Author: Dale Hurd
Publication: CBN News
Date: July 27, 2008
URL: http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/414175.aspx
Britain's top judge says the nation should
allow Islamic Sharia law. The head of the Church of England said something
similar.
Consequently, police dogs might have to wear
booties when they search Muslim homes to avoid offending Muslims who believe
dogs are unclean. And Britain's Home Secretary has decided Islamic terrorism
should be re-named "anti-Islamic activity."
In the modern British politically correct
state, multiculturalism runs amok. And the government persecutes and suppresses
British culture and tradition, while allowing hate and injustice within radical
Islam to flourish.
There is a real fear of Muslims in Britain
that is far different than in America, and the headlines here sometimes make
it look as if capitulation to Islam is inevitable.
It's somewhat astonishing that in a nation
of 60 million people, a few million Muslims could cause so much concern. Critics
of the government say that's because the nation's politically correct leaders
are still hesitant to tackle the issue head on.
The government has made so-called "hate
speech," illegal, but it also depends on who is doing the hating. When
one group of British citizens protested the Mohammed cartoons at the Danish
embassy in London in 2006, they expressed their allegiance to Osama bin Laden,
and called for beheadings and nuclear attacks against Denmark Britain and
America. Yet British police arrested no one, until there was a public uproar.
Compare that to when Britain's Channel 4 Dispatches
program exposed violent rhetoric in local mosques. British police initially
decided to charge - not the radical imams who were promoting violence and
bigotry - but the news program that did the report, for allegedly stirring
up racial hatred.
And it could be argued that Britain's commitment
to ethnic diversity cost one woman her life.
Banaz Mahmod's family tried repeatedly to
kill her because she left an arranged marriage and allegedly stained the family
honor, so Banaz recorded a video account from a hospital bed the first time
her family tried to kill her.
She also went to British police several times
asking for help. They ignored her, because police thought they should respect
"ethnic diversity" and not get involved. Banaz was finally murdered
by her father and uncle, stuffed in a suitcase and buried in a backyard.
Speaking Out
A surge in honor violence is only one result
of the government's policy of respecting ethnic diversity and bowing to Islam.
Gina Khan is a national spokeswoman against honor violence and Islamic radicalism.
She left an abusive arranged marriage, and because she speaks out against
radical Islam, she has been forced to move to a secret location.
"You're at risk, if you speak out. You
can be attacked. I'm aware of that. But there comes a time when silence becomes
a guilt, a sin," Khan said. " I spoke out because I believe that
people in the community that I moved out of are in denial about jihadism and
yet it's happening all under their noses. In fact, I think people know what's
happening and are afraid to speak out. "
When former drug dealer and now born again
Christian Paul Ray wrote in his blog that the Muslim drug gangs in his hometown
of Luton were "savages," he was arrested on suspicion of a hate
crime.
"It's ok for the Muslims to do what they're
doing, and no one arrests them, but then if we start saying and disagreeing
with what's actually happening, then we're breaching community cohesion and
we get arrested for it," he explained.
Ray fled Britain after this interview, because
of threats against his life from Muslim gangs.
Whole sections of Britain are now considered
dangerous "no-go zones" for non-Muslims.
Sally McNamara is at the Margaret Thatcher
Center for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation.
"When you have a government which is
so hampered by political correctness, that they're unwilling to assert national
values of tolerance, of rule of law, of human rights, of women's rights...
then you're creating mixed messages where you're saying the extremists can
flourish," she said.
"One of the worst things that is happening
in England is that people are being ignored," Stephen Gash said.
Gash helps lead a grassroots group called
SIOE, Stop the Islamization of Europe, which has a chapter in Britain
"They're discriminating against the majority
people in Europe now in favor of the Islamists and Muslims." he added.
"The way we're going, we're going to be taken back to the stoning age.
That's what's going to happen to this country."
But at least one study shows that most British
Muslims don't want sharia law. A lot of British Muslims came here to escape
it. Yet it might be foisted on them anyway by political leaders.
It's clear that multiculturalism and political
correctness have backfired badly. The hardcore Islamists have not been assimilated,
but the nation's confidence in democracy and Christian civilization has been
sapped, and its will to resist the cultural aggressiveness of radical Islam
has been weakened.
