Posted on 02/06/2013 8:41:19 AM PST by SeekAndFind
No longer content with preaching Sharia in the mosque, some British Muslims are now attempting to impose Islamic law on the streets. In videos posted on YouTube [1], self-described “Muslim patrols” have filmed themselves berating young women for being inappropriately dressed, seizing cans of beer from men, and burning posters advertising women’s underwear.
In another video [2], a mob pursues a man they suspect of being gay down a street, calling him a “fag” and telling him to get out of their “Muslim area.”
The videos are the latest example of how many Muslims — particularly young men — are not just failing to integrate into British society, but are becoming increasingly open in their hostility to it. It’s more evidence, if any more were needed, of the disastrous legacy of the policies of mass immigration and multiculturalism inflicted on Britain by Tony Blair’s “New Labour” government.
Only the worst excesses — such as the vigilante videos and the case last year of a Muslim gang that raped and abused vulnerable white girls [3] — get widespread media attention. But national and local media regularly carry stories of less sensational yet alarming incidents. Even these are only the tip of the iceberg; the failure of multiculturalism is manifested in countless minor incidents in cities across Britain every day.
Typical of such incidents is what my partner experienced recently when walking through an ethnically mixed area of a city that is home to large numbers of Somali refugees. She had to run a gauntlet of hissing, spitting, and hostile comments from Somali men. The Somali women, meanwhile, turned their backs on her. Such insidious, low-level incidents go largely unremarked upon, but are the source of growing tensions.
The encounters captured in those videos show a new development. In the past, the worst excesses of Muslim extremism have been perpetrated in the shadows. The victims were mostly either young girls from poor white communities — as in the “grooming” incident — or other Muslims who are the victims of abuses ranging from being denied an education to female genital mutilation [4], forced marriage [5], and “honor” attacks [6]which in some cases result in murder. But the people being harassed and threatened in the videos are random passers-by. Many of them will be young, liberal-minded urban dwellers who fancy themselves as sophisticated and tolerant types and who desire living in culturally mixed communities.
Increasingly, Islamists are coming into conflict with the very people who have been most eager to embrace liberal thinking on immigration, political correctness, and “diversity.” Multiculturalism has been a warmly satisfying and largely consequence-free indulgence for white liberals. It allowed them to flaunt their moral superiority over “racist” conservatives (an advisor to the Blair government has admitted that Labour’s immigration policy was a political project intended to “rub the Right’s nose in diversity” [7]). It also served to alleviate their guilt over past actual sins, such as the slave trade, and to present imagined ones, such as “globalization.”
Labour’s lax attitude to immigration had distinct material benefits for the liberal elites. It ensured plentiful supply of cheap nannies, exotic food stores, and hip ethnic restaurants, while those who could afford to were able to keep a safe distance from the squalor and criminal activity of the slum areas that mass immigration helped create.
A great many immigrants have become well-integrated and productive members of British society. But the architects of multiculturalism reckoned without the intransigence and intolerance of extremist Islam. Parts of London and other British cities are now divided between fashionable districts inhabited by the well-off professional classes and Muslim ghettos.
There are also areas where the boundaries are blurred, and where less-well-off liberally minded types — often students, the creatively inclined, and other vaguely “bohemian” types — live in close proximity to Muslims who at best disapprove of their lifestyle and at worst want to outlaw it.
Many of these young liberals will sympathize with the Islamists’ hostility towards “Western imperialism,” globalization, America, and Israel. Take the girl in the first video linked above, whom the “patrol” lambasts for being immodestly dressed. She’s white and well-spoken, and while she could be a conservative, it’s easy to imagine her joining an anti-war march or a sit-in at Starbucks, or brandishing a “We are all Hamas now” placard. The irony is that many of these young urban liberals also epitomize the lifestyle that British Muslims are increasingly lashing out against, and embrace the values and attitudes that have led to a hollowing-out of Western culture — whether it’s drug use, binge drinking, or the promotion of commitment-free sex and the sexualization of young girls.
The rotting of the culture that’s been underway for the last few decades is not, of course, all the fault of liberal politicians and Hollywood. The prevalence of celebrities who are woeful role models, and irresponsible marketing by the alcohol and fashion industries have played a big part. But it’s liberals who have exalted in continually pushing the boundaries and smashing taboos — particularly when it comes to sex and drugs — while mocking the calls of the religious and the socially conservative for restraint. What we’re increasingly witnessing on Britain’s streets and elsewhere in Europe is the great contradiction at the heart of the entire liberal multicultural project: the conflict in the physical and ideological space where tolerance collides with intolerance; where the bohemians come face-to-face with a brutal puritanism.
There’s an element of contradiction in all this for many on the right, too. Religious and social conservatives share the dismay of many Muslims at the state of Western society. The difference is that even the most conservative Christians and secularists have a rather higher tolerance for “immoral” behavior than extremist Muslims, and for them the solutions lie not in gangs patrolling the streets but in better education, the fostering of better morals, and the reform of welfare systems that have destroyed working class families and eroded personal responsibility.
It’s difficult to see where this ends.
Authorities are cracking down on the most obvious transgressions by Islamists, such as sexual abuse and vigilantism (several people have been arrested in connection with the YouTube videos). But low-level extremism mostly goes unpunished, and there’s little evidence of a change in the attitudes that cause Muslim immigrants to despise their hosts, and cause young men to be radicalized in mosques and Islamic bookshops, schools, and youth centers. Muslims are also not subject to the relentless attacks of the kind that Christians and social conservatives regularly endure, whether it’s in the workplace, by politically correct bureaucrats, or in popular culture and academia.
If the Left was half as interested in confronting extremist Muslims as it was in offending and marginalizing moderate Christians and conservatives, the Islamists would have a real battle on their hands.
It’s likely that Muslim communities will become increasingly “ghettoized,” which in turn will mean little hope for reform. Perhaps “Muslim patrols” will then extend their writ into the better-off districts inhabited by the liberal elites who birthed the multicultural monster. And perhaps those liberals will accept a form of dhimmitude; after all, it’s no great hardship to wait until you are behind your front door to open a can of beer rather than drinking it in the street, or for women to don a longer skirt and a headscarf when they venture outside.
Or perhaps the “Westernizing” influences that Muslims are now lashing out against will eventually overwhelm Islamic culture and family life, and a community whose more moderate members could teach their secular neighbors much about family values, self-respect, and personal morality will become as thoroughly corrupted as their hosts.
Then again, perhaps our decaying but seductive Western culture, and a robust but censorious Islamist one, will battle one another to a messy stalemate. None of the possibilities look pretty.
Article printed from PJ Media: http://pjmedia.com
URL to article: http://pjmedia.com/blog/muslim-patrols-sharia-enforcers-hit-britains-streets/
URLs in this post:
[1] videos posted on YouTube:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9808539/Muslim-vigilantes-confront-Londoners-in-name-of-Islam.html
[2] another video:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9818163/Muslim-Patrol-thugs-abuse-man-in-second-vigilante-video.html
[3] raped and abused vulnerable white girls: http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/05/18/how-politically-correct-liberals-left-a-muslim-gang-free-to-rape-british-girls/
[4] female genital mutilation:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18900803
[5] forced marriage:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-cameron-in-warning-over-forced-marriages-7831253.html
[6] “honor” attacks :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2069459/Alarming-number-honour-attacks-UK-police-reveal-thousands-carried-year.html
[7] “rub the Right’s nose in diversity”:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1222769/Dishonest-Blair-Straw-accused-secret-plan-multicultural-UK.html
Extreme Muslims ARE a problem, but they are a tiny minority.
They make a lot of noise (empty vessels etc), and as such, people in America therefore can be seduced into believing that they have a big influence in the UK, that they run areas, even towns and cities. Hence why many people here think the UK has been conquered by Islam, that the UK is now a dhimmi nation etc.
95% of the UK is NOT Muslim. Immigration has been tightened. Extremism is being combatted. the vast majority of UK Muslims are decent, non extreme people. Sharia Law is a civil law like Jewish Beth Din, and exists only in five English cities, and is subordinate legally to English law.
Muslims do not have any major political or social power in the UK, collectively or individually.
Oh, and Mohammed is NOT the no1 name in the UK for boys.
RE: Well you sound like you already know the answer.
I wouldn’t be asking if I knew. I have a few Muslim friends and none of them believe the story of Muhammad marrying a child, much less consumating it.
While Britain is being lost, the Brits are having tea and crumpits.
RE: Oh, and Mohammed is NOT the no1 name in the UK for boys.
You mean these reports are all wrong?
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/14/mohammed-retakes-top-spot-in-english-baby-names/
and this:
and this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8091798/Mohammed-the-nations-secret-favourite-name.html
Refreshing to hear. Keep giving updates on matters we see as skewed through your major news orgs.
Yes, they are.
Mohammed only is the no1 name if you include every possible variant. Something you can do with any non-muslim name as well. It was a stupid non-story.
There are 62million people in the UK. 95% of them NOT Muslim. Does anyone think a nation with 5% Muslims would have a Muslim name as the fav for newborns?. Common sense.
Good to hear. I nor anyone else on this site relishes the idea of creeping Islam and its consequences; be it here, Britain or anywhere else.
“Many of them will be young, liberal-minded urban dwellers who fancy themselves as sophisticated and tolerant types and who desire living in culturally mixed communities.”
Unbeknown to them, these 50 IQ morons serve a useful and strategic function for the patriot community. When the savages unleash a widespread blood-letting against these liberals, we’ll know to muster the troops and initiate Plan B. These liberals are our canaries in the mine. Perhaps planting a small bronze plaque thanking them would be appropriate.
“I have a few Muslim friends and none of them believe the story of Muhammad marrying a child, much less consumating it.”
Then you’re friends are in denial, don’t know their prophet, and don’t know their history.
Awsome news, thank you for correcting me. Why is it that Americans think the UK is (mostly) unarmed?
Since Westerners cannot deal with this type behavior;due to physical and spiritual degeneracy, I suggest they convert to Islam.
Were more than 5 involved?
The one thing Mulsims are doing "right" here, is having babies and families to invade from within.
The White women are privileged and refuse to have babies because they want freedom and money.
Family courts in America are pro-single family now because the courts have become a business of sorts.
The decline in family and the decline in marriages are killing the country from within.
So I don't see any difference between the USA and UK looking forward 20 years.
Thank God I will be dead by then and not have to see the end.
The Muslim population of London is 12.4% as noted.
The politics of London the capital of Britain wield disproportionate influence over the rest of the nation, just as we have states whose mostly rural populations are subjected to the politics of their largest city (Illinois-Chicago, Georgia-Atlanta, Pennsylvania-Philadelphia).
That’s only obvious, IMO. If Muslims were twelve percent of the population of Washington, D.C., I’d be extremely worried about their effect upon the politics of the nation’s capital.
Yes, I harp on Lord Achmed & Anjem Choudary as the two most feared men in UK. And on the subject of guns, there is in America the presumed freedom to use deadly force in defence of one’s home or person, referred to (ironically in this instance) as the Castle Doctrine. That simply does not exist in Britain. Britons who are forced to defend themselves with a gun are arrested & charged and that’s simply fact.
And by the way, UK Muslims are loud in their militancy & demandmaking (and criminal activity) in a manner that they simply are not here in America. Yes, perceptions matter and Muslims in America perceive that the “infidel” majority is armed to the teeth (CNN tells them so) and thus presents a danger to Islamic aggressiveness. Here they confine their dominance to the Detroit suburb of Dearborn & that’s pretty much it.
I would love to believe like you that Britain is successfully defending its ancient civilization from cultural incursion but the evidences of Muslim lawlessness seem to indicate otherwise. The Shariah patrols on London sidewalks by “Asian” thugs are but the latest example.
That’s so dispicable. Who the he!! do they think they are?
I would have a knee-jerk reaction to the anatomy of whoever tried to force his ideas on me. I think I’ll start carrying my sling shot and a few good marbles....
RE: The Muslim population of London is 12.4% as noted.
London has approximately the same population as New York City, i.e., 8.2 Million.
New York City has just 70,000 Muslims, which amounts to 0.875% of the population.
If London is 12.4% Muslim, that makes it over a million Muslims.
If what you say is true about London, the total number of Muslims in London will make it the one of the top 10 cities in America by population.
See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_cities_by_population
That’s more people than San Francisco, San Jose, Boston, Seattle or denver.
It is in the Quran. I have read it. The entire book is a just a series of contradictions.
In one section, it claims Jesus was a “minor prophet,” but later on, it tells of him speaking to Mother Mary shortly after his birth. I think the desert sun got to Mohammed, the child molester.
And everyone who reads Scriptures knows that Satan is the author of confusion. If it isn’t logical, it isn’t sacred.
Deception. From the mouth a practicing Muslim: A man MUST be dishonest, especially to Infidels.
You will never get the truth from any Muslim because you are an Infidel, and it’s OK to lie to you, according to the Quran.
Don’t take anything they say to the bank...it’s counterfeit.
Mohammed (no matter how it is spelled) is the most common male name in the entire world. Think about it.
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