A BLOCKHEADED INTERVENTION

The wokes of the UK should be down on their bended knees thanking whatever it is they worship for Lee Anderson MP. With one clumsy statement he got them off the hook. By saying that Sadiq Khan, the Muslim mayor of London, is ‘controlled’ by Islamists, he managed to refocus the debate. What had been under discussion was the effect of Islamists in our midst threatening Parliament and browbeating MPs. There was a chance, however small, that we might get some serious discussion of one of the major problems facing Britain today.

Lee Anderson

That chance vanished as soon as Anderson clumsily inserted himself into the debate like a bulldozer in a glass factory. Now the progressives had the perfect opportunity to go overboard about ‘Islamophobia’, and they grabbed it with both hands. Broadcast and print media overflowed with condemnation of ‘Islamophobia’. One could almost hear the sighs of relief in the corridors of the BBC as they dropped discussion of threats to Parliament and re-focused on Anderson’s hurty words. Conservative politicians rushed to prove their right-on credentials by condemning Anderson, not for his inept intervention, but for ‘Islamophobia’. Anderson had the whip removed and was cast out into the political wilderness.

APPEASMENT PAYS A PRICE

Fear In Parliament On Wednesday it came home to roost. What the public have known for years, Parliament has now experienced. We have witnessed the Speaker of the House breaking parliamentary convention because of security threats to MPs from Muslims. We cannot avoid the truth: MPs are in fear of Muslim mobs and are voting accordingly. The time for soft words is long gone and we must speak clearly.

The Guardian reports that the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer warned Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle ‘that Labour MPs’ security was at risk. With hundreds of protesters congregating outside parliament, they worried worse might be to come’.

UNHOLY ALLIANCE

The West is a civilisation in decline and is confronted by two major cultural movements determined to replace or fundamentally restructure it. We have witnessed our twin nemeses literally on the march since October 7 as militant Islamists and equally radical woke activists have led tens of thousands of the well-meaning on pro-Palestine and anti-Israel marches through our cities.

Militant Islam sees the West as decadent and is determined to supplant us. They are ably assisted by the metropolitan liberal elite who control our institutions, and their foot soldiers of the woke Left. They may seem unlikely bedfellows: the slogan ‘Queers for Palestine’ defies logic when homosexuals are thrown from tall buildings in Palestine. But different as they are, they have a unifying principle: a determination to undermine the culture of Western civilisation. Both ideologies are deeply hostile to individual freedom.

WHO RULES?

We are told that to learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise. The British people now know who rules over them, and it is not the British people.

Pro-Palestine Demonstration in London

The appalling events last weekend when Hamas terrorists broke into Israel slaughtering any Jews they could find, infants and elderly, men and women, individuals and families, evoked revulsion across the world. Except in certain quarters.

FOR SOME TERRORISM IS ACCEPTABLE

This Is Terrorism At the weekend Hamas fighters murdered and raped their way through southern Israel and kidnapped anyone from infants to the elderly to use as hostages. Hamas are even boasting of breaking the international conventions of war, posting videos of their terrorists beheading captured Israeli soldiers.

Noa Argamani Taken Hostage by Hamas Terrorists

Be in no doubt, despite the BBC’s insistence that these are ‘militants’, they are terrorists. Doctors who go on strike are militant, climate protesters who block roads are militant, gangs of armed men who rampage through villages entering peaceful homes to murder whoever they encounter are terrorists.

A BACKDOOR BLASPHEMY LAW

Common Sense Something rare happened this week: I turned to Richard Dawkins for a dose of reality.

Richard Dawkins

When Dawkins writes on science he is clear, precise, almost lyrical; unfortunately when he turns to philosophy he sounds like a know-it-all fourth-former, and when he touches on theology you could get greater insight and depth from your congregation’s Sunday School.

CHRISTIANS FEAR ETHNIC CLEANSING

The Armenian Christians of the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh face yet another threat to their existence. Nagorno-Karabakh, also known as Artsakh, is a mountainous and landlocked region in the South Caucasus. Its population is nearly 100 per cent Christian ethnic Armenian, members of the oldest Christian nation on earth (301 AD). They are surrounded by Azerbaijan which is 99.2 percent Muslim, with only one road connecting them to Armenia.

The Christian Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh have justified fears of ethnic cleansing at the hands of Azerbaijan and Turkey.

Armenians were the victims of genocide at the hands of Ottoman Turkey between 1915/16, with further massacres and ethnic cleansing of the Armenian survivors carried out by the Turkish nationalist movement after World War I. Today the Christian Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh face another possible genocide, at the hands of Azerbaijan and modern-day Turkey.

CHRISTIAN GIRLS – COLLATERAL DAMAGE

Q. What kind of victim fails to qualify for Western concern?

A. A Christian one.

In April last year, a 14-year-old Pakistani Christian girl, Maira Shahbaz, was kidnapped at gunpoint by Nakash Tariq and accomplices as she made her way home in Faisalabad. She was forced to deny her faith and convert to Islam in order to be married to her already-married Muslim kidnapper.

Maira Shahbaz

In a recent statement, Maira described her kidnapping: ‘Nakash and two other men took me to an unknown place at gunpoint, where Nakash repeatedly raped me. He also videotaped me naked and threatened that he would kill me and my family and also upload the video on social media if I told anyone what he had done to me.’

MAINSTREAM CHURCHES – NAÏVE, IGNORANT OR INDIFFERENT?

The reaction of the mainstream church to Islam and Muhammad is strange. Ecclesiastical authorities bend over backwards to accommodate and even validate and embrace Islam as a partner in faith and worship. The ecclesiastical establishment seems incapable of uttering any condemnation of Islamic theology or defence of the uniqueness of Christ. It appears to go the other way.

JOSHUA SUTCLIFFE

It was recently revealed that last year Joshua Sutcliffe, a maths teacher at St Aloysius’ College, a Roman Catholic secondary school in north London, was sacked for describing Muhammad as a ‘false prophet’. Sutcliffe, an evangelical, made a YouTube video at home concerning false teachers. Sutcliffe’s approach in his videos and blog is not notable for theological nuance or temperate expression. The video, which could charitably be described as forthright, carries a trigger warning, ‘Only watch if you can handle the truth.’

MUSLIMS GET A FREE PASS

Why do Muslims get kid glove treatment?

Following every Muslim atrocity politicians with minimal theological expertise rush before the cameras to gravely assure us that ‘Islam is a religion of peace’.

Rape gangs  who prey on vulnerable girls are overwhelmingly comprised of Muslim men of Pakistani origin. The media invariably refer to them as ‘Asian’ men. Hindu’s, Sikhs, Buddhists, the Chinese, Thais, Indians, Cambodians etc., all are lumped in; but their feelings don’t matter to the elites as long as Islam is not indicated. Basil Fawlty famously cried ‘Don’t mention the war’. Today our elites cry ‘Don’t mention Islam’.

Don’t think the progressive elites who run our country actually like Islam, there are other reasons.