Boring, Yadda, you speak outright bullshit to offend people.  Tsk, tsk, tsk...

Tut, tut,  such a silly judgement.   Tsk, tsk, tsk...

Frank wrote on Oct 13^th, 2025 at 1:50pm:


It sounds like that is what he wants.

Brian Ross wrote on Sep 15^th, 2013 at 5:39pm:

Frank wrote on Oct 13^th, 2025 at 1:50pm:


Whats wrong with giving a religious belief legal protection?  Christianity enjoys it in many Christian states, why not Islam?  Islam is just as majestic as Christianity.  Tsk, tsk, tsk...

Frank wrote on Oct 14^th, 2025 at 5:32am:






Edgar Vincent, the first (and, as it happens, the last) Viscount D’Abernon, once remarked that “An Englishman’s mind works best when it is almost too late.” He died in the dark days of 1941 and so did not live to observe how events seemed to corroborate his maxim.

For anyone contemplating the fate of Great Britain today, the primary question would be whether that “almost” is still justified. There are, we think, two interrelated set of problems. One is the rapid Islamification of Great Britain. The other is the triumph of political correctness, the intolerant ideology of “wokeness.” The two are interrelated because the wokeness thrives in part as an excuse for, distraction from, or lubricant of Islamification.

Currently, Muslims account for about 6.5 percent of Britain’s population. That may seem like a small number. But there are two things worth noting. First, the Muslim population is likely to double within decades, in part because of untrammeled immigration from Muslim countries, in part because of the high birth rate of Muslims in Britain.

Second, even at 6.5 percent the Muslim presence reverberates everywhere in British society. In London and many other cities Muslim women parade through the streets in burkas. There are more than 1,800 mosques across Britain. There are also more than eighty Sharia courts operating in the shadow of British law courts. “Muhammad” is far and away the most popular name for boys. More than a quarter of Muslims live in government housing. Ramadan prayers echo not only in mosques but also in such traditionally British institutions as Windsor Castle. The mayor of London is a Muslim, as is the lord mayor of Sheffield and the deputy mayor of Luton. The newly appointed British Home Secretary, in charge of immigration, policing, and national security, is Shabana Mahmood, a Muslim of Pakistani descent. Last year, J. D. Vance speculated that the United Kingdom might well be the “first Islamist country with nuclear weapons,” a contingency, he noted, that would present America with a serious national-security issue.

We have often had occasion in this space to comment on the fate of free speech in Britain. In February, a seventy-four-year-old woman was arrested for holding up a sign outside an abortion clinic. Meanwhile, Muslim rape gangs in Rotherham and elsewhere operate with virtual impunity, but displaying a Union Jack around refugees can get you arrested. Last month, the Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan was met and arrested by five armed policemen when he touched down at Heathrow. His tort? Writing three posts on the social-media platform X critical of transsexuals. He was later released with a bail condition barring him from posting on X.

As we write, U.K. police are docketing “non-crime hate incidents” even as legislation enacting a so-called banter ban is wending its way through Parliament. The practice of recording “non-crime hate incidents” was begun by the police in the early 2000s and reaffirmed in June 2023. In 2022 the London mayor’s office noted that in cases “[w]here there is no criminal offence, but the person reporting perceives that the incident was motivated wholly or partially by hostility, the incident will be recorded as a non-crime hate incident. Police officers may also identify a non-crime hate incident, even where no victim or witness has done so.” In other words, if you say something mean about somebody, prepare to have your remarks—or even just your “whole or partial” hostility—recorded and put into an official database that might then be scrutinized by prospective employers.

Who or what oversees this database? The College of Policing, a quasi-ngo that provides guidance for the police forces of England and Wales. Recording such incidents is not required by Parliament. Rather, it is part of the increasingly vast, quasi-governmental surveillance apparatus that has grown up in formerly free countries such as the United Kingdom.