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Census That Revealed a Troubling Future

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Ignored: Gordon Brown’s attitude to Mrs Gillian Duffy represented the political class’s attitude to voter’s reasonable concerns

Imagine yourself back in 2002. The census for England and Wales, compiled the previous year, has just come out, showing the extent to which the country has changed. You decide to extrapolate from the findings and speculate about what the next decade might bring.

“The Muslim population of Britain will double in the next ten years,” you conclude. “White Britons will become a minority in their own capital city by the end of this decade.”

How would those statements by your younger self have been greeted? The terms “alarmist” and “scaremongering” would certainly have been used, as most likely would “racist” and (though the coinage was in its infancy) “Islamophobe”. Safe to say, your extrapolations would not have been greeted warmly. Readers inclined to doubt this might recall that when the then Times journalist Anthony Browne made far less startling comments in 2002, they were denounced by then Home Secretary David Blunkett — using parliamentary privilege — as “bordering on fascism”.

Yet that widely abused younger self of 2002 would be proved utterly right. The 2011 census, published at the end of last year, revealed the following facts and more. It showed that the number of people living in England and Wales who were born overseas rose by nearly three million in the last decade alone. Only 44.9 per cent of London residents are now white British. And nearly three million people in England and Wales live in households where not one adult speaks English as their main language.

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A model of diversity

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Spectator:

19 February 2013 19:25
A muslim woman stages a protest against stoning. Other muslims say who is she and who are we to judge. Image: GettyA muslim woman stages a protest against stoning. Other muslims say who is she and who are we to judge. Image: Getty

There’s nothing quite like diversity. Take Manchester. It has a large Muslim population and a lot of gays. What could possibly go wrong?

Last week Manchester University’s Student Union played host to the ‘Global Aspirations of Women Society’. This appears to be a front group of the extremists of Hizb ut-Tahrir and therefore by no means does what it says on the tin.

Anyhow – as the university’s student newspaper puts it:

‘A speaker at a Students’ Union affiliated society workshop said that homosexuals would be executed in an ideal Islamic state, describing the practice of two men kissing as an “atrocity.”

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‘I may be killed if I write this’

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The Spectator:

Lars Hedegaard, founder of Denmark’s Free Press Society, speaks from a secret location after an attempt on his life
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The assassin came to his home dressed as a postman. When the historian and journalist Lars Hedegaard opened his front door, the man — whom Lars describes as ‘looking like a typical Muslim immigrant’ in his mid-twenties — fired straight at his head. Though Hedegaard was a yard away, the bullet narrowly missed. The mild-mannered scholar (70 years old) then punched his assailant in the head. The man dropped the gun, picked it up and fired again. The gun jammed and the man ran off. More than a week later, he has yet to be found.

Hedegaard has had to leave his home and is under police protection at an undisclosed location. A week after the attempt to murder him we manage to speak by phone.

‘We have had quite a few attempts to silence people here. [The Danish cartoonist] Kurt Westergaard was almost killed a couple of years ago by a man from Somalia who came to his house and broke into it with an axe and tried to kill him. We still have prominent politicians under police guard, the former leader of the Danish People’s Party Pia Kjærsgaard, and also the former Conservative politician Naser Khader, who is of Syrian descent, a liberal Muslim. And now me.’

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The far-left and the attempted assassination of Lars Hedegaard

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The Spectator:

 6 February 2013 15:54
Lars Hedegaard, who features on 'Hope Not Hate's' 'Top Dozen' list of anti-jihad activists. Image: GettyLars Hedegaard, who features on ‘Hope Not Hate’s’ ‘Top Dozen’ list of anti-jihad activists. Image: Getty

The participation of far-right groups in stirring up hate-crimes is rightly and often written about. Less noted is the way in which the far-left demonises figures with whom it disagrees.

A far left group called ‘Hope not Hate’ (which has previously done some good anti-BNP work) has in recent years attempted to draw their own particular political lessons from the atrocious murders committed by Anders Breivik in Norway. Among other things they have compiled a helpful list of a ‘Top Dozen players‘ in what they call their ‘Counter-Jihad Report’. Their title-line subtly uses a photograph of Breivik with his rifle alongside images of their self-selected ‘Top Dozen’ guilty men and women.

That ‘Top Dozen’ list includes the ex-leftist American conservative David Horowitz, the Dutch politician Geert Wilders and a number of bloggers. It includes Lars Hedegaard. ‘Hope not Hate’ describe him as:

‘Journalist and historian. As founder of the International Free Press Society (IFPS) he leads one of the most important international ‘counter-Jihad’ networks and has championed the cause of Dutch politician Geert Wilders.’

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Douglas Murray: Israeli attack on Iran a certainty

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H/T George Igler

FWIW, my opinion:

Iran already have several nukes they probably bought from N Korea and/or Pakistan. They are currently in the process of attempting to create the right climate that will allow them to use them with some plausible excuse to prevent international retaliation post hoc.

Hence the rash of attempted assassinations and ‘false flag ops’ from Africa to Washington.

Douglass Murray: Should Islam adapt to G.B or should England adapt to Islam

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This is one video that is part of a series. Anjem Choudary also has a segment in this series where he explains that Islam is the most persecuted religion, although he does have the good grace to say, “In England” as he wouldn’t dare say in the world or in The Middle East for example. Of course it is an utter lie that it is so persecuted in England as well, but its a more defensible lie than saying it is more persecuted than Christianity or Judaism in say, Iraq for example.

Another speaker in this series claims that Muslims in England today are the Jews of pre WW2 Germany. It would be interesting to see dole records and crime stats for Jews in Germany in the 1930s and compare. Somehow I doubt one could verify that assertion. Fortunatly for all the Muslims, none of them are asked to substantiate their claims. Murray was good enough to do so without being asked.

Douglass Murray speaks in Copenhagen

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Douglass Murray is one of my favorite contemporary speakers. If only he and Melanie Philips could somehow create a massive amount of offspring. Those offspring alone could raise the IQ of Europe by a standard deviation from the mean I suspect. Sadly, that is unlikely to happen.

There is much more on this over at Snaphanen.dk

I was told that Douglass spoke for an hour without any notes whatsoever and entertained as well as informed. I think we could use a lot more people like this.