MULITCULTURALISM AND ISLAMOPHOBIA

There still remains talk of Muslims being victims of so-called Islamophobia and Labour remains committed to bringing in a new law against the incitement of religious hatred, which will carry up to a 7 year jail sentence.

It is Muslim pressure groups who are calling for this new law, and they have been very adept at exploiting the 9/11 attacks and the supposed backlash which they claim Muslims have faced. They are portraying Muslims as being victims and demanding the new law as supposed protection.

Yet this is complete nonsense.

The demands for a law against criticism of Islam are at least 10 years old, as the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) acknowledge, and are based on intolerance and bigotry.

The MCB was formed in 1997. Before that date there were, and remain, a multitude of Muslim pressure groups. One of those is the self-appointed Muslim Parliament of Britain which emerged in the early 1990s. This pressure group was launched with a proposed manifesto drafted by the Muslim Institute, after some consultation. The organisation has routinely been given airtime to pronounce on Muslim opinion, although it has more recently been eclipsed by the MCB. The manifesto is illuminating as it exposes the deep-seated hostility to the British and an hysterical Muslim viewpoint. It also demonstrates the concept of multiculturalism in practice. The document is therefore worthy of close examination.

It sets out the prevailing position in 1990 thus:

‘It is a matter of deep regret that the Government, all political parties and the mass media in Britain are now engaged in a relentless campaign to reduce Muslim citizens of this country to the status of a disparaged and oppressed minority. We have no alternative but to resist this invidious campaign.’

The manifesto openly admits that Islam is the most ‘politicised’ of the major religions, and that the concept of Ummah, a ‘world body of Muslims’, is supremely important to ordinary Muslims (‘we are Muslims first and last’). It therefore concludes that:

‘The option of “integration” and/or “assimilation” that is on offer as official policy in Britain must be firmly resisted and rejected... Muslims must develop their own identity and culture within Britain and as part of a global Muslim community, the Ummah.’

The manifesto deals with the role of women:

‘The position of women has long been the target of a vicious hate campaign directed against Islam itself. The West’s jaundiced view of women in Islam has gained strength by the attempt of women from some westernised Muslim families to feign a bogus “liberated” lifestyle. The fact is that a Muslim woman cannot be a western woman... Muslim women have a higher and nobler place in society than the so-called “emancipated” women have in the West.’

The manifesto also holds a contemptuous view of British youth:

‘Our youth is largely uncontaminated by the culture of alcoholism, drugs, sexual promiscuity and other forms of delinquency that is rampant among the youth of mainstream British society.’

Of the 9 ‘general guidelines’ as to how Muslims should lead their lives in Britain, point 4 states:

‘Every Muslim must ensure that his/her lifestyle does not absorb the moral laxity prevalent in the secular culture of modern Britain today.’

Point 7 states:

‘Jihad is a basic requirement of Islam and living in Britain or having a British nationality by birth or naturalisation does not absolve the Muslim from his or her duty to participate in jihad: this participation can be active service in armed struggle abroad and/or the provision of material and moral support to those engaged in such struggle anywhere in the world.’

Point 9 states:

‘Every Muslim must pursue his or her personal goals within the framework of the Muslim community in Britain, of the Ummah, and of the global Islamic movement.’

In reading these points, it is not surprising that British Muslims have been taking up arms against the West, including Britain (eg in Afghanistan). They have been openly encouraged to do so for at least the past 15 years.

The manifesto is subtitled ‘a strategy for survival’ and it sets out the need for that strategy thus:

‘Recent events have made it clear that Muslims in Britain, indeed throughout Europe and North America, will have to make a conscious effort if they are to survive. The time-honoured assumption that the generally liberal, open and tolerant ethos of the West would guarantee the survival of Islam and Muslims is a thesis no longer tenable. Muslims are faced with a vicious assault on their identity. Recent statements by leading figures in British Government and public life have made it clear that they expect, demand and will not be satisfied with anything less than our total “assimilation”. Essentially their attitude towards Islam has not changed since the Crusades; their strategy remains the same, only their tactics have changed. Muslims living in the West have to adjust to an environment that is far more hostile than had been assumed.’

Needless to say, Britain comes in for particular attack:

‘The history that is immediately relevant to the Muslim situation in Britain relates largely to British colonialism. The British colonial mind is the immediate source of their fear of Muslims. Muslims in Britain are viewed as “ex-colonials” who have received the additional favour of having been allowed to settle in mainland Britain. Britain as a colonial power, having “civilised” its possessions and then “granted” them freedom, now feels entitled to expect the ex-colonials to become British like the British. Any assertion of the superiority of Islam culture or civilisation on British soil is not to be tolerated. The British state sees it as its duty to achieve total assimilation... British view of Islam is rooted in colonial history.

Among us there is the truly “ex-colonial” fringe that accepts the British view of Islam and Muslims and is offended by what it calls the Islam of the mullahs and the “ignorant” masses. This is the “modernist” position. They pay lip- service to Islam but are embarrassed by such strong assertion of our faith as has been visible in the Muslim campaign against The Satanic Verses. In today’s Britain these modernist, apologetic Muslims want to keep “politics” out of mosques and maintain a submissive posture towards the British government. In their role as a colonial power the British used the modernists to deflect and abort Muslim opposition to their rule; they promoted an emasculated form of Islam from which the component of jihad was subtracted. They are now attempting to do the same in dealing with Muslims living in Britain. The same language (“moderates”) is used to describe these individuals and the regimes that promote and support them.

But the Muslim masses living in Britain today have seen through the game. The British design to destroy Islam and assimilate Muslims , in partnership with the modernist “Islamic lobby”, has been exposed by The Satanic Verses affair. Their plan to deflect and render ineffectual Muslim anger over The Satanic Verses was defeated by Imam Khomeini’s fatwa.’

The manifesto also criticises Muslim governments, including the ‘Saudi regime’ for failing to protect ‘the honour of the Prophet of Islam’. The Satanic Verses provokes an almost lunatic paranoia in the manifesto:

‘The Satanic Verses is not an ordinary “book”, it amounts to a declaration of war on Islam and Muslims. The circumstantial evidence, eg the size of the advance paid to the author, and the media and literary hype that accompanied its publication, leaves us in no doubt that The Satanic Verses is the result of a conspiracy. This means, above all, that Muslims have to fight a prolonged campaign to defeat the designs of the conspirators and their supporters.’

The outcome of which the manifesto declares that:

‘The Muslim community may have to define “no go” areas where the exercise of “freedom of speech” against Islam will not be tolerated.’

The manifesto rejected extending the blasphemy law to cover Islam, is it deemed that law too weak.

The manifesto dismissed Britain as ‘a post-Christian, largely pagan society’ and urged the need to arrest:

‘The “integration” and “assimilation” of Muslims themselves into the corrupt bogland of western culture and supposed “civilisation”.’

It is against this background that Labour are so keen to introduce the concept of Islamophobia, and extend the British Inquisition to cover incitement to religious hatred, notwithstanding the fact that it was the failure to either veto the publication of The Satanic Verses or to kill Salman Rushdie, as per the fatwa, that is the source of the demands for a law against so-called Islamophobia.

The manifesto is important as it demonstrates not only a mentality widespread amongst Muslims, but also because that mentality is in keeping with the neo-communist ideology of politicising groups within society against the majority - in this case Muslims against the English. It is England where Muslims mostly live, and the use of the term British is too general in that it would include anyone who has a British passport, as do many Muslims themselves. It is clear from the manifesto that the term British means white - ie English.

It further demonstrates that those writing the manifesto, which was the product of consultation among Muslims, did not see themselves as British at all. The British ruling class is united in presenting the present crisis as if it is nothing more than the product of a handful of extremists and that the majority of Muslims are politically no different to the English. That is a gross distortion.

The Muslim parliament has condemned the recent suicide bombings in London and is regarded as being a moderate organisation. Nevertheless, the manifesto reveals it to be a supremacist organisation feeding off political correctness.

The manifesto sets out the concept of multiculturalism for all to see. It is positively hostile to the concept of integration. Its contempt for, and hostility towards, the host English community is plain. If the manifesto’s comments reflect even only a sizeable minority of Muslim opinion, rather than a majority, then we are in serious trouble. The MCB will be unable to represent that minority view at all - with or without Sir Iqbal Sacranie. Sir Iqbal will no doubt be dismissed as belonging to the ‘modernist’ and ‘ex-colonial fringe’.

It is imperative that mass immigration is stopped.

Although the police are currently achieving significant successes against one of the terrorist cells, they are themselves urging caution. It is reported that MI5 believe that there is at least one other terrorist cell in existence. Meanwhile the political fight against the terrorists has scarcely begun.

That political fight must also include a fight against political correctness, which needs to be recognised for the neo-communist creed that it is. It is evil. This creed is in an unholy alliance with Muslim extremism and both must be firmly opposed and destroyed.