Posted by We now know West Midlands Police banned Jewish away fans from attending a football match in Birmingham because they feared the wrath of local armed Islamists. Then they lied and blamed the Jewish fans. It’s almost a week since the Chief Constable of West Midlands Police, Craig Guilford came before the Home Affairs Select Committee and was confronted with the evidence amassed by my tenacious colleague
. He obfuscated and dissembled. We’re still waiting for him to resign, or be sacked by the Home Secretary. But was the police’s deceit because didn’t they think the public could cope with the truth? The reality is the police can no longer sustain their authority in parts of Britain and have to lie to preserve the illusion. Mass migration and the abject failure of integration that has flowed with it has meant that in some places Islamists – unrespecting of British institutions of law and order, violent or openly threatening violence – now have such a foothold that the police do not know how to assert control and maintain order. They believe they would be overwhelmed if they tried to enforce the law. They are too defeatist to try. Or perhaps they believe it better not to as the sight of their failure would be catastrophic for faith in them and in the rule of law as we’ve known it. Rather than explain this shocking conclusion to the British public they develop false narratives – exemplified by the Maccabi Tel Aviv ban – to preserve the pretence of authority for as long as possible. We saw the same in the aftermath of October 7th in London and elsewhere. The police made a myriad of excuses for their inaction in the face of the hate marches. They refused to be honest and concede the scale of the Islamist challenge was too big to confront. It’s every time the police bow to the need to placate ‘community relations’. Police Commanders, sitting in mosques with so-called community leaders, praying in aid the support of local religious figures as they seek to do their jobs. In the summer disturbances of 2024 the police in Birmingham said they let the community “police itself”. The fear is understandable. Remember the almost paramilitary display we saw in Tower Hamlets recently – men in uniforms, an Islamist version of the black shirts that stalked the same streets almost a century ago. Or the school teacher run out of his home community in Batley, and still in hiding, because he dared to show an image of Muhammad to pupils in a religious education class. Or the Islamist gangs out in force at our last General Election, intimidating political rivals so their preferred extremist candidates could win. In this world honesty about what’s happening becomes a radical choice. Instead two-tier policing becomes the norm. The police crack down on otherwise law abiding citizens in more petty and pointless ways to retain a semblance of authority, all the while perpetuating rampant falsehoods to ignore the elephant in the room. The truth is we have a limited amount of time to address this, or it will become clear that the state has no clothes. Islamism will have won and the liberal, democratic values that underpinned our country for generations will have lost. With that will flow the ubiquity of Sharia courts, cousin marriage, hate preachers in mosques and antisemitism. Our foreign policy will be increasingly dictated by Islamism, rather than by any traditional understanding of British interests. Women’s rights will be further undermined. Our country will be a more threatening and violent place. This is why the West Midlands Police scandal matters. It’s about more than a football match. It’s about who controls our streets – the police or the Islamists? Who governs our country – the Islamists or the rest of the British people? The fight against Islamism is the fight of our generation. It’s a battle for the soul of the country.
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