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The English government
has just appointed the new head of Ofsted, the body that inspects public
schools. His name is Hamid Patel and he is a mufti. And then they say that
“Islamization does not exist”.
Patel was the headmaster
of a school in Blackpool, the first in the country to ask pupils to wear the
hijab outside of school, to “recite the Koran at least once a week” and to “not
carry stationery containing non-Islamic images”. And while he was at it, Patel
also invited a Saudi imam to speak badly of Jews, which never hurts. A sort of
emirate in Lancashire.
The Oftsed thus gets its
“first religious leader in history” and since there will soon be more
practicing Muslims than Christians in England why not get ahead of the curve a
little?
“England and Europe are
sinking into decline, naivety and fear” writes imam Hassen Chalghoumi, who
knows what he’s talking about since in France he has to wear a bulletproof vest
and go around with an armed escort like a head of state. “An Islamist to head
Ofsted, the UK’s leading education body… This is the result of the appeasement
of political Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood. We would never see such an
appointment in the Arab and Muslim world, except in Afghanistan and Iran. The
Islamist grip is no longer just on our doorstep, it is now within the system.”
I looked at Patel’s
photo several times and then pinched myself, thinking it was a joke. A mufti
with a Salafi beard and in Islamic robes appointed to head the UK’s most
important education body? “The UK could fall into the hands of Islamic
fundamentalists” and become “an Islamist state with nuclear weapons.” It is not
the usual alarmist Meotti who says this, but Suella Braverman, former British
Home Secretary.
Demographic change is
the defining megatrend with the most important implications for Europe’s
societies, culture and governance structures. Just look at the percentage of
Muslims in the country’s major cities:
London, 15 percent Muslim
Birmingham, 1,149,000 inhabitants: (29.9 percent)
Bradford: 536,000 inhabitants (30.5 percent)
Manchester: 553,000 inhabitants (22.3 percent)
Leicester: 357,000 inhabitants (23.5 percent)
Nottingham: 331,000 inhabitants (12.2 percent)
Blackburn: 148,000 inhabitants (35 percent)
Luton: 218,000 inhabitants (32.9 percent)
Slough: 164,000 inhabitants (29.4 percent)
Pendle: 91,000 inhabitants (26 percent) hundred)
Oldham: 237,000 (24.4 percent)
Rochdale: 211,000 (18.8 percent)
Kirklees: 438,000 (19 percent)
Sheffield: 556,000 (10.3 percent)
It’s not hard to imagine
what they’ll look like in, say, 20-30 years: the judge, the police chief and
the TV presenter will be wearing shalwar kameez.
In the post-war period,
British elites launched an experiment. They wanted to prove that
multiculturalism was compatible with Britain’s great liberal tradition. They
created modern British exceptionalism: the mixture of liberalism and
multiculturalism would solve the problems of a multi-ethnic nation. But
multiculturalism and liberalism are only compatible as long as minority groups
are committed to liberal values, and in Britain, minority groups clearly
are not. So multiculturalism and liberalism have proven
incompatible. And now multiculturalism, not liberalism, rules Britain.
Mufti Patel is from
Blackburn.
Among the areas Ed
Husain visited to chronicle the Islamisation of England in his magnificent book
“Among the Mosques” is Blackburn. “It has the largest Muslim population outside
London and is the global hub of the Deobandis, the movement that created the
Taliban in Afghanistan,” he explains in the book. White people told him they
were afraid to enter “no-go areas” of the city. “The main street is full of
Hajj shops, gender-segregated restaurants, Islamic bookshops and a number of
mosques.”
There are more than 40
mosques in Blackburn and a quarter of the population is already Muslim,
reports Daily Mail reporter Neil Tweedie. The whites are
leaving. The first church in Blackburn that was used as a mosque was in 1978.
Anyone in their right
mind reading about Patel’s appointment doesn’t see a respected educator but a
harbinger of a future in which more and more of the people who matter will be
dressed like this while they’re chairman of the BBC or governor of the Bank of
England or headmaster of Oxford.
The number of Muslims in
the UK has risen to 6.5 per cent of the total population, up from 4.9 in 2011,
according to the 2021 census. What makes this shift even more striking is the
age demographic: an overwhelming 84.5 per cent of Muslims are under 50, compared
to just 62 per cent of the overall population. In other words, Islam isn’t just
growing, it’s shaping Britain’s future.
Sharia courts are
growing in the country. People pray to Allah even inside Westminster.
Today’s churches will be
tomorrow’s mosques: Christians, even nominally, are no longer the majority. In
ten years, Islam has doubled, and for the first time in 1,300 years,
Christianity is no longer the majority.
Demographics have
started to shift rapidly. Muhammad has become the most popular name among
newborns in the United Kingdom for the first time. London has become the world
capital of Islamic investment.
Before the end of this
decade, we will be in a completely new phase, the Anglican church will be a
Pakistani mosque, the pub a halal butcher’s shop, the clothes shop a hijab
warehouse and the bookshop a travel agency to Mecca.
Judge for yourself
whether the liberal multiculturalism experiment has been a success.
