The Finsbury Mosque Attack. What’s Next?
by William Kilpatrick, Crisis Magazine:
What will be the result of the attack on worshippers outside the Finsbury Park mosque in London? Answer: It will almost certainly bring the total Islamization of England one step closer.
On Sunday night, a man who said he wanted to “kill all Muslims” drove his van into a group of Muslims, killing one man and injuring ten others. This is the long-awaited “backlash” that the media has been predicting for the last sixteen years. But up until now, they haven’t been able to produce much evidence for it aside from some angry words and bacon strips left outside mosques.
Now their narrative has seemingly been vindicated, and as Robert Spencer and Mark Steyn have already pointed out, the authorities and the media will take the incident as an opportunity to quash not just the extreme right, but also legitimate analysis of those elements of Islam that lead to terrorism.
The process has already begun. Today’s Newsweek carries an article by Muddassar Ahmed which blames the right-wing press—by which he means The Sun, the Daily Mail, and the Daily Star—for fanning the flames of “Islamophobia” which caused the attack on the Finsbury Park worshippers.
The trouble is, when the elite media refer to the “right-wing” and the “far-right-wing,” they include not only genuine neo-Nazis and white supremacists but anyone who is in the least critical of Islamists and immigration. For example, the Newsweek article includes Douglas Murray as an example of a “far-right activist.” Yet anyone who has read Murray’s columns or his new book The Strange Death of Europe would be hard-pressed to find anything extreme about his writing. Indeed, Murray’s views on Islam and immigration are shared by a great many people in the U.S. and Europe (cf. the recent Chatham House poll which reveals that a majority of Europeans want a complete and permanent halt to Muslim immigration). The Newsweek piece not only draws an equivalence between Islamist terror and “far-right terror,” it contains a hint that conservative media should be censored.
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