What happened to all those Muhammads?
Philip M. writes from England:
I was just looking on the Daily Mail website at a story about the most popular children’s names in Britain in 2008 according to “parenting club Bounty.” It casually mentioned in passing that Muhammad, which was at number two last year after rising up the rankings in previous years, had now dropped out of the top 100 completely. Obviously, a bit fishy.
A few minutes later I was reading a thread on the BNP website in which people were speculating that the name Muhammad had been removed from the list. It occurred to me that they had been lumping all the different spellings of Muhammad as one name before, and that now that it had got to number one, they had decided for obvious reasons to separate the names into its variant spellings.
When I went back to the website to re-read the story and note the link, the bit about Muhammad had disappeared. I noticed it said “last update 9:54 PM” at the top of the story. They had removed the reference! How 1984 is that?
What I love about the multicultists is the way they will gush about how immigration has transformed Britain, yet when you say to them that immigration has transformed Britain they suddenly feel the need to deny it. What I love about the Daily Mail is the way that for years they noted in hushed, conspiratorial tones that Muhammad was becoming the most popular boys name (nudge, nudge, know what I mean), and then when it does become the most popular name, they pretend—no, LIE, that it hasn’t!
The Muslims are taking over!
Muslims, what Muslims?
LA replies:
“What I love about the multicultists is the way they will gush about how immigration has transformed Britain, yet when you say to them that immigration has transformed Britain they suddenly feel the need to deny it.”
That’s one of the basic truths about liberalism. Facts indicating the ruin of society by liberalism, such as the changing racial composition of America or Britain, can be said, but only if they are said in unreservedly positive, celebratory terms. They are not allowed to be said in a critical way, or, much of the time, even in merely neutral, factual way.
Posted by Lawrence Auster at December 31, 2008 03:04 PM | Send