ascan wrote:
Even racists can write good articles. I sometimes wonder which is the worst: "racism" or the systematic destruction of your country and it's peoples' way of life to make way for a bunch of foreigners hell bent on Jihad.
But that's obviously in a European context.
I agree. And that’s not en endorsement of David Duke in particular.
His ludicrous idea that Islamic terrorism is the fault of Israel and America’s support for Israel actually makes him sound like he’s got a lot in common with the far left.
His site looks to be full of objectionable material. It doesn’t surprise me to hear that he was a member of the KKK. He seems to be openly admitting to being racist, and unfortunately this undermines a valid point he makes about the willingness of society to see “white racism” everywhere and anywhere, and to blame it for all of society’s ills.
There’s this idea in society that if one can expose a person as a “racist”, it then automatically invalidates anything else they might say.
There was an incident in Britain recently where an ex-chat-show-host called Robert Kilroy-Silk had his show axed by the BBC for a newspaper article he’d written criticising the oppressive regimes of the Arab world. The police were required to waste hours watching clips of his old shows for evidence that he was a “racist”. What did they expect to find?
Compare this to the BBC’s treatment of Jenny Tonge. Jenny Tonge is a former Liberal Democrat MP who once said she would consider becoming a suicide bomber if she were Palestinian. For these remarks the Liberals sacked her from her position as a parliamentary spokesman for children's issues, but the BBC consequently decided to invite her onto radio and TV to discuss the Middle East. And there were no police enquiries over her terrorist sympathies, which apparently aren’t racist and so can be excused.
On the subject of Arab regimes, it’s interesting to note that their main export to the world after oil, namely Islamic fundamentalism, is not concerned with ideas of racial purity and superiority (their insane hatred of Jews notwithstanding). They recruit Arabs, Blacks, Thais, Pakistanis, and so on. Lately, in the interests of equal opportunity (or in the interests of not getting caught) Islamic fundamentalists have expressed a particular interest in recruiting whites. (OK, they probably aren’t going to bother recruiting Jews any time soon.)
And yet, in terms of numbers and global reach, Islamic fundamentalism is the most vicious, bigoted, dangerous and violent movement on the planet.
This is why I think, as a Brit, that the authorities in my country waste far too much time investigating far-right nationalist parties like the BNP. However objectionable people might find their views, they are not terrorists.
After the London bomb, a survey indicated that at least 6% of British Muslims identified with the terrorists. That’s over 100,000 people. What are they doing in Britain?
This is an example of multiculturalism at work. We're just supposed to accept the influx into Britain of thousands of people with no allegiance to the country whatsoever, people who would rather ally themselves with their nutty Imams and some 1,400 year-old religious text.
Most schoolchildren are taught about how advanced the Greeks and the Romans were compared to the barbarians of Northern Europe. No one ever claims these ideas are racist. So why can’t we apply them to the modern world?
In the last two-hundren years Britain has given the world the Industrial Revolution, Darwin, Maxwell, the computer, the steam locomotive, Adam Smith, JM Keynes, the electric motor and the light bulb (amongst other things).
The contribution of Britain to the modern world is unparalleled (except maybe by America, another English-speaking country, coincidentally).
And yet we’re supposed to believe that British culture is not really worth preserving, and that it’s really no better than the cultures of places that still have people practising honour killing, female genital mutilation and arranged marriages for 12-year old girls, places that still haven’t discovered the benefits of democracy, the separation of state and religion, and an independent media, and places whose contribution to scientific and technological advancement in the world in the last two-hundred years amounts to sod all.
05 Nov 2005, 10:20 pm
They seek to sow division based on legitimate grievances, twist them and use them for their own ends - and a riot caused by their agitation has them rubbing their hands in glee. They attempted to stir up trouble here in Keighley again by arranging a rally to coincide with Bonfire Night and Eid - their plans for chaos were thwarted luckily as a five mile exclusion zone was set up to prevent racist thugs from travelling to the town to stir up more trouble. Dialogue is the way forward for embattled urban communities, not sending 'em all back where they came from.
