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Part 3 – Britain Opens the Gates to Islamic Theocracy

From ‘Rivers of Blood’ to Muslim rape gangs: Islam is the problem.

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Martin Hanson
Martin Hanson is a retired high school science teacher, born and educated in the United Kingdom, but spent most of his teaching career in New Zealand.

Although almost all Pakistanis are Muslims, some of the convicted rapists are from Afghanistan, Morocco and Iran, all Muslim countries. In a trial in Bristol in 2014, all 13 convicted men were from Somalia, an overwhelmingly Muslim country.

The grooming gangsters treated their victims with brutal contempt, so it is pertinent to ask how they came by such primitive, violent misogyny.

The great majority of British Pakistanis originate from Azad Kashmir and the Punjab where, as in most of rural Pakistan, women are treated as chattels, without rights of their own. Arranged marriages are the norm: marriage for love is considered to be a transgression. Forced marriage of girls as young as 15 is the norm. In this grotesquely patriarchal society, the ‘honour’ of the man is paramount, whatever the circumstances. According to the Pakistani rights group Aurat Foundation, about 1,000 Pakistani women are murdered every year in honour killings. The true figure is probably far higher, since the foundation only compiles data from newspaper reports.

According to a Unicef Situation Analysis Report, 2012, Pakistan is the third most dangerous country for women, after Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The chief danger is in so-called ‘honour’ killings. In December 2011 the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan reported that in the period January to September of 2011, at least 675 Pakistani women and girls had been murdered for ‘dishonouring’ their families by, for example, having ‘illicit relations’, or marrying without permission.

If a woman is raped, her rights are a long way secondary to the ‘rights’ of the rapist. According to the Hindustan Times (May 28, 2017), a 19-year-old woman was sentenced to death in the rural district of Rajanpur in the Punjab province of Pakistan, after alleging that she had been raped at gunpoint by her cousin when she was sleeping at her house. Instead of taking action against the man, the elders of the village sentenced her to death.

Such is the cultural baggage many Pakistanis brought with them when they arrived in Britain as immigrants. Unlike knowledge, which can be updated as a result of experience, values are acquired unconsciously. Developing in childhood, values are too deeply ingrained to be easily changed. It is therefore extraordinarily naïve to expect immigrants from deeply misogynistic societies to jettison these attitudes on arrival in the UK.

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Until recently, Muslim rape gangs receive scant treatment in the media. The perfect antidote to this disgraceful situation is Peter McLoughlin’s book Easy Meat.

Easy Meat

Meticulously researched and detailed, the book should be read by everyone in public life, parliamentarians especially. The following detailed review by Anne Marie Waters is an excellent summary.

Islamic Culture

Easy Meat”, by Peter McLoughlin, is about as comprehensive a report in to the horrible phenomenon of so-called “Asian grooming gangs” as has been produced. Published earlier this year, it is an in-depth examination in to this dreadful crime where thousands of girls, some as young as 10 years old, were brutally raped, tortured and pimped by gangs throughout England. These gangs were comprised almost exclusively of Muslim men. Most of the victims were white English girls, but Sikh girls were also often targeted.

The grooming gang scandal burst in to public consciousness with the publication of the Jay report in 2014. It described how at least 1,400 girls had fallen victim to these gangs in the South Yorkshire town of Rotherham alone. As McLoughlin explains in some detail, Rotherham was a drop in the ocean. All over England (and Holland) thousands upon thousands of young girls have been raped and pimped for decades, and with absolute impunity. Furthermore, it is still going on.

Such impunity was the result of the inaction of a public sector terrified of being labeled racist if it mentioned the ethnicity of the men involved. The media furore that followed the Jay report did refer to ethnicity however, and shouldn’t have. Ethnicity is not the issue (except in reference to the victims, who are often selected because they are white), religion is the issue – and Peter McLoughlin is not afraid to say so.

He writes: “Despite the experts knowing that not all the Muslims in Britain who do this are Asian, despite knowing that an almost identical pattern of criminality has been going on in Holland (and that the Muslims in Holland who are doing it are from Turkey and Morocco), the experts refuse to look at Islam as a causal factor, even when there is no other cause that can be seen”. McLoughlin points out that even while denying Islam could have been influential in these crimes, politicians and other authorities simultaneously liaised with Muslim “leaders” in attempts to confront them. As McLoughlin asks, “Why did the Home Affairs Committee have input from a sheikh, but not from a bishop?”

It is the religious identity of these men that the powerful have not addressed. Instead, the issue is deemed to be one of culture, whilst ignoring the impact of Islam in shaping it.

As is argued in “Easy Meat”, “over hundreds of years the stories, morality and principles from the Qur’ân, the Hadiths, and the Sira (The Life of Mohammed) must have passed in to Islam culture. These principles, values and narratives have affected what Muslims view as right and wrong. These things shape their view of the world.” The statement is powerful, owing to its staggering common sense. Of course Islam and its teachings influence the morality of Muslims, that is a given. It doesn’t mean that all Muslims think or act alike, but Islamic morality is bound to inform the norms of Muslim societies – that indeed is its role.

When they migrate, people do not leave their beliefs behind, and so England finds itself with 100,000s of young men whose morals, and view of women and sex, are informed, to at least some extent, by Islamic teachings and principles. This is precisely why Islam needs to be looked at in the context of the grooming gang crimes, but all relevant authorities simply ruled this out as a possibility.

Peter McLoughlin writes: “Groups like Boko Haram and Islamic State would not be taking young non-Muslim girls as sex-slaves if such behaviour was not found in core Islamic texts as being the behaviour of Mohammed, the founder of Islam.” He points out that those who argue the grooming gang scandal has no relation to Islam never seem able to produce scriptural evidence in support of this. McLoughlin however, has plenty.

Permission for Muslim men to rape female non-Muslims is littered throughout Islamic scripture. A significant verse from the Qur’ân, which refers to female slaves, is this one: ‘We have made lawful to you your wives whom you have given their dowries, and those whom your right hand possesses out of those whom Allah has given to you as prisoners of war.’ McLoughlin claims “not only are Muslim men permitted legally and morally to rape their slaves, they are also forgiven if they turn a slave girl in to a prostitute. It is clear, that these kind of Islamic views easily lend themselves to Muslim men seeing women as objects, to be controlled and dominated by men. It would lead them to believe that if some non-Muslim woman within their control could be prostituted, there would be no moral or legal consequences for them within an Islamic world-view.”

Needless to say, he is absolutely right. There is simply no getting away from it, the cultural influence of Islam, and Islamic doctrine itself, must have had an enormous impact on the attitudes of the men involved in rape gangs across England. I know that as I type thousands of young girls are undergoing exactly this very same torment.

Islamic culture, that is culture shaped by Islam to whatever extent, has brought misery to Europe over the last few decades. Sharia, honour violence, jihadism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, and rape. In “Easy Meat”, Peter McLoughlin portrays this methodically. This is not an uplifting or entertaining book, but it is absolutely essential reading. If you want to know just how widespread this crime has been, and the reasons it occurred, then “Easy Meat” is where to begin.

It reveals with harrowing clarity just how much Islam has begun to hurt us, and that our leaders and our elite are aiding and abetting in this without shame.

Political Correctness


Have you ever read something and felt a kind of relief, an overwhelming sense of ‘at last, someone else gets it’? I felt that way a hundred times when reading Peter McLoughlin’s “Easy Meat”, but nowhere more so than when I read this: “Could political correctness really be so powerful that it could allow this child-care scandal to persist and flourish for decades? We should not underestimate the power of this mental straight-jacket. People often refer to political correctness in humorous terms, but in reality it is no laughing matter. Political correctness is a sinister device constructed by the left to ensure that negative outcomes of left-wing ideology are never subject to criticism.”

Very few things are wholly and entirely dangerous, including political correctness. I don’t particularly want to return to a society where black people put up with denigration, or women are patted on the backside at work. But as usual, there was no need for this distortion to have taken place. Basic decency and respect for each other would also have rid of us of racism, sexism, or homophobia, so there was no need for us to reach a point where even the truth becomes subject to offence, subject to what someone else deems acceptable. That is exactly what political correctness has done, that is why it is poison. The truth has become subject to political convenience and political positioning, so that when it is inconvenient to the governing left, the truth is concealed and to hell with the consequences. Thousands of girls were raped and tortured because the truth was suppressed, and the truth was suppressed because it was politically dangerous for the left. This is entirely unforgivable, and it ought to finally bury political correctness in the dark crevices of history where it belongs.

Political correctness isn’t about being nice to each other, much as its proponents like to assert while standing on their self-constructed moral high ground, it is a tool of compliance that has, as McLoughlin explains, been utilised by the far left wherever and whenever it has power. It is a tool of oppression and subjugation, nothing less. The phrase emerged from the far Leninist left and denotes those who steadfastly adhere to the party line. It presents us with a list of the acceptable and the unacceptable. Whatever doesn’t favour and advance left-wing thinking is placed firmly in the camp of the unacceptable. In practice, this has been applied nowhere more disgustingly than with regard to Islam and Muslim immigration. The left wanted Britain’s borders open to a religion and culture that is entirely incompatible with ours. When the terrible consequences of this folly were felt, those consequences had to be hidden or damage to Labour’s vote share would have been the result.

As described in “Easy Meat”, “having encouraged Muslim immigration to the UK without any national debate concerning the nature of Islam and how Islamic values conflict with those of the indigenous population, the socialist government determined that Islam should not be criticised”. Peter McLoughlin provides shocking examples of repeated attempts by Labour to outlaw, to criminalise, anything that was deemed insulting to Muslims. This is not only because Labour so desperately needs the Muslim vote, but it is also to ensure that the misery that Islam causes is kept out of public discussion. This would undermine multiculturalism, it would highlight the sheer stupidity of the global borderless delusion, and most importantly of all, it would prove some of Labour’s opponents were right.

According to McLoughlin, the rape of the girls in Rotherham and elsewhere was ignored at least partly because the British National Party (BNP) had raised the issue, and rather than prove them right, Labour (overwhelmingly) thought rape was preferable. The girls involved, or their families, simply did not matter one iota. Labour could not allow the BNP to have a valid point. That the truth remains true regardless of who tells it, does not inform this kind of thinking. The truth is irrelevant, appearances matter more. That is the poison at the heart of political correctness. It is all-pervasive and it is serious, so much so that police intervened to prevent a media broadcast in 2004.

“Edge of the City”, a Channel 4 documentary about child sex grooming, was withdrawn from broadcast because “a variety of pressure groups, along with West Yorkshire Police, attempted to block” the film from being shown. To quote the Guardian: “Groups such as Unite Against Fascism, the 1990 Trust, and the National Assembly Against Racism began to flood Channel 4 with requests to delay transmission. The Chief constable of West Yorkshire, Colin Cramphorn, joined the call, and Channel 4 complied.”

Peter McLoughlin describes how Channel 4 denied their decision to pull the documentary was to prevent the BNP making political gains. Whether one believes this or not might be considered a matter of opinion, but regardless of reasons, the implications are shocking.

It is clear that information is being held from public view for political reasons, and the police are ensuring that nothing troublesome can be seen. It matters not that the broadcast of such a documentary might actually help stop this crime from happening, it matters not that the public have a right to know (particularly girls) about a predator in their midst, it matters not how many will suffer – What matters is politics, what matters is political correctness.

“Easy Meat” is clear and informative book. It lays before the reader the pernicious and poisonous underbelly of the grooming gang scandal – the misogynistic culture of Islam, the political correctness that hid the truth, and in part three of this review, I will look at perhaps the most toxic of them, what these girls had truly fallen victim to… they were, as Peter McLoughlin argues, the victims of multiculturalism.

Multiculturalism


When I and others correctly point out that world cultures are often vastly different, and in hugely important respects entirely incompatible, I and others will inevitably be called bigots, Islamophobes, racists, the usual.

What could be more different or incompatible than democracy and theocracy? What could be more different or incompatible than freedom of speech and death for blasphemy? What could be more different or incompatible than women and men having the same civil rights and women being the legal property of men who decide how their lives should be lived? What could be more different or incompatible than freedom for homosexuals and death for homosexuals?

I’ll point out the obvious again: these things will not live side by side – it is either one or the other. There is no middle ground. In Muslim majority countries, blasphemy is usually illegal and often carries the death penalty, same for homosexuality, and to say that women are treated badly is the understatement of the millennium. Leaders and lefty journalists may continue to deny the incompatibility of Islam and democracy, but they very much speak with forked tongue. The people who are the most vocal advocates for multiculturalism know and acknowledge the existence of incompatible cultures, that’s why they came up with multiculturalism in the first place. The difference between the pro and anti-multiculturalism sides is that the pro side sees nothing wrong in other people’s cultures, regardless of oppressive or cruel they might be. All are equal. In effect, they do not distinguish between right and wrong, while questioning the morals of people who do.

This is the third part of my review of the brilliant book “Easy Meat”, by Peter McLoughlin. In the first two parts, I described how McLoughlin detailed some of the main causes of the mass rape of young girls in Rotherham and all over England: misogynistic Islamic doctrine, political correctness, and the one I believe to be near-top of the sinister list, the deceptive and immoral notion of multiculturalism.

Peter McLoughlin described the victims of mass rape by Muslim gangs across the country as being victims of multiculturalism. He wrote:

Modern multiculturalism has been a short-sighted and cowardly doctrine, designed to suppress the conflicts between value systems of different cultures. It has meant that for 20 to 50 years, there has been mounting pressure (driven by a metropolitan elite who mostly live in middle-class, monocultural, Anglophone enclaves) to suppress any signs of the cultural conflict between the host culture and some antagonistic minority cultures. In the context of the suppression of information on the grooming gangs, thousands of innocent schoolgirls have had their lives ruined, ruined in ways that most British people thought ended in the distant past. These schoolgirls were sacrificed so that the middle-class, monocultural elite did not have to entertain the disturbing idea that some cultures think slavery is legitimate, or that a 50-year-old man having sex with a nine-year-old girl is an act of piety.

To describe the young girls in Rotherham and elsewhere as having been sacrificed is entirely accurate. These rapes, as well as countless other crimes, were allowed to carry on largely to protect the notion that while cultures are different (hence multiculturalism), all the bad parts of other cultures have to be ignored and the message that multiculturalism is a positive experience of shared lives must be the only one in the mainstream public square. Critics of multiculturalism would, as usual, be smeared as racist.

Multiculturalism advocates are obsessed with protecting the ‘we are all the same’ delusion (while simultaneously celebrating “diversity”) and it is one of great con-tricks of the age. Not only do multis refuse to recognize cultural practices as deeply immoral, they insist that all immorality is equally immoral.

Take for example the leftists already arguing that homophobia in general is responsible for the gay-club slaughter in Orlando. This position doesn’t recognize that homophobia is worse in Muslim-majority societies than in any other: ‘gays face the same problems everywhere’ is the rather bizarre thinking. Just like post-Cologne when leftist multiculturalists jostled to be the first to put it down to misogyny as a whole, the same borderless fantasies are the prompt.

There are no borders, no countries, no national common cultures, no distinct historical developments that inevitably result in varied belief systems, none of this – we are all equal (but let’s celebrate diversity).

Like political correctness, multiculturalism is simply a tool utilized by the left-dominated mainstream to disguise truths while causing confusion by simultaneously, and by definition, acknowledging those same truths. The truth is that some cultures simply will not mix, and this is acknowledged by virtue of the existence of multiculturalism itself. A further truth is that some cultures are brutal and violent while others are not, this truth is the one being disguised in service to a political ideal of “equality”; if people suffer, multiculturalism simply does not care.

“Easy Meat” is a must-read. It’s the most detailed examination of this tragic set of circumstances I have seen. It lays down the harsh reality – this violent conflict was always going to happen with mass global migration, and the efforts of our leaders have gone in to distorting the truth about it than they have in to preventing the conflict.

Although the appalling depravity of the Muslim rape gangs and the organized, nationwide, extent of their crimes has been covered by the media, the most politically explosive implications have not, for reasons that are not hard to guess. This deficiency is filled by Chapter 7 of Easy Meat.

McLoughlin points out that until just after World War II, slavery was an all-pervasive part of Islamic history, actively and extensively practiced throughout their culture.

Another Islamic perversion may stem from the fact that Mohammed married his favourite wife, Aisha when she was six years old, and consummated the marriage when she was nine.

Even if such child marriages were a cultural norm in the seventh century, it’s a grotesque perversion today. But that hasn’t prevented it happening that in 2012 in London. According to the Islington Tribune, nine-year-old Muslim girls were being married off to old men, and trapped in primary school in the day whilst providing sexual services to the old man in the evening.

It could also explain why so many of the Muslim grooming gangsters were fixated on girls as young as 10.

McLoughlin’s book clearly presents a serious threat to Islamism in the UK and its establishment protectors. It is not available at Amazon, suggesting that Islamist power extends to publishing. However, at the time of writing it is available online in PDF format, and in hard copy at Blackwells and Barnes & Noble.

How should we react to Easy Meat?

While McLoughlin makes a compelling case for dealing with radical Islam in the UK, we need to tread carefully in this particular minefield, since the majority of Muslims are not radical, and one should be careful before inveighing against the majority.

The most reliable guide to Muslim attitudes is an opinion poll conducted for Channel 4 TV by ICM Research. It formed the basis for their 2016 documentary What British Muslims Really Think, presented by Guyana-born Trevor Phillips, a former head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).

A random sample of 1081 people aged 18-plus who identified as Muslim were interviewed face to face, together with a control group of 1008 people from the general population aged 18-plus. The results were published as percentages of the survey sample.

Among the findings in the 615-page survey were as follows. Figures in parentheses are the implied numbers for the whole population:

  • 4 per cent (30,000) have at least some sympathy with people who take part in suicide bombings.
  • 52 per cent (1.5 million) do not believe that homosexuality should be legal in Britain, compared with 22 percent of the general population.
  • 23 per cent (690,000) support the introduction of Islamic law (Sharia) instead of British law.
  • 5 per cent (150,000) sympathise with the stoning of women for adultery, and 21 percent (630,000) do not condemn it.
  • 31 per cent (900,000) think polygamy should be legalized.
  • 39 per cent (1.1 million) agree that “wives should always obey their husbands, compared with 5 per cent of the general population.”

The programme’s take-home message was summed up by Phillips. He said that the survey showed that his earlier views were wrong:

I thought Europe’s Muslims would gradually blend into the landscape. I should have known better ... But thanks to the most detailed and comprehensive survey of British Muslim opinion yet conducted, we know that just isn’t how it is ... The integration of Britain’s Muslims will probably be the hardest task we’ve ever faced. It will require the abandonment of the milk-and-water multiculturalism still so beloved of many, and the adoption of a far more muscular approach to integration.

His most disturbing finding, expressed in an article for the Daily Mail, was that Muslims who have separatist views about how they want to live in Britain are far more likely to support terrorism than those who do not.

End of Part 3. Part 4 will be published on DTNZ.

See also:

This is the third installment of a six-part series by Martin Hanson examining the legacy and consequences of Enoch Powell’s infamous 1968 “Rivers of Blood” speech. Far from fading into history, Hanson argues that Powell’s warnings about mass immigration and political denial have proven disturbingly prophetic. In this opening part, he revisits the speech in its full historical context, explores the immediate and long-term reactions it provoked, and draws a direct line to one of the most harrowing and underreported scandals in modern British history – the widespread, organized sexual exploitation of young girls by grooming gangs, and the institutional failures that allowed it to continue unchecked.

This article was originally published by the Daily Telegraph New Zealand.

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