Much has been made in the press of the purported epidemic of anti-Muslim hate-crime which has apparently swept the nation since the brutal murder of Drummer Lee Rigby by two Muslim men a few weeks ago. Websites have been reporting the statistics issued by the government funded group, Tell MAMA, which records incidents of potential hate-crimes against Muslims. According to this organisation, attacks of various kinds against Muslims had increased so much that Project director Fiyaz Mughal described the figure as representing a ‘substantial spike’ in hate crimes and warned of ‘a sustained wave of attacks and intimidation’ against Muslim communities across Britain. He said that he saw no end to the unprecedented cycle of violence.Of course it later became clear that the vast majority of these reported incidents were online, usually on Twitter or Facebook. And most of the others represented only verbal abuse shouted across the street. Not pleasant certainly, but not the same as a violent, physical assault as was being implied. There is, it would seem, no unprecendented cycle of violence for Fiyaz Mughal to worry about.
What is rather disturbing is the recent case of six Muslims sentenced to 19 years in prison for planning, preparing and setting off to actually blow up an EDL march in Dewsbury last year. They had collected 18,000 pieces of extremist Muslim literature, and the judge said, such radicalising material was not difficult to find or share, which was an issue of “continuing significance”. We hear daily calls for Internet companies to prohibit the publication and distribution of all child pornography as their moral duty, but we have not heard calls for Google and Microsoft to be responsible for prohibiting the distribution of such Islamic materials.
Indeed the judge in this case noted that the availability of this material was only ‘partly to blame’ for the planned atrocity. The six Muslims, Jewel Uddin, 27, Omar Mohammed Khan, 31, Mohammed Hasseen, 24, Anzal Hussain, 25, Mohammed Saud, 23, and Zohaib Ahmed, 22, all from Birmingham, admitted planning to attack the EDL. But the judge suggested that in fact the EDL was itself partly to blame!
Unlawful violence of any kind, and foul and inflammatory insults of a racial nature or directed towards a particular religious group deserve at the least unequivocal condemnation, whoever or whatever the source,” he said. “I acknowledge the unrest and enormous distress such behaviour gives rise to. But as a response, more unlawful violence is not on the list of options.
It seems as though the judge equates the lawful protests of the EDL with the terrorism which these Muslims had intended to unleash on the streets of Britain. Is that reasonable? Can a placard saying ‘No Sharia in the UK’ be equated with a pipe bomb? Even the Metropolitan Police are spreading the same meme that there is a massive increase in anti-Muslim hate crime and that it is the Nuslim community alone which faces violence, saying..
We normally have about one Islamophobic crime a day across London, we have seen around eight a day. Predominantly it’s name calling, it’s minor criminal damage but on some occasions, like the two arsons we have heard of, there are serious crimes
This type of response serves to diminish any sense that non-Muslims can be the focus of violence and abuse. It is not commendable that any Muslims face abuse on twitter, but this does not compare to the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby. It is not pleasant that any Muslims face foul language on Facebook, but this does not compare to the attempted murder and wounding of many people at the EDL march in Dewsbury.
Where do non-Muslims go to report abuse and hate crimes? Or is it not possible for some Muslims to hate non-Muslims? Here is a test. This is what Anjem Choudary, the friend and mentor of the killers of Rigby has recently preached…
Democracy, freedom, secularism, the parliament, all the MPs and the Presidents, all the kuffar’s ideas, everything the people worship, we have to believe that they are bad and we have got to reject them. Reject them with our tongue. Reject them with our heart. In our heart have hatred towards them.
Do you find this offensive? Do you consider it to be hate-speech? It is difficult to see that opposing Sharia Law, something which has no history at all in the UK, but which is considered a hate crime, compares with the public call to hate democracy, freedom, secularism and all the Western ideas and traditions.
Why not Tell PAPA and take this simple poll so that we can see whether non-Muslims find such language to be distressing, a cause of anxiety and fear, and an expression of hatred towards the non-Muslim community.
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This causes me alarm and distress. I am very frightened by this, I wish to be reported to the police and the relevant authorities. Phil Dickens Liverpool, Walton.
Everyone gets abuse at some time, you can see on YouTube, all races/religions being picked on, at the end of the day what do you think preaching hate is going to to????? I honestly think that he’s responsible for what’s happening, he’s caused it by what he preaches. Anjem has let people in the Muslim community down by giving Islam bad press, he should step down from what he does as it’s obviously effecting his community and making their lives hard whether they agree with him or not. He is an embarrassment to his community, who says bad things and kicks off when people retaliate. If I went up to a fat man in the street and told him how much I hate fat people I would probably get a punch in the nose, so what’s the difference???? Grow up mate and get a job and mingle in society.
I find this very threatening and worry about the future of my family
Anjem Choudary is a terrorist, although he may not physically carry out crimes he fuels the minds of the people who do. This man must be stopped and charged with hate crimes against Britain. If we don’t act now how long before he brainwashes more people.
I find Anjem Choudary’s comments frightening, abusive, inflammatory, and divisive. I do not understand why non Muslims are being victimised, more and more, by the Muslim community – who, after all, are less than 5% of the UK population. It feels as if there is an attitude of fear when dealing with the Muslim community – and although I am not a supporter of the EDL, I can understand why they have demonstrations against Islam and the Muslims, who have been seen and heard to demand sharia law, who have called for death to the British police and armed forces; who have demanded halal food in all our schools, hospitals, prisons etc. The Muslim community, if they are as peace loving as they claim, need to forcefully stand up and denounce the likes of Anjem Choudary. They also need to live by British laws, morals, and ethics. It appears to the world, that Britain rolls over and plays dead, when it comes to the demands of the Muslim community. We have not forgotten the 7/7 bombings, and the deafening silence from the Muslim community, when they should have been denouncing the terrible attacks that day. Muslims are feared and mistrusted, and Britons fear that the Briatin they knew, is slowly but surely, being overrun by Muslims, and Islam. We do not see a religion of peace. All we see, are the likes of the horrific attack on that innocent soldier, Lee Rigby – and we fear for our families. If Muslims cannot assimilate fully into British culture, then they need to live in a country that supports their beliefs and lifestyle. It certainly isn’t Britain. We have to stop being the doormat of the world.
Islam is in this country for one reason – subjugation of the population of the UK. Only 5% of our population are Muslims, but our prisons are over subscribed by them, they are responsible for more attacks in this country per capita than any other group, They are responsible for an epidemic of rape and grooming of non Muslim children. They preach hate more than any other group, have Muslim ghettos and no-go areas where others are prejudiced including gays and women, fraud and crime is at high levels, drug importation and dealing is high, they download more terrorist material than other groups. They also practice FGM, wife-beating and treat women as third rate citizens. They attack our soldiers, called for the death of the Pope, they praise the 9/11 hijackers, praised the killers of Lee Rigby, Praise acts of violent jihad. They travel to Pakistan and Afghanistan to fight holy wars and receive armed training. As you look just a bit further afield the atrocities get even worse. We have a political elite that seems blind to Islam, we have a left wing agenda that supports and protects Islam, we have a media that will not tell the truth, the EU is promoting Islam into Europe to displace the endemic populations as they seek to destroy Nationalism and our borders. Any anti Islamic protest groups peaceful or not are pilloried and demonised and police attack and arrest patriots who do not much more than protest while Muslims confront them with sticks and knives and non are arrested. This country and it’s people are not safe all the while Islam is allowed to proliferate here. Islam must be banished before they get to numbers where they will start to massacre people on the streets of Britain!!
I hate the muslims.what they did to that poor solder in broad daylight is horrible.the world has a huge problem with these subhumans.they attack and kill innocent people every day.they rape women and girls every day.if we dont stop them now,they will take over our countries and kill anyone who will not convert to islam.they will destroy all of our freedoms of choice.
With the open borders we still have, this sort of behaviour, whether cultural or not, is frightening:
Islamic group shoot dead Syrian 14-year-old boy in front of his parents for blasphemy after saying ‘he wouldn’t even give the Prophet a free coffee’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2339367/Syrian-boy-Mohammad-14-shot-dead-parents-Islamic-extremists-claimed-insulted-Prophet.html
Mother ‘beat son, 7, to death then set fire to his body’ because he struggled to learn the Koran off by heart
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2226408/Sara-Ege-beat-son-Yaseen-death-set-body-struggled-learn-Koran-heart.html
‘I would do it again 100 times’: Muslim father ‘murdered his THREE daughters in honour killing for dating wrong boys’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061842/Mohammad-Shafia-murdered-daughter-honour-killing-said-hed-again.html
And we cannot even raise these issues without the threat of someone considering it offensive.
Well, all these examples were not even thought of, thirty years ago.
Now they are part of ‘normality’! It’s the Daily Mail’s fault! 🙂
RobertC June 11th, 2013 – 16:04
“It’s the Daily Mail’s fault! :)”
Robert please tell me that you are joking.
This causes me alarm and distress. I am very frightened by this, I wish to be reported to the police and the relevant authorities
Global warming and other issues are not the problem.
There is only one problem , one danger to us, and that is Islam .
Islam….is pure evil….
Anjem Choudary is a major super freak and needs to be stopped preachin this hatred on our streets. He needs to be arrested immediately, and should actualy be deported. And not just Chouder soup man, all these horrible vile crazy muslims need to be deported and banned from the uk.
And we all know what they mean when they say ‘HATE’… RIP LEE GIGBY
This causes me great alarm and distress. I am very frightened by this, I wish to be reported to the police and the relevant authoritie
Please can we see an end to this madness? It’s bad enough fighting Islamism without having to fight among ourselves too.
I find Muslims insulting, their Koran IS a hate crime. It is evil and vile.
David Ossitt – 16:22 ‘Would I lie to you?’
No, but I admit it was irony.