It's Official: British Police Now Enforcing Shariah

It's a fact that sharia law has been in force in Britain for some time now when it comes to civil matters with horrendous results for Muslim women. But it is now apparently in force when it comes to certain criminal matters as well.

Tommy Robinson and EDL member Kevin Carroll had scheduled a charity walk through London. They were planning to lay flowers in memory of Drummer Rigby, the UK soldier who was decapitated in broad daylight in the middle of London by two British jihadis near Woolwich Barracks, as well as to raise money for a young girl fighting cancer.

Their route took them through the borough of Tower Hamlets, a no go area claimed by Muslims for their own as virtually a state within a state.

Here's what happened next:

Sky Correspondent Tom Parmenter said: "They'd walked six miles when they were arrested outside Aldgate East underground station.

"Police had been tracking the walk across London and had regularly spoken to them about their route.

"The EDL leaders had been warned not to go past a large mosque in east London or enter the borough of Tower Hamlets.

"As they approached the boundary of the borough they were warned again by officers who told them they may be arrested."

Mr Robinson and Mr Carroll repeatedly asked if they would actually be arrested before another man approached the pair and assaulted Mr Carroll.

Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carrol were then arrested, handcuffed and taken to Wandsworth police station, in southwest London, where they were charged with 'suspicion of obstructing police.'

Remember, this was not a march or a political event. It was two British subjects - no signs, no banners no loudspeakers, just two people - who were arrested, in London, solely for the crime being non-Muslims in an area Muslims claim for their own. And the British police are actually enforcing it.

 

As Robinson said, ""There's two of us doing a charity walk. They're (police) saying it (Tower Hamlets) is a Muslim area but to me there is no Muslim area, there are just areas of my capital city that if I have to walk from A to B then you have to walk through."

Except it isn't your capitol city anymore, Tommy. And the British police just made that plain.

The police statement said that the pair were told not to enter Tower Hamlets 'because of fears the march and the gathering would result in serious public disorder.' But there was no march or gathering..just two men. And one of them was assaulted as soon as he entered Tower Hamlets. Since that was done in spite of the visible police presence, that's a pretty clear message that the local Muslims aren't exactly afraid of the police anymore, as if that wasn't already evident by now.

It says a lot about Britain's current government that they're more concerned with hanging on to Scotland than they are securing parts of their own capitol, just as they're more concerned with being 'cultural sensitive' than protecting their underage young girls from being raped,  abused and pimped out by 'Asians' - Pakistani Muslims in  politically correct Britspeak.

What amazes me is that descendants of the people who fought Hitler alone allow their own leaders to do this to them, but apparently the British are no longer 'This Island Race' that Winston Churchill extolled so eloquently. They've become something different, or at least enough of them have.

The EDL's Tommy Robinson Speaks At The Birmingham Demo - A Must See

Tommy Robinson in action in Birmingham last Saturday, July 20th. about five thousand peaceful demonstrators hemmed in by about a thousand police. This is one of the best speeches I've heard him give. The lights haven't entirely gone out in Britain.

One great line..as Tommy holds up a Qu'ran and begins to quote from it, a couple of people say 'burn it'. Robinson's reply? "Don't burn it, read it. Expose it and understand what's in these books."

H/T, The Baron.

Friendly Fire: An Open Letter To Melanie Phillips

 

Melanie Phillips is one of my favorite writers, a sometime correspondent of mine and a woman of rare courage. She originally wrote for the UK's Leftist bible, the Guardian, but 9/11, the London tube bombings, the Islamist influx into the UK and the Left's appeasement in response to it caused her to strike out on a very different path, which included the superb books Londonistan and The World Turned Upside Down.

Lately, she's been involved in something of a controversy, and one that says a great deal about what I prefer to call the War on Jihad.

Some of you know that Pam Geller at Atlas Shrugs and Islamic scholar and prodigious author Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch are two effective and outspoken critics of Islamism and sharia.

Recently, they were supposed to go to the UK to speak at a rally of the English Defense League, but were barred from entering the UK by Teresa May, the British Home Secretary.

In response to that Melanie Phillips wrote blog post in which she came out forcefully against this totalitarian proscription of free speech, especially ludicrous in view of them allowing Muslim jihadis like Australian cleric Shady Al-Suleiman into the country.

Not to mention excluding people simply because they have an Israeli stamp on their visa and happen to be Jews.

But then, she went a bit further, writing:

I do not support the approach taken by either Geller or Spencer to the problem of Islamic extremism. Both have endorsed groups such as the EDL and others which at best do not deal with the thuggish elements in their ranks and at worst are truly racist or xenophobic.

The result has been a serious blow to the credibility of these two writers, with particular damage being done to Spencer whose scholarship in itself is scrupulous. It has also split the defence against Islamic extremism, and handed a potent propaganda weapon to those who seek falsely to portray as bigoted extremists all who are engaged in the defence of the west against the Islamic jihad.

Needless to say, both Spencer and Geller angrily attacked her on their sites,and a number of others have denounced her for what they call 'friendly fire'.

Melanie Phillips is no shrinking violet herself, and responded in kind:

First, you would hardly think from their reaction that I actually opposed – and in the strongest terms – the order banning them from Britain. Furthermore, I spoke of them merely as ‘anti-jihadis’ and gave unambiguous credit to Robert Spencer’s scrupulous scholarship. The only aspect on which I said in this piece that I parted company with them was over their endorsement of

‘groups such as the EDL and others which at best do not deal with the thuggish elements in their ranks and at worst are truly racist or xenophobic.’

I did not call the EDL racist or neo-Nazi. I do, however, believe it contains thuggish elements.

Its leader, ‘Tommy Robinson’, has criminal convictions for assault and football hooliganism.

He is a former member of the unquestionably racist British National Party. Some members of the EDL have been pictured making Nazi salutes at rallies. The EDL exploits the very real threat of jihad, as well as the often violent attacks against its own members, to mask its own demonstrably yobbish behaviour. You can see examples of such behavior, throwing bottles at the police, here or here, where Tommy Robinson decided to go on a bender in Luton and started gratuitously throwing missiles at the police from a distance, boasting he would ‘hit a police officer on the … head’.

It targets mosques indiscriminately for its demonstrations, threatening Muslims regardless of whether they are extremists or not. Robinson has personally threatened:

‘The Islamic community will feel the full force of the EDL if we see any of our citizens killed maimed or hurt’.


I had a few thoughts on this myself, so I thought I'd e-mail her, with what follows below:


Dear Mel,
We've corresponded before and you know I'm a long time fan, but even though Robert and Pam were a bit over the top, I have to agree to disagree with you here.

The EDL has some thuggish elements, even some racist ones..but so does every other institution in the UK. As for Tommy Robinson, yeah, he has a past. But it's NOTHING compared to the jihadis Britannia has been sleeping with for years.

It's the EDL that has had the guts to protect and defend pro-Israel demos on the ground throughout the UK - no one else, not even your police. The EDL is a voice that has sprung up because there is effectively no more free speech in the UK, and the EDL is one of the few organized groups willing to fight the powers that be. They're not out there committing violence against random Muslims, and if Robinson threatened reprisals for violence done to EDL members, he was speaking a language jihadis understand. Remember that he and his family have been subjected to countless death threats.

Robinson has made the point numerous times that he has no problem with peaceful Muslims, but with sharia and jihad. I haven't seen any evidence to the contrary.

Since the EDL is really the spear point of organized resistance to the Islamization of the UK, has it ever occurred to you that someone with your gifts could make a difference? Broaden their stance a bit?

All Good Things,
Rob Miller@ Joshuapundit

She replied to me, and as always with her, it was a friendly, reasoned response. I won't divulge what she said without her permission since it was a private e-mail between Ms. Phillips, myself, and Obama's NSA. But generally, I can relate that she stands by what she said, particularly about Tommy Robinson.

She included this link...which is odd in a way. In spite of the film being skewed and bending over backwards to paint Robinson and the EDL as right wing extremists, the film inadvertently reveals very clearly how different the treatment meted out by the police to Robinson and the EDL is as opposed to the license given to jihadis in Britain.

The British government is physically frightened of the jihadis and wish to appease them. The only thing they fear about Robinson and the EDl is the same thing they fear about Pam Geller and Robert Spencer- that by engaging in free speech and exposing the truth about Islamism and sharia, it will spark Muslim violence.

I'd also point out that Sir Winston Churchill made a similar decision about alliances when it came to Stalin in WWII. In fact, Sir Winston said he'd ally with the devil himself if it meant defeating Hitler and the Nazis. That might have worked out better than it ultimately did, too, if FDR had not been a deathly sick man at the time of Yalta whose administration was riddled with Soviet agent and their sympathizers.

I have confidence in Melanie Phillips. I think as I think as things evolve, so will she. In fairness, she probably thinks the same where I'm concerned!

I think I'll let Pat Caddell have the final word on this:

The EDL's Tommy Robinson On Bill O'Reilly

The head of the English Defense League does a brief segment on O'Reilly.

(HT Vlad via Gates of Vienna)

Tommy Robinson Of The EDL Interviewed On The BBC

EDL Leader Tommy Robinson is interviewed by a hostile and condescending reporter on Three Counties BBC Radio. And acquits himself rather well!

You have to love the way the callers were 'screened' by the host..someone who was waiting on hold who claims he used to belong to th eEDL but left because of 'racism' who didn't know the first thing about the group and was rendered speechless, and a violently angry Muslim... but again Tommy kept his cool and did quite well.