TCW has pertinently commented on how the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has restricted government funding for students studying in the UK citing ‘concerns over radicalisation and tensions linked to the Muslim Brotherhood’. You can read the articles here and here.
We note that several Muslim countries – particularly Egypt and Saudi Arabia as well as the UAE – have proscribed the Muslim Brotherhood, which they identify as a terrorist organisation. Meanwhile the Brotherhood is free to go about its business in the UK for, despite many demands from across the political spectrum that it should be banned, Sir Keir Starmer has refused and instead offered only the pseudo-reassurance that the Labour government is keeping the Brotherhood ‘under very close review’.
So it appears that Muslim countries ban Muslim terrorists while fearing that their Muslim offspring studying in Britain – which boasts itself a free society, socially-democratic and secular – will be turned into terrorists at our universities.
Why do we turn a blind eye to those who wish and plan for our destruction? It’s beyond a joke. It’s not as if we are short of evidence stretching back 1,300 years . . .
Frankish leader Charles Martel defeated the Muslims in AD 732 at Tours. If that battle had been lost, all Europe would have fallen to militant Islam. In 1565 the relief of the Siege of Malta by a Christian alliance ensured that the Mediterranean did not fall into Muslim hands and so give them a toehold in southern Europe
In Malta in 1565 there was a notable confrontation. The Muslims were besieging the island and they captured and killed some of the Christian Knights of St John. Suleyman the Magnificent beheaded them and floated them across the harbour on crosses. The Grand Master of the Knights of St John, Jean Parisot de la Valette, cut off the heads of many Turkish prisoners and fired them back at the enemy like cannon balls. Gosh – whatever would the new Archbishop of Canterbury say! Six years after this, 197 ships of the Muslim fleet were destroyed by Don John of Austria at Lepanto, and the Muslim insurgency was diminished. It was at the height of the Reformation, yet Catholics and Protestants were briefly united in thanksgiving for what they saw as a divine deliverance.
Islam is a militant faith. From the start, Muslims believed in expansion by conquest. Efraim Karsh’s book Islamic Imperialism describes this policy in detail. He quotes the founder Muhammad: ‘Fight all men until they say there is no God but Allah.’
As Charles Moore has pointed out, Osama bin Laden quoted those words immediately after the attacks on the Twin Towers.
There was that other September 11 – in 1683 when Christian armies under Jan Sobieski arrived at the gates of Vienna and defeated the last substantial Muslim incursion; the last, that is, before the one which we face at present. There is no doubt that militant Islam’s aggression will have to be firmly suppressed if the character of Europe as we know it is to survive. I am not optimistic. For it looks as if the European powers cannot bring themselves to act firmly, and to the continent will most likely be dominated by the Islamic ideology within a generation, with the resulting deprivation of all our freedoms – and of course the loss of countless lives.
Unfortunately, I am not talking about a far distant future. Twenty years ago, Muslims made up 3 per cent of the population of the UK. That has since doubled and is projected to reach almost 19 per cent in the next two decades.
The character of Islam has long been understood by some of the finest minds in Europe. R G Collingwood described it as ‘a barbarism’.
Samuel Coleridge had this to say in his On the Constitution of Church and State (1830): ‘That erection of a temporal monarch under the pretence of a spiritual authority, which was not possible in Christendom but by the extinction or entrancement of the spirit of Christianity, this was effected in full by Mahomet, to the establishment of the most extensive and complete despotism that ever warred against civilisation and the interests of humanity.’
My friends and critics remind me that not all supporters of Islam are terrorists and there are plenty of good Muslims. Of course there are! There are, I dare say, even some good Christians here and there. But that is not the point. The truth is that there is a substantial Islamic movement which seeks the destruction of all those it defines as infidels. That includes us.
Professor Marcello Pera, former president of the Italian Senate, has warned that it is this extremist insurgency which has declared, preached, promised and repeated many times its intention to fight a holy war against the West.
In his lecture called Relativism, Christianity and the West, Professor Pera, said: ‘Is there a war? I answer, yes, there is a war, and I believe the responsible thing is to recognise it and to say so, regardless of whether the politically correct thing to do is to keep our mouths shut.
‘In Afghanistan, Kashmir, Chechnya, Dagestan, Ossetia, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, the Sudan, Bosnia, Kosovo, the Palestinian Territories, Egypt, Morocco and much of the Islamic and Arab world, large groups of fundamentalists, radicals, extremists – the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brothers, Islamic Jihad, the Islamic Armed Group and many more have declared a holy war on the West. This is not my imagination. It is a message they have proclaimed, written, preached, communicated and circulated in black and white. Why should I not take note of it?’
How many more warnings will it take before Sir Keir and the other Western leaders wake up to the extreme danger which threatens us all? Are we indeed going to die of wokery? After 9/11, Bali, Madrid, Paris, London, Manchester and countless other recent atrocities, why don’t we take the hint? The global jihadists are out to kill us, to finish off Western civilisation and replace it with the sordid incompetence of Wahabi-style Islam lived according to the moral wilderness of Sharia Law.
