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[Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”]
On the morning of Yom Kippur, October 2, only days after Britain’s execrable prime minister, Keir Starmer, rewarded Hamas for the atrocities of October 7 by recognizing a so-called Palestinian state, a terrorist attacked a synagogue in Manchester, killing two people before being taken down by police. Manchester, as seems almost to have been forgotten, was the setting for the 2017 suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert that killed 22 people and injured 1,017. Is anyone astonished that the city has been hit again? Manchester, after all, is one of the British cities in which the police have gone the furthest in ignoring potential Muslim malefactors while harassing and arresting law-abiding citizens who have dared to criticize Islam online. That such an attack was able to occur on Yom Kippur under the nose of the Greater Manchester police feels almost inevitable. In the wake of the attack, police officials and politicians issued the predictable statements addressed to British Jews, expressing their solidarity and sympathy. The hell with them and their pro forma poppycock. They’re the ones who have allowed antisemites to enter Britain en masse, to preach their hatred in mosques, to teach it in madrassas, and to practice it on the streets, where many Jews no longer dare to wear kippas or Stars of David for fear of being assaulted by the practitioners of the Religion of Peace.
Britain, of course, is not alone in experiencing the dire impact of mass Islamic immigration. Certain parts of America – including Minneapolis, the Detroit area, and East Texas, where Muslims are plotting to build their own sharia-run Shangri-La called EPIC City – are already seriously Islamized, as evidenced by the presence of Rashida Tlaib (Michigan) and Ilhan Omar (Minnesota) in Congress. Western Europe, needless to say, is way ahead of the U.S. on this front, and although I try to keep track of all the larger and smaller manifestations of Islamization in this part of the world, it’s gotten to be well-nigh impossible. I do know that in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, two Muslim holy days – the first day of Ramadan and the feast of Eid – have now been named official holidays; that in France, verses from the Koran are now being broadcast in the Metro stations of Paris; and that in Norway, Muslim boys in their early teens have recently carried out a hand-grenade attack in Oslo and a shooting in Sarpsborg – a development that has led many Norwegians to declare that “Swedish conditions” have finally come to Norway.
But it’s hard to pay much attention even to Germany and France and Norway, which are experiencing what you might call good old-fashioned creeping Islam, when the lunacy in Britain seems to be on a whole different level. After all, German and French police are still capable of arresting Muslims who cause mayhem in the streets (even using force if necessary), and Norwegians still proudly hoist their flag on every national holiday. In Britain, by contrast, police rip down Union Jacks that have been raised by patriots, but take no action when Muslims wave the flags of their own native countries, even when these displays are accompanied by violence. Such stories rarely reach the mainstream press (including the newspapers that are regarded as conservative), but they abound on X, the one place you have to go to if you want to know the whole truth about what’s really happening in the UK.
In the last few weeks alone you could have found on X stories about British police surrounding a man and telling him he couldn’t fly the English flag; about Newcastle police ripping a Union Jack “from a young girl’s hands” so as “not to ‘offend’ the foreigners and communists shouting ‘nazi’” at her and a group of her fellow patriots; about a couple of women cops who threatened “to take a lady’s daughter into custody” if she refused to hand over her phone, which contained evidence of her having read a certain “social media post”; about a 75-year-old Scottish woman who has been arrested multiple times for standing in a “buffer zone” near an abortion clinic with a sign reading “coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want”; about an Englishman who was charged with Islamophobia for chanting “Come on, England” in public; about a woman who was taken into custody after telling a man who was promoting Islam at a stand on the street that she didn’t “want to hear about the Quran”; about police telling a man (who was peacefully observing a pro-Hamas protest) that he was “quite openly Jewish” and would be “arrested for breaching the peace” if he didn’t leave at once; and about a police officer whose conversion to Islam (which he described as “wonderful” and “peaceful”) has made him a “poster boy” for the British police.
You might think that it would be hard to find Brits who actually approve of this stuff. But you’d be wrong. One Harry Eccles, who identifies himself as a nurse, socialist, and trade unionist, wrote recently on X that “Britain does not have an immigration problem. Britain has a racism problem.” Somebody named David Osland claimed: “Where I live in London, churches and synagogues sit side by side with mosques and same-sex couples walk arm in arm in the streets. Doesn’t look much like sharia law to me.” And an Englishwoman named Hannah posted that while she’s “proud to be English and even prouder to be British,” the Union Jacks that are currently on view “are not showing patriotism” – they’re part of an effort “to intimidate our communities and cause division.”
Communities! Division! Hannah may not know much, but she’s done a terrific job of parroting the official rhetoric. In Britain, the word “communities” is almost always a euphemism that’s employed when the subject is Muslims. And British authorities have long since decided that “division” between that “community” and the rest of society is something that must be avoided at all costs. And I mean all costs. Better to allow Muslim gangs all over the country to rape thousands of white English girls than to arrest the rapists and thereby inflame the entire Muslim population. Best to appease Muslims by knighting some of their coreligionists, by appointing some of them as ceremonial mayors of some of Britain’s largest and most historic cities, and by filling the civil service with Muslims whose first loyalty is patently not to the UK but to their faith and their countries of origin. In no other Western European country is the cowardice of the political establishment, and the police and bureaucrats who work under them, as consistent and conspicuous as it is in the United Kingdom.
This insanity reached a new height last month when the National Health Service issued a mind–boggling “guidance” in which it proclaimed the “benefits” of first-cousin marriage – a primitive practice, common among Muslims, which has caused an explosion in birth defects among Britain’s Muslims. (First-cousin marriage, the NHS maintained, is linked to “stronger extended family support systems and economic advantages.”) Yes, the NHS soon withdrew this ill-advised statement, but only because it was greeted with widespread outrage. The takeaway here is that these establishment ninnies, who are accustomed to whitewashing Islam and getting away with it, thought that they could pull off with impunity something even this ludicrous.
To be sure, as was demonstrated on September 13 by Tommy Robinson’s massive Unite the Kingdom rally, more and more Brits are finding their voices and giving all this madness a thumbs-down. Recognizing that the public mood had shifted strongly in favor of mass deportation of illegal Muslim immigrants, Reform Party leader Nigel Farage – who is expected to become the country’s next prime minister, who has always been loath to criticize Islam, and who until recently insisted that mass deportations were impossible – did a 180 in late August, issuing a strategy for carrying out such deportations.
In response to all this, the ruling Labour Party has intensified its practice of labeling those who reject its Muslim-appeasing policy as bigots. The other day you could read on Labour’s own X feed that “Reform would deport people who are our nurses, our teachers, our friends and our neighbours. Labour will always choose unity over division.” You could hear Starmer asserting, absurdly, that “climate change” is the reason why so many young Muslim men are pouring into Britain. You could also hear him doubling down on the preposterous old line that “Muslims are making a huge difference in British society, greatly contributing to education, culture and economy. They are delivering every single one of the government’s missions. Muslims are the most generous group in the UK.” Starmer has even contended that the illegal Muslim migrants who come to the shores of England on all those little boats can’t be deported because of Brexit – for which Farage was the poster boy. It’s a lie, and a desperate one. As the podcaster Darren Grimes wrote the other day, the attitude of Labour (and, I might add, of many Tories as well) amounts to the following: “Worrying about the boats isn’t patriotism, it’s a gateway drug to ‘ethno-nationalism.’ Their plan isn’t to fix the border. It’s to fix you for noticing it’s broken. The condescension is breathtaking.”
Amid all this dysfunction, the brightest light is Tommy Robinson, the very embodiment of whatever hope there can be for the rescue of Britain from the knaves and fools who have led it down this malevolent path. So it was not pleasant to read, on October 1, a tweet by Tommy announcing that on October 13 he will once again be in court, facing yet another cockamamie charge drummed up by his mortal enemies in Britain’s version of the Deep State. This time around, he’s being accused – perversely – of violating the terrorism law. Once again his guilt or innocence will be determined not by a jury but by a judge; once again he expects that he will be sent to prison. The blatancy of it all is breathtaking; it’s the UK version of the way in which Trump’s enemies tried to bring him down with the Russia hoax, with two unfounded impeachments, with a blizzard of baseless lawsuits, and with two attempts on his life. So far, Trump has survived – and thrived. One can only hope that Tommy, whom the British elites see as their #1 enemy because he stands for Britain First, will also live to fight another day. Without him, British liberty would seem a lost cause indeed.
Right now, Islamist and anti-Jewish protests going on around the UK following the synagogue attack. Disgusting.
And as far as I’ve seen, not reported at all in U.S. media. I’ve found videos of it on YouTube, including the mob’s takeover of the Glasgow railroad station and the large protest in Whitehall but nothing whatsoever on U.S. media.
Yes!
I’ve been disturbed by the lack of coverage.
I expected this from brit media, but it’s not much covered elsewhere.
To be expected. The MSM excrement media hates Jews as much as the British media does.
Commies and muslims hate everything and everyone. It’s their only motivation, it’s what gets them out of bed every morning, it’s their oxygen.
If they didn’t have hatred, they’d have no purpose in life.
If they weren’t so dangerous, they’d be pathetic nobodies, whom the rest of us pitied.
But they are dangerous nobodies and don’t deserve our pity, because for now, they have too much power and influence in Western countries. However, nothing lasts forever and when the retribution begins, may God help them, because no one else will.
Indeed, even most of the conservatives media in the US aren’t covering it. I know of it only from the “Tousi TV” YouTube channel.
Partisans of “PALESTINE!!!!!!!!” don’t report what doesn’t fit their victim narrative.
All “Pro Palestinian” protests are anti Jewish, lethal in intent if not action. Walking around with a keffiyeh and a sign saying “STOP GENOCIDE IN GAZA” in 2025 (which is really meaning “START GENOCIDE IN TEL AVIV”) is the same as wearing a Brownshirt and a sign saying “NICHT KAUFT BEI JUDEN” in 1933.
And where are the police? Standing by or joining the vicious protests?
Attacking law enforcement ? You probably want to defund the police too.
The police in the UK have already demonstrated which side they’re on. An average of 30 arrests per day for “hate speech” violations (mostly for criticizing Islam or illegal immigration), while Islamic hate speech and crime gets a pass. UK flags (and Israel flags obviously) are banned, while Hamas and Hezbullah flags are allowed. They may claim to be “following orders”, but where is the pushback against these orders?
no decency or shame – same on October 8, 2023- the islamists and their commie pals were out in force in midtown Manhattan celebrating Hamas.
Why is it that if a perpetrator can be tagged as a “right wing extremist” pertinent inforation such as his name is provided? The fact that it wasn’t suggests it was probably something Muhammad, Abdul, or Barack Hussein. The people Starmer wants to have a recognized state within Qassam rocket range of half the world’s Jews. Starmer has blood on his hands.
His name is Jihad! You can’t make this up.
The attackers name is Jihad! But British police and government are clueless to motive. What a joke.
The UK needs to end this invasion from the Middle East return them all home and prosecute those who are Committing those Crimes and give them Life In Prison or bring back the Hooded Headsman with his Ax
This is getting to be so common its sadly like, yawn, too bad and then back to cheering on your favorite NFL football team who sports a “It takes all of us.” sign in the end zone.
When the fundamental tenants of the holy texts of your “religion” advocate violence, rape and other cruelties to those of other religious beliefs, you do have discrimination but it looks like Islam is the perpetrator of this religious-based hatred.
Unfortunately, we in the US have a President currently negotiating NATO-like protections for Qatar, an Islamic run government responsible for funding world wide terrorism and their influence in the US is already shameful.
When business deals with terrorists affect the longterm safety of our country and citizens, time to take a much closer look at ourselves. Qatar is massively influencing colleges with its money.
Are we going to continue reaming Starmer while our President is playing multi-million dollar footsie with Qatar?
In many circles its not welcome to point this out.
What on earth is Trump doing with Qatar?
Can we talk about it? How do we stop him? Some say “It is 5 D chess blah blah”
I do not care if it is.
The 21 point Qatar plan to shrink and weaken Israel was a disaster, Now, worse, Hamas is in power, armed and negotiating. Bizarrely, Trump announces “Hamas is ready for a lasting peace.” Trump then bullies and bellows “Israel must stop bombing” Well, then who will stop Hamas?
Yet israel must stop fighting?
What is Trump after? Muslim cartoons show Trump stepping on Bibi to get his Nobel prize.
If thats it, that is shameful.
Just hope Bruce can maintain some personal safety in his chosen nordic country. Insofar as Tommy Robinson is concerned, that’s one subject on which the usually spot-on Melanie Phillips seems off. She thinks he is a racist Nazi, but if you read Robinson’s book, which I would imagine Phillips has not, you see how he makes common cause with black English guys, immigrants and first generation, in battling with the Muslim gangs, who do not want to become English, whereas his black friends, his “lads”, love England.
Interesting. I watched a long interview by Sahar on Sahar TV on YouTube and although the subject was about the Muslim grooming gangs, some Pakistani men involved in drugs and the lack of rigorous prosecution of those raping young girls, I did not at all get the impression from Tommy Robinson that you reference from Melanie Phillips.This is certainly a man who is outspoken about Islam as he has been the recipient of prosecution for standing up for his country and culture. His focus is upon the degradation of young women and the unwillingness of Britain to stand up for their girls and women in the face of Islam’s growing influence and the growing destruction of British culture.
BTW, Sahar is an Israeli and if Tommy talked in any antisemitic way, Sahar would not have let it pass without being addressed.
https://melaniephillips.substack.com/p/a-very-stupid-and-dangerous-mistake
I was just going to share this link–I love Melanie on most issues but totally disagree with her re. Robinson who has been a tireless ally of Jews in the UK (and beyond). He admits to being something of a “bad boy” in the past as he was finding himself but I’ve watched his movie and many interviews and he’s consistently warning British citizens (not excluding Jew or others) that they are all at risk when Islam takes over. Melanie totally mischaracterized the situation of the Muslim boy who was “tortured” as actually he was school bully and harmed (physically as well as psychologically) many of this schoolmates but the powerful local Muslim lobbies and Imams etc. supported him and not his injured classmates. It was a horrible scandal. If anyone has her ear, she needs to see that it’s really unfortunate to totally dismiss (and libel) a true ally who has much support NOW (finally!) in the UK. We need all the positive support we can muster and I see this is as a well-meaning effort to distance from less than spotless supporters. Tommy came from a rough background and I do believe he’s a true friend of the the Jews.
Please watch this impassioned commentary from a British patriot.
What kind of “religion” condones the rape, mutilation, torture, abduction, and murder of innocent men, women, children and babies? Does that nameless “religion” have a place in a civilized country? There were unspeakable things done by these devout practitioners of this religion that have not even been mentioned. Things too horrific to even comprehend.
Seriously ponder these questions as you watch this impassioned video.
Please watch this and share with friends and family:
Roark – Bruce Bawer in this article excellently illustrates
how British authorities and police appease Muslims even
in criminal activity – while intimidating and clamping down
on citizens at every turn. There must be feelings of anger,
resentment and worry percolating among the people – as
evidenced by Tommy Robinson’s massive Unite The Kingdom
rally on Sept. 13.
So it is interesting to watch this video of Brit Charlie Veitch,
recorded on the day of the latest Muslim terror attack in
Manchester, in which he explains the danger he’s been
subjected to by Muslims for speaking out. The poor English
people get clobbered at both ends – from the authorities and
from the Muslim savages the authorities are protecting.
There’s only two ways to get rid of them. One, stop benefit payments for immigrants. Two, stop dual citizenship for anyone.
Our children will have to learn to live together, even though the diversity is our strength argument is clearly lost, our children and grandchildren will have to live with these people. The muslims will have to choose to live with the Hindus who will have to choose to live with the Sikhs etc etc etc.
Either that or, as is currently happening, they will form their own enclaves and live separately.
This – “about a couple of women cops who threatened “to take a lady’s daughter into custody” if she refused to hand over her phone, which contained evidence of her having read a certain “social media post”; – actually turned out to be a more serious matter and may not apply here.
In the rest of it, the British govt/rulers et c have always hated Jews and always had a love affair/strategic interest in Arab OIL, on which they have based most of their decisions.
The reason the British citizens are copping it is IMO due to their class system. They have always oppressed the working class in many ways..
I don’t look up old dystopian sci-fi movies depicting a grim future any more. I just watch the news from Britain.
Sham Uddin: An Islamic Version of Candace Owens Spewing Vile Conspiracies
https://justsayingitoutloloud.blogspot.com/2025/10/sham-uddin-islamic-version-of-candace.html