverman, as they crazily view those outspoken Tories. We are witnessing nothing less than a top-down cultural assault on truth – the truth here being that radical Islam is indeed a major threat to life, limb and democracy….
libertyORdeath says
What could have ever made him think that the brilliant mayor of Londonistan is a TERRORIST sympathizer?
https://fullfact.org/online/sadiq-khan-nation-of-islam/
https://www.politicalite.com/exclusive/two-faced-khan-after-defending-9-11-terrorist-sadiq-khan-marks-7-7-bombings/
Hudders. says
Exactly! The proof is in the poisoned pudding.
FYI says
The “islamophobia ” nonsense
What if….what if…allah insulted islam/muhammed?
Would allah be called “islamophobic”?
The following is an absolutely true story.
muhammed was flying around on Buraq his female centaur one day when he heard a loud voice.
“What a putz.Why is my “prophet” illiterate and why does he like wearing Aisha’s clothes?
I mean the Jews have Moses and Elijah and the Christians have Jesus:they could all read or write.
But no , look who i get: a fat,cross dressing,illiterate.polygamous midget{*all facts btw about mo in islam}
oh why did i think i could pretend to be the Biblical God;islam sucks.”
It turned out …..it was allah saying that.
What could muhammed do?
What do you do if allah is “islamophobic”?
allah might stamp on you with his one foot or crush you with his two right hands.
One for the “scholars” of islam perhaps.And maybe they can explain allah’s amazing LACK OF OMNISCIENCE which is clear from all the errors in the koran especially koran 5:116{pickthall} where allah{who is “the knower of all things” koran 2;29}insists that Christians worship THREE gods[allah,muslimjesus and MARY{
That’s not very omniscient of allah is it?
Mike says
Also, many Muslims believe that Allah can only understand Arabic. If He were really omniscient, then why wouldn’t He be able to understand Indonesian, Urdu, Bengali, Farsi, Berber, Swahili, Uzbek, English and everything else?
Also, why are we told that only the original Arabic version of the Qur’an can be correctly understood? That directly goes against the claim that the Qur’an has “clear proofs, revelations, evidences etc.” which can be easily grasped by anyone.
FYI says
“What!A foreign tongue and an Arab?”
Koran 41:44
“And verily unto Moses WE gave the Scripture”
koran 2:87
That Scripture:it’s not in Arabic is it?And that moses is not the real Moses.
islamic musa is a muslim.Like Abraham,the key figure of Judaism
” Abraham was not a Jew nor yet a Christian” boasts allah in koran 3:67
Well obviously he was not a Christian but how could he not be a Jew.?
Because according to islam he was a muslim.Like Jesus.
allah is a scientifcallty,theologically,linguistically challenged impersonator of the Biblical God.
Goofy says
If Allah would ever try to shape up his illiterate, pedophile Messenger he would not escape the rage of the devout Muslims, who would kill Allah to protect the honour of Muhammad, the best man who ever lived! That would be possible because Allah, unlike God Jehovah is physical!
The Muslims are indeed Muhammadans as we know that insulting the Messenger is unforgivable and will punished with death whilst you can insult Allah and then repent!
Muhammad Akbar!
(Muhammad is bigger)
FYI says
if muhammed insulted allah:muhammed would surely have to be killed.
BUT
if allah insulted muhammed.:nothing could be done to allah and if anyone dared, surely allah would send a plague of fleas from a thousand camels on to anyone who tried.Or else stamp on them with his One Foot or smite them with his Two Right Hands.
islamic teachings confirm allah as having one leg and two right hands:allah cannot even create himself properly.No wonder he gets everything wrong.
dumbledoresarmy says
O’Neill: “radical Islam is indeed a major threat to life, limb and democracy….”.
Correction: “..ISLAM is a major threat to life, limb and democracy….”.
Or, putting it even more bluntly, “… Muslims threaten the lives and freedoms of all non-Muslims everywhere in the world”.
There is NO majority non-Islamic country, but with a large resident population of Muslims, that is NOT in trouble.
There is NO Muslim-majority country within which it could be truthfully said that non-Muslims – whether visitors, residents or resident indigenous non-Muslims – are entirely safe.
Muslims howl endlessly about ‘Islamophobia’ …. and yet wherever they are in the majority they mercilessly oppress, exploit, abuse, slander and generally mistreat any resident non-Muslims… and in many cases those non-Muslims are not foreigners, they are – for example, Coptic Christians in Egypt, Maronite Christians in Lebanon, Assyrian Christians in Syria and Iraq, and Hindus and Buddhists in Bangladesh, the surviving remnants of the indigenous pre-Islamic communities of those countries.
Muslims are dangerous to non-Muslims, because their ruthless and vile ideology programs them to seek to constantly attack non-Muslims: they are always trying to fool, bribe or bully them into converting to Islam, but if the non-Muslims resolutely refuse the ‘offer you can’t refuse’, then the ideology programs Muslims to either kill the refusers, or else turn them into near-slave dhimmis to be endlessly abused for fun and profit.
Fear of Islam is rational. Rejection of Islam is rational.
A decision, by any non-Islamic country, to bar the entry of identifiable Muslims henceforward and to deport such Muslims as have already got inside the gates, beginning with all those that have been caught openly inciting to Jihad and those caught plotting acts of violence and those caught openly engaging in all manner of criminality, would be no more than basic commonsense… and it would greatly promote the wellbeing, peace and safety of said country’s non-Muslim population, whether indigenous or immigrant.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
If what Lee Anderson said was true, why was it “dumb”, according to Brendon O’Neill?
FYI says
Two analogies about the koran:muslims get their instructions from this idiotic book
1}An islamic history of the Beatles
“The four beatles were,John,Paul,George and ..muhammed”
muhammed?where does the author get muhamed from?
{Where does allah get Mary from in koran 5:116 pickthall?}
2}A Textbook of modern Astronomy by Dr Aziz Azwas{professor of koranic Astronomy Abdoolabad Abdoolistan}
Foreword by Zakir Nakir author of “the 500 incredible scientific miracles of the koran”
Modern?It is Ptolemaic Astronomy !!What Astronomy?
Does allah not know how big a star is?Apparently not
“The sun sets in a muddy POOL”.”the moon split in two” not to mention allah’s belief that space is full of demons..
Either science is wrong or the koran.
I choose Science.
Hudders. says
Lee Anderson was only speaking the truth, regardless how he framed his words.
Khan is destroying London & softening the British underbelly in advance of the inevitable Caliphatic advances.
It’s also very much about that slow steady progressive psychological creep, towards a carefully tailored British friendly version of blaspemy laws.
The lilly-livered PM stood before number 10 Downing Street earlier today & almost immediately used the ubiquitously misleading term ‘far right’, & then mis n matched it with ‘radical islamism’. Fearful deception & woke weakness from the so called leader.
We are seeing the stranglehold political ismamic activism has now on the UK Labour Party & the SNP, the same can now be said for the Conservatives.
It IS all about islam. Period. The much vaunted multicultural trojan horse has failed dangerously & the detrimental damage done have never been more clearly seen & felt in the UK today.
Britian will rue the day that they flung their gates open in well meaning welcome, to the most savage & ill intentioned beings on the planet Earth. It is an act of national suicide.
Hiding ones head in the sands won’t make the problem of islamic advance go away. rather it only neatly exposes the neck for whan the very swift sharp sword of sharia hits British streets in earnest.
We have been warned. Time after time after time……
Michalis says
Sunak the Unelected also said the British government was going to throw more money at the “Prevent” programme. So don’t fret, all will be well . . . after all it’s worked so well up till now.
What’s the definition of insanity again? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results?
Hudders. says
@Michalis.
Indeed! The pointless programme fails miserably in all areas & actually prevents positive results.
It’s just a convenient catchphrased carpet corner lifted, to sweep the demonic desert dung dangers under.
The best ‘prevention’ is removal from the country immediately, or significant no parole prison sentences, for even the slightest whiff of jihadist leanings.
It seems all things legal are skewed in favour of those who hate us & wish to do us harm.
tgusa says
Islam is cultural. Muslims follow islamic culture outlined in their book. Any one who says different is full of shit. So, is it fear, is it intimidation, is it both? We old timers have a word for them, cowards. There seems to be an over abundance of cowards in the West today and that disgusts the hell out of me.
tgusa says
And within islamic culture there are a whole lotta things that as a Western man I find repugnant. Western Civilization has existed for hundreds and hundreds of years. The starting point is hard to pin down. Even in the beginning we Westerners lived by different rules that were then and are now counter to islamic culture (rules). Do these foreign and domestic jackasses expect me to change what I do and how I live over here in My West after all the centuries? I think a majority of Westerners would be happy to tell them where they can put that.
Alexandra Smith says
I was sickened to read in one of the Jewish newspapers that they had equated Ian Anderson’s comment to the same as a Islamic terrorist. How can Jews remain so thick, especially after October 7th showed nothing had changed since the 600 AD?! Wake up and get out of Britain quickly, while you can still get whatever you can out with your families! ! Don’t be like the Russian and Ukrainian Jews!
Jerry Glenn says
It’s over. UK wins the international Islamopandering derby.
OLD GUY says
Islam is just plain and simple BAD. It’s not Islamophobia thats the problem it is the actions of islam towards the rest of society that is the problem.
SJC says
‘Islamophobia is rampant in the Tories’, says the Guardian’s Owen Jones.
White skinned indigenous citizen Owen Jones is Gay, and will be one of the first to take flying lessons off a high building if the UK does not manage to deal with the industrial scale Islamifacation spreading across our country like an evil terminal Cancer. The Guardian that employs this whinging, whining entitled little gay left leaning toe rag is fully supportive of his type. Don’t even get me started on Humza Yousaf the discriminatory white hating Islamic import, who is obsessed with so many white people holding office in a white country lol