The Left Want to Silence Facts About Islam | Melanie Phillips — Transcript

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1. 0:00There's a lot of stuff going on in the
2. 0:01Islamic world which needs to be
3. 0:03criticized and not just criticized but
4. 0:08vigorously opposed because it's a threat
5. 0:11to life and limb. It's a threat to the
6. 0:14core values of the west. Um it should
7. 0:17not be tolerated. Now one can't say that
8. 0:20because one is immediately accused of
9. 0:22Islamophobia. Um, if you talk about the
10. 0:24rape and pimping gangs being mainly
11. 0:27perpetrated by Pakistani heritage Muslim
12. 0:29men, you're immediately accused of
13. 0:31Islamophobia,
14. 0:33um, uh, it's been an absolutely chilling
15. 0:35had an absolutely chilling effect. And
16. 0:37now the current Labor government is
17. 0:39flirting quite badly with the idea of
18. 0:42criminalizing it further. So the problem
19. 0:44with anti with Islamophobia is that it
20. 0:46criminalizes legitimate and necessary
21. 0:48discussion about Islam. And one of the
22. 0:52things it criminalizes or seeks to
23. 0:54suppress is the uh criticism
24. 0:59uh or identification or acknowledgement
25. 1:02of Muslim anti-semitism.
26. 1:05Um okay, as we as we have been
27. 1:08discussing, anti-semitism is across
28. 1:11cultures and creeds. Um, and it's
29. 1:13rampant throughout the West among a lot
30. 1:16of white-kinned people, a lot of uh uh
31. 1:19people of of different different uh
32. 1:21creeds and cultures. Um, but
33. 1:24nevertheless, there is a
34. 1:25disproportionate amount of anti-semitism
35. 1:27in the Muslim world. Muslim world is one
36. 1:29of the most anti-semitic um uh cultures
37. 1:32uh on earth. um and is uh in in large
38. 1:37measure responsible for much of the um
39. 1:40uprising against Israel and the Jewish
40. 1:43people that we've seen since October 7.
41. 1:44It's been led by uh Islamists.
42. 1:47Uh some of whom are, you know, attached
43. 1:49to the Hamas, uh some of whom are run by
44. 1:51Iran. Um but but basically Muslims who
45. 1:55are enraged about Jews and enraged about
46. 1:58the West. Um, and there's a
47. 2:01disproportionate number of those in the
48. 2:03Muslim community. Now,
49. 2:06one has to be able to talk about that,
50. 2:08but one is unable to talk about that.
51. 2:10Nobody talks about it. The Jewish
52. 2:11community leadership in Britain will not
53. 2:13talk about it. They talk about
54. 2:15Islamophobia and anti-semitism in the
55. 2:17same breath because, you know, they they
56. 2:20are terrified of being accused of
57. 2:24promoting Jewish victimization alone.
58. 2:29They think that that will create
59. 2:30anti-semitism.
60. 2:32Um so you have endless um confusion and
61. 2:36layers of of um denial and obfuscation
62. 2:41and evasion going on. Um, so
63. 2:46the equation of ant of Islam of
64. 2:48Islamophobia and anti-semitism is what
65. 2:51we hear the whole time and it means that
66. 2:53governments and I think the Australian
67. 2:56government current Australian government
68. 2:57is quite similar to the uh current
69. 2:59British government and indeed the
70. 3:01previous government. You can't address
71. 3:04the problem of anti-semitism in Britain
72. 3:07without saying well we have to have
73. 3:10against Islamophobia as well. So you
74. 3:12can't I mean you know Muslims are not
75. 3:16sending their children to schools behind
76. 3:18barb wire and fortified doors. Muslims
77. 3:21don't post guards on every communal
78. 3:25activity that they have. Um uh okay
79. 3:29there are people who are prejudiced
80. 3:30against Muslims. Of course there are
81. 3:32people who prejudiced against Sikhs and
82. 3:34Hindus and Chinese people and people
83. 3:37with red hair. I mean, you know,
84. 3:39prejudice against anybody is bad. We can
85. 3:41surely all agree on that. Um, but in
86. 3:45terms of who is actually suffering from
87. 3:49uh um not just prejudice but attacks,
88. 3:54um what's going on against Jewish people
89. 3:56is off the scale. Now, uh we we read,
90. 4:00you know, but you know, um um
91. 4:02Islamophobia and anti-Muslim attacks
92. 4:05have gone up. Well, I'm sure they have,
93. 4:06and that's, you know, not good.
94. 4:08Obviously, not good. But it's nothing
95. 4:10compared with the risk and the threat to
96. 4:13the Jewish community. Um, which has been
97. 4:16severe, uh, for decades. I mean, Jewish
98. 4:20children in Britain have been educated
99. 4:22and, uh, communal activities has been
100. 4:24going on behind guarded fortresses for
101. 4:28many, many years. And
102. 4:32um I'm afraid Muslims are
103. 4:34disproportionately involved in those
104. 4:36attacks. They're certainly not it's not
105. 4:39the majority as far as I can see. The
106. 4:41majority of attacks are coming from uh
107. 4:43uh white-kinned Caucasian people, but in
108. 4:47terms of a community um um
109. 4:51participation, uh there's a
110. 4:53disproportionate number of Muslims
111. 4:54involved. And apart from a few very very
112. 4:59brave Muslim souls uh in Britain and
113. 5:02across the world and they are so small
114. 5:04in number, there has been no kind of
115. 5:08Muslim community thing saying you know
116. 5:11this is an appalling thing in our in our
117. 5:14society. We're doing this wrong. We're
118. 5:16doing that wrong. We have to take
119. 5:17responsibility for this. In all the
120. 5:19decades since we first became aware of
121. 5:22Islamic extremism, Islamic terrorism,
122. 5:26um, and certainly since, you know, the
123. 5:29great uprising against against Jews, um,
124. 5:32there's been nothing communal at all.