Appeasing newspaper reporting

Something I have been reading about in various books recently is the proclivity of left-wing journalists and newspapers to “sanitize” any reports involving Muslim hostility. They barely mention Islam, instead always seeking to attribute the hostility to some other cause. I saw one example – two in fact – for myself in a copy of leftist newspaper The Guardian which I found on the tube today:

The first story involved a Jewish Frenchman who was lured by a honey trap then held for ransom and horrifically tortured for 3 weeks before being dumped on a road side and dying of his injuries. The headline mentioned the merely “French” gang and the journalist wrote of France’s “deprived” housing estates.

But in fact, as the article also mentions, his captors were Muslim and the sadistic ringleader was heard to shout “Allah will be victorious” in court. The journalist merely put this down to him being “a deliberately provocative character”. But in fact these people are unlikely to even regard themselves as French. This has nothing to do with poverty and everything to do with ideology. As it happens, Islam properly followed is an ideology hostile to all others, and it encourages a particular hatred towards Jews. There’s no stepping around that fact: it just needs to be faced.

What this story neglected to mention, also, is that the kidnappers recited quotations from the Qur’an down the phone to the victim’s family while they tortured him. So it is plainly obvious that Islam and its dictates played a significant role in this crime. Simply ask yourself whether these people would have been prepared to do the same thing to a fellow Muslim. Or indeed anybody but a Jew? Perhaps the journalist thought she would lose her job if she told the full truth – it wouldn’t surprise me. You might ask yourself: when is the liberal West going to wake up and have the courage to call a spade a spade? Probably not before it is too late.

The second story I saw in The Guardian regarded two Muslim UK citizens who have been jailed for seven years for planning to attend terrorist camp training in Pakistan (as more than 1,000 other British Muslims have done) so that they could kill their fellow (non-Muslim) Britons. It’s amazing they were jailed at all, but the family of one of the 7/7 bombing victims said they wished the sentence had been longer. After all, these two will probably be out in 3 years. Well, of course it couldn’t be longer: we wouldn’t want to risk outrage among a potentially violent minority, despite these two would-be murderers being convicted on “overwhelming evidence”.

The thing that struck me from a journalistic point of view about this story though was the headline, which read “Judge says Muslim men betrayed UK by planning trip to terror camp”. Can you see the problem with that? “Judge says”. The newspaper obviously felt an obligation to insert these words as if to suggest this was merely a matter of opinion. But is it not a matter of opinion, it is a matter of fact.

Until we see less appeasing reporting in the leftist press of the UK, which so many read, we are not going to be able to properly get to grips with the threat Islamic ideology poses within the UK.

PJ Harvey: We Float

Degeneration of society

In the fleeting moments that you pass two indigenous people in conversation (or one in conversation with themselves) on the streets of Balham – a relatively good part of London – what is the word you are most likely to hear?

I’ll give you a clue: it starts with “F”.

This is the same manner of conversation you will hear in the pubs, and it will be loud. And if you were to object to it, who do you think would be the person asked to leave the pub?

What are these people walking the streets likely to be doing? Smoking. Killing themselves (and you, if you let them).

You weave your way home, between these people, between the tottering half-dressed women, the men dressed for some reason as boys, the hooded youths illegally cycling on the pavement (who know they run virtually no risk of prosecution). Through the utterly separate community of asylum seekers living here for free – and you ask yourself:

“Is this the way a civilised society is supposed to be?”

If you have any sense of decency whatsoever, you can’t help but answer in the negative.

The downward spiral

Not the Nine Inch Nails album, but rather a set of observations about what is happening in the United Kingdom. This is a list I have had for some time but will write up now and re-visit in the future.

I will list a number of premises:

1. The people who are in general having most children are the poorer members of society, the most irresponsible members of society (who exhibit a failure to be able to identify or adhere to what is best for them) and the religiously indoctrinated.
2. These people are encouraged to have children by the state, who offer a variety of financial incentives.
3. Soft laws and pleasant prisons offer an inadequate disincentive to crime.
4. The government has decided not to build “Titan” prisons to house criminals.
5. As the number of dependents grows, it becomes against the government’s own interests to introduce corrective policies which they would not like (because they depend on their votes). Thus a vicious circle is created.
6. More affluent non-religious young people are tending not to have children as they embrace a selfish culture of “the individual” and time-wasting game playing (both of which are encouraged by the media) in favour of real relationships.
7. More responsible and sensitive citizens often conclude they would not wish to introduce children, new people, into a society such as the one they view around them.
8. We have an aging population and are not having enough children to support that population in the future.
9. People are not saving enough to cater for themselves in retirement.
10. The nation is not producing enough children to maintain its own culture. (The CIA World Factbook reports a birth-rate of only 1.66 children per fertile UK woman. The countries having the most children are the least developed and most religiously extreme.)
11. The children of the poor and irresponsible are supported, through taxes, by the rich.
12. The children of the poor and irresponsible have little chance of being able to free themselves from their predicament and, through a combination of genetics and conditioning, are likely to repeat the mistakes of their parents.
13. Technology is progressing rapidly and, one by one, removing mundane unskilled jobs from the marketplace. These tasks are being automated, leaving mainly skilled jobs in their place.
14. It is no good throwing money at a problem. Some problems are resistant to this. For example, it is no good buying a fleet of new Macs for children who do not want to learn, or cannot learn (as is often done). The availability of the computers will not at all address the root of the problem and the machines are likely to be used to access Facebook, at best.
15. We are diluting any sense of national identity or purpose by offering financial incentives for adherents of less civilised cultures to come and settle here (legally or illegally).
16. So copious are the benefits we offer, they leave no incentive for people to work.
17. Religious belief is irrational, contrary to evidence, capable of raising high emotions and, as such, frequently responsible for murders and wars.
18. Religious belief is inherently divisive rather than inclusive.
19. Religious belief is sanctioned by and overtly respected by the state with its promotion of faith (indoctrination) schools and its banning from the country of those who speak out against religion (e.g. Geert Wilders).

This list is not refined or perfected, and not supported here by many facts and figures. It hardly needs to be: just walk around London for a while. I will return to it and tighten it up. But if the premises are correct, as I believe they are, then they constitute a recipe for disaster for any society. Combined with the cancer of political correctness, which prevents many from even discussing these issues for fear of losing their friends or their jobs, this before us is a picture of a civilisation in decline.

Tit for Tat

It is the anonymity of cities, along with the psychopathic tendencies of many people, that cause tit-for-tat to break down.

The meaning of the word “deprived”

You quite often hear about “deprived areas” on the news. “Ah well… they live in a deprived area”. So I have been thinking, what exactly does this mean?

Are they deprived of electricity? Of running water? Are they deprived of public libraries? Is there no free schooling in that area? Does the National Health Service not extend to there? Is there no benefits system there? No security net for bad behaviour? Are there no banks that will lend to people who come up with good business ideas? Are there no prisons (should I say “hotels”?) that will put criminals up for free?

They’re not really deprived. Not like Mogadishu. They’re more depraved. Morally deprived. Entrepreneurial spirit has been allowed to rot, and decadence and dependence set in.

Margaret Thatcher Quotation

It’s fashionable to hate Margaret Thatcher much as it’s fashionable to hate the USA, but ignoring that – how relevant these words of hers are to today:

“I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand “I have a problem, it is the Government’s job to cope with it!” or “I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!” “I am homeless, the Government must house me!” and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society?

There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbour and life is a reciprocal business and people have got the entitlements too much in mind without the obligations…”

- British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

Following the wreckage created by the Labour government, the open door immigration policy, the enormous welfare state and its abuse, everyone can see how right they were.

Mark Steyn writes

“The state has gradually annexed all the responsibilities of adulthood — health care, child care, care of the elderly — to the point where it’s effectively severed its citizens from humanity’s primal instincts, not least the survival instinct.

In the American context, the federal “deficit” isn’t the problem; it’s the government programs that cause the deficit. These programs would still be wrong even if Bill Gates wrote a cheque to cover them each month. They corrode the citizen’s sense of self-reliance to a potentially fatal degree.

Big government is a national security threat: it increases your vulnerability to threats like Islamism, and makes it less likely you’ll be able to summon the will to rebuff it.”

- Mark Steyn

Running through socialism and liberalism is the naive idea that everybody would work hard and be good if only they were given the chance. What is happening in the UK now will either bury these theories forever or bury civilisation itself.

State of the UK

Here is what is is happening in the UK now. It has to be reported by the Americans because the British media has gagged itself with political correctness, thereby aiding and abetting the decline of the nation.

What the presenter says at the end about the need to have Christianity to have morals, is of course wrong, but hey, rather Christianity than Islam. Christianity isn’t so much of a problem in the UK any more few people really take it seriously. What people need to understand, of course, is that they can live by good moral principles for their own sake, and not because of any supposed command from “on high”.

Straight from the Qur’an

“At the end of the day, when we say “innocent people” we mean “Muslims”. As far as non-Muslims are concerned, they have not accepted Islam. As far as we are concerned, that is a crime against God.”

- UK Islamist & benefit recipient Anjem Choudary

At least this guy knows his Qur’an. Why won’t the British government take what these people say at face value?

Speaking out

There are two good reasons why people won’t speak out publicly about what is happening in the UK, even though they didn’t choose for it to happen, and they don’t like it:

1. They’ll lose their jobs.
2. They might lose their lives.

There’s one good reason why they should – and should be able to – speak out:

1. The future of western civilisation

Because if this one fails, they’ll definitely lose their jobs and their lives, and so will many other people.

Mark Steyn on multiculturalism

This really starts to pick up towards the end.

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The Islamicisation of Britain

Here’s a quotation from While Europe Slept:

“France will become a Muslim country. French leaders know it. They will never take a decision that could make young Muslims angry. It’s one of the reasons why they could not support the United States during the war in Iraq. The result would have been riots in the suburbs, and the French police is ill-equipped to face riots.”

- Guy Milliere, Professor of Cultural History, Sorbonne

Exactly the same could be said of the UK, and that is why the government denied innocent, invited, European MP Geert Wilders entry to the UK. The British government has a policy of “head-in-sand” abject appeasement.

One only needs to look at current trends in marriage, UK decadence and the incredible amount of asylum seekers in London, to see that the same is going to happen in the UK.  I literally cannot walk down the street in Balham without seeing dozens of asylum seekers, all having free housing and bringing what are essentially backward cultures into the UK.  I’m saying this while it’s still not illegal to say it, because so bent is the government on this country’s destruction, it seems, it’s probably only a matter of time before it will be illegal to speak the truth.

The “newcomers” are having children. We’re not. “Mohammed” is the most popular baby name in France, the second most popular in the UK. You do the math. Some estimate that Britain will be a predominantly Muslim country within 30 years (and France in 20). I think it will take a little longer – maybe 50 years. But there won’t need to be a war or a coup: if current trends continue, British law and culture will simply become more Muslim through due democratic process. It’s not rasict to question this (Islam is not even a race). It’s time to take a good look at Islam, and ask if this is really what you want for the UK and for your children here.

The way the government are going, they are risking a civil war, especially as the recession affects people’s lives more and more. I don’t want a civil war, I want the government to wake up.

Nice quotation

“There is almost no conflict in the world at present in which Islam does not play a prominent role.”

- Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn (who was assassinated for his views in 2002)

Government responds to “There is no God” petition

The government has made what can only be described as an idiotic response to to this recent petition which 910 people signed.

Throughout this text you can see that they conflate ethics with religion when the two are actually separate subjects. They’re just bundled in together for the government along with “spiritualism”. The text also contains pearls of wisdom such as this:

“It plays a central role in the curriculum of all schools and that is why it is part of the basic school curriculum.”

Is that tautology some kind of joke? Who do they get to write these?

Another classic is this:

“It encourages respect for those holding different beliefs.”

Politically correct drivel. We should not respect people who stone rape victims to death, for example. As Pat Condell has said, religion has been granted far too much respect – and that is what’s got us into the trouble we’re in now.

It’s very fashionable to say that everybody’s views are equal and everybody deserves respect, etc. – especially where religion is involved. That’s rubbish. Not all people are equally deserving of respect, and if they’re religious that’s one reason to respect someone less – because they obviously have not thought for themselves.

These petitions really are a waste of time. That’s why it’s time to vote out this relativist, appeasing government before they damage this once great country even further.