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I logged into the Occidental Observer’s very own AI chatbot last night and made the following request:
Please write a pro-free-speech polemic in the self-righteous and pseudo-colloquial style of Trotskyist libertarian Brendan O’Neill in which Brendan condemns himself for once again completely ignoring the censorship-by-murder of the Glaswegian shopkeeper Asad Shah.
Nanoseconds later, the OcciBot supplied the following text:
Why I must condemn my disgusting failure to combat Islamism and defend progressive Muslims
A passionate friend of free speech. And an equally passionate anti-racist. That’s what I claim to be. Am I ’aving a larf, Brendan? I need to have a quiet word with myself. And stop this absurd posturing. At Spiked Online, I’ve once again written about free speech and the threat of Islamist intolerance. And I’ve once again completely failed to mention the British man who, thanks to Islamist intolerance, paid the ultimate price on British soil for exercising his free speech.
Asad Shah, Brendan. Asad Shah. Who was he? Don’t pretend I don’t know. My successor as editor of Spiked, the estimable Tom Slater, wrote a long article about his appalling murder only last year. I must have read it. And when I say “appalling,” mate, I blimmin’-well mean it. As Tom wrote, Asad lost his life “in the most barbaric fashion imaginable.” He was a Glaswegian shopkeeper and a member of the gentle, much-persecuted Ahmadi Muslim sect. He’d been granted asylum in Britain after fleeing Islamist violence in his homeland. But guess what? He wasn’t safe here either. He provoked the anger of British Islamists for YouTube videos that, absurdly, they regarded as blasphemous and disrespectful to the Prophet Muhammad. In March 2016 one of those Islamists, a dickhead named Tanveer Ahmed, drove up to Glasgow from the English city of Bradford. I’ll let Tom describe what happened next: “[Ahmed] attacked Shah, stabbing him repeatedly in the head and upper body. Shah tried to escape outside. Ahmed followed. He repeatedly stamped on Shah’s head, shattering almost every bone in his face.”
Stabbed and stamped to death. By an Islamist fanatic. On British soil. Yeah, this is Britain we’re talking about here, not Afghanistan or Iran. Britain, Brendan. And how did I react at the time? How have I reacted ever since? By never allowing the name “Asad Shah” to cross my lips or shake my keyboard. Not once. A British man is murdered on British soil by an Islamist fanatic and I never spoke or wrote a word in condemnation. What’s going on here, Brendan? Huh? Do brown-skinned victims of Islamist barbarism not matter to me? To answer that far-from-unreasonable question, let’s take a look at my latest article about the Islamist threat to free speech in Britain:
There have been more sinister acts of censure, too. Last year a 14-year-old schoolboy in Wakefield was suspended from school for lightly ‘scuffing’ a copy of the Koran. The police, in shameful mimicry of Iran’s morality cops, launched an investigation into this supposed ‘hate incident’. Oh, just say it: blasphemous incident. The boy’s mother was pressured to make a pitiful public apology. It was a grotesque spectacle: a mum begging for mercy for her supposedly ungodly kid, like something out of Afghanistan.
Then there’s the case of the Batley Grammar schoolteacher chased into hiding by a fundamentalist mob. His transgression? He showed his pupils an image of Muhammad during a classroom discussion on blasphemy and free speech. That was in 2021. He’s still in hiding in 2024, so ferocious were the insults and death threats he received for ‘insulting’ the Prophet. (“Why we must fight for the right to criticise Islam,” Spiked Online, 10th August 2024)
So I wrote about “more sinister acts of censure” in Britain and discussed two white males, both of whom are still very much alive. What’s a “more sinister act of censure” than murder, Brendan? There isn’t one, is there? So why didn’t I discuss Asad Shah? Why have I never discussed Asad Shah? But wait: I can condemn Islamist murder when it happens to a white guy in an entirely different country. Samuel Paty, the schoolteacher beheaded by an Islamist fanatic in France. His name and the details of his appalling murder have often crossed my lips and shaken my keyboard. Haven’t they, Brendan? But brown blokes barbarously blotted out in Britain – nah, not interested, don’t give a flying flip.
Do you know what I conclude, Brendan? I conclude that I’m racist. R-A-C-I-S-T. Racist. Just look at myself: I’ll write about white guys merely menaced by Islamists in Britain, but I won’t write about a brown guy actually and appallingly murdered by an Islamist in Britain. And ignoring Asad Shah is not just racist, is it? No. It also trashes a truth often hammered home by me and my colleagues at Spiked. I must remember how it goes: “Censorship. Harms. Minorities. Most.” Capitulation to Islamist intolerance betrays those progressive Muslims who are fighting for greater freedoms within the Muslim community. Doesn’t it, Brendan?
Yeah, it does. And by ignoring Asad Shah once again, I’ve once again betrayed those progressive Muslims and once again failed to make the strongest possible case for free speech. Asad Shah has been dead for eight long years, Brendan. That’s 2,920 days. And counting. Two thousand, nine hundred and twenty days. And on not one of those days – not one – have I, Brendan O’Neill, passionate friend of free speech, so much as muttered his name in any public forum. For shame, Brendan! For shame! With friends of free speech like me, who needs enemies?
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Well, that was bracing. Sometimes directly, sometimes obliquely, Mr Langdon points toward a direction for our survival.
Unfortunately our numbers include millions of brainwashed turncoats, courtesy of a tiny minority, bent upon our destruction.
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Very clever piece, thank you.
The vilification of Islam is a key objective of the Zionist agenda. While I don’t deny the role of numerous Jewish liberals in advancing immigration as a divide and conquer strategy, that strategy’s effect depends largely upon portraying Muslims as individuals who pose an existential threat to the fabric of western societies. By and large, they aren’t.
Unfortunately, there are Muslims who lend credence to this portrayal, and Zionists are certain to exploit the hell out of every incident you’ve cited in this article and then some. Fact is, the extremists who get all hot and bothered at a picture they deem offensive without appreciating the context in which it’s presented are giving the usual suspects everything they need to further advance hate speech laws and justify prosecuting academic skepticism of the Holocaust™.
Muslims in America live under the aegis of constitutional law that serves as a contract between them and their host country. America’s neither dar al-harb nor dar al-Islam, but rather dar al-‘ahd, an abode of treaty. As such, there should be no infringement upon their religious liberty while they reciprocate the same respect to others.
When anyone demands others’ respect of his religion per se, that is a different matter entirely. If Muslims do so, they should hardly be surprised when an argument is made that their religion poses an existential threat to western societies.
This very web zine exists due to the epidemic endangerment of liberty we’re experiencing. Muslims should not want to contribute to that problem.
” portraying Muslims as individuals who pose an existential threat to the fabric of western societies. ”
Rotherham underaged white girls gang raped by Muslims don’t agree.
Entire suburbs transformed into shitholes don’t agree.
You degrade this excellent article with your delirious lies.
There are no words to describe what a disgusting, demented individual you are.
There’d be almost no Muslims in America if “White men of good character” policy would have stood.
Just some Albanians, Bosnians etc. and a few eccentrics who converted to Islam.
Especially if that that policy had been realised earlier as not “good enough”. We know from the correspondence between Nordicist Madison Grant and Teddy Roosevelt, that Teddy was WORRIED about how many Greeks and Armenians etc. were already living in the USA by that period.
The best case scenario that the annihilate one another. Barbara Lerner Spectre would lose a lot of her leadership and multicultural material.
Yet it hasn’t, so I’m dealing with reality this side of the rubicon rather than counterfactual fantasies.
The strange defeat of the English in England.
Bwahahaha!
Criticize Jews, Judaism, or the Jew State in the “rules-based” West (with its shite-yammerings about “free speech” and the importance of “robust discussions in democracies”) and you’ll wish you were dead. The Nose will hunt you down and ruin your life b-b-b-b-because Juden have no power and only want to “heal the world.”
“Two Percent Tribe Uber Alles!”
The problem that cannot be named:
“Jewish supremacist Melanie Phillips” and Britain’s actual master (the one it created in the Levant): “far-off Israel”
Until societies can call a spade a spade, note a shekel being a shekel, and state that the Synagogue of Satan is the enemy of peace/decency, they will not be free.
Its odd that you think anyone need deliberately, from a Zionist troll-farm or elsewhere, “vilify” Islam. Islam has done a bang-up (and blow-up) job of self-vilification for many centuries, approximately 14.
A cult that venerates a murderous pedophile? That has in its holy books over a hundred candid and direct exhortations to violence against “infidels”, as the basis for religious terror and armed aggression. That excuses, nay, *mandates* sex crimes against women and children as long as they are infidels, of course.
You also repeated the much-debunked trope that most Muslims do not represent a threat to the fabric of Western societies, when all the polls and surveys conducted of Muslims in the West have shown that with varying degrees of support, they defend or desire Sharia laws, blasphemy laws, demand special religious accommodations that directly contravene our own norms and customs, think religious violence and honor killings acceptable, etc.
How is the presence of such “people” in our homes not a fundamental threat to our social fabric? They refuse to follow the social norms of Western society: face coverings, denying women’s equality, not praying like cockroaches 5 times a day or blasting infernal cat-fighting squalls of the “call to prayer” thus disturbing the peace. Won’t eat the food, won’t shake a woman’s hand, I mean, it would be tiresome, and impossible in this limited comment space, to list all the ways in which their “cultural values” represent a seam-ripper to our Western “cultural fabric”.
Yet, you seem to believe that “by and large” these aren’t things that most Muslims are guilty of. And I don’t know why you want to believe this…but its simply not true. A foreign influence, from a foreign alien culture and strange cultist religions that have constantly clashed with and invaded Christendom throughout history, should never be tolerated in any Western society, at least not one that is concerned with its continued existence.