Christopher Hitchens gives a very measured and scholarly take down of Islam…..is it ‘insulting’ or respectable, intelligent and ‘acceptable’ comment?

The BBC is already mounting its counter punch to the ‘defiant’  Charlie Hebdo cartoon published in reaction to the murders of its staff.  The Today programme (07:36) brought on someone from the Muslim Association of Britain…an extremist outfit and the British offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Then on came Prince Hussein of Jordan who condemned the publication and was outraged at suggestions that Islam might be a threat to the European civilisation.

Naughtie asked how he thought Europe should deal with the situation..what is required on our part?…hmmm…is it us that is the problem then?

An irony eh?

The publication of a cartoon is yet again portrayed as insulting and provocative, one that the BBC abhors…and yet the Muslim reaction of intense, extreme violence is explained away, excused and justified.

Print a cartoon satiring violence and you are a neo-Nazi Islamophobe…savagely kill those who produce such cartoons and you are quietly feted as defenders of a Great Faith insulted.

Naughtie thinks it is merely a problem of a few extremists blackening the name of Islam…you can count them on the fingers of one hand perhaps.

Hussein hopes that the media can be more aware of the importance of sharing the knowledge, analytical knowledge [about the issues]….just after he wished that people used the #JeSuisAhmed hashtag [Naughtie giving a snort of approval]…..which I analyse here for his benefit.

There is nothing less likely from the BBC than that, they are extremely reluctant to open the box on this one and when they do they are not going to  pay the slightest attention to the findings.

As noted previously the BBC is making a lot of room on the airwaves to push the Muslim side of things…but the BBC’s approach is to deliver this in such a one sided format that it is nothing more than propaganda…..this may well be in the same vein:

Freedom of Expression and the Ban on the Burqa in France

I haven’t listened to it but let me think….the narrative is that the ban on the Burkha is just one of many instances of Islamophobia and racism that French Muslims have to  put up with and hence we must expect a few murders in response to this outrageous restriction on their religious freedom.

Let me know if I’m on the money if you dare to listen.

#JeSuisAhmed was a hashtag started by Islamist Dyab Abou Jahja  and taken up by Muslim activists such as Mehdi Hasan and Myriam Francois-Cerrah.  He initiated it with this tweet….

Just so we know…Dyab Abou Jahjah…Muslim activist and opponent of ‘integration’ who stated after 9/11:

“Most of us … felt that day something that can not be described as joy, or as happiness, but rather as that sweet revenge feeling. We all had – except that small minority- a “what goes around comes around’” attitude”

 

Naturally he now claims not to hold those views.  Looking at his tweet I might suggest he still does hold them.

The Tweet tells us that the death of the cartoonists is of no consequence, you may infer from it that the deaths were possibly justifiable in his eyes, and in those who retweet it.

Ironically what the Tweet does tell us is that those same Islamist activists who also complain of those ‘multiple levels of alienation that foster terror’ are wrong.

Ahmed, a Muslim and an Arab, was a police officer….so how did he avoid the rampant Islamophobia and racism rife in France?  He had a job, a good job at the heart of the establishment.  The killers also had jobs and were not apparently ‘disaffected’ by their lives in France…..what got them into radicalism?  Meeting the radical preachers who persuaded them that Muslims were being slaughtered and abused in Iraq by the West….never mind most Muslims were actually being killed by the self-same radicals.

So is that narrative of disenfranchised, disaffected, alienated Muslims the real cause of radicalisation? We know Panorama says it is not, this Tweet suggests it is not.  The facts suggest it is not.

After all there are may people from all communities who are in similar positions and yet who are the terrorists?  They are Muslim.

Why?  Not poverty, not alienation, not joblessness.

The problem is not foreign policy but puritanical Islam and the expoitation of young Muslim’s idealism and fellow feeling for other Muslims …both given divine sanction by the Koran which tells Muslims to fight in order to defend other Muslims ‘under attack’….supposedly oppressed by the West.

What is this plight to which Europe has been reduced?
The vast quivering mass of tormented, bewildered  human beings
Who wait in their cities and their homes
And scan the dark horizons for the approach of some new form of Tyranny or terror with the sullen silence of despair.
But for the Great Republic across the Atlantic Ocean saving
Europe from ruin and enslavement The Dark Ages would have Returned in their cruelty and squalor.

They may still return.

The salvation of the common people in Europe from war and servitude
Must be established on solid foundations,
And must be created by the readiness of
All men and women to die rather than to submit to tyranny.

Let Europe arise.

Churchill, paraphrased from a speech in 1946

The BBC’s Panorama produced a programme about Islam in Britain that totally destroyed the BBC’s carefully contrived narrative of the ideology that is intended to lull us into a sense of false security and persuade us that there are no issues with Islam, that the problems stem from a very small minority of extremists, criminals, madmen even, who pervert the great religion for their own ends.

Panorama was on last night, and I asked what is the likelihood of the truths revealed in that programme finding their way into the BBC’s everyday coverage.

Already we have the answer….not a chance in hell.

The Today programme (06:39) tried to enlighten us about the dark underbelly of the Pegida protests in Germany.

Ostensibly, note that sly little word ‘ostensibly’, the BBC said, Pegida is about extremist Islam.

That additional ‘ostensibly’  tells you everything you need to know about how the BBC’s report would approach this subject.  It was a subtle maligning of the intentions of Pegida…the classic ‘liberal’ smear tactic that suggests the real motive is racism.

Indeed the report went on in precisely that vein….the good folk in the Pegida marches are ignorant, they don’t understand the great joys and benefits that immigrants bring (so already off the subject of Islam)….it’s up to politicians to enlighten them!  LOL.

However we are told ‘They are not all neo-Nazis’….implying that most are. Proof of that? How about this instead…… ‘Not all Muslims are fanatical Koran thumpers but…..’  Not something you will hear from the good liberatti but they are happy to label anyone who does anything they don’t like as Nazis…quite extraordinary….are the four million marchers in France ‘neo-nazis’?

‘Amusingly’ the report ended from a place close to where a synagogue was destroyed on ‘Kristallnacht’  and we were told that ‘People (ie ignorant Pegida types) don’t learn from history’….what an irony eh?  Trying to take the image of the Kristallnacht just days after a Jewish shop was attacked and the free Press brutally murdered by extremist thugs and use it to suggest that people  who are protesting about extremism by the very people who committed those crimes are the same as the Nazis!

We’ve just had a programme laying out the extremist ideology that pervades much of the Muslim world, Panorama remember told us that this ideology is ‘mainstream’ in the UK now, and yet only hours later we’re being told that this is something to celebrate in our midst and we’re being lectured that we don’t learn from history.

I might humbly suggest that the people who don’t learn from history are those who bury their heads in the sand and ignore the very dark future that is rapidly approaching.

Remember this well….Labour MP and former minister Shahid Malik quoted this from Islamic scholars:

“It is necessary by sharia to abide by the laws of the country one lives in, regardless of the nature of the law, as long as the law doesn’t demand something that is against Islam….

“It is necessary upon a Muslim to listen to and obey the ruler, as long as one is not ordered to carry out a sin.” 

Of course that means a sin in the eyes of Allah as defined by the Koran and Sharia….in other words Sharia law, not British law, is the final arbiter of how a Muslim should live in the UK according to Malik….If British law demands you do something that is ‘unIslamic’ you should refuse to do it.

The Daily Mirror told us in 2006 that:

WE MUST NOT GIVE IN TO MUSLIM BLACKMAIL

As a result of demands such as these…..

Dr Syed Aziz Pasha, secretary-general of the Union of Muslim Organisations of the UK and Ireland, demanded the British institute Sharia Law in England and grant Muslims national Islamic holidays… “If you give us religious rights we will be in a better position to convince young people that they are being treated equally along with other citizens.” 

 

In other words more Islam is the answer to the extremists demand for more Islam….clever huh?

This was the MCB’s tactic when trying to impose an Islamic ethos into secular schools just a year later….something remarkably never mentioned by the BBC when it eventually got around to reporting the current attacks on our schools in the Trojan Horse plot…..the man at the centre of that plot being the same man who authored the MCB ‘guidance’ for schools in 2007.  Something that might have been of note perhaps.

As pointed out the BBC has already decided to ignore the ‘warnings from history’ and the warnings from its own revelatory report on the subject of just how mainstream ‘conservative’ Islam is in the UK.

It does everything it can to prevent ‘Europe arising’ to defend its values and beliefs, culture and society.  The BBC would rather you be crushed and oppressed by an extreme ideology than for you to ‘offend’ or ‘insult’ those who wish to impose it by reiterating your own beliefs and values.

Standing up for democracy, freedom of thought and expression, freedom to leave your religion, freedom to criticise an ideology…..all are apparently ‘insulting and offensive’ to certain people.

The BBC would rather have the ‘sullen silence of despair’ than for you to be allowed to voice your concerns.

David Goodhart said, on the BBC, and subsequently ignored….

It has become clear that to remain liberal the state may have to prescribe a clearer hierarchy of values.

The gulf between conservative Islam and secular liberal Britain is larger than with any comparable large group….for those of us who value an open, liberal society it is time to explain why it is superior to the alternatives.

Some claim that if people understood Islam more everything would be fine, they would be more tolerant, I think quite the contrary….the more they understand about it the more alien they would find it…authoritarian, collectivist, patriarchal, misogynist…..all sorts of things that Britain might have been 100 years ago but isn’t now.

Tolerating the intolerable is not a sensible attitude however ‘liberal’ you profess to be…sometimes you just have to stand up and say No!  A time when compromise must end.

As tens of thousands of Germans take to the streets to protest the Islamification of their Country, the BBC does all it can to downplay this movement and tar it with a Nazi type image. The BBC has a problem with any Nation showing patriotism and has been quick to support Merkel’s demonisation of the Pegida movement.

Here is the latest Charlie Hebdo cover. On BBC Today, they stated that the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail were not running with it. I was contacted by a DT Journalist who said that the web version of the Telegraph ran it at 11pm last night. She also pointed out the BBC did not appear to be wanting to show it. So, has the BBC the courage to PUBLICLY run this image or were all their #jesuischarlie words simply empty?

I have now watched the Panorama programme, The Battle For British Islam,  and I will admit to having been astonished.  The programme could have been written by this site and is an utter condemnation of the BBC’s approach to Islam and how they report it day in day out….most notably over the last few days.

There are many points to note…one that Muslims who don’t toe the conservative Muslim line face one of those infamous ‘backlashes’, a serious and intemperate backlash, but from other Muslims…..on the making of a music video based on the song ‘Happy’ the makers were told that they are the perpetrators of a bad PR stunt to promote integration…which of course they were really…the intention behind it was quite obvious.  What Panorama didn’t mention was that similar videos from the same production team were made around the world….well intentioned propaganda organised by someone intent on persuading non-Muslims that Muslims are carefree and fun.

That aside we get to the really serious stuff….we are told that the extreme Islamic views, once on the fringe (allegedly), are now becoming mainstream.  Panorama even points the finger at the MCB which it points out thought that extremist views were merely ‘conservative Islam’ in action.

We heard that the MCB would label any criticism of that conservative narrative as Islamophobic…which one Muslim said she found ‘very troubling’.

Then we had various voices of ‘conservative Islam’ highlighted…..one from the Muslim Association of Britain, which is, unmentioned by Panorama, part of the Muslim Brotherhood (and has close ties to the SNP).  He had no problem with killing apostates or any other Islamically sanctioned punishment however draconian.

We also heard that they would use democracy in order to undermine democracy and forge a path for theocracy to be imposed.  Which is an echo of the famous comment by Turkey’s islamist leader Recep Erdogan who said that democracy was a bus that he would ride until he got to his destination….an Islamic state.

Later we got to the real meat of the matter…the Muslim grievance industry…the grievance narrative that Muslims are oppressed by the West and foreign policy is anti-Muslim.

This grievance narrative we were told, again by a Muslim, was false and very unhelpful.  It feeds into the narrative of those who want to create a them and us society.

It is dangerous and dishonest to blame foreign policy!

The narrative of Muslims under siege, Muslims oppressed, of Islamophobia demonising Muslims was rubbished as a cause of radicalisation.

And the problem is not foreign policy but a puritanical Islam.

The programme ends on a question….will events in France be the trigger for some soul searching amongst Muslims leading to reform?

The last comment didn’t sound too hopeful and gave the probability that such a conclusion would only come at the cost of much bloodshed and over the course of many years, decades, hundreds of years possibly.

All very powerful and iconoclastic….it totally undermines the BBC’s own ‘mainstream’ narrative of the Muslim grievance industry, Islamophobia and the effect of foreign policy as the cause of radicalisation…..The real problem is ‘puritanical Islam’.

Good luck with sorting that out….then again look what Cameron did to the ‘nasty party’……completely emasculated it in no time.

So the question now is what will the BBC do next…will we see a counter narrative to that grievance industry and tackle Islamic extremism or will the BBC dodge that and resume its lazy, convenient narrative of oppression and foreign policy?

Craig at Is the BBC Biased has watched Panorama and is praising it for its honesty in discussing Islam in the UK….

Panorama: The Battle for British Islam

Credit where credit’s due.

Tonight’s Panorama by John Ware was an outstanding piece of reporting.

It fully faced up to the fact that Islam is the problem, and that a radical reformation of Islam is needed

 

I haven’t watched it yet but I will take Craig’s word for it that John Ware, usually reliable on this subject, has done the business.  Let’s hope I don’t appear on tomorrow’s Today programme ala Fox News and Birmingham for relying on other people’s research.

From the BBC blurb:

John Ware hears from Muslims facing an angry backlash for trying to promote a form of Islam which is in synch with British values. They believe that the way Islam has been practised here has more in common with extremist ideologies than some police officers, politicians or Muslim leaders have been prepared to admit.

 

An extreme but non-violent form of Islam pushes Muslims into the arms of the extremists…a version of Islam that can’t exist with core British values…and one that is growing.

Here’s the issue though…all very well a specialist BBC programme making these waves and digging into the subject to unearth the truth…but as always how does that translate into the everyday presentation of these events when it is filtered through the likes of Nicky Campbell, Peter Allen and Adrian Chiles?

Kind of suspect, as long experience tells me, that it will be completely ignored and the ideas and information within that programme will not get disseminated to other programme makers.

If you don’t watch the programme, and how many do watch Panorama now?, you will be left the unsuspecting victim of a tidal wave of pro-Islam programming that talks about the threat from the Far Right and makes Muslims the victims of that mythical backlash.

The BBC has long treated us to Muslim propaganda programming designed to make us love Muslims and Islam….Friday we had yet another…Hip in a Hijab. 

Listen and groan…it’s pure propaganda…listen to how free and powerful Muslim women are…how the hijab empowers them and is a symbol of freedom and feminism….however the idea that Muslim women can wear alluring and eyecatching Hijabs and Burkhas is ridiculous…it defeats the purpose of those devices which is to cover their modesty and stop them attracting unwanted (by their husband/father/brother) male attention.

The BBC has been repeatedly inviting the same guests onto its programmes….notably ones who voice opinions that are diametrically opposed to the narrative that supports ‘Charlie Hebdo’ and free expression.

Naturally any such dissenting voices should be heard…but what if they are making claims that are just plain wrong and are doing so in an attempt to possibly justify the killing of the cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo?

Their narrative should at least be challenged.  But it never is, in fact, it is nodded along to by BBC types who have the same feelings and frequently, if more subtly,  express them themselves…ala Tim Wilcox.

Nabila Ramdani seems to be an ever present goto voice for the BBC….shouting of the racism and Islamophobia of Charlie Hebdo whilst demanding respect for Islam and freedom of religion….another popular Muslim to haunt the BBC corridors is Myriam Francois-Cerrah who writes at the New Statesman.  She can, without thinking, rattle off the mantra about Muslims being marginalised, disenfranchised, victims of racism and the ‘multiple levels of aleination that foster terror’.   She is an apologist for terror….unemployed or alienated by cartoons of your Prophet then kill someone seems to be her thinking.   It’s the same line peddled by so many BBC reporters though.

She even claimed that ‘I am Charlie’ is alienating Muslims as they cannot, will not, adopt that theme of defending free speech and expressing outrage that cartoonists should be killed for a drawing.

She uttered these ‘truths’ in a BBC interview (12:25)..naturally the interviewer, Peter Allen, didn’t object…in fact he fed her the lines himself.

She, like Mehdi Hasan, is a fan of the alternative hashtag #JeSuisAhmed in this tweet which  subtly cheers the terrorists actions:

Writer and activist Dyab Abou Jahjah initiated #JeSuisAhmed with:

I am not Charlie, I am Ahmed the dead cop. Charlie ridiculed my faith and culture and I died defending his right to do so. #JesuisAhmed

— Dyab Abou Jahjah (@Aboujahjah) January 8, 2015

Just so we know…Dyab Abou Jahjah…Muslim activist and opponent of ‘integration’ who stated after 9/11:

“Most of us … felt that day something that can not be described as joy, or as happiness, but rather as that sweet revenge feeling. We all had – except that small minority- a “what goes around comes around’” attitude”

Any chance he still feels like that?…despite now claiming he doesn’t.

There are of course many others who like to portray Charlie Hebdo as racist or Islamophobic….by doing so they are trying to demonise the publication…and in doing so reduce the outrage at the killings…the cartoonists were racist and Islamophobic so perhaps, in a way, they got what was coming.

Another proponent of the lie that Charlie Hebdo was racist is Glenn Greenwald, once of the Guardian.

Some of the cartoons published by Charlie Hebdo were not just offensive but bigoted, such as the one mocking the African sex slaves of Boko Haram as welfare queens

Greenwald then goes on to publish several cartoons that for some reason are mostly anti-Semitic….a curious choice…is he suggesting that all this fuss about a few cartoonists is orchestrated by the Jewish Lobby?

Here comparing Israel to ISIS…whereas the closest comparison might be the mass murderers and religious fanatics of Hamas…..

The problem is of course that Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons were based upon genuine concerns about Islam, and other issues, but many cartoons about Israel are usually based purely upon racial stereotypes and intended to be nothing else but insulting rather than some satirical comment.

Greenwald includes a joke about the Holocaust:

…but the two subjects are entirely different…the Holocaust was the mass extermination of 6 million people…joke about that if you want…but satirical comment about an ideology is just  critical comment on the tenets of an ideology in a humorous form.  The fact that millions of people like that ideology is neither here nor there, millions followed Hitler and his creed….should we not make jokes about Nazism?

Curiously Greenwald also fails to make his point because the cartoons he has chosen could all be justified in the usual cut and thrust of the very nasty world of real politik….to suggest a ‘Jewish Lobby’ is controlling US policy may be wrong in reality but there is an obvious suspicion for many that it might be true…and therefore I see no problem in making a satirical cartoon raising that possibility.

Just suggesting that there is a ‘Jewish Lobby’ is not anti-Semitic because of course there are Jewish groups who lobby on behalf of Jewish interests…just as the MCB is a Muslim lobby group…or any Union you might choose to name etc etc.

This cartoon is the only one that might give one serious pause for thought…it is a rag bag of mixed images intended to protray the Jews as the killers of Christ (an old anti-Semitic trope) as well as siphoning off money from the corpse of America which has been crucfied by the Jews:

So all the old anti-Semitic stereotypes there, the killers of Christ, the money grabbing Jews and the new one of course…that of America being the victim of the Jews.

Note though that little cartoon in the corner of Judas, the betrayer, and in a way the ultimate killer of Christ, hanging from a tree with the words…‘What Judas ought to do’.

A clear message that the untrustworthy Jews should die for the ‘wrongs’ they commit.

Not satire but pure hatred and an incitement to violence.

But what of those claims about racism in Charlie Hebdo mentioned at the start of this post?

Greenwald doesn’t like this cartoon….

The caption reads…

“BOKO HARAM’S SEX SLAVES ARE ANGRY
DON’T TOUCH OUR BENEFITS!”

Greenwald has no idea what the cartoon is about, he just supposes it is racist and mocking the unfortunate girls captured by Boko Haram because they are black….they are drawn black because…em…they are black….it’s not racism to draw them that way.   He has no idea of, or concern for, the context of the cartoon….

This cartoon was published at the time of two news events:

1.  Following the kidnapping of school-girls by Boko Haram, it was reported that many of the victims were likely to end up as sex slaves in Nigeria.

2.  A proposed policy in France to decrease welfare allocation (benefits).

It is a cartoon that tries to highlight the absurd nature of the claims for welfare made by ‘welfare queens’ in France who make a living by claiming large amounts for their ever growing numbers of offspring. The cartoon uses the completely absurd comparison of the sex slaves claiming welfare to highlight the ridiculous nature of many welfare claims in France….ridiculous to suggest that women in the position of the  sex slaves would claim welfare…and ridiculous for many of these ‘welfare queens’ to do so.

Another favourite cartoon of the pro-Islamist lobby  that apparently demonstrates Charlie Hebdo’s ‘racism’ is this one….

The cartoon was published after a National Front politician Facebook-shared a photoshop of Justice Taubira, drawn as a monkey, and then said on French television the she should be “in a tree swinging from the branches rather than in government”:

 

The title is “RACIST BLUE UNION”

The cartoon is styled as a political poster, calling on all far-right “Marine” racists to unify, under this racist imagery they have chosen. Ultimately, the cartoon is criticising the far-right’s appeal to racism to gain supporters.

The cartoon was drawn by Charb. He participated in anti-racism activities, and notably illustrated the poster for MRAP (Movement Against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples), an anti-racist NGO.

He was a Communist, and his girlfriend’s parents were North African. A funny kind of racist.

The cartoon is literally saying the National Front are racists.

Here is Charlie Hebdo’s cartoon of Marine Le Pen:

It is a satirical and no doubt sceptical comment on Le Pen claiming to be deradicalisng the NF…by shaving the Hitler moustache.

So from the explanations and context of the cartoons it is clear Charlie Hebdo was not racist…the opposite in fact.  Greenwald, and the rest, have no idea, and aren’t too bothered with the truth, of  what the cartoons really mean.

They want to demonise Charlie Hebdo in order to lessen the horrendous impact the killings have had on people’s perceptions of Islam and its followers.

They have taken the shamelessly lazy and dishonest path of attacking and blaming the victim rather than dealing with the real issue…the attempts, violent and non-violent to spread Islam across Europe.

One last cartoon says so much about the true message from Charlie Hebdo regarding Islam:

The title is:

“Muhammad overwhelmed by the fundamentalists
[in speech bubble] It’s tough being loved by idiots”

Is that insulting Muhammed or questioning those who claim to be his followers and their extremist message?

Shame the BBC just accepts the word of people like Greenwald, Ramdani and Francois-Cerrah without any questions….their narrative is somewhat dangerous in that it gives the suggestion that violence is acceptable for anything you might find the slightest bit objectionable.

Today leapt upon a stupid mistake in a Fox News interview (17 mins 15 secs) when a ‘terrorism expert’ claimed Birmingham was a no-go area for non-Muslims.

Following the terror attacks in France, Fox News interviewed Steve Emerson, who describes himself as a “terrorism expert”. During the interview, Mr Emerson claimed that Birmingham is “totally Muslim” and non-Muslims “simply don’t go in” to the city. This resulted in a comic backlash on Twitter, with users expressing their outrage and disbelief at Mr Emerson’s words. People began tweeting satirical comments about an Islamic Birmingham / Britain, using the hashtag #foxnewsfacts. Emerson later apologised for the gaffe.

 

Emerson said he had relied upon sources of information that proved wrong.

Of course if this had been on one of the liberal TV news stations in the US nothing would have been said.

Hilariously Naughtie told us that BBC comedian (apparently they exist) Mitch Benn, from the Fast Show, had tweeted something rather funny about this.

Trouble is, Benn is from the Now Show.

Guess everyone can get things wrong occasionally.

Islam being the religion of peace you understand, or so the BBC keeps reporting.

Jews And Muslims United Against Hate!….Well only in the BBC’s mind.

David revealed the film of BBC journo Tim Wilcox suggesting that it was perhaps OK that Jews were being killed in France because the Jews, not Israelis note, were killing Palestinians…presumably he thought the deaths were somehow equivalent…cold blooded murder of Jews compared with accidental deaths caused in battle with a huge terrorist organisation that has deliberately targeted Jewish civilians for decades...731 civlians being killed in 4 years between 2001 and 2005…Woman shot on her way to work…Teenager shot…School teacher and driver shot on the way to work…Man and his wife shot dead by Palestinian snipers…Two abducted and executed…Woman stabbed to death….Pregnant woman shot…Five teenagers shot…and so on….mostly ignored by the BBC which repeatedly lists Palestinian casualty figures.

Would Wilcox go up to the relatives of a victim of 7/7 and suggest they stop complaining as Muslims were being killed in Iraq…mostly by other Muslims?

Come to think of it that is precisely the message the BBC has been pushing these last 10 years….’blowback’.

Here is an interesting interview  (18:41) with a Jewish community representative by Tony Livesey in which, starting off wth the inevitable ‘no proof that the supermarket was deliberately targeted because it was Jewish’ comment,  he seemed less than sympathetic, or at least markedly less gushing than we get from BBC interviews with Muslims complaining of ‘Islamophobia’.

Livesey interrupts the woman’s reply as she tells us that Jews aren’t the only targets of terrorism…the French way of life, democratic values are also under attack.

Livesey suggests that ‘one of the main concerns’ is that people will look at Muslims as if they are all extremists and look at Muslims with a sense of fear when really it is a case of radicalisation…of a small percentage….thereby ignoring and dismissing non-violent ‘conservative’ Muslim attempts to impose their values on Western countries…case in point the ‘Trojan Horse’ plot….essentially a devious plot to put into action an MCB plan to Islamise schools in the UK…the MCB representing over 500 British Muslim groups…so not unrepresentative you might suggest.

Livesey then tries to say that ‘Jewishness’ or religion in this context is unimportant…why can’t the woman just say she is French?

She says she talks of ‘French Jews’ because that is who is being targeted by anti-Semites….

Jews aren’t being targeted because they are ‘French’…but because they are Jewish….curious how the BBC wants to deny the religious aspect to their identity and the reason for them being attacked.

Here’s another BBC report that tries to deny the religious aspect…but in a different way….here making out there is little difference between Jews and Muslims.

The Today programme this morning (07:44) when Matthew Price had an intriguing little report that told a big lie about ‘important issues that had to be addressed’…..it told us Jews were fleeing France because of persecution, though the BBC refrained from telling us who was doing the persecuting….they then went on to tell us Muslims were also living in fear in France….the unspoken implication being that it was the ‘Far Right’ doing the fear mongering.

Curious remark from Price about the ‘well to do’ Jews.

So there we have it…both the Jews and Muslims are living in fear….the two are the same.  United in their fear.

Only that’s not true.

Who is the main persecutor of the Jews?  Muslims….and not just in France…the BBC is extremely reluctant to report on the pogroms in Sweden.

Who is the main persecutor of Muslims?…assuming they are being ‘persecuted’…it’s not the Jews that’s for certain.

Here’s the thing…the Jews are being persecuted, shot and killed, for being ‘Jewish’.  Jews are not terrorists roaming around France killing people who criticise their religion or who don’t believe their religion.

Muslims are being ‘persecuted’, because some Muslims, in the name of their religion and to further its interests, have launched many deadly terrorist attacks on Jews and on the very basis of the ‘West’…democracy and free speech.  And not just ‘terrorist’ attacks but increasingly political and social attacks on French society and culture pressuring France to adopt Muslim values and practises.

To make out that the persecution of the Jews and the persecution of Muslims is in any way comparable when it is Muslims persecuting the Jews is a perversion of the truth.  Attacking Muslims who are innocently going about their business is utterly contemptible but for the BBC to hide the fact that Jews are attacked by Muslims is dangerously dishonest and is a deliberate twisting of the truth for political reasons….and is indeed adopting the narrative that the Islamists, such as Tariq Ramadan, want to be used.

Note that this strategy, of making false comparisons between two groups in order to give Muslim ‘suffering’ some credibility is one used by that other ‘master of deception‘ Mehdi ‘Media’ Hasan…..

The truth is that Islamophobia and homophobia have much in common: they are both, in the words of the (gay) journalist Patrick Strudwick, “at least partly fuelled by fear. Fear of the unknown . . .” Muslims and gay people alike are victims of this fear – especially when it translates into hate speech or physical attacks. We need to stand side by side against the bigots and hate-mongers, whether of the Islamist or the far-right variety, rather than turn on one another or allow ourselves to be pitted against each other, “Muslims v gays”.

Trouble is it isn’t just the ‘Islamists’ who are ‘bigoted hatemongers’…..

0% thought that homosexuality was morally acceptable

Not a single British Muslim said homosexuality was morally acceptable, compared to 58 per cent of the general public who believed it was.