This craven deference to Islamism endangers us all – including Muslims
by Karen Harradine, The Conservative Woman:
Part 1:
A FEW years ago, while I was living in Singapore, the government there expelled two Bangladeshi migrants within days of learning that they were preaching jihad. Protecting their citizens from harm is more important to the Singaporean government than fearing accusations of ‘racism’ or ‘Islamophobia’. Sadly the British Government is not equally courageous.
I wrote in TCW last week on how Islamist hate preachers such as Linda Sarsour and Ahmed Alshami were allowed to enter the UK. I asked why the government allowed it.
It could not be on the grounds of perceived racism – or so you would think. The UK is is not a racist country. Equality laws are entrenched here. Was it then accusations of ‘Islamophobia’ they feared had they taken action? Here lies the problem – the right to voice our concerns about the extremist part of Islam without being accused of ‘Islamophobia’.
To hate all Muslims because of their faith and not to make a distinction between extremist Islam and ordinary decent Muslims is of course wrong. It is moreover hurtful and alienating of the secular and reformist Muslim allies that we have in this fight against Islamism, to the many Muslims who wish to live a peaceful religious or secular life and who are far more integrated than we give them credit for. Some must be scratching their heads asking why the government acquiesces to the same Islamist ideologues that they, or their parents, fled from in search of sanctuary here.
It brings us to the critical question of who speaks for Islam in our society, the Islamists or the reformists? And if it is the former, why has the government capitulated to their Islamist narrative on Islamophobia? After all, secular and reformist Muslims need the establishment, MSM and the chattering classes to cease kowtowing to Islamists and help fight the misogynistic, homophobic extremists who advocate jihad and would inflict FGM on their daughters and who reject our Enlightenment values.
Given the deference shown by our craven government and the MSM to individuals such as the aggressive Baroness Sayeeda Warsi and organisations such as Mend, it would seem we are all being forced into silence. Ever since the moderate Sara Khan was appointed the Government’s Commissioner for Countering Extremism, the former and ennobled vice-chairman of the Conservative Party has been ‘beating her with a stick’ in her determination to make the government adopt a ‘working definition of Islamophobia’ as ‘a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness’.
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