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The controversial (and stupidly ambiguous) Morrissey album-track ‘National Front Disco’ has been ringing in my head all week. One lyric in particular (addressed – as the whole song is, to a young skinhead called ‘David’) has distracted my thinking:
‘David, we wonder/ we wonder if the thunder/ is ever really gonna begin…’
As I say, I’m not a fan of the song, but it did make me think.
Islamophobia is less a tendency now than an industry. We can no longer claim that we are being censored by newspapers, online searches, or publishing houses (if Mark Steyn can get published, there can be few limits). The censors have tried, but they have failed. Our worldview is rising faster than that of its detractors.
But with this popularity also arrives cause for doubt. If thousands of people, millions even, are receptive to this political voice, why is the struggle still limited to chat-rooms and blog-sites? When indeed will the popular ‘thunder’ roll?
After Lee Rigby was hacked to death near his barracks, there was, mixed in with the general shock and anger, a definite silver-lining of hope. I really did believe that Muslims had crossed a line that could not be recrossed. Only weeks later, the tragedy was fish & chip paper.
So if not the brazen murder of our soldiers, what kind of event can change the political atmosphere?
I remember putting this question to a leading figure in British CounterJihad movement and he suggested that an event of sufficient severity had only recently (and narrowly) been avoided. A few months ago, Islamists were convicted in a British court of planning to bomb an EDL rally. Had they succeeded, he argued, they would have triggered great social disorder and secured the hatred of a whole generation of English youths.
What other processes could bring a resolution closer? I’ve been thinking about this all week and I’ve come up with the following three scenarios:
1. A CounterJihad Spring.
Another terrorist attack in Central London is almost certain. Sometime, somewhere, yet more innocent Brits will have to die, probably by fire or bullet.
But what if – after one such occurrence – some patriot group of note refuses to get angry and sets about getting even. Using social media, they instruct every party supporter to file into Parliament Square, bringing with them food, shelter and changes of clothing. Thousands show up, just as asked, and many more (from right around the country) pledge to join them. The media arrive to be told that the area is hereby ‘occupied’ until the government (no, let’s go further), until the EU pledges a total halt to Islamic immigration. Police would struggle to halt the spread of the protest and – as long as it remained lawful and peaceful – it might well bear genuine fruit.
2. Elite Defections.
Celebrities are Leftists by instinct. If you’re a musician, comedian, novelist or pop-journalist, you will only succeed by being ‘cutting-edge’ and this will inevitably place you with a multicultural crowd. Reflecting this, liberalism is almost mandatory among the British celebrity elite.
But what if – by some unknown trigger – a few celebrities of note began to defect away from the liberal consensus on Islam and caused a shift in broader society. It isn’t unthinkable. The policies of Islam on women, homosexuality, drug-use and the playing of musical instruments are completely at odds with everything the elite promotes. The alliance then between liberals and their own worst enemy cannot hold forever.
3. The Queen Dies.
I’ve mentioned elsewhere that the passing of the Queen will potentially have a major impact on the social climate of the UK. In the weeks following her passing, all political bets will truly be off. If one – just one – Muslim group waved a placard speculating that Her majesty was rotting in hell, or otherwise cast negative aspersions on her character, a unifying rage would glue the classes of England together in a way that would astonish foreign observers. Testifying to this, British Islamist groups, for all their enthusiasm in murdering our soldiers, have not yet summoned the courage to offend the Royals. That said, only a fool would rule it out.
So, there’s three events which could bring this long argument toward something like a resolution. As for anything more immediate from our political leaders, don’t hold your breath.
D, LDN.
Defend the Modern World 
The Muslim Brotherhood is sending its strangling tentacles throughout America. England and France, indeed all Europe is being Islamized. Today the Jack Ass Pope Francis sent Blessings to Muslims at the End of Ramadan! A retired Catholic priest in Canada.
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That’s a shame. I hoped Pope Francis would be a bit wiser on this issue than Benedict.
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I’m not convinced that those events would trigger a reaction. My reason for this is the ‘tiny minority of extremists’ argument. ‘Mainstream’ Muslims would repudiate the actions of their brethren. At least until they reach critical mass.
The only circumstance that I can see things being turned around is the Islamic takeover of another EU state. One that is further down the path of Islamisaation, perhaps The Netherlands. My only hope is that by then we haven’t reached the point of no return.
I take some heart in the surveys that show that the majority of Britons think that Islam has had a negative effect on the UK.
Keep up the good work. I find your blog thought provoking.
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Thanks.
You should be cautious abut those surveys. Most English people live in areas of the country which are still homogenous and I imagine that they are the people responding to those surveys. Muslims are taking over via the large cities. If a survey was done purely among young people in Birmingham, most youngsters would (out of fear) describe Muslims as good and friendly people.
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I’m afraid this is one where you are wrong. The key is not insulting the Queen or another terrible attack – the key are the hearts and minds of men between 15 and 25. They are the ones that have the strength and the willpower to make good warriors – and not just the kind that spills blood, but also the ones that drive a political agenda.
It is not by coincidence, that the Communists infiltrated the Universities back in the 60s (proven in West Germany, why would you assume they didn’t do that elsewhere?).
Now you will probably argue that these events WILL sway the mind of the young men. But I don’t think it will. They have been raised to be girls, here in the West, and it will take some time for them to both, recover their manliness AND organise sufficiently for meaningful resistance.
My prediction: It has to get a lot worse before it gets better. Let’s go with 20 years.
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I think we probably agree. I often point to the degeneration of Western masculinity as a security threat and I’m certain that the feminization of Western men is partly what motivated the Islamists to choose the West (and not say, China) as the softest path for expansion. But that said, this is mainly something affecting the Middle Classes. The EDL proves that there is still a huge pool of less-educated but much more patriotic young people willing to respond to Muslim provocation.
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And 20 years will be much too late.
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When the Queen dies we will have a muslim king!
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That’s if William doesn’t step up as she should.
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I hope he does too.
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Possibly, but should Charles fully convert to Islam, that will be the end of the Monarchy.
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I don’t think it will end the monarchy.
It will end the House of Saxe Coburg & Gotha.
It will mean civil war. Of course.
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Elite leftists flipping won’t cut it. The average voter in the UK is too dependent to abandon leftism on their own. Dependence on government (and accordingly left-thinking) is far too entrenched throughout society to be abandoned because some popular figures decide to grow balls.
Offense to the Queen? I doubt it would work. The royals are routinely insulted by that strata of society. Even if she died, I don’t see much more than sheepish disapproval from society. The usual people will be outraged, but it won’t spread beyond EDL types.
As much as it pains me to admit it, the rot goes all the way through from the top to the bottom of society.
A man much wiser than I once described leftism as analogous to societal AIDS. It allows minor sicknesses like Islam (in this case analogous to influenza or something similar), to grow beyond control and eventually become fatal.
Only the re-emergence of a viable independent sentiment amongst Europeans, a conscious rejection of state dependency would work. One cannot make radical demands that a government change its policy when one is dependent on that same government.
Perhaps seeing an example of a western European state have their last ever election and vote in an Islamist party would probably do the trick to wake people up… But I don’t think a “counterjihad spring” would be triggered any earlier than that.
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I like the AIDS metaphor a lot. Can you remember who said it? And yes, I suppose these scenarios aren’t fail-safe, but I do think that the camels back is straining somewhat, especially since the Rigby killing.
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Pat Condell or Mark Steyn most likely. It was said in one of those satirical jests, and it fits both their styles of commentary. I’d have to do some googling to recover that quote and figure out which for certain.
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Well, Pat or Mark may have still said it – but the most “googleable” reference I can find is a contribution from Robert Weissberg on the blog American Thinker.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/02/time_to_defend_the_west.html
“…Multiculturalism is political AIDS — nobody dies of AIDS, they die of something else since AIDS ‘only’ destroys the immunity system. This understanding means that we must be free to defend our values as superior and this inescapably means offending our enemies… (Political correctness) prevents the AIDS-infected patient from strengthening their immunity system since fighting back might ‘offend’ deadly microbes (who can say what life form is better than any other?). This ‘we are better than you’ is the first line of defense against a rival convinced of their own cultural superiority.”
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I’ll also post something about France soon. A lot has been happening there in the last few months. The natives are stirring more and more. That could be a fourth potential trigger.
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