There’s been a lot of talk recently about the “Islam is Peace” public relations campaign which is being waged vigorously across various media in the UK. It is a well-funded and slickly-produced initiative designed to induce acceptance of British Muslims and counteract the “negative stereotypes” about Islam that have become so unfortunately prevalent since the 9-11 and 7-7 attacks.The appealing images of photogenic men, women, and children resemble the ads we often see here in the USA, and they serve the same politically correct and Multicultural purposes. Take, for example, a typical poster or billboard for a major bank: in it you are likely to see a cheerful, prosperous, and immaculately groomed Hispanic family, in a brightly-lit modern kitchen or out on the perfect lawn in front of their fully-mortgaged house.
The message is: these young professional Latinos are well-heeled exemplars of suburban Americans, just like the rest of us, a boon to our multi-ethnic high-tech society. This is yet another manifestation of the Big Lie, since the undeniable truth of Hispanic immigration is that the vast majority of the recent arrivals are poor, illiterate, and live in substandard housing in cultural ghettoes. Statistically speaking, they are not the mortgage-holders out there frolicking on that perfect lawn: they are the ones who come and tend that same lawn in the hot sun for six dollars an hour while the perfect children are at school and their immaculate parents are at work.
Slick non-profit ad campaigns like "Islam is Peace" are similarly designed to obscure truths and foster illusions that powerful groups have a vested interest in creating. Most Muslims in Britain are not well-dressed perfectly-groomed (and in the case of the women, perfectly-veiled) yuppies who are just like the rest of us except that they pray five times a day towards Mecca. No, the truth is somewhat different.
And the message that “Islam is Peace” propagates has elaborate and artfully phrased deceptions, carefully designed to serve the Great Jihad’s purposes. In the video embedded below, Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch gives us a short tutorial on some of the deliberately embedded taqiyyah that can be found in the ad campaign:
Anjem Chaudry, a radical British Muslim, is prominently featured in this video stating that Muslims alone can be considered innocent, so that as far as the infidels are concerned, the ad campaign’s condemnation of “violence against innocents” means precisely… nothing.
If you visit the Islam is Peace website, you’ll find this brief introductory paragraph:
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The Islam is Peace Campaign aims to address the negative perceptions and stereotypes of Islam and British Muslims. We intend to do this through media engagement to reach out to the wider community across the United Kingdom. We hope to start this process through a multi-pronged approach…
Notice that it is the perceptions and stereotypes of Islam that need to be corrected. Nothing about Islam itself needs to be changed or corrected, because Islam is perfect. Complete and perfect knowledge, all a human being might ever need to know, is contained within the Koran. Discussing any change or improvement is an absolute blasphemy.
That’s why only the kuffar must be changed. Their attitudes, their antagonism, their Islamophobia — those are the real problems, which the “Islam is Peace” campaign aims to overcome.
That the perceptions might be based in reality, that the stereotypes might have some validity, are not to be discussed. In this endeavor the PC regime is Islam’s greatest ally, because according to the high dogma of Orthodox Multiculturalism, these things may not even be spoken. They shouldn’t even be thought — they are doubleplus ungood.
That’s why it’s important to accept and celebrate our Islamophobia. We’re Islamophobic and proud of it!The term “Islamophobia” is designed to stigmatize the person who dares think impure thoughts. It’s intended to put us beyond the pale, to cast us into the outer darkness. Only by embracing the epithet can we remove its sting as an insult. It’s OK to be afraid of Islam: any rational and well-informed infidel would be afraid of it.
In any case, the average Briton who lives in a working class neighborhood in any major city knows that Islam is not peace. He knows that Islam means honor killings, the rape of young infidel girls, gangs of violent “youths” who hold all non-Muslims in sneering contempt, and the gathering in mosques of large groups of men to plan violent jihad against him and his fellow Britons.
But maybe the “Islam is Peace” campaign, with its relentless multimedia offensive, will convince him otherwise. Perhaps the barrage of propaganda will have its desired effect.
When that happens, it will be time to update George Orwell for the 21st century. The new novel could be called 2084.
In it a giant poster of a grim-faced bearded man in a turban hangs on every corner. Underneath it is the ubiquitous statement: Big Imam is Watching You!
Ubiquitous slogans are printed on huge banners and displayed on all the grimy public buildings:
Freedom is Slavery. Islam is Peace.
Hat tip: Steen.
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The Baron wrote:
Slick non-profit ad campaigns like "Islam is Peace" are similarly designed to obscure truths and foster illusions that powerful groups have a vested interest in creating. Most Muslims in Britain are not well-dressed perfectly-groomed (and in the case of the women, perfectly-veiled) yuppies who are just like the rest of us except that they pray five times a day towards Mecca. No, the truth is somewhat different.
Really? Evidence please. I'll buy that most muslims in the UK are not middle class but I'm not at all sure they are notably more scruffy or poor than a large chunk of other UK inhabitants.
As I understand it the average (Pakistani) muslim immigrant is slightly poorer than the average UK inhabitant - whereas, for example, the average Hindu immigrant is richer - but that statement, as you are undoubtedly aware covers a wide area. There are plenty of rich muslims and middle-class ones and the majority looks little different from the rest of Britain apart from a headscarf.
Sure there are some who are rather more radical but some is not all. We actually need to get the 'average' muslim on our side and that won't happen if we lump them all together as backward, lying etc etc.
Dirty Dingus, the bottom line is that our societies are undergoing radical changes due to a "tiny minority" of a (still) small percentage of Muslim immigrants. Will Ayaan Hirsi Ali ever be able to walk the streets freely without protection, even if only a tiny fraction would ever attempt to kill her? Will the average, mythical "moderate" Muslim ever be encouraged to speak out freely or even - which ought to be a matter of course - leave Islam, knowing what happens to apostates? Will outspoken politicians like Geert Wilders ever be able to work freely (last I checked he lived in an army base) again?
Point is, at the present rate of Muslims in Europe, our freedom is severely restricted as it is. People are leaving our countries in growing numbers as a result of this small minority.
The punchline: what will the situation be like a few decades from now, with huge shifts in demographics taking place? I shudder to think.
Islam is the problem. The best thing that could happen would be mass defections from this ideology, not us shutting up for fear of alienating (or even causing them to be violent through our criticism .... erm) the Mythical Moderates.
Dingus --
Notice that I referred to "working class" neighborhoods. Middle-class areas, I am sure, present an entirely different picture. But in the old proletarian redoubts, based on the accounts I have read by Dalrymple and others, native Britons face the kind of experience I describe.
I acknowledge that my summary is based on anecdotal evidence as provided by Fjordman, Anthony Daniels, and some of the British blogs. If any of the British residents who read this blog want to weigh in and contradict me, I'll be more than happy to update my post with a "mea culpa".
d.d. --
As I'm sure you're aware there was a poll last year in which 40% of Muslims -- most of them under the age of 35 -- who want to see Sharia law in England. The very foundation of the UK --its centuries of common law -- is being eroded at a fast pace.
As I'm also sure you're aware, the ethnically anglo-saxon UK ciitizens in the SE, educated and skiiled, are taking these qualities and leaving England in droves. The educated middle class natives are being carved out and will not exist in the UK in another 15 years or so.
The yobboes -- also ethnically anglo-saxon but fed on the poison gruel of the dole -- will be left behind. I don't think they will mind the race wars they themselves will probably incite.
Here's another finding:
Regarding reactions to the cartoons, 14% of British Muslims thought it was right for protesters in Muslim countries to attack Danish embassies and 12% thought it was right for “demonstrators to carry placards calling for the killing of those who insult Islam”. 13% said it was right “to exercise violence against those who are deemed by religious leaders to have insulted them”.
Here's the search string I used to back up what I remembered reading about Sharia law:
number of British Muslims want sharia law UK. And yes, these stats indicate that 60% don't want Sharia law, but those are mostly the old folks. They are not radicalized.
And a final quote from The Independent, August 23, 2007:
"More than 385,000 people, including just under 200,000 British citizens, became long-term emigrants in 2006 - the highest number to head for greener pastures since data was first collected in 1991."
As for getting "the average Muslim on our side"...and who is going to protect this average bloke from the "youths" who bomb trains, or the doctors who hatch terrorist plots?
The UK is more fortunate than we are. It doesn't have a suicidal ruling class that hampers efforts to gather intelligence.
It is less fortunate in that it has a relatively larger underclass who aren't good for much of anything. Ours is smaller, and we're more determined to bring them along.
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Dymphna:
"The UK is more fortunate than we are. It doesn't have a suicidal ruling class"
Er, we do, actually. Our ruling class are in most ways even more suicidally inclined than their American equivalent. Don't let a few windy platitudes from the Prime Minister fool you.
dirty dingus:
"We actually need to get the 'average' muslim on our side"
I imagine the Soviet Politburo sitting around planning:
"You know, we actually need to get the average American on our side. They're not all money-loving capitalists, you know! Most Americans are oppressed workers, just waiting for us to liberate them!"
"I'm also sure you're aware, the ethnically anglo-saxon UK citizens in the SE, educated and skiiled, are taking these qualities and leaving England in droves. The educated middle class natives are being carved out and will not exist in the UK in another 15 years or so."
Indeed, I'm one of them. And certainly not the only one; some of my friends have gone, another -- ironically, a middle-class Muslim -- now lives abroad most of the year, and others have talked seriously of getting out. Skilled, professional, middle-class workers are literally queuing up to leave; for example, last I heard the Canadian embassy had a five year backlog of emigration visa applications from Britain.
However, it's not purely a religious thing; the problem is that Britain today is only a good place to live if you're a Russian billionaire who pays no taxes, or you're on welfare. The skilled, educated middle class are being screwed by high taxes, low wages and a high cost of living, while Muslim terrorist sympathisers and white secular 'single mothers' who've never worked a day in their lives get big handouts paid for by those middle class taxes. 'Free' housing on welfare is a huge benefit when the average house in London costs $600,000, and the 'tax credit' welfare system often allows a single mother who works minimum wage for a few hours a week to take home more money than a middle-class professional working full time.
I think it looks like a religious problem because such a large fraction of Muslim immigrants live on welfare, but the white middle-class rarely interact with them; the working class and welfare class whites who do live in or near Muslim areas don't have the option of leaving as most countries require a degree and proof of skills. While young, middle-class Muslim immigrants may conduct terror attacks, the older middle-class Muslims who arrived in the UK decades ago were largely assimilated and can see Britain's decay just as clearly as we do.
Now, that said, one of the reasons I left Britain was because I don't want to live under Sharia law, but it was a secondary issue compared to the more basic one of the lousy quality of life for middle-class workers there today. I would also add that the government's open borders policy increasingly made me feel that I was already living in a foreign country so why not move to one?
"The yobboes -- also ethnically anglo-saxon but fed on the poison gruel of the dole -- will be left behind. I don't think they will mind the race wars they themselves will probably incite."
I agree. Unless there is some dramatic change, in another decade Britain will be a nation of rich bankers, welfare cases (many of them Third World immigrants) and government employees. That's not a formula for social cohesion, and as the welfare state breaks down, we'll see open violence between the chavs (aka anglo-saxon welfare scum) and the unskilled immigrants who compete with them for welfare and jobs.
Another of my secondary reasons for leaving was the chavification of the area where I worked to the point where I was no longer happy leaving my car parked in the street (every now and again the chavs would set a few on fire for fun) or walking a few minutes from the office to the nearby fish and chip shop to pick up some food before I went home at night. When I was a teenager there were few places I wouldn't walk at night -- the town welfare estate being one of them -- but a couple of decades later with an infestation of CCTV cameras in place of police and a mass influx of unassimilated, unskilled immigrants there were increasingly few places I felt at all safe.
"The UK is more fortunate than we are. It doesn't have a suicidal ruling class that hampers efforts to gather intelligence."
I'm not so sure of that; just look at some of the absurdly stupid ideas that the British government have thrown about in the last few years, like consulting with Muslim leaders before making terror arrests. I think they look less suicidal because they have active terror cells conducting attacks so they can't afford to bury their heads in the sand, and because 'islamophobic' groups get enough exposure to force the government to back down on those kind of crazy ideas.
The two things Britain really needs are a return to the days when immigrants were expected to assimilate, and a total revamping of the welfare system which has largely supported the growth of violent ghettos full of people of various races and religions who never do anything productive in their lives but have plenty of time to be destructive. Unfortunately, both of those policies are far too politically incorrect to happen until there's a catastrophe which requires them... particularly as the Labour party are increasingly reliant on the votes of Muslims and welfare cases to maintain power. Their core support used to be the urban working class but they're the very people hit hardest by 'multiculturalism' and mass immigration of unskilled workers.
BTW, it's worth noting that, thanks to Britain's antiquated electoral system, Labour won the last election with only 22% of the votes. Some people have predicted a 20+% Muslim population in the UK before 2050... so Sharia law may not take long. I wouldn't be surprised to see it instated at a local level in some towns and cities within a decade.
One British bus knows better:
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