The following excerpts from articles by Charles Moore (Spectator) and Brendan O’Neill (Spiked) are probably regarded as ‘controversial’. Whether or not that is so, the fact that they felt they needed to write them indicates that ‘stating the obvious’ has become virtually taboo ever since the media and political classes tacitly colluded to pander to political correctness and bow to the undeclared blasphemy law.
“There may well be people in the Conservative party who have an irrational hatred of Muslims, but the term ‘Islamophobia’ should be absolutely resisted. Unlike anti-Semitism, this is a concocted concept. A strand of Muslim thought sees all criticism of the prophet Mohammed and his faith as blasphemy and labours worldwide to ban it. Such Muslims are driven mad by the way Jews can cry ‘racism’ when they are attacked, whereas they cannot.
But in fact this is fair, because Jewishness is usually inherited and is not necessarily related to what you believe. Islam is. All belief systems must accept the danger of hatred, ridicule and contempt as the price for coexisting in a free society.”
The left, including the left that currently runs the Labour Party, is myopically devoted to distracting attention from the Islamist threat. ‘What about the far right?’, they’ll say. Such cynical and spineless whataboutery wilfully overlooks that the far right has not killed anywhere near 500 people in Europe over the past five years — Islamists, on the other hand, have. ‘Don’t look back in anger’, we are told after Islamist attacks. In short, lay a flower, be sad for a day, and then move on — whatever you do, don’t talk about it.
Another example of not facing up to the truth...
ReplyDeleteI note that,especially because it is bad for the "Tories", the MSM and BBC are now focussing on the issue of how to deal with Islamic terrorists in the run up to or after release. A guy called Ian Acheson has been telling how most of his recommendations in a formal review undertaken for the government were eventually turned down (although Gove accepted all bar one, to be fair). Acheson seems to be saying that basically the authorities weren't in control of the terrorists in prison, on the ground.
Now who else has made that claim...and been totally ignored by the likes of Daniel Sandford? Hmmm...thinks...oh yeah: Tommy Robinson aka "That guy who's more right than he's wrong." The sainted Lutonian told us after his latest release from prison that whole wings are under the control of Islamic terrorists and Muslim gangs.
Were the BBC interested? No. More interested in the "Tommy Takedown" that never happened.