Editor’s note: When I put this and another piece up from Simon Harris I was under the impression that he was a reasonable person who came from he same position as I do, which is that Islam the ideology is a problem but that race was not. However since these pieces were published on Fahrenheit211 Mr Harris has to be quite frank, gone a bit ‘off the rails’. He is no longer the reasonable non racist foe of the ideology of Islam that he once was and now appears to be an avowed anti-Semite. He has even taken to promoting the Tsarist anti-Semitic forgery ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’. I completely disassociate myself with Mr Harris and his current views (or should I say delusions) and have no hesitation in doing so. Although I could have quite easily deleted the two main pieces on here where I said Mr Harris had some good thoughts on the subject of Islam, I decided that it was better for the sake of completeness to leave these pieces up and preface them with this note and a repudiation of the very dark road that Mr Harris has gone down.
This blog has in the past sung the praises of both the author Shazia Hobbs and the blogger Simon Harris. Ms Hobbs’ writings on the subject of Islam and the rights of women and children to live their lives peacefully and without being subjected to abuse by Islamic patriarchy, have long been ones that I greatly admire. Ms Hobbs is also the author of the popular novel about growing up as a child of a mixed Muslim / Catholic marriage called ‘The Goris Daughter’. I discovered Mr Harris a few months back when I watched his assessment of the statement made by Prime Minister Theresa May following the Islamic London Bridge attack and his piece on the Football Lads Alliance march against terror was a gripping piece of citizen journalism.
In this video Ms Hobbs is a guest on Mr Harris’ vlog and she speaks eloquently about her life and her childhood, as well as the issue of Islamic supremacism and about the horrors inflicted on Muslim children by abusive male relatives.
This is a very lively and informative conversation between two people who are both great speakers and very well informed about their subjects.
The video is also publicising the ‘Last Day of Silence’ anti terror march in London on the 23rd September 2017 which is taking place in central London. The aim of the event is to tell London’s mayor Sadiq ‘Saracen’ Khan that Britons, no matter what their skin colour or belief system, will not have Islamic terrorism treated, as Khan says, ‘something that we should just get used to’ and which is just ‘part and parcel’ of living in a large city.
This meeting of minds between Mr Harris and Ms Hobbs was a great bit of intellectual food and I heartily recommend this interview to anybody who enjoys listening to good conversations.
Link
Interview of Shazia Hobbs by Simon Harris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vj7uF3q7vs
Last Day of Silence march in London
https://www.facebook.com/events/1709969049297984/?acontext={%22ref%22%3A%22106%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22}
