Foggy Days In London Town

by Greg Strange

“I would like to see the Islamic flag fly, not only over number 10 Downing Street, but over the whole world.” --- Sheikh Oman Bakri Mohammed, one of Britain’s many outspoken Muslim radicals, in an interview with Reuters after the second wave of recent terror attacks in London.

So, if the Shiekh here ever has his way, Islamic fundamentalists will one day be striking the Union Jack and replacing it with a banner representing the forces of backwardness, ignorance and intolerance--or, as he put it, “the Islamic flag.” That’s a day most Britons should definitely dread, however unrealistic it might seem to them at the moment. On the other hand, given the concurrent decline of Christianity and the climate of extreme multiculturalism that has run wild in Britain in recent times, is it altogether implausible?

In his interview, the Sheikh went on to suggest that as long as Muslims are being killed in places like Afghanistan and Iraq, attacks on Britain might continue as, you know, a simple “cause and effect” kind of thing, not that he personally justified any of it, of course. The problem with the logic of the Shiekh and the cause-and-effect suicide-bombing drones is that most Muslims die at the hands of other Muslims, not Britons or other Westerners.

Take Afghanistan, for instance. Before the magnificently medieval Taliban were ousted, they weren’t executing non-Muslims down at the ol’ soccer-stadium-cum-death-arena, they were executing Muslims who failed to obey every Islamo-fascist stricture the Taliban cared to lay on them.

Or take Saddam Hussein as another example. He may be responsible for the deaths of more Muslims than any other man currently alive, not for the furtherance or glorification of Islam, but because of his power-mad attempts at becoming top dog on the heap of malevolent Arab despots.

But only when some Western power steps in to try and stop the madness after it begins to have its negative effects on the civilized world do the madcap imams and ayatollahs of intolerance get their beards tied up in knots. And who could blame them, really, for being so frustrated? The last seven or eight centuries of Islam haven’t exactly been a cakewalk.

Let’s just go ahead and say it. For centuries now the West has been in ascendancy and Islam has been in decline because Western ideas, culture, technology and just about anything else you can think of have proved superior when it comes to human progress. Islam went from being one of the world’s premier civilizations to perhaps being the world’s most degraded and perverse civilization, culminating in the mainstreaming and glorification of one of the most heinous human acts possible, the suicide bombing of innocents.

Under such circumstances it must be hard to be a glass-half-full kind of Muslim. It’s been a downward spiral that would make that of the most self-destructive rock star look tame by comparison. And now, Britain, which has certainly had its share of self-destructive rock stars, is paying the price.

John F. Kennedy once wrote a book called “Why England Slept.” It was an account of European events in the ’30s and how England’s unpreparedness for war actually helped lead to WWII and made it much more difficult to win after it did come. Someone could write another “Why England Slept” about England’s more recent dalliance with extreme multiculturalism which allowed Islamic fundamentalists to infiltrate the country while the happy-headed gurus of diversity and tolerance sat around congratulating themselves for their extraordinary enlightenment.

One suspects that after the events of the last few weeks, the attitude of most Britons is, if this is enlightenment, you can have it--just give us our country back. And do something about all the tinhorn, terror-inciting ayatollahs that have set up their little shops of horrors in London and elsewhere, having despicably taken advantage of British hospitality.

In other words, Britons may finally be coming around to saying, Hey, it’s the extreme multiculturalism, stupid. That’s what led to four British Muslim boys being brainwashed by Islamic fundamentalism in their own country. Somewhere along the way, some Islamo-fascists that were allowed to run wild in Britain for the sake of enlightened diversity got a hold of those boys and did a number on their heads.

They must have been convinced to forget about their own culture, British culture, and the civilizing influence it has had the world over and instead to get in touch with the close-minded ideology of their Islamic/ethnic roots where dissenters and infidels are beheaded or blown to bits by cowardly surprise attacks. They must have been encouraged to get down with that part of their heritage that keeps a huge swath of the planet locked up in poverty, backwardness and despair. Someone must have seductively intoned to them, C’mon, man, Islamic rage is all the rage here in swingin’ Londonistan.

The radical sheikhs, imams and ayatollahs -- and even the crackpot socialist mayor of London, Ken Livingstone -- love to rattle on about British troops in Iraq and/or Afghanistan being the primary cause of the terrorist strikes in Britain. But you never heard a peep out of that zoo crew when Iraq was positively overflowing with mass graves full of Muslim corpses, all put there by Saddam Hussein and his Baathist henchmen, the latter of which are now carrying on the glorious “insurgency” to try and make sure Iraq remains a Baathist-controlled charnel house forever.

Don’t buy their argument. There is no rational reason why four Muslim boys, British born and bred -- “totally aware of British life and values,“ as John Stevens, ex-Metropolitan Police chief of London, put it -- would be so upset by Britain’s ongoing contribution to the fight against the Baathist/fascist/Islmamist insurgency in Iraq’s Sunni Triangle that they would kill themselves and shred innocent fellow British citizens in the process. They were gotten to through appeals to their religion and ethnicity. It’s the extreme multiculturalism, stupid.

As multiculturalism has risen in Britain, Christianity has been on the wane, seemingly due to lack of interest. Islam is now Britain’s fastest growing religion, purely because of immigration so far, but that will change as new generations are born and raised. It is not inconceivable that Britain could be majority Muslim before the end of the century if something doesn’t change.

The amusingly ironic upshot of this would be that the extreme multiculturalists are busily and thoughtlessly painting themselves into a corner. Think about it. If one extrapolates into the future a bit, the logical conclusion of a scenario where advantage-seeking Muslims insidiously exploit the West’s obsession with extreme multiculturalism is . . . no more multiculturalism! That’s because since Islam itself has no tolerance of other viewpoints, when it becomes the majority, you can stick a fork in all the tolerance grandiloquence. It’s back to the tenth century, baby.

But who can believe that stiff-upper-lipped Britons would ever let this happen? Prior to 7/7, most of them appeared quite content to live in a country that had shrunk from the greatness of its former civilization-spreading empire to a socialistic nanny state whose leaders had become pathetic milksops to extreme multiculturalism in order to exorcise themselves of historical guilt over colonialism, etc. The empire may be dead and gone, never to return, but I daresay the vast majority of Britons will no longer be willing to let their leaders slide on the latter part of the above characterization.

They may well understand now that while London can be a foggy town, nothing gets any pea soupier than the imbroglio of Islamic fundamentalism that has been allowed to congeal in the very heart of Britain’s extreme multicultural community. On 7/7 they heard the first blast of an otherwise long silent foghorn. On 7/21 they heard the second and there will likely be more to come.

Greg Strange