Posted on 09/04/2014 9:53:06 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The Guardian reported last week that British extremists were among ‘the most vicious and vociferous fighters’ in the ranks of Isis. But this we knew. For UK Muslims, the fact that James Foley’s executioner spoke with a London accent was a public relations disaster. It wasn’t great for Britain, either, which is now routinely accused by Americans of harbouring an enemy within.
Then came Rotherham. It’s no secret that Asian grooming gangs have been targeting white girls on sink estates — but until last month social workers and the police conspired to keep the full truth from us. They protected Pakistani elders who turned a blind eye to organised rape. Why?
The press blame ‘political correctness’, but there is a more specific explanation. The authorities were terrified that grooming would be seized upon by racists playing the Muslim card. Their fears weren’t unfounded. In 2004 the British National Party won a council seat in Keighley West with 51 per cent of the vote by exploiting local outrage over a grooming scandal. Its tactics were crafty. In BNP leaflets, the adjective ‘Pakistani’ was replaced by ‘Muslim’. Nick Griffin praised Sikh and Hindu activists who had tried to draw attention to the ‘Muslim sex gangs’.
The BNP has since imploded, but not before popularising the idea that the sexual appetites of Pakistani thugs were fuelled by Islam. American conservatives picked over the Koran looking for parallels between the violence of gang rape and the violence of jihad. Islamic scholars dismissed this as a violation of their scriptures. Inconveniently for them, however, ‘Muslim’ street gangs in Europe and America started playing the same game, arguing that the Koran permitted any assault against the kuffar (non-believers).
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Let’s hope so.
In what way is this distinction relevant?
Are there numbers of Pakistanis in UK who aren't Muslim?
Fusilier Lee Rigby was also beheaded by a guy with a London accent.
Hardening it’s heart? Coming to ones senses and facing a very real threat is a “hardening of the heart”?
Yeah, I'd think so. Somebody who remains friendly with people who are his avowed enemies is an idiot, not a nice guy.
Sink estates = the projects
Pawkee-stahni is too specific, muslim is more generic.
Not all bearded barbarians are Pawkee-stahnis but all Pawkees are bearded barbarians.
Too bloody late.
It’s too late. The demographic die is cast.
In the years since the Pew survey, we have experienced chaotic immigration and been shocked to the core by the savagery of Islamists. We’re not used to this. So far, most Muslims have weathered the storm by keeping their heads down and their eyes averted from western decadence. That strategy won’t work for much longer. The lumping together of Rotherham and Isis may be malicious and misleading, and no one expects British Muslims to buy the argument that these atrocities are sanctified by the Koran. But they do need to bypass their useless community leaders and find better means of expressing their horror — individually and collectively — at crimes against humanity. In fact, in the current atmosphere, they have little choice: if they miss this opportunity, ordinary Britons will start listening to the hate-mongers.
ISIS is Islam. Period. And the "British muslims" don't "express their horror" because they approve of it. Period. They are one in the same. Inseparable.
There are non-Pakistani Muslims in UK. The initial wave was mainly from the former British colony of India (which divided into India and Pakistan). Now UK gets immigrants for lots of Muslim countries.
British media is still trying to dance around the truth, I see.
Not yet it isn’t. Only 5% of England is Muslim.
Rule Britannia !!! Britannia rules the waves.
England never, ever, ever will be slaves.
When I see mass protests against mass gang rapes maybe I would think the UK is getting a clue
Because the fact that they were Muslim is more telling than the fact that they were from Pakistan - because even if there are only precious few Pakistanis in the U.K. who aren't Muslim, it still deserves pointing out that aren't just "from another country," but "Muslim."
Imagine reading a report that a group of youths - "two Egyptians, one Sudanese, two Saudis, and three Indonesians" - had been arrested for carrying a bomb into an airport. And let's observe that they also had "religious leaflets" with them. According to your logic, it wouldn't be relevant to instead report that eight MUSLIMS had been attempting to smuggle a bomb into the airport (since virtually all citizens of those countries are Muslim), and that they had been carrying leaflets calling for a "worldwide djihad" (since that can almost be taken for granted, given the first item).
Regards,
Some UK politician will say it’s discriminatory and veto anything against mussies.
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