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The week before last, Fox News’ self-described ‘terrorism expert’ Steven Emerson attracted a great deal of derision for describing Birmingham, the second city of the United Kingdom, as wholly Islamic and barred to natives.
Emerson was clearly speaking off the top of his head in that interview and his description is obviously inaccurate. Nevertheless, if he wanted to illustrate the incursion of Islam into Western European life, he couldn’t have picked a better example.
I hate Birmingham. I won’t bother to deny this. Whenever I have travelled there to shop or meet friends, the experience has never failed to leave me depressed, degraded and worried about the future of my country.
True, not everyone in the city is Muslim, but the 26% who are exert a disproportionate amount of influence over those who are not. The city as a whole has a palpably third-world feel to it. Anarchic market stalls proffer spices and counterfeit clothing. Kebab and curry houses outnumber fish and chip shops.
The buildings in Birmingham are run down (terribly so in comparison with London). Unemployment is high and local aspiration gutterishly low. Due to rapid immigration, the White population has gradually moved out to the suburbs around the city, leaving the city centre divided between Africans and Pakistanis. There is no subway. Not even a city-wide tramline. Local buses are notoriously unreliable and – at night – rather dangerous. Crime is high, though not as high as London (this can only be because of the greater wealth in the capital).
The local economy is dominated by the Bullring, a giant shopping mall which doubles as the centre of town. Garishly oversized and architecturally offensive, the Bullring provides the only pull for outsiders to venture in. Outside of the mall itself, the city boasts only a smattering of badly-maintained corner stores and identikit supermarkets.
The residential areas of Birmingham are sprawling and make up at least 80% of the city’s land area (London and Manchester are more evenly cut between residential and commercial). This sprawl lumped arbitrarily together as a single entity is the only reason Birmingham is considered the 2nd city of the UK. If cities were judged on their commercial centre (a more sensible idea in my opinion) then Birmingham would not even figure in the top ten.
As will surprise nobody, the local Islamic population have made a name for themselves in the fields of pimping, paedophilia, gang-crime and terrorism. Uncountable Muslims from the area have been arrested for extremism – many to later end up on Guantanamo bay.
Only last year, a national scandal erupted when it was discovered local Muslim supremacists had tried to take over the city’s school system. Known as the ‘Trojan horse’ scandal, this plot would have seen hundreds of thousands of children exposed to Saudi-style ‘educational’ materials, one widely-publicised piece of which dictated the correct way to sever the hand of a thief.
I wish I could think of a redeeming feature for this city, I really do, but I can’t. It is a horrible place and should the rest of Britain go the same way, rates of emigration will spike like never before.
D, LDN.
Defend the Modern World 
Excellent post. Bang on the money.
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Thank you.
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I cannot argue with that, having lived in the city centre for six months recently and driven through the suburbs. Sadly Birmingham feels like a city that is losing its English, western, identity at an accelerating pace and turning into a dump.
I might add that these percentage figures we hear about really cannot be relied upon and one is better of trusting one’s eyes, as the Labour government admitted they had no idea how many people are here illegally and its it up to individuals to identify themselves on surveys. We can see from the Tower Hamlets election fiasco with its voter fraud that Muslims cannot always be depended upon to be reliable with such paperwork.
Readers may be interested in my recent comment about the Fox News debacle, in a thread on this issue: http://forum.theodoredalrymple.org/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=3325&p=14279#p14274
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I also doubt the official figures on the Muslim population. Every time I go there, it feels like a slightly upmarket area of Syria (pre-crisis).
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Excellent article. Rather frightening. Whether the problem is essentially cultural or racial I am not sure. I hope that my home city of Nottingham doesn’t go the same way. Time will tell. If Britain is to be saved then I suspect that only a military solution will suffice. A new Oliver Cromwell is needed. Liberal democracy cannot resolve the problems of a place like Birmingham
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Thanks. I hope that it can be solved by the emergence of a pragmatic leader. Paul Weston of LibertyGB would fit the bill if only he was given air-time on our national media.
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You’re right. Paul Weston would and could be a great British leader, if only he’s taken seriously by the mainstream. Unfortunately as a ‘racist’ ‘Islamaphobe’, like the ‘Germanophobe’ Winston Churchill, he’s still in his wilderness years.
Quote: “From 1929 until WW2 started, he was no longer popular with political leaders. He was labeled a “scaremonger,” and in 1934 in the German press, Churchill was dismissed as “an incorrigible Germanophobe.” That is a quote. I kid you not.”
http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2015/01/the-wilderness-years.html
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I agree that the conurbation is too large and I am thankful for the bit of Green Belt that surrounds it, but I certainly don’t hate Brum. Certain parts (Sparkbook, for example) are majority Muslim, however south suburban Brum certainly isn’t. Sutton Coldfield to the north-east is historically a separate town which is administratively part of Brum though the locals prefer to think otherwise.
The old Bull Ring was an awful carbuncle and whilst the new tin foil bit leaves a lot to be desired at least some thought went into it. Having the spire of St Martin’s as the focal point for example was and remains good in my opinion. Victoria Square has some nice Victorian architecture as do some of the streets around it. If Brum were 100% Islamified then the floozie in the jacuzzi would have to be covered up!
Before Fox News and its ilk make sweeping statements about England, I wish they’d actually take a proper look around and actually understand why this country is the way it is. The run-down of English cities from Brum and Cov northwards is a deliberate policy of neglect by the Londocentric establishment. Our ‘representative’ Parliament are nothing more than the whores of ‘The City’.
Overall Birmingham is not as bad as Londoners like to think it is, but then most Londoners have a condescending view of everywhere else in this country. They don’t realise that the one and only reason London is wealthy is because the ‘sterling’ currency, created out of thin air in Threadneedle Street is still accepted elsewhere, though there is no reason why is should be.
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But much of London now resembles a Third World ghetto too, Secular Vegan, and it’s surely the wealth generated in the City (whether we approve of their speculative means or not) that props up the country, or rather keeps the deficit slightly at bay. I think self sufficiency and entrepreneurial spirit need encouraging more than anything else now.
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This is the subject for a separate discussion on economics, but much of the supposed ‘wealth’ generated by ‘The City’ has come from our taxes bailing out their gambling debts. This blew the myth once and for all about London subsidising the rest of the UK when the reverse is actually true. Personally I want my taxes invested in manufacturing industry here in the Midlands, not on subsidising the City of London spivs who have ruined this country for the past few decades.
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I agree that too much national wealth is concentrated in London. Nevertheless, there are cities outside the South-East that I like. Bristol for example. I’m from Bristol. I will defend the honour of that city to the death.
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so basically, by the time the song Imagine takes hold in a country, the police state is required to keep it together.
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John Lennon’s Imagine? Certainly. That kind of utopian design will ultimately require authoritarianism.
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To bring this back on track I’d say that a good way to discredit an issue is to exaggerate it as Fox News did and for which it was widely ridiculed. Birmingham, like most large towns, has an active ‘gay scene’ (which is centred on Hurst Street, by the Arcadian Centre). The Arcadian Centre itself is usually referred to as the Chinese Quarter due to the concentration of Chinese businesses. In this area are the Legs Eleven and Tricky Dicky’s strip joints (the latter of which caters for hen parties); these would hardly survive in an Islamic city; nor would all the Irish pubs in nearby Digbeth, unless they went alcohol-free and Halal. A Halal Irish pub now there’s a idea, lol.
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That’s why pubs must remain a part of our culture. Sadly, pubs are closing down at an increasing rate.
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For the most part that is down to supermarkets and convenience stores (some ironically Muslim-owned) being able to undercut them by selling low-cost booze in high multiples.
In some cases pubs have closed because the demography of the area has changed. The General Wolfe pub in Coventry which had diversity in the true sense of the word, being a good example:
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/lifestyle/nostalgia/fangs-memories-general-wolfe-foleshill-4020046
But it is situated in an area where the local mosques are concentrated. Unfortunately it has ended up like this:
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/filthy-foleshill-restaurant-takeaway-former-3022681
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That is really a frightening scenario. Someone opened the door and let the wolf in.
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Indeed. It’s very sad.
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