Battle for Britain

By Bruce Bawer

Finally, the UK public explodes.

Should anyone be surprised that what has been called a “wave of violence” swept the cities of Britain this past weekend?

For years, while the mass immigration of Muslims has utterly transformed their country, the overwhelming majority of Brits have stuck to form – keeping a stiff upper lip, queuing politely for buses, and biting their tongues as they watched entire neighborhoods, such as the traditionally cockney East End of London, converted to Muslim enclaves. In the months since October 7, they sat home and sipped their tea while armies of Muslims filled their streets weekend after weekend, screaming their support for anti-Western terrorism and shouting their plans to turn Britain into an Islamic caliphate. Those decent Britishers even tended to stay quiet while the few heroic members of their race who protested these outrages – men like Tommy Robinson and Laurence Fox – were abused, insulted, and unjustly arrested by a police force that has strayed far from the civilized rules of police behavior set down two centuries ago by Sir Robert Peel and has practiced “two-tier policing” – turning a blind eye to actual Muslim violence while imprisoning ethnic Englishmen who dare to criticize that violence online.

Well, eventually something’s got to give. This weekend, according to the Guardian, “bricks were hurled at police officers in Stoke-on-Trent, fireworks were thrown amid tense exchanges between an anti-Islamic group and an anti-racism rally in Belfast, and windows of a hotel which has been used to house migrants were smashed in Hull, where three police officers were injured and four people arrested. Several officers were also injured during ‘serious disorder’ in Liverpool city centre, where bricks, bottles and a flare were thrown and one officer hit on the head with a chair. Greater Manchester police said a dispersal notice had been authorised for the city centre and scuffles broke out as opposing groups faced each other in Nottingham’s Old Market Square with bottles and other items thrown from both sides.”

The Guardian further reported that protesters in Leeds who were “carrying St George’s Cross flags” (that is, the English flag) and who were shouting “paedo Muslims off our street” – an apparent reference to the widespread Muslim “grooming gangs” who are responsible for the serial rapes of thousands of English girls and whose predations have been ignored for decades by police and other authorities – were “greatly outnumbered…by hundreds of counter-protesters shouting ‘Nazi scum off our streets.’” Does anybody believe that British streets are populated by Nazis in any kind of serious numbers? To criticize even the worst aspects of Islamic ideology and practice these days is to be an Islamophobe, a racist, and, yes, a Nazi.

The Guardian wrote that the rioters – some of them crying out “Enough is enough,” others shouting the name of anti-Islamic activist Tommy Robinson, and still others demanding “Islam out!” and saying “England until I die!” – were triggered by “the killing of three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport on Monday” that have (according to the media) been falsely attributed to an asylum seeker. You would think, from the way the Guardian covered this story, that this allegedly false attribution made all the protests illegitimate. Has everyone already forgotten the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing, which killed 22 people (most of them young) and harmed more than 800 who were attending a concert by Ariana Grande? Have the other jihadist terror attacks on Britain been dropped down the memory hole, too?

The Guardian actually turned to the vile organization Hope Not Hate, which is, roughly speaking, a UK version of the Southern Poverty Law Center, for an explanation of the violence. Hope Not Hate blamed it largely on “Elon Musk’s decision to allow rightwing activists such as Tommy Robinson back onto his social media platform X.” Some blame was also cast, unsurprisingly, on Nigel Farage, head of the Reform UK Party and a newly elected member of Parliament – one of the few members of that body to oppose the Muslim-appeasing Westminster establishment. It was interesting to note that the Guardian, which, like the rest of the mainstream British press, routinely euphemizes criminal Muslims – referring to them usually as “Asians” – felt free to use the demeaning word “yobs” to describe protesters who oppose the gradual takeover of their country by a totalitarian mindset disguised as a religion.

Julie Burchill, the veteran British columnist, contributed a clear-eyed commentary on these events to the New York Sun. “Vast levels of immigration — bringing cheap labor for the rich and decreased wages for the poor — is at the core of much of this anger,” she explained, adding that the situation “is exacerbated by the two-tier policing we have had for some time here. When non-whites riot, police tend to retreat, whereas when whites riot, police tend to charge.” Among the British elites there is endless talk of racism, but those charged with this offense tend to be working-class boys, who, although “currently the most likely to fail at school and the least likely to succeed in life,” are nonetheless “told that their skin color confers ‘privilege.’ Now they’re being told by the liberal establishment that their riots are the ‘wrong’ kind of riot — but after applauding the riots of Black Lives Matter, it’s hard to put the genie back into the bottle just because he’s paler than they would prefer.”

To understand the rage of ordinary Britons is not to defend random violence. But after everything that Islam has done to bring primitive savagery to a once-civilized country, and everything that the government and police have done to ignore it, it is rather rich to read that the country’s new prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer has “pledged his ‘full support’ for police to take action against ‘extremists’ attempting to ‘sow hate’ by intimidating communities.” Communities, by the way, is British code for Muslims. B.J. Harrington of the National Police Chiefs’ Council also accused the rioters of a lack of “respect for our communities.” In Britain these days, no crime is more verboten than failing to bow down to the “communities” – whatever the members of those communities may have said or done. “Hatred has no place in our society,” said one official. Unless, of course, it’s anti-Western hatred by Muslims.

First published in Front Page Magazine