Enlightenment fanatic Kenan Malik is at it once more. So are Kenan’s Komrades, the fanatical Furedite freedom-fighters on the libertarian journal Spiked On-line. Or quite, Kenan & Komrades aren’t at it once more. The issue shouldn’t be what they’ve performed, however what they’ve but once more did not do. A fascinatingly horrible story about censorship has been within the information. It cries out for condemnation by defenders of free speech, for skilled evaluation and interpretation by lovers for the Enlightenment. So how have Kenan and his comrades responded to the story? By ignoring it.
The candy scent of cephalotomy
It’s very simple to know their silence. Just like the homicide of Asad Shah, the story explodes all their bullshit and obfuscation about why free speech is dying within the West. Though the story itself takes place within the East. In Pakistan, to be exact. It’s a very good instance of how Lewis Carroll (1832–98), the creator of Alice in Wonderland, and the Marquis de Sade (1740–1814), the creator of 120 Days of Sodom, appear to be collaborating from the afterlife on the script for Pakistani tradition. Carroll provides the absurdity and the Marquis de Sade provides the atrocity. On this case, thankfully sufficient, Carroll had the higher hand and the Marquis held himself in test.
So how does the story go? It goes like this: on twenty fifth February, 2024, a younger Muslim girl went buying in Lahore in a reasonably new gown. The gown got here from a Kuwaiti fashion-house and had Arabic calligraphy on it. Even in the event you don’t learn Arabic, it isn’t laborious to see {that a} single phrase is repeated there in numerous colours. The phrase is حلوۃ, halwa, that means “candy” and having no non secular significance. Pakistan makes use of an tailored (and fewer engaging) type of Arabic script for its personal nationwide language of Urdu, so this gown shouldn’t have gotten the lady in any bother.
However bear in mind, Lewis Carroll and the Marquis de Sade are writing the script for Pakistan. So right here come the precise absurdity and the tried atrocity. As the lady did her buying, some males falsely accused her of blasphemy for carrying verses from the Qur’an on her physique. The girl fled right into a food-shop and huddled there in terror as a mob of lots of gathered outdoors. A few of the mob chanted for her dying utilizing well-known recommendation for lovers of the Prophet Muhammad in Pakistan:
!گستاخ رسول کی ایک ہی سزا سر تن سے جدا
Gustakh-e-Rasūl kī ek hī sazā, sar tan se judā!
“For insult to the Prophet, there is just one punishment: lower the pinnacle from the physique!” (See “sar tan se juda” at Wiktionary)
Thankfully for the lady, her alleged blasphemy didn’t end in precise cephalotomy (Greek kephalos, “head,” + tomos, “chopping”). The police arrived and a courageous policewoman known as Syeda Shehrbano Naqvi confronted down the mob. Naqvi then escorted the lady to security together with her head coated and the gown hid. Three bearded mullahs later interviewed her at a police-station, examined the gown, and licensed that she was solely harmless of blasphemy. The girl herself issued a terrified apology: “I didn’t have any such intention [of committing blasphemy], it occurred by mistake. Nonetheless I apologise for all that occurred, and I’ll make sure that it by no means occurs once more.”
The girl was solely harmless, bear in mind. However she nonetheless felt obliged to apologize to the misogynistic fanatics who threatened to cut her head off. Misogyny was undoubtedly a part of what occurred. So was patriarchy. Misogynists don’t like seeing ladies fortunately buying in fairly new attire. Patriarchs do like dictating feminine conduct. It’s not simply libertarians within the West who ought to have been writing about this story, despite the fact that it occurred within the East. Western feminists ought to have been throughout it too. It’s because the West is importing the East, so misogynistic and illiberal Pakistani tradition is now firmly established on Western soil. Misogynistic and illiberal Afghan tradition is firmly established too, as we noticed when the Afghan “asylum seeker” Abdul Ezedi threw a flesh-eating alkali over a girl and her two younger daughters in London in February.
The stench of silence
That was a horrific act of misogyny by a satisfied patriarch, however feminists ignored it and wrote no outraged commentaries about its significance for Western ladies. In spite of everything, no White man was concerned, so there was no benefit to be gained for leftism in condemning the assault. Equally, there’s no benefit for leftism or libertarianism within the story in regards to the fashion-phobic mob in Pakistan. Given the passion of the mob for decapitation and what was written on the lady’s gown, you would say that it was a narrative in regards to the candy scent of head-chopping. By ignoring it, Kenan & Komrades have additionally made it right into a story in regards to the stench of silence. In spite of everything, the fashion-phobic mob revealed the lunacy of importing Pakistanis and different Muslims into the West. The mob additionally exploded the lies in articles like this, posted at Spiked by considered one of Frank Furedi’s fanatical freedom-fighters:
British faculties are being changed into political battlegrounds. A militant Muslim identification politics is mounting an ever-stronger problem to their academic authority. Over the previous few weeks alone, the Michaela Group College in north-west London has appeared on the Excessive Court docket, having been sued for discrimination by a Muslim pupil over its resolution to ban prayer rituals. And some miles away in east London, Barclay Major College has been underneath assault from Islamists and some mother and father after it advised youngsters to not put on clothes or badges displaying some type of ‘political allegiance’ in class — a transfer interpreted as a clampdown on pro-Palestine symbols.In each circumstances, activists’ response to the varsity’s choices has been marked by menace. Following Michaela’s resolution to ban prayer rituals final spring, bomb threats had been made to lecturers, the varsity was vandalised and a brick was thrown by means of a classroom window. And in response to Barclay Major’s change to its uniform code, arson and bomb threats had been despatched each to the varsity and particular person workers. Masked males climbed the varsity’s fence at evening to hold Palestinian flags round its perimeter.
There’s a tendency to border circumstances like this as a part of an age-old battle between faith and modernity. Between the calls for of religion and the calls for of public life in secular societies. But it surely’s a deceptive characterisation. The aggressive imposition of Muslim cultural practices on to schooling has little or no to do with Islam and all the pieces to do with many years of multicultural policymaking. That’s what we’re seeing proper now within the circumstances of Michaela and Barclay. Not quiet shows of religion, however loud, all-too-visible assertions of Muslim identitarianism. (“How Muslim identification politics colonised schooling,” Spiked, twenty eighth January 2024)
When you’re like me, your jaw should be aching from the velocity at which it dropped if you learn this line: “The aggressive imposition of Muslim cultural practices on to schooling has little or no to do with Islam and all the pieces to do with many years of multicultural policymaking.” What planet is the creator on? Planet Trotsky, that’s what. That article was a “Lengthy Learn” but it surely may as properly have been known as a “Lengthy Listing of Lies.” It was written by somebody known as Tim Black, however plugs the identical line as Kenan Malik’s many articles on the ever-increasing pathologies created by Muslims in kaffir international locations
Black and Malik had been as soon as members of a Trotskyist cult known as the Revolutionary Communist Get together (RCP). They’re nonetheless devoted disciples of the RCP’s chief, a Jewish sociologist known as Frank Furedi (born 1947) who isn’t exceptional for perception or mind however is exceptional for his capability to create cognitive clones of himself. Simply as Furedi taught them, Kenan and his comrades keep it up claiming that Islam and Muslim migration have by no means been a real downside. No, it’s the mistaken insurance policies of the non-Muslim elite in the direction of Muslims that causes all the difficulty. If it weren’t for the foul and silly coverage of “multiculturalism,” Muslims would way back have begun erecting statues of Voltaire and forming reading-clubs to probe the collected works of John Stuart Mill. Their Islamic religion would have remained “a non-public affair, a matter of conscience and ritual.”
Murderers for Muhammad
That’s the speculation, anyway. Alas for libertarians, it falls aside when it’s set towards actuality. “Multiculturalism” didn’t embolden that Muslim mob chanting for the decapitation of a terrified girl in Lahore in 2024. Nor did it embolden the Muslims who burnt a replica of H.G. Wells’ A Quick Historical past of the World in London in 1938. Wells had disrespected the Prophet Muhammad, you see, so Muslims burnt his e book for lack of capability to cut his head off. And “multiculturalism” undoubtedly didn’t embolden the Muslim hero-martyr Ilm ud-Deen, who stabbed a Hindu blasphemer to dying in 1929, then calmly accepted arrest, imprisonment, and execution. The Hindu had satirized the Prophet in a e book known as Rangila Rasul or Colourful Prophet, so Ilm Ud-Deen did the respectable factor and dispatched him to Hell (“colourful” additionally implies “promiscuous” or “wanton” in Urdu and Hindi).
Islamic Hero #3: Tanveer Ahmed, who murdered for Muhammad in Britain (Ahmed is described as ghazi, “hero,” and his sufferer Asad Shah as kazzab, “liar”)
Ilm Ud-Deen’s heroic defence of the Prophet’s honor explains why there are shrines dedicated to his reminiscence in fashionable Pakistan. A film was launched there in 2002 celebrating his love of the Prophet and noble self-sacrifice (you possibly can watch it without spending a dime at Youtube). It’s known as Ghazi Ilmuddin Shahid, which suggests Hero Ilmuddin the Martyr. To thousands and thousands of Pakistanis that’s precisely what he’s. He’s a hero for killing the Hindu blasphemer and a martyr for welcoming the execution that adopted.
Given the persevering with veneration of Ilm ud-Deen in Pakistan, it’s no shock that in 2011 one other religious Muslim adopted his golden instance and have become a ghazi-shahid too. Mumtaz Qadri was a bodyguard for the Pakistani minister Salmaan Taseer. However Taseer tried to assist the Christian girl Asia Bibi, who was rotting on death-row after a righteous conviction for blasphemy. Taseer “advocated reform of Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy legal guidelines,” so Qadri did the respectable factor and machine-gunned him to dying, then calmly accepted arrest, imprisonment, and execution. His golden instance impressed one other but religious Muslim, this time one dwelling in Britain. After his arrival right here from Pakistan, Tanveer Ahmed was horrified to study that an Ahmadi heretic known as Asad Shah was disseminating blasphemous movies from his store in Glasgow. So Tanveer received in his taxi and drove up from Bradford in 2016 to do the respectable factor. He stabbed and stamped Asad Shah to dying, then calmly accepted arrest and imprisonment for homicide.
Murderous Mumtaz was a “true Muslim”
If Britain nonetheless had the death-penalty, he would have accepted execution simply as calmly. He didn’t get to be a shahid, a “martyr,” however he’s nonetheless a ghazi, a “hero,” to many mainstream Muslims in Britain. For instance, Glasgow Central Mosque and the Muslim Council of Scotland refused to participate in an “anti-extremism occasion” held in reminiscence of Asad Shah. They too thought that Asad Shah was a heretic and deserved all he received. Certainly, solely a month earlier than Shah was dispatched to Hell-fire, an imam at Glasgow Central Mosque had expressed his “ache” on the execution of Mumtaz Qadri, the Martyr with a Machine-Gun, known as him a “true Muslim,” and pronounced a blessing on him. Kenan Malik’s personal newspaper, the Guardian, reported that “One of many largest mosques in Birmingham mentioned particular prayers for Qadri, describing him as ‘a martyr’, as did influential preachers in Bradford and Dewsbury’.” Qadri-fans from Pakistan have toured mosques in Britain and praised his heroic defence of the Prophet.
How have Kenan and his comrades responded to this completely mainstream Muslim love of violent censorship and hatred of peaceable free speech? Nicely, to one of the best of my information, Kenan Malik has by no means written a phrase in regards to the homicide of Asad Shah or the deep-rooted Pakistani custom of murder-for-Muhammad that impressed it. The identical silence has lengthy been maintained at Spiked, the place no senior author talked about Asad Shah till 2023, when Spiked’s editor Tom Slater (who isn’t considered one of Kenan’s unique comrades) wrote a detailed article in regards to the homicide. However element didn’t preclude dishonesty. As I described in “Blasphemy and Bullshit,” Slater blamed “liberal cowardice” and “state multiculturalism” for “gasoline[ing] Islamic intolerance” and inspiring Muslims “to see themselves as separate and distinct.” Contra Slater’s dishonesty, Tanveer Ahmed got here to Britain as an grownup together with his “Islamic intolerance” totally fashioned by his upbringing in Pakistan.
“Love Muslim migration, hate free speech”
And Slater doesn’t perceive — or pretends to not perceive — that “multiculturalism” harmonizes completely with mass immigration. Opposing “multiculturalism” and supporting open borders, as Slater and his comrades have all the time performed, is like opposing maggot infestation and supporting open wounds. When the elite of a civilized nation is on the facet of the extraordinary folks in that nation, it doesn’t permit mass immigration from the Third World. That’s why Frank Furedi’s homeland of Hungary shouldn’t be troubled by rape-gangs, suicide-bombing, murder-for-Muhammad, and different facets of Islamic enrichment. Nevertheless, when the elite of a nation is hostile to the extraordinary folks of that nation, it imposes Third-World immigration on the extraordinary folks regardless of how a lot they protest. On the identical time, the hostile elite privileges the Third-World invaders over the White natives and permits them to pursue their very own benefit in any respect turns.
You possibly can see this elite betrayal in Britain, which has had an official coverage of multiculturalism, simply as a lot as in France, which has had an official coverage of monoculturalism. In different phrases, the imposition of Third-World immigration by a hostile elite harmonizes completely with the incubation of Third-World pathologies. Kenan Malik and Spiked by no means level out that the best enemies of free speech, like Labour in Britain and the Democrats in America, are concurrently the best supporters of Third-World immigration. Nor do they level out the rarity and fragility of free speech. Throughout virtually all of the world all through virtually all of historical past, tyrants and non secular believers have maintained their energy by silencing their critics with violence and imprisonment. Given their very own political historical past, Malik and Spiked ought to want no reminding that it was the freedom-hating Josef Stalin who triumphed over the freedom-loving Leon Trotsky.
Peril-Delicate Sun shades
Not that Trotsky was a real lover of freedom. He may properly have develop into a worse tyrant than Stalin if he’d gained the battle for supremacy. Malik and Spiked aren’t real lovers of freedom both. In the event that they had been, they wouldn’t have ignored the horrific homicide of Asad Shah for therefore lengthy. When Tom Slater lastly broke that shameful silence at Spiked, he complained that Shah’s “title doesn’t imply a lot to folks in Britain at present. But it surely actually ought to.” I totally agree. That’s why I’ve been writing in regards to the homicide of Asad Shah ever because it occurred: see right here, right here, right here, right here, right here, right here and right here. However alas, I’m a crazed far-right extremist and I don’t have the mainstream viewers loved by Spiked and by Kenan Malik on the Observer, the Sunday model of the Guardian. If Kenan & Komrades had written often and infrequently about Asad Shah, he would now be a lot better recognized. But when they’d performed that, they might have contradicted their very own bullshit about “multiculturalism” quite than migration being guilty for “Muslim identification politics” within the West.
As I’ve mentioned, that principle falls aside when it’s set towards actuality. That’s why Kenan Malik, for instance, has protested loudly about Uyghur Muslims being persecuted by kaffir communists in China at the same time as he’s ignored the homicide of Asad Shah in Glasgow and the fashion-phobic mob in Lahore. If Lewis Carroll and the Marquis de Sade are writing the script for Pakistan, then it’s Douglas Adams (1952–2001), creator of the Hitchhiker’s Information to the Galaxy, who’s writing the script for Kenan & Komrades:
Joo Janta 200 Tremendous-Chromatic Peril-Delicate Sun shades have been specifically designed to assist folks develop a relaxed angle to hazard. On the first trace of bother, they flip completely black and thus stop you from seeing something that may alarm you. (From Douglas Adams’ The Restaurant on the Finish of the Universe (1980), chapter 5)
Metaphorically talking, Kenan & Komrades have been carrying Joo Janta Peril-Delicate Sun shades for many years. However the actual downside isn’t that they’re blind to the reality about Islam and Third-World migration, it’s that they see the reality after which refuse to be sincere about it. That’s why they’ve ignored so many inconvenient tales about Muslim love of Muhammad and hatred of free speech. As I mentioned above, Lewis Carroll had the higher hand on the dress-script, quite than the Marquis de Sade. However the Marquis had the higher hand on this script for lovers of Muhammad:
A mob in Pakistan tortured, killed after which set on fireplace a Sri Lankan man who was accused of blasphemy over some posters he had allegedly taken down. Priyantha Diyawadana, a Sri Lankan nationwide who labored as common supervisor of a manufacturing unit of the economic engineering firm Rajco Industries in Sialkot, Punjab, was set upon by a violent crowd on Friday.In horrific movies shared throughout social media, Diyawadana could be seen being thrown on to the ground, the place lots of started tearing his garments, violently beating him. He was tortured to dying after which his physique was burned. Dozens within the crowd may also be seen taking selfies together with his lifeless physique. The incident started when rumours emerged that Diyawadana, who had been supervisor of the manufacturing unit for seven years, had taken down a poster bearing phrases from the Qur’an. By the morning, a crowd started to assemble on the manufacturing unit gates and by early afternoon they’d charged into the manufacturing unit and seized Diyawadana. (Man tortured and killed in Pakistan over alleged blasphemy, The Guardian, third December 2021)
If Kenan Malik and Spiked had been genuinely involved with defending free speech, they might write about tales like that. There’s no scarcity of them from Pakistan and different Muslim international locations. However alas, if Kenan & Komrades wrote about horrific tales like that, they might discover it a lot tougher to plug bullshit like this:
Discussions about concepts or social practices or public coverage must be as unfettered as potential. However when disdain for concepts or insurance policies or practices develop into transposed into prejudices about folks, a pink line is crossed. It’s crossed when castigation of Islamism results in requires an finish to Muslim immigration. (“Blurring the road between criticism and bigotry fuels hatred of Muslims and Jews,” The Observer, third March 2023)
That’s Kenan Malik within the Sunday model of the Guardian. He needs each dialogue about concepts and Muslim immigration to “be as unfettered as potential.” However the homicide of Asad Shah proves that “Muslim immigration” could be very unhealthy for “dialogue of concepts.” That’s why Kenan has ignored the homicide of Asad Shah. He’s additionally ignored the truth that concepts don’t have to be accompanied by immigration. Right here is a picture of a Muslim expressing an thought in India:
The Hindi script on the placard reads Gustākh-e-nabi ki ek hello sazā, sar tan se judā, sar tan se judā, which suggests “For insulting the Prophet, there is just one punishment: lower the pinnacle from the physique, lower the pinnacle from the physique!” It’s the identical healthful head-chopping recommendation that I mentioned at the start of this text (or practically the identical: it makes use of nabi for “prophet” quite than rasūl).
That’s the magic of writing, you see: it permits concepts to fly throughout huge stretches of house and time with none accompanying physique or mind. The Muslim is in India, I’m in Britain. I’ve seen his “thought” and I reject it. However alas: Muslims who settle for the identical thought have colonized Britain in ever-growing numbers. Tanveer Ahmed accepts that concept. That’s why he triumphed in his “dialogue” with the heretical Asad Shah in Glasgow. Asad needed to shake arms together with his opponent; Tanveer needed to homicide his opponent. It was Tanveer who gained the dialogue and who strengthened his violent type of Islam on the expense of Asad’s peaceable type of Islam.
Phony pal of free speech
As Kenan Malik by no means advised you, Asad Shah had been granted asylum in Britain exactly as a result of he was at menace of violence in Pakistan. However Pakistan adopted him to Britain due to Britain’s insane and evil immigration insurance policies. Once you import Third-World folks, you inevitably import Third-World pathologies with them. But it surely isn’t simply the murderous intolerance of mainstream Pakistani tradition that Britain has imported. It’s additionally the rape-culture of Pakistan. And the horrible genetic ailments brought on by the Pakistani custom of marrying shut family. How does Kenan Malik reply to all these pathologies? To one of the best of his capability, he ignores them fully. However he claims that “a pink line is crossed” when those that oppose “Islamism” name for “an finish to Muslim immigration.” So there you may have Malik’s “pink line.” Not the homicide of Asad Shah, which he ignored, however any name for an finish to Muslim immigration.
In different phrases, Malik isn’t a real pal of free speech and isn’t a real opponent of identification politics. That’s why he ignores horrific tales about Muslim intolerance and why he makes use of weasel-words like “Islamism.” I don’t assume murderers like Mumtaz Qadri and Tanveer Ahmed are “Islamists.” I feel they’re completely mainstream Muslims. I feel the identical of the Muslims at Glasgow Central Mosque who refused to attend the “anti-extremism occasion” for Asad Shah and who pronounced a blessing on Mumtaz Qadri, the Martyr with a Machine-Gun.
“Love Muhammad, hate free speech”
However I’m a crazed right-wing extremist, so I’m certain that Kenan Malik gained’t take my phrase for it. That’s effective. He can take the phrase of his personal newspaper as an alternative. In 2011 Saeed Shah, the Guardian’s correspondent in Islamabad, reported that “mainstream non secular organisations applauded the homicide of Salmaan Taseer, the governor of Punjab, earlier this week and his killer was showered with rose petals as he appeared in court docket.” In 2014, the Guardian was again with an replace: “A mosque named in honour of the killer of a politician who known as for the reform of Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy legal guidelines is proving so well-liked it’s elevating funds to double its capability.”
Is Kenan Malik carrying his Joo Janta Peril-Delicate Sun shades when tales like that make their common look in his personal newspaper? Do the sun shades “flip completely black and thus stop him from seeing something that may alarm him”? No, that’s not what occurs. The issue with Kenan & Komrades isn’t their eye-wear however their dishonesty and refusal to confess the reality. Homicide for Muhammad is mainstream in Islamic international locations. Due to Muslim immigration, homicide for Muhammad is changing into mainstream in Britain too. And in France, the place cartoonists have been massacred and a schoolteacher beheaded by but extra imported lovers of Muhammad and haters of free speech. Mendacity leftists are accountable for these murders. However so are lip-sealed libertarians.
