We’re all going to Hell in a hijab
NOt for the first time, it has taken trevor Phillips to shine a light on the disintegration of Britain in the name of ‘diversity’. By way of disclosure, I should remind readers that trevor is a long-standing friend of mine, as well as executive producer of my old London Weekend television series.
When he took a break from journalism to seize the poisoned chalice that is the chairmanship of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, he told me he had only done so because he wanted to close it down.
In a perfect world, there would be no need for laws forcing people of different races and religions to mutually respect each other and live together in peace and harmony.
He also insisted that as a black man, he could say things about race that people like me couldn’t — at least, not without being slandered as some kind of knuckle- scraping BNP troglodyte.
trevor has been as good as his word. OK, he didn’t quite succeed in abolishing the Commission, but he has been prepared to tackle head-on the blinkered, bigoted doctrines of multi-culturalism.
Last year, he made a tV documentary called things We Won’t say about Race that are true — a programme which had the gormless Guardianistas bouncing up and down with self-righteous indignation. He exposed how the ‘diversity’ gestapo have deliberately encouraged apartheid, creating ghettos and closed societies in our inner cities, where ignorance and hatred flourish unchecked.
ten years earlier, after the London transport bombings, he warned that we were sleepwalking towards segregation. It was a message no one in the political establishment wanted to hear. He was even monstered by theresa May, now our thick-as-Bisto Home secretary, who still refuses to believe the evidence of her own daily briefings about the threat posed by Islamist extremism.
‘ Nothing to do with Islam,’ theresa and every other politician parrot whenever there’s a terrorist outrage or another bunch of impressionable young Muslims fly off to join Izal. In his latest documentary — What British Muslims Really think — trevor explains that yes, it is something to do with Islam. Not all Muslims, obviously, but definitely a substantial minority.
HE LaId out his conclusions in yesterday’s Mail, so I won’t bother repeating them at length. But the headlines are these: Large numbers of Muslims have no intention of integrating with the rest of society and reject ‘the values and behaviours which make Britain what it is’.
there’s little support for what most of us would consider female equality; one in three believes men should be able to take more than one wife; and more than half of Muslims think homosexuality should be illegal.
almost a quarter want the introduction of sharia law in this country; and a frightening 4 per cent — equivalent to 100,000 people — support violence, including suicide bombings, to ‘ defend’ Islam. Only one in three say they would report a suspected terrorist to the police.
trevor Phillips is no sensationalist. He’s a thoughtful man, who will have weighed the implications of his findings carefully.
so when he warns of the dangers of persisting with this pernicious policy of multi- culturalism and appeasement of militant Islam, our head-in-the-sand politicians should pay serious heed.
He is at pains, as I am, to emphasise that most Muslims in Britain want nothing more than to live in peace and do the best for themselves and their families.
But there is a voluble and intolerant strand of Islam in this country that proselytises separatism, denigrates all other religions and cultures, and is violently opposed to any kind of compromise with mainstream British values. and, like it or not, this form of extremism is a hallmark of Islam, as interpreted by its most militant adherents.
Yet any attempt to challenge them is howled down as ‘Islamophobia’ — not just by self- appointed ‘community leaders’ but by braindead, white, middle-class Leftists.
there is a particular problem with Islam, which doesn’t exist with any other religion in this country — according to these findings, much more worrying than we have been prepared to admit. In the interests of research, I typed ‘Muslims’ into Google News UK yesterday. the results were illuminating.
as well as the reports about the trevor Phillips programme, the top story concerned the discovery in a south London mosque of leaflets calling for the murder of members of the Muslim ahmadi sect, which is devoted to reaching out to other religions.
this was the branch of Islam to which the Glasgow shopkeeper asad shah belonged. He was killed by one of his co-religionists for the heinous crime of wishing his Christian customers a Happy Easter.
there were several stories about Islamist terrorists posing as refugees to enter Europe, many of them heading for Britain.
Elsewhere, it was reported that a Muslim contestant on a Bear Grylls tV show had pulled out because he was offended by women in bikinis.
What the hell was he doing on the programme in the first place? If he finds women in bathing costumes so offensive, he should move to saudi arabia.
Barely a day goes by without some loud-mouthed Muslim spokesman wanting something banned or demanding that British society adapts to accommodate his religion.
Funnily enough, you never get these kinds of stories about other faiths. For instance, when I put ‘sikhs’ into Google News UK, the only items that came up were a visit to a temple by London mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith and a story about people in Huddersfield being invited to try on traditional sikh headgear.
a search for ‘ Hindus’ was also revealing. the main story was how Hindus are moving out of the inner cities to the suburbs, seeking bigger houses and better schools, and integrating with local communities. sundip Meghani, a Hindu solicitor, said: ‘Our mentality is one in which you make your home wherever you land, and you make a damn good go of it.’
amen to that. You never hear Hindu or sikh spokesmen constantly making demands that we change our way of life to suit their prejudices. I’ve never heard anyone complaining about ‘ sikhophobia’ or ‘Hindophobia’, have you?
YOUNG sikhs and Hindus aren’t blowing themselves up on the Underground or flocking overseas to join terrorist death cults. No, that’s always exclusively Muslims. We have allowed a cancer to metastasise in our midst, one which increasingly poses an existential threat to our democracy and our way of life.
Of course, Muslims are not a homogenous group, and just as many have made their homes in the suburbs. I’ve got Muslim friends and neighbours in North London. But they’re not the problem, as trevor Phillips readily concedes. He doesn’t just identify the threat, however, he offers constructive solutions, which I wholeheartedly endorse.
We’ve got to break up the ghettos in housing and education; support liberal Muslims in confronting the mad mullahs in extremist mosques and madrassas; and stop politicians trading so-called ‘silence-for-votes’ deals, which contributed to the Rochdale and Rotherham grooming scandals.
No more complacency, no more allowing rabble-rousing, self-serving bigots and terrorist recruiting sergeants to hide behind a protective shield of ‘ Islamophobia’; no more bending the knee to extremists.
those who reject our liberal British values are always free to leave. Unless we listen to trevor, we are all going to Hell in a hijab.