Some thoughts on Islam from London’s new mayor Boris Johnson
12 May, 2008
Islamophobia Watch has put together a few interesting comments of the newly elected Islamophobic mayor of London, Boris Johnson:
The Qur'an
"To any non-Muslim reader of the Koran, Islamophobia – fear of Islam – seems a natural reaction, and, indeed, exactly what that text is intended to provoke. Judged purely on its scripture – to say nothing of what is preached in the mosques – it is the most viciously sectarian of all religions in its heartlessness towards unbelievers. As the killer of Theo Van Gogh told his victim's mother this week in a Dutch courtroom, he could not care for her, could not sympathise, because she was not a Muslim.
"The trouble with this disgusting arrogance and condescension is that it is widely supported in Koranic texts, and we look in vain for the enlightened Islamic teachers and preachers who will begin the process of reform. What is going on in these mosques and madrasas? When is someone going to get 18th century on Islam's mediaeval ass?" (Spectator, 16 July 2005)
7/7 Bombings
"... it is no use the Muslim Council of Great Britain endlessly saying that 'the problem is not Islam', when it is blindingly obvious that in far too many mosques you can find sermons of hate, and literature glorifying 9/11 and vilifying Jews." (Daily Telegraph, 14 July 2005)
"The Islamicists last week horribly and irrefutably asserted the supreme importance of that faith, overriding all worldly considerations, and it will take a huge effort of courage and skill to win round the many thousands of British Muslims who are in a similar state of alienation, and to make them see that their faith must be compatible with British values and with loyalty to Britain. That means disposing of the first taboo, and accepting that the problem is Islam. Islam is the problem." (Spectator, 16 July 2005)
Religious Hatred Bill
"The proposed ban on incitement to 'religious hatred' makes no sense unless it involves a ban on the Koran itself.... Militant Islam has been shielded from proper discussion by cowardice, political correctness and a racist assumption that we should privilege the beliefs of a minority, even when they appear to be mediaeval." (Daily Telegraph, 21 July 2005)
The Trouble with Islam
"What makes modern Islam so politically troublesome is that some Muslims can be induced to take offence not just at an insult to Islam, but at any injustice suffered by one of their co-religionists, and it is this deep personal sense of outrage – scarcely explicable to our post-enlightenment souls – that helps the whacko imams to warp the alienated young men into becoming suicide bombers...." (Daily Telegraph, 21 July 2005)
Invasion of Afghanistan
and the 'Clash of Civilisations'
"Messrs Bush and Blair have a nightmarish diplomatic battle on their hands to persuade the Muslims that this is simply a response to terror. That task is made infinitely more difficult by the unsayable truth, which any student of the Koran will recognise: that this is, to some extent, a clash of civilisations. It is a crunching of cultural tectonic plates that has been going on, intermittently, since Mohammed's followers warred with Charlemagne." (Daily Telegraph, 18 October 2001)
Iraq and the 'War on
Terror'
"To the paranoid Muslim mind, the evident bogusness of the 'war on terror' – in so far as it applied to Iraq – suggested that the war was really about something else: about oil, about humiliating and dominating the Islamic world.... To keep talking of war plays on militant Muslim paranoia, and, incidentally, since it is a key point of Islamic theology that the suicide bomber may not be called a martyr, and therefore entitled to his ration of virgins/raisins, unless he dies in 'war', we are by our own vocabulary offering these people an incitement to murder." ( Spectator, 16 July 2005)
Foxhunting Ban and Halal
Slaughter
"I looked at all those Labour members, gibbering and hooting like a bunch of flea-ridden gibbons, taunting Nicholas Soames and other Tories brave enough to stick up for an ancient way of life. Would they dare to attack halal? Would any of them, in their largely urban seats, with their sizeable Muslim minorities, ever have the guts to denounce Islamic ritual slaughter? Like hell they would." (Daily Telegraph, 5 December 2002)
Multiculturalism and
immigration
"As Theodore Dalrymple pointed out in last week's Spectator ... young Muslim girls are routinely taken out of school, before the age prescribed by law; they are taken off to Pakistan and obliged to marry men they have no wish to marry. Does it show a pleasing multicultural tolerance, that we allow this to go on? … As W F Deedes has recently pointed out, multiculturalism is the wretched consequence of Enoch Powell. After his inflammatory 1968 speech, it became almost impossible to talk about immigration." ( Daily Telegraph, 1 November 2001)
Multiculturalism and 'Britishness'
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"... too many Britons have absolutely no sense of allegiance to this country or its institutions. It is a cultural calamity that will take decades to reverse, and we must begin now with what I call in this morning's Spectator the re-Britannification of Britain. That means insisting, in a way that is cheery and polite, on certain values that we identify as British. If that means the end of spouting hate in mosques, and treating women as second-class citizens, then so be it. We need to acculturate the second-generation Muslim communities to our way of life." (Daily Telegraph, 14 July 2005)
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"We've all got to be as British as Carry On films and scotch eggs and falling over on the beach while trying to change into your swimming trunks with a towel on. We should all feel the same mysterious pang at the sight of the Queen. We do indeed need to inculcate this Britishness, especially into young Muslims.... We should teach British history. We should think again about the jilbab, with the signals of apartness that it sends out, and we should probably scrap faith schools. We should forbid the imams from preaching sermons in anything but English; because if you want to build a society where everyone feels included, and where everyone shares in the national story, we cannot continue with the multicultural apartheid." (Daily Telegraph, 4 August 2005)
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"... here is how John Reid could prove that he was really tough. Here is the bravest thing he could possibly say. He should say that the real problem in our society, and the reason we have so many disaffected and alienated Muslim youths, is that for a generation he and people like him supported the disastrous multicultural agenda. The reason that 40 per cent of British Muslims would like some form of Sharia law in this country is that the Left has traditionally deprecated British institutions and even the teaching of English. A truly brave John Reid would now publicly grovel to Ray Honeyford, the Bradford head who called for teaching in English and who was vilified and persecuted by the Left." (Daily Telegraph, 16 November 2006)
[Note: In a notorious article published in the Salisbury Review in 1984 Honeyford claimed to expose "the real educational consequences of the general acceptance of the notion that multi-racial inner cities are not only inevitable but, in some sense, desirable". Reporting on a meeting with Bradford Asian parents at his school, he wrote: "The hysterical political temperament of the Indian sub-continent became evident – an extraordinary sight in an English School Hall." Honeyford denounced as "totalitarian" the proposals that "schoolbooks with a racist content should be scrapped" and that "racist teachers should be dismissed". This is the man Johnson hails as a hero.]
Faith schools
"... he worries about schools that, without proper regulation, might encourage divisions between communities. He does not mean Jewish ones. 'It's pretty obvious what I'm talking about,' he says, rather gruffly. Indeed it is. 'I do worry there are some communities, where faith schools that aren't properly regulated and controlled could be places that encourage more division...'." (Jewish Chronicle, 7 September 2007)
Shabina Begum
"This ludicrous and lamentable case had nothing to do with 'modesty'. I don't believe she wore the jilbab to 'regain control of her body'.... This case wasn't even about religion, or conscience, or the dictates of faith. At least it wasn't primarily about those things. It was about power. It was about who really runs the schools in this country, and about how far militant Islam could go in bullying the poor, cowed, gelatinous and mentally spongiform apparatus of the British state.
"… the Court of Appeal was quite wrong in its assessment of Shabina's human rights. Yes, she has the right to freedom of religion, but she could not manifest that freedom in such a way as to prejudice the school's ability to ensure discipline and order, and to run things in the way it wanted. Even in Strasbourg, home of the European Court of Human Rights, there is a long-standing tradition of upholding the discretion of educational establishments in matters of dress not least in several important cases defending the right of Turkish universities to ban headscarves.
"How could the Court of Appeal have missed this? Is it really possible that British appeal court judges have less robust common sense than the judges of Strasbourg? Or is it also that our judges suffer, like other parts of the British Establishment, from a certain leeriness and timorousness about Islam?" (Daily Telegraph, 23 March 2006)
Ken and Qaradawi
"I can think of plenty of things for which I would like Newtzilla to apologise ... his cheerleading for anti-Semitic Muslim clerics such as al-Qaradawi, who supports suicide bombers and the beating of women." (Daily Telegraph, 17 February 2005)
Local Control of the NHS
"... you could imagine in a totally devolved system that Islamic zealots might take control of some inner-city area". (Daily Telegraph, 5 October 2006)
Israel and the War on
Lebanon
"Israel provides a focus for the resentment of a Muslim civilisation that finds itself materially and intellectually humiliated by the achievements of America and the West.... Whatever the hideous shambles of the past few days, it is still true, in principle, that when Israeli rockets kill civilians, they have missed their targets, and that when Hizbollah rockets kill civilians, they have scored a deliberate hit." (Daily Telegraph, 3 August 2006)
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Name: Showan Khurshid
Date: Monday May 12, 2008
Time: 07:56:35 -0700
Comment
Hooray Boris Johnson, Definitely his election must be regarded as a big step in the right direction.
Name: balam
Date: Monday May 12, 2008
Time: 08:36:48 -0700
Comment
Boris seems to understand the Mohammadan psyche better than most politicians and he is honest in his opinions.He is not a boot licker of Muslims like Ken.Livingston,who was nothing but disgrace for this great country.The muslims are disloyal and like a stone in the shoe.The quicker you get rid of these uncomfotable stones.the better.I would vote for him as Prime minister,if he ever stands for that post.
Name: Secularist
Date: Monday May 12, 2008
Time: 09:15:21 -0700
Comment
If Muslims don't like UK get the F*&K out of UK. Want to be a true Muslim, go to Saudi Arabia. WE need more politicians like Boris Johnson
Name:
Date: Monday May 12, 2008
Time: 09:47:58 -0700
Comment
Boris Johnson seems to have understood the true islam. Such understatading is badly lacking in western leaders barring a handful like Geert Wilders.
Name: Bravo Boris
Date: Monday May 12, 2008
Time: 09:52:17 -0700
Comment
Name: Tony
Date: Monday May 12, 2008
Time: 14:27:57 -0700
Comment
to the SHAMEFUL ANONYMOUS poster of 'Are Human Rights Compatible with Islam?' etc....... The Human raca does NOT NEED this superstitious crap.... Islam just divides and distorts.... worse than Hitler, Stalin
Name: y.m
Date: Monday May 12, 2008
Time: 15:44:04 -0700
Comment
Excellent article, Praise God that the people like Boris Johnson are are exest in UK. The British public have to wake up and start fighting, because their way of life Muslims are destrying. A person cannot be a good Muslim and a British at the same time. Mohd has sucked the brains of the Muslims and has reduced them into zombies and wild beasts. Every Muslim living in the west (Kaffar Lands) is a potential terrorist. Deport all Muslims from the west, if you want to live in peace.
Name: ZuK
Date: Monday May 12, 2008
Time: 17:28:04 -0700
Comment
I hope that, now that he is in office, Mr. Johnsohn will live up to his statements and to the expectations of his constituency. My best wishes, from the USA, where such level of outspokenness is still (even after 9/11) unfathomable from any top-level politician.
Name: he is correct
Date: Tuesday May 13, 2008
Time: 03:42:43 -0700
Comment
he is correct absolutely
Name: vbv
Date: Tuesday May 13, 2008
Time: 05:41:15 -0700
Comment
Mr. Boris Johnson would show the PC politicians not only in Britain, but also the USA and others around the world to nail islam on its head without beating around the bush and trying to be 'a good boy' to the muslims and their mad mullahs and loony imams. There is no use in placating the muslims ,who look upon non-muslims only as vermin , the killing of whom ensures a quick and guaranteed 'passport' to their lewd 'islamic paradise' where Allah plays the eternal pimp and bartender! These brainless zombies born of clots cannot see beyond the gibberish of their evil Quran and the Hadiths! Let's hope that Boris Johnson would show the way to the others politicians around the world. We need to support many more Johnsons in the making to make the world a saner place and bring about peace!
Name: Jalal
Date: Tuesday May 13, 2008
Time: 06:14:01 -0700
Comment
Take a look at all the comments. Afraid that you are all a bunch of hatemongers like those you accuse of. There's not a thing that nears intellectual discourse that can be extracted from the comments.
Name: Showan Khurshid to Jalal
Date: Tuesday May 13, 2008
Time: 07:05:27 -0700
Comment
Well, there are great number of very intellectually satisfying articles on islam-watch. But I do not think you are someone who can be interested in philosophical or intellectual things. If you find the Quran and Islam intellectual then you completely hopeless zombi, I am afraid. I can discuss you over my own articles, so go to the author's section find my name and see my articles and criticise them if you are able.
Name: myspace.com/noballads
Date: Tuesday May 13, 2008
Time: 07:25:24 -0700
Comment
I wish there were more rational leaders in the United States with the courage to speak so boldly against Her enemies!
Name: ZuK to:myspace.com/noballads
Date: Tuesday May 13, 2008
Time: 07:37:07 -0700
Comment
Hi, myspace.com/noballads. There is plenty of rationality in the USA. It is BALLS what's missing. And, of course, this society has turned so over-consumption-oriented, that the average Joe (thanks to the careful indoctrination of his politicians over more than 100 years) takes FOR GRANTED that he is entitled to two cars per family, gas at 0.5$ per gallon, a house he can barely afford and tens of dollars of credit lines scattered though 7 credit cards. Any politician that would even *suggest* the need of a more austere and rational way of life would be denied the support of his or her constituency. So, instead of disciplining the Saudis, USA politicians go to bed with them. And so on and on and on. Sometimes I think we are here like some species of "Egyptian Bullshit Bug", y'know, the scarabeus that builds a spheric nest of cowshit. We are here piling up such a ball of political BULLSHIT that one day we will find ourseleves suffocating under it.
Name: ZuK to Showan
Date: Tuesday May 13, 2008
Time: 07:38:24 -0700
Comment
Hello, Mr. Khursid. Any news about your E-book?
Name: Walter Sieruk
Date: Tuesday May 13, 2008
Time: 09:21:28 -0700
Comment
Here are some other thoughts about Islam and even Muslims. It's strange that a lot of Muslims claim that "the terrorists have hijacked their religion and those violrnt ones aren't true Muslims." Since that is the claim how is it that CAIR is so concerned with the "rights" of the detainees at Gitmo Bay. Also,that the Muslim Students Association on their web site had a Quote from the Quran about "Brothers in prison and helping them out." or something like that, that the detainees should be written to, or E-mailed to keep their spirits up. It appears that the above claim is disingeneous. Futhermore, if the terrorists at Gitmo Bay are just members of a cult which is not repsentative of true Islam which Muslims claim, then CAIR and the MSA should have no objection to having the cult deprogrammers of the 1980's and 1990's that deprogammed some Moonies come to perform the same work on the terrorists that they did on some members of thr Moon cult. If they really mean their claim that the terrorists arnen't real Muslims. LETS GIVE IT A TRY! their web site had a quote from the Quran about
Name: Showan to Zuk
Date: Tuesday May 13, 2008
Time: 13:15:02 -0700
Comment
Hello Zuk, I have contacted the publisher to allow me offering the electronic version of the book on islam-watch for free, they are yet to reply. I hope this will be done soon. Regards Showan
Name: Dunaway Ka
Date: Tuesday May 13, 2008
Time: 14:00:47 -0700
Comment
This was fine reading. London has found a leader with smarts and courage!
Name: ZuK
Date: Tuesday May 13, 2008
Time: 14:09:09 -0700
Comment
Hi, Showan! Well, "for free" of course would be great, although I never had a problem with paying the price of the book - it was the shipping that killed me :) Anyway, hope to hear from you and your work soon, and wish you that your work help pay for your livelihood. Best regards, ZuK. email: dzhinnizbutylki{at}yandex{dot}ru
Name: To Zuk from Showan
Date: Tuesday May 13, 2008
Time: 14:58:56 -0700
Comment
I sent you an email. Hope it reaches you.
Name: Jim Hawkins
Date: Tuesday May 13, 2008
Time: 15:37:19 -0700
Comment
I have a great regard for much of what Ken Livingstone did for Londoners. But his worst error was his failure to recognize the enormous danger presented to Europe as a whole by the infiltration of Islam. Thank goodness that Boris, whatever his faults, does not appear to suffer from that particular blindness. The cancerous infiltration of Islam must be reversed if Enlightenment ideas and values are to survive.
Name: Mohammad
Date: Tuesday May 13, 2008
Time: 17:28:15 -0700
Comment
I think you guys should reserve your excitement until you see any actions from Boris rather than merely his talking BS. Talk is cheap. When it comes to reality, London is not London without robbing the wealth of Arabs and Muslims. At least don't insult the religion of the people who are contributing a great deal to your population and economic growth.
Name: Pundit
Date: Tuesday May 13, 2008
Time: 18:47:57 -0700
Comment
Outspoken people like Boris Johnson and Geert Wilders are merely barometers expressing the unspoken beliefs and attitudes of many who have no voice or influence in their communities; they act as a pressure relief valve for other's frustrations. If critics like Johnson and Wilders are forced into silence, those popular frustrations will be taken out in other ways, vigilantism and militias will spring forth and some of their numbers, with blood in their eye, will not discriminate between nominal Muslims and extremists................. If Muslims fail to control the militants,not just terrorists but all those that offend the host country's sensibilities,(as Americans did with the Ku Klux Klan),the outcome will be entirely predictable; and it won't be pretty................... The swing towards the BNP, by people who would never have dreamed of supporting them if the government had been seen to be in command of the situation, is merely the beginning of what must inevitably turn out, if past history is any yardstick, to be very ugly indeed............... The greater the sense of empowerment European Muslims feel; the uglier it will be................ Muslims have failed to understand the way the European mind functions; Europeans are not like them, instantaneously going berserk in an outpouring of frenzied emotional reaction for some minor incitement or sense of offense, but rather persevere and tolerate till all diplomatic,civilised, concilliatory and negotional possibilities have been exhausted and then explode in a most calculatingly brutal and organised manner, as the Japanese found out at the end of WWII. As the saying goes: 'The fruit ripens slowly but falls exceedingly fast' Despite the Muslims gloating, triumphalist belief that they are slowly moulding Europe to their will, I wouldn't want to be a Muslim in Europe for any money.
Name: ZuK to: Mohammad
Date: Tuesday May 13, 2008
Time: 21:31:25 -0700
Comment
Hi, M. I think you have a valid point, regardless of where our symphaties lie. Let me ask you something: have you ever visited London? or do you happen to live there? If that is the case (or if you have any other information source to form your opinion), then please tell me objectively to what extent you sense that the Muslim immigrants in the UK - who certainly didn't come in search of a *worse* life and country than the ones they had - do respect the religion(s), customs, laws and values of the country that hosts them. Having been in the UK a couple of times, and judging by the feedback of my fellow expats there, I would rather say that they are both insulting and condescending toward the British kuffar, and, in any case, *way less* respectful and grateful toward their hosts than the Britons to them. Probably Dr. Showar is in a better position to give an autoritative assesment. Anyway, neither form of antipathy is good, but this assimetry should leave us thinking, shouldn't it?
Name: ZuK to: Pundit
Date: Tuesday May 13, 2008
Time: 21:40:07 -0700
Comment
Pundit, I believe you have made an incredibly clever analysis of the present situation. Your examples from the recent American history are right on the money. So is your description of what the Western reaction will be - when a certain line will be crossed, the masses will be begging and demanding that nuclear retaliation be carried on. Iran and Syria, and their puppets at Hizb-ul-Lah, are dangerously playing that string. Is it really THAT hard that rationality prevail? Apparently, as long as religious thought be the moving force, there is no chance that rationality can take the wheel of history...
Name: Ananda
Date: Tuesday May 13, 2008
Time: 22:40:33 -0700
Comment
Islam is a bigger problem in India than in UK. Boris Johnson is needed in Mumbai, Kolkata, Jaipur, Haiderabad, Delhi, more than in London. When one (or more) Muslim terrorist creates havoc in a locality, no Muslim of that locality is innocent prima faci. There is no other way of stopping this evil.
Name: Pundit
Date: Tuesday May 13, 2008
Time: 22:46:30 -0700
Comment
Ananda, a never before seen global chain reaction will take place.
Name: Pundit to ZuK
Date: Tuesday May 13, 2008
Time: 22:54:44 -0700
Comment
"Apparently, as long as religious thought be the moving force, there is no chance that rationality can take the wheel of history..." The wheels of the juggernaut have been well and truly set in motion; there can be no way back.
Name: Pundit to Mohammad
Date: Tuesday May 13, 2008
Time: 23:00:58 -0700
Comment
"London is not London without robbing the wealth of Arabs and Muslims. At least don't insult the religion of the people who are contributing a great deal to your population and economic growth." With all due respect, the same can be said of mafia crime syndicates and the mister bigs of heroin trafficking and prostitution rackets.
Name: moderationist
Date: Wednesday May 14, 2008
Time: 03:00:27 -0700
Comment
From the time when Mohammad raped his first slave, islam has spread hatred and violence and death.
Name: Ananda
Date: Wednesday May 14, 2008
Time: 16:47:16 -0700
Comment
Pundit, IF Arabs have guts & power like the Nazis, yes there will be a significant confrontation. But the Arabs will be crushed easily because they are not like the Nazis, they are stupid cowards. If the non-Arab Muslims rise in support, they will be crushed equally easily everywhere. Muslims are cutting their own throat by doing this juvenile terrorism all over the world. If you, an Islamist, think that everyone is shaking in great fear because these juvenile terrors then you are a big time IDIOT.
Name: cjk
Date: Wednesday May 14, 2008
Time: 19:08:03 -0700
Comment
To Jalal; Show me any lies or inaccuracies in his statements. I read through it quickly, but it seems like the man knows what he's talking about. And if you can???, make it short and to the point, I'm not about to spend time reading a bunch of babble. Long drawn out comments are a sure sign of emptiness. ALSO to the unnamed idiot who wrote that babble about zionism which probrably no one read. - You're a lying fool. And I only needed to read about 20% of your tripe to come to that truthful conclusion
Name: to Akhter, challenge to all infidels from akhter.
Date: Thursday May 15, 2008
Time: 03:46:34 -0700
Comment
How can you be so naive? Are you under-educated? With that stubborn character of you, I guess you're not even pass high school, let alone academic or university level. If you ever learn about philosophy, logical reasoning, you won't be that stubborn. And I think if ever you pass high school, then maybe you made it in over than 10 years. Poor Akhter. Still blinded by the 'glory' Quran? Open your eyes then, use your logic, not your blind faith to a warlord who claimed himself as a prophet. I've read your challenge to infidel in several writing in this web-site, but here you just only say: "Can you write a verse like Quran?" Why the change? I read that the challenge has been met by someone claimed himself as infidels, and to my astonishment, what he wrote is better, far more better than your verse. You don't dare to mention any verse again, Akhter? Because you know, someone will be able to make a sentence, better than your verse. How coward of you. I think it is better for you to hide under your mother gown hereinafter, then nobody will see you again in this world. Oh, you can go on living with your mother breastfeeding you all the time.
Name:
Date: Friday May 16, 2008
Time: 16:41:15 -0700
Comment
you are all big fools, do you really think that you can be smarter than the ultimate creator the one that gave you life and will also take life away from you? with your silly comments about islam..you obviously lack knowledge in the true religion. Anyway think about it..you will all surely die one day..who knows when..and when you do..no matter how much you don't want to believe in the unseen..whether your a beleiver or unbeleiver you will be judged by the almighty. So don't for a second think that this is it..you're going to be in this stupid material world for the whole of eternity. This is merely a walk in the park.. towards the real eternal here after..i pray you all see sense sooner or later...by the way racist remarks just make you all look like bloody hypocrites and uneducated bunch of loonies yourself, so just think before you leave a stupid comment wich incites hatred.
Name: god is good, allah is not
Date: Sunday May 18, 2008
Time: 02:01:18 -0700
Comment
all muslims speaking about hate towards them, first clean your house which is full of double morality and crazyness, you are not nothing more but bunch of arab slaves, oh and your false prophet is now in hell!!!
Name:
Date: Wednesday May 28, 2008
Time: 02:36:19 -0700
Comment
Multiculturalism is the acceptance of different cultures in society. Islam is anti-multiculturalism. To oppose unreasonable Muslim demands is actually pro-multicultural. Those liberals who give in to unreasonable Muslim demands in the name of multiculturalism has serioiusly lost the plot.