Life had barely started to normalise after the dreadful
tragedy in Manchester, we were faced with another horror in London, where
three men went on rampage killing seven and injuring dozens more. This
slaughter of innocents, who were going about their life has been condemned and
sympathies offered by all, whatever their race, religion and political
leanings. This incident has united people from all communities who showed
defiance in face of such horror and terror.
However, this condemnation is not universal and people
have tried to make capital out of the tragedy and hurt of the families
affected by this tragedy. These people neither condemned nor offered
condolences or sympathies to the families of the victims. Families who despite
loss of their precious loved ones refuse to adopt the hateful rhetoric and
appeal for unity.
We saw their beautiful and emotional tributes to their
lost family members. For example sister of James McMullen who lost his life in
the London Attack said “hatred is the refuge of small minded individuals and will only breed more. This is not the course we will follow despite our loss." Such beautiful views only get one airing during the
live broadcast. After that they are edited out by the Media like BBC, Sky etc.
The printed press does not publish such views at all.
The people who do get airing and column inches are the
one who incite and hate and divisive agenda. These people are like vultures who
feed on the human misery and excrete poisonous bile. Their poisonous rhetoric
doesn’t need any excuse as it has been going on for years. However, to make fun
of the grieving families and communities for lighting candles and standing
together is a new low even for these ultra right individuals and their
sponsors.
Their rhetoric has now got traction and support from new
faces as well as the usual quarters. The fully fledged attack on Islam and Muslims
has moved from the internet based blogs and “magazines” to the mainstream print
media. Richard Littlejoh, Rob Liddle are all writing about it. Their articles are heavy on rhetoric and full of inaccuracies and false rhetoric. They have been published in the Daily Mail, Spectator etc. some been copies and published in full on sites like exposingislam.blogspot.co.uk .
People are openly talking about internment and British Guantanamo
Bay. Even our political leaders like Theresa May are talking about removing
Human Rights, liberties, disproportionate sentences and more. Then we have the
intervention by the President of the United States criticising the Mayor of
London. This intervention is not the first one as he did the same during the
Westminster attack. As previously Trump did not offer any condolences to the
families.
The question is why the President criticise the Prime
Minister or the Mayor of London for terrorist attacks. The answer has
to be that his extraordinary attack is based solely on the religion and race of the London Mayor. The other reason may be why Trump didn’t react in same
manor to the Manchester tragedy was because he was away from his advisors like
Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka who hold neo Nazi views.
This rise of these purveyors of hate and white supremacy to
the echelons of power should worry us all whatever your race religion. Anyone
thinking that these people are simply criticising Islam should consider the
associated rhetoric. When these people and their allies like Geerat Wilders
talk about Moroccan scum and attack people on the bases of the ethnic or
nationality heritage of their citizens they are not criticising a religion or
any ideology but they are attacking wider ethnic minorities.
You expect religion based white supremacists like KKK to
have disparaging views about the non whites but when new atheist’s views merge
with such people, you know the dangers of their rhetoric. For example Sam
Harris is currently promoting work that suggests that blacks have lower
intelligence than the whites. He is not the first one to suggest such abhorrent
“science”, Richard Dawkins has also made similar comparisons that Jews and
Christians have won more Nobel prizes than Muslims. Richard Dawkins is of
course talking about white Western and not African, South American, Middle
Eastern or Asian Christians or Jews.
Then there is the role of the media and Prime time
airing of hateful views of people like Bill Maher. Here we have people like Douglas Murray of
Henry Jackson Society and the Gatestone Institute and an ally of Geerat Wilders,
who has secured a regular slot on BBC’S political and news programmes. He has
made a career out of anti Muslim/ Islam rhetoric and writings. Then we have so
called historian, Tom Holland, who is benefiting from a mixture of fiction and
work of others to call himself a historian. These people are supported by
organisations like Quilliam and so called reformer and ex Muslims, who in my
view are victims of self interest and doesn’t realise the gravity of their naivety.
We must not forget people like Paul Nuttal, who propose including
religion as aggravating factor for sexual crimes committed by minority communities
and not the majority community or child abuse by priests These people talk about culture erosion of Western culture erosion which
cant be based on 3% Muslims in the European Union or 1% Muslims in the US. It
must be based on general non white population of these countries. The previous leader of
the UKIP made it easier for people to refer to Islam and Muslims being a “Fifth
Column” midst of the Western society. Nigel Farage also has the ear of the
President of the United States.
Increasingly I am finding it difficult to ignore the rise
of the far right and neo Nazi ideology and the rise of people near to the
highest office of the Western world. I wonder if we are seeing the rise of the “Fourth
Reich”, not in Germany but all over the Western world. What gives me comfort is
that the ordinary people are not being fooled by this sinister ideology and are
rejecting the hate from all quarters.
Please read this with
the this which I wrote few days ago.
