EDL Blackburn Demo Promo Video - 2 April 2011

As a child, the first mention I recall of Blackburn was in the Beatles song A Day in the Life. Whereas headlines at the time of its writing in 1967 prompted John Lennon to forever record the atrocious state of Blackburn’s roads, were he to have referenced the town in song today, I am afraid that he would have found that the headlines would provide rather more lurid subject matter. Alas, the state of contemporary Blackburn fits all too well with the melancholy air of the final track of Sgt. Pepper.

The EDL are planning to gather in Blackburn on Saturday 2 April to highlight the town’s unwelcome links with doctrinaire Islam. A number of videos have been produced in association with this demonstration, but the one below (please try to ignore the poor grammar and spelling and concentrate on the facts that it outlines) is certainly worth viewing, for it demonstrates how this northern town of just over 100,000 people has been blighted by the coming of Islam. It is said to possess the third highest proportion of Muslim residents in the UK (circa 25% of the population). From amongst these 25,000 have issued all of the crimes and ills enumerated in this short Youtube clip.

For all of David Cameron’s spurious talk about the need to ditch multiculturalism, the reality is that the Government is pushing ahead with an expansion in the network of state-funded faith schools, many of these – including Blackburn’s Tauheedul Islam Girls High School – being Muslim faith schools. His words are but subterfuge designed to deflect public attention from the ongoing entrenchment of multicultural norms and practices in British institutions, law and public consciousness, which are actively promoted by his administration.

Blackburn blighted by new Islamic Indoctrination Centre

Whilst in recent months the residents of Pendle managed to prevent a Muslim mega school from being opened in their town and the EDL helped to force the cancellation of a planned mega mosque in Dudley, the inhabitants of Blackburn have had no such luck, for yesterday they bore witness to the opening of the largest mosque in Lancashire. It is not as if the county has a shortage of mosques, for they have sprouted like so many poisonous fungi in this part of the world. Nonetheless, the Qatari royal family stumped up a contribution of £1.5 million towards the construction of the Masjid e Tauheedul mosque in Bicknell Street, with the remaining £2 million of funding having been raised locally.

In terms of capacity, the new mosque will be able to accommodate 1500 worshippers, and stands alongside the government-funded Tauheedul Islam Girls High School. The Lancashire Telegraph quotes  Lord Adam Patel (who led the project) as saying

This opening will be long remembered across the land. . . . We should accept this Masjid as a centre of lifelong learning, a place of social welfare for generations and generations to come.

The mosque will devote considerable efforts to the Islamic indoctrination of children thus entrenching and continuing the cultural segregation that is symbolically embodied in the physical presence of the mosque and adjacent school. The children who are processed through its system of instruction will come to view themselves as superior to non-Muslims, and to see seventh-century norms and codes of behaviour as exemplars to be emulated. I have nothing positive to say about the construction of this mosque or its function. That its influence will be negative was reinforced by the announcement that the mosque would be holding a reception for the Saudi Arabian Prince Turki this Sunday. Saudi ideological influence is poisonous, and the warm celebration planned to honour his visit illustrates the ideological affinity between the mosque's patrons and Wahhabism. Yesterday was a sad day for Blackburn.