Labour Antisemitism, Conservative Islamophobia and LibDem Maajid Nawaz

This, from Maajid Nawaz,

"My dear media pundits:

On Labour antisemitism, I understand that you’re generalists, who have to be abreast of everything, and therefore can’t be on top of everything, but I’ve been engaged in these issues of political extremism all my adult life, literally from opposing sides, so at least (please) do me the favour of reading a thread I write before repeating the clichè back to me that “all racism is bad, and the Tories are racist too” (as if I - a Muslim survivor of violent racist attacks, and the War on Terror era - hadn’t thought of that angle).

I’m not saying you have to agree with everything I say, I’d be worried if you did, but on this (clearly my fortè) please (for my sanity) read my view in any given thread first and then disagree (preferably without repeating an objection that I’ve already addressed in the thread), or better yet ask me instead of telling me about a topic I’ve spent the last 25 years and 2 additional Islamic languages learning. 

Honestly, before responding please pause to consider if it’s slightly patronising in any way at all for you to respond with tried & tested clichès about Tory ‘Islamophobia’ when the issues are disgustingly incomparable. 

Aside from that annoying misnomer ‘Islamophobia’ (which really reinforces a ‘death for blasphemy’ taboo in my parents’ country Pakistan and here in the UK) the comparison of Tory anti-Muslim bigotry would only be appropriate if Boris Johnson had called the Neo-Nazi Christchurch killer his “friend” and had taken money, personally, from a state that funded that killer (as Corbyn did with Hamas while taking up to £20K from Iran).

So, until the day Boris Johnson flirts with actual Muslim-killing terrorists it’s disgusting to draw such analogies, because they are deeply insensitive to our Jewish friends. 

What’s also disgustingly insensitive is to compare any policy of the Israeli state with a terror group.

Again, the appropriate comparison with Hamas & Hezbollah is to the Christchurch anti-Muslim neo-Nazi killer, not Netanyahu (despite my fierce disagreements with his policies). Netanyahu is a state leader, not a genocidal anti-Muslim terrorist. 

Only political amateurs and/or morally bereft obfuscators equivocate  and confuse statecraft (agree or disagree with it) with genocidal terrorism that eg: targets babies. So please, do try to assume I’m not as stupid as you may think I am (no matter how hard that may be) and consider that I may have already thought of what you’re about to say regarding the very real presence of Tory ‘Islamophobia’. I dunno, just maybe, during the 4 years I spent studying & debating these issues as a political prisoner in Egypt when surely I had time to rethink many of the political assumptions you now may hold and advocate (that I used to fiercely advocate too), maybe that time allowed me to arrive at a slightly unique perspective? Maybe? 

Thank you and forgive me, this isn’t meant to sound like a whinge. It’s just so morally wrong to equate Corbyn’s moral & institutional support for terrorism with ‘mere’ Tory bigotry or crudeness. And before anyone says it, no, I don’t vote Tory. I’m voting Liberal Democrats.

Thank you."

He goes on to add, "I’m really sorry for this, but you won’t believe the amount of ‘splaining I have to put up with."

Me too, Maajid meri jaan. Me too.

Big Brother. For Real.

The girl featured in this TikTok video is 17-year-old Feroza Aziz, of New Jersey.

Pink eyelash curler in hand, Feroza begins her clever click-and-switch video innocently: “Hi, guys. I’m going to teach you guys how to get long lashes.”

After a few seconds, she asks viewers to put down their curlers. “Use your phone that you’re using right now to search up what’s happening in China, how they’re getting concentration camps, throwing innocent Muslims in there, separating their families from each other, kidnapping them, murduring them, raping them, forcing them to eat pork, forcing them to drink, forcing them to convert different religions, if not, or else, they're gonna, of course, get murdured, people that go into these concentration camps, they'll come back alive. This is another holocaust, yet no one is talking about it. Please be aware, please spread awareness."

TikTok has suspended Feroza's
account after she posted the clip.

The widespread fear that the owner of TikTok, Chinese social media giant ByteDance, censors or punishes videos that China’s government might not like is very real.

In recent months, United States lawmakers have expressed concerns that TikTok censors video content at Beijing’s behest and shares user data with the Chinese authorities. China’s communist government rigidly controls the internet within the nation’s borders. It exerts influence over the activities of private businesses.

The concern is that, when companies like ByteDance and the telecom equipment maker Huawei expand overseas, Beijing’s long arm follows them.

China would certainly prefer that the world did not talk about its clampdown on Muslims. Over the past few years, the Chinese government has corralled as many as one million ethnic Uighurs, Kazakhs and others into internment camps and prisons. 

Internal Communist party documents reported by The Times this month provided an inside glimpse at the crackdown and confirmed its coercive nature.

The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, recently said at a news conference in Washington that the documents showed “brutal detention and systematic repression” of Uighurs and called on China to immediately release those who were detained.

This is what a big government does, this is what happens when you cede power. The benign wedge that is socialism is just a step towards mission creep into authoritarian communism.

In the words of Feroza Aziz, "Please be aware, please spread awareness."

Education or Indoctrination?

I haven’t said anything yet about the plans Labour have to teach ‘the evils of the British Empire’ and the horrors of slavery and colonialism at every level of education. Partly I haven’t bothered because it’s the political equivalent of an open goal. I pretty much suspect that every single person on my Facebook knows how idiotic such a plan is, I’ve also not said anything about it because we all know that what Labour is proposing already happens. Teachers already talk utter shit about history. Teachers already pass on their slavish devotion to Labour. What Corbyn proposes just makes it official. 

But the more I think about it the more I feel that it sums up everything that is wrong with not just Labour but the perverse, hypocritical ideology that the whole of the Woke world subscribes to. So here are a couple of points that spring to mind: 

(1) Let's say you spend every year of school telling black kids that white people have always been sh*ts to them, and that British white people are the biggest sh*ts of all. And you pretend that this is still relevant today, still ongoing today, still something that people today are guilty for. What effect does that have on black kids? Does it encourage them to work harder, to study, to integrate, to like their white classmates and white teachers, or to love the country they are living in? 

Oh, and the lessons are to include telling black kids that their rich and powerful history was stunted and interrupted by the evil white man. 

So what does this actually do? It teaches them only to hate. It teaches them to blame completely innocent people today based on a simplistic and malice driven interpretation of the past. It makes them arrogant, embittered, demanding, resentful. It makes them want revenge. White people are sh*ts, right? It doesn’t matter what I do to them now. Look what they did to my ancestors. 

(2) Let's say you spend every day of school telling white kids that they are and always have been the biggest sh*ts on the planet. Tell them that they are racist. Tell them that none of the achievements of their country are achievements. Tell them that they are moral criminals, and that everything they have is stolen. Tell them that they have no heroes to admire, that they were only ever slavers and oppressors, that there is this moral taint in their blood and their skin colour that they can never escape. Tell them that anything they achieve is unfair anyway.  Tell them every single day that the black kids are better than them. Inherently, morally better. 

So what does this actually do? It teaches them only to hate. It teaches them to blame completely innocent people today based on a simplistic and malice driven interpretation of the past. Because how are they going to feel about those black kids? How are they going to feel anything other than resentment, like a child who knows that his parents only love the other child, the child that is not like them. What are they going to learn, except a deep, bitter, poisoning resentment at their current mistreatment. And if they are evil anyway, if they are guilty....why not do the f**king crime anyway? They’ve already been judged. F**k it. Be a b*st*rd. You told me I was that anyway. 

Replace black with any PoC, and it's the same: the perfect recipe for creating more division and more hate. All in the name of progress, all in the name of compassion and inclusion. It includes everyone in the same diet of hate. 

That is Labour. That is the Left. That is Wokeness. And that is evil.

By Bartholomew Chiaroscuro

An Open Letter to Greta Thunberg

I reproduce here, an open letter to Greta Thunberg by Professor Jason D. Hill.

You are not a moral leader. But I will tell you what you are.

You have declared yourself a leader and said that your generation will start a revolution. 

You have comported yourself as a credentialed adult and climate change activist who has fearlessly addressed politicians and world leaders. 

You have dropped out of school and declared that there isn’t any reason to attend, or any reason for you to study since there will be no future for you to inherit. You have, rather than attend your classes, been leading Friday Climate Strikes for all students in your generation across the globe. Your attendance at oil pipelines has been striking. There, you unequivocally declare that all oil needs to remain in the ground where it belongs.

I shall, therefore, against the backdrop of your activism, address you as an adult rather than as a child.

In September of 2019 you crossed the Atlantic in a “zero carbon” racing yacht that had no toilet and electric light on board. You made an impassioned plea at the United Nations in which you claimed that, “we have stolen your dreams and our childhood with our empty words.”  You claimed that adults and world leaders come to young people for answers and explained in anger: “How dare you!” You claimed that we are failing you and that young people are beginning to understand our betrayal. You further declared that if we continue to fail your generation: “We will never forgive you.”

You have stated that you want us to panic, and to act as if our homes are on fire. You insist that rich countries must reduce to zero emissions immediately. In your speeches you attack economic growth and have stated that our current climate crisis is caused by “buying and building things.” You call for climate justice and equity, without addressing the worst polluter on the planet China; the country that is economically annexing much of Africa and Latin America. You dare not lecture Iran about its uranium projects - because that’s not part of the UN’s agenda, is it?

You proclaim that we need to live within the planetary boundaries, to focus on equity and “take a few steps back” for the sake of all living species. You resent the hierarchical distinctions between human and animals and entertain no qualitative distinction between a monkey, a malaria-infested mosquito and a snarling hyena.

You mouth slogans such as: “We have set in motion an irreversible chain reaction beyond control,” and you advocate for universal veganism on the Ellen DeGeneres show. You do not buy new clothes, and you don’t want the rest of us to either. You want us all to stop flying in jet planes without giving us an alternative as to how we would re-transform our financial and trading systems - to say nothing of our personal enjoyment of the world - without regression to a primeval era.

Few can afford to cross the Atlantic in a $6M zero carbon yacht financed by rich people who made their wealth by the very means you condemn as loathsome.

There are a few things that we, the rational adults of the world who are not bowing to you like guilt-ridden obsequious Babbitts need to say to you, Greta:

First, we did not rob you of your childhood or of your dreams. You are the legatee of a magnificent technological civilization which my generation and the one before it and several others preceding it all the way to the Industrial Revolution and the Renaissance, bequeathed to you. That growth-driven, capitalist technological civilization has created the conditions for you to harangue us over our betrayal. It is a civilization that eradicated diseases such as small pox from the word, and that lifted millions out of abject poverty in a universe you think is dying and decaying. It assured you a life expectancy that exceeded that of your ancestors. Most likely by focusing on economic growth which you demonize, and scientific advancement, that civilization will further enhance a robust quality of life and health for your descendants.

Here is a hard truth to ponder, Greta: if the great producers of this world whom you excoriate were to withdraw their productivity, wealth and talents - in short - their minds from the world today, your generation would simply perish.

Why? Because as children you have done nothing as yet with your lives besides being born. This is what we expect of children until such time as they can be producers by learning from their elders. You are understandably social and ecological ballast. You are not yet cognitively advanced to replicate the structures of survival of which you are the beneficiaries. 

Children are important installments on the future. We have invested in you. It is you and your smug generation which think they have nothing to learn from the older ones who are failing themselves.

Whom do you expect to employ the majority of you if you have neither the job credentials or life competency skills to navigate the world? The future unemployable-skipping- school-on-Friday obstreperous children?

The truth, as one anonymous blogger aptly put it, is that your generation is unable to work up to forty hours per week without being chronically depressed and anxious. Its members cannot even decide if they want to be a boy or a girl, or both, or neither, or a “they.” They cannot eat meat without crying. I might add that your generation needs “trigger warnings” and “safe spaces” as pre-conditions for learning in school. Its members have a pathological need to be coddled and protected from the challenging realities of life. Your generation is the biggest demander and consumer of carbon spewing technological gadgets and devices. An hour without any of them and too many of you succumb to paralyzing lethargy. Your generation is the least curious and most insular set of individuals one has ever encountered. Your hubris extends so far that you think you have nothing to learn from your elders.

Yes, we have betrayed you: by capitulating the world of leadership to bored, attention-deficit children who spout bromides, platitudes and slogans that a rudderless and morally relativistic culture accepts because a significant number of its denizens have become intellectually bankrupt and morally lazy.

The logical endpoint of your ecological vision would see us living in primeval conditions eking out an existence in jungle swamps in which we would regard poisonous snakes and man-eating tigers as our moral equals. We would have to adapt ourselves to nature rather than adapt nature to meet our needs, like all members of civilized civilizations do. Your vision would see us foraging for mushrooms and plants without knowing which were inimical to our digestive systems.

Under your system we would swelter from heat, die from rampant plagues and starvation because there will be no air-conditioning units, no sophisticated plumbing and irrigations and sewer systems, no anti-bacterial soap made from animal matter, no pesticides and chemicals to sanitize our food and drinking supplies: just one primordial swamp of human putrefaction.

If civilization is left in the hands of your ecofascist supporters we will be living in grass huts, drinking animal feces infested water, and shrinking in fear from polar bears instead of killing them for food when they attack us.

Greta, living in complete harmony with nature is the death of creativity. Understand this. All great civilizations were forged in the crucibles of proper exploitation of the earth. Those who lived on land with oil and did nothing with it never had a right to it in the first place. Non-usage of God’s resources is the cardinal sin because it results in the un-development of our human capabilities, and makes us indistinguishable from beasts.

Your generation needs to be taught the morality of wealth creation, rather than only parasitically benefiting from it. The only revolution you will lead is one into nihilism and civilization regression. You need to learn about the moral case for fossil fuel. You owe it to yourself to understand how as, Kathleen Hartnett White has detailed, the harnessing of the vast store of concentrated energy in fossil fuels allowed mankind, for the first time in human history, to escape intractable constraints and energy limits that had left all but the very privileged in total poverty and depravity. Before the Industrial Revolution all societies were dependent on a very limited flow of solar energy captured in living plants for subsistence needs such as food, fuel and shelter.

But we, the creative enterprisers, will not go back to the Dark Ages. Your philosophy can be summed up as follows:

  

'What was good for my anthropoid ancestors is good for me. Do not rock the boat, or even build one as that will require cutting down a tree. Do not disrupt nature. Do not dare to see the earth as rightfully belonging to us. We don’t have the right to use our brains in a manner that can transform our needs into a material form. Let’s conveniently forget that production is the application of reason to the problems of survival. Let’s all diminish the grandeur of man and his luminous potential. Crush the Thomas Edisons of this world.'

The apocalyptic world vision you hold has been a strip landing for those who have hated progress throughout history. Your apocalyptic predictions have been made for millennia, and, we’re still here. We will still be here long after you’ve grown up and we have forgiven you for skipping classes, thereby lowering the intelligence quotient of an entire generation.

Could this be our Berlin Wall moment?

Following the secession of Pakistan from India over 70 years ago and the bitter acrimony between the countries that continues to to this day, adherents of the Sikh faith and the people of Punjab of all faiths and on either side of the line in the paddy fields bore the brunt of the bloodbath that ensued. By the time the dust had settled, millions of bodies had been buried and millions cremated. There is not a Sikh alive whose life has not been altered by those tumultuous times. In the etching out the borders, several important Sikh shrines fell in Pakistan, notably the birthplace of the founder of the Sikh faith, Guru Nanak. 

Last week, the Sikh diaspora the world over, celebrated his 550th birthday.

But now is not the time for a history and politics lesson. Something else has happened. Something wonderful.

Just as we in the West mark Armstice Day (or Remembrance Day) once a year to honour those brave souls who fought in the Great War, us Sikhs pray for something every day. Yes every single day, sometimes several times a day:

There is a small section in the Sikh daily ardas (The Sikh equivalent of the Lord's prayer) where AFTER you have prayed for all humanity, for strength, for fortitude and for wisdom, where you are meant to insert your own personalised prayer. In this section, nearly 4 generations of Sikhs have, in addition to their own personal requests or gratitude, asked for one thing unanimously: unhindered access to and the exalted privilege of the upkeep and service of Nankana Sahib and other historic sites of deep significance to the Sikh faith.

So much so, that as the whole prayer is repeatedly droned over and over again, day in day out, that specific part almost fades into background noise, devoid of any impact or indeed, meaning.

We are today looking at the distinct possibility that those lines could be eliminated from the daily ardas completely for there would be no need for them. 

Now I'm no influencer, but I did slip Pakistan skipper, Imran Khan the benefit of the doubt, following his overtures on the release of Indian POWs earlier this year, desperately hoping deep inside he'd have the courage to keep on following through with doing what is necessary. The last week has shown that he does.

A part of me remains cynical though, and I'd be stupid to let my emotions cloud the ground realities which he lives in and operates under and the ugliness of hatred and bigotry that is Indo-Pak relations, the evil forces dressed in saffron and green, and the Hindu-Muslim realpolitik.

I share here what I wrote some 8 months ago, and I am happy to state that I might be right.

Modi ji, ab aapki chaal.

Divide & Rule, 2019

There are only two political parties in the history of the United Kingdom to be investigated by the Equality & Human Rights Commission. One of them is Nick Griffin's BNP. The other is Jeremy Corbyn's Labour. You know why. Every man and his pet hamster knows why.

For now, it is just the Jewish community facing a very visible and shamelessly overt purge from the Labour party, however one does wonder which community is next. I have come to the disturbingly sinking realisation that it is mine.

The Labour machine under Corbyn has figured out that it would be political suicide for them to fully clamp down on antisemitism. They have too many seats that rely on communities which are fundamentally, historically, & culturally antisemitic and by a very conveniently disguised extension, anti-Israel.

Can anyone tell me with a straight face that this is not true? That it is not politically correct to say it out loud is one thing, that it is true is quite another, no matter how much we are terrified at the prospect of being labelled a racist, the truth will always remain the truth.

Case in point: The distinct lack of Britain's national flag at their party conference, replaced by flags of another country was pretty much an in your face challenge of I-dare-you-to-dethrone-us in the said seats. You have to be a special kind of stupid or wilfully complicit to have missed it.

I can see the same games being played with the British Indian diaspora - pitting Muslims against Hindus, pitting Hindus against Sikhs, and vice versa, tapping into nationalistic and separatist rhetoric from sectarian emotions imported from the Indian subcontinent.

A cynical but highly effective strategy, and I am deeply saddened to admit, a very successful one. Divide and rule worked on Indians in 19th century India, turns out it works on Indians in 21st century UK just as well.

No one does it better than Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party.

Doomsday Porn

These are images from an 'emotional protest' (their words, not mine; mine would be 'macabre blood-magik fetish-fest'), by the Cambridge branch of Extinction Rebellion outside the Guildhall from a couple of days ago, featuring, as they proudly proclaim, 'grandparents and grandchildren alongside each other'. 

Yep, loopy grandparents, and permanently scarred grandchildren, together in what can only be described as an anarcho-primitivist death cult equivalent of a sweaty pervert wearing nought but a Mackintosh leaping from behind the bushes in a children's park, except this is politically sanctioned mass child abuse in the new hijinks that is Doomsday Porn.

I'm left with this overwhelming conclusion that we as a species, are done. We've had our run. It's over. That goddamned exinction they keep threatening us with can't come soon enough.

Please, please, dear asteriod, wherever you are, hurry the hell up and put us out of our misery.

Spare The Rod, Embrace The Blasphemer

Anyone who thinks Rod Liddle actually advocated making it harder for Muslims and young people to vote is an idiot. My take from his article is the point most people are missing entirely - that political parties have effectively used sectarian identity politics to carve up the electorate into vote banks. 

This knee-jerk vilification of Rod against the backdrop of ACTUAL calls for older people being prevented from voting at all - political euthansia, if you will - with nary a protest or condemnation or the slightest bit of outrage is a dangerously disturbing trend.

What's even more disturbing is how satire, poetic license, criticism and lampooning are now labelled as manifestations of blasphemy.

Yes, blasphemy. In two thousand bloody nineteen. 

Mark this, dear reader, if we continue down this road, the way back will be fraught with terrible suffering. Resist it while you still can, or forever lose the right to do so. The West is the last bastion of free speech, and to let it succumb to tyrannical policing will be the end of us all.