Douglas Murray warned about this in 2018, and Christopher Hitchens at least a decade earlier. The penomenon was so obvious, yet as in the US, the mainstream media leans so far left that they see the native European population as deplorables, and revere the minorities, no matter how savage.
Thank you, Ayaan, for your consistent, thorough insights and acknowledgements concerning the words and actions of “Two-Tier Keir” and others in authority. Your perspectives reinforce the need for all free countries to agree on the same standards of justice for all individuals. Doing otherwise brings chaos and destruction.
A very insightful column once again, Thank you Ayaan! The violence and intrusion to our human rights is clear as glass. What I can't get my head around is why our current leaders that on the one hand scream we must defend democracy, are so willing to let it be destroyed on the other. And how come we continue to (re-) elect these people over and over again? Of course we have this huge fear of being called racist in Europe, but that can't be all and it does not fully explain their desastreus leadership over the last decades. I would love to hear your ideas on that! My thesis is that these people are so convinced of their luxurious beliefs that they rather believe in their own follies than face reality. And that makes these politicians just as dangerous as the people they claim to protect. https://open.substack.com/pub/coddledchildren/p/what-to-make-of-the-global-center?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3tt74u
Disclamer: I only subscribed to Ayaan Hirsi Ali to offer an alternative voice - from someone actually living in Europe - to her rather one-sided attacks on European society.
When Ali writes “protestors, suspecting an Islamic terror attack“, she fails to mention the fake news circulated on social media that the Southport attacker was called “Ali Al Shataki“; you only had to search under the hashtag #Southport to confirm this, as I did from Glasgow in Scotland the night of the attack which left the whole country shocked. “It wasn’t just this fake name either. There were false claims the attacker was a refugee who arrived in the UK by boat in 2023 and unfounded speculation he is Muslim. Some of these posts were accompanied by Islamophobic and racist hate.“ (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1e8d7llg9o).
So the riots in Southport and then in other cities were fuelled by this anti-Muslim agenda, which is why Starmer says we need to protect Muslim communities. Muslims have been part of British life for decades - look up the history of India and immigration to the UK from the Indian subcontinent - and figures such as Sadiq Khan (elected Mayor of London in 2016 and re-elected in 2021 and 2024, becoming the first Mayor of London to be elected for a third term) and distance runner Sir Mo(hamed) Farah are national treasures who make no secret of their Muslim faith. I grew up in Sheffield where there was always a big Muslim community.
So the assertion in the article that anger of the “white working class“ is a justified reaction against Muslim immigration in the last 20 years is egregiously false. Undoubtedly the communities where rioting is taking place are relatively deprived, and that’s down to the Conservatives who have just suffered a massive election defeat. The same Conservatives who‘ve underspent on policing for years and fuelled the narrative - which led to the utter disaster of BREXIT - that Britain should “take back control“ of its borders and which has gone a long way to legitimise the racist protesters currently being sentenced - including probably for terrorist offences - in our courts this week.
So Britain should not take back control of its borders? Not that voting for this makes any difference. We could have manageable migration and integration but it just hasn’t worked that way. When the social fabric tears, it doesn’t rip in a neat straight line. Scapegoats will be the wrong people in the wrong place. We all suffer.
“Tory rhetoric on migrants created ‘climate’ for far-right riots, say critics. Claims of asylum seeker ‘invasion’ fuelled hatred, they warn“ https://www.ft.com/content/8db720aa-5e52-4f9e-9c7b-750c3f4ff8d8 Sadly the Tories are responsible for much of the hatred in the UK directed against asylum seekers, who as you suggest are the scapegoats for more general societal problems … just like happened in the past with Jews.
There is something in all socities to look for scapegoats. I suppose Tories partly to blame by promising one thing and delivering the opposite. I am more worried by the lack of serious debate on the issue of immigration and assimilation - if we close it down, it fuels the paranoia on all sides.
“Muslims have been part of British life for decades…”
And OTHER Muslims have openly declared war on British and Western core commitments. How many of THOSE does it take to destroy Britain if your authorities refuse to apply the law equally to them, out of the same fears that you exhibit?
From your link: "Anjem Choudary spent decades radicalizing individuals around the world and has now been brought to justice thanks to relentless collaboration across multiple agencies and countries."
THAT'S what it takes to hold accountable the decades-long LEADER of an GLOBAL terrorist organization, and you think it falsifies my comment? Please do be serious.
Here's a test: Radical Islam in the UK preaches death to the West.
But see if a single Muslim is held to account under your new speech codes.
I will gladly own my error if you can give me an example.
Of course no one here is defending false slanders vs Muslims. But Ayana’s point is 100% accurate, namely, that un-vetted immigration has brought in large numbers of folks from illiberal cultures who reject the core premises of pluralist liberal democracy. As well evidenced by the great many pro-Hamas, Israel-annihilationist mass hate-fests that preceded the Southport murders. Pointing out that real threat to pluralist democracy is neither bigoted nor alarmist. It is real and greatly needed. Ayaan deserves our thanks, not your condemnation.
Another home run - Thank you Ayaan! Sadly this two-tier justice concept has deep roots in the hegemonic academic left. I saw it as a student at Penn Law in the 1980s - CRT flourished, promoting “the soft bigotry [toward minorities] of low expectations.” Part of the problem, as Yoram Hazony explains, is that leftism lacks any left-side boundary. There’s always more subtle forms of inequality to be found and sought to be remedied- No matter how absurd or destructive the proposed remedy. Hence the enormous gravitational pull of the Marxist rabbit hole - especially upon academics, who are blind to the real world consequences of these radical utopian theories..
Why do our elites hate us? This is this question that keeps echoing in my head regarding our situation in the USA, the UK, and beyond. It’s the only explanation for their behavior. But why? Is it merely the hatred of an oligarchy struggling to break free of the chains imposed by limited forms of government? Do they hate us because we have had some power of our own for 200 years? Do they hate us in order to justify the complete control they are in the process of exerting? Or is it something else?
The main driver of recent riots - set off by fake news Southport killer was a Muslim recent immigrant - is depravation (and Conservatives chose these areas to house asylum seekers because hotel rates there are lower, in Rotherham rioters set fire to a hotel *with asylum seekers inside*. Labour had announced they were going to change this policy before current unrest): “Seven of the ten most deprived areas of England witnessed riots in the past two weeks, according to a Financial Times analysis of where far-right violence flared across the country. Many of the areas affected also have a higher-than-average proportion of asylum seekers in taxpayer-funded accommodation, a legacy of the previous Conservative government’s policy of housing migrants in hotels in cheaper areas while they are being processed.“ https://www.ft.com/content/c8317b53-ce27-42fc-bd67-59f9ac9267c9
The Labour councillor encouraging the crowd to cut people's throats is only a single individual. And he hasn't been locked up. About a thousand English working class protestors have been arrested following the protest riots, and they are being rapidly charged and imprisoned, often for long sentences, sometimes on questionable grounds "to set an example". The Muslim men who were videoed attacking the policemen and women in Manchester airport were released on bail and have not been tried or imprisoned despite the clear video evidence. (The English policeman who responded to being attacked however, has been suspended, and risks losing his job as a result of being attacked by the two Muslim men.) None of the immigrant rioters attacking the police in the Harehills/ Leeds riot have been arrested or imprisoned, so far as we know. The immigrant man who was videoed setting the bus ablaze in Harehills has not been charged or arrested or imprisoned, so far as we know. None of the Bangladeshis who rioted and attacked the police in Whitechapel on the same day as the Harehills riots have been charged or imprisoned, as far as we know. Very few of the protesters waving jihadi flags in several months of pro-Palestinian Arab/ pro-Hamas/ anti-Israeli protests in London and elsewhere have been charged or imprisoned for promoting racism and social unrest. And as for Axel Rudakubana, who (lest we forget) started the Southport protest riots by stabbing eleven little children and two adults -- his trial has been shunted off till January, by which time everyone will have forgotten about it and no doubt we'll have moved on to many more stabbings by then. And still nothing has been said about his motive. Was he another young man of immigrant background who has been groomed online by ISIS? That extremist Islamist organisation is reviving now in Afghanistan and seems to have begun a new strategy of encouraging young people in Europe to carry out lone stabbings and other attacks. (This may well be the reason behind the latest mass stabbing in Solingen in Germany.) I'm afraid to the average punter the evidence looks distinctly two-tier.
Douglas Murray warned about this in 2018, and Christopher Hitchens at least a decade earlier. The penomenon was so obvious, yet as in the US, the mainstream media leans so far left that they see the native European population as deplorables, and revere the minorities, no matter how savage.
Thank you, Ayaan, for your consistent, thorough insights and acknowledgements concerning the words and actions of “Two-Tier Keir” and others in authority. Your perspectives reinforce the need for all free countries to agree on the same standards of justice for all individuals. Doing otherwise brings chaos and destruction.
A very insightful column once again, Thank you Ayaan! The violence and intrusion to our human rights is clear as glass. What I can't get my head around is why our current leaders that on the one hand scream we must defend democracy, are so willing to let it be destroyed on the other. And how come we continue to (re-) elect these people over and over again? Of course we have this huge fear of being called racist in Europe, but that can't be all and it does not fully explain their desastreus leadership over the last decades. I would love to hear your ideas on that! My thesis is that these people are so convinced of their luxurious beliefs that they rather believe in their own follies than face reality. And that makes these politicians just as dangerous as the people they claim to protect. https://open.substack.com/pub/coddledchildren/p/what-to-make-of-the-global-center?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3tt74u
Two tier Kier is stoking the division.
So it might be true but should not be mentioned - is that the idea?
Disclamer: I only subscribed to Ayaan Hirsi Ali to offer an alternative voice - from someone actually living in Europe - to her rather one-sided attacks on European society.
When Ali writes “protestors, suspecting an Islamic terror attack“, she fails to mention the fake news circulated on social media that the Southport attacker was called “Ali Al Shataki“; you only had to search under the hashtag #Southport to confirm this, as I did from Glasgow in Scotland the night of the attack which left the whole country shocked. “It wasn’t just this fake name either. There were false claims the attacker was a refugee who arrived in the UK by boat in 2023 and unfounded speculation he is Muslim. Some of these posts were accompanied by Islamophobic and racist hate.“ (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1e8d7llg9o).
So the riots in Southport and then in other cities were fuelled by this anti-Muslim agenda, which is why Starmer says we need to protect Muslim communities. Muslims have been part of British life for decades - look up the history of India and immigration to the UK from the Indian subcontinent - and figures such as Sadiq Khan (elected Mayor of London in 2016 and re-elected in 2021 and 2024, becoming the first Mayor of London to be elected for a third term) and distance runner Sir Mo(hamed) Farah are national treasures who make no secret of their Muslim faith. I grew up in Sheffield where there was always a big Muslim community.
So the assertion in the article that anger of the “white working class“ is a justified reaction against Muslim immigration in the last 20 years is egregiously false. Undoubtedly the communities where rioting is taking place are relatively deprived, and that’s down to the Conservatives who have just suffered a massive election defeat. The same Conservatives who‘ve underspent on policing for years and fuelled the narrative - which led to the utter disaster of BREXIT - that Britain should “take back control“ of its borders and which has gone a long way to legitimise the racist protesters currently being sentenced - including probably for terrorist offences - in our courts this week.
So Britain should not take back control of its borders? Not that voting for this makes any difference. We could have manageable migration and integration but it just hasn’t worked that way. When the social fabric tears, it doesn’t rip in a neat straight line. Scapegoats will be the wrong people in the wrong place. We all suffer.
“Tory rhetoric on migrants created ‘climate’ for far-right riots, say critics. Claims of asylum seeker ‘invasion’ fuelled hatred, they warn“ https://www.ft.com/content/8db720aa-5e52-4f9e-9c7b-750c3f4ff8d8 Sadly the Tories are responsible for much of the hatred in the UK directed against asylum seekers, who as you suggest are the scapegoats for more general societal problems … just like happened in the past with Jews.
Excuse me....'in the past with Jews'. Are we talking of the past being last week?
No, the 1920s in Continental Europe
There is something in all socities to look for scapegoats. I suppose Tories partly to blame by promising one thing and delivering the opposite. I am more worried by the lack of serious debate on the issue of immigration and assimilation - if we close it down, it fuels the paranoia on all sides.
“Muslims have been part of British life for decades…”
And OTHER Muslims have openly declared war on British and Western core commitments. How many of THOSE does it take to destroy Britain if your authorities refuse to apply the law equally to them, out of the same fears that you exhibit?
How are authorities “refusing to apply the law equally“ when Anjem Choudary has just been sentenced to life imprisonment for terrorist crimes? 🤔 https://www.counterterrorism.police.uk/historic-counter-terrorism-investigation-leads-to-life-sentence-for-anjem-choudary/
From your link: "Anjem Choudary spent decades radicalizing individuals around the world and has now been brought to justice thanks to relentless collaboration across multiple agencies and countries."
THAT'S what it takes to hold accountable the decades-long LEADER of an GLOBAL terrorist organization, and you think it falsifies my comment? Please do be serious.
Here's a test: Radical Islam in the UK preaches death to the West.
But see if a single Muslim is held to account under your new speech codes.
I will gladly own my error if you can give me an example.
Of course no one here is defending false slanders vs Muslims. But Ayana’s point is 100% accurate, namely, that un-vetted immigration has brought in large numbers of folks from illiberal cultures who reject the core premises of pluralist liberal democracy. As well evidenced by the great many pro-Hamas, Israel-annihilationist mass hate-fests that preceded the Southport murders. Pointing out that real threat to pluralist democracy is neither bigoted nor alarmist. It is real and greatly needed. Ayaan deserves our thanks, not your condemnation.
Another home run - Thank you Ayaan! Sadly this two-tier justice concept has deep roots in the hegemonic academic left. I saw it as a student at Penn Law in the 1980s - CRT flourished, promoting “the soft bigotry [toward minorities] of low expectations.” Part of the problem, as Yoram Hazony explains, is that leftism lacks any left-side boundary. There’s always more subtle forms of inequality to be found and sought to be remedied- No matter how absurd or destructive the proposed remedy. Hence the enormous gravitational pull of the Marxist rabbit hole - especially upon academics, who are blind to the real world consequences of these radical utopian theories..
Why do our elites hate us? This is this question that keeps echoing in my head regarding our situation in the USA, the UK, and beyond. It’s the only explanation for their behavior. But why? Is it merely the hatred of an oligarchy struggling to break free of the chains imposed by limited forms of government? Do they hate us because we have had some power of our own for 200 years? Do they hate us in order to justify the complete control they are in the process of exerting? Or is it something else?
The main driver of recent riots - set off by fake news Southport killer was a Muslim recent immigrant - is depravation (and Conservatives chose these areas to house asylum seekers because hotel rates there are lower, in Rotherham rioters set fire to a hotel *with asylum seekers inside*. Labour had announced they were going to change this policy before current unrest): “Seven of the ten most deprived areas of England witnessed riots in the past two weeks, according to a Financial Times analysis of where far-right violence flared across the country. Many of the areas affected also have a higher-than-average proportion of asylum seekers in taxpayer-funded accommodation, a legacy of the previous Conservative government’s policy of housing migrants in hotels in cheaper areas while they are being processed.“ https://www.ft.com/content/c8317b53-ce27-42fc-bd67-59f9ac9267c9
What’s two-tier about “A suspended Labour councillor has been arrested after allegedly telling a protest that fascists needed to have their throats cut” ? The facts show hate speech and violence on both sides being equally severely punished https://news.sky.com/story/labour-councillor-ricky-jones-arrested-after-allegedly-telling-protest-fascists-need-to-have-throats-cut-13193409
The Labour councillor encouraging the crowd to cut people's throats is only a single individual. And he hasn't been locked up. About a thousand English working class protestors have been arrested following the protest riots, and they are being rapidly charged and imprisoned, often for long sentences, sometimes on questionable grounds "to set an example". The Muslim men who were videoed attacking the policemen and women in Manchester airport were released on bail and have not been tried or imprisoned despite the clear video evidence. (The English policeman who responded to being attacked however, has been suspended, and risks losing his job as a result of being attacked by the two Muslim men.) None of the immigrant rioters attacking the police in the Harehills/ Leeds riot have been arrested or imprisoned, so far as we know. The immigrant man who was videoed setting the bus ablaze in Harehills has not been charged or arrested or imprisoned, so far as we know. None of the Bangladeshis who rioted and attacked the police in Whitechapel on the same day as the Harehills riots have been charged or imprisoned, as far as we know. Very few of the protesters waving jihadi flags in several months of pro-Palestinian Arab/ pro-Hamas/ anti-Israeli protests in London and elsewhere have been charged or imprisoned for promoting racism and social unrest. And as for Axel Rudakubana, who (lest we forget) started the Southport protest riots by stabbing eleven little children and two adults -- his trial has been shunted off till January, by which time everyone will have forgotten about it and no doubt we'll have moved on to many more stabbings by then. And still nothing has been said about his motive. Was he another young man of immigrant background who has been groomed online by ISIS? That extremist Islamist organisation is reviving now in Afghanistan and seems to have begun a new strategy of encouraging young people in Europe to carry out lone stabbings and other attacks. (This may well be the reason behind the latest mass stabbing in Solingen in Germany.) I'm afraid to the average punter the evidence looks distinctly two-tier.
It’s coming to America. On U.S. college campuses there is a direct correlation between hostility to Jews and the percentage of international students. It may not be the foreign students themselves causing problems, but administrations that fetishize globalization. I wrote about it here. https://open.substack.com/pub/wasserberger/p/bad-grades-and-london-is-calling?r=1grqiz&utm_medium=ios