It’s never a good thing to see a nation’s government collectively lose their shit over something, especially when that ‘something’ boils down in the main to not much at all. It’s particularly galling when that government is bleating loudly about one thing despite having a long record of ignoring or playing down other more serious problems that afflict the nation.

Some evidence of Her Majesty’s Government losing their collective shit following on from the murderous attack on two mosques in New Zealand comes from the way that the Government and the press are behaving. According to a report on ‘New Zealand attack inspired incidents’ Sky News is reporting that the Government is treating one relatively serious incident (although not one that is unusual for London) along with several other laughably minor incidents as if they were harbingers of the apocalypse. Various police forces seem to have been told to drop their investigations into real crimes and dealing with weekend drunks and go into ‘mosque protection mode’. Several forces have also put on ‘reassurance patrols’ in Islam dominated areas in order to make Muslims feel safe, patrols that are rarely deployed in non Islamic areas following an Islamic terror attack. I don’t recall such high profile ‘reassurance patrols’ going out to the Parsons Green area following the attempted Jihad attack there. I also do not seem to remember Greater Manchester Police flooding the non Muslim majority areas of that city with ‘reassurance’ officers following the Islamic attack at Manchester Arena.

Britain’s Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, has by his reported utterances, given the distinct impression that he is going to panic and dive under the table for cover any minute. He’s gone into full NPC ‘diversity’ mode. He made a statement on the one serious and other more minor incidents that read like an SJW buzzword dictionary. ‘Tolerance’, ‘diversity’, ‘hate’, ‘ignorance’ and similar words peppered his statement Mr Javid’s overreaction, to what are in the main very minor issues and offences. I doubt for example that the overreaction of the police in arresting wrongthinkers who made comments on the Christchurch massacre, is going to do anything to increase respect for the police or for politicians and it is certainly not going to help ‘community cohesion’.

Here’s part of the Sky News article where we can see Mr Javid playing diversity buzzword bingo and some description of the mostly minor incidents that are causing the government to lose their collective minds. As is usual policy here the original text is in italics whereas my comments are in plain text.

Sky News said:

A stabbing in Stanwell, Surrey, on Saturday night is being treated as a terrorist incident and a 50-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

There were also incidents in London, Rochdale and Oxford over the last few days.

I will examine these incidents later.

“We must stand together as a society and reject the terrorists and extremists who seek to divide us,” said Sajid Javid.

“Now’s the moment for us all to challenge the hatred, ignorance and violence they peddle and stand up for the kind of country we are and want to be.

“A welcoming, tolerant, proudly diverse country that draws strength and prosperity from that diversity,” added the home secretary.

“To any communities who are feeling vulnerable and under threat I say we are with you. You benefit our country, you are part of our country, part of us,” said Mr Javid.

Like I said, one sided SJW buzzword bingo. Is the Home Secretary going to deal harshly and justly with the Islamic communities and Islamic community leaders who have by far brought the most division to our society? It is they after all who have brought to our shores many and various, I suppose you could say ‘diverse’ types of Islamic terror attack or terror plot. Scores of Islam inspired attacks on Britain and Britons have been uncovered and those plotters that have slipped through the net have cost a great many innocent lives. Where, Mr Javid, is the protection for other non Muslim communities from these very real threats?

Is the Home Secretary going to challenge the hatred, ignorance and violence that is contained in Islamic scripture? The hatred for Jews, Christians, Hindus and Sikhs that this scripture contains along with its exhortations to violence and its encouragement of ignorance should not be ignored by the Home Secretary. I predict he will do none of these things. The Government will do what it always does and go after secondary rather than primary problems. They will arrest and harshly punish a few gobshites for not sufficiently grieving over Christchurch and, as they are doing here, treating mostly minor incidents as if they were the end of the world.

A man and a woman, 32 and 33, have been charged over the Rochdale incident after “a taxi driver was subjected to abuse and threats that referenced the New Zealand terrorist attack,” said Greater Manchester Police.

This looks to me like little more than the sort of Saturday night argy bargy you get almost anywhere. Go to any large town or city and you will probably get some pisshead arguing with a taxi driver about something or other. They are not talked up like this Rochdale incident is being talked up.

Whilst the verbal assault was probably disconcerting for the driver, without the ‘Islam’ angle, I doubt that this story would have been given as much publicity as it has done. As assaults go it’s really at the very minor end and of the sort that, without the Islam angle, might end up as a caution or if the police are being particularly lazy, ‘no further action’. It should be noted at this point that there are numerous reasons for non Muslims to dislike Islam in Rochdale. It was after all one of the first towns which were publicly identified as being afflicted by massive levels of Islamic sex crime where the victims were non Muslim children and young women. The local police, Greater Manchester, did little to stop this abuse until a large amount of public disquiet started to be expressed and a high profile media report blew the lid on the problem.

Online comments about the New Zealand attack also led to two arrests – a 38-year-old woman, also from Rochdale, was detained, as was a 24-year-old man from Oldham.

‘Let’s arrest some gobshites to discourage the other gobshites’ seems to be Government policy here. The article is of course very unclear about the nature of these comments or on which platform they were alleged to have taken place on. This makes it very difficult to assess what category these words come into. Did they constitute a ‘credible and immediate threat’ to a particular individual or property, something that I believe falls outside free speech, or merely someone saying ‘fuck the dead Muslims’, an opinion which although unpleasant, does come into the category of free speech.

In London, police are hunting three men who made anti-Muslim remarks before getting out of a car and attacking a man with a blunt object in Whitechapel on Friday afternoon.

This is another odd one with only vague details at least from Sky. What were the ‘remarks’ that were made, what sort of ‘blunt object’ was the man hit with? Sky News does not elaborate but an earlier report in the Evening Standard suggests that this was an attack with a hammer by a man in his twenties shouting ‘terrorists’ outside one of the many mosques in the area.

I wondered why Sky News would play these details down? I suspect that the reason for Sky publicly available details of this case down is that the details clashed with the ‘Muslims are being seriously hurt’ narrative tone of this Sky story. The details from the Evening Standard show that the injured man was not that seriously injured and he discharged himself from hospital later. Apart from the ‘Islamic’ angle to this case, this sort of crime is, whilst impossible to condone, little different from similar blunt object attacks that occur across the nation. People hitting other people with hammers and other blunt objects during disputes is not exactly an unknown phenomenon in the UK. It is odd isn’t it that this relatively minor incident is being talked up so loudly and that the media are giving national prominence to a story, that would in normal circumstances, that is a story without the word ‘Islam’ in it, struggle to make page five of a local newspaper?

Now the panicky propagandising from Sky seems to take a bizarre and indeed laughter-inducing turn.

Sky News added:

Swastikas and the words “sub 2 pewdiepie” also appeared on Saturday on a wall in Cheney Lane in Oxford.

Thames Valley Police said it was “possibly linked to the attacks in New Zealand”.

No, I doubt that TVP. This graffiti, a reference to a call by the Christchurch gunman to subscribe to the YouTuber PewDePie, is possibly linked to LARPers, jokers or intersectional pot stirrers. I suspect that this graffiti is the work of some with a sense of humour and a knowledge of internet culture if it isn’t a deliberate SJW fraud. This graffiti looks like a shitpost nothing more, nothing less and not much to write home about. My suspicions that this graffiti story is less than it is or is being promoted as comes from a perusal of the map of Cheney Lane, Oxford. The road is slap bang in the middle of of a load of student accommodation near Oxford Brookes University. I would hazard a guess that this is either pissed up students having a laugh or some other SJW students trying to stir the intersectional pot.

The final incident that Sky News are reporting and which they are attempting to link with the New Zealand attack comes from a village near to London’s Heathrow airport. According to Sky a 50 year old man is in custody charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing a 19 year old male whilst shouting out ‘racist’ words. Whilst I cannot condone anybody stabbing anyone no matter for what reason, it’s important to remember that this is just one of a great number of stabbings that occur in London and the surrounding areas every damn day. Despite this being a horrible crime, it is in the great scheme of things, just yet another London knife crime. It’s only being treated as ‘terrorism’ because of some words allegedly spoken during the attack. It seems that in the knife crime cesspit that London has become, some victims of knife attacks are more equal than others.

The article published by Sky News detailing the alleged crimes ‘connected’ to the New Zealand attack is a masterpiece of spin. When the actual crimes themselves are examined it can be seen that they are either not that serious or, as Mayor Khan might say about his fiefdom’s knife crime problem, ‘part and parcel’ of living in a big city.

I thought that the statement by Sajid Javid, like this example of press reporting from Sky, looked panicky and overblown. When you look at some of what has happened and look at the actual seriousness and scale of these incidents, you can see that they would normally be ignored by press and government and probably for the most part by the police as well. It is therefore possible to perceive that none of them would have got the publicity that they had if not ‘anti Islam’ words had not been associated with them. If nothing else this illustrates the shocking double standard that is practised by the police, the media and politicians when it comes to Islam. Where were the ‘reassurance patrols’ for us following Islamic terror attacks? Why must we be more concerned at one sort of hatred, the hatred aimed at the followers of Islam, than the hatred contained in Islamic scripture and culture for Christians, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, gays and women?

None of the incidents mentioned above would have got anything like the attention they would have got from press and government had not the word ‘Islam’ been allegedly mentioned during them. That fact should given anybody who respects the idea that we should all be policed and governed equitably, a great deal of cause for concern.