This money is ostensibly going to go to combat “anti-Muslim abuse, threats or harassment or any form of hate crime.”
The problem with such categories is that they’re subjective. The execrable smear merchant Fiyaz Mughal, who has just declined a government to fight “Islamophobia” because he supposedly just can’t take all the “Islamophobia,” contends that honest analysis of the motives and goals of jihad terrorists, and of how they use Islamic texts and teachings to justify violence, constitutes abuse of Muslims. Mughal’s view is taken for granted as true on the left in both Britain and the U.S. So will the UK government act further against such analysis now, under the guise of combating “anti-Muslim abuse”? Count on it.
The conflation of criticism of Islam with abuse of Muslims has been one of the most successful propaganda tools that Mughal and his comrades have employed over the last two decades.
“Government commits more than £117m to protect British Muslims,” by David Hughes and Joseph Timan, Manchester Evening News, March 11, 2024:
More than £117m of taxpayers’ money will be used to protect mosques, Muslim schools and community centres from hate attacks over the next four years.
Home Secretary James Cleverly said the money, which will be spent on measures including CCTV cameras, alarms and fencing, would give “reassurance and confidence to UK Muslims”. The announcement, which follows a £70m package for Jewish groups, comes in response to concerns that the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza is fuelling division in the UK.
The Government condemned a recent rise in reported anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish hatred and ministers have made it clear they expect the police to fully investigate all hate crimes and work with the Crown Prosecution Service to bring perpetrators to justice.
Mr Cleverly said: “Anti-Muslim hatred has absolutely no place in our society. We will not let events in the Middle East be used as an excuse to justify abuse against British Muslims.
“The Prime Minister has made clear that we stand with Muslims in the UK. That is exactly why we have committed to this funding, giving reassurance and confidence to UK Muslims at a time when it is crucially needed.”
The funding forms part of a package of support to provide reassurance that anti-Muslim abuse, threats or harassment or any form of hate crime will not be tolerated. But a plan to announce a new adviser on tackling anti-Muslim hate suffered a setback when the frontrunner pulled out because of the volume of vile abuse he had suffered.
Fiyaz Mughal, who founded the anti-Muslim hate monitoring organisation Tell MAMA, said he had suffered over a decade of abuse for his work and when his name was publicly linked to the adviser role it escalated and “I couldn’t take it any more”. The £117 million over the next four years follows £29.4 million available for 2023-24, which included £4.9 million allocated following the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel which triggered the latest round of fighting in Gaza….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
$89M to protect the Jooooooooooos? How islamophobic! Even $0.01 to protect them is $0.01 too many
Instead, “his majesty’s government” should have committed £1,000,000,000,000 to protect muslims & enhance islam, & have it replace Saudi Arabia as the center of world islam
Jayell1 says
I have recently been watching ‘The Crown’ on Netflix, which traces (with quite a lot of accuracy) the progress of the British monarchy from just before WW2 to near enough the present day through the life and reign of the late Queen Elizabeth II, including surrounding events which, thanks to this show, I now understand better than when I actually experienced them at the time here in the UK.
One of these things is the seriousness of the UK’s economic situation at the time of the Wilson (Labour) government around the 1980’s when there was nearly a coup involving the banks and their chums in high places, and when (according to a rumour leaked onto the internet) the UK government under Brown (after Wilson left office) is alleged to have signed an agreement with an unnamed foreign (middle eastern?) entity which (quote) ‘guaranteed the right of muslims in the UK to practise their faith unhindered’ (unquote) – no doubt in return for some kind of huge financial consideration. The fact that the then small number of muslims in the UK had never been hindered at all in the first place didn’t seem to feature in the bargain, which rather begs the question as to what the Government of the day was knowingly or otherwise signing itself up for; because this would have been the time that the national atrocity of the muslim ‘grooming gangs’ got started and when police forces up and down the country began to receive instructions from ‘on high’ to treat certain kinds of complaint of sexual abuse of underage girls as ‘unfounded’, leading to the levels of gross criminal abuse by muslims that were originally frantically covered up in the media but are now clearly on public record. In short, this was the beginning of the sell-out of the UK to the muslims that is now so blatantly apparent in things like the transparently bent Met Police under its muslim boss in London’s City Hall and is now further confirmed in this gross squandering of British taxpayers’ money on ‘jizzya’ payments to mosques that is going to end up being used for Allah-only-knows-what.
There are people on this site who rightly question why you should be bothering yourselves with what’s happening across the Atlantic. Well, you’ve already had 9/11, you’ve got the ongoing islamic antics in places like Dearborn, but now you see what’s coming next.
Gene Currivan says
They are, literally, paying to have their own throats slit… Suicide…. Plain and simple… My god, what has happened to good British sense???
Gene.Currivan says
It’s truly open season on Whites around the world. In the US, attacks are incredibly common and becoming more viscous with every passing day.
Whites in South Africa are becoming an endangered species. Many Blacks are calling openly for their ‘end’ … Still, the US does nothing
Mind watch says
It seems the UK government and Mr Cleverly are using a ‘virtue / moral’ based code of conduct & ruling that does not reflect the reality. As such, I do believe they have been duped / deceived. Mr Cleverly states, “We will not let events in the Middle-East be used as an excuse to justify abuse against British Muslims”. How honourable and virtuous his words appear, when paradoxically events in the Middle-East embolden and incite particular British Muslims to verbally or physically violate the lives of non-Muslims.
Their receiving more money also serves to surreptitiously and horrifyingly entrench Muslim as a legitimate system of ruling and law which will in time impact on the lives of non-Muslims. The ideology, mission and spread by stealth of Islam is repugnant and vile. Seemingly proud and noble in their gesture, the government and Mr Cleverly perhaps unwittingly are opening the gates to a danger they cannot foresee.
It is interesting that in the UK it is the pro-active Islamists who are imposing their code of conduct, in varying degrees, on the lives of others. It is disturbing how many countries regard a person who commits
abuses in the name of Islam as ‘psychologically disturbed’ – having no connection to the ‘religion’. However, it remains a fact that Islam is the trigger for such abuse. This cannot be denied. In my opinion at least, this religion is ‘inherently insidious’.
In any case, in the final analysis, it is only natural that people are wary of Islam in view of what Islam does. It indoctrinates and violates the lives of its own adherents, whom are then compelled to violate the lives of, non-believers worldwide, whether the latter are Christian, Buddhists, Hindus or Jewish people. And all this in the name of something that has zero substance.
I do believe people have the right to be concerned about Islam, and they have the right to disparage it. They cannot be compelled to accept something that enforces a code of conduct that violates life. They are discriminated against if they are enforced to do this.
abu taleb says
And probably UK gov’t spends money to attack Christians.
Naja says
The financial difference is based on the future when the very slow Brits finally wake up and begin to save their country from the bad guys.
Rick Smith says
Basically these traitors are entrenching Islam further in their nation. Shouldn’t that money go to victims of Muslim gang rapists and terrorists? It’s well known that Muslims use mosques to store weapons, acid and other tools which they use in their jihad against us.
If our nations had woken up and used some common sense, they’d realize all of Islam is a danger to us. There is no peaceful version that deserves protection. Then people like this who aid Islamification would be removed from office and jailed or deported.
Muslims are showing us the way and we ‘the people’ are still sitting around watching from afar. People should have weekly demonstrations demanding the removal of Islam from western nations…as well as the deportation of Muslims (ultimately) but start with the hate preachers and those who’ve committed crimes.
What’s especially needed is a purge of all Muslims and their sympathizers from gov’t so that we are not influenced by them to act against our own best interests, and instead for Islam.
Some European leaders get it, like Eric Zemmour in France….he was actually just behind the polls behind Marine Le Pen, until Russia attacked Ukraine. This means-like for Geer Wilders, millions of ordinary people truly are waking up and want their leaders to go after Islam…so hopefully we’ll see a better outcome for him and similar opponents of Islam in future elections.
I think in the UK the Muslims have worked for decades to embed themselves in their societies, it’ll be harder to remove them without a mass anti-Islamic movement.
bill says
The Manchester Arena bomber, Private Rigby beheading, Westminster Bridge attacks. ramming of parliament’s gate, sexploitation of young girls by rapist gangs in several UK cities, not to mention many other Islamic attacks in UK; plus honour killings; yet they wonder why there is ‘islamophobia’. Perhaps they should put their own house in order. Islamophobia is a quite natural response, and not an irrational fear. Of course there are many law abiding and peaceful Muslims in UK but why do they not stand up? One day there might be a day of reckoning..