A report published today claims Muslims in the UK live in ‘an environment of hate’ – and the government is to blame.

The so-called ‘Islamic Human Rights Commission’ in a press release about today’s launch of its report ‘Environment of Hate: The New Normal for Muslims in the UK’ describes the UK “as an ever developing ‘Stasi state’ rife with hatred for the ‘suspect’ Muslim community. The authors examine the construction of an environment where Muslims are feared and loathed.”

This claim by the absurdly named ‘Commission’ – it’s just a pressure group – that the UK is like East Germany in its treatment of Muslims and Islam is preposterous. Our broadcast media and institutions from politicians to the police fall over themselves to present Islam as a peaceful religion and its adherents as loyal, law- abiding citizens.

The Islamic Human Rights Commission have been developing what they call the ‘Domination Hate Model of Intercultural Relations’. This says “hate crimes do not occur in a vacuum. Perpetrators are themselves victim citizens who have been mobilised by structural forces; namely the government and the media.”

The only problem is, that is rubbish.

Apart from the profligate and pointless ‘Prevent’ programme and the Terrorism Act, which actually concerns many of us, the government have done nothing inimical to Muslims. Establishment politicians are constant in their praise of Islam, stressing how the terrorists have misinterpreted it. The broadcast media, with the possible exception of Channel 4 Dispatches and the occasional Panorama programme, is overwhelmingly supportive of Islam and Muslims.

It is only some sections of the press which are antipathetic. Even then, if Muslim teachers did not beat children learning the Quran, if local authorities did not celebrate Eid rather than Christmas, if school boards did not try to turn their schools into Islamic enclaves, if Muslims did not write graffiti in Jewish cemeteries, there would be nothing to report.

Negative images of Muslims and Islam come not from our government and the British broadcast media at all. The problem for Muslims is all the honest material about Islam all over the internet, mainly on YouTube and Facebook.
Videos made by Islamic State themselves of their agents beheading captives, of tearing down crosses outside churches, other videos of Muslims rioting in Croatia, spouting hatred against Jews on Al-Quds Day in London (ironically organised by IHRC on behalf of Stop the War), attacking soldiers returning from Afghanistan in East London, bombing and shooting people in Nairobi and Garissa, constant killing in Baghdad, the bombs in Istanbul and Beirut and now the atrocities in Paris, it just goes on and on.

There is no getting away from the fact that the overwhelming majority of terrorists in the world are Muslim. There is no hiding that gangs of Muslim young men were convicted of the rape of young, insecure non-Muslim girls in town after town in the UK. There is no escaping the reality that all the recent cases of electoral fraud here have involved Muslims. There is no gain-saying that in case after case of restaurant and take-away food hygiene, it is Muslim establishments that are being fined. The Muslim community in this land needs to clean up its own act. Literally, in some aspects.

Finally, in the wake of the carnage in Paris, the ‘Islamic Human Rights Commission’ blames not Muslim terrorists but ‘unethical western foreign policy in the Middle East’. I have been at the forefront of objecting to British incursions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria and to our Government’s support of the catastrophic ‘Arab Spring’. But when Muslims blame ‘the West’ for the actions of other Muslims, is it any wonder that the rest of us react with loathing for Islam and all it stands for?

Here is a word about the Islamic Human Rights Commission:

Isa 59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. 4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

And here is one for them:

Mark 1:15 The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

 

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14 COMMENTS

  1. Good article, imo, Stephen, well done, keep up the good work bro.

    My experience is that if you say that there is a problem with Islamic doctrine, you are called a “hater”. “Not all muslims are bad”. Its very frustrating.

    Personally, I would like to hear Rox’s take on this: I could do with a good laugh.

    • I have now posted what I actually think. Enjoy your laugh.

      I didn’t think your scurrilous and/or ignorant misquoting of the Koran last time we crossed swords was very funny at all. You seem to have been duped by American propaganda.

  2. Sorry, another comment.

    I think more and more people are asking the same question that occurs to me: if its so bad for them here, why don’t they clear off either back to where they came from, or to an Islamic country? Good riddance, imo, and we’d all be a lot safer.

    • I don’t know if you’ve got access to something which I wrote but which Stephen chose not to publish. However, I don’t remember commenting on this at all.

      Can we all comment on things which you might have said but didn’t ?

    • Hi Humphrey,
      Decision made! I agree 100% with what Ken says in the video about the West bringing this all about by wrecking Iraq and Libya and trying to destabilise Syria. Agree with him 100% when he says the Saudis and Qatar (our ‘friends’) are funding ISIS. Agree with him that the bankers make money from wars and that the ‘war on terror’ is the best ever war from them. I do not agree with him that ISIS has some sort of connection to Israel. Do not agree with his contention that Muslims were not responsible for 9/11. Do not agree with him that Islam is peaceful. It has never been.

      • Stephen

        There are some things that need to be considered in terms of an Israeli connection. For example:

        1) Senior Israeli military are found in key ISIS positions. Here

        https://www.darkmoon.me/2015/exclusive-israeli-colonel-leading-isil-terrorists-captured-in-iraq/

        2) According to the Snowden revelations, the top commander of ISIS (Simon Elliot) is a Mossad operative

        3) ISIS (like its Al Qaeda predecessor) appears to be able to attack the whole world including nations as far away as Cambodia but yet never strikes Israel which is only a hop across the border. Here

        http://www.tomatobubble.com/id933.html

        4) One of the alleged reasons for the complete destruction of Arab states in recent years is so that the Yinon plan for a Greater Israel (from the Nile to the Euphrates) can be achieved

        All these things which are well documented (and a lot more) need explaining.

        The inability by many Protestant evangelical churches to ever criticize Israel and all things Jewish is largely due to them following an interpretation of scripture which came about as a result of the 1861 Schofield bible.

        This is what gave rise to a movement called Christian Zionism which I would suggest to you is another false doctrine based on a false interpretation of scripture (just like the prosperity gospel). Here is a 60 minute film explaining the deception from a scriptural perspective:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QZyItsY2Lg

        Christian Zionism has made the church an apologist for evil instead of a bulwark against it.

        There is no shame in being deceived. The bible says we are all deceived at some level (Rev 12:9). I think CV should consider this possibility.

        • Hi ‘Humphrey’,

          On your point (1) above, did it not occur to you that the pictured Israeli ‘Colonel’ looked a bit young for such a senior officer? The picture on your link is actually that of Aaron (or Oron) Shaul, a young Israeli soldier killed in 2014 in the Gaza conflict. Bad luck, old boy.

          (2) No supporting link provided. Not surprising. This claim has been rubbished all over the web. Who is Simon Elliot? Where is a substantiated picture of him? Where is any documentation linking him to Mossad or establishing that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is Simon Elliot, whoever he is, and not just another man with bushy eyebrows?

          (3) Of course ISIS attacks the West while it is building its caliphate in Syria and Iraq. Why exactly is ISIS obliged to attack Israel? Would Hamas and Fatah allow such a turf invasion? I think not. You need logistics and supply lines. Paris, easy. Jerusalem? Dream on.

          (4) A Greater Israel? The Yinon Plan? It’s a pipe dream. The Israelis cannot even dismiss the Palestinians from Judea and Samaria! As someone once said: ‘There is a lot less here than meets the eye’.

          (5) I take it you don’t like the state of Israel much, for some peculiar reason, but the Bible says:
          Jer 31:35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
          Jer 31:36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.

          (6) If you think I have an hour to watch a droning Texe Marrs video when I just spent ten valuable minutes dealing with the rest of your rubbish, you need to wake up from dreamworld. In fact, in any case, you do need to wake up from dreamworld. All the time you waste with this stuff is time you are not spending building the Kingdom of God on the Rock.

          Not meaning to be horrible or anything. We all write stronger than we should speak face to face – 2Cor 10:10!

          • This exchange has made me realize what a thoroughly unpleasant and verbally intimidating person you are (not that I would be physically intimidated by your presence).

            Woe to the man who disagrees with the mighty and all knowing Stephen Green–hardly what I would expect to find in a Christian ministry!

            For my part I am only regurgitating what people who are highly knowledgeable in their field are saying. Whether they are correct or not I do not definitively know. Either way you will never have the benefit of their wisdom since you exchange insults for debate.

            Whether you publish this comment or not is of no concern to me. However I would ask that you do not communicate further with me by e-mail just as I will not be visiting this website again.

          • My dear old thing, all I did was look up the links and do a bit of modest research. I’m sorry finding out that your anti-Israel stuff did not stand up to scrutiny has made you flounce off, but perhaps you will just look sceptically at such material next time.

  5. Now that I have returned from a break away from home and away from computers, I have a chance to write what I actually think and not what Mark Jones thinks I might think.

    Of course, Stephen is absolutely right. This is preposterous. There is not by any means a widespread strong hatred between different communities in this country, and the government does not operate like the Stasi against Muslims.

    On the other hand, there are “suspect” Muslims here, just as there are in France and Belgium, and it is perfectly understandable that people are worried at the moment as a result of what Muslims did there. Muslims themselves need to be worried, because Allah does not save Muslims who are in a bombed bus or train, or even in a crowd being shot at by other Muslims.

    The question of who did what in trying to stop the atrocities of so-called Islamic State, and why it is that this organisation was able to grow in the Middle East, and who was to blame in supporting or overthrowing other Muslim régimes there, is scarcely relevant really. The populations of European countries (including Muslims) are going to be worried about potential attacks, whether from Catholic Irish extremists, Muslim extremists, right-wing extremists, left-wing extremists, American-style trigger-happy gunmen, Bulgarians with poisoned umbrellas, or anybody else. Their governments are going to do their best to infiltrate possible perpetrators and protect the population as a whole, including Muslims.

    Returning home today (Monday) I picked up my free copy of the London Evening Standard which had an excellent article essentially by a Deeyah Khan (actually, it was an interview with her). She has made a study of what drives young men to go to Syria, and is delighted to find that they react quite violently to one suggestion, that they are “stupid and goofy”, also “small, pathetic, weak”, because they want to pose as “holy warriors”, “noble and brave”. She claims that Islamic State “spends hundreds of hours recruiting each fighter”, offering a sort of therapy (my word there) to what his psychological needs are, and she suggests that if somebody else could offer him this kind of support in overcoming his problems, he might not be recruited.

    This is a long article and much of it is good, although many Christian Vocalists would find it too moderate for their taste. However, this is the relevant bit, where we probably all disagree with Ms Khan.

    She was born in Norway of an Afghan mother and a Pakistani father, and became a singer, but as such she was shunned and even persecuted by the Muslim community in Norway. Nor was she supported by white Norwegians. So she moved to London, where apparently both the Muslims and the rest of the population are more tolerant and a female Muslim singer can live happily ever after.

    And yet, she writes “We need politicians to articulate a picture of the future that includes all of us. Not British values but shared human values”.
    Tell that to the Norwegians and the various Syrians and Iraqis ! What right has a Norwegian Muslim, half Pakistani and half Afghan, to tell us to abandon the British values that drew her here in the first place ?
    Now, that part of her article is preposterous, and the Islamic Human Rights Commission is much worse.

  6. I think we have to be careful not to paint all Muslims with the same brush. When a person belongs to a minority religion and complains of bad treatment he or she just might be right. Take, for instance, the Sikh man in the United States who was killed because he was believed to be a Muslim in the aftermath to 9/11. Take, for instance, the abuse meted out to some Muslim women because they cover their hair. Or what about the boy who kept on being knocked back from job interviews until he tried changing his name from Mohammed to Michael. Prejudice still can be real, and have real consequences for innocent people who just happen to belong to a minority religious (or non religious) grouping.

    • Absolutely right, Michael. I keep telling people that not only aren’t all Muslims extremists, but we can’t afford to push them into being so, because there would be absolutely no way of handling it. Read “West Meets Islam” on amazon.co.uk (or your own country’s Amazon website) to get some idea what a young keen but moderate Muslim in London is actually thinking.

      Of course Muslims, even what we might call “harmless Muslims”, vary a lot from place to place. I might have mentioned on the subject of Deeyah Khan that (as far as I can make out) she would have no trouble being a female Muslim singer in Algeria or Turkey. If you have an internet radio, you can hear them !