Tuesday, July 08, 2008

A Crystal Ball for Britain: Part 3

This is the final peek through El Inglés’ crystal ball. Earlier predictions in this series may be found here and here.


The following was originally published in April, 2018 on Twisted Meanderings, an irreverent political commentary website in the UK.

Cutting the Gordian Knot of Islam

It was far from obvious that the UK would be the country to generate the most ostentatiously bizarre ideas in attempting to solve the problems posed by its rapidly metastasising Muslim problem. On the contrary, the surreal string of developments that resulted in the creation of the Muslim Autonomous Zone in the north of England displayed a level of political naivety that even the most jaded Islam-watchers in the UK could not have predicted.

Other strong competitors for the position of Most Hopelessly Islamized Country, such as Sweden and Belgium, could only look on with envy as the UK steered boldly into the uncharted waters of complete religious accommodation, valiantly striking one iceberg after another. Only the Dutch have so far taken bolder steps than us in confronting Islam head-on, and theirs, though more effective, have shown a disturbing lack of creativity. Internment is just so quaint.

Arguably, the UK is actually fortunate to be faced with such a stark departure from the normal modes of running a state, as it is left with very little leeway in which to perform complex self-justification manoeuvres. In other countries across Europe, the balance of power between Muslims and their host societies changes quickly enough to cause alarm, but slowly enough to allow political and media elites to deny it.

“Feast your eyes on our colourful urban scenes,” they cry to an ever angrier electorate, strangely unimpressed by its exposure to the glories of Islamic culture. “Gaze on,” they exhort, “as Muslim immigration leavens the tasteless bread of our bland, white, Europe.”

Sliding ever further into the quicksand of Islam, they slap each other on the back at EU summits and meetings with concerned representatives of the OIC, in Europe to receive progress reports on anti-Islamophobia initiatives. Let us give thanks in Britain that, irrespective of the outcome of our struggle with Islam, we will have offered spectators something other than such a lethargic and self-congratulatory slide into dhimmitude.

Even after the 7/7 Tube bombings in 2005 (perhaps especially after them), it was far from obvious that anything as outrageous as a Shari’a-enforcing Muslim Autonomous Zone could possibly be on the cards, not least to those in the north of England who would discover that they were to end up living in it. Arguably, however, it was only a matter of time before a man as divorced from reality as Gordon Brown stumbled upon what undoubtedly seemed like a good idea at the time.

Clinging onto power in the 2010 general election by the slimmest of margins, thanks to an unprecedented series of Tory gaffes, blunders and skeletons stumbling out of closets, Brown essentially abandoned his earlier attempts at comprehensive immigration reform. Declaring instead that Britain had been immeasurably enriched by the vast influx of third-world immigrants in the latter half of the 20th century, the Prime Minister ran for cover on the issue, with immigration remaining essentially constant as a result.

As Muslims immigrants continued to flow into the UK, the problems associated with their presence, which need no elucidation here, grew ever more prevalent. Pessimists argued that the country was on an irreversible slide into the foul-breathed maw of the Religion of Peace, but Gordon Brown, belying his reputation as the dullest of dull men, outdid himself by deciding to dive into it headlong and take the country with him.
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The formation of the Islamic Party in April 2013 made possible an unholy alliance of the most egregious ankle-grabbing dhimmitude and the most opportunistic, cynical Muslim expansionism. Friction generated by Muslim demands for the implementation of aspects of Shari’a law had risen to new levels by the time the party emerged. Opinion polls showed significant support amongst Muslims for the separatist Islamic Party, which demanded in its manifesto a combination of an almost complete freedom from the legal strictures of the iniquitous British state with the continued receipt of significant tax revenues from it. The publication of this document was the cause of some alarm for the usual assortment of knuckledraggers and xenophobes (who now seemed to make up a clear majority of the British population), but evoked many a hallelujah from Gordon Brown. Convinced as he was that the fruitless search of the government for a ‘partner for peace’ in the Muslim community had finally come to a successful conclusion, he now attempted to settle upon a modus vivendi with British Muslims. After the disappointing start to his premiership, could his legacy turn out to be the ushering in of a glorious new era of multi-religious harmony, half Albion, half Al-Andalus?

In early 2014, Brown, to a chorus of shock, fear, and disgust (to which he appeared largely oblivious) announced his intention to turn the UK into the first genuinely multi-cultural, multi-religious society in 21st-century Europe. In consultation with the Islamic Party, he declared, Britain would throw its arms wide open and embrace Islam like never before by allowing Muslims to attain a degree of autonomy in a manner to be decided over the next two or three years.

The notion that the UK had already embraced Islam slightly more openly than it should have was vocally expressed by a not inconsiderable segment of British society. However, the long-term trajectories of many European countries with respect to Islam were looking gloomier by the day, especially in France and the Low Countries. Brown’s plan to cut the Gordian knot of British Islam developed substantial momentum more quickly than might have been expected.

Initial consultations with the Islamic Party went on throughout 2014. Against this increasingly surreal backdrop, Muslim crime, demands for concessions, and general all-round unpleasantness actually reached new heights as Muslims smelled victory. What sort of victory it would prove to be was still difficult to say, but some sort of Shari’a-lite options for local authorities, enforceable on a geographic basis, was clearly on the cards. As the debate bulldozed its way through the various outraged parties opposing the entire initiative (no small number of them Muslims themselves), it became increasingly clear that allowing local authorities to implement aspects of the Shari’a anywhere in the country would be impossible. If this were allowed to happen, one could inadvertently stroll back and forth between the Dar-al-Islam and the Dar-al-Harb, flitting between jurisdictions without realizing it. The likely consequences of a situation of this sort were clear to all, and not reassuring to consider.

Accordingly, the debate gradually shifted to the idea of declaring this sort of autonomy to be obtainable in a part of the country with an already-high Muslim population. The presumption was that the region would not only attract Muslims from across the country, but that it would, to be delicate, fairly quickly see the departure of large numbers of non-Muslims, thereby creating a Muslim bloc. At the same time, Muslims would be granted no Shari’a-based concessions at all outside of this area. Gordon Brown, understandably excited by his new Dr. Frankenstein role, argued that the plan was the best road ahead for Britain. The increasingly vocal demands for autonomy amongst British Muslims, combined with spiralling Muslim crime (which some claimed to be organized for the purpose) and the more clearly visible disintegration of other European countries in the face of Islam, resulted in remarkably steady support for the plan, given the inevitable outcome. Brown was not alone in his delusions.

Of course, Labour would have to stay in power in 2015 to even have a chance of pushing the initiative through. The election campaign of that year was widely considered the dirtiest in living memory. Claims of gerrymandering and political corruption had dogged Labour increasingly since the previous election, and whatever substance there was behind these claims was supplemented by the flinging of vast amounts of money at any political constituency that pulled a face at the party. This shameless behaviour, coupled by a genuine feeling on the part of large segments of the electorate that the Gordian knot of Islam must be cut one way or the other, allowed the Labour-Islamic Party coalition to scrape through with a tiny minority, tiny enough, it should be noted, for the government to be brought down as and when the Islamic Party willed it.

The gradual outflow of non-Muslims from certain parts of North-West England, which had already been mentioned as the likely site of the Muslim Autonomous Zone — as the soon-to-emerge entity quickly came to be called — picked up pace rapidly after the elections. London and Birmingham were ruled out as potential hosts for the Zone on the grounds of their being the capital and the second-largest conurbation in the country respectively. This left only the north of England, and Northerners knew it. As the government assured the country that relocation assistance and compensation would be forthcoming (which it was), a steady trickle of refugees turned into a flood as 2016 came and went. House prices in the north of England plummeted as people fled south. Muslims did start to relocate north, snapping up properties at bargain basement prices, but not as quickly as the government had hoped.

In March 2017 the government finally announced its plans at a huge press conference featuring many beaming members of the Islamic Party and other Islamic organizations and lobby groups. A section of North-West England, sweeping across from Bradford in the east, through Burnley and Blackburn, to Preston in the west, was to be designated as the Muslim Autonomous Zone. Local councils in the zone would be entitled to pass local legislation permitting many of the provisions of the Shari’a to be applied in their jurisdictions. Although UK law would continue to obtain with respect to serious crimes, and Islamic punishments such as execution, flogging, and amputations would be prohibited, those councils which chose to could adopt Shari’a law with respect to the sale of alcohol, pork products, modesty in dress, segregation of the sexes in public facilities, and so forth. At the same time, councils would be able, in cooperation with the police, to deputize willing members of the public to enforce these laws, infractions against which would be punishable by fines and community service. Islamic courts could also be established by councils, which would be able to make legally binding rulings on issues related to marriage, divorce, inheritance, civil disputes, and so on, as long as all parties consented to the process.

So it was that the country as a whole plunged into the unknown on August 16, 2017, as all local councils in the zone had the new Shari’a-based options opened to them. A large number of Muslim-dominated councils (in, needless to say, Muslim-dominated areas) in the zone immediately introduced as many of the newly available provisions as quickly as they could. Certain less heavily Muslim areas introduced some of them in an attempt to appease their newly demanding Muslim populations.

Vast numbers of non-Muslims, white or otherwise, completed the exodus of those who refused to stay in the area, with nearly all others hunkering down together in council areas where they could predominate. Muslim demonstrations, processions, and general all-round gloating were evident everywhere there were Muslims, with many of the more inconsiderate believers declaring the foundation of the Islamic Republic of Britain. Civil disturbances flared up throughout the entire country, though the situation was kept under control by heavy police presences in critical areas.

Events disintegrated so quickly after the initiation of the new plan that a chronological account is impossible here. In February of this year, however, by the time six months had passed, certain key trends had emerged. Firstly, the extent to which Shari’a was implemented had gone far beyond that officially allowed by the plan. The police presence in the Zone rapidly dwindled to nothing in Muslim dominated areas, with the long arm of the law deciding that harassing old-age pensioners over the placement of their wheely-bins was a lot safer than fighting Muslim thugs armed with a full range of blunt and bladed objects. Scattered attempts by individual police officers to actually do their jobs in ‘difficult’ parts of the Zone received no back-up from those higher up in the force, making in very clear which way the wind was blowing politically. That the jizya should be being demanded of, and paid by, many non-Muslims in Muslim-dominated areas of the Zone soon after its creation was testament to the unchanging nature of Islam, as were the public beatings of the less-than-completely devout by enforcers and the public beheading in Bradford of a Muslim man accused of selling alcohol illegally.

Secondly, the flight of businesses and the educated from the area, which had commenced years before, had reached a point where economic activity in the Zone fell away at a great speed. It was always clear that the Zone would never be economically viable in its own right, but the extent to which it would have to be propped up by the British taxpayer had been underestimated. Even non-Muslim areas saw steep economic and demographic decline as the Zone and neighbouring areas were abandoned by vast numbers of people who had effectively been turned into refugees in their own country. A mere six months had resulted in scenes of squalor, filth, and decay across large parts of the Zone, as the builders and maintainers of public infrastructure and sanitation stayed away or were kept out. This decay compounded and was compounded by the economic difficulties.

Thirdly, the geographical stability of the Zone itself was shown to be very limited. It probably goes without saying that the rule of Shari’a, once established in a given jurisdiction, had a tendency to bleed across into non-Shari’a-enforcing jurisdictions within the Zone, as enforcers and other random groups of Muslim thugs endeavoured to claim more territory for Allah. However, the rapid drop in population in and around the Zone allowed ambitious Muslims to slowly colonize them, resulting in a de facto spread of the Zone itself, resulting in more flight on the part of non-Muslims. The suddenly availability of large amounts of underused housing motivated many Muslims to head up north, thereby reinforcing the entire dispossession dynamic. Calls for newly occupied areas to be formally incorporated into the Zone are already heard with some frequency.

Though it is much too early to try and predict exactly how events will develop over the next year or two, it can already be said with some confidence that nothing in the history of politics bears comparison with such a carefully-planned destruction of a polity by its own leaders. Such fascinating political theatre is something that we should feel privileged to have been a part of.

In stark contrast with the unimaginative approach adopted by the Dutch since their military coup of last week, our national eccentricity has given the world something to smile at in these dark times. While our cousins across the English Channel have been locking down Muslim ghettos, interning Muslim men, and shooting any slave of Allah who complains, we have been involved in the largest piece of performance art in history.

Of course we must adopt the Dutch approach eventually. But, as Rossini would remind us, sometimes the overture is remembered after the opera has been all but forgotten. We are confident, here at Twisted Meanderings, that the prelude to the real battle with Islam on this sceptred isle will prove to be equally memorable, and equally capable of provoking amazement centuries after the larger drama has been forgotten.

20 comments:

Brazentide said...

Should Labour maintain its majority, I would find this disturbingly plausible if not probable.

In a sane world they would not even come close to surviving another election.

In a sane world.

Conservative Swede said...

El Ingles continues to charm us with his essays. But I'm going to go off-topic again, and just mention that I posted a blog article today (my first in half a year):

Auster's tone deaf attacks on Spencer

PS, If you like to comment upon it (which would be most heartfeltly appreciated), do it at my blog, so that we won't go more off-topic here.

Geoffrey de Bouillon said...

The Democrats would not survive either, in a sane world.

ZZMike said...

Toddlers who dislike spicy food 'racist'

"The National Children's Bureau, which receives £12 million a year, mainly from Government funded organisations, has issued guidance to play leaders and nursery teachers advising them to be alert for racist incidents among youngsters in their care.

This could include a child of as young as three who says "yuk" in response to being served unfamiliar foreign food.
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Nurseries are encouraged to report as many incidents as possible to their local council."

Madness. But most all the commentors at the site see the stupidity.

Children are not born with "racist" thoughts. Take a dozen 1- to 3-year-olds, from every continent and country, put them together and they'll get along just fine. (At least, as fine as any similar-sized homogeneous group.)

If that madness were allowed to proceed, it wouldn't be long before they decided that if little Johnny thinks that boiled yak knuckles are yukky, it can only be because his parents have drilled it into him, and we might as well just pop over and have a little chat with them.

Diamed said...

Actually children are born racist and will self-segregate if mixed up with a bunch of children from different races. The wish to be around people like yourself is instinctive and universal. Just look at any lunch room in any school in the world. Or the self-segregated neighborhoods all around the world due to white flight. Look at the gang turf wars between blacks and hispanics in LA. Look at Japanese intolerance of even Koreans in their midst. Observe the monstrous anti-white hatred of Zimbabwe and South Africa. Or just notice the self-segregated borders of our nations keeping different ethnicities and races out (the main purpose of any border.) Everyone is born racist, everyone remains racist from birth on, and everyone dies a racist. The only difference is some people feel guilty about it and deny it, while others use it to forward their race's agenda. (IE everyone else on earth but whites). Guess which strategy is winning? And guess why we evolved to be racist in the first place? Nothing about human nature is there by chance!

It isn't the nursery schools being paranoid at racism that doesn't exist, the nurseries are right, those children are teeming with racism, it's radiating out of their every look and gesture, the racism is so palpable in the air you can choke on it------and there's nothing wrong with it. It's natural, healthy, and normal.

Zenster said...

I can only say that what Piggy Infidel termed as the "Haringey Turkey Shoot" in Part II was a far more satisfying read. Not only that, but I would wager it being the only model for any successful repulsion of Europe's Muslim colonists. Whether or not similar tactics will prove necessary here in America is a card that I will hold a bit closer to my vest.

As always, hats off to El Inglés for another fine workup about what to expect in the near future.

Zenster said...

Whoops! I just noticed that El Inglés coined the "turkey shoot" moniker in Part II's last paragraph. Credit given ... yadda, yadda.

Whiskey said...

I don't see this as convincing. Too many property owners and such would be destroyed in the North. It could not happen that particular way -- indeed it would induce a coup.

Rather, I see a rising fight over shrinking welfare state pie, and the way each slice is constructed. Already across Europe the desire to spend declining revenues on natives vs. foreigners is a sure-fire winner vote wise. Not the least of which is businesses and such that depend on the largesse and cannot afford to indulge Muslims or other foreigners anymore.

Labor reminds me of the French Aristocracy before July 1789.

Obviously, Muslims retain independence of action. More likely IMHO is the independent action of declaring a Muslim republic of Sharia inside Britain, which unless ruthlessly suppressed and Muslims in general suppressed, purged, and deported will lead to either a catastrophic fall by Labor or a coup. Even more dangerous of course is Iran and/or Pakistan backing such action with nuclear weapons. Dragging the US into the fight as the protector of Britain.

Muslims have been encouraged by weak Laborites to defacto enforce sharia. The next step is a formal Muslim state inside Britain by declaration. Weakness in the face of insurrection WILL lead to a strong-man, of which England has had before. Perhaps England will be the new Spain, fought over not by Franco, the Republicans, Communists, Anarchists, Nazis, Soviets, etc. but Muslims, natives, and various allies of both.

Anonymous said...

You present a chilling future for England, El Ingles. Let's hope it doesn't really turn out in the way you've written in your essays.

Bilgeman said...

El Ingles;

Y'know, the more I think about it, the more I see our problem as boiling down to simply being that we have saddled ourselves with far too many government workers who really don't have enough work to be gainfully employed.

All the clever little public flunktionairies sit around doping out how to gain a larger share of the budget, and so they manufacture their own constituencies, which need their constant care, feeding, and protections.

Zerosumgame said...

El Ingles,

One thing neither the 2nd nor 3rd scenarios talk about (and it would have been more appropriate in Part 2 than in this one) is the possibility of British Islamists getting a WMD or Jihadists from outside Britain smuggling them in.

By 2017-2020, Pakistan would likely be a Jihadist state, and even an Israeli attack on Iran would delay their getting a bomb, but would not stop it.

Even without nukes, Saddam's chemical and biological WMDs went somewhere -- probably Syria. I venture that Islamists in the Middle East would be tempted to "help" their brethren in Britain if such unrest ever broke out.

Anonymous said...

Even more interesting was that article some months ago about the Danes rebelling against the Muslims and then acting like Vikings and Crusaders. Much better end.

Christine said...

What is so interesting in these scenarios is the way El Ingles has defined the likely variables and which have the greatest effect - I would love to read more scenarios by commenters, or alternative endings or middles to these three scenarios.

The Muslim Brotherhood in particular (and its many forms across the globe) wants to impose the caliphate no faster than the local governments can be corrupted and the local populace intimidated by charges of sharia blasphemy (aka islamophobia or "insulting Islam"). If the process speeds up just a tad, people wake up and resist. Scenarios like this are tremendously helpful in increasing the tempo of awareness, possibly increasing the tempo of operations. That works to our advantage; imagining TODAY how bad things could turn out in five or ten or twenty years, is a simple way of increasing this tempo.

More please. Lots.

Martin said...

I think there is a great chance that islamic world would not let civil wars in Europe without intervention....

Even in case when North Africa regimes and Turkey were still not islamized, this could lead wery easily to further radicalization and coups....

European armies are too weak to deal anywhere without assistance of the USA, so they could have many difficulties to surpress even those urprisings of muslims alone and we should not forget that muslims are in the army too....

So I am not sure if they would be able in the same time surpress insurections and face armies of islamic states with their "infinite" reservoir of fresh soldiers....

Question is, what would do and in what shape would be Russia and the USA

Anyway it can happen that there wont be chance to win without use of WMD and that it will be used by both sides....I am afraid that consequences of such actions would be quite dire.....

Another question is Israel......

Martin said...

If I assume the worst....Israel will be annihilated by Iran, Russia will side with muslims and USA as a ruined state will care just about internal affairs.....

What I have read, it seems that Russian army has or will have quite soon majority of muslim soldiers....

Bert said...

Very interesting read these intriguing scenarios by El Inglés (but also those by The Observer).
I agree with Christine: More please. Lots.

Armance said...

Perhaps England will be the new Spain, fought over not by Franco, the Republicans, Communists, Anarchists, Nazis, Soviets, etc. but Muslims, natives, and various allies of both.

I absolutely agree with this scenario: I guess any country in Europe that will be first involved in an anti-Muslim/immigration civil war (it might be the UK, France or the Netherlands) will become a new Spain, with people from all over Europe siding with one camp or another.

Unfortunately, I guess the pro-Muslim side will receive the help of the American administration, be it Democrat or Republican. The EU will be on thos side too, this is for sure. And I'm not sure whom will support Russia and Israel, but you will be surprised...

Conservative Swede said...

Yes, Whiskey and Armance, I think that's a very likely scenario.

Anonymous said...

Oh that this were so far fetched that it could be funny. But it isn't, so it isn't.

The point that Martin made about the weakness of Europe's armies just strengthens my view about the cause of the British government's commitment to Iraq and Afghanistan; it helps to keep the troops out of the way. Fighting a war that the politicos will not let them win ensures that they are out of the way and cannot kick the door to number 10 down.

The only implausibility of the scenarios is that by this time there will be a Nation called Europe, our central government will be in Brussels at the Berlaymont Building, and the province formerly known as England will have been broken up into 9 artificial regions. And who knows how the EUSSR will react to these jihadi provocations? Probably make Christianity illegal throughout their fiefdom!

WAKE UP said...

Harking back to toddlers and racism (I can't believe I'm having to write this):

Children are not born racist - they are born HONEST and DIRECT.