The White Guilt Grift and the Phantom Far Right
This Week In Media | 26th February - 3rd March 2024
It was a turbulent week in British politics.
Former Deputy Party Chairman and ‘Red Wall incarnate’, Lee Anderson MP, has the Conservative whip withdrawn for claiming Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan are ‘controlled by Islamists.’
Everyone fell over themselves to either condemn Anderson as a racist Islamophobe; or to preface a defence of the broader point he was alluding to with calling his choice of phrase ‘clumsy.’
But they shouldn’t.
Lee Anderson was right to point out that Sadiq Khan has inadequately policed the protests, and that he has a history of defending and affiliating with Islamists.
The Far Right is a Phantom Threat
On Saturday night, I made my return to GB News’ Saturday Five.
In a pathetic speech on the doorstep of Downing Street, Rishi Sunak drew a false equivalency between Islamists and the undefined Far Right.
Going off those who are persecuted, Far Right seems to mean “Noticing the consequences of government policy.”
I won’t mince words: there is no Far Right threat comparable to that of Islamic extremism.
You can watch my monologue and the ensuing argument on Youtube, Instagram, or X.
Sadiq Khan’s Past "‘Islamist Mates’
In a popular segment on this week’s Podcast of the Lotus Eaters, I provided substantive evidence of Sadiq Khan’s history of defending and speaking alongside Islamic extremists.
This includes:
Representing Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who was denied a visa to visit the UK in 2001. Farrakhan has ‘denounced white people as 'devils' described jews as 'bloodsuckers' and ‘termites’, and called Hitler a 'very great man'.
Khan consulted for the defence of Zacarias Moussaoui – the only person to be convicted in the US for 9/11. While Khan never met Moussaoui, this is only because a US judge blocked a motion by Moussaoui to gain security clearance to meet Khan, by name. However, Khan is pictured on camera meeting his mother, Aicha el-Wafi.
The Times reported that on July 12, 2003, less than two years before Khan became an MP, he attended a First Captives Conference in London to advocate for the release of terror suspects interned in Guantanamo Bay.
The event was organised by the Islamic Observation Centre, run by Yasser al-Siri: who came to the UK in 1994 after being sentenced to death in Egypt for a plot to kill a former prime minister in a car bomb attack, killing a 12-year-old girl
Al-Siri was a member of Islamic Jihad; run by Ayman al-Zawahiri, who became Osama bin Laden’s deputy in al-Qaeda
In September 2002, al-Siri attended an event at Abu Hamza’s Finsbury Park mosque to celebrate the first anniversary of 9/11
In 2002, al-Siri was charged in America with assisting Omar Abdel Rahman, the “blind sheikh” who orchestrated the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He was convicted in 2005
Alongside al-Siri, Khan was onstage with Sajeel Abu Ibrahim/Sajeel Shahid: member of later-proscribed group al-Muhajiroun. He ran a terrorist camp in Pakistan, whose graduates included Mohammed Siddique Khan: perpetrator of the 7/7 bombings
Javaid’s name appeared on a fatwa in 1998 calling for a “full-scale war of jihad” against Britain and the US.
Javaid ‘denies ever being a spokesman for the group, says he never authorised his name being included on any of the group’s literature or the fatwa and condemns its contents.’
Khan attended a conference alongside his then brother-in-law in 2004, but has since said he has had no contact with Mr Javaid for at least 10 years.
While head of Liberty, Khan attended four events by Stop Political Terror, a group supported by al-Qaeda recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki
Khan also spoke nine times alongside imam Suliman Gani, which The Times report ‘on the night of the Paris massacres, [having] joined a campaign for an Islamic state.’
Gani denied this; and both David Cameron and former defence secretary Michael Fallon, who drew attention to this connection in 2016, apologised.
However, in 2023, Gani holidayed in Afghanistan, posing for photos with the Taliban and giving an interview with the Taliban’s state-owned TV channel, RTA.
In 2005, on Iranian state-funded television, while Labour’s minister for community cohesion, Khan called Muslim moderates ‘Uncle Toms’. He has since apologised.
Sadiq Khan continues to distance himself from his past. Though some have called Anderson’s comments defamatory, is it not fair to speculate — after Khan has misrepresented data about London’s air pollution to justify ULEZ, and lied about introducing pay-per-mile — that Khan is not being honest about his condemnation for all radical sects of Islam too? Can we not infer from a pattern of actions a belief at odds with his words?
Nevertheless: Lee Anderson was punished, for pointing out the problem.
‘MPs are suddenly feeling the heat of the problem they have created’
On Monday, I joined Rita Panahi on Sky News Australia to explain why the Met Police declared the projecting of the genocidal slogan, ‘From the River to the Sea,’ onto the Elizabeth Tower, was ‘not a criminal offence.’
MPs have subjected the British public to demographic and cultural displacement for decades, without democratic consent, and only now are they feeling threatened by the terror-supporting mob they imported.
But still, more appallingly: they obfuscate, and blame social media rather than the real problem.
Make no mistake: there seems to be no capacity for self-correction with our current crop of politicians.
Unilateral White Guilt and the Grievance Industrial Complex
I was honoured to be a guest co-host on The New Culture Forum’s Deprogrammed podcast, alongside my friend Harrison Pitt, and Oxford University professor Nigel Biggar.
We discussed Nigel’s book, Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning, the reasons why the Anglosphere are uniquely susceptible to claims of racial Original Sin, and why the Anglican Church demonstrates such cowardice on matters of English history and culture.
That’s all for this week. Next week, expect a new article in The Critic, and a major announcement about my future at LotusEaters.com…