A Skin’ead Record? Yer Nicked, Sunshine

Better watch out if you’re a Brit who has any old Skrewdriver records lying around. Better not have the Romper Stomper soundtrack, featuring a bunch of Oi! bands, either. Cockney Rejects? Anything with boots’n’braces? Definitely a ticket to the chokey.

Because, in Britain, they won’t just jail you for posting memes or liking bacon. They’ll jail you for owning records, too.

A Hereford man has been jailed after admitting to possessing and distributing “extreme right-wing” music and material.

What, exactly, constitutes ‘extreme right-wing’ music? Johnny Ramone? Kid Rock? Ted Nugent? Alice Cooper has some pretty suss opinions, too, sunshine: you’re nicked for that old copy of Welcome to My Nightmare.

Even that embarrassing copy of No Jacket Required might get the Bill on your back. After all, Phil Collins quit the UK when Labour won the ’97 general election. Those known fascists, the Spice Girls, are a bit on the nose, too: remember, they called themselves ‘true Thatcherites’. Geri Halliwell might as well have sung the Horst Wessel Lied and goose-stepped across Wembley stadium. And don’t forget that even the Clash started out as “The London SS”.

Norbert Gyurcsik, from Kestrel Road, pleaded guilty at Worcester Crown Court on October 3 to three charges – one count of distributing recordings and two counts of possessing recordings.

Yesterday (Thursday, November 27), he was sentenced to 40 months for each offence; the sentences will be served concurrently.

The 48-year-old was arrested in May last year for buying and distributing albums whose lyrics breached terrorism legislation and intended to incite racial hatred.

A warrant carried out at Gyurcsik’s home address found over 2000 records in his possession, which he was buying and selling across the UK and Europe.

Still, your tatty old copy of Tea for the Tillerman is probably safe, even though its maker openly called for the murder of Salman Rushdie.

In fact, if you’re the ‘right’ sort of extremist in Two-Tier Britain, you can spout all the hate you like on vinyl and in print and the rozzers won’t go near you.

For 40 years, Dar al-Taqwa has stood as a cultural and spiritual hub for the Muslim community in the UK and beyond. Its founder opened the store after recognising the lack of accessible Islamic resources in the UK during the 1980s […]

Dar al-Taqwa’s shelves are lined with many books that are rare or out of print. “There are books you’ll find here that you’ll never find anywhere else,” [Noora el-Atar] says proudly.

Such as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, perhaps? Who am I kidding, you can buy that bloodsoaked anti-Semitic forgery at just about any Islamic bookshop around the world. But there’s plenty of other pro-terror material you can get at Dar al-Taqwa, without ever having to worry about getting nicked by Two-Tier Kier’s stormtroopers.

The Dar al-Taqwa bookshop near Baker Street in Central London sells some extremist tracts including The Methodology of Hizb ut-Tahrir for Change, which proposes “carrying Islam to the rest of the world by invitation and Jihad”. The shop’s manager, who declined to be named, said: “If it’s something that incites any hatred, it’s not desirable to sell, it’s not wise.”

So, why is she selling that stuff? Hizb ut-Tahrir is, after all, a proscribed terror organisation in the UK.

The Jewish conspiracy is a common thread. “1066: How Islamophobia Came To The British Isles” is a mad history, emphasising the role of Jews, up to “Jacob Stavinsky [Jack Straw]” and Peter Mandelson, “a homosexual Zionist known as The Prince of Darkness”.

In fact, Islamic bookshops and extremist material seem to go hand-in-hand. An Islamic bookshop owner in Australia was jailed on terrorism offences. And jihadi literature appears to be the stock-in-trade.

Books promoting suicide bombing, terrorism and anti-Semitism are openly on sale in Islamic bookshops in spite of the killing of 52 commuters by ideologically-motivated young Muslims […]

A selection of disturbing literature is available from the Maktabah bookshop in Birmingham. One book, by a British Mujahid describing his guerrilla warfare in Kashmir, says that “terror works and that is why the believers are commanded to enforce it by Allah”.

The Maktabah shop owner, who declined to be named, said: “The books you have highlighted are easily available at 90 per cent of Islamic bookshops around the country.”

As if that’s supposed to reassure us.

A religious edict promoting suicide bombing features in Defence of the Muslim Lands, a book sold at the Imaan shop in Luton. The 25-page argument concludes: “Martyrdom operations are permissible, and in fact the Mujahid who is killed in them is better than one who is killed fighting in the ranks.” The book opens with a quotation from Osama bin Laden praising the author.

Abu Syed Jahingis, the proprietor, said that he had not read the book because of his poor English but would now check it. “Bombing in the UK is not the Islamic way,” he said.

The victims of 7/7 or people shredded to pieces as they left an Ariana Grande concert might beg to disagree.

But, contrary to some skinhead jacking off over his old 4 Skins or Oi Polloi records, Islamic extremism doesn’t just get a free pass, the UK state will come down on you like a ton of bricks if you even dare notice. For the heinous crime of reporting such stuff, the Evening Standard was hauled before the Press Complaints Commission.

All of which makes a mockery of the UK police, urging Brits to snitch on each other, claiming that “Reporting won’t ruin lives, but it could save them.”

Blokes banged up for hawking shitty Oi! records, while jihadis incite terrorism with impunity, might not agree.