source:
http://www.islam-watch.org/Others/thoughts-on-Islam-London-mayor-Bor=
is-Johnson.htm
The Qur'an
"To any non-Muslim reader of the Koran, Islamophobia =96 fear of Islam =96
seems a natural reaction, and, indeed, exactly what that text is
intended to provoke. Judged purely on its scripture =96 to say nothing
of what is preached in the mosques =96 it is the most viciously
sectarian of all religions in its heartlessness towards unbelievers.
As the killer of Theo Van Gogh told his victim's mother this week in a
Dutch courtroom, he could not care for her, could not sympathise,
because she was not a Muslim.
"The trouble with this disgusting arrogance and condescension is that
it is widely sup****ted in Koranic texts, and we look in vain for the
enlightened Islamic teachers and preachers who will begin the process
of reform. What is going on in these mosques and madrasas? When is
someone going to get 18th century on Islam's mediaeval
ass?" (Spectator, 16 July 2005)
7/7 Bombings
"... it is no use the Muslim Council of Great Britain endlessly saying
that 'the problem is not Islam', when it is blindingly obvious that in
far too many mosques you can find sermons of hate, and literature
glorifying 9/11 and vilifying Jews." (Daily Telegraph, 14 July 2005)
"The Islamicists last week horribly and irrefutably asserted the
supreme im****tance of that faith, overriding all worldly
considerations, and it will take a huge effort of courage and skill to
win round the many thousands of British Muslims who are in a similar
state of alienation, and to make them see that their faith must be
compatible with British values and with loyalty to Britain. That means
disposing of the first taboo, and accepting that the problem is Islam.
Islam is the problem." (Spectator, 16 July 2005)
Religious Hatred Bill
"The proposed ban on incitement to 'religious hatred' makes no sense
unless it involves a ban on the Koran itself.... Militant Islam has
been ****elded from proper discussion by cowardice, political
correctness and a racist assumption that we should privilege the
beliefs of a minority, even when they appear to be mediaeval." (Daily
Telegraph, 21 July 2005)
The Trouble with Islam
"What makes modern Islam so politically troublesome is that some
Muslims can be induced to take offence not just at an insult to Islam,
but at any injustice suffered by one of their co-religionists, and it
is this deep personal sense of outrage =96 scarcely explicable to our
post-enlightenment souls =96 that helps the whacko imams to warp the
alienated young men into becoming suicide bombers...." (Daily
Telegraph, 21 July 2005)
Invasion of Afghanistan and the 'Clash of Civilisations'
"Messrs Bush and Blair have a nightmarish diplomatic battle on their
hands to persuade the Muslims that this is simply a response to
terror. That task is made infinitely more difficult by the unsayable
truth, which any student of the Koran will recognise: that this is, to
some extent, a clash of civilisations. It is a crunching of cultural
tectonic plates that has been going on, intermittently, since
Mohammed's followers warred with Charlemagne." (Daily Telegraph, 18
October 2001)
Iraq and the 'War on Terror'
"To the paranoid Muslim mind, the evident bogusness of the 'war on
terror' =96 in so far as it applied to Iraq =96 suggested that the war was
really about something else: about oil, about humiliating and
dominating the Islamic world.... To keep talking of war plays on
militant Muslim paranoia, and, incidentally, since it is a key point
of Islamic theology that the suicide bomber may not be called a
martyr, and therefore entitled to his ration of virgins/raisins,
unless he dies in 'war', we are by our own vocabulary offering these
people an incitement to murder." ( Spectator, 16 July 2005)
Foxhunting Ban and Halal Slaughter
"I looked at all those Labour members, gibbering and hooting like a
bunch of flea-ridden gibbons, taunting Nicholas Soames and other
Tories brave enough to stick up for an ancient way of life. Would they
dare to attack halal? Would any of them, in their largely urban seats,
with their sizeable Muslim minorities, ever have the guts to denounce
Islamic ritual slaughter? Like hell they would." (Daily Telegraph, 5
December 2002)
Multiculturalism and immigration
"As Theodore Dalrymple pointed out in last week's Spectator ... young
Muslim girls are routinely taken out of school, before the age
prescribed by law; they are taken off to Pakistan and obliged to marry
men they have no wish to marry. Does it show a pleasing multicultural
tolerance, that we allow this to go on? =85 As W F Deedes has recently
pointed out, multiculturalism is the wretched consequence of Enoch
Powell. After his inflammatory 1968 speech, it became almost
impossible to talk about immigration." ( Daily Telegraph, 1 November
2001)
Multiculturalism and 'Britishness'
"... too many Britons have absolutely no sense of allegiance to this
country or its institutions. It is a cultural calamity that will take
decades to reverse, and we must begin now with what I call in this
morning's Spectator the re-Britannification of Britain. That means
insisting, in a way that is cheery and polite, on certain values that
we identify as British. If that means the end of spouting hate in
mosques, and treating women as second-class citizens, then so be it.
We need to acculturate the second-generation Muslim communities to our
way of life." (Daily Telegraph, 14 July 2005)
"We've all got to be as British as Carry On films and scotch eggs and
falling over on the beach while trying to change into your swimming
trunks with a towel on. We should all feel the same mysterious pang at
the sight of the Queen. We do indeed need to inculcate this
Britishness, especially into young Muslims.... We should teach British
history. We should think again about the jilbab, with the signals of
apartness that it sends out, and we should probably scrap faith
schools. We should forbid the imams from preaching sermons in anything
but English; because if you want to build a society where everyone
feels included, and where everyone shares in the national story, we
cannot continue with the multicultural apartheid." (Daily Telegraph, 4
August 2005)
"... here is how John Reid could prove that he was really tough. Here
is the bravest thing he could possibly say. He should say that the
real problem in our society, and the reason we have so many
disaffected and alienated Muslim youths, is that for a generation he
and people like him sup****ted the disastrous multicultural agenda. The
reason that 40 per cent of British Muslims would like some form of
Sharia law in this country is that the Left has traditionally
deprecated British institutions and even the teaching of English. A
truly brave John Reid would now publicly grovel to Ray Honeyford, the
Bradford head who called for teaching in English and who was vilified
and persecuted by the Left." (Daily Telegraph, 16 November 2006)
[Note: In a notorious article published in the Salisbury Review in
1984 Honeyford claimed to expose "the real educational consequences of
the general acceptance of the notion that multi-racial inner cities
are not only inevitable but, in some sense, desirable". Re****ting on a
meeting with Bradford Asian parents at his school, he wrote: "The
hysterical political temperament of the Indian sub-continent became
evident =96 an extraordinary sight in an English School Hall." Honeyford
denounced as "totalitarian" the proposals that "schoolbooks with a
racist content should be scrapped" and that "racist teachers should be
dismissed". This is the man Johnson hails as a hero.]
Faith schools
"... he worries about schools that, without proper regulation, might
encourage divisions between communities. He does not mean Jewish ones.
'It's pretty obvious what I'm talking about,' he says, rather gruffly.
Indeed it is. 'I do worry there are some communities, where faith
schools that aren't properly regulated and controlled could be places
that encourage more division...'." (Jewish Chronicle, 7 September
2007)
Shabina Begum
"This ludicrous and lamentable case had nothing to do with 'modesty'.
I don't believe she wore the jilbab to 'regain control of her
body'.... This case wasn't even about religion, or conscience, or the
dictates of faith. At least it wasn't primarily about those things. It
was about power. It was about who really runs the schools in this
country, and about how far militant Islam could go in bullying the
poor, cowed, gelatinous and mentally spongiform apparatus of the
British state.
"=85 the Court of Appeal was quite wrong in its *****sment of Shabina's
human rights. Yes, she has the right to freedom of religion, but she
could not manifest that freedom in such a way as to prejudice the
school's ability to ensure discipline and order, and to run things in
the way it wanted. Even in Strasbourg, home of the European Court of
Human Rights, there is a long-standing tradition of upholding the
discretion of educational establishments in matters of dress not least
in several im****tant cases defending the right of Turkish universities
to ban headscarves.
"How could the Court of Appeal have missed this? Is it really possible
that British appeal court judges have less robust common sense than
the judges of Strasbourg? Or is it also that our judges suffer, like
other parts of the British Establishment, from a certain leeriness and
timorousness about Islam?" (Daily Telegraph, 23 March 2006)
Ken and Qaradawi
"I can think of plenty of things for which I would like Newtzilla to
apologise ... his cheerleading for anti-Semitic Muslim clerics such as
al-Qaradawi, who sup****ts suicide bombers and the beating of
women." (Daily Telegraph, 17 February 2005)
Local Control of the NHS
"... you could imagine in a totally devolved system that Islamic
zealots might take control of some inner-city area". (Daily Telegraph,
5 October 2006)
Israel and the War on Lebanon
"Israel provides a focus for the resentment of a Muslim civilisation
that finds itself materially and intellectually humiliated by the
achievements of America and the West.... Whatever the hideous shambles
of the past few days, it is still true, in principle, that when
Israeli rockets kill civilians, they have missed their targets, and
that when Hizbollah rockets kill civilians, they have scored a
deliberate hit." (Daily Telegraph, 3 August 2006)
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