The issue of mass Muslim migration to Europe and the UK has been brewing for decades. It has resulted not only in an increased danger for women in the form of the European rape crisis, but a steady cultural shift in certain areas. In London, and northern cities like Bradford, Dewsbury and Blackburn, Muslim ethnic enclaves have emerged. These communities are so cut off from the rest of Britain the children who reside there believe the UK to be an Islamic nation.
This was highlighted in 2016 in a report led by Dame Louise Casey, the then Tory government’s community cohesion tsar. As outlined by The Times, the report found thousands of people from certain Muslim enclaves rarely if ever left their areas, and had almost zero idea of life outside their communities.
As for the nature of these communities, a 2021 book by Ed Husain entitled ‘Among the Mosques’, analysed in The Economist, outlines some of the dangers associated with allowing such social isolation to percolate unchecked.
According to Husain, the parallel societies that exist in places like the old mill towns of Yorkshire and Lancashire enable the faithful to live their lives without mixing with greater British society. Schools are run by mosques, and they teach Islamic law. Restaurants even offer seating segregated by gender, tactfully referred to as “family seating”.
Husain asserts these communities are dominated by a clerical class. The mosques teach a literal interpretation of Islam, sometimes pushing arguments that have been abandoned in the Middle East. Husain saw books in shops that were advocating stoning gay people, or keeping wives in purdah, or advancing jihad (Islamic holy war). Not only that, Husain noticed Sayyid Qutb, who was Osama bin Laden’s favourite philosopher, was often featured.
Considering this, it’s no surprise Islam as a political movement has finally cracked the mould in the UK. This was blatantly obvious in the nation’s recent general election. Galvanised by Israel’s defence response to Hamas’s terrorist attack on October 7th 2023, a grassroots activist group called The Muslim Vote popped up in December last year. Its intent; to harness the votes of the four million Muslims currently living in Great Britain to leverage pro-Palestinian, pro-political Islam candidates.
The organisation was successful. Their lobbying secured seats for five new MPs, all of which ran on a pro-Palestine platform. They were also successful at local council elections back in May, when dozens of pro-Gaza candidates were elected to councils across Britain.
The Muslim Vote was so emboldened by this success, they issued then Opposition Leader of UK Labour, Sir Keir Starmer, eighteen demands he was informed he must meet in order for the group to stop targeting Labour MPs in Muslim-heavy areas in the general election.
These demands included apologising for not backing a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza in October/November 2023, recognising a Palestinian state, ensuring Sharia compliant pensions exist, enabling Muslim students to pray in schools, (which would include secular public schools), and scrapping a law that criminalises spiritual and religious leaders from instructing their congregations how to vote.
Given these demands are clearly influenced by adherence to the Islamic faith, it’s obvious the agenda of The Muslim Vote is heavily laced with religious ideology. This is despite the fact that, on the group’s official website, it insists it is advancing a political movement, not a religious one. The problem is political Islam is inherently religious in nature, because the crux of Islam is religious law. That is; Sharia law.
The theocratic agenda of The Muslim Vote is not surprising. After all, the Islamic countries many UK Muslims emigrate from, such as Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, are governed by Sharia law. Given the desired final outcome of Islam is bringing about a global Islamic caliphate, why wouldn’t The Muslim Vote try to do just that in the UK, using the Western democratic process?
To be clear, I’m not lumping all UK Muslims into the same box; there is a diversity of opinion in the community. Additionally, I’m certainly not condemning the peaceful and private practice of the Islamic faith; everyone has a right to freedom of religion. Political Islam is a different beast entirely, and it has well and truly cemented itself into the British political system. This is certainly bad news for Jewish people living in the UK, and should alarm women and LGBT people as well.
Nevertheless, as someone who has been observing the rise of political Islam in the West for the last ten years, I have only one thing to say to the UK political establishment, which has steadfastly refused to recognise the issue. That is, simply; we warned you.
