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What's Wrong With Britain?
PJ Media ^ | 29 Jun, 2018 | Bruce Bawer

Posted on 07/01/2018 7:44:40 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Britain's new Orwellian orthodoxy: only Islam embodies virtue.

Lately I keep coming back to Britain. Across Western Europe in the last few years, national or regional governments have instituted full or partial bans on Muslim face coverings: no niqab or burka in French, Austrian, or Belgian public spaces, ditto in Bavarian schools, in various localities in Italy, in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland, and in certain public spaces in Barcelona. On Tuesday, after a thirteen-year effort by Geert Wilders, the Dutch Parliament finally approved a French-style ban. These bans may represent only a fraction of what needs to be done to save Europe, but at least they're something -- minor if defiant gestures of civilizational self-assertion in response to aggressive emblems of conquest.

In Britain, by contrast -- well, when asked last year about a burka ban, Prime Minister Theresa May curtly ruled it out as “divisive” and discriminatory. “I believe that what a woman wears is a woman's choice,” she said, preferring not to acknowledge the well-established fact that many women and girls who walk around in 90-degree temperatures with their faces and bodies covered in heavy, dark, non-breathable fabrics are not doing so out of choice. These days, even as other countries are beginning to debate these matters and pass (admittedly tame) prohibitions, the kind of wholesale denial of reality expressed by May seems, in Britain, to be ever more deeply rooted.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 2manymuslims; deathofthewest; jihad; jihadineurope; ukmuslims
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1 posted on 07/01/2018 7:44:40 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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Free Tommy Robinson or Die!


2 posted on 07/01/2018 7:45:31 PM PDT by Paladin2
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These leftists are bringing in the people to destroy the countries they hate. Their own.


3 posted on 07/01/2018 7:45:50 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of ascenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Perhaps a few years ago, the UK could have wised up and made a simple course correction.

But they’ve gone too far down the path now. If there is to be any sort of recovery at all, the fix is going to have to be ugly with a capital U.


4 posted on 07/01/2018 8:01:15 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Yes, I get it - racism is bad and mutual respect and inclusion is good. But value Truth too.)
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Britain is governed by an ELITE t hat really runs the show regardless of form.

The elite has always been fascinated by the Islamic harem of female slaves. (Hence Tommy’s Rotherham, et al.)

This, then is the English version. THEY WANT THEIR OWN.

It’s all about sex and sex slavery. (NOT to mention all the abused little boys.............................)


5 posted on 07/01/2018 8:03:51 PM PDT by Flintlock (The ballot box STOLEN, our soapbox taken away--the BULLET BOX is left to us.)
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let me count the ways...
6 posted on 07/01/2018 8:20:39 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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> These [burka] bans may represent only a fraction of what needs to be done to save Europe, but at least they’re something <

The author is kidding himself.


7 posted on 07/01/2018 8:21:51 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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Interesting article. Lots of good comments at the source. Thanks for posting.


8 posted on 07/01/2018 8:22:59 PM PDT by PGalt
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We were in Sam’s Club and saw a person with a full burka with head gear stuffing merchandise under her clothing. We have no idea if it was a woman or a man. It had another person assisting in the theft. We pointed it out to security. They said they couldn’t do anything about it because they didn’t want to be accused of racism.


9 posted on 07/01/2018 8:23:02 PM PDT by fireman15
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But they’ve gone too far down the path now. If there is to be any sort of recovery at all, the fix is going to have to be ugly with a capital U.

Unfortunately, I think you are right. Ugly with a capital U and bloody, with a capital B.

10 posted on 07/01/2018 9:10:56 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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They said they couldn’t do anything about it because they didn’t want to be accused of racism.

Maybe professional thieves will start dressing up like that, so they can steal whatever they want, and just walk out the door.

11 posted on 07/01/2018 9:16:15 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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long ago arrived to the point of no-return


12 posted on 07/01/2018 9:39:23 PM PDT by leopud
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“They said they couldn’t do anything about it because they didn’t want to be accused of racism.”

Mental midgets——how in hell can you be accused of racism if you don’t know what color they are————and does that mean anyone that isn’t white can steal??????

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13 posted on 07/01/2018 9:44:31 PM PDT by Mears
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We weren’t sure if they were Muslims or just shoplifters with a new scam.


14 posted on 07/01/2018 10:58:29 PM PDT by fireman15
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Are any of these stupid Brits giving any thought to what their nation is going to look like in twenty years?


15 posted on 07/02/2018 12:06:59 AM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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Like anyone has time for that.

World Cup 2018!!!
16 posted on 07/02/2018 12:48:16 AM PDT by Garth Tater (End the Fed. Return to Constitutional governance.)
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We weren’t sure if they were Muslims or just shoplifters with a new scam.

Maybe both, but when the managers see 500 people, all at the same time, dressed up like muzzies, putting stuff in their clothes, they might catch on, or get stolen blind. It reminds me of something I saw on TV, but not sure if it’s true or not. Allegedly, some airline employee at Boston Airport, on 9/11/2001, noticed several Arabs, looking extremely nervous, but he did not say anything because he didn’t want to be called a racist. The next thing we know, they are running airplanes into buildings. If it is true, I am sure the guy doesn’t feel real good about it.

17 posted on 07/02/2018 1:37:31 AM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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Why? It's simple -- the UK since the 1600s has seen itself as a place for refugees/immigrants/escapees

In the 1600s it took in Huguenots, losers from the Dutch wars in the Netherlands, Jews, other Protestants etc.

In the 1700s it took in aristocratic refugees from France

In the 1800s it took in Polish refugees and other Eastern Europeans - Jews heavily

In the late 1800s and early 1900s it saw itself as the capital of a multi-national empire with the English as the ruling caste.

They sheltered various dissidents since the 80s, dissidents and terrorists from Asia, Africa etc.

it's part of the political culture

18 posted on 07/02/2018 4:01:15 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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Britain has given the world so much; yet imports a culture that has given the world NOTHING but poverty, murder, slavery, suffering, death and misery on a scope unknown to any other civilization.

It’s as stupid as infecting your children with AIDS and Rabies for reasons of Diversity.


19 posted on 07/02/2018 5:03:34 AM PDT by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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bump


20 posted on 07/02/2018 5:15:32 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law." --Abraham Lincoln)
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