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It’s the country of Magna Carta and the great English liberties. It gave us the Mother of Parliaments and established the largest and most benign empire the world has ever seen. It held out alone against the Nazis, under an inspiring leader who vowed that “we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.” And after the war it became America’s partner in a Special Relationship that ultimately brought down the Soviet Union.
But now? To quote John of Gaunt’s speech in Richard II, “That England that was wont to conquer others / Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.”
Of course, Britain is not alone. For centuries, challenged time and again by an incomparably ruthless religion of war, men from every corner of Europe, including the scepter’d isle, fought back fiercely, at places like Tours and Vienna, knowing that they had to do it, that they had no choice, that they were defending themselves from a force bent on total domination and destruction, a power that knew no compromise or pity. Everyone knew what Islam was.
At some relatively recent point in history, however, that knowledge was tragically lost. Where did it go? Instead of recognizing Islam as an existential enemy, an all-consuming ideology of conquest, European leaders concocted an absurd image of Muslims as innocent victims of poverty and, indeed, of European imperialism – never mind that the entire Muslim world, as we now know it, was acquired in bloodthirsty imperialist battles over the centuries by savage warriors from the Arabic peninsula. Possessed of this deluded image of Muslims, European leaders instituted insanely generous – and suicidal – immigration policies that, bit by bit, over recent years, have brought their countries to the brink of, yes, conquest.
And in no country have the leaders behaved more irrationally, more self-destructively, and less in accord with their own proudest national traditions, than in Britain. The nation most identified with the freedom of expression has imprisoned thousands of its own citizens for daring to speak the truth about Islam. And a nation of people known for their quiet decency and self-control allowed unruly Muslim mobs, in the wake of the October 7 atrocities, to take over the boulevards of major cities, stopping traffic, vandalizing storefronts, beating up Jews, cheering murder, and shouting “Allahu akbar.”
Even after all this, however, one could be forgiven for being taken aback by the disgraceful words spoken by Labour Party prime minister Keith Starmer – a man who is the very personification of fecklessness – on March 3. On that date – a mere three days after the U.S. and Israel initiated a spectacular series of military strikes on Iran, the world headquarters of Islamic terrorism and expansionism – Starmer delivered some prepared remarks at an Iftar celebration in Westminster. “I want to make clear,” he told the British Muslims in attendance, “the UK was not involved in the offensive strikes of the U.S. and Israel, and that remains the case.” He went on:
I will always stand firmly against anti-Muslim hatred in all its forms. I will root out Islamophobia. I will challenge it. My government will match those words with the action that they deserve. And that’s why last week we announced up to £40 million in funding for mosques, Islamist [sic!] schools. That’s why I will fight with every breath I have to root out the hatred that seeks to divide us.
What a speech. What a betrayal. What sheer and utter cowardice! As Donald Trump said only a few hours before Starmer’s Iftar remarks, in response to the latter’s refusal to let the U.S. attack Iran from UK bases, Starmer is “no Winston Churchill.” He’s not even a Neville Chamberlain. He’s more like a Quisling.
At that Iftar event, in a few short sentences, Starmer managed to accomplish several things. He distanced himself from the ally that saved his country from the Nazis in World War II and that has provided it with an umbrella of military protection ever since. He implicitly attributed America’s war of liberation to “anti-Muslim hatred.” He implicitly sided with the pro-terror, pro-totalitarian Muslims who condemned the strikes and against the freedom-loving Iranians (and others) around the world who applauded them. He embraced, for the thousandth time, the fiction that his country is afflicted not by unspeakable atrocities that are motivated by Islamic contempt for infidels (he has repeatedly downplayed the gang rape of childen), but rather by something called “anti-Muslim hatred.” British politicians are always shedding crocodile tears over “anti-Muslim hatred.” They never venture to explain where this “hatred” came from. Nor do they ever publicly address the question of why Brits don’t exhibit anything that might be labeled “anti-Hindu” or “anti-Buddhist” hatred.
Of course, while Starmer likes to jaw about the “anti-Muslim hatred” that “seeks to divide” British society, he knows very well that he’s turning reality on its head. He knows that the seeds of division – a division that’s meant to be the preamble to absolute conquest – are in reality being sown in Britain’s mosques and madrassas. He knows that it’s there that barbaric preachers and teachers instill and reinforce a hatred for infidels and a conviction that Islam’s destiny is to rule over them. But instead of closing these institutions down and shipping the preachers and teachers back to where they came from, Starmer brags about spending British taxpayers’ money to pay those preachers’ and teachers’ salaries. To pay, that is, the future conquerors with the hard-earned money of those whom they intend to conquer.
The logic of it is the logic of appeasement. It’s the logic of a government that’s already looked into the future and decided that it doesn’t have the will or the skill to prevent an Islamic takeover, and that has consequently decided to sell out Britain’s heritage, Britain’s freedom, and Britain’s promise in order to make the transition to slavery as peaceful as possible. What was that line about how Britons never, never, never shall be slaves?
No, Britain isn’t the only NATO member to spit in America’s face after the attacks on Iran began. Refusing to let U.S. planes involved in the Iran strikes use a joint base in Spain, that country’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, said: “We say no to breaking the international law that protects us all.” And his defense minister, Margarita Robles, declared: “No single country should act as a guardian of the world. We have international rules.” How quaint this delusion that “international rules” – those illusory things – are any stronger than the governments that are willing to use military power to enforce them! (This is the same country, as you may know, that decided recently to give legal status to up to half a million illegal immigrants, including convicted felons.)
Then there’s Norway, whose prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, has said that the Iran war “is not a war Norway wants to be a part of,” and whose foreign minister, Espen Barth Eide, responded to the assaults by calling on “all parties to respect international law, protect civilians, and to seek diplomatic solutions.” So grateful were the (remaining) mullahs for Norway’s stance that Iran’s ambassador to Norway, Alireza Jahangiri, welcoming a Dagbladet reporter to an “elegant” room in his “venerable” villa in the “best” part of western Oslo, praised Norway’s rejection of the toppling of the ayatollah, noting that “compared to other countries in Europe, Norway has always been a strong supporter of international law” and that its “approach to the entire Palestine matter was magnificent.”
But the anti-American, Islam-friendly rhetoric of Spain and Norway seem paltry compared to the vile message sent out by the prime minister of the UK on March 3. “You,” he told his Muslim audience, “are the face of modern Britain.” Has any British prime minister ever said anything that was a more despicable insult to his own people — to the ordinary Brits who obey the law, who work hard to make ends meet, and who have accepted for too long being treated as second-class citizens of the country that their ancestors built and fought for? Has any British prime minister ever engaged in a more shameless whitewash of Muslims — who, per capita, have contributed the least of any group to Britain’s economy and taken the most from it, who are the group most responsible for violent crime, and who are uniquely devoted to the eradication of individual liberty and sexual equality and the introduction of sharia?
Starmer’s voice, needless to say, is the voice of profound fear – but it’s also the voice of sheer idiocy. Because what halfway intelligent person could possibly believe that British Muslims’ response to such pathetic groveling will be anything other than an intensification in their contempt for their patient, well-mannered British hosts? Muslims who get their educations in madrassas may not learn terribly much that has value in the real world, but what they do learn early on is (a) to recognize over-the-top praise of the sort served up by Starmer as a sign of utter weakness, and (b) to recognize an action like Trump’s attack on Iran as a manifestation of terrifying global power – a power that they know instinctively to treat with respect. How can a miserable creature like Starmer climb as far as he has up the greasy ladder without realizing such simple facts?
The face of modern Britain? Islam is the scourge of modern Britain. But unless Starmer’s government is succeeded by a company of brave souls who are willing to take fast and dramatic action to reverse course, Muslims are almost certainly the face of Britain’s future – as well as the future of much of the West. Yes, there are intelligent patriots in Britain who claim that such a reversal is at hand. Maybe so. It’s hard to tell. One day there are reports of Muslims on horseback in Manchester, trying to trample supporters of Iranian freedom – while police stand by and do nothing. A day or two later, tens of thousands of pro-Trump Iranians storm a pro-Ayatollah rally in London. Who’s winning? Who knows? All I know for sure is that, if Islam does conquer Britain, the story of Britain’s centuries of triumph and glory, and of its fast and ignominious fall, will be remembered with profound and unending puzzlement wherever freedom still survives.
Three and a half centuries after the combined European forces defeated the Turks at Vienna, western Europe has finally surrendered to the Muslims.
It’s shameful and depressing. WAKE UP Europe!!
Ironic that muslim migrants VOTE their way into power, something they were not allowed to do back in their native dictatorships.
Where moo slims are, there are no fair, honest, legitimate elections. Don’t be a naive, gullible, fool.
Sickening. The British P M is a fool.
You’re too kind.
Norway’s view of international law suggests that NATO is a violation of international law by its members engaging in a conspiracy to go to war when only any one of them is attacked.. Starmer by himself plays the several Shakespearean witches preceding tragic scenes.
Der Starmer is the worst traitor in British History since the Arch Traitor Vortigern sold the Romano-Celts out to the genocide inflicted by the invading Anglo-Saxons of Hingist. This is the treason you get when you vote in Europe’s Traitor Class in to get welfare handouts and I’m still waiting for the shoe to drop on Der Starmer’s involvement with those five Eastern-European homosexual prostitutes.
Honestly that’s a disservice to Vortigern or whoever did let the Saxons in. From what we hear from Gildas and Bede the “proud tyrant” did not decide the issue alone but with a council, and they decided to hire on the Anglo-Saxons as mercenaries to defend against invasion from abroad like by Pictish and Irish pirates. The Anglo-Saxons then turned on them later.
No such justification can be had here. Vortigern may or may not have been a tyrant but he apparently was acting in desperation during a time of imminent invasion from the North and West. No such invaders were present now until the modern British leadership allowed them in.
A man without a country. The Brits don’t want KE-AH STAHMAH, and the moo slims that he is a cuck for, will rub him out in time.
Too bad the Manchurian candidate wasn’t set in England. Two words could give a complete descriptor of swarmy trooper and his actions.
“What a betrayal”.
That pretty much sums up every British government’s position from the baleful Blair onwards, without exception. And Farage will be no different if he ever gets to govern.
“And that’s why last week we announced up to £40 million in funding for mosques…….,”
Who voted this quisling clown pu$$y into orifice? Does he really believe this shite that he spews or is he that afraid that Achmed and Mahmoud will visit him in his bed chamber.
Note to the British men: Check the mantel piece for those misplaced testicles. When found, conduct a full search for daddy’s Enfield rifle hidden away in the walls of your house. I hope the ammo that is hidden away is not rusted. You can buy ammo on any one of our U.S. gun oriented websites in the states.
Make note Pt2: The Muslims already have their AKs/ammo squirreled away in those mosques Starmer is building for you.
Men of England, Reclaim your balls.
Superbly written article by Bawer, as usual. But why does he continue to live in Norway?
Anyone remember Obama flashing the single finger “I am a Muslim” ‘Shahada’ sign?
https://www.mediamatters.org/american-thinker/unbearable-stupidity-obamas-muslim-gang-sign
Yeah I know, It’s Media Matters and written by idiot Obama butt kisser Matt Gertz. The original American Thinker article has deleted the photos.
Maybe Starmer should put his finger up considering how he kisses Muslim butt
Maybe he should put his finger up his a–. Oh wait, he cann’t because he already has a recto-cranial inversion.
Obama was a Russian plant, not even an American, but born in Kenya when under British rule. His father fought against the British, hence Obama’s dislike of Britain
In time , slowly “step by step” in slow and steady degrees the stealth jihadists who have infiltrated and influence in the governmental system and the social structure of the United Kingdom is making England less and less British.
Nevertheless, it should always be remembered and likewise never forgotten that the UK belongs to the British with England’s Common law. Not to invading foreign Muslim migrants with their Sharia.
Yah and what difference is that making? Every day the moo slims take more. No one is stopping them at all. Right?
This article is a reminder approaching disaster of the British identity being lost to Muslim migrants having the stealth jihad replacing English Common law with Sharia . Such subversive activity in the United Kingdom is disturbing ,The end result of this has been illustrated by the Walt Disney style cartoon which is entitled “The British Caliphate.”
This cartoon maybe viewed o Rumble.com and yahoo.com
Dhimmi Britain surges in the European Islamopandering derby.
Blimey! Churchill is rolling over in his grave! £40 million to build “Islamic Fortresses” (mosques)? You have committed “National Seppuku” and don’t even know it! You were a people Biblically destined to “Control the gates of your enemies” (who controlled Gibraltar, Suez, Hong Kong, etc.) and you “imported” your destruction with wild abandon. “The Islamic Republic of Britain”. Get used to it.
If this photo of Starmer were realistic, his nose would be dripping with brown stuff from kissing you-know-what.
The muslim mentality is to”nuke the world and let Allah sort them out”. That’s what appeasement gets you. Not an exciting future for the Infidels.
Quisling, that’s the word! No wonder the English are leaving their country in droves. Now, yet another traitor stands at the helm. What a comedown from my parents’ hope and devotion for England during nazi occupation, a view handed over to me. Hope still lingers, devotion not.
Mr Starmer (Keir by the way, not Keith) is a Judas. He sold out our country for a few ill-fitting suits and a few tickets to football matches. That’s why I call him Judas Starmer.
I wonder whether one day, like the original Judas, he will realise the magnitude of his wickedness and be unable to live with himself.
But then the whole Labour and Conservative parties, Local Government councillors, the police, the media such as the racist far-left bbc, and the judiciary are filled to the brim with Judases.
I am SO glad you left wing nut British are getting what you voted for. A PM that will lay down his life, your life, and your children’s lives, for the moo slims that have paid for him. I am sure somewhere he has a HUGE bank account full of the moo slim pounds he’s been given.
this guy needs to be replaced asap. Winston Churchell never said “You are the modern Germany.” in 1939.
thanks to Barrack Obama and Hillary Clintons screwing with the mideast they unleased the scruge across the Chiristian world.