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Blood on Their Hands
Sadiq Khan: London mayor says terror attacks ‘part and parcel’ of living in a major city.
I grew up in England, have returned many times and watched as the town of my childhood profoundly changed. There is no doubt a vast majority of immigrants are hardworking, family-minded people of good faith. But we now have a reality that the media won’t report due to political correctness, that there are extremist Sharia no-go zones across the island country that politicians and police will not address.
Manchester is suffering tonight from the result of Islamism expanding across the country. On my last trip to Birmingham, I stopped for a pint at a local pub on the way to the airport and found myself in one such zone. I was practically escorted out as young Muslim men dressed like football hooligans eyed me with contempt. My guardian angel told me I had no business in that pub or neighborhood, that the “police won’t ‘elp you ‘ere, guv.”
As National Review’s Andrew C. McCarthy stated, “Birmingham, a city increasingly enveloped by sharia enclaves that, to varying degrees, have become “no-go zones” for non-Muslims and agents of the state, including police.”
Theresa May is up for re-election on June 8 and this act of barbarism will play a role in her campaign, as it should.
For those of us parents who have taken their teenagers to concerts just like this, we have a message for politicians across the globe; It’s time to take back the narrative from those who’s national security policy’s primary concern is Islamophobia or racism. Frankly, damn them. Their political correctness will only result in more carnage, more parents mourning, and more children dying.
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In the hierarchy of needs pyramid, one can search every portion and not find political correctness anywhere. The longer this goes on, the harder time the Muslim community will have gaining/maintaining/regaining acceptance. Survival tops everything so if people can’t sort out the good guys from the bad, they will naturally lump them all together in whatever manner assures their best chance of survival. No amount of lecturing from moral preeners will change that.
Excellent. ^
Perhaps it is time to use capitalism to full effect. If mayors of big cities insist on being this stupid – let’s refuse to attend concerts in big cities. Let’s demand that concert holders come to safe places – meaning towns whose mayors care more about the safety of their citizens than the feelings of people who claim to be more victimized than those whose limbs have been blown off or who have lost their lives. So, boycott concerts in Manchester – or in any other city whose mayor thinks that murdering innocents is “simply something we must learn to accept”. My personal response to any moslem who feels victimized is “Have you spoken out against the terrorist ideology within your religion? If not – go away and shut up until you learn what real victims are.”
You’re asking them to do more than those people on Ricochet who hide their real names in order to avoid retribution from their peers and colleagues. (FWIW, I don’t use my name as my handle, but my real name is one click away.)
Which “Muslim community” do you mean?
Unfortunately, all but the most foresighted and principled members of group 1 tacitly or actively encourage groups 2&3 because it brings them immediate benefit even though in the long run it degrades the culture they sought to join and helps the rise of the one they fled.