If you or I, whether we be Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Sikh or Atheist, stood up on a platform and called for rebellion and violence in British towns and cities there would be consequences, harsh ones from both the police in the courts. I very much doubt that you or I would be able to stand and call for such rebellion and violence in Brighton and get away with it. Even if we were not subjected to the full force of the law, we would certainly be socially ostracised for doing so.

But one of Britain’s most malignant Muslim madwomen, Salma Yaqoob, a patron of the far Left Stop the War Coalition, former prospective Labour candidate for West Midland’s Mayor and a former spokesperson for Birmingham Central Mosque, was able to stand up in London and call for ‘intifada’ in London, Birmingham and Brighton, amongst other locations. What Yaqoob has done is quite plainly, by saying that ‘the Intifada is no longer just in Gaza but in London, Birmingham and Brighton’, made a call for violence and rebellion. This is because the word ‘intifada’ is not associated with for example Ghandian non-violent protest, but instead the actions of violent mobs. You do not hear the word ‘intifada’ and have images of non violent direct action or peaceful protest or hunger strikes or civil disobedience spring into your mind. What images you would associate the word ‘intifada’ with are stone throwing, gun and bomb attacks, stabbings, intimidation and generalised mayhem.

Here’s a short video courtesy of the Left of centre Harry’s Place blog showing Salma Yaqoob calling for ‘intifada’.

I said it before and I’ll say it again. What do you think would be happening, what do you think the Metropolitan Police would be doing if the boot was on the other foot and it was, to give a few examples, an ethnonationalist group, an anarchist group or some similar group of extremists calling for rebellion in British towns and cities? The answer is quite clear. They’d be nicked, possibly remanded in custody awaiting trial and would be brought before the courts. However, when it comes to the inciting rantings of Salma Yaqoob and her claims that the ‘intifada’ is now in Brighton and London, the Metropolitan Police are nowhere to be seen. Why could this be I wonder. Could it be that it is because there appears in the Met Police area to be one law for those who espouse Islamic causes such as the destruction of the Jews of Israel and quite another for those who follow or promote other causes.

As regards the question posed in the title: ‘What’s Brighton got to do with it’. The answer is that Brighton has nothing to do with events in the Levant, apart from the fact that the area has a sizeable Jewish community. Maybe it’s the Jews of Brighton who are the targets of the ‘intifada’ in Brighton that Yaqoob mentions? After all Brighton is certainly not Israel or Judea, Samaria or Gaza. About the only thing that Brighton has in common with Israel is it contains Jews. Yaqoob’s comments show the world what many of us already know. This is that the Islamic obsession with ‘Palestine’ is not about land or land claims, but about hating Jews.