Forget Political Correctness; Insist On Prevalence Of Our Culture 

“all Mosques operating in Britain must present a version of the Koran to a licensing authority which has been rewritten to be acceptable in this, a Christian country”

Five British Muslims, now thankfully rotting in jail, may have failed to blow up innocents at the Bluewater shopping centre in Kent or indiscriminately decimated the blameless at a London nightclub, but these demented mental perverts have achieved one thing – every Briton of whatever religion or no religion now knows the true nature of militant Islam.

There can be no excuse inaction. The trouble is, our cowardly politicians, with a few honourable exceptions, refuse to act.

Maybe they have little idea about what to do. In which case, let me make a few suggestions.

License a British Koran
We must insist that Muslims worshipping in our country recognise that the Koran is loosely written and open to lethal misinterpretation. So my first demand is this. Given that we all know the danger of militant Islam, all Mosques operating in Britain must present a version of the Koran to a licensing authority which has been rewritten to be acceptable in this, a Christian country. Only Mosques accepting a version of the Koran which eschews principles offensive to Britons and which are incompatible with our culture, will be licensed to operate. It goes without saying that religious services and all business will only be conducted in English.

Unreformed Islam is often incompatible, even an affront, to western values and culture, and Muslims living in Britain must acknowledge this and change. Our leaders must stop wringing their hands. Our culture and democracy and hard-won freedoms are not up for negotiation. If Muslims believe paying interest is wrong, neo-Labour cowards patronisingly rush to design special financial instruments which don’t involve paying interest. (They of course do, the interest element is merely hidden by sleight of hand). If you don’t want to pay interest, go somewhere else to live and borrow. If you feel hallal killing is essential for your religion, sorry, you can’t do that here. Here’s a list of places which think this is ok. Goodbye.

Consolidate contradictory Islam into coherence
Secondly, worldwide Islam must be prevailed upon to reform what are often Medieval and uncivilised ideas in the Koran which subjugate citizens, ruin economies, enslave women, and generally provide a counterproductive environment which impoverishes peoples. Why not organise a world Islamic conference which can address the fact that Islam seems to have as many interpretations as there are Imans to preach it? Islam ought to take a leaf out of the Catholic book and set up a centralised body which will seek to bring together disparate ideas and make sure as many people as possible recognise and separate out civilised principles of Islam.

Line one, paragraph one of a new reformed global Islam would make clear to every Muslim that suicide bombing of innocent civilians is never acceptable, and will offer a direct route to purgatory. Homicide bombers and their nominees will not be serviced by 72 virgins, or sate their hunger on 72 white raisins, depending on the translation believed at the moment.

Michael Gove, Tory MP, newspaper columnist and broadcaster, warned in his book Celsius 7/7 published last year, that the British government has made the success of Islamofascism more likely by its cowardice and appeasement of the threat here.

The Islamofascists are engaged in a war against the West, according to Gove. He rails against the unintended consequences in Britain of the Human Rights Act, which often makes sure aliens who intend harm to us are protected, instead of the other way round. Our political leadership must be uncompromising.

Reject separatist ideas
“Leadership (must be) prepared to recognise the essential link between the display of weakness in the past and the Islamist advance we face today. We also need to rediscover and reproclaim faith in our common values. We need an ideological effort to move away from moral relativism and towards moral clarity, as well as a commitment to build a truly inclusive model of British citizenship in which divisive separatist identities are challenged, and rejected,” said Gove.

Amen to that.

There is some doubt about whether the British have the bottle to act against radical Islam, and that is reflected in the flatulence of our political leaders. But an opinion poll in The Spectator magazine commissioned last year after news of a plot to blow up airliners across the Atlantic, showed that far from making concessions, 55% think airline passenger profiling (which would target Muslims) at airports is a good idea. Nearly 70% want to let the police hold terror suspects for up to 90 days without charge.

This shows a healthy robustness amongst Britons, and means, presumably, that they are looking sideways at British Muslims as a potential danger to their safety. This might be unfair on the majority of Muslims, but it does mean that they need to take urgent action to show whose side they are on.

Reforming the Koran is the key. Muslims must drop medieval nonsense like refusing to pay interest on loans, start eating pork, ditch teaching that women are inferior and must cover up from head to toe, ban forced marriages, admit that halal killing of animals is cruel, and end the institutionalised hatred of Jews. “Honour” killing will be an oxymoron to them too. Dumping some of the ridiculous clothing that marks them out as different would help.

Suicide bombing an afront to Islam
Above all, Muslims must say loud and clear that suicide bombing is an affront to Islam. Even now, some Muslim leaders say things like “suicide” bombing which kills infidels (i.e. you and me) and Jews isn’t really suicide bombing, but an act of war on behalf of Allah which will be rewarded by a direct route to heaven. Muslim leaders must make clear that isn’t the case. Muslim leaders in Britain will not be allowed to operate unless they unequivocally underline this with signed declarations.

The Koran is often loosely worded and contradictory. Look at this gem.

“Whoever killed a human being, except (my italics) as punishment for murder or other villainy in the land, shall be regarded as having killed all mankind”.
The clause starting with “except” can be deployed by militant Muslims to fuel their murderous jihads.

Another example of hard rules followed by phrases which water down the edict, allows Muslims to insist on the halal ritual for killing animals for meat, a barbaric and inhumane method.

The justification for this – animals must have their throats cut while facing Mecca - is based on a section of the Koran which is as contradictory as it is opaque, and which suggests to me that vegetarianism was the preferred lifestyle choice.
What starts out as a clear mandate for action is watered down or neutered by convenient weasel words.

“Forbidden to you (for food) Are: Dead meat, blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which hath been invoked the name of another than Allah”.

Halal must go
The first part of that is clear enough. But it then goes on to say that if you are hungry, it doesn’t matter anyway and you can eat whatever meat you like. The Koran doesn’t actually spell out how animals should be killed. Perhaps the Halal treatment was dreamed up to get around the idea that “dead meat” is forbidden, and that killing in this way means that you are somehow not eating “dead” meat.

Also the ban on eating pork made perfect sense back in the days when nobody knew why people became ill after eating undercooked meat. Now, science has demonstrated that this is perfectly safe. Why can’t Muslims, and Jews for that matter, face this fact? If they live in the West, why can’t they make a concession to the host culture and ban Halal killing because it is so offensive to us?

Although everybody agrees that respect for all religions is a good thing, it makes sense to examine in detail what each religion stands for. Islam doesn’t shape up well to close examination. Islam, although calling itself the religion of peace, uniquely is used to justify all kinds of evil. Unlike other religions, it has never been reformed to take on board progress in civilization and learning. That’s why Muslims in Britain will only be allowed to use a modernised version of the Koran.

Any Mosque that refuses will simply be closed.  

Leaders of Muslim organisations in Britain are in denial about the implications of their medieval religion. I would bet my house that the vast majority of Muslims in Britain would agree with my ideas. Most Muslims aren’t fanatical. Most British Muslims seek emancipation from an often outdated religion, which insists on taking medieval writings literally and clashes with many basic British cultural and political standards. Most British Muslims came to Britain to embrace our ways as well as seeking to better themselves materially.

It is time they spoke out.

It is also time for our leaders to act, but don’t hold your breath.

 Neil Winton – May 10, 2007