The figure in
the title refers to the one put forward by apologists for Islamic extremism who
say that the vast majority, ninety-nine point nine, nine percent
of those who practice the Muslim faith are entirely peace loving and that only tiny
minority support extremist views and Islamic terrorism. These apologists are to
be found just about everywhere in Western society ranging from those in the
legal profession busily engaged in defending perpetrators of vile acts of
terrorist murder from shooting and beheading innocent civilians along with the
many young Muslims who willingly go abroad to be trained for such purposes, to
deeply misguided politicians among whose number are academics who can’t apologize
quickly enough for being white, Western and liberal thinking. Many of these misguided,
tragically naïve individuals are frequently heard mouthing their guff on BBC
television which provides them with excellent opportunity for justifying their views
alongside spewing out vile propaganda for those they defend, often of the
anti-Israel variety which is actually shorthand for anti-Semitism so beloved of
the Corporation itself.
If it all sounds
like manna from heaven to some, it’s peculiar and sickening to others and in
this respect these apologists remind me of fanatics of another kind, namely people
who are blindly committed to defending police conduct and practice which is
often illegal or semi-legal at best. For those who defend all aspects of the
Muslim faith and its adherents, those who perpetrate acts of barbarity are only
the tiniest of tiny percentages, best described by that well known phrase, the one rotten apple. What this actually
refers to is one rotten apple in a
barrel and its meaning, significantly, is that it only takes one rotten apple to infect and damage all the rest. Colloquially
however this original meaning has changed and the phrase is now widely used to
refer to only one bad or corrupt thing out of many so that in terms of police
behaviour and conduct let us say, it is only one corrupt or badly behaved
policeman who spoils the good reputation of all the rest! The one rotten apple… In short, most policemen are great and their
conduct beyond reproach except for that rare and solitary example of rottenness
spoiling the reputation of all the others!
As far as police
conduct is concerned it’s become quite a well-known and famous justification so
eagerly seized on by apologists for a simply staggering tranche of appalling
behaviour in recent decades. Similarly the same phrase has become open to
misuse by those who either defend indefensible Islamic terrorism or vile
behaviour in the name of the Muslim faith i.e. that these killers are just
solitary plain rotten apples in an utterly peace-loving religion practiced by
99.999% of its peace-loving adherents.
Considering the
police for a moment such indefensible conduct in the last four decades includes
gross physical assault on detained suspects such as the Birmingham Six and
Guildford Four, false imprisonment, repeatedly lying in court under oath,
endlessly tampering with witness statements and evidence, improper sexual
activity, the illegal detention of children, killing innocent civilians in
public or police custody, failing to adequately investigate cases of murder or
violence such as that of the Stephen Lawrence affair subsequent to which they
were branded as institutionally racist, refusing to investigate endless
complaints of child abuse… and of course the planting of false evidence! The
list of illegal conduct is endless yet there are millions of people in our
society who it is stated, mostly by police organisations themselves, have
absolute faith in their conduct! Whether this is actually true or not is
another matter but during this time when their behaviour has been open to much
wider scrutiny, the one rotten apple mode
of justification for abuse has worn somewhat thin and these days goes with a
nudge, nudge, wink, wink, kind of expression. In plain terms far fewer people
believe it anymore. Nonetheless, there are many in our society who believe that
the police in general are good as gold and won’t be dissuaded from that opinion.
They’ll stick to it no matter what, almost
as if their lives depended on it and remain committed to defending an
indefensible view. For them the conduct of most policemen or women is and has
always been perfect and above reproach… except of course for that one rotten apple!
In similar
fashion it’s the same when considering the situation of the Muslim community
living in Britain or throughout Western Europe and the rest of the world. That
the vast majority are entirely peace-loving is a fact determined by their faith
and that those who do wrong things that make the media headlines are the one
rotten apple who have a warped view of the faith. Well let’s take a look at the
situation for a moment…
Of the five
million or so members of the Muslim community living in Britain…
… how many have
condemned the horrific murder of soldier Lee Rigby by Muslim extremists on a
London street not long ago, expressing their anger and outrage in public?
… how many have
publically expressed their moral indignation and wholeheartedly condemned the
brutal sexual assaults committed by Pakistani adults and youths on underage
white girls in cities throughout the United Kingdom such as Oxford and
Rotherham?
… how many have
condemned British Muslim youths who’ve travelled to the Middle East for
terrorist training and committed vile acts of murder there including public
beheading?
… how many have
openly condemned the recent mass beheading of 40 Coptic Christians in Libya by
the fundamentalists of their own faith?
… how many of
our British Muslim community came out and condemned the recent murders of
journalists and Jews in Paris by French Islamic terrorists, or in Belgium not
so long ago and even more recently in Denmark?
In fact how many
of this large community of Muslims living in Britain do we see openly
condemning the indefensible behaviour of their co-religionists that is so deeply
hostile to British values… much as British people would take to the streets and
demonstrate on their behalf against attacks on them and their faith by the
British National Party or English Defense League? Pardon me for asking but I don’t
see any reciprocity here!
What I do see
are British people acting as apologists for indefensible conduct by Muslims
while the vast majority of Muslims themselves do little to nothing to condemn
beheadings, floggings, judicial execution by stoning and the refusal in so many
Muslim countries to allow women to be educated or participate in politics. Even
allow them to vote. All we hear from the
vast majority of Muslims living in Britain is a deafening silence. Yet it’s
nothing to the silence we hear from the wretched apologists who fail utterly to
condemn the anti-democratic practices and medieval values that dominate daily
life throughout so much of the Muslim world… Societies that deny freedom of
religious worship on pain of death… deny a free press… deny freedom of
expression… deny women the right of political expression… have no toleration
for multi-party politics… Deny so much of what we in the Western world take for
granted as our natural right.
But then so much
of the Muslim world is so very different to our own. Ours is a world of
industrial production and manufacturing, a world of work and workers, of trades
unions, of large scale commercial and business enterprise, of political and
civil society, of a mass media and free expression. Theirs is a world dominated
by autocratic or military rule, one without any large scale industrial production,
a world dominated by small trade, one without any mechanism for financial
investment but above all a world where the process of education and learning is
dominated by religious thought and practice from school all the way up to
university rather than any serious consideration of science.
Muslim society,
from Pakistan to Indonesia, from Saudi Arabia to Algeria, Iraq and Iran is so
very different to our own whether it be in terms of economy, politics, social
structure and organisation, culture, education, religion or values. In our
Western society women are regarded as equal to men and have full equal rights.
In Muslim society such notions are regarded as abhorrent by the vast majority
of their male population.
These are some
of the differences but there are many more. How difficult it must be then for
so many Muslim immigrants coming to live in Western Europe to have any
tolerance for our values when those that had shaped their lives elsewhere are
so very different to ours. When there is so little insistence by our
politicians, so generous in allowing them entry, that they integrate into the
culture and way of life of the countries they come to rather than remain locked
into their own tight knit native communities, separate and isolated from
mainstream British life and culture and ultimately demanding more privilege for
their own. Yes, that’s right, more privilege and ultimately remaining steadfastly
bound to the ties of the medieval faith of the places they came from. A
demanding, sullen and separated community whose children, clinging to the alien
family faith that nurtured them, grow into anger filled isolates alienated from
a wider society and only intent on destruction. In main this youth can only
look inward to religion and resentment because no attempt was ever made to turn
their minds outwards to other faiths, ideologies and views… to socialism, to
science, to politics, to the big wide Western world out there so full of
interest, opportunity and imagination.
Instead, pullulating
with anger, this Muslim youth festers in fury. They’re not a tiny minority
anywhere anymore and have nothing but contempt for the wretched apologists who
rush to defend them. They’re so fearful of looking outwards to the wider
society that they desperately cling to their own narrow faith because, in truth,
that’s all they have to hold onto, only
it’s the kind of creed that makes anything else impermissible… Indeed, any
vehicle that fosters freedom of any kind, ideas of any kind, must be destroyed.
Hence their hatred of freedom of expression, freedom of discussion along with their
hatred of humor, and particularly cartoons lampooning their prophet. Where a
faith is above criticism all else is blasphemy! To these
sinister jerk off jihadis all freedom of thought is an abomination! In this sense beheading is symbolic. It is
the severing of other people’s freedom of thought.
It is quite
untrue to say that such youths have become radicalized and that their vile
conduct is a distortion of the beliefs and values of the Muslim faith. On the
contrary their anti-Semitism among other things is central to it as is their
total intolerance of all other views. The free thinking Jew then becomes doubly
a blasphemy and valid target for attack. Thus for Muslim youth, with their
parents and families living within the ambit of Western society and its
dangerous values, on the cusp of integration as they undoubtedly see it, it is incumbent upon them to take up the flag. For the old ways and for the faith.
They are not being radicalized away from the faith but taking up the commitment and
banner of unconditional loyalty! This is what all the apologists and
defenders of Islam utterly fail to understand. Islam is not a peace-loving
faith. It is a faith at war with all others and a failure to acknowledge this
simple truth is fatal for the stability of Western society.
There is no such
thing as a 99.999% peace-loving majority. It’s a delusion put out by
politicians desperate to achieve some form of coexistence, well understood by
the veritable legion of rage boys out there all hot to grab hold of the apple
cart and tip it into the gutter with jihad, beheadings and any other terror
outrage they can lay their skinny mitts on.
Israel is the
Jewish State, created after the recent mass murder of the Jewish people. So if
you hate Israel you also hate Jews, actually, along with everyone else! But
then not to worry! Many of your Western liberal minded apologists also hate
Israel and also hate Jews and actually it’s good to have friends, people who’ll
apologize for your delusions and violent intentions no matter what.
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