An entire nation ruled by wishful thinking and denial of reality. My latest in FrontPage:
The Islamic State (ISIS) is newly emboldened by the departure of Donald Trump from the Oval Office and the return to power of the forces of appeasement, denial, weakness and surrender. The National reported Thursday that “children are being exposed to ISIS terrorism online during lockdown, raising fears of brainwashing,” according to British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab. Raab talked tough in response, but all he really offered was more of the same: lip-service to counterjihad efforts from a government that lacks the will to confront this foe, and would rather pretend that its real problem is “right-wing extremists.”
Dominic Raab (pictured above) told Parliament that “security services were fighting hard to combat the threat,” but he also recounted “the terrorists’ rising global influence, with armed groups in Africa and Asia adopting its violent methods.” The “biggest worry,” however, “was the ‘perfect storm’ of young people stuck indoors during lockdown, and going online to relieve their boredom where they were subjected to extremist indoctrination.” Accordingly, Raab said, “we can see a worrying rise in the proportion of children and teenagers that are now being arrested for terrorism offences.”
Yeah, that’s it, Raab, boredom leads to jihad. Give these boys a basketball and a job at Tesco and all will be well, right?
ISIS, he continued, is “still able to carry out lethal attacks,” and contrary to all the propaganda about “white supremacists,” it is still Britain’s “most significant terrorist threat.” Raab asserted that ISIS “more and more reliant on its perverse propaganda and warped narrative to try and maintain its relevance and cement support for its terrorist attacks. Daesh [the political elites’ favored euphemism for the Islamic State] maintains a steady drumbeat of violent communications, which they distribute with encrypted messaging applications.”
But never fear. Raab declared that British intelligence officials were “taking the fight online” and “degrading their network by dismantling their lies.” He added: “We’re approaching it with total vigour and determination.”
Yeah, sure you are, tough guy. In reality, your government is in full-on surrender and appeasement mode. Can you imagine what a fiasco Britain’s response to online ISIS recruitment really is? British security agents, thoroughly indoctrinated with fictions about Islam being a religion of peace, go online and tell Muslim youth that the Islamic State (ISIS) is telling “lies” and is un-Islamic because Islam teaches peace and tolerance, or because the Islamic State commits violence in the name of Islam, or because it kills innocent people in the name of Islam, or because it resorts to violence even thought it hasn’t been attacked, or because its jihadis take infidel women as sex slaves, or because it teaches that jihad has to do with warfare, or some such.
All these actions and others of the Islamic State can be and are justified by Islamic texts and teachings, as ISIS’ own literature repeatedly reminds us. The result of this is that the British agents’ appeal to these Muslim young people on Islamic grounds is foredoomed to fail, because if those young people have even a rudimentary knowledge of Islam, they will know that what the agents are saying is what is really un-Islamic. But the agents themselves don’t know that, and are abjectly ill-equipped to deal with it.
Raab’s claim that British officials are fighting against ISIS “with total vigour and determination” is just more theatre of the absurd. In reality, the Boris Johnson government is inundating the country with Muslim migrants, among whom there is an unknowable number of Islamic jihadis, without making any attempt to determine if any of them are actually jihadis. It is smearing and stigmatizing people who oppose jihad violence and Sharia oppression. It is devoting resources to prosecuting “anti-Muslim hate crimes” that consist of someone saying rude things to a Muslim.
And while continuing to bar foreign foes of jihad terror from the country, British officials are still admitting jihadis. MailOnline reported in mid-February “a terrorist who claimed asylum in Britain after he was sentenced to death in Egypt for a failed assassination plot is set to win the right to stay in this country. Yasser Al-Sirri, 58, first claimed asylum in 1994 but was turned down and has taken the issue to court more than eight times at great cost to British taxpayers. Al-Sirri, who was also charged in the US with assisting someone involved in the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing, has appeared in several tribunals since.” Yet despite all this, “a tribunal decided he was entitled to remain in the UK as a refugee.”
Dominic, why are you even bothering to try to counter jihad recruitment online when you’re busy ushering jihadis into your country? Do you seriously think jihad recruitment can and will happen only online?
Alas for Britain. It isn’t just Meghan Markle; Dominic Raab and the Boris Johnson government are just the latest millstone around its neck.
Keith O says
Dismantling the lies of ISIS recruiters? Really? I think the memo didn’t reach the mudslime recruiters nor the mind control experts in the mosques.
mortimer says
‘Dismantle’ this: The Koran’s 164 Jihad Verses: K 2:178-179, 190-191, 193-194, 216-218, 244; 3:121-126, 140-143, 146, 152-158, 165-167,169, 172-173, 195; 4:71-72, 74-077, 84, 89-91, 94-95,100-104; 5:33, 35, 82; 8:1, 5, 7, 9-10, 12, 15-17, 39-48, 57-60, 65-75; 9:5, 12-14, 16, 19-20, 24-26, 29, 36, 38-39, 41, 44, 52, 73, 81, 83, 86, 88, 92, 111, 120, 122-123; 16:110; 22:39, 58, 78; 24:53, 55; 25:52; 29:6, 69; 33:15, 18, 20, 23, 25-27, 50; 42:39; 47:4, 20, 35; 48:15-24; 49:15; 59:2, 5-8, 14; 60:9; 61:4, 11, 13; 63:4; 64:14; 66:9; 73:20; 76:8.
Keith O says
Mortimer, I had a mental picture of Arnie as the terminator saying “dismantle this”.
I needed a good laugh, thanks.
gravenimage says
+1
born saturday says
uk like many other countries sacrifices its citizens for appeasing islam so the jihad that took place in france does not take place in there also… this policy gives them time for sure but the sacrificed citizens are painting the future picture of theirs politically… those who fight for freedom will arise in europe and they will be louder and louder everyday despite the attempts to censor them… history repeats it self and the cowards will have no place in the future world…again we will revolt against islam!!! for our freedom!!!
Wellington says
The “lies” of ISIS are Islam accurately conveyed.
Michael Copeland says
Memo to Dominic Raab:
The “perverse propaganda and warped narrative” are basic Islam.
Learning Curve needed.
mortimer says
British deprogrammers are claiming that they may RE-INTERPRET THE CONSENSUS (IJMA) OF ISLAM to match their agenda … but they lack the authority to re-interpret Islam to fit with their view of modernity and they lack the authority to revise canonical Islam.
To be clear, the Caliphate is not ‘WARPED’ nor an aberration … it is canonical and NORMATIVE Islam.
Indeed, the caliphate is the only form of governance that has FULL APPROVAL of canonical Islamic theology.
Perhaps, the greatest Islamic scholar, Ibn Taymiyyah, said: “It is OBLIGATORY to know that the office in charge of commanding over the people (ie: the political office of the universal Caliph) is one of the GREATEST OBLIGATIONS of the Deen (political Islam).”
The Sharia manual, Reliance of the Traveller, ASSUMES the existence of the caliphate and of the ISLAMIC STATE. The caliphate is thus a COMPULSORY tenet of CANONICAL ISLAM, rather than a ‘WARPED LIE’.
The caliphate “is the core political concept of Sunni Islam, by the consensus of the Muslim majority in the early centuries.”
No attempts at rebuilding a power structure based on Islam were successful anywhere in the Muslim World until the Iranian Revolution in 1979, which was based on Shia principles and whose leaders did not outwardly call for the restoration of a global Caliphate.
mortimer says
Reference for quote: the caliphate “is the core political concept of Sunni Islam, by the consensus of the Muslim majority in the early centuries.”
-The Judgment Against Imperialism, Fascism and Racism Against Caliphate and Islam
By Khondakar Golam Mowla
spiro says
Yeah I’m sure fellow Muslims are buying every word the infidels are saying
Sad thing this guy probably believes his
What he’s saying
mortimer says
Yes, your irony is correct. Muslims don’t go to a DIRTY KAFFIR to seek information about SHARIA LAW. They go to a QADI, a PhD Sharia expert or to an ayatollah. Western politicians are not acceptable authorities on Sharia for ANY MUSLIM.
gravenimage says
But Mortimer–with all respect–you have said many times that Muslims can be “Deprogramed” by non-Muslims, and have ignored my replies that Muslims do not listen to Infidels.
Spiro says
I didn’t edit very well
Probably believes what he’s saying
Andrew Blackadder says
The people of the United Kingdom need to be told the truth…That the Empire is over…. fini, fertig, nada, no more.
Jayell says
You’re wrong there. The Empire’s alive and well since it all came over to places like Rotherham and Bradford, etc., etc., etc., except it’s doing the colonialism’ bit the other way around now. By the way, very few average UK citizens actually knew anything much about the ‘Empire’ when it was up and running, it was just a word that cropped up from time to time in the newspapers, on the radio (no TV then) or at the cinema, which people never had much time for because they were too busy working five and a half days a week to pay the rent. They certainly understand a lot more about it now.
By the way, it’s a good idea to know what you’re talking about before making crass statements about the British people and ‘Empires’.
gravenimage says
UK Foreign Secretary Claims Britain is ‘Dismantling’ the ‘Lies’ of ISIS Recruiters
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Just nuts–how is Dominic Raab going to prove that this is not orthodox Islam–when it clearly is?
Raab has also called for not deporting criminal migrants because they might face discrimination at home.
He isn’t the biggest dhimmi in Britain, but only because he’s got so much competition.
"one of the sheeple" says
So, in a nutshell, Boris Johnson is not a right-wing politician. The average man or woman wanting a reduction in immigration, particularly from Islamic countries, has been ignored, marginalised or – to use the modern expression – cancelled.
So-called cancel culture has been around for years.
Many anti-vaxxers do not give a damn about immigration. Anti-vaxxers want ‘Freedom, freedom, freedom!’
Many anti-lockdown protesters would celebrate if Tommy Robinson was put up against a wall and shot.
We are all being played off against each other, Mr Spencer. It would be interesting to know what a body language expert makes of some of those anti-lockdown livestreams.
Punch the air with your fist; shout ‘Freedom, freedom, freedom!’; get arrested etc.
John Forbes says
Hard to be more disgusted with the cowards in charge in the UK! Between total refusal to even investigate child raping groups of Muslims to denial about the violence being taught in Mosques & Madrassas appeasement just goes on & on!
Jayell says
‘Give these boys a basketball and a job at Tesco and all will be well, right?’
No, Mr. Spencer, it’s a ‘football’ in this part of the world, but most of these young specimens don’t seem to have cottoned to the fact that they could make million s kicking footballs around a stadium on a Saturday afternoon if they can kick hard enough . Maybe that’s because one of their ‘scholars’ told their mums and dads that football is ‘unislamic’, or maybe they and their brothers are already making enough money selling drugs and/or running their ‘escort agencies’ using the local infidel girls with the taxi business as a useful sideline (as they were doing in Rotherham). Or maybe they’re already too busy stacking shelves or running the halal butcher’s counter at Tesco’s, as I notice every time I go there. But I very much doubt that Mr. Raab visits any Tesco store, so maybe he needs some educating.
Fred van de Bunt says
Well noticed: “boredom”.
This one can be added to the list of causes for violence perpetrated by Islam followers: they are mentally ill; they are under the influence of hate preaching imams; the spread of Saudi Salafism is the problem; the Iran Mullah’s are the problem; the Muslim brotherhood is the problem; the spread of Islamism is the problem; they misinterpret the meaning of jihad and Islam religious texts; they react to cruel islamophobia; they suffer from extremism right wing Christians, Atheists, Buddhists, Taoists, Hindu’s, feminists, LBGT people; they are a marginalized suppressed minority which is almost always true if you sweep non-Muslims on to one big pile of “anti-Muslim others”.
Anyway, I suppose mister Raab will demand from us that we have to entertain them 24/7 too, for them not to get bored and because of that switch into the kill mode, apart from Raab demanding from us to help them with their mental illness, explain to them their misinterpretation of their holy texts, guard them so they will not become victim of the immense amount of wrong schools within their religion, explain to them that we do not hate them, tell them that we as others, infidels, are not one big anti Muslim pile, but a diverse amount of minorities too, that adapt to each other.
gravenimage says
Even though I had a huge range of interests, I was still often bored as a teenager–what adolescent isn’t? Yet I never thought that the solution to that was to go out and slaughter some Infidels. Odd, huh? sarc/off
Michael Copeland says
The texts they recite instruct them to ambush and kill us.
We are their enemy: this is their “Realm of War”.
Commanded to view us with hatred as lower than beasts,
They’re permitted to use deception, and lie to us all.
From “Here And Round Us”
https://gatesofvienna.net/2021/02/here-and-round-us/
keithellerby says
I will believe that when I see Anjem Choudry declare that he no longer believes that the country or any country should be ruled by the Sharia.
jca reid says
Obvious he’s lying. NONE of the UK’s Politicians have the actuall, simple moral courage what needs to be said & actions carried out. NONE!!!