Whether you like the human rights activist Tommy Robinson or you despise him, it is very difficult to deny that there is a war going on against Mr Robinson. The state, the media, the business sector the Left and Muslims of various shades of hatefulness and violence, have gone all in to try to silence his criticisms of both Islam and of the damage that this ideology has done to the United Kingdom.

This war against Mr Robinson exists because of what Mr Robinson has achieved and it is scaring the pants off of Government, the mainstream media class.  The first is that he has managed to catch the British zeitgeist over the issue of a justifiable fear of Islam and its increasingly aggressive followers and he has done this by being the man who will speak up when others will not or cannot. Those who look at the damage done by the ideology of Islam but who fear to speak up for fear of both Muslim and Leftist violence and from actions against them from what is seen to be an increasingly Islam appeasing state, view Mr Robinson as their mouth piece and their proxy voice.

The second thing he has achieved is to highlight hypocrisy in a number of sectors of society including the state, media, the Left and in business. Sometimes he has done that by directly pointing out to his supporters how the courts for example seem to give dangerous, violent Muslims accused or convicted of sometimes terrible crimes, a far too easy ride whilst treating ordinary Britons who speak up against Islam with harshness. On other occasions he will point to how he has been treated by various agencies and organisations and then compare it with how other people who are not Tommy Robinson have been treated and by doing so highlight bias and hypocrisy.

The state and other opponents of Tommy Robinson or to put it more accurately Tommy Robinson’s message, have thrown all they legally can do at him but little of the mud has stuck and neither has it affected his popularity to any great extent. He’s had to put up with harassment from the police, imprisonment, an intense vilification by the mainstream media, alleged infiltrators into his organisation and entourage along with the ever present fear of violence aimed at him and his family from the followers of the woefully misnamed ‘religion of peace’.

Now we have another attack on Mr Robinson and another attempt to try to stop him from functioning and delivering his message to Britain, he has had his PayPal facilities withdrawn. Of course he is right to be angry at this as it does look to be much more down to politics rather than Tommy Robinson doing something that is fiscally or ethically wrong. This was made quite plain in the companies statement to Mr Robinson and to the press over this issue when they hid behind the usual empty blather about ‘diversity’.

This latest attempt to silence Mr Robinson has served to highlight to much more of the general public than may otherwise have been aware, just how political Silicon Valley and Big Tech has become and also how Big Tech’s politics differs sometimes widely from that of the man in the street. This case has also helped to highlight Big Tech’s hypocrisy as PayPal have banned Mr Robinson for ‘hate’ reasons, yet continue to provide services for individuals and organisations who are much worse and have had much greater impact as regards violence than Mr Robinson has had.

For example: Although the payment processor decries ‘hatred, violence and intolerance’ and unjustly in my view links Mr Robinson to such things, they are still providing services to the mosque that the Rigby murderers attended, the Lewisham Islamic Centre. I noted earlier this morning that the PayPal donate page for the Lewisham Islamic Centre is still operational despite their Imam, Shakeel Begg. being proven to be an Islamic extremist in a British civil court. Basically, Begg took the BBC to court for libel for calling him an extremist and lost. Begg is a vile and vicious extremist who has praised the concept of jihad and called it ‘the greatest of deeds’ and was at the conclusion of the libel case described by the trial judge Mr Justice Haddon-Cave as a man who “clearly promotes and encourages violence in support of Islam and espouses a series of extremist Islamic positions”. Begg is a man who has praised Islamic violence and hatred and has had two of his congregants go on too commit one of the notorious Islamic murders in British history, yet he gets to keep his PayPal account whilst Tommy Robinson who has to my knowledge never called for harm to Individual Muslims, loses his.

I doubt that this action by PayPal will do any harm to Mr Robinson in the long term, I suspect that he has other finance channels and because of that he and his family are unlikely to starve. However it may rebound on PayPal as already anger at this action is coalescing into protest, just as his imprisonment on contempt of court charges earlier this year did. It is certainly exposing this company’s political hypocrisy who have removed facilities from Mr Robinson, who has never to my recall praised political violence, whilst allowing Imam Shakeel Begg, who has done so, to continue to use the PayPal platform.