A rant from Mad Mel

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“Since the bombings, many of the leading voices of British society have given the impression that they are less concerned about the atrocity that claimed the lives of more than 52 innocent people than the need to protect the Muslim community from any backlash…. The impression has been sedulously created that this act of Islamic terrorism by four Muslim boys from Leeds had nothing to do with the Muslim community or indeed Islam.” So Melanie Phillips argues.

Daily Mail, 14 July 2005

Phillips goes on to offer a stern lecture to Muslims: “above all, the responsible Muslim community and its leaders – who are the majority – must come out of denial and unequivocally condemn the extreme interpretation of Islam that is twisting the minds of the minority of zealots in its midst”.

Presumably Phillips wrote this on an isolated mountaintop without access to the media.

BNP by-election defeat

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BNP leafletThe British National Party, which used images of the bombed London bus on a leaflet, has failed to gain a council seat at a by-election. Labour held the Becontree seat in the east London borough of Barking and Dagenham with a majority of nearly 800.

The BNP used a photograph of the bus with the caption, “maybe it’s time to start listening to the BNP” .

The winning candidate, Alok Agrawal, said after the result: “It was very sad using a national tragedy in order to try and gain votes. They thought people were fools. They thought people would fall into a trap. But the voters have massively rejected them. They have told the BNP ‘We don’t want you in Barking and Dagenham’.”

BBC News, 15 July 2005

See also NAAR news article, 15 July 2005

‘Betrayed’ – by political correctness and liberal culture

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BETRAYED: How British Intelligence Has Been Neutered by Politicians in Its Quest to Infiltrate the Enemy Within

By Tom Bower

Daily Mail, 15 July 2005

… Under Britain’s constitution, it is the Prime Minister’s sole right to identify targets for the intelligence services to monitor, and he also has the power to decide the limitations on their operations. But, as part of the New Labour ruling elite’s obsession with multi-culturalism and fear of upsetting Muslim sensibilities, the orders to Britain’s intelligence chiefs were deliberately kept within narrow parameters, with very little room for proper investigation.

The result is that Mr Blair’s desire not to annoy the Muslim community, upon whom Labour depends for a hardcore of votes, severely circumscribed the formal identification of those extremist Muslims in our midst who have become this country’s ‘enemy’.

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The Islamic Manchurian candidates

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“One of the most absurd sights we have been forced to watch whilst cringing from our settees in the last week has been the sight of various Establishment figures ranging from the Neo-Druid liberal Arch-Bishop of England, Prince Charles and Tony Blair all lining up to deliver their sermons on the mount about the true nature of Islam and how almost all the Muslim population of Britain have no understanding of their own religion. They tell us ‘the terrorists are a minority and have no support in the Muslim community’ but this is just another lie they are using to try and delude us into accepting more of the same liberal bullshit that they have been feeding us for years.”

BNP website, 15 July 2005

Harry’s Place on MAB

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“… the MAB/Muslim Brotherhood’s position isn’t foreign at all. Its old fashioned totalitarianism, with a theocratic flavour, and we’ve seen it before and fought it before. We are at a crux time. The creeping ‘mainstreaming’ of an extremist ideology has to be resisted, and it can be resisted in part by holding firm to the basic liberal traditions of pluralism, liberty and democracy. The MAB/Muslim Brotherhood’s greatest weakness is that they are an extreme organisation. However and wherever they try to disguise that we need to challenge them, as we challenge Nick Griffin’s rebranded BNP.”

David T offers us his insights into the Muslim Association of Britain.

Harry’s Place, 15 July 2005

His position on the Muslim Brotherhood is, in fact, considerably more hardline than that of the Bush administration. See here.

We need to talk less, listen more, to Muslims

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We need to talk less, listen more, to Muslims

By Haroon Siddiqui

Toronto Star, 14 July 2005

Germany has been as vociferous as France among the G 8 nations in opposing the American invasion and occupation of Iraq. It has also been increasingly skeptical of Washington’s war on terrorism.

Germany also has a sophisticated understanding of, and good relations with, the Muslim world. In addition, it considers itself the closest European ally of Israel. The German perspective on terrorism, especially on young European jihadists, is, therefore, useful.

“We need a dialogue with the Muslim world but there’s too much distrust,” said a very senior policy official in Berlin in a lengthy and candid interview, given on condition of anonymity, and conducted before last week’s bombings in London.

“There’s distrust because of our double standards,” he said, citing the Arab-Israeli dispute, and because of what he called the Bush administration’s “hegemonic” policy: Occupying Iraq to control the oil and the region, especially Iran, and controlling Afghanistan to have access Central Asian oil and gas reserves.

Worse, the Americans are carrying out the policy “in such a blunt way that they can’t see that they are destroying everything in their path … When the American soldiers see Iraqi women and children in a car, how can they shoot?”

Yet, he said, Washington wonders: “‘Why do they hate us?’ Easy. They hate us because of the policies.”

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Multiculturalism, Islam and the destruction of Western civilisation

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“Only one faith on earth may be more messianic than Islam: multiculturalism. Without it – without its fanatics who believe all civilizations are the same – the engine that projects Islam into the unprotected heart of Western civilization would stall and fail. It’s as simple as that.” So right-wing US commentator Diana West claims.

As a result of the efforts of these multiculturalists, with their “masochistic brand of tolerance”, we “prevent ourselves from looking full face at the danger to our way of life posed by Islam. Notice I didn’t say ‘Islamists’. Or ‘Islamofascists’. Or ‘fundamentalist extremists’. I’ve tried out such terms in the past, but I’ve come to find them artificial and confusing, and maybe purposefully so, because in their imprecision I think they allow us all to give a wide berth to a great problem: the gross incompatibility of Islam – the religious force that shrinks freedom even as it ‘moderately’ enables, or ‘extremistly’ advances jihad – with the West. Am I right? Who’s to say? The very topic of Islamization – for that is what is at hand, and very soon in Europe – is verboten.”

Washington Times, 15 July 2005

Over at Jihad Watch, Rebecca Bynum urges us to “read it all”. Dhimmi Watch, 15 July 2005

Fears of backlash in Scotland as boy and mosque attacked

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Police patrols have been stepped up around mosques and Muslim communities in Scotland amid fears of a racist backlash in the wake of the London bombings. The greater police visibility in Edinburgh follows an unprovoked attack on a teenage Asian boy, who was beaten up on a busy street in broad daylight by a white skinhead who shouted racist abuse.

The 16-year-old boy, who has not been named, was with an 11-year-old friend on Leith Walk when the man began shouting at them at about 2pm on Tuesday. The man then punched the older boy repeatedly, knocking him to the ground, before running off when an elderly Asian man intervened.

The teenager was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary with a suspected fractured cheekbone, bruising and cuts. Police are appealing for witnesses.

The assault follows attacks on the Shah Jalal Mosque in the city and a Pakistani community centre, both of which were defaced with racist graffiti last Thursday. Doors were daubed with the words “Islam Scum” and “This centre sympathises with terrorists”.

Police, who described the attacks as appalling, said that reports of verbal abuse against Asians had increased in the past week in Edinburgh and Glasgow, home to Scotland’s largest Asian communities.

Muslim leaders warned the Asian community yesterday to be on guard and to report any racial incidents to officers.

Times, 14 July 2005