If I told my readers to go out and ‘burn down your local mosque’, I’d more than likely get arrested for inciting arson with intent to endanger life or some other similar charge, and many would say quite rightly so. Now before you just see the words ‘burn down the mosque’, you need to realise that I’m not telling you to burn down you local mosque, firstly because it’s illegal, secondly because innocent people could be killed or injured and thirdly because it’s counter-productive. Apart from being wrong and dangerous, such actions give ammunition to various mendacious grievance mongering taqiyya artist types. Basically, nothing gives the various pro-Islam types a real reason to turn the whining up to 11 than the smell of a burning mosque in the morning. Yes, many British mosques may at some point in the future eventually have to be removed because of associations with terrorism or jihad or other crimes, but I want the lawful authorities to do that, not ‘King Mob’.
The point I’m trying to put over, is that making statements that have the effect of encouraging people to go and burn down their local mosque are illegal and for good reason. Similarly making statements that may encourage or facilitate other people to go out and commit other crimes, such as burglary or robbery or murder, are also illegal, if they are credible of course. Many of us would agree that threatening to kill, or trying to encourage others to go and kill, is wrong both morally and legally.
However there seems to be one exception to the idea that it is legally and morally wrong to encourage others to kill, and that is when it is a Muslim doing the encouragement to kill. This is without doubt a double standard.
Many of us involved in the counter jihad world are more than familiar with Muslims being allowed to get away with inciting hatred and murder. A state in thrall to political correctness and multiculturalism has for decades looked the other way when Islamic preachers speak words of outrageous incitement such as ‘Kill the Jews’, kill the gays’ and ‘kill the Islamic apostates’. Muslims have been allowed a free pass on stuff that would probably land in non-Muslims in prison. This is not just and it is certainly not justice.
The latest example of the unjust double standard with regards to Islamic hatred, comes following the murder by another Muslim of an Ahmadi Muslim, Assad Shah of Glasgow. Now for those who do not know, Ahmadi Islam is a more recent branch of Islam that started about a century ago in British India. The Ahmadi’s are one of the few truly peaceful branches of Islam and have renounced jihad. Because of the peaceful nature of Ahmadi Islam, many Ahmadi Muslims find themselves at odds with the followers of other, considerably less peaceful branches of Islam.
After the murder of Mr Shah, Orthodox Muslims took to the internet and elsewhere to either praise the killing, agree with it or justify the hatred directed at Ahmadi Muslims, as these pieces from Brietbart and the Daily Mail show. The murder also revealed the ongoing hate campaigns that are directed at Ahmadi Muslims.
In the first article the Brietbart writer Liam Deacon describes how inflammatory leaflets were handed out by a group affliated with the relatively mainstream Muslim Council of Britain. Brietbart said:
“A Muslim hate group has distributed leaflets at leading London universities and on public streets calling for moderate Ahmadiyyahs to be killed, bringing Pakistani sectarian hate on to the streets of the UK capital.
The revelation follows the brutal murder Asad Shah, an Ahmadiyya Muslim from Glasgow, Scotland who had wished his “beloved Christian nation” and happy Easter hours before being stabbed dozens of times in the chest.
The organisation responsible for the literature, Khatm e Nabuwat, is an explicitly anti-Ahmadiyya hate group, which is affiliated to the Muslim council of Britain (MCB), the UK’s “largest national representative of British Muslim associations, mosques and schools”.
In the second article from the Daily Mail Jenny Kane said:
A Facebook page has been set up praising the self-proclaimed killer of Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah.
The disturbing social media page – with more than 700 ‘likes’ – describes Tanveer Ahmed as a ‘public figure’.
It refers to the 32-year-old taxi driver from Bradford who is accused of murder as ‘Ghazi’, a title given to Muslim warriors or champions.
The page has been branded ‘propaganda’ which is encouraging extremism by some of those calling for it to be taken down.
On Wednesday, Ahmed appeared to say he killed Mr Shah in a statement read outside court. In it he said he did it because the newsagent had claimed to be a prophet.
OK the Faecesbook page was taken down but so far, in as much as I can ascertain, no Muslim has been arrested for behaviour that could under current legislation be described as ‘hate speech’. Yet contrast that with what happens when non-Muslims in the UK criticise Islam. Often they are visited by the police, are arrested, charged, made to go through interminable court appearances (the process is often the punishment in these situations), lose their jobs, have their name and reputation blackened and can even be put at risk of attack by Islamic extremists. This is not an equitable way of running a policing and legal system.
If it illegal for a non-Muslim to call for arson attacks against mosques why are not Muslims who behave in ways that are equally inciteful of violence also not subjected to the same legal vigour? The double standard where Muslims are free to indulge in whatever hate filled invective they like, whilst the rest of us are penalised for pointing out the hate filled Islamic guff is more than obvious now. This is dangerous, the more trust is lost in the legal system due to inequitable operation, the greater the likelihood is of Britain’s legal field going into permanent terminal disrepute.
If, unlikely I know, I called for the burning of a mosque then arrest would most surely follow. That the police are not coming for Muslims who call for our deaths or the deaths of Muslims they disagree with, is nothing short of a scandal.
Links
Daily Mail article
Brietbart article
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Right, I just want to make it absolutely clear, one last time that I DON’T, under any circumstances want you to go and burn down your local mosque. Have a peaceful protest outside it, if the mosque is dodgy, or call the imam a paedo loving bastard if that is your wish, but leave your petrol and matches or other incendiary devices at home. Remember your right to swing your fists ends at the start of someone else’s nose.
