We have for you today another excellently written guest post from Jacob. The subject, that of feelings of victim-hood and how being a victim isn’t a good thing to be. The article also covers the phenomenon of groups that sometimes make strange political alliances, such as between left wing LGBT groups and Islamic groups, which ultimate are likely to rebound on the naïve gays who make such alliances. Also, like Jacob I also find it inexplicable that Jewish groups, mostly Jewish groups on the Left I might add, extend the hand of friendship to Islamic groups even though Islam is one of the biggest drivers of anti-Semitism in the modern world. I’m Jewish myself and I despise the naivety shown by Jews of the Left when it comes to the issue of Islam. These left wing Jews are not going to know what’s hit them when their Muslim so-called friends turn on them with violence, something that is very likely to happen.

There is much in this article, which is coming from an atheist perspective, with which I agree, such as that fundamentalism is something that can afflict all faiths and how a false claim of victim-hood gives identity groups political power that is neither earned nor justified. There are however areas in this article where my views differ from that of the author, as they are bound to as we come from different philosophical positions. Some of the areas among others where my views differ are on such matters as the need for the existence of the State of Israel and that Jewish feelings of persecution come from sources much wider and deeper than the experience of the Diaspora and the Shoah and are sadly also coming from contemporary reality. I never thought for example that I would fear walking down the street I was born on wearing a Kippah on my head, but that’s the reality for me now that this particular area has gone Muslim

But, despite of my disagreement with Jacob on a few points, I must say that this is an excellently written article and one that has a solid and sound conclusion about the damage that the politics of victim-hood is doing to Britain and its society. This is a thought provoking and well put together article that shines a light on societal trends that could end quite badly for everyone concerned.

Victims United by Jacob

Groups who perceive themselves to be victims are selectively seeking out other groups of people that they perceive to be fellow victims, even though it’s at risk to the safety and continuation of their own group and members. Islam is the current ‘go-to’ for Jews and the LGBTQ community. They seek Islam out to unite with, even while Islam shuns them. There are improbable groups with names such as Jews For Refugees (because their grandparents were refugees – no other reason than that). Queers For Palestine (while the persecution of queers in Palestine goes unchecked). Queers Against Israel (even though Palestinian queers are running to Israel). LGBTQ Against Islamophobia (even though the death penalty exists for being gay in 11 Islamic countries).

What’s driving these suicidal and incompatible movements in the West to scream out for the inclusion into their society of adherents of an ideology (Islam) that is persecuting them in lands under Islamic rule and sharia? For sure, it’s a very selective and bizarre set of people who are seeking to identify with each other and attempting to affiliate. Jews and LGBTQ are waving ISLAM before us like a signifier of their own persecution, carrying the ideology like a weight they have not been asked to bear. It’s almost vampiric the way Jews and LGBTQ are pimping out the notion of persecuted Muslims in a bid to further their own victim-hood.

With Jews, I would argue that the notion of being an eternal refugee is something that’s embedded in the majority of Jewish children’s minds since birth. Tales of the Exodus and the Diaspora and the Holocaust all instill an uprooted feeling in the minds of Jews. No matter that a Jewish person might have been born and raised in London and is living very happily there and would never willingly choose to leave, there’s still that notion of having been uprooted from one’s homeland. I’ve sat in on a number of talks on Jewish identity and healing in London, and the speakers have never wavered from the themes of victimization, refugee status, and the myth that it takes the growing or passing of three generations of Jews before the healing from the holocaust will occur.

The question has to be asked why Jews need their own homeland in the first place. It’s a separatist, elitist and divisive idea in my opinion. I’m not a fan of people living in bubbles, not even pink ones (and I’m gay). People moan that Muslims aren’t integrating and that they are creating ghettos and no-go zones. Jews are equally guilty of setting up their own little self-sustained communities from which the most devout rarely stray. The only difference is that Jews aren’t violent and kosher food isn’t being pushed into our faces to the same degree that halal is, although it is a multi-billion dollar industry. Jews are industrious and innovative to a degree and an extent that Islamic nations and states and communities aren’t. But they can be every bit the religious bigot as any other group of fundamentalists. In one London borough, a Jewish group demanded a minimum donation of £500 from every Jewish person in order to establish a “Rescue the Children” fund that could be used to pay lawyers if a divorce occurred within the community. If the wife chose to leave the husband and Judaism, or if the parents became “irreligious” then there is a cash flow sitting ready to hire the best legal team in order to keep the ‘holy child’ within the Jewish community and away from either one or both of his or her parents.¹ Children don’t choose their religion, it is forced on them, or at the very least suggested to them as being the best option, by their parents.

Bessel Van Der Kolk is an American Jewish psychiatrist who specializes in the area of trauma. His parents were imprisoned during the Holocaust, yet he is now healed and is one of the pre-eminent experts on healing trauma on planet earth (which disproves the ‘three generations to heal’ myth). He engaged with his emotions, was curious enough about them, and began his investigations as a young man in spite of the emotional and physical abuse directed towards him as a child by his father. An abuse that was understandable given the man’s time spent in captivity and the psychotic episodes he experienced as a result. Bessel had to heal himself before he could assist in the healing of others. He chose not to be a victim of his father’s, nor his religious group’s, past.

I find that these marginalized, victim groups put themselves forward as being above reproach. They’re victims and a minority and therefore can do no wrong, but no group of people gets a free pass against being guilty of bigotry, not even the LGBTQ. At London Pride, ‘queers’ were banning gay UKIP supporters whilst screaming out for more inclusion for themselves (a thing they already have) and for more refugees. There were banners aplenty that were shouting out for an end to ‘Islamophobia’ and bigotry (not a word of ‘no to anti-Semitism’, and vice-versa – I’m struggling to find any ‘Jews for LGBTQ’ orgs, and absolutely NO ‘Islam for Jews and LGBTQ’). LGBTQ have been quick to jump on the ‘Islamophobia’ bandwagon and allege themselves with Muslims whilst remaining highly anti-Semitic. It’s a sad reality that the only legitimate form of racism today is that which is directed at Jews and Caucasian people. The reason could be that Islam is newer to the UK than Judaism is, or at least seems to be, and Muslims are generally thought of as being brown-skinned people, even though that’s not the case. And the white man is the beast because of his intrepid abilities and past aggression across the globe. (It should also be noted here that there is no race or tribe or country or culture without historic blood on their hands. Every group of people are guilty of wanting to expand their borders whether it was through violence or marriage or any other means possible.)

Being ‘victims’ allows Muslims and gays to get away with all manner of things. And being perceived as being a ‘race’ lets people take the piss to an almost unbelievable extent, Muslim and non-Muslim alike. Genocides, occupation, and colonizing by Muslims isn’t talked about today, instead it’s being denied as the left attempts to rewrite history in favour of Islam across university campuses in the UK and the USA. It used to be said that people have the ‘bigotry of low expectations’ when it comes to Islam and Muslims. I would say this statement is now more true if we change it to ‘the bigotry of NO expectations’. We really don’t expect anything from Muslims in today’s UK, not even responsibility for their actions. They can rape and murder almost with impunity, and they can blame ‘cultural differences’ as a means of defense, and the left and the LGBTQ sit back in silence.

‘It’s not all Muslims’ is the war-cry of the left as a mob of 30 Muslims barge their way into a gay bar in London and attack the clientele², and while Muslim communities and mosque leaders sign petitions against gays, citing gays as being ‘crazy’ and guilty of ‘spreading disease’.³ Or even when three Central London Islamic organisations invite a hate preacher over and host him at an Islamic children’s school to speak, a preacher who is famous for his YouTube video listing the 5 best ways to kill gays.⁴ Not one Muslim petitioned at the gates of the school on the night of the man’s lecture and the LGBTQ where nowhere to be seen. Not a single placard was waved around by the saintly antifa or HopeNotHate either. The hate preacher was allowed to go about his business while the left do their best to de-platform anyone who speaks out against Islam.

Heaven forbid we ‘offend’ a Muslim, even a murderous one. The left tell us, ‘You’re only using the rape and murders of white girls as a reason to further your own far-right agenda’. We’re at the stage in the UK today where if we criticize the ideology of Islam we are seen to be condemning every Muslim on planet earth. No one has ever said ‘all Muslims rape’, we’ve only said ‘ENOUGH of them’ are doing it that it’s become a massive problem for non-Muslim girls in areas and communities with a large enough Muslim population. And the Muslims who rape and claim ‘cultural differences’ as their defense are telling the truth. It is cultural – for them, not us. So the issue must be addressed, but it never is. You’ll serve more time in jail for putting bacon, which is now considered in the UK as being ‘a weapon’, near a mosque than you will for raping a white underage girl.

If I had my way, I’d stick them all on an island and see how harmoniously they all get along. The ideology of Islam which considers homosexuality to be a religious sin punishable by death. Jews, who are considered to be ‘apes’ (the hadith’s words, not mine) hiding even from the rocks who will speak to the Muslims and tell them where a Jew is hiding in order that he or she might be killed. It’s my thinking that Jews would be eradicated first. LGBTQ would team up with Muslims in the first take-over bid of my imaginary island, and then the Muslims would either stone the gays or demand that they repent and convert to Islam, or pay the jizya tax for an embarrassing protection and getting a slap in the face as you hand over your weekly payment on your knees. Islam would be the last man standing in any event. It will be curious to see how this all plays out here in the West. We already have so many Muslim politicians, mayors, councilors, etc. in positions of power in the UK who are able to impact upon our laws and legal system that the UK is already turning into my imaginary island. One man was jailed for 12 weeks in the UK for calling Fiyaz Mughal (noted liar) a ‘taqqiya artist’. Of course Fiyaz, in true manly Islamic fashion, told the jury that the incident caused him massive anxiety and countless nights without sleep.⁵ Muslim men behave like women. As a white UK born and bred male, the attributes I associate with menopausal or menstruating women are very often displayed by Muslim men, and with absolutely no shame that they are behaving like little immature girls who have no handle on their emotions. It’s often said that Muslims are ‘always offended, but never ashamed’.

This is where we’re at today, thanks to accommodating ‘victims’. Jail sentences for mean tweets or putting bacon anywhere near a mosque. Children trapped and locked into religious communities, both Jewish and Islamic (Muslims are terrified of leaving their religion and homes). Honour killings are very common in Islamic countries and communities, and death to apostates is the prescribed punishment. Our speech is being dictated to us by a bullying LGBTQ lobby who are trying to turn reality on its head with their demand that we recognize unlimited genders and that we must call Bob the builder ‘she’ if that is his preferred pronoun and welcome him with open arms into the ladies’ room. The monkeys are running the zoo and the majority are having to bow down and meet the demented demands of the minority, all in a bid to not be seen as racist or bigoted or guilty of wrong-think. At some point common sense must prevail and these victim groups who use their victimization as ‘currency’ must not be allowed to spend any more of their victim cash. The bank needs to close its doors. We live in a country with anti-discrimination laws in place, and we have agencies in place to ensure those laws are upheld. You can’t get fairer than that. There’s no place for victims in today’s society.