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Over the Rainbow

From multicultural London, more fun with the internal contradictions of “diversity”:

A Muslim fanatic who posted homophobic stickers declaring London’s East End a “gay free zone” has been fined £100.

Mohammed Hasnath, 18, posted stickers warning gays that homosexuality was wrong and that “Allah is severe in punishment”.

The stickers showed a rainbow flag with a black line through it stating “Gay free zone”.

Even converted into increasingly worthless Obamabucks, 100 quid isn’t a lot of money and, given that young Mohammed is unemployed and living on welfare, it will in any case be picked up by British taxpayers. It’s interesting to contrast the derisory fine meted out to Mo with the years of legal harassment and six- and seven-figure legal bills inflicted upon Geert Wilders, Lars Hedegaard, Ezra Levant, and other notorious “Islamophobes.”

One is also struck by the way that, other than Mohammed, everyone quoted in this story sounds like a pansy. I don’t mean in the orientational sense but in the squishy anguished liberal one, including the judge and the police (“I felt upset and offended”). By contrast, young Mo seems very matter-of-fact about the whole business (“it just says what God says in the Koran”). Then there’s this:

In a statement read to the court Jack Gilbert, a board member of the Sandy Row Synagogue and co chair of the Rainbow Hamlets community forum, said: “For me I read this no differently from a sign that said ‘Jew free zone’.

“When I see that sticker I see the signs my mother saw in the 1930s which actually carried less suggestion of punishment.

“For me I perceived an immediate threat of violence and had to make an instant risk assessment to my personal safety.”

But why dredge up ancient history from distant lands? In your own London borough in the 21st century, Jews are taunted with “If you go any further, you’ll die” and get pelted with stones on Holocaust Memorial Day.

Regardless of whether the East End is de jure a “gay-free zone” or “Jew-free zone,” its dominant Muslim population regards it as part of dar al-Islam and that means that, however many £100 fines you add to the British welfare budget, it will not de facto be a place where gays or Jews or uncovered women pass freely.

Mohammed lives off “state benefits.” What benefit is it to the British state to import the Hasnath family to the United Kingdom? Even supposing there were an “economic” argument for mass Muslim immigration, as we see in East London (and elsewhere) culture trumps economics.

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   06/02/11 13:02

Mohammed could perhaps have even avoided the £100 fine by claiming his "sticker was hacked."

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   06/02/11 13:12

To paraphrase Derb: Better to be dead than rude...or so the thinking goes.

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   06/02/11 13:16

I used to be comforted by the belief that, eventually, the diversity-mongers would team up with us against the anti-woman anti-gay islamofascists so we could get back to our regularly-scheduled (re)programming. However, it has become increasingly obvious who has the upper hand in the fight between my adversaries and my enemies.

I guess that is what happens when moral relativism goes up against (im)moral absolutism.

The question I have is, if my side has both strong, grounded convictions and the advantages of the enlightenment, why is it losing to both of these teams?

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   06/02/11 13:21

James Burnham's 1985 book, The Suicide of the West, was well chosen.

This once-slow, now accelerating process will continue until all Progressives in all westernized countries are driven from public influence in every area of the culture - not just politics, but education and major media as well.

How? Make them pay the consequences personally of their ideas, along with everyone else. At the same time, keep publicizing the alternatives in both theory and history. Make it a moral crusade, not just an issue of cost-benefit economics.

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mike harris
   06/02/11 13:40

Contrast this with the couple in Fleetwood (Lancashire). They were at a meeting about the forthcoming garden party at which they suggested it would be unwise to have a gay as the leader of their committee. That Friday evening 2 policemen turned up at their modest little house and ARRESTED them! They spent a weekend in the cells, no doubt with obnoxious Lancashire drunkards.Justice was served-no mercy!

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   06/02/11 13:49

@mitchbaker

Quick answer to your question: human nature.

Morality, civilization, freedom, prosperity: they are all very fragile and rare events in human history. They are a gift from Above. They take a lot of work, perspective and wisdom to maintain.

I am not surprized that evil, greed and absolutism have an easier time surviving.

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hitnrun
   06/02/11 14:00

If one were a neutral third party culture - say, China or Inuit - one would be inclined to admire the forthrightness of the Muslims in contrast to the qualifying appeasers of the West.

Once again, we see the conceptual limits of liberalism and multiculturalism when moved from a vague ideal to implemented policy. After all, isn't Mo just properly practicing his religion? Aren't the western objections to this - or any - principle of Islam really just an up-to-date version of a colonialist mentality? Isn't the antiquated idea that Mo's rights end when they infringe on others' merely the latest hegemonic imposition of white culture?

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   06/02/11 14:07

If the issue is sensitivity to gays, isn't it appropriate that everyone in the case "sounds like a pansy"? =)

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   06/02/11 14:40

I'm not sure which is more shocking. The lack of understanding that Free Speech should be just that or whether gay bashing (or any other bashing) is so common place.

They came for my neighbors brother and I said nothing. They came for my neighbor and I said nothing. They came for me?

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Hank Schwaeble
   06/02/11 15:27

If you're wondering why he was so "matter-of-fact" about the whole thing, it could be because he was playing with house money: "Hasnath, who lives with his family in Tower Hamlets and SURVIVES ON JOB SEEKERS ALLOWANCE, was fined £100, ordered to pay £85 costs and a £15 victim surcharge"

In other words, the punishment is that he gets to keep a little less of the taxpayer money he gets. For one month, that is.

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Don Sharpe
   06/03/11 11:57

@Cactus Bill "They came for my neighbor's brother . .." so I kicked their ass!
Each one of us has to fight islam every day, in whatever way we can, so that when the rest of Western Civilization finally wakes up, we can point the way to the solution to this ideological cancer.

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Mario Smario
   06/03/11 12:06

Mo's protest was peaceful; the state's interference was ruthless and authoritarian. In case it matters, I'm a gay American.

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David, Thailand
   06/03/11 23:06

Our glorious leaders have given away the country to demonstrate how tolerant they are.

Future generations will scratch their heads in disbelief, that the most advanced civilisation in history so wilfully capitulated to the most backward.

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