The Daily Mail's Richard Littlejohn looks at one of the consequences of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in his usual no-nonsense, non-PC style. Just bloody saying it as it is, as usual.
(WARNING: Do not read if you love the Muslims)....
This is how freedom is killed off. Little by little, piece by piece: LITTLEJOHN on how the State will cede yet more ground to terrorists in the wake of the Paris massacre
Islam is just one of the New Establishment’s favoured client groups. Exciting ‘hate crime’ laws have been invented to grant them special privileges and punish their critics. So mad mullahs in Midlands madrassas can call for homosexuals to be stoned to death. But a Christian preacher who objects to gay marriage can expect to be arrested and given a criminal record.
Irish comedian Dave Allen (pictured) poked merciless fun at nuns and the priesthood, who were portrayed as hypocrites and sadists. Yet he was highly regarded in Britain
Authorities are going soft on the preachers of hate condoning terrorism and acting as recruiting sergeants for Al Qaeda and ISIS (pictured)
This year we will be celebrating the 800th birthday of Magna Carta
(WARNING: Do not read if you love the Muslims)....
This is how freedom is killed off. Little by little, piece by piece: LITTLEJOHN on how the State will cede yet more ground to terrorists in the wake of the Paris massacre
Over the Christmas holiday, the BBC broadcast a tribute to that brilliant comedian Dave Allen, who died almost ten years ago.
Much of Allen’s shtick revolved around his Irish Catholic upbringing. He poked merciless fun at nuns and the priesthood, who were portrayed as hypocrites and sadists.
At the height of his fame in the Seventies, he outraged the Vatican by performing a sketch in which he played the Pope, dancing a striptease with a group of cardinals down the steps of St Peter’s.
His lampooning of Catholicism even incited death threats from the IRA and for a while he was banned by the Irish state broadcaster RTE.
Despite the complaints and controversy, the various incarnations of the Dave Allen Show were a staple of the BBC schedules for 22 years, from 1968 to 1990.
Islam is just one of the New Establishment’s favoured client groups. Exciting ‘hate crime’ laws have been invented to grant them special privileges and punish their critics. So mad mullahs in Midlands madrassas can call for homosexuals to be stoned to death. But a Christian preacher who objects to gay marriage can expect to be arrested and given a criminal record.
The recent celebration of his work showcased many of those sacrilegious sketches. In fact, the clue was in the title: ‘Dave Allen - God’s Own Comedian.’ You can still catch it on iPlayer until the end of the month.
Now try to imagine the modern BBC broadcasting a series by a comic billed as ‘Allah’s Own Comedian’, which satirised Islam and featured the Prophet Mohammed doing the Full Monty, surrounded by imams peeling off their holy robes.
If a producer even dared to pitch that idea to his commissioning editors, they wouldn’t only turn it down flat, they’d probably call the police.
This isn’t just about the BBC, however. When it comes to appeasing militant Islam, my own trade is equally culpable.
So is the entire apparatus of the State. We p ussy-foot around anything which may cause offence to Muslims, partly out of good manners but primarily because we are worried about the potential backlash.
The reason most of the media in the Western world steered clear of republishing the Danish cartoons of Mohammed wasn’t because they were not newsworthy but because of fears that men in balaclavas with machine-guns might march into the front office and start firing at random.
That nightmare became horrible reality in Paris on Wednesday, when Islamist terrorists massacred staff at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
At this point, it is customary to insert a paragraph stressing that the vast majority of peace-loving Muslims in Britain and across the world abhor violence committed in the name of their faith - not because we’re scared of causing offence, but because it happens to be true.
However, there is a ‘vast minority’ of the Islamic community in Britain that not only refuses to condemn the jihadists but actively cheers them on.
I’m not just talking about the usual suspects such as the risible Ram Jam Choudary. Or the self-appointed Muslim ‘spokesmen’ operating out of a bedsit above a kebab shop, who the rolling news channels keep on speed dial to blame ‘Islamophobia’ and ‘Western aggression’ every time one of their brainwashed, co-religionist nut-jobs commits another atrocity.
According to the most recent figures, there are at least 125,000 people in Britain logging on to jihadist websites such as the Al Qaeda magazine ‘Inspire’, which regularly calls for the murder of filthy infidels and recently put Charlie Hebdo on their hit-list.
If you think the cartoons of Mohammed are offensive, you should see the vile images and caricatures of Jews which appear on websites aimed at impressionable young Muslims in Britain.
The iPlod spend their days trawling Twitter looking for some gormless loser they can nick for making ‘inappropriate’ comments, but these hate-filled Islamist websites, complete with handy bomb-making instructions and exhortations to murder, manage to slip through the net.
I’ve frequently praised the tireless work of the anti-terrorist squad and the security services in thwarting the kind of horrific attack we saw in Paris this week.
But it’s the schizophrenic attitude of the authorities which concerns me.
On the one hand, they’re intercepting Islamist fanatics plotting murder and mayhem. But on the other, they’re going soft on the preachers of hate condoning terrorism and acting as recruiting sergeants for Al Qaeda and ISIS.
Just look at the way in which the maniacs who marched through London carrying banners demanding the beheading of all those who ‘insult Islam’ escaped arrest. So did the disgusting mob who burned poppies on Remembrance Day.
Yet anyone who voices the mildest criticism of Islam in public can expect to have his collar felt in double-quick time.
In a way, it’s not entirely the fault of the police. They are only obeying orders, that weasel excuse of the subordinate which echoes down the ages.
The moral framework and laws that guide their actions have been created by our ‘liberal’ political class.
Islam is just one of the New Establishment’s favoured client groups. Exciting ‘hate crime’ laws have been invented to grant them special privileges and punish their critics.
So mad mullahs in Midlands madrassas can call for homosexuals to be stoned to death. But a Christian preacher who objects to gay marriage can expect to be arrested and given a criminal record.
We have also created a ‘victim’ culture, which allows minority groups to justify any kind of bad behaviour on the grounds that they are being oppressed.
You didn’t have to look far yesterday to find allegedly ‘respected’ voices prepared to blame the staff of Charlie Hebdo for bringing the wrath of the Islamists down on themselves. They shouldn’t have been so ‘provocative’.
Sky News gave house-room to one of the Islamist apologists from central casting who — while condemning the Paris massacre, natch — then went on to claim that Muslims in Britain were treated like blacks in Thirties America.
Oh, for heaven’s sake.
We’re celebrating 800 years of Magna Carta, which may not have mentioned free speech specifically but laid the foundations for the liberties we are supposed to enjoy today - the idea that no one is above the law and we should be spared the excesses of an overbearing state.
Yet free speech is being eroded in the name of ‘celebrating diversity’ and the overbearing state is on the march, often under the guise of keeping us ‘safe’.
"Free speech is being eroded in the name of ‘celebrating diversity’"
You may not like to hear this, but the Paris massacre is another victory for the terrorists. Ever since 9/11, the State has seized upon ‘security’ as an excuse to accrue more powers and impede our liberty.
This is much bigger than the current argument about free speech, even though in a truly democratic society the right to take offence must co-exist with the right to cause offence.
There’s talk about a ‘war on terror’ when really we should be discussing the war on Western civilisation being waged by medieval madmen in the name of Islam.
This year we will be celebrating the 800th birthday of Magna Carta
The politicians posture and say the men of violence can’t win. But they are winning - in Africa, in the Middle East, in Pakistan.
They have set their sights on extending their bloodthirsty caliphate throughout Europe and even though they have no prospect of immediate triumph, they’re in it for the long run.
In return, the West wrings its hands and offers knee-jerk assurances that this butchery is nothing to do with Islam.
Every time there’s another atrocity, the authorities cede more ground to the terrorists. After 9/11 it was by criminalising airline passengers. After the recent Toronto parliament killings, it was relocating guardsmen behind the gates.
In the Seventies, the State responded to IRA bombings by removing all the litter bins from railway stations. Most of them have never been put back.
After Paris, who knows what they’ll come up with. But, rest assured, they’ll think of something. This is how freedom dies. Little by little, piece by piece.
Today, there’s outrage and introspection, just as there has been in the wake of every other major terrorist incident.
After a week or two, it will all be forgotten and we can get back to squabbling about Ched Evans or which party is to blame for Mr Bert Jones’s lumbago operation being cancelled.
Meanwhile, our enemies bide their time and another notch of the ratchet moves inexorably in their favour.
As I wrote after the murder in Woolwich of soldier Lee Rigby: we’ve been here before and we’ll be here again.
Be safe. And, as Dave Allen used to say: May your God go with you.
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