Jihadist extremism isn't a politeness issue
There's an elephant in the room that keeps screaming 'Allahu Akhbar', hates Jews, and is trying to kill infidels.
This week Mike Freer, MP for the heavily Jewish constituency of Finchley and Golders Green, announced he will be quitting politics. Why? Because due to the fact that he represents Jews and supports Israel, Islamists and ‘anti-Zionists’ across the country keep trying (and threatening) to kill him.
Placed in his shoes, almost any sane person would make the same decision. After all a few weeks ago his offices were burnt down in a ‘suspected arson attack’, only the latest in a decade’s worth of similar such events.
describes how Freer:‘now wears a knife-proof vest when attending constituency events and says he feels lucky to be alive. In 2021, a government reshuffle meant he had to cancel his planned constituency surgery in order to remain in Westminster. While he was there an Islamist terrorist, Ali Harbi Ali, was lurking with a knife outside his constituency office waiting fruitlessly to attack him. One month later, Ali murdered fellow Tory MP Sir David Amess in a frenzied knife attack over Amess' support for air strikes against ISIS and his membership of Conservative Friends of Israel.
She goes on:
‘Ten years previously, Freer was targeted by the group Muslims against Crusades (which was later banned). It posted online a picture of Freer with the message “Let Stephen Timms be a warning to you”. In 2010 Timms, a Labour MP, had been stabbed in his constituency surgery by an al Qaeda supporter.
When members of Muslims against Crusades burst into an event that Freer was holding in a mosque, one said he was “a Jewish homosexual pig defiling the house of Allah”. In subsequent years, Freer was targeted with numerous threats, abusive notes were stuck on his car and mock petrol bombs were left on the steps of his constituency office.’1
This is an unacceptable state of affairs. It is unacceptable that in modern Western nations Islamist extremists are corrupting the democratic process through violence and threats of violence. And it is similarly unacceptable that anyone (including Muslims) who seeks to address the dramatic rise in Muslim antisemitism and jihadist terror gets tarred as a bigot and cast out of polite society by liberal and leftist authoritarians who hold themselves out as ‘anti-racists.’
Take a look at events just in London, just in the last few weeks. Two days before Freer announced his decision to stand down at the next election, a few minutes’ walk from his burnt-out office, a Muslim man grabbed a knife and tried to stab Jews. As I’ve described elsewhere:
‘since October 7 Islamic fanatics have beaten up, attacked and tried to stab people for criticising Hamas, and donned the group’s paraphernalia. They’ve praised Hitler, called for ‘death to all the Jews’…drawn swastikas on tube carriages, vandalised Jewish schools, destroyed menorahs, and assaulted, and beaten up and tried to kill members of the Jewish community. They’ve torn down thousands of posters depicting the faces of kidnapped Jewish men, women and children, and hurled abuse at anyone (myself included - see the video here) trying to stop them…Reminder - all of this was in direct response to the genocidal mass murder of 1200 people BY HAMAS (and other Gazans).’
None of this should be normal.
Man tries to stab Jews near my parents’ house in London.
So: did this latest shameful episode - an MP being forced out of political life by Islamist intimidation and antisemitism - trigger any proper reflection on the issue of Islamic radicalism among our political classes? No Sir. Rather, conversation turned to the need for MPs to ‘treat each other better’ (for you see, saying ‘please’ more often is a surefire way to persuade jihadists to stop slaughtering infidels. If only the Yazidis had thought of it!). Then we were fed articles claiming the real issue is ‘social media anxiety’, and that do not mention Islamism, jihadism, or Islamic extremism once but do mention Islamophobia.
Thus proper interrogation of uncomfortable realities has been sidestepped, in favour of generalised condemnation of ‘abuse from all sides’. This is so cynical. It allows those who have most vociferously sought to shut down discussion of un-PC topics such as the rise of Muslim fanaticism and any possible downsides of mass migration (and shame anyone who doesn’t play ball), to now generalise the blame for clear problems thrown up by the policies they support, and place it upon ‘British culture’ as a whole. (On a side note - for a straight-up mental example of this, watch the recent Newsnight interview in which Chair of the Women and Equality Committee Caroline Noakes, Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy, and presenter Kirsty Wark respond to the revelation that an Afghan man *threw burning chemicals into women’s faces* by…talking about ‘micro-aggressions faced by women of colour’ and the supposedly misogynistic nature of the UK - you can’t make this stuff up).
Dogma flowing out of the BBC like Niagara Falls
This is all absolutely par for the course. After Sir David Amess’ life was so cruelly cut short by an Islamist scumbag, his fellow politicians decided the real issue was a lack of ‘compassion’ in political life. One MP started rambling about Brexit, and the Observer asserted that it would be ‘abhorrent’ to ‘politicise the tragedy’. After schoolgirls watching an Ariana Grande concert were blown up by Salman Abedi, leading left-wing figures took to the airwaves to tell us the attacker was not Muslim (what?). Then talking heads queued up to virtue signal about how we must not look back in anger (what?), and the mayor of Manchester rebuked a Muslim woman who sought to raise the issue of radicalisation on Question Time. When Charlie Hebdo journalists were slaughtered, hundreds of liberal authors signed a petition - not against extremism, but rather criticising the decision to present the dead journalists with a bravery award because they were meanypants to Islam. After pub goers and bankers were stabbed to death by ISIS supporters, the Labour party decided to remove any reference to ‘Islamism’ from its manifesto, while explicitly mentioning far right terrorism repeatedly. There are quite literally hundreds more examples I could give here (there’s not space now, but see my other posts which go into more detail on this).
Mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham signals his absolutely unshakeable commitment to parroting elite dogma, at all costs.
Deflection, selective outrage, obfuscation. These are defining features of the cultish, quasi-religious groupthink that has come to dominate so much of our political, cultural and intellectual life in recent years. Events that highlight blatant holes in the narrative enforced by its midwit adherents are either ignored, or shoe-horned to fit within rigidly delimited ideological parameters that render the ensuing discussion nonsensical. Anyone who pushes back against this anti-intellectualism, or who does seek to interrogate tough issues openly and honestly, is labelled racist/sexist/white supremacist etc. (choose your smear).
This is gaslighting of the highest order. And it’s abusive. It’s abusive to expect Jews to be stabbed and shot and beaten up and only talk about the social and religious reasons for this in vague, euphemistic terms. It’s abusive to expect parents whose kids have been murdered by a suicide bombing psychopath screaming ‘Allahu Akhbar’ to accept that the attack had nothing to do with Islam, and feel no anger.
If a far right nutter commits a racist attack, the liberal media (justifiably) make a show of interrogating the perpetrator’s worldview and the supposed threat it poses. But the far more significant threat posed by Islamic extremism and antisemitism, by contrast, is only discussed (if at all) in generalised, vague, obfuscating tones. It’s pathetic, and it’s shameful.
Grow a pair! Stop playing along with it.
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I'm so utterly disgusted by the blatant moral inversion which now prevails ; an obligatory badge of 'dishonour' amongst our elites, their fellow travellers and legions of Useful Idiots.
The farcical legal shenanigans at the Hague, as South Africa attempts to wield the genocide weapon against Israel,for daring to defend itself against the Hamas death cult and its many allies.
A truly horrific massacre in Israel results in an epidemic of increasingly violent ant-Semitism, while our leaders find themselves obliged to turn the other cheek and find a way to imply that perhaps we should try to 'understand'the perpetrators and celebrators of the oldest hatred, the one which provides an acceptable outlet for the lethal pieties of the left/lib blob.
Are we about to witness another Kristalnacht? More books burnt?
Islamists are openly gaming our weakened systems, employing entryism and facilitated by wokus pokus, group think, the colonisation of academia and much of the MSM and official appeasement.
What do we see?Our loyal ,productive, law abiding Jewish communities and the Middle East's sole democracy embattled, beleaguered, insulted and threatened and traduced by group think and resurgent Islam now embedded and reliant on weight of numbers.
Since the lockdown lunacy this increasingly corrupt country has witnessed a growing decline ,evident everywhere and I fear for our future .
Truly horrifying. The only reason things aren't quite this bad in the U.S. is because we have nearly 3 times as many Jews as Muslims. Otherwise, elite rhetoric is very similar.