My Say

Britain's first Muslim Government minister has launched a libel battle in the High Court over allegations that he organised "gangs of Asian thugs" to intimidate voters in a local election.

International Development Minister Shahid Malik is said to have "overseen and directed" up to 200 Asian Labour activists to help secure victory for a Muslim councillor, Massood Ahmed.

Mr Malik is also accused of encouraging ethnic division in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, by urging Asians to vote for "their Muslim brother" rather than according to their political opinions.

The coercement of voters in foreign countries is widespread and goes much further than this type of intimidation with grenade attacks, shootings and car bombs used to remind voters who they are required to vote for. It is fortunately not something however that happens regularly in this country - yet.

Unfortunately this type of behaviour is a by-product of the culture of those who choose to come here and settle. As our own culture, tradition and religion are slowly whittled away that of others is bought in to replace it, at the same time our right to free speech is being diluted so that we may not criticise these other religions, races and cultures without the risk of arrest.

The future of British politics at present? Bleak.

No! not the UK a real pantomime...

A PANTOMIME is helping moves towards racial integration by featuring an Asian actor in the role of Buttons in Cinderella.

The move by the artistic team at the Thwaites Empire Theatre, Ewood, Blackburn, is believed to be the first time a Muslim has performed the role in the UK.

Are these people really that out of touch?

It should be ok though, so long as Cinders isn't lynched by a mob of Muslims angered that she has chosen Prince Charming.

Mind you I wouldn't be suprised if the plot is slightly altered to allow cinders to convert to Islam, reject Prince Charming and marry buttons.

For good measure, and good old fashioned entertainment she could always have buttons stone her wicked stepsisters to death.

Prince Charming - He's behind you!

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According to todays news Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari, the leader of the Muslim Council of Britain, thinks the Government is stoking the tension between the Muslim community and the rest of the country. No it's not the constant threat of terrorist bombs, mad mullahs preaching hate against the west whilst claiming thousands of pounds in benefits, or the fact that the Muslim community deny thare is a problem - it's the government, the same government that many Muslims believe perpetrated the 7/7 bombings in London themselves.

Dr Bari believes that there is no such thing as Islamic terrorism.
"Terrorists are terrorists, they may use religion but we shouldn't say Muslim terrorists, it stigmatises the whole community"

Let's not forget these are not simply terrorists who happen to be Muslim, they are terrorists who use terror to further the cause of Islam - therefore they are Islamic Terrorists.

In Dr Bari's view, suicide bombers are victims as well as aggressors, claiming them to be vulnerable young men who "don't get enough care and love" - Not brainwashed Islamic warriors searching for paradise then?

Asked is stoning ever justified? "It depends what sort of stoning and what circumstances,"

This is the voice of moderate Islam.

In reality our culture and that of Islam do not, can not, and never will mix, and in truth Islamic leaders do not want an integrated society, just an Islamic one.

I find Dr Bari's views as leader of the MCB frightening to say the very least.

Keith vaz has attacked Gordon Brown over his 'Illegal' pledge to create 'British jobs for British workers' claiming it to be 'employment apartheid'

Surely ALL jobs created in Britain should be for British workers, this should not need saying - but illegal? it's illegal to promise British jobs for British workers?

Mr Vaz is MP for Leicester East but his attack on the Prime Minister has shown that he clearly has no interest in representing his British constituents.

Anwar Khan 24, a city high-flyer who worked on an innovative Islamic policy for a leading British insurer has brought a claim for racism against the company after being welcomed to the office as "Guantanamo detainee 948"

Mr Khan who has a first class degree in business studies, claimed he was "shocked and speechless" No - the only person shocked and speechless is me, and of course every other sensible person in this country every time we read drivel like this.

Mr Khan has also been verbally attacked a staggering two other times with the shocking comments "Hello Anwar Khan detainee 948" and "You have already served your time at Guantanamo Bay." sound's like colleagues poking fun at someone who shares an unfortunate namesake to me, we've all done it at some point and many of us will have been on the receiving end. I used to know a guy called Robin Banks who's parents must have had a cracking sense of humour I'm sure he's had much worse.

But no, Mr Khan commented "This was completely unprovoked. They have just crushed my beliefs of a cosmopolitan society, how can I work in this environment?"

Of course the liberals have now jumped on the Islamaphobia bandwagon to defend the crushed Mr Khan and all other Muslims in the UK. Lawrence Davies, a partner at the law firm Equal Justice and an expert on race discrimination cases, said yesterday: "We are getting to the stage where anyone called Mohammed is treated as a terror suspect. The ever-growing number of mistaken identity cases are based on pure prejudice, not flawed intelligence. Racism underpins all Islamophobia and nationality discrimination."

Mr Khan hasn't been treated as a terror suspect, nor has he been a victim of mistaken identity due to the fact he is a Muslim, he has been a victim of office jokes due to an unfortunate namesake.

Surely the comments made by Mr Davies are themselves prejudiced against "racist" and "prejudiced" non Muslims?

As a final thought on comments made by Mr Davies - terrorism not racism underpins Islamaphobia.

Brussels has backed Italy's decision to introduce laws making it easier to boot out "undesirable" European Union citizens.

The European Commission said premier Romano Prodi's government was within its rights to expel anyone suspected of being a "threat to public safety". Daily Mail 05/11/07

This one is really simple if it's good for the Italians it's good for us. Foreign inmates now make up 1 in 7 of the prison population in the UK costing the taxpayer £400 million a year.

As well as the financial implications we are faced with criminals receiving shorter sentences or even avoiding a custodial sentence altogether due to our already overcrowded prisons. Over the past five years the number of British inmates has risen by 10% with an 80% rise in foreign inmates.

This along with our public services who simply cannot cope with the influx is the legacy of our 'open doors' policy to immigration. Perhaps it is time to think about not just shutting the door but fitting a good lock, I know a good Polish locksmith if you are interested Mr Brown, cash only.

'Foreign-born workers are taking hundreds of thousands of jobs each year previously filled by British-born employees, Treasury figures reveal.

In the past five years the immigrant workforce has grown by almost a million, while the number of native-born workers has plummeted by around half a million.

That means immigrants have accounted not only for every additional job created but also for huge numbers of jobs which used to be done by native-born workers' Daily Mail 05/11/07

The government's incompetency in dealing with immigration beggars belief, figures are quoted and assurances made that immigrant workers are not taking British jobs, the stark reality is that we do not even have a clue how many immigrants are here let alone how many are working.

The Department for Work and Pensions meanwhile deny that the figures provided any evidence that immigrants were taking jobs from British workers. A DWP spokesman quoted "the number of people on benefits continues to fall as they take opportunity of the 660,000 job vacancies available in the economy today" or is it more likely that the figures are being shuffled and the goalposts constantly moved with people claiming unemployment benefit being moved onto income support, incapacity benefit and other schemes to keep the unemployment figures down.

We are told that we are short of skilled tradesmen yet we no longer teach woodwork or metalwork in school is it any wonder why we are suffering in the long term, let's use our common sense and go back to basics in our schools, if we do not address the problem now we face an even bigger problem in the future, we cannot possibly import labour indefinitely. Lets get the unemployed into training and back into work.

The import of skilled labour from abroad also impacts on training and education opportunities available to British born people, a good example being my wife. I earn a good income with my wife working part time and bringing up our two children, my wife wants desperately to get back into full time education and pursue a career, for her to do so would put an unbearable strain on the household. Due to my income no state funding is available, child care costs are horrendous, then of course the course fees themselves to pay. I am sure many thousands of people are in the same situation, unfortunately none of this impacts on the economy, why? the simple reason is if we are not training enough professionals we simply import them from abroad there is no necessity for us to train our own.

What Britain needs is more common sense and less immigration.

Nigel Hastilow has apparently been forced to resign tonight as Conservative party parliamentary candidate after declaring that Enoch Powell was "right" when he gave his anti-immigration "Rivers of Blood" speech.

Mr Hastilow wrote:

"Many insist: 'Enoch Powell was right' warning that uncontrolled immigration would change our country irrevocably. He was right. It has changed dramatically."

He also wrote: "They have more or less given up complaining about the way we roll out the red carpet for foreigners while leaving the locals to fend for themselves."

Isn't this what we are all thinking? Is it now racist to state an absolute fact, uncontrolled immigration has changed our country dramatically, Enoch Powell was right - fact pure and simple.

Yet another attack on free speech and a continuing decline of British politics, say what we want you to say - not what you think, and for God's sake dont offend any minorities!

I read with great interest an article regarding Dr James Watson a Nobel prize winner and the latest victim of politically correct Britain. Dr Watson believes rightly or wrongly that Africans are genetically less intelligent than Whites, this apparently is 'beyond the point of acceptable debate' Acceptable to whom exactly? are we at the point where we can no longer debate or discuss anything that may offend someone somewhere.

Perhaps instead of discussing anything to do with race or religion we should censor free speech so that in public or print only praise can be given to any minority group that may be offended by purportedly 'racist' comments, if for example the Muslim community are to have their way which given time they surely will, our rights to free speech regarding Islam will undoubtedly be curtailed, under sharia law for example, which is gaining an increasing foothold in parts of Britain as an alternative to English criminal law, criticising Islam is punishable by death as is adultery with the unfortunate woman being stoned to death.

This government is always over-receptive to calls from ethnic and religious minorities to take their customs, traditions and sensitivities into account over a range of activities, often to the detriment of our own, a recent example being a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research, a labour 'think tank' which has called for Christmas to be 'downgraded' in a bid to improve race relations. the report goes on to say "Even-handedness dictates that we provide public recognition to minority cultures and traditions" the report also calls for action to "ensure access" for ethnic minorities to the "largely white" countryside, quite how you would go about ensuring this access or why it is needed is quite frankly beyond me.

In an attempt to placate these minorities, and deflect accusations of racism or religious discrimination, the government agrees to demands which it should be robustly resisting.

My point simply is this - once we take away the right of free speech, the right to criticise other people, cultures and religions, once we start to 'downgrade' our own culture, religion and values in favour of those of minority groups we are walking a very dangerous path indeed.