SO FAREWELL then, Chief Constable Craig Guildford, slithering off meekly into shameful early retirement. Enjoy counting your 30 pieces of pension silver.
I doubt that Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans will care much after Guildford banned them from attending a Europa Cup match against Aston Villa. Actually, they should have a whip-round for the bloke, because I can’t find flights/connections that take less than 15 hours each way and don’t cost a week’s wage. For a grotty November night in Birmingham? When your team lost 2-0? A result for the fans, I’d say.
It is all, however, a convenient distraction from both the real villains and bigger scandals in play.
This shouldn’t be about Guildford’s craven deceptions or any hint of police anti-Semitism, because the bigger villain by far is West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner Simon Foster. A Jeremy Corbyn supporter, Foster appointed Guildford in the first place and his biggest accomplishment may have been concealing the man’s shortcomings for as long as he did.
It’s Foster who should be stretched out on Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s rack, explaining why the chief executive of Birmingham’s radical Green Lane Mosque was part of a panel that hired Guildford.
Any Chief Rabbis on that selection panel? Catholic Bishops? You can’t imagine so, but Foster is keeping those cards very close to his chest, as indeed he is about his promise in early 2023 of ‘generic support’ for any Green Lane Mosque funding applications – a year in which it pocketed £2.2million in public grants.
Nice work if you can get it. All that lovely lolly and the puppet of a PCC dancing on the end of your string to boot!
What troubles me most about this is the civic gravitas bestowed upon Green Lane of all the dozens of mosques in and around Birmingham. I recently saw a YouTube video from that establishment, in August of that enriching year of 2023. Imam Shaykh Zakaullah Saleem was lecturing his followers about the sharia law’s instructions on how men should stone a woman to death.
‘They should be buried waist deep to protect their modesty,’ he explained patiently, like a vet discussing a sedative for your poor old mutt whose back legs have gone.
Modesty, huh? Because that really matters when a frenzied crowd of zealots are going to pelt a terrified woman’s head with rocks.
But Saleem wasn’t some radical Iraqi or Pakistani guest speaker. Oh no. He is Green Lane’s long-serving chief imam and ‘head of education’. Still.
To be fair, the clip didn’t make clear what the woman’s capital sin might have been. Burning hubby’s naan bread? Over-spicing his curry? Or more grievously, leaving the house unaccompanied or not wearing her niqab?
Or maybe this was referencing a teenage girl getting too westernised and trying on make-up? I read just last week about one such girl being drowned by her father and brothers for exactly that. Not in a third-world cultural cesspit, but today’s ‘enlightened’ Netherlands.
Beats being buried up to your waist and stoned to death, I suppose. Either way don’t expect to read about it in the Guardian.
British governments, police forces and local authorities – of all political affiliations – will not risk offending a single Muslim for fear of losing votes they’ve never controlled anyway.
We live in an increasingly alarming world, no doubt. From Iran to Venezuela to Ukraine and Moscow, there’s no shortage of nerve-shredding threats on the global horizon.
But Putin isn’t nuking London any time soon; the EU will continue to mock, ridicule and pick Starmer’s pocket; Trump has already dismissed the UK as an irrelevance.
And still this witless, ruinous Labour government will stagger on, sowing division, throwing its desperate U-turns and taking a knee at every possible turn to Islam. As would Badenoch. And Farage, building up his Muslim inner circle as fast as he can find desperate political deserters, watering down Reform UK by the day.
The United Arab Emirates is refusing to fund students coming to British universities for fear they will be radicalised by the extremist Muslim Brotherhood. It’s a proscribed terror organisation in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Bahrain, even Russia. But not in Britain.
The Brotherhood’s mission is to establish a global caliphate, submission by surrender or by force. To see how that manifests itself, just consider Hamas, its Palestinian offshoot. A two-state Palestinian solution? Almost the entire Middle East would support that, but not Hamas. Never. Because they share the same apparent seventh century Sharia ‘values’ as the Green Lane Mosque.
Good luck trying to explain that to the woke, retired middle-class teachers and pink-haired uglies marching in their thousands with their Free Palestine banners.
We have enemies aplenty, both afar and seething at our borders. But the real enemies, my friends, are most definitely within.
