Nationality, Race and Religion

Nationality, race and religion are different things. They do not depend on one another; in civilised countries, none determines either of the others.

Nationality

A person's nationality is decided upon several factors. Where they were born is often, but not always, the primary consideration. Then there are the passports held by their parents. For example, a British person, living overseas, can confer British nationality upon their offspring, although any children of such offspring must be born in the United Kingdom in order to inherit full UK nationality. If they are born overseas, they cannot claim UK nationality. Thus, nationality is not unalterably part of the DNA, nor may it be passed on verbally at will, unlike religion.

Race

The enlightened majority concur that race is an illusion. For centuries, race has been assigned by colour of skin or geometry of eyes. However, we are each unique. Identical twins have undeniable differences - so the notion of race is no more than a lame attempt to generalise, lumping groups of us together on account of some arbitrarily chosen, shared characteristic. When asked to comment in a seminar at university, I answered a physiology lecturer's question, on the result of an antibody test, with sincerity, and in error, as any learner must expect to do from time to time. "Said with great northern vigour," sneered the lecturer, "but, sadly, wrong." Entrusted as an exemplar to those under his tutelage, the youthful don unfortunately proved himself delinquent as steward of his charges. His conduct fits my definition of a racist. He belittled an identifiable trait based on my geographical origin and heritage, implying that my 'northern vigour' had replaced factual accuracy-checking when I responded to his tutorial inquiry.

I do not claim my accent as a mark of race. I simply seek to draw attention to people's propensity to point up unconsciously acquired characteristics as being indicative of something that helps them prove a point.

Religion

Religion is a set of beliefs, handed down verbally from generation to generation, usually by parents to children. You are not born into your religion. It is inculcated in you by those in charge of your upbringing. Religion is not an unalterable part of your make-up, in the way that your DNA is, or the accent you learned from your parents and those around you in childhood. For you are at liberty, upon reaching the age of majority, to throw over the religion your parents saddled you with, and replace it with another, or with the healthy freethinking vacuum of atheism.

Recently, two men were removed from an Alaska Airlines flight, after a fellow passenger raised the alarm, having seen one of them sending texts in Arabic. The whistle-blowing observer was not able to read Arabic, so did not know what was being said. The two men claim they were discriminated against as Muslims.

I argue that the men were not identifiable as Muslims from their Arabic texts, nor from their appearance. No-one can infer a person's religious affiliation, if any, by looking at him. I suggest that the observer, mindful of the horrific events of 11 September, 2001, noticed the men drawing attention to themselves, and decided he had little choice but to act. He may well have thought it better to risk a false positive than risk a tragic end to their flight for himself and his fellow travellers. And I concur.

Elephant in the room - with a trunk full of Semtex

Michelle Ramsden’s brain fell victim to a dangerous disease in 2007. It was not bovine spongiform encephalopathy. It was not meningitis. Michelle was infected by Islam, when she was 24 years old - an impressionable young adult, groomed unwittingly by a Muslim family whose intentions were, I have no doubt, wholesome and benign.

Michelle changed her name to Safiyya Amira Shaikh. Taking an Arabic name is part of conversion to Islam. The radicalisation timer began ticking. By late 2019, Safiyya was sharing details of a credible plot to blow up St Paul’s Cathedral, including her intention to kill as many kuffar (non-Muslims) as possible. Unknown to her, the ‘brother’ with whom she shared her plans was an undercover police officer, assigned to her case after she had come up on MI5’s radar.

Sentencing Safiyya in July 2020, Mr Justice Sweeney deemed her a self-evident danger to the public, adding that there was no telling when she would be safe to be released.

His Honour misses the point, by a wide margin. I sincerely hope he privately agrees with what I am about to suggest, prevented, as he is, by politically correct protocol from saying as much. Though that is not a happy state of affairs, as I shall point out.

The danger to the public is Islam itself. It spreads from brain to brain, faster then ever, thanks to twenty-first century skills and technology. If you doubt that, and you think I’m being unfair to the innocent adherents of a noble faith, think on this. Why is that that fundamentalist extremists, plotting and carrying out murderous attacks, are almost exclusively Muslim? Their targets - the kuffar - are identifiable by being outside the belief system of Islam. It is no use arguing that most Muslims do not plan or commit homicidal atrocities. Most drivers who are over the legal blood alcohol limit do not cause fatal accidents. However, all of the drunk drivers who do kill and maim, destroying or ruining countless lives, are drawn from the larger reservoir of all drunk drivers. Reduce the size of that pool - to zero if you can - and you lessen the chance of people getting killed.

If I argue that removing my right to drink beer and drive my car is a threat to my civil liberty, I’ll be quickly shouted down, and rightly so. My civil liberty is too expensive a luxury, when the price is counted in lives lost, in alcohol-related road accidents.

I assert that Islam is a similarly - and vastly more - expensive luxury than that. People do not die if they fail to pray five times a day. No-one would dream of blowing their life’s savings on a pilgrimage to Mecca to throw stones at a rock, was the idea not inculcated at an early age, through the verbally handed-down beliefs of parents. No-one would choose to starve themselves throughout daylight hours for a month, were such a ridiculous act not mandated by the authority of Islam. And no-one would seek to become a martyr in the name of Islam, if they had never heard of the whole sorry tale, and had no reason to suppose that blowing yourself to pieces leads to anything but oblivion, with no tempting reward of six dozen virgin brides, rivers of milk and honey, nor any other free gift.

If you still doubt that Islam is the cause of the problem, ask yourself how many atrocities committed by non-Muslim suicide bombers we see in daily press reports. Yes, I know the tactic of suicide bombing was first popularised by the Tamils in Sri Lanka, who are obviously not Muslims. But since the days of their rebellion, and now that the strategy has been plagiarised by the devotees of Islam, how many secular suicide attacks have there been? Every time a young hothead blows him or herself to kingdom come, we are able correctly to guess their religion, before we have even read the details.

We bend over backward to respect beliefs and faiths that are not our own. We protect the right of believers to state, without ridicule, that Mohamed ascended to heaven on the back of a winged horse, and Jesus was born of a virgin without the intervention of a sperm-providing man, when we know that both those things are scientifically not possible. Why do we do that? Because believers claim that it hurts them when their assertions are called into question.

Well, I’m afraid that’s just bad luck. Negative feedback may well hurt, but we still need to hear it. When my boss analyses my performance at work, pointing out where I haven’t done well and need to improve, I don’t enjoy it while he’s saying it. I could even claim it hurts. But that doesn’t mean he should not say it. Truth matters.

So stop whining, Muslims and your apologists. Your religion is outdated, of no use to society, and an urgent threat to the safety of civilisation. What might happen, should one of these ardent young trainee martyrs gain access to a weapon of mass destruction?

Islam could be gone in a generation, were educators allowed to do their job properly, encourage healthy scepticism, and call it out for the tissue of shallow lies that it is.

The time to act is now, while those infected by the Islam pandemic are still a minority. Don’t be afraid to speak out. Bawl your head off, before they cut it off. Seriously, they cannot behead us all. Shout it from the rooftops. Islam is false, along with Christianity, Judaism and all the other mumbo-jumbo spouted from the mouths and texts of those who promulgate popular religion. Call out the elephant in the room, and consign it to its rightful place, while we still can.