As expected, both the political classes and the mainstream legacy media have gone on an orgy of virtue- signalling following the mosque atrocity in New Zealand. Whilst like many normal people I condemn the actual murders and feel that they are counterproductive as well as wrong, I also cannot help but notice the reaction of the political classes and the MSM.

We have seen an orgy of pro-Islamic virtue signalling from politicians such as Theresa May. Mrs May, in a classic example of what I can only call a low calorie progressive word salad, waxed lyrical in a press statement about ‘standing shoulder to shoulder with Muslims’ and how terrible it is that people follow ‘the vile ideology that drives and incites hatred and fear.’ Her statement, not surprisingly, glossed over the fact that the vast majority of terrorism that has afflicted the United Kingdom since the turn of the century has been inspired by Islam, a well known ‘vile ideology of hate’.

The terrorism that has increasingly affected Britain is in the main inspired by the Quranic ideology of hatred of and fear of the ‘other’, committed by those who represent a significant minority of those of the faith that Mrs May tells us to stand ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with. I cannot recall, and a search has not turned up, any similar honeyed words being issued by Mrs May and her office following, for example the Pittsburgh shooting in a synagogue. I can find no call from to embrace Jews or to ‘stand shoulder to shoulder’ with Jews or denouncing the ‘vile ideologies’ that led to the deaths of people in a synagogue.

The followers of Islam however, although probably just as innocent of any wrong doing as the congregants at the Tree of Life Synagogue, are given a deluge of sympathy by Mrs May that has not been directed elsewhere. This is one sided and obviously biased virtue signalling at its very worse. This statement went beyond regular sympathy and crossed the line, at least in my reading of it, into grovelling towards Islam and its followers. Theresa May has remarkably little to say when it comes to Jew hatred in the UK, especially Islamic based Jew hatred and has even less to say about the ongoing slaughter of Christians, Sikhs, Hindus and others that occurs across the world and occurs at the hands of Muslims.

The odour of one sided virtue signalling is also a strong around the New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. She donned a black hijab – ‘out of respect for the Muslims’ – when she went on a visit to survivors and relatives of those killed and injured in the mosque attacks at a ‘Refugee Centre’. Whilst I am all for respecting others funerary customs, the job of covering the NZ PM’s head out of respect could have been accomplished by a hat. A hat would have been perfectly acceptable to those of us who have head covering funerary customs. There was no need at all for the NZ PM to virtue signal via the use of the hijab. It looks both cringey and grovelling, in a similar way to UK PM Theresa May’s words are, along with completely ignoring the fact that for many Muslim women the hijab culture is a prison for them. The wearing of a hat in this situation rather than embracing the hijab, would have left less of an impression of obvious virtue signalling by the NZ PM.

The mainstream media has not been that much better. For them, the story of the mosque shootings has been a non-stop, rend the garments virtual grief-fest. Sky News is a very good example of this sort of behaviour. Whilst the intensity of some of the coverage can be put down to a certain extent to a journalistic attitude of ‘if it bleeds it leads’ and ‘if it bleeds in a country with good communications links even better’, that’s not the whole story. Much of the MSM coverage that I’ve seen is mawkish, narrative driven and over the top when compared to how they have covered other stories of other massacres.

There is every sign that I can make out that the media is going to milk this story for all that it is worth and dump it in front of us every day for a considerable amount of time and in a manner that they did not do following the Pulse nightclub shooting, the Manchester bomb, the Westminster attacks or the London Bridge attack. Those were stories that had heavy coverage for a couple of days until such coverage was replaced by the usual calls for ‘kumbaya’ by out of touch politicians. This story from New Zealand will be different, after all it’s dead Muslims involved and what’s more Muslims who are dead because of the actions of someone who may not have liked Muslims very much. It’s the perfect story for the virtue-signalling, often left-leaning, ‘blue checkmark’ journalist. I predict that we will be regaled via the MSM with emotive tales told by survivors of the massacre along with eulogies for the dead.

The way that the MSM will deal with this story will be very different to how they’ve handled other mass killings, especially those mass killings carried out by Muslims on both non Muslims and other Muslims. In those situations the Western MSM is conspicuous by its absence. It’s not as if this information about mass slaughter’s carried out by the followers of Islam is difficult to find or difficult to verify, it isn’t. It’s out there in the local and regional media in the areas that are afflicted by some of the most bestial Islam-driven behaviour on Earth. We have a situation where the Western MSM is falling over themselves to abase themselves in grief over dead Muslims in New Zealand but who refuse to properly investigate or publicise the far greater number of deaths, including of Muslims, at the hands of Muslims.

Whilst 49 dead in New Zealand is indeed a tragedy for which the criminal who carried them out needs to be banged up for life, let’s look for a moment at what both the MSM and the political classes have chosen to either ignore or just refuse to speak or be concerned about. 49 dead whilst awful is merely only roughly one third of the deaths racked up by Islam and its followers in just one week in March 2019. To put the numbers of dead in the NZ mosque attacks in some sort of context, between the 9^th and 15^th of March of this year the followers of Islam took the lives of 147 people. These murderous incidents, which also injured 91, took place as a result of 24 separate attacks, in 11 different countries. Two of the attacks were suicide attacks. These figures don’t even represent a any time of particular tension, it’s not Ramadan when the death toll from the followers of the ‘religion of peace’ steps up, this is a normal week.

Equally normal or rather normal for Islam, is the death toll from February 2019. This ordinary month, clocked up an Islam created death toll of 883 along with 547 people injured. These people, who are just as human and worthy of life as those killed in the NZ Mosque or slaughtered by jihadis in the nations of Europe, were killed in: 150 separate attacks in 22 different countries in incidents that included 10 suicide bombings. Most of the victims of these attacks were Muslims. But deaths of Muslims at the hand of Muslims doesn’t seem to elicit the same level of press and political interest as the relatively small number of Muslims killed by a non Muslim. The lunatic who shot up mosques in New Zealand whilst horrible, has clocked up a death toll that is eighteen times less (883/49) than that caused by violent Muslims following their equally violent ideology.

Below is a few examples of some recent deaths caused by violent Muslims from the website ‘Religion of Peace’. These listed attacks from March 2019 are but a small sample of the attacks and the death toll caused in the parts of the world that journalists mostly ignore of people who are mostly Muslim:

You will see from the above figures and links that 17 of the thirty dead in these attacks were more than likely to be Muslim. I don’t see the Western MSM or the political class rending their clothes, covering themselves in ashes or promising more censorship on counter Islam speech, because of these equally terrible attacks. These were attacks on Muslims escaping terrorists, collecting food, attending a market or just walking down the road. Yes there is no hand-wringing over these deaths from the MSM and the politicians. Have you heard any concern from the politicians and the MSM about these deaths of innocents? The answer is no you do not. You rarely hear in the MSM about the deaths of Muslims at the hands of Muslims, possibly because it goes against the narrative that ‘Islam is a religion of peace’?

The MSM and the politicians are also remarkably restrained when it comes to condemning or virtue signalling over atrocities committed by Muslims against non-Muslims. The ongoing massacre of Christians in Nigeria, the oppression of religious minorities in Pakistan, the tit for tat slaughter of Muslims in mosques by other Muslims and the increasing problems faced by Coptic Christians in Egypt get ignored. These are all things that have been mostly absent from the pages of the MSM and are atrocities that have not had their aftermath graced with the honeyed words of eager to please politicians.

It has only been my study of the foreign press, news aggregators and to a lesser extent alt news media places, that has told me of these slaughters of innocents that dwarf the death toll in Christchurch. If it had been left to Sky News or worse the BBC, then I doubt that I would have even heard of many of the places where Muslims kill both Muslim and non Muslim with virtual impunity.

There are some revolting and revoltingly obvious examples of double standards emerging from the aftermath of the Christchurch atrocity. Mostly this has come from politicians and the media who are more voluble about this incident than they were over for example Manchester, where the exhortations to various types of ‘kumbaya’ bollocks and ‘don’t look back in anger’ took hold of the narrative extremely quickly. However we’ve also seen the double standard displayed by various UK police forces who have lost no time in setting up ‘reassurance patrols’ near mosques and in heavily Islamic areas. I, as many others have done, have noticed that these ‘reassurance patrols’ very rarely appear in non Muslim areas following Islamic atrocities like Manchester. There was no police officer standing outside my synagogue following the Pittsburgh attack and from what I can gather only a token increase in police presence in gay nightlife areas after the Pulse nightclub massacre. The police, who often quite rightly complain about lack of resources to police their areas effectively and justly, seem to be able to find officers at the drop of a hat when it comes to reassuring Muslims. I wonder how many real crimes could have been prevented or investigated by police officers who are instead sent out to wander round being obsequious to Muslims and guarding mosques? At a time when Britain is becoming a bit of a ‘stabathon’ that needs police and court action to stop this phenomenon, do you like me feel that these ‘reassurance patrols’ are a lot of virtue signalling rubbish?

The police have also been expending time and effort in Britain on rooting out wrong-thinkers who voiced the ‘wrong’ opinion of the Christchurch attacks. Greater Manchester Police have arrested a 24 year old man for making comments supportive of the mosque massacre on social media. Now I happen to think that making these statements is a bit of a dickhead thing to do, but it should not be a crime. Greater Manchester Police seem to be much more zealous in tracking down thought criminals like this than then ever were in dealing with the growing problem of Islamic jihad, crime and sexual exploitation that have marred the lives of the residents of this great city for many years. Where were these police officers and police resources when the Arena bomber was starting to tick or the Muslims of Rochdale decided that they’d rape their way through the young female population of Rochdale? They were as expected nowhere to be seen, and were not seen for decades whilst Islamic Rape Gangs targetted the non Muslim females of that town.

Whilst it is possible that these sick making ‘reassurance patrols’ may ‘reassure’ Muslims in the areas that they are carried out, they are giving a variant impression outside of the group-think world of the PC PC, the followers of Islam and the mouth-breathing ‘diversity’ clowns. What many people, a growing number it seems at least going by what I’ve seen on social media, are taking from these ‘reassurance patrols’ is the impression that the police are not there to protect them but only to protect Muslims. It smacks of pandering to see Muslims and Islamic areas get extra policing at a time when this resource is in short supply and is badly managed, merely because of an action by a lunatic on the other side of the world, an action which is unlikely to be replicated here in the UK. It seems to be the case that Muslims get extra police coddling whether Muslims are the victims of crime or the perpetrators of it. This is not a style of policing that many people feel that they can support and is a matter of increasing public disgust. While British subjects, black and white, religious and non religious, die in ever increasing numbers due to knife crime, it is indeed disgraceful to see such police pandering of one community at the expense of all of us. Sir Robert Peel, the father of the modern style of policing and of policing with the citizen’s consent, must be spinning in his grave at the sight of police engaging in concentrated pandering and obsequiousness to Muslims whilst our fellow subjects bleed out on the street, in parks and on public transport because of knife crime, only to be met with a ‘not my problem’ shrug from police management.

The massacre of 49 people in Christchurch was indeed wrong, I have no hesitation in condemning it. However what is also wrong is the ongoing and highly selective virtue signalling from the political classes, the media and both leftist and Islamic activists. The same people who hand-wring and emote over Christchurch were remarkably silent when the followers of Islam attack Muslims and others. They are virtue signalling even though the death toll from these other attacks has a death toll far in excess of that caused by the lunatic who went on a rampage with a firearm in New Zealand. The attack in Christchurch is bad, but the reaction of the political, media and policing classes has also left a bad taste in the mouth. If these entities think that their actions will heal or make things better then they are wrong. I think the political and media virtue signalling along with the police engaging in Islamopandering will not make things better or reduce political, communal and social tensions, they will I’m afraid make things worse. I fear that we are on the brink of some of the ‘interesting times’ that an old proverb once warned us about being cursed with.