Slouching Toward Dhimmocracy (Part 4)
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THE SPECTATOR –Melanie Phillips: I have previously commented on the government’s craven decision to call Islamic extremism by everything except its proper name, resulting in the Home Secretary’s Orwellian description of it as ‘anti-Islamic’. Today the Guardian reports on a manual of state censorship now issued by the Home Office which enshrines this doctrine of institutionalised deception:

Reflecting the government's decision to abandon the ‘aggressive rhetoric’ of the so-called war on terror, the guide tells civil servants not to use terms such as Islamist extremism or jihadi-fundamentalist but instead to refer to violent extremism and criminal murderers or thugs to avoid any implication that there is an explicit link between Islam and terrorism. It warns those engaged in counter-terrorist work that talk of a struggle for values or a battle of ideas is often heard as a ‘confrontation/clash between civilisations/cultures’. Instead it suggests that talking about the idea of shared values works much more effectively.

It shows that the government is adopting a new sophistication in its approach to counter-terrorism, based on the realisation that it must ‘avoid implying that specific communities are to blame’ if it is to enable communities to challenge the ideas of violent extremists robustly… ‘This is not about political correctness, but effectiveness - evidence shows that people stop listening if they think you are attacking them.’

‘A new sophistication’, eh? I’d call it a new sophistry. As I recorded last year in my book Londonistan, the police have long been avoiding the I or M words, referring instead to ‘international terrorism’ among other euphemisms. Since the police themselves are in despair about the extreme paucity of information about I****** terrorism being volunteered to them from within the M***** community, the strategy would hardly seem to demonstrate ‘effectiveness’. Talking about ‘shared values’ amounts to no more than meaningless platitudes if it is forbidden to talk about the ideology which seeks to supplant them. That ideology can only be defeated if its characteristics are talked about frankly, and that cannot be done if the entire subject is prohibited. Fanaticism cannot be fought if people refuse even to name what they are fighting. Slouching towards dhimmocracy (4) >>> By Melanie Phillips

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Wouldn’t You Know? More Sensitivity Must Be Shown Towards Islamic Education!
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How much more of this damn nonsense are the long-suffering British people going to tolerate before they make a stand against this pandering by our weak and ineffectual government to the Muslim electorate? Have the British lost all their spunk, have they lost their courage, have they lost their nerve? Do the British now just tolerate every bit of nonsense thrown at them by this dhimmitudinous, appeasing excuse for a government we have in the United Kingdom today?

I tell you here and now: Time is tight if we are to be able to reverse the trend of Islamization in our nation. Before you know it, Muslims will be ruling the roost. And to think that the UK was once such a proud and strong nation!

Giving the go-ahead to Islamic schools to police themselves is as absurd as it is dangerous. We really must put a stop to this dhimmitude. We are giving our country away. The Jihad is victorious without even having to put up a fight for its victory.

Little wonder Gordon Brown wanted to get rid of Britannia on the back of the 50p piece the other day. This must all be a part of his Marxist plan to destroy the realm! It is high time that dear Gord returned to north of the border, where he belongs. Perhaps his fellow Scotsmen will be able to tame him; the English have so obviously failed to do so. - ©Mark

THE TELEGRAPH: Private Muslim schools have been given the power to police themselves, despite widespread fears over religious segregation, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

In a controversial move, they have won the right to appoint their own Ofsted-style inspectors. A new independent watchdog has been set up to be more "sensitive'' toward Islamic education.

The decision comes despite concerns some private Muslim schools are already failing to prepare pupils for life in modern Britain. 



Barry Sheerman, the chairman of the Commons schools select committee, told MPs last month local councils were finding it "difficult to know what is going on in some faith schools - particularly Muslim schools". 



But religious leaders defended the move, saying the curriculum and religious traditions in faith schools demand specialist knowledge. 



Under present legislation, most state and private schools are inspected by Ofsted, the Government's standards watchdog. The Association of Muslim Schools and the Christian Schools' Trust applied to the Government to set up a separate inspectorate for a small number of private faith schools. Muslim schools to conduct own inspections >>> By Graeme Paton, Education Editor

MELANIE PHILLIPS:
Slouching towards dhimmocracy

” Many people still think that the idea that Britain could ever be ‘Islamised’ is just too preposterous and silly to be taken seriously. It is not. It is well advanced. What it relies upon is three things: the refusal of the British public to take it seriously; the Islamists' ability to manipulate moral and intellectual liberal confusion and the resulting paralysis over ‘Islamophobia’, ‘discrimination’ and ‘minority rights’; and the craven desire by the British government to buy off the implicit and explicit threats of Muslim social unrest and yet more terrorist attacks by giving in to the Islamists’ demands. Truly moderate British Muslims who want to live under the umbrella of British laws and institutions are thus grievously undermined, and the entire country is put at ever greater peril from the pincer movement of cultural and terrorist attack.

Members of Parliament with an elementary sense of national self-preservation simply must not let this pass.” – Melanie Phillips

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