My wife’s family came to Europe in the 70s. They’re Arab, educated, integrated and Muslim.Fast forward to the early 90s and they didn’t want my wife to study in London. Why? Muslim extremism on campus. Lo and behold, when in London, the fundis approached her.In fact, much of the Muslim world regards ‘British Islam’ as primitive and extreme. Why? Because, in large part, that’s exactly what it is.Anti-gay and anti-Jew are mainstream Muslim views in the UK, not marginal ones. The more Muslim the UK becomes, the less Jewish, gay, liberal and free it will become in response.Race, religion and ideology have been stirred together to blunt the expression of critical thought. Anti-blasphemy's snuck in again through the back door. No-go areas now exist in Western cities, policing permitted with the consent of ‘community leaders’.This is largely a legacy of imported Islam, hostile to the culture it's moved to.What did the people of Britain and Europe do to deserve this? We accept the very best and the absolute dregs – but don’t seem to care and lack the courage to even try and tell the difference.---My family’s part of a little diaspora of educated, middle class Muslims – doctors, diplomats, academics, journalists, bankers, soldiers. We’re critical of large scale Muslim immigration here too – because we recognise much of the Islamic world is in a degenerate stage of its development (including mainstream British Islam). I don’t want my kids going to mosques in this country, for example, because I can’t trust what they’ll hear. Wandsworth has an honourable exception in the Ahmadiyya mosque (“love for all, hatred for none”) – but they’re considered heretics by mainstream Islam and have airport-style security to protect them from other Muslims. An Afghan refugee friend’s writing about his escape and journey to the UK. He’s been threatened in London by the very same type of people he escaped from back home – the police didn’t want to know. My wife’s childhood friend – an Egypto-Syrian doctor in Berlin – sees the same in refugee centres over there. An American friend was beaten up in East London (“F*ck off, this is a Muslim estate!”) – the police didn’t want to know, even after 20-odd similar attacks. It’s as if Muslims are held to lower standards than Christians, Jews, agnostics and atheists. It’s as though we’re all expected to think, feel and act the same – with almost any bad behaviour ignored to keep the peace.It’s bad enough many people don’t want to even consider the problem exists – even worse when they call you ‘racist’ or Islamophobic for raising the issue.P.S. If you want to understand the origins of the word ‘Islamophobia’, learn Arabic. Thy found useful idiots in the West to take the concept and run with it.P.P.S. Said it here before – when we married at an English mosque, the imam’s advice to me was “Try not to hit your wife”. Can you imagine the local Catholic padre giving such advice to the newly married?
Fraser Pearce ● 2686d