I've written a lot about Muslims in Europe and the United Kingdom. Europe had a wide-open southern border before the Biden administration came along. My latest batch was inspired by the murder of a German police officer who was killed policing an "anti-Islamic" rally by an Afghan immigrant with a knife who also injured five other people. Maybe Europeans wouldn't be so wary of Muslims if they weren't so stabby.
I saw this going around recently, and it didn't surprise me, but I wondered what the source was. It turns out this headline, subhead, and photo come from a 2016 piece in The Express.
If you've got the kind of immigrants that need a class to learn that, you're doomed.
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) June 11, 2024
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This particular class was going on in Norway. As I said, I wasn't surprised, as I'd just seen a video of a German woman explaining the intricacies of condoms to migrants.
In Germany they explain to fake asylum seekers how to insert a condom and that European women must be courted and not abused or harassed. We are speechless. Thoughts?pic.twitter.com/1jc1d7mbTw
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) June 6, 2024
I think it reminds me of New Year's Eve in 2015, when dozens of women were sexually assaulted in Cologne, Germany, allegedly by men of “Arab or North African” descent. ARD, a consortium of public TV and radio stations, attempted to address that problem by publishing an illustrated guide showing Germany’s new immigrant population how to treat German women with respect.
"Women are to be respected, no matter what they wear." German public TV @ARD_Presse publishes guide for refugees. pic.twitter.com/Jor6PpOp87
— Lucian Kim (@Lucian_Kim) January 18, 2016
Humza Yousaf, the former first minister of Scotland who presided over the hate speech law, under which people who criticize migrants can be prosecuted and imprisoned. Scotland's new hate speech hotline was overwhelmed with calls, most of them reporting Yousaf for his famous 2020 speech in which he declared there were too many white people in positions of power in Scotland.
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Yousaf has an opinion piece in The Guardian about how disillusioned Muslims are asking themselves if they belong in Europe and the U.K.
We're witnessing a rising tide of far-right populism in the UK and Europe, driven by a hatred of Muslims.
— Humza Yousaf (@HumzaYousaf) June 17, 2024
Muslims are feeling disillusioned and asking themselves if they belong here?
We must confront, not appease the far-right.
My column for @guardianhttps://t.co/9WUxou40Xr https://t.co/309pk5Kqpm
Ah yes, the rising tide of far-right populism. What could be behind it but hatred of Muslims?
We're witnessing a rising tide of far-right populism in the UK and Europe, driven by a hatred of Muslims.
— Humza Yousaf (@HumzaYousaf) June 17, 2024
Muslims are feeling disillusioned and asking themselves if they belong here?
We must confront, not appease the far-right.
My column for @guardianhttps://t.co/9WUxou40Xr https://t.co/309pk5Kqpm
"I was the first Muslim leader of a western democracy. And I say Islamophobia has poisoned our politics," he writes.
In 2024, almost half the world’s population will take part in elections. Many countries have already gone to the polls, and in a number of countries, particularly across Europe, the biggest gains have been made by those who make a living out of vilifying Muslims.
I am, proudly, a western Muslim. I had the great honour and privilege of being the first Muslim leader of any western democracy, and yet it is increasingly difficult to persuade fellow Muslims that Europe does not have a problem with our very existence.
In the UK, the scale of a Labour victory is likely to be the story of the day, but it is also expected that Nigel Farage’s Reform UK will make significant gains. A recent YouGov Poll put Reform one point ahead of the Conservatives.
Farage – who, during this campaign, has said that Muslims do not share British values – has a history of making Islamophobic remarks. In 2015, he said that people had fears of Muslims as a “fifth column”; in 2013, he suggested Muslim migrants were “coming here to take us over”. Farage has failed to get elected seven times and yet, despite this and regardless of the fact that he has made a living out of fanning the flames of religious and racial tension, the British media appears obsessed with platforming him.
You were the first Muslim leader of any Western democracy for about 15 minutes.
They should ask themselves why they are disliked. Self-reflection is important.
— Klaus Arminius (@Klaus_Arminius) June 17, 2024
Given the UK is majority white, your “white white white” speech did little for community relations. I would think what changes YOU should make first in your approach before you start to question 85% of the population again.
— Nick Hurt 🇬🇧 (@nickdhurt) June 17, 2024
Muslims belong in Muslim countries. That is how you end "Islamophobia." Europe does not belong to you! Europe is not the land of your ancestors, culture, history, religion, or heritage. Your ancestral country of Pakistan has a population of 241mill vs Scotland 5mill. Just leave.
— Lana (@LanaLokteff) June 17, 2024
What has driven millions of Muslims to immigrate to Europe, anyway? Are they seeking asylum? From what? Are they being persecuted in their Muslim countries?
There is no such thing as Islamophobia.
— शून्य (@0__Shunya__0) June 17, 2024
When hundreds of thousands of people march in the streets of London to support Hamas, that's not Islamophobia at work.
Awesome
— David Collier (@mishtal) June 17, 2024
The Muslim brotherhood has taken over our streets every week for months
Jewish neighbourhoods are invaded by Islamists calling for the destruction of the Jewish state
Jewish students are scared on campus
But yeah, Islamophobia is the issue.https://t.co/WNRSum0uW2
You should move to Japan and run for office.
— Max (@MaxNordau) June 17, 2024
Here's his speech complaining about how all the people in power in Scotland were white, which is why he got tattled on to the hate speech hotline.
As a Palestinian (Hamas)? supporting individual who used his position to divert Scottish cash to his own cause I think he has a cheek stating there’s a rise in ‘far right’ politics - he’s a major cause of division in Scotland - if Muslims tried harder to integrate into the UK… pic.twitter.com/0JBzz96tUp
— Steve Sayers 🏴in🇬🇧=👍🏼 (@SteveSayersOne) June 17, 2024
The fear and rejection of Muslims mostly comes from the words of Muslims themselves demanding to be able to forcefully implement sharia law and from them saying they have no respect for any other laws.
— Rock Chartrand (@RockChartrand) June 17, 2024
They don't belong there. Don't move into a country and expect them to change their culture and beliefs just for them. It's ridiculous, I hope many of Muslims are disillusioned.
— McKaylaRose (@McKaylaRoseRed) June 17, 2024
What did they expect immigrating to Europe? Sharia law? Women in burquas?
You’re a race baiting clown and an embarrassment to Scotland.
— Jonathan Scott (@onemandub) June 17, 2024
What about Islamic supremacism and those who want to impose an Islamic caliphate? Are we supposed to just give in and let you do that?
— Dryhten of the Fyrd (@nikkelseyn) June 17, 2024
I'm sorry Muslim immigrants are feeling so disillusioned. I'm not sure what they expected Norway to be like, exactly.
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