My latest in FrontPage:
“Proposal for Piccadilly Circus mosque withdrawn after racist complaints,” the Muslim news site 5Pillars announced Tuesday, and Britain’s dastardly white supremacists weren’t finished. Wales Online reported on the same day that “a pub landlord has been suspended after his bosses were tipped off about a Facebook post he had allegedly shared mocking Muslims.” The perp, Jason Taylor, insisted, “I’m no racist. I just thought it was funny,” and even groveled to the mob, pleading, “I’ve learnt my lesson,” but to no avail. There is just one problem with both of these stories: neither of them have anything to do with race at all. The are the latest examples of the likely deliberate obfuscation between race hatred and criticism of Islam’s supremacist ideology.
5Pillars claimed that the application to construct a mosque in London’s Piccadilly Circus into a mosque had been withdrawn after the plan had received “thousands of racist comments.” It said that Westminster City Council “received 6,100 comments in support of the plans but 2,800 objected, including a high volume of racist comments.”
In the balance of its article, however, 5Pillars failed to produce even one of these supposedly racist comments. It noted that “a number of objectors said that the presence of large numbers of Muslims in the area may make LGBT people living and socialising in nearby Soho uncomfortable.”
It quoted another that said: “It is clear for all to see that the Muslim community will seek to impose itself on all aspects of the native culture and will never yield to anything that does not further the fundamentalist political aspirations of Islam. The writing is on the wall and as sure as night follows day, you can bet your bottom dollar allowing this wholly unwelcome intrusion on the native population will only exasperate [sic] the problem of Islam. It simply has no place in the West, as the orchestrated ‘support’ comments allude to. This is yet another assault on your nation by stealth and subversion. Please do not be fooled, we’ve had more than enough bloodshed and rape in this country thanks to cow-towing [sic] to the endless demands of the Muslim community.”
A third declared: “I hope by now it is self-evident in this comments thread, that the Muslim community has NO RESPECT for the very legitimate concerns of the residents of Piccadilly…This is merely a taste of what will follow should this unwelcome, foreign display of dominance be imposed on British Citizens. Given it’s [sic] DISGUSTING track record, you would think one would be as silent as possible about belonging to this obnoxious, perverted, insidious cult, but as we can see from the incessant spamming in the ‘support’ comments, the Muslim community has no sense of decency or respect. What more evidence do we need that Islam has no place in the west? It seems the only people who haven’t realized this yet are in the Westminster bubble.”
Local politicians were duly appalled. Conservative councillor Matthew Green said: “We find these racist, hateful comments utterly.” Labour councillor Hamza Taouzzale added: “Some of the comments that I’ve unfortunately had to read through were horrible, they really were. They were racist, they weren’t aligned with any of our views.”
Yet all the comments that 5Pillars quotes opposing the mosque are concerned about Islamic supremacism, about the old Islamic adage “Islam must dominate, and not be dominated.” None of them say anything to the effect of “Muslims are of a different race and thus this mosque must not be built.”
This reflects the general confusion in British society, as well as American society today: any opposition to jihad violence and Sharia oppression is decried as “racism,” even if race is never mentioned. Muslims, and Islamic jihadis, are of all races, but the enablers of that violence and oppression know that racism is generally considered to be the foremost sin of all in the modern age. Thus to denounce opposition to the mosque as “racism” is makes sense tactically: it lines up all the right-thinking people who abhor racism, or at least those among them who are unthinking lemmings, in support of the mosque.
Jason Taylor, for his part, was concerned about the same supremacism. He shared a post that said that another proposed mosque “should be allowed – and two nightclubs, a ‘sex toy shop’ and a ‘butcher shop that specialises in pork’ — should also be opened next door thereby promoting tolerance from within the mosque’. The writer went on to say one of the clubs should be gay and the other a ‘topless bar’ and they gave all the establishments racially derogatory names.”
Maybe you think that the post Jason Taylor shared was offensive. May you think it was obnoxious. But if Jason Taylor had called for having a gay nightclub and a “sex toy shop” next to a church, “thereby promoting tolerance from within the church,” do you think he would have been suspended? Neither do I. And the poor devil was reduced to insisting he was not “racist,” when there was nothing in what he shared about race at all. Muslims are not all of one race.
But in Britain today, and in America, all discussion of Islamic supremacism and intolerance is drowned out by spurious charges of racism. Jason Taylor is just the latest victim of this intentional obfuscation.
mortimer says
ABSURD … to call opposition to the Muslim Brotherhood or the Shi’ite hegemony of Iran ‘racism’ !
An ideology is an intellectual, spiritual product. It is neither a human being nor a ‘race’ of humans.
You have to be an amoral liar to call Islam ‘a race’.
David Curtis says
We could say Race to the bottom, which it is.
David says
David, I wrote this comment, before reading yours, which was directly below (I then forgot to post it so it disappeared):”Islam is a race, to the bottom(No gay intention!)”
toomanyhobbies says
islam in not a race but a CULT made up of all nationalities..
terry sullivan says
eu funds mb–300000000 euros
Rufolino says
This is a brilliant analysis Robert. For years I lived a stone’s throw from Piccadilly Circus, so I’m very tuned in to the social nuances of the area. The Moslem plan would appear to be a deliberately challenging expression of supremacism, and nothing to do with “race”.
James Lincoln says
I have two questions for the muslim brotherhood:
What race is islam?
What races are prohibited from becoming a muslim?
Francis Weber says
The Jewish Race!
gravenimage says
Sorry, Brits, But Opposition to Jihad Violence and Islamic Supremacism Still Isn’t Racism
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Hear, hear!
I’m glad enough Britons protested despite this smearing–at least for now, this supremacist Mosque project is a dead letter.
David Curtis says
I am both pleased, & surprised the opposition won. Hardly an area to stick a religious building in the soho den of iniquity, debauchery, bestiality. Not my view, theirs.
Rufolino says
Your description of Soho is blatantly absurd. I lived a stone’s throw from Piccadilly Circus.
David says
Seen any good stonings recently? ‘Getting stoned ‘ is an old English expression for getting drunk. It is also an old islamic expression for getting stoned (lol)
gravenimage says
Rufolino, David said that this description of Soho is how Muslims see it, not as he sees it.
Alexandra O. says
I sure hope this lovely old building, with its great architecture, won’t be turned into a mosque. It is bad enough that moslems are buying up old churches in England (I saw some in Sheffield last year when I visited) and turning them into mosques. What a travesty of history and of the Christian religion, which unfortunately is losing members. I think it is demoralizing to Christians as well as all British citizens to see their civilization being torn apart by these invading people from the Middle East. We are losing a very important battle. It seems that all the disorganized Third World wants to move into Europe and North America. But if the destroy “The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg”, they will never be able to reconstruct it. Stupid people!
Larry A. Singleton says
Posted my “Haj” document on 5 Pillars website. Let’s see if it sticks. heh-heh.
A little something I put together. Feel free to copy and pass around.
The Haj by Leon Uris 12-19-19
Alan Dershowitz said that if you want to find the truth all you have to do is look for it. I looked for and found that “Palestinians” raise their children from birth to hate and murder Jews and their “culture” is nothing but an Islamic death cult.
Scratch Islam and “Palestinian” and you’ll find Jew Hatred. Discover why “Palestinian” is in scare quotes and you’re ahead of everyone else.
The kiss of death for “The religion of peace” came when I read: The Call to Jihad (Fighting for Allah’s Cause) in the Qur’an by Sheikh Abdullâh bin Muhammad bin Humaid I found submitted almost as an Introduction in a Summarized Sahih Al-Bukhari I’d ordered online when I started studying Islam.
And yes, ”(Fighting for Allah’s Cause)” is in the title.
On college and university campuses and even in our high schools we have the Islamic versions of the Hitler Youth; Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Muslim Student Association (MSA). And the Nazi styled “BDS” Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. For the first time in our history Jews are afraid to identify themselves as Jews. The Jew Hating began in these Middle East Study departments. Read Martin Kramer’s Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America.
Finally getting around to reading Leon Uris’ The Haj is what kick started my interest in Islam. After that it was all downhill from there…as far as Islam was concerned.
Begin your education on Israel and “Palestinians” by reading:
The Haj by Leon Uris.
The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz.
The Israeli Solution by Caroline Glick.
The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History by Andrew Bostom.
The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History. The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims. Sharia versus Freedom: The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism. The Mufti’s Islamic Jew-Hatred: What The Nazis Learned From The ‘Muslim Pope’ by Andrew Bostom.
Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) PMW’s book Deception: Betrayal of the Peace Process by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik.
Palestinian Media Watch’s (PMW) report “Palestinian Authority Education: A Recipe for Hate & Terror”.
Palestinians, Arabs and the Holocaust by Joseph Spoerl.
Inside BDS by Dan Pine.
Read FrontPage Magazine, Gatestone Institute, Middle East Quarterly and Jihad Watch. And Michael Cutler on Islamic terrorists, our borders and national security.
UN Watch, Campus Watch, Campus Reform,
Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat by Peter Hammond.
Imprimis from Hillsdale College. (Free in the mail) Which is big on our Founding Fathers, the US Constitution and my hero Winston Churchill who predicted the “Gestapo” these “Socialists” would become. Read Churchill’s book The River War about his own experiences fighting “holy warriors” in the Sudan. And his books The Malakand Field Force and Thoughts and Adventures.
Beyond Today; (Free in the mail) A Christian magazine that deals with current events and politics from a Christian perspective. And Biblical Archaeology Review
Islamic Jew Hatred 3-6-20
The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History by Andrew G. Bostom (Read the “Note on the Cover Art-Execution of a Moroccan Jewess” or this book Review/article by Benjamin District; “Jewess Heroine-Sol Hachuel” (myrightword) http://myrightword.blogspot.com/2008/02/jewess-heroine-sol-hachuel.html)
Supplemental Article “The First and Last Enemy: Jew Hatred in Islam.” by Bostom (Frontpage Magazine archive)
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=28549
“A Salient Example of Hajj Amin el-Husseini’s Canonical Islamic Jew-Hatred–Introduction, Text and Commentary” by Andrew G. Bostom, MD, MS—Or buy booklet: The Mufti’s Islamic Jew Hatred: What the Nazis Learned From the ‘Muslim Pope’ by Andrew G. Bostom.
https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/CSP_A_Salient_Example_of_Hajj_Amin_el-Husseinis.pdf
Hajj Amin Husseini’s Anti-Semitic Legacy by Boris Havel (Middle East Quarterly)
http://www.meforum.org/5318/hajj-amin-antisemitism#_ftn3
Elimination of the Jewish National Home in Palestine: The Einsatzkommando of the Panzer Army Africa, 1942 by Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Martin Cüppers.
Jihad and Jew Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 by Matthias Kuntzel.
Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World by Jeffrey Herf.
The Jews Are the Eternal Enemies of Muslims Regardless of the Occupation of Palestine (You Tube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baS7PRiXcV4
Islamic Antisemitism: How it Originated and Spread by Matthias Kuntzel.
Muslim Anti-Semitism: A Clear and Present Danger by Robert S. Wistrich.
Imported Antisemitism and Those Who Support it by Dens MacEoin-Gatestone Institute.
Anti-Jewish Hatred is Alive and Well by Guy Milliere-Gatestone Institute.
Read Gatestone Institute, FrontPage Magazine, Jihad Watch.
And Imprimis-Hillsdale College. Big on our Founders, US Constitution & my hero Winston Churchill who predicted the “Gestapo” these “Socialists” would become.
Jihad Essays 1-8-18
Jihad: The Holy War of Islam and Its Legitimacy in the Qur’an by Ayatullah Morteza Mutahhari.
Jihad in Islam by Abul A’La Maududi.
The Call to Jihad (Fighting for Allah’s Cause) in the Qur’an by Sheikh Abdullâh bin Muhammad bin Humaid. And yes,”(Fighting for Allah’s Cause)” is in the title. Found in both my Summarized and nine volume Sahih Al-Bukharis.
Jihad is the Way by Mustafa Mashur.
Jihad in the Cause of God by Sayyid Qutb.
Kitāb al-Jihād by Abdullah Ibn Al-Mubarak. (Abd Allah Ibn al-Mubarak)
Jihad: The Forgotten Obligation by Muhammad Abdus Salam Faraj
The Qur’anic Concept of War by Brig. S.K. Malik
Bill Warner, PhD: Jihad vs Crusades
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_To-cV94Bo
Daniel Greenfield Moment: Palestine is Colonialism.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/05/daniel-greenfield-moment-palestine-is-colonialism
The Call to Jihad (fighting for Allah’s Cause) in the Qur’an (Or the politically correct title used for public consumption: Jihad in the Qur’an and Sunnah) by Sheikh Abdullâh bin Muhammad bin Humaid.
The 4th Conference of the Academy of Islamic Research: Arab Theologians on Jews and Israel. Sept. 1968. Translated by D.F. Green/David G. Littman (Support Secure Freedom) I use Sheikh Humaid’s article on jihad, and it’s place as an “Introduction” in my Summarized Bukhari as “Exhibit A” when it comes to refuting the “religion of peace” claim. “The 4th Conference…” could easily be Exhibit B.
http://supportsecurefreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/Arab-Theologians-on-Jews-and-Israel-4th_Ed_082011.pdf
COMPARE!!!
Excerpt from “On Jihad” letter that I wrote a while back. My point; always “compare”. Compare Muhammad to Jesus, compare Sheikh Abdullah bin Humaid’s article on Jihad to Emmet Fox’s book Sermon on the Mount and compare the Koran to the Bible. And compare the religion that promotes itself as “the religion of peace” with the religion that doesn’t have to.
A Study of the Word “Love” in the Qur’an by Farid Mahally http://www.answering-islam.org/Quran/Themes/love.htm
Comparing Islam and Christianity” A Side-by-Side Comparison. http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/articles/jesus-muhammad.aspx
The ‘Same God’ Question by Ralph Sidway.
Islam and Human Rights by Anne Mayer.
On Communism:
“The Longest Romance: The Mainstream Media and Fidel Castro”, “Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him” and “Fidel: Hollywood’s Favorite Tyrant”, by Humberto Fontova.
Christopher Watson says
Apart from the ‘religious’ angle Piccadilly Circus is one of the busiest inner city areas on the planet. It’s on the edge of the London ‘Theatre’ district; thousands of people sit on the Eros monument every minute of the day and its a traffic hub for thousands nay millions of cars, buses and taxis. To make it a meeting place for a thousand or so moslems, particularly when they leave after Friday prayers is total lunacy. It would be a traffic nightmare and the police would be scraping up victims of road accidents every Friday.
gravenimage says
Muslims would be happy destroying this vibrant district if they can.