In
recent years Britain has become a hotbed for anti-Muslim bigotry like many of
its neighbours on the Continent. It has become the primary means of
mobilisation for marginal elements on the radical Right. Old canards against
immigrants are being recycled and directed purposely to siphon off
disenfranchised working-class and lower middle-class support for mainstream parties
in this way. For instance, the BNP’s accusations that there are South Asian
paedophile gangs were transformed into ‘Muslim’ paedophile gangs as if the
grooming and rape of non-Muslim children has any basis in theology. It is now a
staple of right-wing commentary that there are ‘Muslim’ paedophile gangs in the
shadows of every city in the country. No focus on non-Muslim paedophile rings.[1]
Naturally, the mainstream media has plenty of time to feed its own rape-mania
and has no qualms about fanning the flames of anti-Muslim racism in doing so.
No real concern for the victims of child abuse.
Given
that the Muslims have become the main target of groups like the BNP the old
targets have had to take a backseat. The main reason for this is that it has
become more acceptable to express disdain for Islam than the West Indians who
settled here in the 1950s. Likewise it has become completely unacceptable to
engage in old-fashioned Judeophobia. Meanwhile bashing Muslims has become an
umbrella for spreading enmity against South Asian British citizens.[2]
The slur ‘Paki’ has been replaced with ‘Muslim’ in the vocabulary of every
racist in the country. The EDL have attacked Sikh temples in the past and have
marched under the chant ‘We love the
floods! We love the floods!’ in reference to the floods which devastated
Pakistan in 2010. Of course, the EDL has no qualms about exploiting the
sectarian tensions on the old Indian subcontinent and soaking Sikh and even
Hindu support. In that way the rabble of aging football hooligans and skinheads
can claim to non-racist in its joy at the prospect of Mother Nature drowning
Pakistani children.
This
is the same reason the EDL has been filmed wagging Israeli flags, and making
Nazi salutes. When Lee Rigby was killed the EDL was quick to jump on the scene
and soon there emerged a video of the goons yelling for the ‘black bastards’ to
be deported. Mostly unreported went the attempts by the EDL to make headway in
electoral politics. The British Freedom Party was founded in 2011 with Paul
Weston, a former UKIP blogger, as well as with an influx of ex-BNP members. In
one of the speeches given by Paul Weston he said “In fact, Islam is worse than
Nazism” before sounding off about the stoning of women.[3]
He went on to claim that the growth of a Muslim population will lead to the
breakdown of British society, pointing to the Lebanese Civil War and the
collapse of Yugoslavia. In other words, Weston places the blame for the
collapse of these societies on Lebanese Muslims and Bosnian Muslims.[4]
That would imply Weston takes the side of the neo-Fascist groups in Lebanon and
the nationalist fantasists of a ‘Greater’ Serbia.
In
spite of his courageous support for the ‘lesser
evil’ to Islam the new party soon evaporated. Its existence lacked the
strong presence of a fart in the wind. Not content with this failure Paul
Weston formed Liberty GB with much of the same herd and little deviation from the
comradely affection for Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.[5]
The new group soon found plenty of friends in soaking up the right-wingers of
the blogosphere united in their hatred of Muslims and non-whites. Soon Mr
Weston was on YouTube again looking to beat the competition posed by various
videos of cats flushing toilets. He had some more revealing words too. By the
summer of 2013 Paul Weston was giving talks on what he described as the “racial
and cultural war against the indigenous people of this country.”[6]
Going on to deem this “genocide” Weston goes on to claim the cities are
“inundated with the Third World”.[7]
He lists the places which have been “inundated” as follows: Tower Hamlets,
Bradford, Birmingham, Luton and Leicester. The plot thickens.
All
the while Paul Weston is adamant that it’s not just the Muslims that are the
problem. Oh no, most certainly not! The Muslims are only the ‘pawns’ in Weston’s mind, a foreign race
imported to undermine and destroy white Britain.[8]
The people responsible are broadly pinned as ‘liberals’, ‘hippies’,
‘multiculturalists’ and ‘Marxists’. In his more blunt moments Mr Weston claims
that it’s all the Frankfurt school. From beyond the grave Jewish Marxist
intellectuals such as Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse are responsible for
political correctness, multiculturalism, feminism and mass-immigration.[9]
It’s all a part of a calculated plot by the Jews who deems ‘cultural Marxists’
who created critical theory to wage ‘cultural terrorism’ against Western
civilisation.[10]
He claims elsewhere that “the Left now control pretty much everything”.[11]
Yet again the raison d'être of
National Socialism resurfaces in the clever language of a ‘counter-Jihadist’.
The anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that the Frankfurt school are responsible for a vast array of problems has become increasingly popular and mainstream on the Right.[12] It originates in the mad ramblings of Lyndon LaRouche and in the twenty years since it has been taken up by American shock-jocks and the reactionary press in Britain.[13] It has been promulgated by many cultural conservatives as well white nationalists.[14] Naturally the BNP have moved in on this. In 2011 Nick Griffin put across his non-understanding of the Frankfurt school in a talk with Simon Darby and posted it on the Party’s YouTube channel.[15] This year the BNP appears to have gone on to hold a knuckleheaded talk on the Frankfurt school where the Jewish intellectuals were painted as belonging to an international conspiracy alongside the Freemasons, the Illuminati and Bilderberg.[16] If anything it’s good to see that the Illuminati conspiracy theory has finally been given the audience it deserves.
Not
coincidentally, Anders Behring Breivik promulgated the same theory in his
manifesto and considered ‘cultural Marxists’ to be “traitors” deserving of
execution.[17]
In that same manifesto Breivik praises the EDL as a ‘blessing’ and quoted Paul
Weston’s Gates of Vienna blog posts predicting ‘a European civil war.’[18]
Fortunately, the economic crisis in Britain has not been so severe as to
produce the conditions necessary for a full-blown fascist resurgence as we have
seen in Greece for instance. The rabbles organised by the EDL come nowhere near
the ranks of Blackshirts led by Sir Oswald Mosley. It’s primarily an online
phenomenon with the potential to influence psychopaths and thugs to take
action. It was this that led to Breivik’s rampage and the numerous attacks on
mosques and Muslims since the Rigby murder. It would seem that this could get a
lot uglier before the liberals wake up to find what they have allowed to
flourish and take it seriously.
This article was originally written for and posted at the Third Estate on September 29th 2013.
[1]
Bard-Rosenberg, R; Daily Mail Lies: Are
Asian gangs targeting white girls? (2010): http://thethirdestate.net/2010/11/daily-mail-lies-are-asian-gangs-targeting-white-girls/
[4]
Ibid.
[5] ‘Communist
UAF orders BBC to curb Free Speech’: http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/news-libertygb/5836-communist-uaf-orders-bbc-to-curb-free-speech?highlight=YToxOntpOjA7czo5OiJjb21tdW5pc3QiO30
[6]
Paul Weston on the Woolwich killing, Islam and the State of Modern Britain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ocqyqjaVSg#t=271
[7]
Ibid.
[9]
Paul Weston on ‘How to Destroy a Country’: http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/news-libertygb/5868-how-to-destroy-a-country-part-one
[10]
Ibid.
[12] ‘Who
are Breivik’s Fellow Travellers?’: http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2012/04/who-are-breivik%E2%80%99s-fellow-travellers
[13]
Jay, M; Dialectical Counter-Enlightenment:
the Frankfurt School as a Scapegoat for the Lunatic Fringe (Skidmore
College, 2010): http://cms.skidmore.edu/salmagundi/backissues/168-169/martin-jay-frankfurt-school-as-scapegoat.cfm
[14] ‘Cultural
Marxism’ Catching On: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2003/summer/reframing-the-enemy?page=0,1
[17]
Seymour, R; Anders Behring Breivik and
21st Century Fascism (2012): http://www.leninology.com/2012/08/anders-behring-breivik-and-21st-century.html