“Far from being seen as the mortal enemy of the causes that progressive opinion holds so dear, such as sexual freedom or equal rights for women and homosexuals, the Islamic jihad has turned into the armed wing of the British left” (Melanie Phillips, Londonistan, pp. 117).
The Tropes of Anti-Semitism
“Throughout the Muslim world, the Nazi calumny and the tropes of medieval Jew-hatred have become assimilated into Islamic thinking . . . The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is treated as a basic text and sold throughout the Muslim world along with Mein Kampf” (Melanie Phillips, Londonistan, pp. 110-111).
Their Tandem Polygamy Instead of our Serial Polygamy
“The Association of Muslim Lawyers went even further, saying that it wanted formal recognition of a Muslim man’s right under Sharia law to have up to four wives. Ahmad Thomson, a member of the AML, said: ‘Under the Human Rights Acts they actually have a right to live and practice as Muslims and part of …
You Can’t See What You Won’t See
“British Muslims, however, are increasingly pushing for their culture to highly visible and given parity in the public sphere. Halal meals and separate prayer rooms are now commonplace throughout British institutions” (Melanie Phillips, Londonistan, p. 94).
Photo Negative Guilt
“There is a tendency to equate and then invert the behavior of the perpetrators of violence and that of their victims, so that self-defense is misrepresented as aggression while the original violence is viewed sympathetically as understandable and even justified” (Melanie Phillips, Londonistan, p. 72).
Not Any More
“Objectivity was bunk and so truth went out the window—and with it went the ability to weed out lies. The education system had been turned from the repository of disinterested knowledge to a vehicle for ‘antiracist’ and other propaganda. Instead of being taught how to think, children were now told what to think. The result …
MulitCulti Leveling
“That trend is multiculturalism, the doctrine that is now the orthodoxy throughout all the institutions of British public life. Put at its simplest, it holds that Britain is now made up of many cultures that are all equal and therefore have to be treated in an identical fashion, and that any attempt to impose the …
Suicide of the West
“Human rights doctrine is thus the principal cultural weapon to undermine the fundamental values of Western society—with an activist judiciary turned into culture warriors, marching behind the banner of militant secularism” (Melanie Phillips, Londonistan, p. 29).
Islamist-Chic
“This has produced the extraordinary phenomenon of radical Islam—which denies female equality and preaches death to gays—marching under the banner of human rights. The self-styled progressives on the British left, for whom human rights have replaced Christianity as the religion for a godless society, have formed a jaw-dropping axis with militant, fundamentalist Islamism. These two …
When You Are Being Run Out of Town, Get Out in Front and Make it Look Like a Parade
“In Britain, by contrast, the Church of England has been in the forefront of the retreat from the Judeo-Christian heritage. At every stage it has sought to appease the forces of secularism, accommodating itself to family breakdown, seeking to be nonjudgmental and embracing multiculturalism” (Melanie Phillips, Londonistan, p. xxii).