Frances Barber is correct: Islamic Extremism Is Making London Unrecognisable

“this is LONDON” was once Barber’s outraged reaction, a place that could be a byword for tolerance and diversity. And so it’s.

but simply two hours away, every other great metropolis was once below lockdown because the authorities might not guarantee the safety of its individuals. Astonishingly, in keeping with one Belgian respectable talking (November 27, 2015) on Radio 4, the inhabitants of Brussels, the capital of Europe, is 40 per cent Muslim. Shell-shocked politicians now admit there was perilously little integration. The icy Belgian air rings not just with sirens, however with the sound of steady doorways being slammed shut.

A veiled British Muslim girl filmed through an undercover reporter. picture: Channel 4

might it happen right here? just 5 miles down the river from the outdated Vic, where Frances Barber was insulted for her dress (a hate crime, had it been the wrong way round), a Channel 4 undercover team has spent the past year filming a secret cell of Islamist women who preach hatred of the united kingdom and brainwash young ladies into traveling to Syria. On Monday evening, the shocking documentary, Isis: The British ladies Supporters Unveiled, identified three people recognized on Twitter as Umm Saalihah, Umm L and Umm Usmaan.

Arriving on the conferences like a flock of crows in their burqas, the ladies eliminated their veils and started what more than likely passes for a WI assembly in Raqqa. lamentably, as an alternative of a lecture on the little-known function of lemon curd in excessive explosives, Umm L explained to her target market that what the government calls extremism – vocal opposition to British values, together with democracy – is “merely being a good Muslim”. She laughed on the futility of David Cameron’s counter-extremism plans and denounced “the audacity and arrogance” of “filthy Jews”.

I flinched at one point when Umm’s daughter ran up and she or he broke off her tirade, telling the little lady to “look for your rucksack within the kitchen”. How may a mother permit her child to listen to such bile about the place she was once born in and where she goes to high school? Britain, reasonably certainly, was no longer their united states of america, no longer when the Khilafah – the perfect Islamic state – has been dependent in Syria.

Umm L is Rubana, a mom of 4 dwelling in London and residing at the similar address as a leading member of a banned extremist service provider. picture: Channel four  picture: Channel 4

The three Umms had been all agreed that everybody must go to the Khilafah. everyone except those who had been a teeny bit tied up ranting against the kuffar (non-Muslims) in London group centres paid for with thousands of pounds of the kuffar’s taxes.

it will be pleasing to report that the Islamist girls were as stupid as they have been blinkered and nasty, but they spoke just right English in trained voices. all of the worse to listen to them sing the praises of guys who give a toddler a human head to carry. Warning: sensitive readers might want to take a seat down for the following bit. When she isn’t slagging off Britain, Umm Usmaan is a careers adviser. yes, i do know. sample advice: “I’ve obtained simply the career for you. It’s slightly short, but you definitely exit with a bang.” boom boom!

Coming so quickly after the massacres in Paris, the documentary was depressing and frightening in equal measure. The one comfort was “Aisha”, a young Muslim who bravely agreed to secret agent on her sinister “sisters”. It followed a ballot in the sun which found that one in 5 British Muslims have “some or plenty of sympathy” for youngsters who leave the uk to fight in Syria. There are query marks over the reliability of these figures, and about whether or not a fairly ambiguous question in truth indicated a make stronger for Isil.

Parisian electorate grasp palms in unity after the phobia attacks within the city.  photograph: Pascal Rossignol/Reuters

nevertheless, there may be an uncomfortable echo of a dismaying Channel four poll of 2006 when 23 per cent of British Muslims said that the July 7 London attacks could be justified as a result of the federal government’s support for “the war on terror”. To my data, no poll to this point has answered the unambiguous and painful question: Why accomplish that lots of our fellow voters hate us, and why can’t they are living somewhere else?

At one end of the realization spectrum, we have the Umms with their fearsome, blood-curdling certainties. on the different is the Archbishop of Canterbury who admitted that the Paris assaults had “put a chink in his armour of religion”. So Isil has the Umms whereas the Church of England has the U.S.and Ahs.

As WB Yeats prophesied in his great poem, The 2d Coming: “the very best lack all conviction, whereas the worst / Are stuffed with passionate depth.” now could be actually now not the fitting second for the non secular chief of the Anglican Church to say he has doubts concerning the presence of God. we discover doubt a very attractive, elastic quality in our liberal, pluralistic society, but doubt is much less excellent for combatting men in black hoods bearing AK47s. Or ladies stirring up irrational hatred in Walthamstow.

The C of E this week professed itself “bewildered” after its commercial featuring The Lord’s Prayer was banned from the united kingdom’s top cinemas. The advert, which is wistful and really reasonably lovely, shows a collection of people – a farmer, a weighlifter, emergency employees, refugees, a first-rate school assembly – all announcing one line of that heavenly prayer. It carries the easy hashtag: #justpray. Cineworld and Vue chains claimed that it “incorporates the danger of upsetting, or offending, audiences”.

It’s not in fact a bewildering choice on their phase; Christianity is considered as weak and beside the point. The British public, they figure, may also be relied upon to not make a fuss. just as we can also be relied upon to position up with Isil recruiters sporting the hateful, misogynist burqa and spitting within the face of our democracy, or taxi drivers calling girls disgusting for the sin of being chuffed and free.

“that is LONDON,” mentioned Frances Barber. not for for much longer it won’t be, not if we proceed to meet walk in the park with doubt.

The three Umms should be arrested for inciting racial hatred. in opposition to us. The Archbishop should man up, slap a patent on Christmas and deny permission for its use in any advert until the cinema chains relent. various us haven’t prayed for reasonably some time, but we will be able to know the phrases when we need them: deliver us from evil.

Amen.