Just how dhimmi is England?

Hat tip to Cox and Forkum for the cartoon, "Perils before Swine". You can read their related commentary and links HERE.

A British town council bans pig toys and images, because they are offensive to Muslims. The Church of England is considering getting rid of St. George as the Patron Saint of England because he is too offensive to modern day Muslims. One might well ask how dhimmi is England.

British Author Melanie Phillips, in her blogpost State of denial, gives us some shocking revealations about the state of dhimmitude in Britain today.

Today marks one year since the 7/7 terrorist bombings in London. What have the British learned in that time? Melanie tells us:

...We learn from the head of the Metropolitan Police’s Anti-Terrorism Branch, Peter Clarke, that no fewer than 70 further such terrorist plots are currently under investigation. That is a simply astounding number. This is not terrorism as conventionally understood, but a war.

Meanwhile an opinion poll reveals that, while the vast majority of British Muslims do not support terror, a horrifying number do so; while even more harbour the kind of extremist views which create the sea in which terrorism swims.

Many thousands of British Muslims are patriotic, law-abiding citizens. Indeed, last weekend saw the death in action of a British Muslim soldier, Jabron Hashmi, who was killed fighting for his country against the Taleban in Afghanistan.

Yet according to the Populus poll, 13 per cent of Britain’s 1.6 million Muslims believe the 7/7 bombers should be regarded as martyrs; between seven and 16 per cent per cent think suicide attacks on British targets can be justified; and two per cent would be proud if a family member joined al Qaeda, with a further 16 per cent who would be indifferent.

That represents hundreds of thousands of British Muslims who either justify or support the murder of their fellow citizens. These numbers are utterly appalling.

Moreover, they are consistent with many other similar findings. Only last week, a Pew opinion poll across Europe revealed that, while Britain was more sympathetic to its Muslim minority than was any other country, British Muslims hated their own country, the west and the Jews more than Muslims anywhere else...

Britain bends over backwards to accomodate Muslims, and yet they have the angriest Mulsim population? Could it be that British multi-culturalism encourages and feeds that anger, causing radical Muslims to believe they have the RIGHT to be angry and to strike back at the enemy with impunity?

13 percent of 1.6 British Muslims is 208,000 people who approved of the London subway terrorist attacks. Sounds to me like 208,000 people need to be deported.

...The essence of the problem is that it is not enough — necessary as it is — to detect and thwart terrorist plots. Just as crucial is to address the hatred and lies that are driving this murderous violence.

In particular, what needs to be combated with the utmost vigour is the Muslim culture of grievance, the paranoid belief that the west is engaged in a conspiracy to aggressively attack and destroy the Islamic world.

This delusion has meant that many Muslims misrepresent Islamist aggression as self-defence, and the west’s attempt to defend itself as aggression. This double-think means that Britain is itself blamed for the attacks mounted upon it...

And where do these ideas come from? How are they perpetuated, and why are they not opposed? Here are some clues:

...Saudi Arabia has pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into promoting this agenda of holy war against the west throughout the world. This money funds extremism in many British Muslim institutions, and has helped produce a climate of such irrationality that many British Muslims actually believe that 9/11 was an American or Zionist plot.

But instead of fighting these warped ideas, many in the British establishment are appeasing them...

...the establishment — which, in the name of multiculturalism, has a long record of appeasing minorities — is terrified to identify the cause of this terrorism as religious fanaticism, because it fears this might tar all Muslims with the same brush...

The government has created committees on extremism to advise them on how to deal with extremists, but the committees themselves are packed with Islamic extremists. Quite naturally, all the solutions they offer are appeasment at any cost. It's insane. Multi-culturalism gone wild.

Melanie has some sensible ideas for how to deal with the extremists:

...Instead of appeasing extremism, the government should be seeking out, promoting and protecting the growing number of truly moderate Muslims — many of them young professionals — who are wholly opposed to their radicalised institutions and desperate to rid their community of the extremism that so disfigures it.

The Government should send Muslims the message that they are welcome and respected members of the community who are free to practise their faith — but that the abuse of that faith to incite violence or hatred will not be tolerated.

That means finding out what is being taught and preached in mosques and madrassahs, on campus and in prisons, and where this is inciting violence or hatred ensuring that those responsible will be prosecuted or thrown out of the country.

And at the same time, it must also end the cultural cringe of multiculturalism and reassert British national identity rooted in the particulars of this island’s history, laws religion and culture...

(bold emphasis mine) It was hard to choose excerpts, breaking it up into excerpts just doesn't do it justice. There's a lot of good stuff in this article, I recommend reading the whole thing.

Melanie is currently on tour, promoting her latest book:



"Londonistan"


Related links:

7/7: REMEMBRANCE & DHIMMITUDE

“I am still incensed that the Muslim community spends more time whingeing about “islamophobia” than they do trying to route out extremism. I am incensed that whenever question about terrorist attacks by young British Muslims is posed Muslim representatives seem to be far more keen to blame Pres. Bush, Blair, Sharon or anyone else than the evil in their midst.”

Remember the 7/7 Victims

Did these people deserve to die?


UPDATE 07/14/06

Steven Emerson interviews Melanie Phillips