My most un-PC meanderings so far...

Hello all,

It’s been a while I know. Not that things have not happened that were rant worthy – they sure as hell have. Its just that many other things have been demanding my time. I apologize if any of you felt bereft of my insightful meanderings (tongue firmly in cheek).

What has catalysed my return to the blogosphere? Well, that can summed up in a name - Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari.

Dr Bari is a Bangladeshi immigrant who heads up the Muslim council of Britain. He is ostensibly a moderate politically, resistant to extremist interpretation of the Koran, and does good work in under privileged school districts as a special needs teacher.

He is also, in my opinion, and absolute muppet. In an interview that is widely being reported today in all sorts of British media, he has warned the British people that we are in danger of becoming like 1930s Nazi Germany.

"Every society has to be really careful so the situation doesn't lead us to a time when people's minds can be poisoned as they were in the 1930s. If your community is perceived in a very negative manner, and poll after poll says that we are alienated, then Muslims begin to feel very vulnerable. We are seen as creating problems, not as bringing anything and that is not good for any society."

He also claims that Muslims are being unfairly targeted as potential dangers to society, and that there is no such thing as Islamic Terrorists, and that labeling terrorists as Islamic just exacerbates the problem.

As I said, he is a muppet.

I am getting heartily sick of hearing about how victimized the poor poor Moslem community is. I mean – is it unreasonable that, when looking for potential terrorists that we concentrate on the ONLY community in Britain that has spawned home grown suicide bombers? I don’t see Afro-Carribeans blowing themselves up, nor do I see turbaned Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists, Chinese Communists, Japanese Shintoists, Jews (orthodox or otherwise), Christians, Wiccans, Satanists, Scots Nationalists, Plaid Cymru activists or ANYONE ELSE strapping explosives to themselves and detonating during morning rush hour.

Given that the Moslem community stands alone as a community that has people within its ranks that so opposed to British/Western way of life that they feel the need to kill themselves and take as many innocent people with them as they can, is it illogical that that community is the one that is scrutinized the most?

Most normal people would say yes. And they would be branded Islamophobic racists by both the moderate Moslem majority and the feel good chattering classes. This can easily be seen in the recent Channel 4 show, Britz, which will doubtless spread across the Anglosphere in short order as a syndicated show.

Britz was well written, well acted, and bloody infuriating. Avoiding most spoilers, it is basically about a brother and sister whose parents emigrated from Pakistan. The brother feels proud to be British, and even though he may not agree with all of Britain’s foreign policy choices, feels very patriotic and loyal, so much so that he ends up joining MI-5.

He sister is on the opposite end of the spectrum, becoming increasingly radicalized as the show goes on. At one point she launches into a monologue about how there are no innocents in Britain, that people of non-Moslem communities who tolerate control orders and other legislation that targets Moslems “unfairly” become guilty by association, and are thus enemies of Islam and of the Moslem community. It is this latter point of view that really got my goat.

I mean, if Moslems represent the most obvious danger to the current public safety, and due to their insular nature the communities and individuals are relatively easy to target and monitor, why should we not do so? I am sorry, but if even 99% of the Moslems detained are innocent, but that 1% that is taken off the streets was planning another 7/7 type atrocity, I can live with that. If that makes it easier for radicals to recruit, then that is just more reason to monitor and restrict the Moslem community. It may be a self-perpetuating cycle, but at the end of the day I want my daughter to grow up in the United Kingdom, not the Moslem (or Peoples) Republic of Britain.

If the Moslem community doesn’t like it they have two choices – police themselves far more strictly than our PC-shackled security services ever can, or leave. Yes leave, even those born here. Go back to somewhere under Islamic law where you can marry 9 year olds and beat the shit out of your women. It may hurt our economy, and cheapen our culture, but I would rather that than worry about every Asian bloke with a back-pack and a beard that I see on the tube.

I mean, its not even a matter of assimilation or integration – it’s a matter of respect and tolerance, traits that British people of all colours are expected to demonstrate, and traits that most do in fact possess. It comes down to culture. Are brown, black or yellow people inherently bad or inferior? No. Are their native cultures and religions inherently inferior to our own? No again. But that does not mean that we want to adopt those cultures as our own, nor does it mean that we deserve to be bombed for refusing to do so.

Dr Bari also claims that the British should adopt certain Moslem social traits, such as “assisted” (arranged) marriages and that our society would be better for becoming more like his.

Bollocks. If that was the case, why the hell is he here at all? If traditional Moslem society is so inherently superior, would we not all be flocking to their countries to get rich and gain better opportunities for ourselves and our children? Does their culture have any merit? Yes – but it belongs where it is now, not imposed upon our own.

Much is made of how the UK handled the IRA situation differently. As just about everyone knows, the IRA perpetrated dozens of bombings, amongst other acts, over a period of decades, including causing the death of innocents. But, what is often discounted is that the IRA, at most, had a couple of thousand members, of which a tiny number actually committed crimes on the mainland UK, and that most of the bombings involved warnings so that innocents could be evacuated.

Not to justify or approve of the IRA in any way, but it was a different type of organization with a difference operating mandate and practice. But look at the figures. Hundreds or low thousands involved, yet the head of MI-5 this week said that as many as two thousand TEENAGERS alone were being groomed and radicalized in Britain RIGHT NOW!

I could go on forever, but I will stop for now. The plain truth is that the most current danger to the public welfare of the majority (black, white, yellow, brown and mixed of all religions, cultures, creeds, and sexual orientations) in the UK today is posed by radicalized members of a religious/cultural community. Are all Moslems guilty? Of course not, but it is their responsibility to police their community, to root out the mad dog elements. They have not, so now we are doing it for them, and they cry about it.

And I can’t see the situation changing any time soon – can you?