Who should determine the Future of Libya?

This evening, the panellists on Radio 4's 'The Moral Maze' debated the pros and cons and rights and wrongs of potential military intervention in Libya. Much of the debate thus centred upon a cluster of issues connected to state sovereignty, international law, Just War Theory and human rights. Ultimately, it was a debate that revolved around the central question of 'who should determine the future of Libya?'

For me, there can only be one answer to this question: the Libyan people themselves. Libyan sovereignty is under contention, with Gaddafi attempting to retain the state as his personal domain, whilst a popular uprising seeks to wrest control from him in the name of the Libyan people. Clearly, for a democratic nationalist the right to determine the future lies with the latter, not with a despot and his clique. What is equally clear however is that it is up to the Libyan people to determine that outcome and to establish their own post-Gaddafi government; it is not the business of the UN, NATO, the Gulf Co-operation Council, members of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference or any other nation individually or in league with others to determine the future governance of Libya. Those who seek to overthrow the Gaddafi order have made it quite clear that they do not want foreign intervention, and any contravention of this request constitutes a violation of national sovereignty and democratic right.

The clamour for foreign intervention against Gaddafi is growing, emanating from a number of governments and those who advocate the deeply flawed approach that goes by the name of ‘humanitarian interventionism’. Unfortunately, the British government is foremost amongst those advocating military intervention, and David Cameron has made clear that all military options are under consideration including the deployment of ground troops. My primary objection to such an approach has already been made: any such action would constitute an intervention in the internal affairs of a sovereign nation-state, but there are many more good reasons not to intervene:

• Firstly, there is no British national security interest at stake in Libya.  
• Secondly, any intervention by the UK, NATO or any other Western state or coalition thereof would be used by Gaddafi to rally Libyans to his cause by pointing to this as evidence of a ‘Western imperialist’ plot to depose him and subjugate Libya to their interests.  
• Thirdly, the argument that we should intervene upon so-called ‘humanitarian grounds’ is spurious, for if such grounds are to be used as justification to wage war on regimes around the globe, might not equal or better cases be made for war against North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Burma or China?  
• Fourthly, Western intervention in another Muslim majority state would recruit even more zealots to the international jihadist movement.  
• Fifthly, once Gaddafi was toppled, what objectives would any intervening power or coalition possess with a view to the reconstitution of the Libyan political order? Might it not prove to be as intractable and violent a quagmire as Iraq or Afghanistan? Where are the clear strategic objectives? There appear to be none. 
• Sixthly, military intervention always involves ‘collateral damage’. Given this, even Libyans who might conceivably call upon outside powers to intervene, could subsequently come to hate and resent them.  
• Seventhly, we are bankrupt and our armed forces have just been slashed and are militarily overstretched.

The case for the UK's potentially disastrous intervention in Libya appears to be driven by a fundamental lack of clear-headed strategic thinking regarding our national security. The Conservative Party, the FCO and RUSI all appear to have been infected by the globalist bacillus and its affiliated virus of 'humanitarian interventionism'. Our national security priorities should above all be national. We should thus focus upon securing our borders, eradicating pirates (yes, the pirates themselves, for without pirates there can be no piracy) and maintaining a suitable deterrent to ensure that we are never attacked by another state. Withdrawal from NATO should also be a top priority. We have no right to interfere in the affairs of other states, just as they have no right to interfere in our sovereign affairs. Libya for the Libyans, and Britain for the Britons. Show me someone who objects to that, and I’ll show you an anti-democrat.  

Garden Gnome fined for ill-tempered Poppy Burning

The Daily Mail reports that a humourless garden gnome look-alike by the name of Emdadur Choudhary was today fined £50 for burning a number of large plastic poppies during the two-minutes’ silence on Armistice Day and yelling “British soldiers burn in Hell!” In effect, he won't even be paying this fine as he's on state benefits. He, and about 35 other members of the cult of garden gnome impersonators – Muslims Against Crusades – staged their stunt with the intent of insulting Britain’s war dead and causing offence to their living relatives. It certainly caused some agitation amongst EDL supporters who were nearby at the time. Moreover, the Mail reports that:

Shaun Rusling, vice chairman of the National Gulf War Veterans and Families Association claimed the sentence was 'disgusting'.

Choudary was caught on camera unfurling several large plastic poppies on the ground before burning them at the end of the two-minute silence to honour the war dead

'If we set fire to a Qur'an there would be uproar and they would go after us but because this is Britain people just get upset. It is a futile sentence.

'For them to insult those who have given their lives for freedom is an affront. It is one law for them and one law for others.

Very Idle Speculations

What are the real reasons underpinning Choudhary’s anger and hatred for the society in which he resides? Apologists might point to such canards as ‘racism’, ‘relative deprivation’ or ‘British foreign policy’. Generally, the leftist exoneration of folk such as Chodhary invokes all of these justifications, but I have other ideas.

Digging out an old oil lamp I gave it a rub and out popped out a genie (I know, Choudhary would prefer me to refer to it as a jinn, but I’m sticking with our traditional anglicised version).

“Your wish is my command!” said the genie.
“Cheers. I don’t want you to do much; just find out what that Emdadur Choudhary has swirling around in that odd noddle of his, and report back. Is that a deal?”
“Of course, sire!”
And off popped the genie, to return half an hour later to report back on his conversation with Choudhary, and this is what he said (unfortunately, owing to the genie's residence in Bradford since his arrival from Mirpur in 1975, he communicated the message in his contemporary 'Bradistani', so I apologise to the reader if the passage is somewhat unclear):

“I, Emdadur Choudhary, do declare before the Prophet Muhammed (peace be upon Him), that I and me brothers is standing up for us rights by fighting the kuffar in this Dar-al-Harb. I have chosen to take the path of righteousness, to practise Dawah and to be a soldier of Allah, ‘cos I feel very insecure about me ‘ight. I’m shorter than me mates! Someone also cut off part of me penis when I was even smaller, which 'as filled me and me mates with righteous Muslim anger (that's why it's done y'know). It's given me a right bad temper.

I am making a stand (I know, I’m not tall, so shut up about it!) for me mates, who like me, are gnomes; noble Muslim gnomes with ‘luxuriant’ beards, who have too often been ignored in your racist media. Why is all your gnomes white and kuffar? We’re gonna ‘ave ‘em big style ‘n’ smash ‘em up bro’! Gonna make ‘em and you respect us, ‘cos gnomes deserve respect. Why don’t your white gnomes prostrate themselves before Allah? And what is it with them gettin' on with fairies, like?! They ought to string 'em up from cranes like they do in Iran! Kuffar gnomes is gonna pay, Muslim gnomes is on their way!”

Celebrating Britain's Rich 'Diversity' of gnomic Heritage: which One's Choudhury?  

 

UAF Gnome - currently allied with Choudhary's Islamist Confederates in the MDL

  Choudhary captured in Duet with David Bowie

Video footage of MDL and UAF Dupes in Rochdale

The first two pieces of footage showing the MDL turning out to confront the EDL in Rochdale yesterday illustrate that the so-called UAF counter-demonstration was predominantly a Muslim affair, with a few miserable Trotskyist indigenes being visible in the first piece as they make their way to the town centre. The second video features MDL supporters yelling a considerable amount of abuse at the EDL. Taking this into account, and their repeated aggressive chants of “Allahu akbar!” (as shown in a video posted yesterday) why did the police deploy a considerable number of dog handlers in front of the comparatively peaceful EDL static demonstration? These would have been put to better use keeping the MDL in order.

EDL and MDL Rochdale Videos

Brought to you before the BBC, ITV or Sky, are three pieces of video footage from today’s EDL demonstration in Rochdale. The first of the pieces is the most interesting, featuring as it does a very vociferous group of what were ostensibly UAF counter-demonstrators, but as can be heard from repeated references to the MDL (Muslim Defence League) as well as chants of ‘Allahu-akbar!’, their Islamic affiliation clearly trumped any other political position. This follows the pattern set by a UAF contingent that morphed into supporters of Muslims Against Crusades at a London demo last summer (once again with chants of ‘Allahu-akbar!’).

The second and third pieces of footage focus upon the much more peaceful EDL demonstration, with plenty of mounted police and dog handlers in evidence. However, why were the MDL (hiding beneath the UAF banner) permitted to get so close to the EDL?

Accrington Stanley sign up Muslim Defence League Member?

I don’t follow these matters, but I see from the Muslim Defence League (MDL) Facebook site, that someone named Amir Ronaldo Skeenz claims that he will be making his debut for Accrington Stanley Football Club this Wednesday. Is that a real name? Is this true? If so, will there be any EDL members to give him an appropriate ‘welcome’ when he takes to the pitch? As you can see from his Facebook profile, it seems that he might suffer from a just touch of narcissism. Can you imagine the furore if an Accrington Stanley player (or a player from any other club for that matter), declared himself to be a supporter of the EDL? Are you going to let the club know what you think about this new player’s unsavoury off-pitch activities?

UPDATE
Thankfully, this seems to have been a wind-up by the improbably-named Amir Ronaldo Skeenz, as contributors to the comments section affirm, and this squad list suggests.

Initial Reports from Rochdale EDL Demo: Fireworks go off in EDL Crowd

Live reports state that as of 2.44pm today, approximately 600 EDL supporters had arrived in Rochdale for their protest outside of the Town Hall. This is double the initial figure of 300 reported by the police. Nonetheless, this is thus quite a small-scale demonstration compared to many that the EDL have staged, which is unsurprising given the low level of publicity that it has enjoyed.

As ever, counter-demonstrators are descending upon Rochdale, but they are reported to be far fewer in number. An estimated 50 to 100 SWP-led UAF counter-demonstrators are said to be heading from Stonyfield Park to confront the EDL protestors. Let's hope that the police keep them well back from the demonstration and do not fall victim to Trotskyist-inspired violence. It is a pity that their presence causes towns and cities hosting demonstrations to lose much of their trade for the day because of the violence that they unleash and then attribute to the EDL. Having said that, the large police presence is said to be permitting people to go about their normal Saturday activities in the town centre, which is a fact that can only be welcomed, especially during these hard economic times.

Update
Shortly after 1.00pm, it was reported that fireworks went off in the EDL crowd. The report however, did not make clear whether these were thrown at the EDL (most likely) or otherwise. Reports also mentioned Muslim Defence League (MDL) protesters, but numbers were not provided, as well as MPAC members who were out trying to get Muslims involved in their lobbying activities.

According to the BBC, 24 arrests were made, although as in all of its initial reporting of such protests, it did not state whether these were of UAF, MDL, MPAC or EDL supporters. This is the standard tactic employed by the BBC, which seeks to imprint in the public mind the notion that the majority, if not all of the arrests are of EDL supporters. Previous experience has shown that the bulk of arrests tend to be from those attempting to prevent the EDL from exercising their right to free speech. Three people have been arrested for 'possession of an offensive weapon' and a further four for 'public order offences'.

EDL and Mounted Police in Rochdale

EDL Supporters arriving for Rochdale Protest



MDL shouting 'Racist Scum, I shagged your mum!' (picture courtesy Tim Brooks-Pollock)

Niqab-clad Exponent of anti-English Hate

Baying Islamo-Marxist anti-Free Speech Mob

Police escort Islamo-Marxist Protesters against Free Speech



EDL Rochdale Demo Promo Video

This video, released to explain the EDL's reason for holding a protest in Rochdale today, is illuminating. Once again, it details cases of systematic abuse of underage English girls by groups (often families) of Pakistani Muslim males. Quite why people continue to believe that this sickening problem is not specifically associated with doctrinaire Islamic ideology, I do not know. This problem must be removed, and our children protected.

Majed’s 'magic' World of Dawah in Rochdale

Not a great deal has yet been written about tomorrow’s planned EDL protest in Rochdale. All I will say to the EDL and their supporters at this point is: let it be peaceful; get your message across, and don’t be provoked. Lastly, but not least: good luck!

Understandably, others have a rather different perspective. For a change though, I am not going to dwell upon the slogan spouting Left who will of course be there to try and pick a fight, whip up hatred and generally cause mayhem whilst claiming all along that ‘it was the EDL that did it!’ Instead, I am going to look at the response of a local Muslim blogger to the EDL’s decision to protest in Rochdale.

Majed Iqbal describes himself in the third person as follows:

Majed is a well known figure in Rochdale (UK). He actively works on the ground at a grass roots level in shaping the views of Muslims on local, national and international issues and is fluid in airing his views through writing, media, and at organised events.

If Majed happened to be a resident of one of the North African or Middle Eastern countries currently undergoing political upheaval, the BBC would be inclined to describe him as ‘web-savvy’, ‘modern’ and a ‘democrat’. Unfortunately, like many of those upon whom they project these labels overseas, only the first of these adjectives applies to Majed. As you can see from Majed’s photograph below, he looks just the sort of Muslim chap that the BBC likes to pack into the Question Time studio or into Nicky Campbell’s Big Questions audience: opinionated, yet calm and assertive. He lacks the ‘luxuriant beard’ and ‘austere’ appearance that mark out more overtly ‘devout’ (doctrinaire) Muslims, which the BBC recognises might ‘frighten the horses’ so to speak. However, looking into his writings, we see that this is just what he is: ‘devout’. The horses ought to be frightened.

Nontheless, I’ll give Majed credit where credit is due, for he does not try to hide his opinions. He is quite honest about them. However, what he writes reveals the unbridgeable gulf between the doctrinaire Muslim mind – conditioned to mental submission and slavery – and the non-Muslim mind, which seeks liberty and freedom of thought. With Majed, as with Thatcher, you know where you stand.

Being of the ideological persuasion that he is, convinced of the intrinsic ‘merits’ and ‘superiority’ of Islam, Majed is unsurprisingly perturbed by the EDL’s decision to protest in his town of residence. He writes, in quite an unselfconscious and thus unintentionally amusing manner:

The EDL is an organisation which claims that Islam is problematic and that Shariah (islamic Law) which Muslims follow is extremist.

From this sentence we discover a great deal about Majed: he thinks that Shariah is an unqualified ‘good thing’ and is not ‘extremist’, which is an opinion that I hold to be a very bad thing. Majed outlines six personal recommendations for how the town’s ‘Muslim community’ should respond to tomorrow’s EDL protest. I reproduce his points three, four and five below in full, for once again, they give us an interesting insight into the workings of the Muslim mind. It is also important to note that he has rumbled the SWP’s game, and thus calls upon his co-religionists not to do the Trotskyists' dirty work for them.

Majed's Recommendations for Rochdale Muslims

3. Help us educate our youth

Our youth are our future, and we must not allow them to be easily provoked by racists or by hot-headed leftists, who get the Muslim youth to carry out their dirty work. We should remember that in the Bradford riots it was Muslim youth sent to prison for acts organised by right-wing racists and leftist opponents.

4. Be clear about what they are aiming for

It is nothing less than for Muslims to abandon the noble Islamic values, and become westernised. This was the same aim of the government’s PVE (Preventing Violent Extremism) programme. We have to know how to defend the ideas they attack. We cannot simply allow them to bully us to distance ourselves from Islam and the Shariah in this way. In particular, the Imams and Ulema have a role and a responsibility to teach the community the truth of Islam.

5. We must reach out to local non-Muslims

As a Dawah to Islam and to counter the twisted understanding of Islam they get from media outlets and politicians we must present Islam to non-Muslims. Local masjids should think about organising open days or Islam awareness days to present the correct view of Islam to non-Muslims and to dispel the many misconceptions people have about Islam and Muslims.

Are you relishing the prospect of attending an 'open day' at one of Majed's recommended Rochdale masjids? Pardon me if I turn down this invitation.

Majed can accurately be characterised, in objective language that the mainstream media would not care to employ, as a confident colonist and a Muslim cultural imperialist. He wishes to impose backward alien values upon our land and our people, and although of course opinion pollsters would report that Majed is all for 'integration' and thus claim that he is 'moderate' and all for upholding 'British values' (sic), it is 'integration' of a very specific type: absorption of our people into Islam. Neither this stance, nor the presence of people who advocate it, should be acceptable within our shores.

Majed advocates Shariah and the outright rejection of English/British/European/secular norms. He demands maintaining the separation of Muslim 'youth' from the rest of society, and calls upon the Muslim faithful to proselytise amongst us non-believers. Quite how he thinks that we possess a ‘twisted understanding of Islam’ I therefore do not profess to know. Shariah is barbarism. There must be one secular law for all in our country, and Shariah or any other religious law must never have any place in our legal system. Anyone who disagrees with this position ought to set up home in a country elsewhere that has a legal system compatible with their system of belief. Should the day come that Majed’s line of thought no longer has a toehold in our country, then the time will have arrived for the EDL to stop protesting and return to the football terraces. Until that time however, the EDL will remain a necessary presence on our streets, owing to our politicians' unwillingness to acknowledge that Islamisation is a problem.

Barnsley Central By-election Result: Winners, Losers and the Future of the BNP

Dan Jarvis has emerged as the victor of the Barnsley by-election. This is the dull headline result. However, beyond the ritual return of the Labour candidate, something more interesting took place in Barnsley yesterday. True, the turnout was a lacklustre 37% on an equally uninspiring day punctuated by chilly drizzle, but the ramifications of the result for all of the parties other than Labour are rather interesting.

Labour may have achieved a confident win, but what will have discomfited all of the other candidates will have been UKIP’s strong showing. Their candidate – Jane Collins – leapfrogged the BNP, the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives into second place. The biggest losers of the day however, were without a doubt the Liberal Democrats, beaten into sixth place trailing behind not only the BNP, but also an Independent.  
 
The primary lessons that can be gleaned from yesterday’s by-election are: 

• Barnsley remains a Labour bailiwick
• Liberal Democrat participation in government has finished the party as an electoral force
• Voters dislike Cameron’s globalist, multicultural Toryism
• Space exists for a popular, credible, moderate nationalist party
• The BNP in its current incarnation has long since passed its peak, and must either fully jettison its negative baggage, or forever remain an irrelevant presence on the national political scene functioning as little more than a unifying bogey for the Left and an impediment to the emergence of a popular moderate nationalist party

Barnsley represents a missed opportunity for nationalists, as taking the combined vote of UKIP, the BNP and the English Democrats we end up with 4,960 votes, or 20.5% of the vote. True, this is a long way short of Labour’s 60.8% share in this case, but it is significantly ahead of the Conservative’s 8.25%. Moreover, if a credible nationalist party did exist, a number of automatic Tory voters who dislike Cameron would shift their votes to the former. In areas which are not Labour strongholds, the potential for nationalist politics is thus very substantial. Although UKIP may see themselves as the party to assume this mantle, their Atlantacist globalist stance makes them little more than Eurosceptic Tories, with the same set of failed Thatcherite economic policies pursued by successive Conservative governments.

The BNP’s performance was underwhelming, its share of the vote slumping from 8.9% to 6.04%. This is less a of reflection upon the character of the candidate – Enis Dalton – than upon the toxic public image of the party Chairman – Nick Griffin - seared into the nation’s consciousness by his refusal to categorically distance himself from Holocaust denial on Question Time. He had the opportunity to forward the cause of the BNP, and he blew it in a spectacular way. Thereafter, the party never recovered its momentum and fell into gradual and inevitable decline, sealed by its feeble showing in last year’s General Election. Griffin’s Question Time appearance was but one of a number of blunders that has led many decent and dedicated nationalists to find their efforts squandered by their self-aggrandising leader. My dissection of these many mistakes and recommendations for their remedy can be found here. Unfortunately, they have not been acted upon.

 

Dissecting the BBC's irrational Credo

There is something deeply, viscerally irrational about the BBC's treatment of any issue that might reflect badly upon multiculturalism. Multiculturalism, for some reason, has come to be hardwired into the BBC’s memeplex. Consequently, its analysis of the news and social issues is governed by an emotive hysteria that dictates that reason must be swept aside if it conflicts with its idealisation of its multiculturalist utopia. So, if anyone wishes to hear alternative viewpoints about multiculturalism, indeed voices which are genuinely critical of this phenomenon, then it is necessary to turn to other sources.

Strangely, Russian media are now more often than not more objective about social processes unfolding in the UK and other European nations than our own electronic media. The BBC today is no more reliable than Pravda was pre-glasnost. This observation, although particularly pertinent to the editorial line of the BBC, can be more broadly applied to all mainstream electronic and print media in the UK at the current time.

There are a number of irrational beliefs that from which BBC reporters rarely deviate:

• multiculturalism is always a good thing
• open borders (British, European and Western ones) are to be encouraged
• there is no substance to race: it's just skin deep
• ethnic and religious minorities never cause problems, but always 'enrich' the societies in which they reside (unless they happen to be whites)
• there is only one race - the human race - and yet there is such a phenomenon as 'racism' perpetrated exclusively by whites (thus negating their assertion that there is no such thing as race)
• the expression of national determination and sovereignty in non-white or Muslim peoples is always a 'good' thing
• the expression of national determination and sovereignty in white peoples is almost always bad (unless it involves Irish republican terrorism)
• all whites are guilty by dint of their race, and have a 'duty' to atone for their historical 'sins' through systematic abasement before other races (which remember, don't exist as the BBC believes only in the human 'race')
• all 'blacks' (an extremely widely defined and elastic concept so that anyone swarthy can be included) are treated as innocent victims with 'rights' until proven otherwise
• Islam is always to be referred to in a positive light, and anyone who criticises it, in a negative one
• Equal rights for women and homosexuals must be promoted at all times, except when dealing with Muslims or referring to Islam, when the BBC's militant stance suddenly melts into the ether and hard-core cultural relativism takes hold and such 'cultural differences' are to be 'celebrated'

There are many other core irrational and harmful beliefs which permeate the BBC's mental universe and reporting, but a more considered analysis of these will have to wait for another day. However, there are alternative perspectives on the 'issues' listed above, as can be seen from the following videos. The first of these is taken from Russia Today, which unlike any BBC interview on the topic, which would feature heartfelt, shrill hectoring of the interviewee by the interviewer, is pleasantly civil in tone and balanced. The BBC is neither civil nor balanced when dealing with questions of culture, ethnicity, religion or race. The second piece is an interview with Jared Taylor, who presents his views upon the impact and future implications of multiculturalism and its associated policies in the USA. Watch both clips, and see what you think. How do they compare to the material that is produced by the BBC? Which is more balanced and objective?

Islam, Islam über alles, über alles in der Welt

The ‘religion of peace’ strikes again, this time in the form of a 21-year-old Kosovan gunman who has killed two US airmen and wounded two other people at Frankfurt Airport. He has been named as Arif Uka, and although his motive is said to be unclear, I think that we can hazard a pretty good guess as to what it was given that he is said to have shouted 'Allahu-akbar!' as he murdered his victims.

The Frankfurt Airport shooting will doubtless be subject to much speculation and scrutiny, but as in the case of Nidal Malik Hasan, who shot dead 13 people and attempted to kill another 32 at the Fort Hood US military base on 5 November 2009, there will be a concerted effort to find that this attack had ‘nothing to do with Islam’. I think however, that members of the public with an IQ higher than their age will be able to divine that there is a strong common denominator in the wave of attacks of various types directed at Western and non-Muslim targets in Europe, North America and indeed across the globe. Witness today’s assassination of Shahbaz Bhatti, a Catholic Pakistani government minister. Islamic ideology is a potent poison indeed, but can be readily combated through a dose of a readily available yet oft-ignored antidote: the truth.

On New Year’s Eve last year, another Kosovan by the name of Ibrahim Shkupolli (no points for guessing his religion) went berserk and shot his ex-girlfriend, before killing four workers in a shopping centre in the Finnish town of Espoo. He then blew his brains out. Why are these Kosovans allowed into our societies? What do they bring us, other than problems?

‘Thanks’ to Tony Blair, the UK and other NATO nations waged an unprovoked war of aggression against Serbia in 1999, leading to its dismemberment and the creation of the disputed microstate of Kosovo. He, and those who supported that war, should have realised by now that intervening anywhere in favour of Muslim populations will not earn you any gratitude. The UK should have had no part in the Balkan conflict, just as it should have no part in any military intervention in Libya or elsewhere in the Arab world in the future.

Cameron’s suggestion to send planes to enforce no-fly zones over Libya, and his refusal to rule out the despatch of ground troops to that country fills me with dread. How much more blood and treasure must we lose in a quixotic attempt to enforce a doctrine of respect for ‘human rights’ in countries where the bulk of the populace do not subscribe to such a notion? Why should we be involved? This conflict has nothing to do with us. Our forces should be used to secure our borders and protect shipping on the high seas. Leave other countries to their own troubles, for we cannot sort them out for them.

Forthcoming EDL Rochdale Demo: Saturday 5 March

It has emerged that the EDL will be holding a demo outside of Rochdale Town Hall this Saturday between 12:00 and 15:00. According to Rochdale online, a promotional poster for the event reads:

The English Defence League is to hold a demonstration in the town of Rochdale to highlight the peoples concerns over the grooming culture amongst the Islamic communities. Recent investigations by [Greater] Manchester Police has led to a number of arrests of Asian men and the former Home Secretary Jack Straw finally bringing this issue to [the] attention of the media and public.

Well, unfortunately there certainly is a “grooming culture” amongst sections of the UK’s Muslim population which stems directly form the example of the life of their ‘Prophet’. As you can see from the squirming displayed by respondents to the Quiz for Muslims, they are unwilling to condemn their model of the ‘perfect’ human being – Mohammed – for his paedophilia. Underage non-Muslim girls, particularly English girls, have been targeted by Muslim paedophile gangs in (amongst other places): Blackburn, Derby, Keighley and Rotherham. If a Muslim will not condemn the paedophilia of his or her beloved Prophet Mohammed, then they should not be permitted to work with children. Getting such individuals debarred from working in nurseries, schools and youth groups should become one of the EDL’s key objectives. This could be enforced by requiring Muslims to sign a statement condemning the paedophilia of Mohammed when applying for jobs. Who could object to such a perfectly reasonable requirement? Either you condemn paedophilia, or you condone it.

Only within this last week, the Daily Mail reported that an English judge by the name of Gareth Hawkesworth passed a derisory sentence on a 26-year-old Muslim named Turon Ali, giving him a 12-month suspended sentence for grooming a 14-year-old schoolgirl. The Mail reports that Ali:

groomed the schoolgirl by sending her explicit text messages and then arranged a secret meeting where he planned to abuse her.

He was only prevented from sexually assaulting the girl when her older brother found one of the texts and alerted police.

But Ali avoided jail at Cambridge Crown Court with a 12-month suspended sentence after a top judge ruled he was 'not a paedophile as such'.

Judge Gareth Hawkesworth said: 'You thought she was ''easy' meat''. You were thrust into a moral vacuum without a single care of what you might be doing.

'You are not a paedophile as such. You are simply a young man who was unable to control his sexual urges.'

In this case, we can see the very worst effects of cultural relativism and politically correct culture in the UK today, which has gone so far that it now apparently allows some Muslim paedophiles to prey upon our children without effective sanction. Turon Ali wasn’t operating in ‘a moral vacuum’ as the judge claimed, but was actually fulfilling his Prophet’s injunction to exploit the female children of unbelievers to gratify his own sexual appetite.

Saturday’s EDL demo has been little publicised, so it is doubtful that it will be a large-scale affair. Nonetheless, the usual violent ‘no-platform’ protesters from the Islamo-Marxist Left including the UAF, Islamic Defence League (do they mean Muslim Defence League?) and a group called ‘Stop the racist EDL coming to Rochdale’ (sounding suspiciously like a joint ‘Hope Not Hate’ and local authority front) are planning to counter-demonstrate. If these groups didn’t turn up to EDL demos, there would be little or no disorder. Hopefully, the police will therefore ensure that EDL supporters are free to exercise their right to peaceful protest without hindrance from their hysterical opponents. Somehow though, this may well not be the case.

UPDATE
For thoughts on a Rochdale Muslim's perspective on the EDL's forthcoming protest, see 'Majed’s 'magic' World of Dawah in Rochdale'. A promotional video outlining some of the specific cases that prompted this demonstration can be accessed here.