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Sunday, 7 October 2007
Once Upon a Time in the West (Midlands)

by Adil Zeshan

ENGLAND. THE YEAR, 2007.

My name is Adil. I have been born and raised among dutiful and obedient Muslims, and I aim to misbehave.

Already I have fallen from grace. I am no longer one of them, a reason sufficient for their delicately-placed wrath to have me consigned, in this world and the next, to the most grievous of penalties; for what else should the reward be for those who behave like me, they would say if they knew, but disgrace in this life? So no matter where I go in the realms of Islam, I am a hidden traitor to my people, a renegade without honour to be executed. And for them to know of my apostasy is to know of their fear.

Still, I will not bow to their etiquette of madness. Now and again I silently walk among the Muslim flock, to observe their incessant bleating and guilty straying, and see how readily they run to the call of their watchful masters, appointees of God who oversee the enjoining of what is good and the forbidding of what is not. And they remind the herd that He is not unmindful of what they do.

Neither am I.  more....

Posted on 4:40 PM by NER
Comments
8 Oct 2007
Send an emailMary Jackson

A fascinating and disturbing read.

Excellent article, from someone who obviously knows.



8 Oct 2007
Pali

Adil --- what a piece of work. I recognised ever single image. Ironic isn't it, that they blast bhangra music out of their cars, when most of them are racist and contemptuos towards the Sikhs who make that music?

Your account has stopped me in my tracks it was so brilliantly written and truthful. You need to write more, you need to be published. Take care, and I hope to see more of your writing here and elsewhere, and if you were to set up a blog of your own, for example, I hope you would let us know.

 



8 Oct 2007
Esmerelda Weatherwax
I agree.

8 Oct 2007
Pali

Adil

It all began with the Rushdie affair. Before that, Pakistanis and Bengalis in the UK were more or less content to ally themselves, if they had to, with the Black and Asian political identity. After the Rushdie affair, the Muslim men, neutered and enraged, wanted to assert their power and dominion, and all of this began from there.  Everything you say about how politicised 'multiculturalism' allowed them to come to the fore and marginalised others is true. Every time you see their faces, speaking with forked tongue of 'diversity' and 'tolerance', all the while being the most intolerant of all people, the most contempt filled for true diversity, it makes my blood boil.

I wish I had some influence myself, to bring your voice to a wider public, because it needs to be read and heard by more people. It needs to be written into books, serialised in newspapers. I hope you reach that stage.Take care friend.

 



8 Oct 2007
Pali

"This is a Muslim area. Get out", says one of his comrades.

What are people in this country going to do when this is the de facto law in whole cities and towns in England? I know Birmingham, I know that parts of it are almost 100% Muslim. How can the city be peaceful in the long term with this level of Islamicisation, when Birmingham is as much Rawalpindi as it is England? A recent report said that the West Midlands has more al Qaeda units under surveillance than any other part of the country. I hate to say this, but I see something very dark brewing there, and the derangement of the so-called moderates like the leader of Birmingham Central Mosque who claims we are living in a Nazi state, where the Respect Party is embedded, I know that these people are complicit in this Islamisation and the coming violence that will emanate from there.



8 Oct 2007
Esmerelda Weatherwax
On the matter of being told that this part of birmingham was "a Muslim area" I was very angry when Trevor Brooks, or  Abu Izzadeen as he is now, told John Reid that he should not have come to a "Muslim area."
He was in Leyton where I grew up, I lived there long before he was born, and he said this in the sports centre where my school used to send us for PE.


19 Oct 2007
Baal FFI
Excellent article. I particularly love the part where you ask the jihadi imam to assume if what the muslim guys were planning to the soldier was real.

And his defense was to accuse the soldier of apostasy. Pretty much sentencing him to the islamic murder that was planned for him.

Although your account of the story might be fictitious, it does reflect the same double-standard relative logic that the average muslim uses when I discuss such issues with them.

Baal,
www.faithfreedom.org

20 Oct 2007
Adil
Baal, thanks for dropping me a note about your comments. I appreciate the kind words.

As I said on FFI, my experience of the events, conversations - basically, everything - that I present in the article are all true and happened in the sequence I describe them.  The details of the conversations, in particular, I reported as accurately as I could recall them. But even that wasn't especially difficult - I have met many of HT's suburban mujahideen, and I find it funny how our conversations end up as not all that dissimilar. Which is hardly surprising, really, given how these Islamic diehards are strictly trained to espouse their party line.

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