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A jihad against women
Slate.com via National Post ^ | 2007-07-04 | Christopher Hitchens

Posted on 07/04/2007 7:39:33 PM PDT by Clive

Why on earth do people keep saying, "There but for the grace of God ?"? If matters had been very slightly different over the past weekend, the streets of London and the airport check-in area in Glasgow, Scotland, would have been strewn with charred body parts. And this would have been, according to the would-be perpetrators, because of the grace of God. Whatever our own private theology or theodicy, we might at least agree to take this vile belief seriously.

Instead, almost every other conceivable explanation was canvassed. The June 30 New York Times report managed to quote three people, one of whom attributed the aborted atrocity in London to Tony Blair's foreign policy; one of whom (a New Zealand diplomat, at that) felt "surprisingly all right about it"; and one of whom, described as "a Briton of Indian descent," was worried that "if I walk up that road, they're going to suspect me."

The "they" in this sentence was clearly the British authorities, rather than the Muslim gangsters who have declared open season on all Hindus as well as all Jews, Christians, secularists and other kuffar, or infidel filth.

On the following day, July 1, the same newspaper informed us that Britain contained a "disenfranchised South Asian population." How this was true was never explained. There are several Muslim parliamentarians in both houses, often allowed to make the most absurdly inflammatory and euphemistic statements where acts of criminal violence are concerned, as well as several districts in which the Islamic vote keeps candidates of all parties uneasily aware of what may and may not be said. True, the Muslim extremist groups boycott elections and denounce democracy itself as profane, but this does not really count as disenfranchisement.

Only at the tail end of the coverage was it admitted that a car bomb might have been parked outside a club in Piccadilly because it was "ladies night" and that this explosion might have been designed to lure people into the street, the better to be burned and shredded by the succeeding explosion from the second car-borne cargo of gasoline and nails. We have known since 2004 that a near-identical attack on a club called the Ministry of Sound was proposed in just these terms -- on the grounds that dead "slags" or "sluts" would be regretted by nobody. And so a certain amount of trouble might have been saved by assuming the obvious. The murderers did not just want body parts in general but female body parts in particular.

I suppose that some people might want to shy away from this conclusion for whatever reason, but they cannot have been among the viewers of British Channel 4's recent Undercover Mosque, or among those who watched Sunday's report from Christiane Amanpour on CNN's Special Investigations Unit. On these shows, the British Muslim fanatics came right out with their program. Straight into the camera, leading figures like Anjem Choudary spoke of their love for Osama bin Laden and their explicit rejection of any definition of Islam as a religion of peace. On tape or in person, mullahs in prominent British mosques called for the killing of Indians and Jews.

Liberal reluctance to confront this sheer horror is the result, I think, of a deep reticence about some furtive concept of "race." It is subconsciously assumed that a critique of political Islam is an attack on people with brown skins. One notes in passing that any such concession implicitly denies or negates Islam's claim to be a universal religion. Indeed, some of its own exponents certainly do speak as if they think of it as a tribal property.

And, at any rate, in practice, so it is. The fascistic subculture that has taken root in Britain and that lives by violence and hatred is composed of two main elements. One is a refugee phenomenon, made up of shady exiles from the Middle East and Asia who are exploiting London's traditional hospitality, and one is the projection of an immigrant group that has its origins in a particularly backward and reactionary part of Pakistan.

To the shame-faced white-liberal refusal to confront these facts, one might counterpose a few observations. The first is that we were warned for years of the danger, by Britons also of Asian descent such as Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali, and Salman Rushdie. They knew what the village mullahs looked like and sounded like, and they said as much.

Not long ago, I was introduced to Nadeem Aslam, whose book Maps for Lost Lovers is highly recommended. He understands the awful price of arranged marriages, dowry, veiling and the other means by which the feudal arrangements of rural Pakistan have been transplanted to parts of London and Yorkshire.

"In some families in my street," he writes to me, "the grandparents, parents, and the children are all first cousins -- it's been going on for generations and so the effects of the inbreeding are quite pronounced by now."

By his estimate and others, a minority of no more than 11% is responsible for more than 70% of the birth defects in Yorkshire. When a leading socialist Member of Parliament, Ann Cryer, drew attention to this appalling state of affairs in her own constituency, she was promptly accused of -- well, you can guess what she was accused of. The dumb word Islamophobia, uncritically employed by Christiane Amanpour in her otherwise powerful documentary, was the least of it. Meanwhile, an extreme, self-destructive clannishness, which is itself "phobic" in respect to all outsiders, becomes the constituency for the preachings of a cult of death. I mention this because, if there is an "ethnic" dimension to the Islamist question, then in this case at least it is the responsibility of the Islamists themselves.

The most noticeable thing about all theocracies is their sexual repression and their directly related determination to exert absolute control over women. In Britain, in the 21st century, there are now honour killings, forced marriages, clerically mandated wife-beatings, incest in all but name and the adoption of apparel for females that one cannot be sure is chosen by them but which is claimed as an issue of (of all things) free expression.

This would be bad enough on its own and if it were confined to the Muslim "community" alone. But, of course, such a toxin cannot be confined, and the votaries of theocracy now claim the God-given right to slaughter females at random for nothing more than their perceived immodesty. The least we can do, confronted by such radical evil, is to look it in the eye (something it strives to avoid) and call it by its right name. For a start, it is the female victims of this tyranny who are "disenfranchised," while something rather worse than "disenfranchisement" awaits those who dare to disagree.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: britain; eurabia; globaljihad; haymarketcarbombs; hitchens; islam; jihadineurope; londonistan; targets; women

1 posted on 07/04/2007 7:39:35 PM PDT by Clive
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To: Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; Cannoneer No. 4; ...

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2 posted on 07/04/2007 7:40:27 PM PDT by Clive
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To: Clive

Time to protect the babes. I’m in...


3 posted on 07/04/2007 7:52:04 PM PDT by Libloather (That's just what I need - some two-bit, washed up, loser politician giving me weather forecasts...)
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To: Clive

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860907/posts


4 posted on 07/04/2007 7:56:29 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Clive
"The fascistic subculture that has taken root in Britain and that lives by violence and hatred is composed of two main elements. One is a refugee phenomenon, made up of shady exiles from the Middle East and Asia who are exploiting London's traditional hospitality, and one is the projection of an immigrant group that has its origins in a particularly backward and reactionary part of Pakistan."

I have tried to tell liberals that the decreasing European population due to reproduction below replacement level, contraception and abortion, and a "me" culture abandoning the family leaves room for Muslims and those from the third world to move in. Liberals can try to tolerate terrorists, but at some point, they may be outnumbered, and Britain may be under Sharia.

5 posted on 07/04/2007 8:01:09 PM PDT by Pinkbell (I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order. - Mike Pence)
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To: Pinkbell

Where are the feminists?

I am amazed that the feminists, the protectors of women’s rights, continue to be silent about Islam’s treatment of women.


6 posted on 07/04/2007 8:38:54 PM PDT by Sunbunny
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To: Clive

a minority of no more than 11% is responsible for more than 70% of the birth defects in Yorkshire
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Good grief, are the Muslims up to 11% of Yorkshire’s population? Even if the above figures are true, it might be because the Muslims don’t do pre-natal search-and-destroy missions like their englightened Anglo-Saxon neighbors, and not because of inbreeding.

Mrs VS


7 posted on 07/04/2007 8:46:25 PM PDT by VeritatisSplendor
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To: Sunbunny

I’ve also wondered where the feminists are when it comes to China’s forced abortion policy. After all, don’t they want it to be up to the woman?

All I can figure is that the feminists won’t go after groups under their tent like the abortion business and the Muslims.


8 posted on 07/04/2007 8:57:20 PM PDT by Pinkbell (I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order. - Mike Pence)
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To: Clive
of a deep reticence about some furtive concept of "race."

Arabs are Caucasians.
9 posted on 07/05/2007 2:14:20 AM PDT by Beckwith (dhimmicrats and the liberal media have chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
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To: Sunbunny
Where are the feminists?

Well it's one thing to push delusional chit on guilty self-loathing white liberals and another thing to speak up to people who will actually kill you for your beliefs.

So the answer is that the feminists are hiding under a rock in the vain hope that they'll be killed last.

And with all the leading newspaper editors, dhimmycrats and head-in-the-sanders, there's not much room left under the rock.

10 posted on 07/05/2007 3:07:56 AM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: Sunbunny
I am amazed that the feminists, the protectors of women’s rights, continue to be silent about Islam’s treatment of women.

The dirty little secret of feminism is it owes its power and influence to men who suppport and enforce it.

;o)

11 posted on 07/05/2007 3:45:24 AM PDT by papertyger
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To: Sunbunny
Where are the feminists? I am amazed that the feminists, the protectors of women’s rights, continue to be silent about Islam’s treatment of women.
The answer is, they are not true feminists. They are leftist using "feminism" to advance a leftist agenda. When that agenda is threatened -- and that agenda includes multi-culturalism as one of its key features -- then the "feminism" is instantly jettisoned. With absolutely no qualms or second thoughts.

The average leftist "feminist" would sell a billion women down the river to keep the dream of PC multi-culturalism alive. And in fact, that's exactly what they do, every day.

12 posted on 07/05/2007 4:12:43 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Clive

When it comes to faith, Hitchens doesn’t know his butt from a hold in the ground.

Ah well, there but for the grace of God...


13 posted on 07/05/2007 4:34:58 AM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: FormerLib

Not “hold”, hole!


14 posted on 07/05/2007 4:36:46 AM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: FormerLib

Although Hitchens is an atheist, he is absolutely correct in his analysis of what is going on now in London. It is time for all westerners, Christians, Jews, and non-believers, to come together to defend our common heritage against the barbaric Muslims who would subject us all to their false, irrational religion.


15 posted on 07/05/2007 4:43:41 AM PDT by steadfastconservative
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To: Beckwith

“Arabs are Caucasians”

Most Muslims are not Arabs. In the area being specified especially the Arabic population would be a very very small minority.


16 posted on 07/05/2007 9:29:11 AM PDT by JHT
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To: JHT

“Arabs are Caucasians”


17 posted on 07/05/2007 10:08:59 AM PDT by Beckwith (dhimmicrats and the liberal media have chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
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To: Beckwith

Sorry?


18 posted on 07/06/2007 8:58:57 AM PDT by JHT
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