I told you this would happen – Finsbury Park edition redux

A stereotypical angry mob from one of the Frankenstein movies

 

For legal reasons, mostly connected to sub judice, I have not been able to express my thoughts or write in any significant detail about the trial of Darren Osborne, who drove a van at a group of Muslims outside an extremism-linked mosque, until after the trial had concluded. This trial has now ended and Darren Osborne has been convicted of murder and of attempted murder and has been sentenced to a life sentence with a minimum term of 43 years.

I want to make it plain and clear from the outset that I neither approve of or condone Mr Osborne’s crimes in any way. This blog has consistently and loudly proclaimed that there must be a political, policing and, if necessary, military solution to the problems caused to European nations by all too many of the followers of the violent and often unwanted ideology of Islam. One reason for my view is that it is only by such legitimate means, political, policing and military, that we can deal with the current threat from Islam. Otherwise we risk the moral hazard whereby unrestricted aggression against Islam and its followers runs the risk of replicating the evils that we face from Islam in ourselves. Another reason for my stance is that I want to conserve what is best about our society. Vigilantism, which the Finsbury Park attack can be seen as being, is a sign that the societal covenant, whereby we put aside our right to make violence on others in exchange for being defended from threats by the police, is starting to break down. Vigilantism also has a nasty habit of sweeping up the innocent as well as the guilty when it takes hold of a society. I’d rather have a trustworthy politician or a police officer or a military person acting in our interests in dealing with Europe’s undoubted Islam problem than having this matter dealt with by mobs of angry men carrying flaming torches or for that matter, driving hired vans.

The Finsbury Park case is one that was both odd and sadly predictable to some extent. It was odd as it was carried out by someone who was very much below the radar as regards politics. Darren Osborne was not a dyed in the wool political activist. He was just an ordinary disturbed man, prone to anger, of the sort that crops up in towns and cities up and down the land. I get the impression from reading some of the published court reports and background information about Darren Osborne that he could best be described as a ‘bar room terrier’, a shouty man, with a history of mental illness who could be quick to flip to aggression under the influence of alcohol. The difference between Mr Osborne and others of similar temperament, is that Darren Osborne felt that he was a man with nothing to lose. This sort of person is often the most dangerous as they are unable to channel their, in this case justifiable anger about Islam, into more positive and less violent campaigning routes.

This case was also highly predictable, as it is patently obvious to anyone observing the negative effects of Islam in Britain and the anger this situation has raised among the populace, that someone somewhere, sometime would go off their rocker and take the law into their own hands. For many years, Britain and British communities have suffered what can only really be described as an onslaught of Islam. We have seen horrendous levels of sex crime perpetrated by Islamic Rape Gangs, crimes that are plainly racially and religiously motivated. We have had a growing number of terror attacks, sometimes perpetrated by Muslims who we as a nation believed were integrated and ‘moderate’ but who turned out to be anything but ‘moderate’.

Many of the inhabitants of Britain’s more Islamised towns have had to deal with Islam related drug crime, anti social behaviour, property crime, violence and aggression from Muslims, along with political corruption that further entrenches Islam in the affected area, which in turn negatively affects the quality of life for the town’s remaining non Muslims. Too often we have the situation where the Muslims in a particular area either have not learned or refuse to learn the number one rule of successfully living as a minority among those who differ from you in belief or culture and that is to not piss off your hosts. The response to the problems caused by Islam and its followers by the authorities has either been woefully inadequate at best, or has taken the form of appeasement of Islam at worst.

The British people have consistently been sold down the river when it comes to Islam and the problems this ideology has brought. Our politicians have spoken the lie that Islam is a “religion of peace” so often and without any evidence for their statement, that this expression itself has now become an instrument of mockery, both of the ideology Islam itself and of the politicians who appease or excuse it. Britain now has police forces that refuse to disturb ‘community cohesion’ by enforcing the laws prohibiting Female Genital Mutilation and bigamy where Muslims are concerned. The scandal of numerous police forces pushing the problems of Islamic sex crimes under the carpet still rumbles on. It should be against this background of Islam related problems and a State that refuses to even see that there are Islam related problems, along with Darren Osborne’s undoubted mental problems, that this case needs to be viewed.

The attack on the Finsbury Park mosque is sadly yet another of those crimes to which I could say ‘I told you this would happen’. The consistent pandering to Islam by the authorities and their equally consistent attacks on those who, no matter how peacefully, accurately and honestly they do so, criticise Islam and the culture it creates, is stoking anger, even among those Britons who are not prone to anger, as they are starting to feel abandoned by the authorities. It is never a good thing for a society for the majority to start to feel that those entities of the State that we should have been able to trust and protect us, instead have turned to protecting a minority ideology, which many of us can see represents a clear and present danger to us and our children. The constant Islamopandering which the British state engages in and the double standard to which Muslims and non Muslims are held by the state, risks creating the very vigilantism that I and many other reasonable people quite rightly decry.

The answer to Britain’s undoubted Islam problems, problems that are growing more serious by the day, is not to be found in running down random Muslims in vans. This sort of action is both pointless and counterproductive. It is pointless as there is nothing to be achieved by killing a random Muslim, there is a fair chance that such an attack could end up killing an innocent individual and not one of the hostiles, even at extremism-linked mosques such as Finsbury Park. The job of dealing with such hostile Muslims, and such individuals provably do exist, should be left to those with policing and military responsibilities not the average citizen. Such crimes are also highly counterproductive, as it gives Islamic grievance mongers something real to whine about for a change, instead of merely promoting often fake ‘hijab pulling’ incidents. Random vigilante attacks also sends the state down the route of yet more Islamopandering in an effort to virtue signal to Muslims and to appease Islam.

If we truly want to preserve what is best about us and our society and honour those who have gone before us who fought for freedom, the rule of law, democracy and the right to be free of theological diktat, then we need to fight the problems at source and the source of our problems are our political class. If we can remove the politicians who appease Islam by legitimate means with those who refuse to debase themselves and us by engaging in such appeasement, then this problematic ideology called Islam can be far better controlled and countered than by mere random acts of violence. The deaths of British citizens in numerous terror attacks and their ongoing suffering because of the outrageous crimes and other problems that Islam has brought to our shores needs to be avenged, but it should only be avenged via the ballot box and not by the bullet. Prising the fingers of various Islamic organisations from the levers of power and removing these organisations from their positions of undue and damaging influence can only be done by politicians. We in Britain would be far better off getting behind counter Islam political parties and protest movements and make a real and lasting positive change, in order to give Islam the metaphorical slap it truly deserves, than by engaging in personal acts of violence, acts which will ultimately achieve absolutely nothing. Vigilantism, as I’ve said so often before, is a sign of societal breakdown and I really don’t want to see the society that we’ve built succumb either to the invasion of a seventh century savagery called Islam or to the social breakdown that to me is plainly indicated by a rise in vigilantism. No sensible person wants to see the hotheads rule the roost, which is why we need legitimate solutions to what is increasingly a legitimate enemy in the form of Islam.

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1 Comment on "I told you this would happen – Finsbury Park edition redux"

  1. Philip Copson | February 3, 2018 at 12:25 am |

    Let’s see if I’ve got this right; if a muslim carries out a terrorist attack in order to impose Islam on the host country, then he is immediately declared to be mentally-ill and acting with no discernible motive and may not even go to trial, but if a mentally-ill man carries out a revenge attack with no political motive in mind then he’s immediately identified as a “terrorist” by the Prime Minister ?
    I don’t for a moment condone what Darren Osborne did, but the sentence is ludicrous.

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