Is our own silence dehumanising us?

The Kristallnacht lasted a single November night in 1938, while in August we had a full week of enraged volks Englanders (people of England) rampaging through long-established Muslim neighbourhoods, breaking windows, shops, and cars. [1] [2]

If the two hotels set on fire in Rotherham and Tamworth had been built to 1938 fire regulations, it is likely the death toll of 91+ Jews killed would have been far surpassed. [3]

We’re in denial of what took place

Just a month later and my sense is the Muslim community is behaving as if nothing happened.

It seems as though a collective sigh of relief has been expelled, now that the teeth-gnashing sink estate massive has been cowed into inaction by some intimidatory tough sentencing of the dangerously gullible pawns.

Meanwhile, the Machiavellian instigators — that is to say, the people who fund the likes of Farage and Robinson, who I believe are themselves just feckless pawns in the greater scheme of things — remain free to continue stoking the fires they lit.

They are at liberty to incite more division and hatred of Muslims with new phrases like “two-tier policing”. [4]

The pressure is building

The fire was lit and the pot brought to the boil; now the lid has been screwed down tight but nothing done to extinguish the fire.

Rather, it is continuing to be stoked.

Instead of seeing that for what it is — a pressure cooker bomb — and responding with appropriate urgency, the Muslim community exhibit the inaction I have sadly come to expect, repeating as if a mantra, the true but only-half-the-story phrases,

“Just make du’ā… Trust in Allah.”

Both being encouraged to be done while sitting down inactive is most definitely not in line with the Sunnah.

Perhaps the most frustrating one to hear, selectively quoting the Qur’ān as a justification to not take action,

“Allah won’t change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves.” [5]

It might come as news to some, but we never were and never will be perfect in faith or deed, striving just on our inner selves while not striving against the storm enveloping us, hoping we will reach some tipping point where Allah will do all the work for us.

This is not the Sunnah!

Da’wah is the solution, not assimilation

It’s not even hard to know what to do, so we really have no excuse for inaction.

It’s the da’wah that we should already be doing, but are not!

Putting that da’wah into context will enable people to feel comfortable with Islam and Muslims among them, which will work towards people accepting pluralism — the coexistence of different ideologies in one society.

If you need convincing that this is the solution, then you need to better understand the problem, by listening to the brainwashed and the brainwashers.

The calls for assimilation are calls for the expulsion of Islam and practising Muslims.

“Personally, I don’t have any issues about race,”

…says John Smith, a moderate West Country farmer, in his regular, usually non-political newspaper column.

“But I vehemently wish the UK’s population wasn’t rising.

“Separately, I can see that large numbers of migrants not assimilating will be a problem. You can only brush this problem under the carpet so long.”

It feels safe to say pretty much every self-proclaimed native Englander would fully agree with that and consider it utterly fair and reasonable.

Without wanting to sound ungracious, that will include many people who might have been standing on our side at a counter-protest during the riots.

But it is vital to understand that most people’s support is conditional in a way you’d uncover with a few simple questions, until…

“But, yes, of course I’d expect Muslims to assimilate if they want to live here.”

Non-Muslims just don’t have the perspective to understand that there is a mutual exclusivity that prevents someone being a Muslim and also fully assimilating into an anti-religion secular culture.

Multiculturalism has failed?

Another word for pluralism is multiculturalism.

In 2011, in his first speech as Prime Minister declaring that he would take a tougher stance against “Islamist extremism”, David Cameron declared that the “doctrine of state multiculturalism” had failed. [6]

In his deceitful parlance, he called for better integration of young Muslims.

The secularist oligarchs were infuriated that young Muslims were not turning their backs on their non-native parents’ religion. They were outraged that second and third generation Muslims had not embraced secularism.

Having primed the public to agree that it was reasonable to oppress the Muslims, Cameron’s government and Ofsted began attacking madrasas. And we saw the “Trojan Hoax” travesty in Birmingham schools. [6]

“Islamist extremism” was, of course, just the cover story. The target was Islam in its entirety.

Cameron declared that he would end “the hands-off tolerance” of those who reject Western values. And, of course, in some ways Islam has different values. Certainly better, but undeniably different. [7]

Muslims are otherised by the state

To say there is no space or way in England for those who are unassimilated is an overt call for the removal of the unassimilated from this land.

It is the exact equivalent of the dictate given to the Jews in 1880s Russia; “Convert (to the dominant belief system of the land), leave, or die”.

When “multiculturalism has failed” is uttered, everyone is primed to understand that it conveniently refers to “the Muslim problem” without now needing to mention us by name.

As a direct result, Muslims are otherised by it.

We are placed separately in people’s minds, so the usual treatment, consideration, and care that is afforded to fellow man is not afforded to the dehumanised Muslim.

Priming the public ahead of events

The graph below shows monthly Google results for the exact phrase “multiculturalism has failed” from late 2022 to last month.

Is our own silence dehumanising us? — Source: Google

As you can clearly see,

The first spike is the month before October 2023;
the second is when pro-Palestine marches were being opposed;
the third is the run-up to the general election, when Reform candidates took up the phrase;
the last spike is to the end of July, just before the recent pogrom against the unassimilated.

It is, of course, only one of many pieces of the anti-Muslim rhetoric. But it is still a useful measure.

As it tends to come before events, it appears that it is being used purposefully to prime the public.

Suella Braverman

Most prominent among the mentions in the run-up to 7 October were those from committed Zionist Suella Braverman, who reinvigorated the use of the phrase in her position as Home Secretary.

There were as many mentions in September 2023 as the previous ten years combined. Nearly all are following her speech on 26 September 2023 at the pro-Israel neocon “American Enterprise Institute” think-tank, chaired by an Israeli.

Her speech and the ensuing dehumanising media narrative came just one week after the IDF, on 19 September, circulated details of the expected Hamas attack. [8]

This meant the attack came during a time when Britons were questioning the presence of Muslims. And therefore, they would be less likely to side with them!

Jews faced the same thing in Europe

The problem we have, as I mentioned in my previous article, is the same that the Jews had in Western Europe following the French Revolution.

Secularism was used to demand an assimilation they couldn’t comply with, while remaining Jews. The issue became critical when their numbers swelled due to refugees from Eastern Europe.

The same fate could befall us, if we fail to hold our ground, and for very similar reasons.

Now the question is — following the European destabilisation of the Middle East and resulting Muslim migration into Europe — whether this secular society is willing and able to accommodate pluralism, when there is more than a very small and quiet minority of Muslims.

If it won’t, the future of Islam in Europe is under threat.

When considering the biggest of all pictures, i.e. the challenge of Iblīs to divert man away from remembrance and worship of Allah, secularism is clearly one of the cards being played.

And as if to perfectly demonstrate that point, Tory MP (and likely candidate to be elected next party leader) Robert Jenrick recently said that anyone publicly and enthusiastically shouting “Allah is great” should be “arrested immediately”. [9]

The aim is to make pluralism work

Pluralism would go against the goal of Iblīs if it allows us to remain a believing da’wah-giving minority among those already successfully led to disbelief.

The struggle of our time is to secure our footing against the forces that seek to divide us and drive Islam from Europe.

To overcome the most determined opposition, we must commit more strongly to reach out to the majority of this society.

Seriously consider the following:

If not already being held, insist that your mosque holds monthly (at least) open days.
Take part in charity work that gets us noticed and appreciated for the values in our Dīn.
Be creative and determined, like our children’s lives depend upon it — there really is truth in that.
Have someone offer to write a regular column in the local paper giving the perspective based on our values.
Reach out to all the other faith groups in the area and start dialogue on the values we share, they are also under threat from secularism.

Keep your chin up, not your head down

Keeping our heads down and hoping we’re not noticed is a failed and increasingly dangerous strategy.

The global imbalance of wealth created by European colonialism and plunder over the last 500 years means immigration to Europe will continue as surely as any osmotic force for equilibrium.

We must be prepared for increased opposition as our numbers grow, awkwardly coinciding with the decline of European opulence.

We need to challenge the baseless but heavily promoted and widely accepted narrative that we are only good citizens if we assimilate, and stake our claim as citizens as we are.

When people interact and learn the truth about Islam, they will understand that we are of benefit, not a threat.

Then, inshāAllah, the calls for assimilation and the claims — by promoters of Islamophobia — that multiculturalism has failed will fall upon deaf ears.