Express declares: Britain is now harboring a menacing enemy within

(Note [March 14]: Philip M. makes an interesting distinction between the way the British feel about police being disrespected, and about the military being disrespected. “No other organ of the state evokes feelings of affection.”)

Frankly, I don’t understand why the insulting Muslim protest against the homecoming British troops parading in Luton set off such a strong negative reaction in the press. From what I’ve read about it, it doesn’t seem worse than or even as bad as many other threatening and totally unacceptable Muslim behaviors and statements toward which the whipped Brits routinely turn the other cheek. But for whatever reason, it has touched a nerve, as seen in the below editorial in the Daily Express, which ends with a call for “radical government action.” The Express gives no hint as to what this radical government action ought to be, so we’re forced to guess. A commission to inquire into the causes of Muslim radicalization? A renewed effort to integrate Muslims into British society? A redoubled campaign to convince Muslims that the majority population doesn’t dislike them?

Express Comment
BRITAIN IS NOW HARBOURING A MENACING ENEMY WITHIN
Wednesday March 11,2009

FOR British troops returning home after risking their lives in the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan to face abuse from Islamic demonstrators in Luton is a sickening development.

The men of the Royal Anglian Regiment kept their cool in the face of demonstrators who branded them “cowards, killers and extremists”.

Few would have blamed them had they confronted the rabble in front of them, their fury fired by the memory of, for example, the five regimental comrades killed by the Taliban during a four-week period in the summer of 2007.

British Army commanders have spoken of finding themselves fighting British Muslims in Afghanistan—a “mini civil war”, one called it. On current trends, that civil war will soon be waged on the home front, too.

The Muslim population of Luton is about 15 per cent and rising fast; it is mainly comprised of families with links to Pakistan—a country regarded as the international hub of Islamist terrorism.

In this it is by no means exceptional among British towns and cities.

Most British Muslims mean their non-Muslim neighbours no harm. But it is becoming increasingly clear that a substantial number are determined to wage a jihad against this nation.

Whether one supported Lord Tebbit’s famous “cricket test” when he first outlined it or not, it is terrifying to consider that some Muslims in Britain are not only cheering for the other side now but fighting for it as well.

This is becoming a civil emergency that requires radical government action. Slow to anger, most British people are still turning the other cheek.

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Karen, who sent the Express article, writes from England:

The Express at last calls a spade a spade and names the Muslim population as the enemy within. Now they should start campaigning for their deportation.

Kevin V. writes:

In your post regarding The Express’ strongly-worded editorial calling for government action in the wake of the disgusting protest by “British” Muslims at a parade for returning British soldiers you state that you “don’t understand why the insulting Muslim protest against the homecoming British troops parading in Luton set off such a strong negative reaction in the press.”

I’m only half-British by birth, so I’ll let our British comrades answer in detail, but I can say as someone who has been deeply interested in British affairs for more than thirty years now that there are a few institutions in which the remarkable decay of that once-great country has been much slower paced. The Army is clearly one of those. In addition to that, though it doesn’t make any consistent sense, the British people (that is, the real British people, not just those with British passports) do still have some sense of historic connection to their country and the institutions that are seen to be central to their country for which they have retained respect.

Muslims saying outrageous things about some Guardian-celebrated author or calling for the murder of Jews or Americans is one thing. Muslims in the streets jeering at Tommy is quite another.

While I am often disheartened by the hope of revival of any of our countries in the West, the biggest thing that gives me hope is the sheer vicious idiocy of our countries’ respective enemies. Despite all the programming leading Britons to accept Muslims as being as British as anyone else, the British Muslims manage to behave so outrageously that they themselves serve to undermine the hard work the British left has been doing for decades. While here in America, the sheer destruction of standards, decency, respect for the law and propriety in family affairs the Mexican brings with him similarly alienates even the most die-hard liberals.

This is the one thing we have going for us. Our enemies are well and truly the products of degraded and disgusting cultures and they can’t help, just by being themselves, demonstrating that their culture and the culture of the majority simply do not mix.

As I’ve maintained for a long time, it is the main task of those of us who see these twin conflicts clearly to establish organizations which would be well-positioned to gather those disillusioned by the obvious failure of the liberal dream, first in drips and drabs, then finally a flood. All honor will accrue to the organization that is clearly placed to say “We’ve been saying this for a long time, welcome back to your senses, welcome to the fight.”

LA replies:

Kevin writes:

“Muslims saying outrageous things about some Guardian-celebrated author or calling for the murder of Jews or Americans is one thing. Muslims in the streets jeering at Tommy is quite another.”

Yes, I understand. It’s an example of the unprincipled exception: Step all over our country? Fine. Threaten to Islamize us? Fine. Threaten to terrorize us if we have “stereotypes” about you? Fine. Turn Islam dominated cities into no-go zones for non-Muslims? Fine. Live for your whole lives in government subsided council housing while you plot our destruction? Fine. But insult our soldiers? Now you’ve gone too far!

In short, the Brits have accepted the principle of the Islamization of Britain, and only react against the Islamization when it hits their emotions in a particularly strong way. But, having accepted the principle of Islamization, they have no principled basis on which to oppose it. Thus this latest outrage will soon be forgotten, and the Islamization will proceed apace—until and unless the British renounce the principle of Islamization and adopt the opposite principle

Kevin replies:

That is exactly right, which is why I noted that the reaction “doesn’t make any consistent sense.” This latest outrage will be forgotten by the press and the country as a whole, but it will not be forgotten by a handful of Britons. That handful, what I called in my earlier email “drips and drabs,” are tiny now. But the Muslim and the Mexican are so consistently over-reaching that those handfuls will eventually grow. The key is that an organization be there for those handfuls of people when they reject the majority consensus and do not forget.

In Britain, these people have a place to go, the BNP. Yes, the BNP is not ideal, but at least it is there for those people, to let them know they are not alone. There is a possibility there that this trickle of individuals refusing to forget and refusing to not reach the obvious conclusion will eventually turn into a force to be reckoned with.

In America, there is no such organization, not yet. In my personal life, I know two people, both good liberals, who have become realists with regard to the Mexican threat as a result of the outrage at Montebello High School. Right now their anger and their desire to resist this finds no outlet; there is no easy way for them to link up with like-minded people who want to do something about this. On the right, one finds only Rich Lowry/Kathryn Lopez “conservatism” and then the toy-Nazis of Stormfront. There is no solid, traditionalist movement in between that would speak to reasonable people changing their minds about the wisdom of multi-culturalism.

As a result, our movement is missing opportunities to grow, to teach and to inspire.

LA replies:

You are right.

Paul Nachman writes:

Wow, Kevin’s first comment is well-put.

March 14

Philip M. writes from England:

You said you could not understand why this protest touched a raw nerve with British people when all the previous protests didn’t. The answer is that in previous demos Muslims directed their anger at the police, not the army. You can see in the Leo Mckistrey the very genuine protective feelings he has for the armed forces. He is fairly typical of the British in that regard. In atomised modern Britain, this sentiment is now almost unique. No other organ of the state evokes feelings of affection, and the modern police in particular no longer seem a part of the people, but an arm of an alien state. No-one cares about them or sees them as being on ‘our’ side.

In Lincoln the other day we had a homecoming parade through town, and 6,000 people came out. This is an incredible size for a town of our size, probably the biggest since VE day, and my BNP colleagues who went along said the mood had very much been influenced by what happened in Luton, a view shared by some in the comments section on the BNP website. Seeing British soldiers treated this way in their own country will be a turning point for many.

LA replies:

Let’s hope you’re right. We can never tell what will finally make wronged or oppressed people, or in this case a demonized and beseiged majority people, say, “Enough!”

And I agree with you about the police in Britain being an arm of an alien power. Come the (counter)revolution, the entire upper ranks of the British police must be cleared out at a minimum, and there must be a complete “de-leftization” of the police forces.

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