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In Spain, where I’ve been living for over a month, I’ve gotten used to the following rule of thumb: if you want to eat, you’ll have to eat pork. Almost everything on the menu of a Spanish restaurant has involved the death of a pig or two. A paella dish will include shredded pieces of chorizo. Sandwiches are stuffed with ham, seasoned sausage or salami. Pizzas have more pork-based toppings than cheese. Even dips for potato chips have pork listed somewhere in the ingredients.
Why is this? One thought that came to me (though this is probably incorrect) was that it could be traced back to Spain’s defence against Islamic conquest in the last millennium. Perhaps, I wondered, the Spanish have sought to insulate themselves from Islam by adopting behaviours offensive to it.
Who knows.
But whether there is any truth in this or not, it is surely important to maintain those practices in our culture which cannot be integrated into any future Islamic system.
If Muslims wanted to convert Spain (and the Spanish) to Islam, the centrality of pork products would prove (as frivolous as it sounds) a genuinely strong line of defence. So much of what makes Spain, Spain, would have to be undone that the process seems destined to failure.
We have our own defences of this kind in England. The lack of Muslim integration in Britain has as much to do with alcohol as it does with Islamophobia. Integration into British culture requires (and has always required) a lot of heavy drinking. You can’t make friends at university without getting rat-faced every now and then. The same is true in the workplace or at parties, at Christmas, New Years and other occasions. This behaviour might support the European view of Englanders as violent, lager-swilling hooligans, but the effect within our own borders has been a positive one.
Although it was later revealed to be a hoax, the idea that British Muslims wanted to ban the cartoon character Peppa Pig is really no trifling matter either. The recently publicised plot was meant satirically (in order to show how crazy we Islamophobes are), but the division they jokingly referenced is real and potentially significant. Un-Islamic artworks (just like Un-Islamic traditions) provide genuine obstacles to the kind of ‘soft conquest’ promoted by the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies.
To ensure our survival, the cultural incompatibility between our native way of life and that of Islam must be rigorously maintained. It is important that Christmas and Easter are celebrated nationally, regardless of any ‘offence’ they may cause. It is crucial that Churches and Public houses remain open, and that we oppose the cultural changes diminishing their business. Those public houses with Islamophobic names – ‘the Saracen’s Head’ etc… – should be preserved as a matter of priority. Drinking – even binge-drinking – must retain its central place in our social life. The Full English Breakfast must remain a national dish.
These little, stupid-seeming issues mean more than one might presuppose. A town without a church will soon have a mosque. A town without a pub will soon have a sharia-compliant butcher. A country that becomes halal already has one foot inside the House of Islam.
D, LDN.
Defend the Modern World 
Quite so, and while pointing out the terrorist practices of Islam – people need to understand fully what allowing Islam to have cultural control of society will mean across the native culture. Islam is total in its world view, and in its wish to own.
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Indeed. Hopefully ISIS will demonstrate to the public the consequences of Islamic control.
To stop its Islam’s cultural conquest, we must focus on the little things or we will be softened up for the taking.
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I would think it will. The modern mind has little experience with true believers, such as ISIL, and everything says ISIL will continue with its program. They believe they are working a divine mission.
Both the great and the little things work against the mindless belief of such as ISIL. I would say one more thing regardless people and a evil such as ISIL. Being American and from Indiana, in the 1920’s the KKK was a national force with considerable power over people. It’s leader raped a woman. Before she died, she gave a account of this. When people hear it there was no denial of the Klan being a lie, and a evil. Membership dropped, people became strong enough to stand up to the Klan. It’s control was over with the American people. Only a few were left with little power, and none on the national (or state) level. I would not be surprised that something will happen that will turn most of the West against this present danger. It is the way of free societies, but when this occurs the results are sudden. Something will strike at the conscience of the West with this terrorism.
However, you are right. In the little things comes finally the greater things, and it is the little that matters. Here is the weakness of us and the strength of those who bow to terror.
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Neither pork nor meat eating is central to English or British culture and identity. Binge drinking is unfortunately central to English / British / Irish / Australian culture and I wouldn’t describe it as ‘positive’, unless you are joking. It is perfectly possible to consume alcohol in moderation. Getting rat-arsed just to spite Muslims is a bit ludicrous really.
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It’s not to spite them, it’s to exclude them and prevent their integration. It doesn’t have to binge drinking. It can be socialising at the pub.
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But surely you can only make progress by trying to deprogramme them. Islam is an ideology not an ethnicity. Invite them to the pub and get them used to socialising in that environment. You can bring up certain topics with them, eg their attitudes to women, and test them out.
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I think if I asked a Muslim to accompany me to the pub, I’d face a tribunal.
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I think you might also be interested in my friend Enza Ferreri’s blog.
http://enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/
She is anti-Islam and also passionately vegetarian.
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Thanks, I’ll check it out. I’ve just raised the issue with a vegan in the USA who is ‘LGBT and far left’ how she feels about the far left cuddling up to religious ideologies, one in particular, which are hostile to gay rights.
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I think the idea of preserving haram things in western culture to stick a finger up to Islam is fine .However, things we hold dear are today’s equivalent of Rome’s bread and circuses, namely beer and football.To get your average good ole boy to listen to sense is possible but only until someone says “footie is on down the pub”.The Romans knew it and our lot know it.Trouble is the muz are not distracted.They are narrow, focused , fundamentally rock solid in their terrible beliefs.They are unreasonable ,their ” scholars ” are delusional.They sneer at your finger.We need to focus.They advocate decapitation of all of us .In retaliation , I’d settle for total repatriation of all muslims and deportation of any lawyer who ever took a case for one.
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Very interesting and (sadly) accurate observations. I also find it annoying how passionate people get over things like football when there are real battles waiting to be fought. I’ve also no doubt that our governments actively encourages this. People hate Chelsea supporters more than Muslims. This is very useful to our elite.
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It’s Mike again.When I said I would settle for deporting all muslims and their lawyers can I add “except for Yalda Hakim”.
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I had to google the name. Are you sure she’s a believer? Perhaps she has quietly dropped the faith. That’s the case with many of the more successful Muslims in the West. They are too smart for their religion, but they are wary of the consequences for their family if they go public. I hope we can make a society safe for Muslim apostates. I’m sure there’s a flood of defectors just waiting for their opportunity.
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I would second that.
Many Ex-Muslims are just waiting to come out and openly criticize the ideology, but are hampered by
1. Family & Social ties
2. Western pandering to Islamic Fundamentalists, especially the Left. Their pandering has made our mission that much more difficult.
3. Death threats from Islamic fundamentalists. (And 2 is making 3 much easier)
You can check out this site & read the comments. You’ll be surprised!
http://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim.
There are many other sites. But, this is the most active.
The apostasy may start as a trickle but will soon gather into a flood. It’s just waiting for the right breach.
What we need is a strong atheist/apostacy movement within the Muslim community. It’s the only way to defang the extremists: To make them doubt their own certainties.
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There’s a politician called Sajid Javid (a descendent of Pakistani immigrants) who has dared to come out as a lapsed believer. I suppose it’s easier for him given the security an MP enjoys.
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Great post from Vaseegaran! People, make this song a hit:
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A prediction – sorry, this video has been removed from youtube for violating our community guidelines.
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The key is that Islam means ‘submit’. Here is the chief difference of Islam from the modern West. The modern West was built on increasing the range of choice and freedom of choice. Islam – the religion is completely against it. One submits… There are no moderate Muslims, only those not completely submitting. They need support to maintain their freedom from this form of thought control.
It would be interesting to hear a lesbian far-leftist view of Islam. However, many in the states have the idea that Islam is far better than Israel. I can’t understand the logic of it, but many in LGBT community have this.
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They probably perceive Israeli nationalism as hostile to LGBT rights. There is some truth in that I suppose. The cultural right-wing in any country tends toward homophobia. Nevertheless, when put up against places like Hamas-administered Gaza, any social minority should throw their support behind Israel.
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Sadly yes on the right-wing with homophobia, and quite right about a minority turning to Israel over that of Hamas. I have read of LGBT people doing just that. On the anti-Israel of some LGBT – I think something deeper. The left likes to consider itself a supporter of the weak against the strong. Well Israel is now not some weak thing. It is successful. Strangely, many leftists dislike success… But the change occurring in Israel with LGBT rights is quite wonderful, and a good display of Western development which seems to never occur within Islam.
On the LBGT issue; despite a few years in the early Soviet Union, communism never supported gay rights. Same issue seems to be deeply occurring now – even if LGBT people can’t see it. It is an odd thing, but there were even Jews who considered Hitler wonderful.
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You are correct in the assumption that all of the pork is partly due to the Reconquista. Although all cultures derived from the Romans like a little bit of pork, the ubiquitousness of it in Spanish cuisine comes directly from trying to weed out Muslims and Jews who had ‘converted’ to avoid the expulsion – in fact a common slang still for Conversos (Sephardic Jews who converted to Catholicism) is Marranos – basically A filthy pig. Google crypto-Jews, marranos or converso.
It’s odd as a Jew, we have to figure out how to get ourselves the hell out of the way before we get caught in the machine again. The liberalism and culture within a culture laws the Islamists are taking advantage of were written to protect Jews, especially after the Holocaust.
The LGBT connection with the far-left is an American thing – here Christianity is (often rightly) associated not with a normal solid right, but with a rabid, foaming at the mouth fanaticism. They can be pretty violent about it, actually. Not ISIS violent, but still pretty nasty.
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G K Chesterton understood this sort of thing perfectly. See “The Flying Inn.” For more on the sociological/ psychological principle involved, read Malcolm Gladwell’s “Tipping Point”, the chapters that discuss “the power of context”.
The French burqa ban – which all Islamosavvy French citizens (and every Islamosavvy non-French person who wants France to remain France) should be vigorously pressing the French police, judiciary and government to enforce *to the letter* – is very, very important. It should be emulated – and **vigorously and consistently enforced** – everywhere across the entire non-Muslim world, both in ‘the west’ and among ‘the rest’.
Campaigns against the normalisation of “sharia finance” and “halal certification” are equally important.
And in nominally-Christian countries, a further line of cultural defence is…church bells. In the “pact of Omar”, which is the template for all the viciously and meanly repressive laws designed to degrade and humiliate non-Muslims living within a Muslim state, one of the ‘rules for dhimmis’ is that they are not allowed to ring church bells. So think of this – all over England – every group of change-ringers ringing in the New Year with however many thousand peals is defying the imposition of dhimmitude. A corollary is that there *will* be – I understand that in some places there have been – attempts by sly groups of Muslims – or their proxies – to manipulate local council noise regulations in order to silence church bells. All such attempts must be watched out for by vigilant local non-Muslims – whether Christian or non-Christian – and opposed, and squashed.
Any Christian priest, parson or minister in the UK – or in *any* other western country – who has become aware of the danger posed by Islam, can do one thing straight away to help create a non-dhimmi ‘context’ or atmosphere: he – or she! – can make a point of ringing his or her church’s bell or bells loud and long, both on secular occasions (e.g. New Year) and before and during services, and the passing bell for the dead, and for weddings, and if Catholic or High Church Anglican, ringing the angelus at the prescribed times.
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Unfortunately, CoE churches continue to close down at a staggering rate.
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I’m sure it’s very different in the United States.
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I’m a vegetarian, but you’ve opened me up to a new strategy. lol
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I’m glad.
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