Andrew Bolt: Britain has imported the start of a civil war
THE latest terrorist attacks in London show Britain has imported the start of a civil war. To say this will be denounced by apologists as hyperbole. But how can it be denied now, asks Andrew Bolt.
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THE latest terrorist attacks in London show Britain has imported the start of a civil war.
Few police and journalists have wanted to admit this truth for fears of seeming racist. We have the same denialists ourselves.
But how can it be denied now? In March, a British-born Islamist killed five people with his car and his knife outside the British parliament.
Two weeks ago, the Islamist son of Libyan refugees murdered 22 people, many of them teenage girls, at a pop concert in Manchester.
Now at least three men have run down and stabbed people on and near London Bridge. One woman had her throat cut, and a witness reported one of the attackers, described as looking Mediterranean, shouted: “This is for Allah.”
Six people were murdered.
To say this looks like the start of a civil war will be denounced by apologists as hyperbole.
But does anyone seriously think the Islamist attacks will finally stop with yesterday’s murders?
The UK government last month admitted Britain now had an estimated 23,000 jihadists on its streets — about the size of the army reserve.
Then there are the supporters, active or passive.
A face-to-face survey of British Muslims for the BBC last year found 4 per cent openly backed suicide attacks and other acts of Islamist political violence — which amounts to 100,000 Muslims in Britain today.
To deal with the threat, Prime Minister Therese May last month raised the terrorism threat level to extreme and deployed the army on the streets. Yet she still got this London Bridge massacre.
Looks like the start of a civil war to me.
Think what may now follow. Could some non-Muslims, enraged by the attacks and the refusal of the political class to properly protect them, one day respond with violence of their own?
God knows where it all will end.
But we do know where it started — with Britain opening the gates to mass immigration from the Middle East and Africa, while the political class screamed down anyone who dared object.
British Conservative MP Enoch Powell famously became a pariah 49 years ago for warning against importing an underclass that felt marked off by racial differences.
“It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre,” he said.
He said “many thousands” of those immigrants wanted to integrate, “but to imagine that such a thing enters the heads of a great and growing majority of immigrants and their descendants is a ludicrous misconception, and a dangerous one”.
And remember: Powell foresaw all this even before militant Islam put a flame to the wick.
Here, too, we have been wilfully blind. Australians are famously keen to be friends with everyone, but this has translated into a dangerous naivety — a misplaced trust that every newcomer would fall in love with Australia, too.
And so we opened our gates to Muslim Lebanese families fleeing the Lebanese civil war — families who formed the nucleus of a community that’s provided more than half the Muslim terrorists jailed here.
We also stepped up a refugee program that gave us the men who perpetrated the last three Islamist terrorist attacks here — Man Monis, Farhad Jabar and Numan Haider.
This refugee program also imported the Sudanese community that Victorian police statistics show is now 128 times more likely per person to commit aggravated robberies than other Victorians.
To make this disaster worse, we trashed our own history and symbols while running multicultural policies that paid the least assimilated immigrants to stay that way.
Before the September 11 attacks, the NSW Labor government even gave two multicultural grants totalling $7000 to the Islamic Youth Movement, a group based at Lakemba mosque that openly supported Osama bin Laden. It got the money to teach its followers not English but Arabic.
Any warning against this suicidal insanity was howled down as racist, while Muslim Australians fast grew from too few to worry about to too many to offend.
Britain — like bloodied France — is a warning to us. Yes, we must reach out to the very many law-abiding Muslims who join us in rejecting terrorism. We must not demonise the innocent in our fear of the few.
But above all, we must shut the gate. As I said, Britain has imported the makings of a civil war and must now suffer the consequences.
We must at least not add more to our own pool of likely recruits in which the terrorists fish.
Or will we also one day have to send our army on to our streets to protect us?
Admit it and shut the gates
Andrew Bolt
POLICE during the London terrorist attack tweeted advice to the public: “Run. Hide. Tell.” As in, tell police where the killers were.
I’d add a fourth word: “Shut.” As in shut the gates that through which such danger has been imported.
And a fifth: “Admit.” And I’d tweet that to the apologists and sneerers who have tried to deny the danger of Islamic terrorism and vilified those trying to defend us.
#Londonbridge #boroughmarket #vauxhall pic.twitter.com/a7OciBEBjH
— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) June 3, 2017
Here is a short anthology. A longer list is on my blog.
ABC host Virginia Trioli on the “realistic” way to respond to the September 11 attacks by al-Qaeda, led by Osama bin Laden:
What if that involved bringing him somewhere, absolutely safely, sitting down with him, treating him like a human being and talking about it, and then Osama bin Laden going home again, not bombing the hell out of bin Laden.
LABOR frontbencher Kim Carr on the Abbott government’s anti-terrorism proposals, August 2014:
This government is seeking to get away from discussion about real budgetary problems.
AUSTRALIAN Muslim Women’s Association and 59 other Muslim groups and leaders on new anti-terrorism laws, August 2014:
There is no solid evidence to substantiate this threat. Rather, racist caricatures of Muslims as backwards, prone to violence and inherently problematic are being exploited.
IMAN Mohamad Abdalla, associate professor at Griffith University, on terrorism, November 2014:
This is not a Muslim problem.
TV host Waleed Aly after Islamic State slaughtered 130 people in Paris in 2015:
ISIL is weak.
GRAND Mufti Ibrahim Abu Mohammed, claiming the “causative factors” of the Paris massacre were all failings of the West:
It is … imperative that all causative factors such as racism, Islamophobia, curtailing freedoms through securitisation, duplicitous foreign policies and military intervention must be comprehensively addressed.
JOURNALIST Mona Chalabi on the ABC’s Q&A, May 2017:
The threat of Islamic fundamentalism, if you want to view it in terms of the number of dead bodies … isn’t that present.
LAURANCE Krauss on the ABC’s Q&A, May 2017:
You’re more likely to be killed by a refrigerator, in the United States, falling on you.
DR Aloysia Brooks, estranged wife of former al-Qaeda recruit David Hicks, in her PhD thesis, May 2017:
More people die in … bee stings … Therefore, it can be concluded that the counter-terrorism laws have been largely politically driven.
Originally published as Andrew Bolt: Britain has imported the start of a civil war
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