Over the years I have several times had interesting
conversations come to an abrupt halt when the earnest interlocutor asked
something similar. Fuck, they look and sound just like us! Up until that
fateful point, Uncle Bill had been talking about footie but in a single bound
he had leaped from the safety of sport to the insanity of intelligent design. It’s the surprise of the thing; the sudden
realisation that you have been talking to an imposter; from Spurs to the
coelacanth and how God had put it there as a puzzle for science.
And there, in a nutshell is the anti-logic of religion.
Uncle Bill wasn't a paedophile, he wasn't a gangster and he would no more beat
up his wife and kids than would anybody else of rational and law-abiding British stock.
But there and then he revealed to my teenage self that the deranged walk among
us whether we know it or not. No rational argument would sway him from his view
that the world was about five thousand years old. At least he meant us no harm.
The same cannot be said for others though and in a
departure from the traditional fifth columnist methodology of blending in, the
islamists don’t even try to hide in plain sight. At every turn they flaunt
their differentness; men in dresses walk the streets, grow scarily deranged beards
and threaten to kill us. And we simply let them. This wouldn't be an issue for
the stoic Brits, if they simply talked the talk, but they don’t; they also walk
the walk and bomb the bomb.
Worse than do nothing, we allow the hate talk to continue
under police protection yet seek to criminalise those who speak out. It seems it is perfectly acceptable to burn Union Flags,
form your own Sharia militias and actively hassle and abuse gay people, courting
couples and drinkers but it is entirely intolerable to so much as hold an adverse opinion on
the effect of radical islam on our country. There are cities in the UK where
any reasonable person would be forgiven for assuming they have been transported
to a foreign and entirely alien and hostile land.
Why Labour thought we could absorb islam into British
society when even Catholics are still held in suspicion is a mystery. In a
largely secular society, where many church attenders pay mere lip service to
their god, Catholicism’s insistence that children brought up in mixed
Christianity households should be raised exclusively in the Catholic faith is extreme enough
to largely prevent such unions. God* only knows how they thought the ushering
in of a Middle Ages mentality would work. (*There is, of course, no such thing as
god but at least, unlike islam, there is a rich Christian tradition of art in his honour, testament in the main to a belief in the benign, rather than the vengeful.)
Those who do try and start a dialogue are labelled immediately
as racists and their cause is not helped by the idiotic and juvenile real
racists who hop aboard the bandwagon. This YouTube clip epitomises how the politically
liberal classes wish the EDL to be portrayed. The moron being interviewed, no
doubt to the inner hilarity of the inquisitor, doesn't actually say ‘ray guns', it’s a rather more sobering ‘rape gangs’, but too late, the damage is done.
Tommy Robinson founded the English Defence League out of
the frustration of seeing his home town accepting defeat at the hands of what
many millions of others also see as an unwelcome invasion, brought about partly
by New Labour’s cynical multicultural revolution but also by islam’s fevered
determination for world dominance; dominance over all things in the name of something
with absolutely zero provenance, has caused strife wherever it has prevailed and
preaches death and eternal damnation to unbelievers.
But despite Tommy’s eloquence in debate and the fact that
he authentically represents the views of ordinary decent people, his message is
overshadowed by the idiots and those who seek to present fear as racism. He
appeared on the BBC’s Sunday Morning Live yesterday and charmed even Esther
Rantzen with his sincerity as he explained why he had turned his back on the
movement he had founded.
I like Tommy Robinson and I respect his restraint. If he
can truly strike up a dialogue with ordinary muslims – and there are many
intelligent, secular people raised in the muslim faith, who just like we Brits
pay only lip service to a cultural tradition – he deserves our support. But
some of his former followers are now calling him an imposter, a turncoat, a
convert to islam, a media-brainwashed dupe. I hope for all our sakes that they’re wrong.
