Notes on the Islamisation of London VIII.

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The other day, as I sat in a train carriage taking me from Birmingham to London, I decided to tilt my head against the window and try to get some sleep. It had been a long, difficult, boring day and the opiate lure of sleep seemed to offer a warm bath for my aching senses.

I didn’t get any though, for no sooner had I shut my eyes than a burly Somali woman crashed down on the seat across the gangway and began to graze like a cow.

Fidgeting around in a small grey trolley bag she removed box after box, flipping off the lids each time with an echoing pop. She prepared what must have been the apperitif – a cold soup, green in colour, similar in appearance to a badly made guacamole.

I remember thinking “Now she is not going to drink that out of the tub….She can’t do.”

Well, she did, and with a noise more distressing than the whoosh of an approaching bullet. An English (or any rate European) woman ( long legs, short dress) stationed in front of the Somali began to wince in time to every slurp. At one point (to my pleasure) she consulted me with a wry, sympathetic smile.

This went on through five courses. After each one, the woman wiped her mouth gracelessly on her flowing black cloak (by the end it looked like the bed-sheets of a mental patient).

When the train docked at Milton Keynes, the Somali woman picked up her bag and departed the carriage, leaving the boxes, wrappers, and copius stains for the poor train crew to deal with.

The train peeled away towards the smoke, and as I took the postponed chance to rest my head, I thought lazily about the differences in moral priotities between a Muslim woman and her equivalent in the West. No doubt for that Somali woman, bedecked in her Hijab and modest cloak, the lady in front who winced at her behaviour was a barbarian. No doubt her short skirt, social independence and unmutilated labia marked her out as someone awaiting civilisation. My thoughts of the Somali – of course – were of the same kind.

And that’s a good (if slightly ludicrous) analogy for the Muslim-Kaffir quarrel itself. As Christopher Hitchens wrote, it is not a ‘clash of civilisations’, but a clash about what constitutes civilisation that most separates East from West.

Or of course, I could be reading too much into a woman with no table manners.

D, LDN.

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On the Murder of Christina Edkins.

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How deep the numbing liberalism has sunk. Deeper than a knife requires to kill….

In the wake of the brutal slaying, by a mentally-challenged Black youth, of a native English schoolgirl on a Birmingham bus, the spectre of ‘race’ once again seems irresistible. 

While it’s true that such a killing ought not to mean automatically that ‘race’ is discussed, it is being discussed and so it will do no harm to discuss it further. This is especially true in this case, as the ‘race’ issue is being brought up mostly by those from a minority background themselves.

Shortly after reading about the killing, I logged on to Facebook. Inevitably in such a small country, my friends were already commenting on the matter and some had joined groups created to honour the victim. These things are harmless enough and so I decided to join one too.

On the page I joined, about half the comments (there were thousands of them) were simplistic gestures of sympathy (“RIP” etc..), and a large portion of the rest were comments excitedly chastening others for bringing up the murderer’s ethnicity.

On one particularly long thread (about 500 comments long), the most recent comments both said something along the lines of – “I wish people would stop talking about race! Just be sorry for the poor girl and show some respect!” (clearly the spelling was considerably worse – one post even later exclaiming that the killer had “bin court!”. I despair sometimes…)

Anyway, intrigued by the claim of racism, I clicked the “show all comments” button, and the thread expanded, revealing all the dialogue since the thread began.

Not one comment had mentioned the race of the killer. Not one of them. No-one had used the “N” word, or in fact any heated racial language at all.

Those semi-literate users protesting the discussion of race had evidently not bothered to read the thread themselves. Instead, they had guessed, and guessed wrongly.

Wrongly and revealingly…..

I studied other threads on this case, and found the same thing; a reactive and unjustified sensitivity by ethnic minority users, backed by a strange presumption that race was being discussed when in actual fact it wasn’t.

Such hallucination lets slip volumes about the ‘minority’ mindset. Racism has become so well-promoted as a problem that it remains a problem even when it isn’t one. People are prepared to be offended, trained to be hurt, ever-ready to cry… The effect of all this degrades the national conversation.

There are of course, those in Britain who do see things through a racial lens. I made a point afterwards of visiting the BNP website, who sure enough had the story on their news feed and all manner of wild comments underneath (“It’s their small monkey brains! They are violent by nature. They ain’t like us humans. They’re closer to primates….”, “She probably said no to his advances and he stabbed her for it!!” etc…

But these wild-eyed folk are known eccentrics, doomed forever to the political margins. Why take notice of them?

As to the actual science bigots typically reach for on these occasions, it is common knowledge that different races have differing endowments of the male sex-hormone, which among other things, regulates aggression. Conceivably, I suppose, this could have been relevant to the Birmingham case. But the difference in hormone is usually minimal, and were it not, multiracial societies would be in a state of perpetual crisis.

Still, people must be free to speculate as to what motivates these crimes, and what can be done to prevent them in the future. Although nobody seemed to be mentioning it on social networks, there is a problem with Black culture in Britain. The hooded youths (many of them ‘tooled-up’) who stalk the streets near my apartment late at night are something we must discuss. Sensitivity will avail us nothing here.

People of all races can be good, decent and a credit to the nation they inhabit. I don’t need to list the examples of how Black and Asian Britons have contributed to British music, politics, sport and literature. It’s enough to acknowledge that they have.

But since these are now part of the national family, this means we can be as frank as familial ties excuse in pointing out destructive errors. Black British culture in London is in a woeful state, and in Birmingham the situation is even more dire.

Cultural Marxism isn’t helping any of this. It is worse than a lie. It is killing us.

D, LDN

Conservatives have won the Islam-in-Europe debate…..But the young are already in a different world.

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We are almost 12 years on from the September the 11th attacks in America, and we are at last approaching the point where we can say the right has triumphed in the debate over Islamism in Europe.

This might sound a bit too optimistic to some, but I see the evidence all around. There are no serious, mainstream conservatives or liberals still arguing for the unconditional appeasement of Islam in Europe. A huge wave of European conservative and liberal intellectuals have converted almost wholesale to neo-conservative ideas, or at least those which involve the defence of Western culture. They still don’t want to be American of course, but at last they’re realising that it wouldn’t be a ball to be Iranian, Algerian or Turkish either. The ‘either-or’ fallacy has collapsed and while America bolts leftward, Europe has never been so united in ‘right-wing’ sentiment.

If you cast your mind back just a few years ago, you can appreciate the magnitude and speed of this shift. Think back as late as 2006 when the world was first mesmerised by the oratorical skills of Barack Obama, and consider the then fashionable opinions in Europe regarding the War on Terror. It was still broadly regarded as an idiotic cowboy initiative, and the reasons for it – the threat of radical Islam – was deemed to consist mostly of hype, bloated and promoted by arms manufacturers and straw-chewing Christian fundamentalists. George W. Bush, the great dumb American caricature, was still beloved by comedians and political cartoonists in London, Paris and Berlin. You could still get a laugh by pointing to the verbal errors of the out-going President, or by linking the uneducated twang of his accent to the foreign policy he initiated. The threat of Jihad was not just a lie, but an American lie, and it was patriotic not to believe it.

And look at things now.

With veiled faces multiplying, darkening the romance of Parisian streets, Pakistani paedophiles pimping orphan girls in Oxfordshire, kebab houses degentrifying great swathes of Birmingham, and terror alerts issued in Stockholm, Belgium and Denmark – no European can any longer think it patriotic to deny that this is a problem. One could call it fashionable, one could call it bold, and provocative, but no longer is it patriotism.

The right has won the debate….but only among people of a certain generation.

For the young, the debate is ongoing, and the anti-Islamist side has its work cut out.

One of the reasons it is still a challenge is the ongoing demographic shift among European youth. Not only are Muslims growing in number and influence with each new generation, but they are managing to integrate ‘sideways’ with other immigrant communities; in particular those of Christian black Africans. Islam is becoming respected on the street even by Christians, as a natural part of third-world identity. Islam, and even Islamism, is increasingly viewed as being as much a victim of ‘the system’ (and a cool enough means of rebelling against it) as hip-hop and gangsterism.

This is a cause for concern for anyone who understands where the real cultural power lies these days.

When a Counter-Jihad activist watches a good Mark Steyn or Pamela Geller video on YouTube, they might well feel a sense of relief that the “the message is getting out there.”, and that “People are waking up…”

But such a feeling can’t survive a glance at the view count for these clips. The figures are usually at best around the 10-15,000 mark.

Even videos of the late Christopher Hitchens, one of the most popular and media-friendly intellectuals of recent memory, rarely score views over 100,000. Pat Condell, the atheist commentator maxed out on less than 4 million views with a video that was uploaded more than 3 years ago. This is nowhere near sufficient.

Notice also that the ‘video demographics’ reveal a majority of viewers to be over the age of forty.

None of that data bodes well for the future.

Elsewhere on the cultural map, if Lil Wayne or Rihanna release a new music video, views can head toward 100,000,000 within weeks.

Who’s to say that in the future, there won’t be a Rihanna in a headscarf, or a Lil Wayne with a prayer-cap? Were that to occur, the number of people educated by the Counter-Jihad community over the last ten years, would be cancelled out by the number of younger citizens gained over period of hours. And then the offices at the Daily Telegraph could go as crazy as they like; it wouldn’t matter one jot to the younger generation. They would accept a Muslim Rihanna as perfectly natural – as well as historically and culturally consistent. The third-world in the White man’s world is one-world after all – all distinctions or divisions fall away, disappear…..

And who is to blame for this?

I, as a young person, would nominate the ethno-nationalists; people who maintain that there is no qualitative difference between foreign cultures, and that all are equally undesirable. Only European, White culture is acceptable. All else is an invasion or a surrender.

We cannot win against Islamism if we surrender to this kind of catch-all racism.

We should be glad that groups like the EDL and SION have made a start at unifying world cultures in a defensive phalanx, rather than, as the BNP would do, scattering us all like birdseed to be eaten separately.

D, LDN.

How come Bristol is great but Birmingham is hell?: Or why you shouldn’t blame multiculturalism for problems caused by Islam.

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I spent some of my earliest and happiest years in the English city of Bristol. It is still my favourite part of the country. I love the slope of Park street, the bistros, second-hand bookshops and coffee houses which line it and the beautiful Wills Memorial building which stands at one end and which belongs to the great University of Bristol. The shopping centre Cribs Causeway on the outskirts of town still recreates within me the childish excitement of Saturday shopping trips and the thrill of bringing back a couple of 99p CD singles to be played on repeat until bedtime. Though I now reside in London, if it were possible financially and (given my university) logistically, I would move back there in a flash and never leave. I still visit and notice the superior mood of the place. Bristol is so much happier, more civilised and coherent than London, Birmingham or Manchester. I’ve always noticed it and I think I’m starting – after all these years – to understand the reasons behind it.

I can’t list here the ways in which Bristol is superior to other British cities. I’ll just say that if you visit, you’ll find it is conspicuously more cheerful and polite than any other area of the UK. I was struck the last time I visited for example, when I bought an historical book from the main city branch of Waterstones and enjoyed – to my surprise – a few minutes of pleasant conversation about its contents (WW2) with the young staff. Perhaps one could write that off as unique to Waterstones – an upmarket, middle-class business after-all. But no, I later found the same attitude at Tesco, Waitrose, Sainsburys, Greggs, Subway, even McDonalds. People are simply more cheerful there. They speak a relaxed and charming variant of English. Racism is never openly apparent. Black-White couples are conspicuous in number in both urban and leafy areas of the city. No-one flutters an eyelid at such things. The BNP would fare terribly in this city; as would Communism or any other disruptive idea. People are generally content with their lot. Unlike in Manchester, there are few people here droning on about how London has all the wealth and landmarks. Bristol – though hardly poor – is happy enough without the Gherkin, Big Ben and Westminster Abbey. It has instead a rich sense of community. This  is not ‘community’ in the horrible sense demonstrated in places like Bradford. Bristolians are a diverse modern tribe made up of blacks, whites, Chinese, and many other groups undivided by politics, ethnicity or religion…

And so why not ask – Why isn’t this replicated in Birmingham, or London?

The ethno-nationalist would answer that Bristol, unlike Birmingham or London, has a commanding white majority, and true enough Bristol is significantly less ‘diverse’ than other large British cities – but even conceding this I could always ask the question another way –

Why isn’t Bristolian serenity replicated in Leeds, York, Newcastle or Carlisle either -cities which have an even greater white majority?

The answer here lies in the type of minorities a city has. Bristol is certainly multicultural. The city has a large community of blacks who have undeniably enriched the reputation of the city for many years,, most notably through music (Tricky, Massive Attack etc..). In terms of cultural diversity, there are Hindus, Sikhs, and Jains as well as Chinese and Japanese Buddhists who live and study alongside atheists and Methodists, Rastafarians and Scientologists, Mormons and Catholics ….You can see where I’m going with this…..

The city and greater regional area of Bristol has a tiny population of Muslims relative to Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, London or indeed any other major metropolitan area. Those Muslims who do live in Bristol furthermore tend to be continentalised Arabs and Persians rather than the typical Pakistani or Bangladeshi variants found elsewhere in the country. This matters. Don’t doubt it. This, I believe, may be the reason for the city’s distinction.

If you’re used to Birmingham or London when you first walk along the streets of Bristol city centre late at night, you will be struck by three things: firstly, the availability of late-opening bars and places to eat: secondly, the safety of the streets and the absence of vulgar gangs and loud drunks: and thirdly you will notice the difference in the quality and character of local take-aways.

In Birmingham, the only neon that glows after the banks close emanates from newsagents and kebab shops. Chippies are rare to extinct. The smell of doner meat and curry sauce flows down the streets which, by then, are occupied by gangs of hooded chavs. Bristol could hardly differ more. The eateries here are more like those in Europe than the East-End. Inevitably a few kebab shops have invaded the area in recent years, but nowhere near as many as have in a large town like Luton, let alone a large city. Bristol at night is a gentrified, happy experience – a pleasure as sure as the city is the waking hours.

In the daytime, Bristol is perhaps distinguished most by its relaxed ‘indie’ culture. Whereas in Birmingham and Manchester and London, indie (read ‘middle-class White’) culture is moderated or banished by the more macho metal and hip-hop scenes, in Bristol it is still possible to attend school wearing a Radiohead t-shirt and not be accused of homosexuality. Even the local black music scene “trip-hop” is in many ways ‘whiter’ than the horrid ‘grime’ scenes of London and Birmingham, in that it appeals across racial lines without demanding any change in lifestyle, attitude or dress.

This general allowance for sophistication extends elsewhere. The coffee-shop is as acceptable a meeting-place as the pub. Youngsters happily infest these places, openly reading books for no other reason than pleasure.

Bristol in some ways reminds me of a state within a state; a very fragile one. Whereas most English cities seem to be going the way of Birmingham and Manchester, Bristol stands alone against this trend. It’s time for Bristolians to recognise what makes their city great and to become willing to defend and preserve it. And it’s also time for people to stop blaming multiracialism for the social problems caused by Muslims. There is a relationship between whites and those from other races in Bristol that is only made possible by the absence of Islam. Muslim communities inflame racial division; they introduce toxic international politics into otherwise serene local communities, and they de-gentrify local culture and cuisine. Bristol is a multi-coloured city, but it lacks all the hideousness of Birmingham or London and it is possible this way to understand why. It would be an awful shame were cities like Birmingham chosen to represent in ‘the parliament of public-opinion’, the whole idea of globalised modernity. Bristol shows modernity can work, and if we just develop a little more courage, it can work elsewhere too.

D. LDN.