Slouching towards dhimmocracy (3)

In other words, it proves the truth of the Bishop’s remarks in a hideously graphic way. His point was further amplified by an item in the East London Advertiser which reported:

The Holocaust Memorial Day marking the genocides of the 20th century was marred on Sunday when a gang of youths stoned Jewish tourists on a guided tour of London's East End. A group of 96 visitors looking at sites of Jewish interest were attacked by youths hiding behind a fence in a back street in Whitechapel. Two were struck by the missiles, an American woman just starting a new post at London's Metropolitan University and a Canadian lecturer. The woman had blood pouring from her head and needed hospital treatment.

The tour was organised by leading local historian Clive Bettington, who was later asked by police if he wanted officers to accompany him in future, but declined. ‘That would be admitting there are “no go” areas,’ he said. An eye-witness said: ‘Stones started to come down on us and some in the group were scared and ducked. I looked over the fence and saw four Asian youths throwing stones. They were laughing, then ran away.’ Tower Hamlets' newly-appointed senior police officer responsible for youth involvement, Ins. Paul Sloan, is treating the incident as ‘an anti-Semitic attack and as a “race hate” crime. [He said:] ‘We might accompany them in future. That's one of the tactics we would employ, but that's not routine.’

In other words, east London is now a no-go area for people identifiable as Jews involved in an act of Jewish remembrance. What’s even worse than these developments is the reaction of the British government and establishment in refusing to acknowledge what is happening. When Bishop Michael made his carefully considered remarks, he was disowned by his own church leadership, MPs and government ministers, all of whom said they ‘did not recognise’ the situation he was describing. Now that he himself has shockingly become a victim of the no-go area of the mind that Islamism is creating in Britain, the government still refuses to support him publicly and denounce this appalling descent of Britain into religious intimidation. According to the Sunday Telegraph, while the Islamist Muslim Council of Britain had the wit to say that the threats to the Bishop were ‘totally unacceptable’,

Hazel Blears, the Communities Secretary, who attacked the bishop for his remarks, declined to comment.

But there’s worse — far worse. Last summer, it was revealed that welfare benefits were being paid to the multiple polygamous wives of British Muslim men. The government set up a review to establish whether or not the state should continue to pay out income support, jobseeker's allowance and housing and council tax benefits to ‘extra’ spouses. Today the Sunday Telegraph reported that, yes, this practice now has the government’s official blessing.

Even though bigamy is a crime in Britain, the decision by ministers means that polygamous marriages can now be recognised formally by the state, so long as the weddings took place in countries where the arrangement is legal.

This is a truly lamentable development in Britain’s seemingly inexorable embrace of Islamisation. Monogamy is a bedrock value of British society and western civilisation. It underpins individual autonomy, the rights and dignity of women and, further down the line, liberalism, capitalism and democracy. By not only turning a blind eye to but actually incentivising and rewarding polygamy, the government does three things. It abandons Muslim women to lives of servitude and oppression and thus treats them as second class citizens not entitled to the protection of their human rights granted to everyone else. It bestows official blessing upon the development of a parallel separate Islamic jurisdiction in Britain, thus hastening the Balkanisation of Britain and the development of an Islamic state within a state. And it effectively waves the white flag of surrender to the radical Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood, whose stated strategy is to Islamise Britain by first establishing separate development for Muslims and then using that as a springboard to Islamise the country. A nation that does not even insist that its own rule of law must apply to all its citizens without exception is well on the way to cultural suicide.

 

But then as a devastating report by the Centre for Social Cohesion makes all too clear, much of the British governing class is indeed abandoning women from various Middle Eastern and South Asian communities to extreme and appalling sexual ‘honour’ violence through both a craven and pusillanimous refusal to do much about it — and, perhaps most frightening of all, the infiltration of the police by the very attitudes that are the cause of the violence.

Several women’s groups, particularly in the Midlands and northern England, say they are often reluctant to go to the police with women who have ran away to escape violence because they cannot trust Asian police officers. Zalikha Ahmed, director of the Apna Haq refuge, says: “We have to be careful with them especially the Asian ones. We don’t visit the station when certain Asian officers are on because some of them are perpetrators, and one of them on record said that he would not arrest someone who used force on his wife. Some of them would just expose us for what we do.” Another worker in a women’s group in the North, who requested anonymity for safety reasons, said: “We had instances when a [Asian] chief inspector offered his help to a family by tracking a girl down – we were appalled.” According to some women’s groups such problems appear to be practically common in the West Midlands police force...

Women’s groups have reported that many senior Asian policemen and councillors openly put their loyalty to their culture, community and religion before their loyalty to the rule of law. Informal nationwide networks of taxi drivers, community elders and religious groups now exist to co-operate to track down and punish, with death if necessary, those who break community traditions and offend their religious codes. High profile Islamic organisations have repeatedly tried to block attempts by the government, the police and the judiciary to tackle the violent abuse of women by arguing that the community will feel ‘victimised’ by any laws aimed to halt the violence. Elected officials – of all ethnicities – have sought to block the activities of women’s groups for fear of offending Asian voters. Most troubling of all, perhaps, is the increasingly widespread belief that where religious and cultural practices conflict with British laws, traditions should take priority.

 

It must be added that the report also states that individual police officers have gone to great lengths to protect women who are at risk and to prosecute the perpetrators of the violence against them. The police have also dramatically escalated their attempts to deal with these offences of sexual ‘honour’. In addition, Muslims themselves are starting to rise up against these practices. These are positive developments. However, such fragile moves towards reform are grievously undermined by the government’s policy of appeasing Islamism by giving in to its demands — a policy whose ultimate destination, willed or not, is nothing less than the dismemberment of British society.