‘Enemy of the State’ by Tommy Robinson. Published by The Press News Ltd. ISBN 987-0-9570964-9-3

It has taken a considerable amount of time for me to get round to writing this book review and I must also admit it took a considerable time to finish this book. I kept repeatedly picking it up, reading it, putting it down again and then reading it again. I did this not because there is anything wrong with this book or wrong with the writing style or anything much wrong with Mr Robinson’s opinions, but because this book made me incredibly angry. It made me so angry in fact that I had to put the book down and come back to it on a number of occasions. Mostly I was angry at the way that Mr Robinson has been treated by the State merely for voicing a set of opinions about the dangerous ideology of Islam that the State does not wish to be voiced.

You, like me, may well seethe with anger at what the British state did to someone who was only saying what he was seeing going on in his own home town and in his nation. This man was targeted for arrest, police harassment and imprisonment in the main for his opinions and that is something that should worry every single British man or woman. This is because what was done to Mr Robinson in the past by the authorities could be done to any of the rest of us tomorrow. All that needs to occur for the sort of abuse of power that has been targeted at Mr Robinson to happen to us is for a person to utter an opinion that disparages Islam or ‘offends’ some self appointed Islamic panjandrum. On the other hand, Muslims and in particular Islamic clerics appear to be able to foment all types of violent hatreds against Christians, Jews, gays etc with almost complete impunity. For the sake of justice this dichotomy of treatment needs to stop. However this can only stop if we the people elect politicians who are willing to publicly admit that it’s not those who speak out against Islam that are the problem, but Islam and a large proportion of it’s followers themselves that are the cogent issue.

It has to be said that ‘Enemy of the State’ is a very honest book that is obviously written from the heart. Mr Robinson details his childhood and early life in great detail and tells of his growing to maturity in the sort of working class racially mixed area that many of us are familiar with and sometimes wistfully look back on. He tells of his long friendships with people from different racial groups in Luton, his love of football and his working life. Mr Robinson it must be said does not shy away, as some may do, such as when it comes to his youthful indiscretions connected with football and for that he must be commended. Some authors who are writing about their own lives may be tempted to leave out stuff that makes them look a little bit ‘twattish’ when they were a very young man, but to his credit Mr Robinson has not done that.

Mr Robinson tells of his awakening to knowledge about the type and scale of the problems that Islam has brought to Luton. He also writes about how the 9/11 attacks and subsequent Islamic terror outrages have morally offended him and how they helped to educate him on what many of us see as the true nature of Islam. Islam as a growing number of people are beginning to find out is not a ‘religion of peace’ but a religion of murder, oppression and hatred.

The book covers a turbulent period in the life of Mr Robinson. It spans the formation of an anti Islamic extremist group called ‘the United People of Luton’, the formation of the English Defence League and the street protests against extremist Islam that this group organised. It also goes into some detail about how British police forces went out of their way on a number of occasions to deny him the right to speak and deny him and his associates and supporters the right to freely assemble. He also writes with great passion and eloquence about how he left the EDL and made links with groups such as Quilliam who are pluralist Islamic reformers and opposed to Islamic terror. Unfortunately as subsequent information has emerged Quilliam have shown themselves to have considerably less influence in Britain’s Muslim community than the Islamic clerics who want to kill Jews and Christians and murder or imprison gay people. Although I like many others would like to see a reformed Islam I also know that the core theology of Islam is probably so morally warped that it may be impossible to reform in any meaningful way.

One fact revealed in this book that will shock many will be to find out the lengths that the State went to to shut up Tommy Robinson. What they did to a man whose opinions disturbed the fantasies of the multiculturalist political elite, is extremely disturbing. This man, Tommy Robinson, who didn’t call for the deaths of Muslims or anything like that, but only called for the problems of Islam to be dealt with properly by the Authorities in order to protect the rest of us, was hounded by those same Authorities in many despicable ways.

Mr Robinson was repeatedly slandered, threatened, physically attacked by Leftists whilst the police did very little to assist Mr Robinson. On the contrary the police arrested Mr Robinson, sometimes on bullshit trumped up charges and restricted his movements. For example he was banned from entering Tower Hamlets because the local Muslims were upset about his presence. He was imprisoned and financially harassed by the police, the political class, the Home Office and unsuccessful attempts were made to get him to become a ‘grass’ for the Security Services. Mr Robinson had his imprisonment conditions manipulated so that he was still in prison when he was supposed to be attending a meeting with a peer at the House of Lords. He was placed on open wings in prisons that were dominated by extreme Muslims and were run by Muslim gangs. In one incident Mr Robinson had to vigorously defend himself against a Somali Muslim inmate who was about to throw boiling sugared water over Mr Robinson in order to permanently disfigure him. You are left with the distinct and distasteful impression that the State would have been more than happy had Mr Robinson been killed in prison as it would have removed an articulate and popular critic of government policy towards the ideology of Islam.

The book concludes with Mr Robinson looking to the future and quite rightly in my opinion outlining the problems that we will have in the future, problems that have been brought to our shores by Islam and its followers. Like Mr Robinson I know about Islam, I understand it and because of that I don’t want my descendants growing up in a land where the murderous and hateful ideology of Islam has any influence whatsoever. I’d no more wish that scenario these descendants than I would wish them to live under Nazism. The book, which was written before the stunning victory of President Trump, the Brexit vote and the increase in popularity of politicians like Geet Wilders, does come to some depressing conclusions of what will happen if Britons don’t wake up to the dangers posed by Islam. However, things have moved on and since the book was published in December 2015 and there are now many more people than back then talking about Islam and the problems it brings.

One thing that this book most powerfully conveys is the sense of Tommy Robinson being an ordinary man who went on an extraordinary personal journey but has come out at the end of it both changed and intact but still in possession of a functioning moral compass. Tommy Robinson does not come out of this book anything like the image put around by his detractors. He’s not, for example, the unreformed Islamophobic thug that the mendacious grievance mongering taqiyya artists of Tell Mama like to refer to Mr Robinson as being. Tommy Robinson is the man who spoke up and I cannot help but admire that. He did the morally correct thing, he saw a wrong and spoke up about these wrongs. Sometimes there is a great need in a society for one brave man to stand up and say ‘j’accuse’ to those in power and Mr Robinson has been that man. Those who also see similar wrongs to what Mr Robinson and have also perceived the need to speak up are inspired by Mr Robinson’s act of telling the truth about Islam and the damage it is doing to British society.

Finally I’d like to conclude this article by issuing a personal plea. That plea is to please read this book. If nothing else it will educate you in what is going on in some of Britain’s more Islamised areas. You can buy it from Amazon in both physical or e-book format, but as this book is so important and so desperately needs to get in front of audiences that may not be politically engaged I would also urge people to request that this book is stocked in their local public library. You can do so by going into your library and, if you are a library member of course, asking the Librarian to check to see if the book is in stock. If it is not then you can request that it is purchased and put out for lending. Please quote the ISBN number reproduced at the top of this article when ordering. As an aside, this blog would be interested to hear of any incidents where libraries refuse to carry this book on political grounds, or on grounds of ‘community cohesion’, because if there are librarians that are doing this then they have become propagandists and are therefore not true and honourable librarians.

This is a wonderful, heartfelt, honest book about a man who has been all too often unfairly maligned. It’s a book that needs to be read, it’s a book that will make you angry and it’s a book that may wake even more people up to the danger that we face from an ideology that claims that it comes in peace but whose followers often behave in ways that can easily be defined as the complete opposite of peace.