WANT TO KNOW WHAT I REALLY THINK ABOUT THE POPPY BURNER?
THIS is a hard column to write because if I say what most of us really think about the Muslim who burned poppies on Remembrance Day I’ll probably be charged with inciting racial and religious hatred. But curbing our tongues, respecting others and showing tolerance is the price we pay for the privilege of living in freedom in a country we love.
What utter contradictory nonsense! How can he claim to live 'in freedom' when he himself admits that he is unable to convey his true feelings for fear of prosecution? Free speech is not a 'privilege', either. It is our right, and it has been stolen from us.
Of course he then actually implies that by 'curbing our tongues' we are somehow noble, and justifies this with the usual platitudes - 'respect' and 'tolerance'.
That concept is alien to Emdadur Choudhury, who although born here despises everything that Britain stands for and prays to Allah that our soldiers will burn in hell. All he cares about is the freedom to pour vile abuse on the memory of our war dead – and the freedom to live in a council flat at the taxpayers’ expense and draw £800 a month in benefits. His actions disgust me.
Emdadur may despise everything British, but that's because he's not really British, despite having been born here. His primary allegiance is to Islam, and thus, due to the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq which have led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Muslims, he sees the British state and our armed forces as an enemy.
But for all that I still defend his right to hold whatever religious beliefs he wishes because that freedom is what millions of men and women have died for. To say his mode of worship should have no place in our society would be to make worthless that ultimate sacrifice. I just wish this wicked man would stop spouting such offensive claptrap wrapped up in the cloak of Islam.
Here Mr Roycroft-Davies is being a little disingenuous. Have millions of our British soldiers really died for the right of immigrants to establish Muslim ghettos, or 'communities' as they are more politely referred to, in our cities and towns? Did they die fighting for their descendants to be displaced, their own kith and kin? I don't think they did. Churchill himself a former soldier, and scourge of the Nazis, advocated the slogan 'Keep England white'.
"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." - A. K. Chesterton
I imagine the vast majority of those who died fighting for Britain were Christians, and wanted our country to remain Christian.
Just as fervently I wish our courts would stop letting people like him get away with it. Imagine if we had a group of militant Methodists preaching hatred against Muslims, invoking death and carnage in the name of Christ. They’d be locked up as a danger to society and the key would be thrown away.But what happens to Choudhury? A paltry £50 fine plus a £15 “victim surcharge”. The man mocks the court (no surprise when it’s handing out slaps on the wrist with a feather) by not turning up to hear the verdict.
Of course sixty years ago, something like this would never have happened. Back then we were a homogenous nation, bound together by shared history, culture and blood. Now, having been 'enriched' by the likes of Choudhury we are faced with a very unpleasant dilemma.
I loathed Choudhury's actions more than most, but is he not entitled to hold a view that others - including myself - find objectionable? Those calling for new laws and stronger sentences are just asking for further restrictions on what we can say and do, in a society in which people are already afraid to speak and write candidly.
The fact is we are in this mess because people, the masses, have 'curbed their tongues' and, like sheep, tolerated our politicians' lies and deceit. Meanwhile our silence has emboldened the likes of Choudhury to the extent that they feel comfortable brazenly disrespecting our hospitality.
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