Did you take part in any of the mysterious commemorations last weekend? The newspapers were full of it – something called 7/7, apparently. I read a long report on the BBC’s website about this tragedy but remained entirely unclear as to who killed the people on those trains and bus. The report said ‘bombs were detonated’ on the Tube, as if the bombs – anxious to fulfil their purpose in life – had blown themselves up, without the aid of any external agency. Nowhere in the report did it mention who brought the bombs down from Yorkshire and then set them off. Nowhere in the entire article were the words ‘Islam’ or ‘Islamist’ or even ‘Muslim’ mentioned, nor even the names of the murderers. It was as if they were coincidental to the atrocity, and not worthy of consideration. Mind you, a day later there was a piece explaining how 7/7 had changed the lives of British Muslims and had made them less trustful of the white community.
The way we have dealt with the bombings is effectively to deny that they happened at all
At the time of those bomb attacks in London there were 1.8 million Muslims in the UK. Twenty years later that figure has more than doubled, and it will double again before the end of this paragraph, most likely. We might assume that the proportion of Muslims who want us dead has remained roughly the same over the past 20 years, so there are now more than double the number of semi-literate, virgin-obsessed potential murderers among our midst, which I would argue is a counter-intuitive response on our part to 7/7. But then if you insist, against all the evidence to the contrary, that Islam is irrelevant when considering who wants to blow us up, then it is not much of a surprise.
Since 2005 the number of murderous Islamic terror attacks has ramped up a bit, with more than 40 people killed and hundreds injured. Because the authorities have swallowed the post-rational narrative that it is nothing to do with Islam, the numbers maimed and murdered will continue to rise and so, consequentially, will the number of news pieces on the BBC telling us how fearful Muslims have become of late. Indeed, our Establishment has become so wedded to the narrative that no terrorist attack has anything to do with Islam or Muslims – no matter how many times the murderers themselves beg to differ – that it has even dreamed up legislation banning people from linking the two.
This delusional state of mind is part of Labour policy and is detailed in full in its web page of official advice for local parties, under the heading ‘Labour’s Islamophobia Policy’. It states that this horrible, wicked thing, Islamophobia, can be occasioned by ‘suggesting that Muslims, individually or as a group in British society, pose a threat to British or European society, civilisation or values, for example, by claiming that Muslims are a demographic threat to British people, by claiming that Muslims are taking over British society or civic or political institutions through their presence in the same, or by catastrophising immigration from Muslim majority countries’.
The way we have dealt with 7/7, then, is effectively to deny that it happened at all – OK, some bombs went off and all those people were killed, but there was no rhyme or reason to the bombing and the fact that the bombers were all Muslims is simply a coincidence, so we may as well just get on with our lives because there is nothing that can be done about it. And as soon as you begin to suggest what might be done about it, the charge of Islamophobia will be brought down upon you. It is Islamophobic to suggest that a great many terrorist attacks, here and elsewhere, are carried out by Muslims, just as it is Islamophobic to suggest that Muslim men may be proportionally more likely to be involved in grooming gangs that rape young white girls, despite the fact that the truth, in both cases, tells you the complete opposite. This is why those grooming gangs were not apprehended earlier, of course – why they are still continuing today, in fact.
I suspect it is the sign of a society in rapid decline for it to begin dreaming up legislation to deny patent realities – and our society has been doing this an awful lot these past 20-odd years. It did so most obviously in the case of transgenderism, by insisting that someone who had surgery in order to more closely resemble a member of the opposite sex actually is a member of the opposite sex and there’s an end to it. Those important facts about testosterone and chromosomes, musculature and heart capacity were of no account. It did this in order to protect its absurd dictum that everybody can be exactly what they want to be, as well as to wage war against what it considers the conservative heteronormative community, i.e. about 96 per cent of the country.
It has denied reality with Islam in order to preserve its commitment to multiculturalism as well as insisting that no culture is inherently better than another. Further, because the majority of Muslims are what we might call not-white, rather than white, they are therefore oppressed and thus deserving of preferential treatment: their culture must be protected.
There is a similar denial of reality on the left when it comes to refugees. It does not matter that our country is crowded and our infrastructure tottering; it does not matter that we have crises in our housing sector, health service and schools. Because the refugees are something called ‘human beings’, they must be allowed in and afforded every financial benefit they can get their hands on. The left knows that this is financially ruinous, but it does not care. It does not even attempt to engage with the problem. And so we are fighting a cultural battle which we cannot win, because the other side has decided that truth does not matter.
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