Dangerous Policy of Muslim Appeasement in the U.K.
Thirty years ago, there were 82,000 Muslims in UK, and at present, the number has swelled to 2.5 million, or in other words, there has been a thirty-fold increase in 30 years. According to the 2001 census, total population of the United Kingdom was 58,789,194, the third largest in theEuropean Union, the fifth largest in the Commonwealth and the twenty-first largest in the world. By mid-2009, this was estimated to have grown to 61,792,000. A study reveals that Muslim population in UK, from 2004 to 2008 has increased as shown in the table below:
Table 1: Muslims in Great Britain
Year | Population |
2004 | 1,087,000 |
2005 | 2,017,000 |
2006 | 2,142,000 |
2007 | 2,327,000 |
2008 | 2,422,000 |
(Source: Labour Force Survey)
The reader should recall that everywhere in the world, Muslim population grows much faster than that of all other religious groups. It is mainly due to their planned and deliberate rejection of family-planning. It has been mentioned in an earlier article that the fertility rate of Muslim immigrants now living in Europe is 8.1 children per family while the figure is as low as 1.38 for other religious groups of European Union. It may be mentioned here that in India, Muslim population, between 1991 and 2001 census, increased by 29.5 per cent, while for other religious groups, the figure was 19.5 per cent. (Source: Census Report of India, 2001).
In UK, natural population growth in 2008 overtook net migration as the main contributor to population growth for the first time since 1998. England's population in mid-2008 was estimated to be 51.44 million and that of Scotland to be 5.17 million. Between 2001 and 2008, the population of UK increased by an average annual rate of 0.5 per cent. This may be compared to 0.3 per cent per year in the period 1991 to 2001, and 0.2 per cent in the decade 1981 to 1991. Reports regarding demographic change in UK revealed another unpleasant development. It has been found that in 2008 and the mid-2007, UK was home to more people of pensionable age than children under the age of 16, Which indicates that work force is not replenished in UK and here lies the need to invite immigrants from other nations.
In 2008, the average total fertility rate (TFR) across the UK was 1.96 children per woman. Though the figure is considered to be satisfactory by some groups, as it is higher than 1.63 in 2001, it is much lower than 2.95 children per woman registered in 1964. The Scotland had the lowest fertility rate at only 1.8 children per woman, while Northern Ireland had the highest at 2.11 children in 2008. But it has been pointed out in a previous article that the minimum fertility rate (FR) for a culture, to sustain for coming 25 years, must be 2.11 children per family(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom)
Regarding the arrival of immigrants to UK, an analysis by the Office for National Statistical data shows that, within 15 years from 1991 to 2006, 2.3 million migrants moved to the UK and 84 per cent of them from outside Europe. In 2008 it was predicted that migration would add 7 million people into the UK population by 2031. The latest official figures show that in 2008, 590,000 people arrived to settle in the UK while 427,000 left the country, which means that net inward migration was 163,000.
Muslim Population in UK:
According to the 2001 census, there were 1,536,015 Muslims in England and Wales, forming 3% of the population. Muslims in Scotland numbered 42,557 representing 0.84% of the population. There were a further 1,943 Muslims in Northern Ireland. The biggest groups of Muslims were from Pakistan,Bangladesh and India. According to a Labour Force Survey, the total number of Muslims in Great Britain in 2008 was 2,422,000, around 4% of the total population. Between 2004 and 2008, the Muslim population grew by more than 500,000.
Among these immigrants, over 1 million people follow religions of Indian origin: 560,000 Hindus, 340,000 Sikhs and about 150,000 Buddhists. One Non-governmental organisation estimated that there were 800,000 Hindus and approximately 270,000 Jews in the United Kingdom in 2008. There were, also a considerable population of Iains. In this context, it may be mentioned thatLeicester houses one of the world's biggest Jain temples outside India. The Table 2 shows the population of various religious groups, in 2001, in UK. Table 3 shows the distribution of Muslim population in various countries in Europe.
Table 2: Population of Various Religious Groups, in 2001, in UK.
Religion | Population in % |
Christianity | 71.8 |
None | 15.1 |
Not Stated | 7.8 |
Islam | 2.8 |
Hinduism | 1.0 |
Sikhism | 0.6 |
Judaism | 0.5 |
Table 3: The distribution Muslim Population in Various countries of Europe
Country | Muslim Population in % |
Switzerland | 4.3 |
France | 8.0 |
Sweden | 5.0 |
Italy | 1.5 |
Norway | 1.8 |
Denmark | 2.0 |
Germany | 3.7 |
United Kingdom | 2.7 |
Spain | 4.0 |
The Netherlands | 5.5 |
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Muslim_population)
Danger of the Rise of Muslim Population:
It has been pointed out above that everywhere in the world, Muslim population grows faster than that of all other religious groups. How much faster? JournalistRichard Kerbaj, after analyzing the data, has come to the conclusion that the Muslim population is rising ten times faster than the rest of the society (The Times, January 30, 2009. URL-http://www.timesonl ine.co.uk/ tol/news/ uk/article562148 2.ece). Kerbaj says, “The Muslim population in Britain has grown by more than 500,000 to 2.4 million in just four years, according to official research collated for The Times.” He also writes, “The research by the Office for National Statistics revealrd that within the same period the number of Christians in the country declined by more than 2 million.”
Experts are convinced that the said rapid increase of Muslim population was attributable to (i) mass immigration, (ii) a higher birthrate and (iii) conversions of indigenous people to Islam during the period of 2004-2008, when the data was gathered. They said, “It also suggests a growing willingness among the believers (Muslims) so as to project themselves as a religious group that cannot be ignored.”
It should be mentioned here that a rise in population of the religious groups, like Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and Jews does not pose a threat to the host country. But a rise in Muslim population poses a serious threat to the culture and social fabric of the host Christian country. This is because Islam is a totalitarian political creed in the guise of a religion. The aim of Islam is to destroy all other religions and establish Islam as the supreme religion over the entire world (see Koran- 8:39, 2:193)..
Labour PM Tony Blair of UK
Loyalty of the UK Muslims to Labour:
It has been mentioned that the Leftist political parties around the world are found to be more sympathetic to Muslims. Following this trend, the Labour Party in UK shows more sympathy towards Muslims, simply to earn their votes. And as a return, Muslim immigrants of UK pretend to be more loyal to the Labour. While commenting on this Muslim-Labour alliance in the UK, political observer Nick Spencer writes, “There are good demographic and socio-economic reasons for that support. British Muslims are disproportionately younger and more urban. They come from lower-income households and experience higher levels of unemployment. These factors traditionally edge voters to the left. Perhaps the Muslim vote is actually made up of cross-currents of wider and more powerful demographic and socio-economic trends.” But “The Iraq war was supposed to have poisoned Labour's relations with British Muslims.” (The Guardian, February 22, 2010 andhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/feb/22/muslim-voters-labour)
He also predicted that due to the souring of Muslim-Labour relation, the latter was expected to lose support of a considerable sections of Muslims and wrote,“If there were a general election tomorrow, 35% of voting Muslims (meaning those Muslims who claim they are more likely than not to vote) would vote Labour. This compares with 22% of voting Christians and 23% of the entire voting population. By comparison, whereas 30% of the voting population would tick the Conservative box, only 13% of voting Muslims would do so.” At the same time, it is also true that, at least 49% of Muslims will continue to support the Labour Party and claim that the Labour party has been most friendly towards the Muslim faith over recent years.
So, a group of experts, just before the Parliamentary Election 2010, apprehended that, “Though the Muslims of UK form only a small percentage (nearly 3 per cent) of the electorate yet, paradoxically, it could be Britain’s Muslims who determine the outcome of next month’s general election. The reason is simple: although there are only about two million Muslims in a nation of 61 million, their numbers are concentrated in a relatively small number of towns and cities throughout the country.”(David Sapsted, Oxford Islamic Marketing, April 19, 2010: URL-http://oxfordislamicmarketing.sbsblogs.co.uk/news/muslim-voters-may-hold-the-key-to-uk-election/) So, it is needless to say that, in those Muslim concentrated constituencies, Muslim votes have become a deciding factor in electoral outcomes. The Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK (MPacUK), a London-based civil liberties group, estimates that the Muslim vote could prove to be the deciding factor in as many as 82 marginal constituencies.
Labour PM Gordon Brown
Blackburn is such a constituency where Muslims make 26% of the electorate, and hence considered one of Labour’s firmest strongholds."There are about 25,000 Muslim voters in Blackburn so of course they can make a difference," said the Tory candidate, Imtiaz Ameen. “It has supplied two of the party's leading lights in Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and the late Barbara Castle. Discontent over the Iraq war is felt keenly here, where many Muslims, who make up 26% of the electorate, are starting to turn their back on their traditional support for the Labour party”, said an observer. For example, Ajaz Ellahi, a 28-year-old fabric shop owner,said, "I voted in the last election for Labour but I absolutely will not this time, due to the fact that they are murderers in disguise as you have seen in Iraq."
However, in another article, David Sapsted, on April 17, 2010, wrote, “The Muslim votes would be a crucial element when both the Labour and Conservative parties are fighting a close battle to get an overall majority in the 646-seat parliament. Traditionally, the bulk of the Muslim vote has gone to the ruling Labour Party, which has been regarded as more sympathetic towards Muslim immigrants.”(http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100417/FOREIGN/704169888/1013)
“Despite the British military excursions in Iraq and Afghanistan and the introduction of antiterrorism laws, 57 per cent of the country’s Muslims said they intended to vote Labour in a poll earlier this year. … The same poll, however, found that only 32 per cent of Muslims were “absolutely certain” to vote, compared to 47 per cent across the nation”, Sapsted added.
Present Conservative PM David Cameron
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), an umbrella organisation had launched a “Muslim Vote 2010” campaign, complete with a website, to bring more Muslims to the polling booths on the Election Day. It explained why it was vital for Muslims to exercise their democratic rights. Rukiya Dadhiwala, the MPacUK campaign co-ordinator, however, did not expect that the bulk of Muslim voters will revert to their old habits and vote for Labour candidates. “Muslim voters can no longer be taken for granted by Labour as a new politicised generation are becoming swing voters who demand action on issues from Palestine to antiterror laws” he said. It is evident that all these factors contributed to the defeat of Labour in 2010 Parliamentary election.
.Politicians’ lust for Muslim block vote:
It has been mentioned in an earlier article that, in a country, run by a democratic government, it is expected that an individual will cast his vote in favour of a political party of his/her personal choice. But the picture is quite different for the Muslims who live in a majority non-Muslim country – they cast their votes not according to their personal choice but according to the dictates of the clerics and community leaders. This forms a Muslim block-vote and goes for a single political party. As soon as this block-vote attains a sizeable amount, or becomes a deciding factor for winning or losing election, every political party starts woojng and appeasing the Muslims so that they would cast their votes in its favour. To please the Muslims, the government starts providing more and more facilities to them, even at the sacrifice of national interest. And in this way the politics of Muslim appeasement gains momentum.
The reader may recall that as the number of Muslim voters is rising fast in the UK, the Labour Party, to remain in power, has adopted the policy of Muslim appeasement as a standard practice to capture their votes. It is needless to say that the Labour Government’s refusal to let Geert Wilders enter the UK on February 12, 2009, was a reflection of that policy.
Labour MP Peter G Hain
While commenting on Mr Hain’s statements, a political analyst said, ”Yes, and we all know how they will attempt to win back the Islamic vote. By pandering to their every whim and demand, by elevating their status over the indigenous population to an even higher level than it already is. I can understand why they need to do this. Labour is steadily losing support among ordinary Britons, including some alienated sections of the working class. They so heartily despise, as people are increasingly starting to realise what they are about. It is sheer desperation, an unscrupulous attempt to cling onto power whatever the price may be. And without a doubt the Islamic scum will demand a heavy price for the support this despicable government so desperately needs.”
Criticism of British Policy by Geert Wilders:
It has been mentioned earlier that the renowned author Stephen Brown, in his article British Parliament Surrenders (appearedon February 6, 2009, in the FrontPageMagazine. Com), scathingly criticized the said policy of Muslim appeasement adopted by the Labour Government of UK. He wrote, “The place where Winston Churchill once so eloquently and forcefully rallied the British people to defeat the Nazi threat is now under siege from a new tyranny.Islamic intimidation achieved a new high last week when it forced the British Parliament, one of Western civilization' s most venerable institutions, to quietly surrender its most basic of freedoms.”
Most importantly, the Dutch MP Geert Wilders, the lone fighter fighting to save Europe from the peril of Islamization and the producer of the brilliant short film FITNA, while addressing an audience at the House of Lords on March 5, 2010, more bitterly denounced the British policy of Muslim appeasement. He said,“Islam means submission, there cannot be any mistake about its goal. That's a given. The question is whether we in Europe and you in Britain, with your glorious past, will submit or stand firm for your heritage. We see Islam taking off in the West at an incredible pace. Europe is Islamizing rapidly. A lot of European cities have enormous Islamic concentrations. Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and Berlin are just a few examples. In some parts of these cities, Islamic regulations are already being enforced. Women's rights are being destroyed. Burqa's, headscarves, polygamy, female genital mutilation, honour-killings have started to take place in an wide scale. Women have to go to separate swimming-classes, don't get a handshake. Many European cities are already under apartheid. Jews, in an increasing number, are leaving Europe.” (http://islam-watch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=361:wilders-speech-to-house-of-lords-london-orlondonistan&catid=89:other-authors&Itemid=58)
He pointed out that, Islamization of Great Britain is rapidly advancing due to mass immigration of Muslims to the country and this Islamization “has put an enormous pressure on your British society. ... British politicians who have forgotten about Winston Churchill have now taken the path of least resistance. They have given up. They have given in.”
He also questioned the economic aspect of mass immigration and said, “Last year, my party has requested the Dutch government to make a cost-benefit analysis of the mass immigration. But the government refused to give us an answer. Why? Because it was afraid of the truth. .... A Dutch weekly magazine - Elsevier - calculated costs to exceed 200 billion Euros. Last year alone, they came with an amount of 13 billion Euros. More calculations have been made in Europe: According to the Danish national bank, every Danish immigrant from an Islamic country is costing the Danish state more than 300 thousand Euros. You see the same in Norway and France. The conclusion that can be drawn from this: Europe is getting more impoverished by the day. More impoverished thanks to mass immigration. More impoverished thanks to demographics. And the leftists are thrilled.”
It is evident that same things are happening in Britain as well but being suppressed.
To caution the audience about the danger Islamization of Europe, Wilders said,“The Labour Government has opened the door to mass immigration as a deliberate policy to change the social structures of the UK. Andrew Neather, a former government advisor and speech writer for Tony Blair and Jack Straw, said the aim of Labour's immigration strategy was, and I quote, to "rub the Right's nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date".
“If this is true, this is symptomatic of the Left. Why the Labour Party has opened the door for mass Muslim immigrants? The Labour is contemplating to turn the Muslims immigrants into their voters through appeasement and win elections”, he added.
West Bengal is also a victim of the curse of Muslim appeasement:
The picture is quite similar to what is happening in the state of West Bengal (WB) in India. A coalition government led by the Communists and other leftist parties is ruling the state for past 30 years. Labour in Britain and Leftists in the Europe are inviting Muslim immigrants to remain in power. In West Bengal, the ruling Leftist Government has opened the porous WB-Bangladesh border and is inviting the illegal Muslim infiltrators to come and settle in the state. In fact, Muslim Bangladeshi infiltrators are pouring into WB like flood waters. The appeasement of these Muslim infiltrators starts as soon as an infiltrator crosses the border and sets his foot on Indian soil.
The Communist cadres immediately start their job – firstly to find a suitable shelter for them and then to provide ration cards and get their names entered into the voters’ list, and thus turning them into citizens of India through the back door. This author has described these developments through several articles e.g. The Destiny of the Hindus of West Bengal: The Coming Days of Slavery to Islam, West Bengal in the Peril of Islamic Jihad and so on. These Leftist political leaders fail to understand that by bringing the Muslims into WB, they are axing their own legs. They will be the first victim of Islam as soon as they gain majority.
It is well known that Muslims hate the non-Muslim kafirs. But many do not know that the non-Muslim appeasers incur much more hatred of the Muslims than ordinary kafirs. It is not difficult for them to identify these politicians as most despicable kind of people who do not hesitate to sacrifice national interest for petty political benefit. When the Muslim leaders talk among themselves, use most derogatory words for these Muslim appeasing kafir political leaders and there is no doubt this intense hatred has inspired Roshanara chaudhari to stab the Labour MP Stephen Timms on May 14 this year.
How the Muslims utilise this opportunity:
Sir Winston Churchill assessed Islam as thus, “How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet (Mohammed) rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child , a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.”
In fact, Islam is a non-spiritual political creed. It is not a religion, but a political party and each and every mosque is its party office. The religious address (khutba) delivered by the imams of the mosques after the Friday prayers are nothing but political lectures. So, as a religious group, the Muslims are politically more conscious and active than other religious groups. As a result, as soon as Muslims in a non-Muslim country could sense that the ruling government or the ruling political is greedy for their votes and has adopted the policy of Muslim appeasement, they start bargaining to squeeze out as much benefit as possible from that ruling party. And they go on demanding unjust financial, religious or any other benefits and concessions from the government, because they know that government would bow down to their most unjust and illegal demands for their votes.
In addition to that, they intensify their jihadi and other unlawful and terrorist activities because they know that the government would turn a blind eye to these activities for the fear of losing their votes. In this manner, they elevate themselves as citizens of first category, while the indigenous people of the country reduce to second category citizens. As a consequence of this political game, they have aireadt succeeded to establish Sharia court for themselves, as a parallel system judiciary in UK. As a matter of fact, through establishment of Sharia court, they have been able to advance the process of Islamization of UK a step further. We hope to discuss the other curses of Muslim appeasement in a follow up article.
