Author of Writers & Politics in Nigeria, articles on Anglo Saxon coinage & Philip Larkin: Life, Art & Love. Larkin's Letters Home 1936-1977 published Nov. 2018.
Why is
@WestYorksPolice
participating in a kangaroo court, humiliating the mother of an innocent autistic child? There is no law requiring respect for the Quran in UK. The police should arrest those issuing threats of violence, not take sides with them.
There has been no Hindu terrorism in UK. Islamist outrages are common: Rushdie, mass murder on 7/7/05, Borough Market, Manchester Arena, Asad Shah & David Amess &c. Now Islamists preach hate in Leicester, yet
@KimLeadbeater
writes to the Home Office about the problem of Hinduism!
'In a video uploaded to 5Pillars, Shakeel Afsar is seen demanding to speak to the manager of the cinema about the ‘Islamophobic’ nature of the film. Islamophobia, in this definition, would appear to be anything Afsar deems it to be.' via
@spectator
Congratulations to Michael Race! He has succeeded in writing this long piece without once using the words "Islam" or "Muslim". "of mainly Pakistani origin" is as near as he gets. In Bristol the gang were of Somali origin. The common factor is always Islam.
'One thing we can say with total confidence is that there has never been a white girl so distraught, so despicably abused, so trafficked or so tortured that Labour has not been prepared to sacrifice her on the altar of preserving their Muslim block vote.'
A Sikh caller to the Nick Ferrari LBC programme this morning made the point that no rape gang would ever target a Muslim girl. All victims, white or Asian, are non-Muslim. This, he said, is a hate crime. Like the death threats in Batley & Wakefield, it asserts Islamic dominance.
UK mosques are above the law and know it. Our police are terrorised by Imams, frequently educated outside the UK, ignorant of & hostile to UK history & culture. Gestures of "multicultural" goodwill merely proclaim our weakness to those taught from birth to despise other cultures
Why? Because politicians & police are afraid of Islamist violence. Hinduism is no threat. But after Rushdie, 7/7, Borough Market, Westminster Bridge, Manchester Arena, the Batley teacher, Asad Shah, David Amess, etc etc. we are terrified of seeming to show disrespect for Islam.
@kimleadbeater
And her constituent, to whom her first duty as an MP is owed, is still in hiding with his family, under police protection against the threat of death from the Muslims of Batley & Spen! Is Kim Leadbeater really that hungry for Islamist votes?
The UK countryside is open to Xtians, atheists, Hindus, Jews &c. It is offensive to appropriate it to one aggressive creed. Are there signs in Islamic countries telling walkers the direction of Rome or Bethlehem? Have we decided we want to be dhimmis?
After the 2017 atrocity, Police Chief Ian Hopkins posed with the Imam of the mosque where the killer was radicalised, holding between them the book Abedi cited to justify his act. Whatever the "true" reading of Quran 4:74 & 9:29, no UK policeman should have endorsed this book.
@RSPCA_official
@Ban_Halal_UK
You should be taking a proactive, high profile stance on this scandal. The Islam lobby is aggressive & unscrupulous, with highly placed friends in Government & Opposition. The UK has lost its moral compass if the RSPCA refuses to give this issue public visibility.
@rickygervais
We finance Ofsted to ensure tolerance & equality in schools. Then we give men educated in countries where apostates are killed & women brutalised, power over our teachers, students & police. A plane journey does not change an Islamist bigot into a democratic champion of diversity
The police have come to believe their duty is to protect Islamic ideology from free speech. They refuse to act against those making public threats in Leicester, Batley & Wakefield. They defer to extremism, calling criticism of the hate-filled Quran 'hate'.
@WasiqUK
Unfortunately the author of the Quran, Mohammed, was full of malicious intent. It is the Quran that is shameful. The school had no right to suspend any student for disrespecting it.
Signs to Mecca in National Parks, Ramadan lights in Regent St, prayer chant in the V&A. Harmless, polite multicultural gestures, surely? No. The velvet glove hides an iron hand. Read the Quran. Where will politeness lead next: blasphemy laws? Remember Rushdie, Batley & Wakefield.
If anyone 'weaponised' religion in Leicester, Sir Peter Soulsby did. While Islamists spread violent intimidation he backed hate-preacher, Maajid Freeman's narrative of fictional "HIndutva" violence. Great that so many
@UKLabour
Islamists lost their seats.
@CJBdingo25
@HJS_Org
@CharlotteFLit
How many Hindu terrorist attacks have there been in UK? Did Hindus attack Rushdie? Did Hindus plant bombs on public transport on 7.7.2005? Did a Hindu plant the Manchester Arena bomb? Did Hindus kill Lee Rigby, Asad Shah & David Amess? Are Hindus threatening the Batley teacher?
@WestYorksPolice
Can this mother & her autistic son, or the other students, continue to live in Wakefield after the death threats? Will they be protected by
@WestYorksPolice
who, taking their orders from Akef Akbar, see them as criminals? Can they afford to move?
@UsmanAli4Ward5
@ketthighschool
@Glinner
@KirstieMAllsopp
surely cannot be this stupid. What she says about breast cancer is utterly, entirely, wholly irrelevant to young women who want their own healthy breasts to be removed.
"Social-justice activists like to pat themselves on the back for fighting against ‘fascism’. But when it comes to the violent intolerance of Islamist extremism, they suddenly lose interest."
@metpoliceuk
@DouglasKMurray
In Wakefield the police not only "took advice" from those seeking to suppress freedom of conscience and freedom of speech. Police representatives backed up the threats of violence in person.
@AkefAkbar
Despicable. The Quran is full of contempt for non-Muslims & threats of violence against all who fail to submit to its totalitarian dictates. Your ability to intimidate this teacher & his students comes only and entirely from the threat of violence which you hold over them.
Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey connived with the Iranian regime, refusing
@AlinejadMasih
's request to block its media accounts, while it shut down the internet in Iran to cover up mass murder.
جمهوری اسلامی اینترنت را بست و ۳روزه بیش از ۱۵۰۰ معترض را قتل عام کرد. چرا توییتر و فیسبوک و اینستاگرام سران رژیم را از شبکههای اجتماعی بیرون نیانداختند؟
بخشی از سخنرانیام در هلند در مورد آبان، بستن اینترنت و مادرانی که در ایران رسانهای ندارند
@lisanandy
@SayeedaWarsi
Sorry. You have got this the wrong way round. It is the holy scripture of Islam that tells Muslims they are different by virtue of their religion (race is irrelevant). It also instructs believers not to "fit in" but to make war on unbelievers until their religion reigns supreme.
Despicable.
@kimleadbeater
knows that
@Majstar7
&
@MohammedHijab
are inciting violence in Leicester. She also knows that Islamic terrorism is endemic in UK: 7/7; Borough Market; Manchester Arena; Batley GS; the murders of Asad Shah & David Amess. There is no UK Hindu terrorism.
Kim Leadbeater MP siding with Islamist lies about Leicester. On behalf of one of the outfits that persecuted the Batley teacher!
Leadbeater herself was abused in the street in Batley by Islamist thugs who went on to stir up trouble in Leicester.
Labour at its shameful worst.
Lots of stuff about circuses, the London Marathon, hedgehogs and injured deer on the
@RSPCA_official
site. But nothing nothing about
@Ban_Halal_UK
(or have I missed it?) The RSPCA claims to consider non-stun slaughter cruel but seems afraid to offend the aggressive Muslim lobby.
@FaimaBakar
"...this constant bleating about ‘Muslim grooming gangs’ is specifically being used to shut down important discussions about islamophobia." No No No No No. Constant bleating about "Islamophobia" is being used to shut down important discussions about the ideology of Islam.
At Wakefield mosque on 24 February the mother of the autistic student was isolated at the end of a line of men, including the
@ketthighschool
Head, a Chief Inspector from
@WestYorksPolice
& many mosque elders. She was put on trial & "confessed". Did she have legal representation?
‘For years, the hope in Europe had been that each generation of Muslim immigrants and their children would come closer to embracing Western values, the ideals of the Enlightenment. Now, it’s not so sure.'
@KiranNaz96
In my experience Muslims simply brush aside the question of why the creator of all humanity: women, men, Irish, Inuit, Zulu, Slav, Chinese &c. & their 7000+ languages, entrusted his final message to one monoglot Arab man with no witnesses. The Quran's explanation is pathetic.
An Imam on the
@NickFerrariLBC
programme has just claimed that Islam respects all prophets & sacred books. But the Quran has nothing but abuse for Christians. He also fails to mention Mohammed's murderous hatred for people "not of the book", Yazidis, Hindus, Buddhists, animists.
Terrorism has destroyed honest debate in UK. Muslim MPs dare not call out Islamist extremism in fear for their personal safety.
@kimleadbeater
does the bidding of Islamists & blames Hindus in Leicester. We cannot be sure she would have done this did she not fear violence herself.
Perhaps Muslim groups could remove irresponsible and divisive elements from their sacred scripture? --Muslim groups urge Suella Braverman to withdraw 'irresponsible and divisive' grooming gang comments.
@PeoplesMomentum
Many thanks. This tweet has prompted me to send a donation to Tommy. The attempts of MSM & establishment Islamists like
@mshafiquk
to make him an unperson are deeply sinister. 'If liberty means anything it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.' (Orwell)
@crazyzombienerd
@9_0_9_0_1
@Chrisro11392586
I think it is because arrogant, entitled Muslims have repeatedly brought the loud mayhem & intimidation of an alien, foreign political dispute to her front door in the UK. It is not difficult to sympathise with her.
@JWR_UK
Yes. This "discourse" is indeed very inconvenient for social cohesion as
@NazShahBfd
said. It would be convenient if we could cover up the fact that the flesh-&-blood child exploitation which gives rise to this discourse is so often "tinged" with cultural-religious attitudes.
The Imam of
@Swafia_Mosque
to whom Inspector Andy Thornton of
@WestYorksPolice
& Tudor Griffiths, Head of
@Ketthighschool
defer. The futures of four lively-minded 14-year olds are at the mercy of an ignorant man who calls the protected characteristic of homosexuality "barbaric".
The Quran blasphemes violently against Hindus and Yazidis (9:5), against Judaism and Christianity (5:51, 19:88) and against sceptics (8:55). Yet we are told we must not blaspheme against this, the most blasphemous of all ideologies.
Sweden calls for vigilance abroad after Quran desecrations and protests The Swedish government and relevant authorities ”are monitoring developments, taking a variety of measures and working closely with international partners to protect Swedes and Swedish
When I began teaching postcolonial literature 4 decades ago "multiculturalism" meant the rejection of racial & cultural prejudice in favour of common humanity. Now "multiculturalism" means the assertion of divisive racial or religious identity in rejection of common humanity.
From social cohesion based on common humanity to multicultural diversity based on privileging a violent minority. "If Charlie Hebdo was published in Edinburgh and the office attacked by terrorists, would the SNP arrest the surviving staff because they had committed a hate crime?"
The Head Teacher of a Wakefield school has suspended students whose "actions did not treat the Quran with the respect it should have". Who has decided which books "should have" respect in our schools? Are students to ignore the Quran's hatred of non-Muslims?
@FreeSpeechUnion
This is the Imam of
@Swafia_Mosque
in Wakefield, the man to whom UK police & politicians have surrendered the education and futures, of our schoolchildren. He believes that homosexuality is "barbarism".
Only the 1% of UK hikers who are Muslim would be allowed into the Mecca they pray towards. If any of the other 99% were to hike to Mecca they would be turned away as kuffar infidels, & "worse than beasts" (Quran 8:55). Have
@adidasUK
thought this through?
Dropping a book is a "hate incident" according to the police. But making death threats prompted by this hate-filled book, is not. --- Home Secretary to crack down on police reporting of non-crime hate incidents
Sir Peter Soulsby
@CityMayorLeic
, was filmed discussing the review (prior to Chris Allen’s public appointment) with the Muslim activist Majid Freeman. 'The people of Leicester deserve a truly independent and impartial inquiry. This is not it.'
After reciting passages to each other four students conclude that the Quran deserves no respect. For this healthy scepticism & moral awareness they are suspended from school, convicted of "hate" by
@WestYorksPolice
& receive death threats from Muslims. They are fourteen.
So much propaganda aimed at normalising the unhealthy & cruel "fast" of Ramadan in the UK. To drink nothing all day is dangerous for doctors, nurses, drivers &cc. & how much halal meat at Iftar is killed without stunning?
@RSPCA_official
@Keir_Starmer
@RishiSunak
@BBCNews
@GBNEWS
@Bushra1Shaikh
I assume you are including the hate crimes of the 1989 fatwa (& its recent consequences), 7/7/2005, Borough Market, Glasgow Airport, Westminster Bridge, Fishmonger's Hall, Manchester Arena, Liverpool and the murders of Lee Rigby, Asad Shah and David Amess.
Do leaders of the UK Muslim community,
@sayeedaWarsi
@miqdaad
@APPGBritMuslims
, consider this to be "Islamophobia"? -- As a Rotherham grooming gang survivor, I want people to know about the religious extremism which inspired my abusers
At a Stalinist show trial Councillors &
@WestYorksPolice
extort a confession from a terrorised mother. Wrongthink is punished &, like Orwell's Winston Smith, we must all now learn to love our Big Brother Mohammed.
@NorwichChloe
@davidlammy
@SarahAB_UK
Tudor Griffiths, Head of
@ketthighschool
&
@WestYorksPolice
owe a duty of care to children with disabilities. They have failed in this duty. They have subjected the mother of an autistic boy to public humiliation. If this was a "hate incident" who was hating whom?
@NorwichChloe
@Bushra1Shaikh
This is the book in question. Blasphemy is punishable by death in 13 countries. Islamists issue death threats in UK for this "crime" (lately to four independent-minded 14-year olds in Wakefield). Blasphemy is essential to civilization & must be protected at all costs.
@Bushra1Shaikh
"Quran is the word of God not man". 🤔 Strange that god knows nothing of the solar system he himself created. And isn't it a bit fishy that his universal message is only in Arabic, rather than in all 7000 languages he created? Quite a coincidence that Mohammed spoke only Arabic.
The Islamic world is unconcerned when human beings are burned alive or cut to pieces in Pakistan, Nigeria & Bangladesh for 'blasphemy'. But Islamic leaders shamelessly attack civilised countries for allowing the burning of a mere book. via
@MailOnline
@FatihSeferagic
The Quran is not for Yazidis, Hindus, "unbelievers" or those whom Allah has decided to lead astray, at least not if they want to stay alive.
Meanwhile a real flesh and blood human being is burned to death in Sialkot after being accused of disrespecting the Quran, and a woman is condemned to death. There is something very wrong here.
@IamWilliamSmith
What a nice man that Imam seems to be, as he discreetly pulls the Policeman's strings. He exudes trustworthiness and respect for human dignity. We are in safe hands with him.
Today the police would be after George Bernard Shaw for "Islamophobia" and hate speech, despite the fact that his analysis is perfectly accurate.
@DrChrisAllen
@ShaziaHobbs
@ArminNavabi
@PaulGosling1
@MatthewdAncona
When I drew Vaz's attention to the fact that his loud sympathy for Muslims dancing around with placards reading "Kill the Satan", sat uneasily with the (then) view of his Catholic religion that Mohammed was a fraud, he threatened me with legal action. Nasty piece of work.
@AzharTheGreat
@CensoredMen
"As Muslims, we stand for peace and justice for all." So you disagree with your prophet who makes it crystal-clear that infidels and pagans do not deserve peace or justice. Have you not read the Quran?
The multi-faith euphoria projected by the coronation ceremony is a touching illusion. According to the Quran Charles's religion is a monstrous blasphemy (18:5) & those who do not submit to Islam are worse than beasts (8:55).
In 1766 19-yr-old François-Jean de la Barre was tortured, beheaded & burnt with Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary nailed to his torso for failing to doff his hat in front of a religious procession. He didn't even disrespect a sacred book. via
@NatSecSoc