Sunday, 8 May 2016

Tolerant Britain

                                  On the BBC where the truth is "fear, smear, and racism."

What a wonderfully tolerant place Britain can be to those who’ve made a couple of mistakes in life.

Take our new Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan [please!].

Here’s a guy who’s shared platforms with Islamic State supporters and yet the media of Britain resolutely turn a blind eye to these peccadillos and even lavish him with the most extravagant adulation. So forgiving are they in fact that they cannot even bear anybody else to criticise him. According to just about every major UK media outlet such naysayers are motivated simply by racism and Islamophobia.

Just consider for a moment how special their indulgence of Khan is. Islamic State hates us with such a barbaric fury that if the British people had just one throat they would undoubtedly cut it in the blink of an eye or at least after they’d had their fun torturing us for a few days first. We know this because that’s what they’ve done with all the British people that they’ve managed to get their hands on.
  
And yet a major British politician can share platforms with supporters of Islamic State and speak before audiences with people flying its disgusting flag and our media will give him the benefit of the doubt, time and time again. Really, I must say it makes me swell with pride as a Briton and a Londoner when I think of just how forgiving our media elites can be. In the forgiveness business they even make Jesus Christ himself seem a bit on the judgmental side.

But there is of course a limit to any country’s tolerance. Sometimes the threat to our national security is so imminent and extreme that the authorities have no choice but to act.

One such case came to the courts last week. A 77-year-old woman in a Sainsbury’s supermarket had dared to say to a Muslim in a hijab that “You look like you’re about to bomb the place” and that women in Britain “don’t cover up”. In recognition of the gravity of the offence Eastbourne Magistrates’ Court gave her a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered her to pay £635. In the circumstances I think you’ll agree that she got off extremely lightly. Thank goodness the police stopped this vicious old harpy in her tracks before she started a race war or something worse.

So there you have it. Over here in Britain we have a sense of proportion on the subject religious intolerance. We’ll look the other way while evil and implacable foes organise themselves in our midst, but when it comes to batty old ladies being mildly offensive, we have a zero tolerance policy.


Hmmm.

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