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Or you can go to gb news. Common alerts. Gb news. Common alerts. Welcome to the saturday night showdown i no, rishi sunak has showdown no, rishi sunak has warned of a rise in extremism as muslims elect George Galloway and rochdale. To be fair, its not the worst thing that muslims have done in rochdale. Rishi has pledged to stop extremism, but if hes using the same tools he used to stop the boats, extremism is going to get 20 times worse and extremists will be given free hotels and spending money. But we need to talk about the elephant in the room. Accusations of islamophobia are stopping any scrutiny or criticism of islam and allowing extremism to go unchecked. Following islamist threats to politicians , threats to politicians, conservative mps lee anderson and Suella Braverman have been accused of islamophobia for drawing attention to this, and lee is even being investigated for hate crime by londons mayor, sadiq khans police force for suggesting that sadiq is under the thumb of islamists. Although ive never understood the revulsion at islamophobia , the revulsion at islamophobia, nobody gives people with arachnophobia a hard time for their fear , and all spiders do their fear, and all spiders do is sometimes pop out around the house. If Osama Bin Laden came scuttling out from under your couch, its much more understandable if you dont like it. I think its the legs. Theyre so hairy, and the fact that dead 13 that hes been dead for 13 years, of but people are years, of course, but people are going want to swipe away with going to want to swipe away with a rolled up newspaper and if you turned on the bathroom light and found abu hamza in your bath, unable to get out because his hooks give him any hooks dont give him any purchase sides, purchase on the shiny sides, youd probably soil your underpants yourself. How are you underpants yourself. How are you going to get a bit of card under him. 7 him going to get a bit of card under him . Him up into a pint him . Jiggle him up into a pint glass him in the garden. Glass and put him in the garden. Hes stone. I can understand hes 21 stone. I can understand people apprehensive and people being apprehensive and spiders just want to make a little and catch some flies. Little web and catch some flies. They been mobbing the they havent been mobbing the streets our cities, calling streets of our cities, calling for the destruction of forjihad and the destruction of israel. They havent desecrated War Memorials or sent teachers into hiding for displaying cartoons. Spiders havent cartoons. Spiders havent attacked authors for blasphemy, or planes into or flown planes into skyscrapers, or tried to establish a global caliphate or detonated bombs at pop concerts. Islamists are definitely a bit scarier than spiders. So what is islamophobia . Since the hamas attacks of october 7, large increases in islamophobia have been recorded. Muslims have been recorded. Muslims have reported being afraid to leave the house, which raises the concern if muslims feel afraid to leave the house, whos going to leave the house, whos going to make jews feel afraid to leave the house . Im joking. Im not suggesting all muslims are anti semitic. According to a survey by the anti defamation league, only 54 of british muslims have anti semitic values. A mere 54 hard any. The values. A mere 54 hard any. The guardian has the apparently shocking revelation that more than half of tories think that islam is a threat to the british way of life, while only 18 believe the two are compatible. Believe the two are compatible. But is this hatred , or arent but is this hatred, or arent these just valid concerns . As these just valid concerns . As you wouldnt chastise an aztec for being concerned about the impact of spanish immigration on the tenochca way of life . And its not as if these views are based on prejudice , but theyre based on prejudice, but theyre based on prejudice, but theyre based on prejudice, but theyre based on an observable fact of whats happened in countries such as lebanon, when islamists became predominant, and of whats happened in this , this whats happened in this, this country already terror attacks , country already terror attacks, hate preachers, huge marches, calling for jihad, hate preachers, huge marches, calling forjihad, grooming calling for jihad, grooming gangs that target children seen as fair game because theyre infidels, blasphemous authors assaulted, teachers, sent into hiding and films cancelled. I hiding and films cancelled. I cant help but feel that if islamists were dealt with and the threats violence anti semitism, censorship and bigotry ended, islamophobia would evaporate too. Theres been a very visible rise of islamism in the uk thrown into stark relief by the anti israel marches. Suddenly, the mainstream palliatives from mass immigration. Multiculturalism is great. Well all get along somehow. Great. Well all get along somehow. Nummy food went out great. Well all get along somehow. Nummy food went out the somehow. Nummy food went out the window as we saw huge mobs running rampant, desecrating War Memorials and generally behaving in a manner thats not very british. Well, unless weve gone to watch a Football Game in a french town. But in our defence at least, we are drunk when were chucking those white plastic into town plastic chairs into the town fountain. But numbers have fountain. But the numbers have always been there. And data, always been there. And the data, the uks intelligence agency, mi5 , have 43,000 extremists on mi5, have 43,000 extremists on their watch list and 90,000 are islamist terror suspects. And as islamist terror suspects. And as this graph shows , there are far this graph shows, there are far more islamist prisoners than right wing prisoners. Instead of tackling it at its roots , tackling it at its roots, authorities turn a blind to eye islamism and even fund it as they did when the government funded the notorious green lane mosque in birmingham that hosted hate preachers and any organisation set up to tackle terrorism inevitably gets dragged to the left by the progressive cabal that runs the pubuc progressive cabal that runs the Public Services in the uk. Public services in the uk. Prevent have been criticised for being too focussed on right wing extremists , who mainly seem to extremists, who mainly seem to be autistic. Teenagers who have be autistic. Teenagers who have downloaded some banned document from the dark web or a guy putting up stickers instead of being credible threat to being a credible threat to british society. I believe we should protect people, protect muslims from hatred, but allow ideas to be criticised. Islamophobia is a word invented to stop scrutiny or criticism of islam by making it akin to racism or xenophobia, which is an easy link, as islam didnt originate in britain. But islam isnt a race, its a religion , isnt a race, its a religion, and islamism is a political ideology that wants to reorder society and government according to religious laws. Its been tried in places like iran and afghanistan , and i strongly afghanistan, and i strongly recommend that progressives visit those countries in a gay pride bikini before pointing the finger and shrieking islamophobia. The great islamophobia. The great Christopher Hitchens warned us that the terum islamophobia would be used to stop scrutiny or criticism and hold open the gates of western civilisation. And now were watching it happen in real time. Here he is. In real time. Here he is. This is very urgent business. Ladies and gentlemen, i beseech you, resist it while you still can. And before the right to complain is taken away from you, which will be the next thing you will be told. You cant complain because youre islamophobic. Because youre islamophobic. Im joined tonight by the brilliant political commentator chloe dobbs and two fantastic comedians, chris ella whelan and justin panks. Now chloe has justin panks. Now chloe has Peter Hitchens been proved right . Do you think . Yeah, absolutely. I think its absolutely crazy that were using this tum islamophobia left, right and centre and then also using the terms racism with it. Yeah. Is not a race. I mean you have to be thick to think that its the same thing. Yeah. And youre right. Itsjust same thing. Yeah. And youre right. Its just absolutely stopping us from criticising islam. Is a set of islam. A religion is a set of ideas we should be able to criticise it. And also phobia suggests something irrational. Suggests something irrational. It is definitely not irrational when i mean, just look at the streets of britain at the moment and weve got mps receiving threats constantly. Jews threats constantly. Jews terrified to leave the house on a saturday and weve seen convention broken by the speaker because the threats to mps are so high. Its not something irrational. Therefore it seems ridiculous to attach phobia to the end of the word right . Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. And i mean, ive seen ive seen a lot of focus on the far right. Uh seen a lot of focus on the far right. Uh rishi sunak seen a lot of focus on the far right. Uh rishi sunak reference right. Uh rishi sunak reference the far right several times in his speech , but ive never his speech, but ive never really seen any sort of far right people unless its somebody with, you know, eminently beliefs like eminently sensible beliefs like Suella Braverman being described as well, far right. Its that gets its a tum that gets stretched around, doesnt it stretched around, doesnt it . It doesnt mean used doesnt always mean what we used to meant in the good doesnt always mean what we used to days. Meant in the good doesnt always mean what we used to days. Yeah. 1t in the good old days. Yeah. And i mean, just yesterday, i think it uh , theres think it was, uh, theres a supposed far right extremist, sam melia , uh, sentenced to two sam melia, uh, sentenced to two years in prison , and his crime years in prison, and his crime was putting stickers up and having a downloadable, um, library of stickers saying such horrific things as its okay to be white, which is apparently a racist is a racist hate crime. To say its okay to be white. So you know, for anybody watching, its definitely not okay. I dont want to be breaking the law in britain in 2024 by suggesting that it is acceptable. I mean, do you think what do you think the election of galloway , uh, going of George Galloway, uh, is going to well ill tell you what. The first thing that struck me very , very odd the me is very, very odd is the Prime Minister has come and Prime Minister has come out and come this like come out with this sort of like more heavy sort of like more heavy handed, sort of like statement about that than any atrocities have been atrocities that have ever been committed. An committed. So this was an election in and, know, election in and, you know, whatever you think of george, the thing i would notice about george his George Galloway in watching his interviews guy talks. Interviews is the guy talks. George galloway talks like someone dictating someone thats dictating Text Messages, noticed messages, have you noticed this . He enunciates every he like enunciates every syllable so much. Im like , man, syllable so much. Im like, man, its a speak and spell. And its like a speak and spell. And the thing is, is obviously the other thing is, is obviously hes a islam , uh, people hes got a big islam, uh, people behind him and is very anti israel, yet he dresses like someone thats raided a locker at the pure gym in golders green. Have you noticed hes like, what happened . That the fedora. Was a fedora fedora. Yeah, it was a fedora then. Okay. But very rare to see a but its very rare to see a man wearing that isnt man wearing a fedora that isnt either up magician. Yeah either a close up magician. Yeah or kind register. Or on some kind of register. Yeah, definitely. May both, but , yeah, definitely. May both, but, um, but it may be both, but, um, but like i said, its. Like i said, i think its. I think strange. I mean, its think its strange. I mean, its a its been a fair a its a, its been a fair election, as he said, he was voted and hasnt gone the voted in and it hasnt gone the way the Prime Minister way that the Prime Minister wanted. Now the wanted. And now the Prime Minister coming saying, minister coming out and saying, oh, its not extremism is on oh, its not the extremism is on the even say the rise. So you didnt even say this were getting this when people were getting beheaded on bridge and beheaded on the bridge and stuff. It was all stuff. Yeah, yeah, it was all all now. But all we need calm heads now. But now been rightfully now someones been rightfully elected. Go by letter elected. If you go by the letter of now its the of the law. Yeah now its the time come out and be sort of time to come out and be sort of like, really heavy handed about it. Its weird because, yeah, any time is terrorist time there is a terrorist atrocity terrible like atrocity or some terrible like that, even with the that, or even even with the marches, know, the police marches, you know, the police were and were quick to make excuses and say, oh, well, the terme jihad were quick to make excuses and say, have vell, the terme jihad were quick to make excuses and say, have all, the terme jihad were quick to make excuses and say, have a numbererme jihad were quick to make excuses and say, have a number 0er jihad were quick to make excuses and say, have a number of meanings. Can have a number of meanings. I mean, are mean, none of them are particularly and nice, particularly cuddly and nice, you know . I mean, there generally generally revolve around, you know, somebody getting at getting getting beheaded at some point. And obviously with point. Um, and obviously with the terror, terror, atrocities, anytime something happens, were immediately told, you know, oh, dont in anger or, uh, dont look back in anger or, uh, you know, uh, islam is the religion of peace. And excuses are constantly made. Are constantly made. Yeah, it was nice to see rishi sunak starting to show a little bit of backbone , a bit of little bit of backbone, a bit of strength whilst hes being soft for so long. But it really does feel like little, late. Feel like too little, too late. Where you for . You know, where were you for . You know, its nearly five months since we had the october 7th attacks and weve marches every single weve had marches every single saturday, people saturday, and obviously people all jihad and calling for all saying jihad and calling for intifada. Ive gone along to on to see its not just a few very sparsely spread out people singing anti semitic chants, like from the river to sea and holding up these signs calling for intifada. They were everywhere down and everywhere when i went down and the all just stood the police were all just stood there with their arms crossed. Rishi wasnt speaking rishi sunak wasnt speaking up then. When he is then. Its just now when he is he though . Then. Its just now when he is he really . Though . Then. Its just now when he is he really . I though . Then. Its just now when he is he really . I mean, though . Then. Its just now when he is he really . I mean, it1ough . Then. Its just now when he is he really . I mean, it was h . Then. Its just now when he is he really . I mean, it was pretty really . I mean, it was pretty subdued, he said, we subdued, wasnt it . He said, we must a line. I thought you must draw a line. I thought you draw a line, rishi. Thats your job. A line exactly. Job. He wouldnt a line exactly. Wouldnt used word he wouldnt have used a word like things like extremism about things like youre hell use youre talking about. Hell use it its like it about an election. Its like thats. Its becoming more mainstream than extreme, mainstream rather than extreme, i but , you know, i think. And but, you know, extremism is on the rise. Its like, yeah, hes trying to like, well, yeah, hes trying to silence political opponents rather than because galloway is involved and because you involved and because hes, you know , a british, you know, white know, a british, you know, white person. That was okay to say it. Person. That was okay to say it. Maybe its a little bit of a safety there. Now hes safety there. But now hes figure if you see figure headed it, if you see what i mean. Yeah. See you and also yeah. See you mean and also uh, we had the uh, just this week we had the revelation that our record numbers immigration, numbers of immigration, which were at 1. 2 million, have actually been revised upwards.