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The British government has just embarked upon a new stage of its ongoing efforts to commit national and civilizational suicide. As with previous endeavors in this field, the poison pill is presented to the public as a necessary measure for combating “racism.”
LBC reported Monday that “a diversity drive has been initiated by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) in some of the country’s best-known beauty spots after a review found many of them risked becoming ‘irrelevant’ in a multicultural society.” How could a place become “irrelevant” in modern Britain? If it doesn’t sufficiently cater to Muslims.
Many of Britain’s cities, including London, now have Muslim mayors. At least one of these can barely speak English. Britain’s countryside, however, is still unforgivably Islamophobic, but the government is on the case: “A series of proposals has been laid out by National Landscapes to change these ‘very much white environments’ such as the Cotswolds and Chilterns.”
Islam is not a race, and there are Muslims, and jihadis, of all races, but in Britain, as elsewhere in the West, the government and media regard the growing Muslim population of the country in exclusively racial terms. The influx of Muslim migrants is wholly benign and even positive, you see, and certainly to be encouraged, because it enhances our diversity, and everyone knows the Orwellian slogan, “Diversity Is Our Strength.”
And so Britain’s countryside, which has hitherto been populated with Britons only, must now be filled with foreigners, and transformed so as to cater to them: “The Chiltern National Landscape will launch an outreach programme in Luton and High Wycombe targeted at Muslims, after the report found ethnic minorities visiting the area were ‘anxious over unleashed dogs.’”
Yes. In order to appease their new overlords, the British people must surrender their pets. This is because Islam hates dogs. One Islamic tradition states that Muhammad ordered that dogs be killed: “Abdullah (b. Umar) (Allah be pleased with them) reported: Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) ordered the killing of dogs and we would send (men) in Medina and its corners and we did not spare any dog that we did not kill, so much so that we killed the dog that accompanied the wet she-camel belonging to the people of the desert.” (Sahih Muslim 3811)
It’s all about making the poor Muslims feel safe. The Malvern Hills National Landscape said: “Many minority peoples have no connection to nature in the UK because their parents and their grandparents did not feel safe enough to take them or had other survival preoccupations. This breaks down the oral traditions for learning. While most white English users value the solitude and contemplative activities which the countryside affords, the tendency for ethnic minority people is to prefer social company (family, friends, schools).”
And so the British countryside must be made welcoming to large numbers of Muslims. “some demographics are still under-represented in our countryside,” but that won’t be the case for much longer. “Many communities in modern Britain feel that these landscapes hold no relevance for them. The countryside is seen by both black, Asian and minority ethnic groups and white people as very much a ‘white’ environment. If that is true today, then the divide is only going to widen as society changes. Our countryside will end up being irrelevant to the country that actually exists.” No one seems concerned about whether the countryside is or will continue to be “relevant” to native Britons.
The pubs are going to have to go as well. A 2022 Defra report entitled “Improving the ethnic diversity of visitors to England’s protected landscapes” lamented that Muslims in Britain see “the English countryside as a white space, to which they did not belong,” as the facilities there “cater to white English culture.” That includes drinking alcohol: “Protected landscapes were closely associated with ‘traditional’ pubs, which have limited food options and cater to people who have a drinking culture.Accordingly, Muslims from the Pakistani and Bangladeshi group said this contributed to a feeling of being unwelcome.”
The absurdity of all this is obvious. Imagine if the Pakistani government produced a report complaining about how the nation’s countryside was so full of mosques and Sharia-adherent Muslims that non-Muslim immigrants to the country felt unwelcome. (No one is actually immigrating to Pakistan; this is just a thought experiment.) Imagine if the Pakistani government recommended that bars and churches be built in rural areas, so as to encourage non-Pakistani non-Muslims to move there.
The Pakistani government could conceivably fall if it made such a resolution. Its foes would charge it with being more concerned about foreigners than about the native people, and say that it was trying to replace the one with the other. In Pakistan, that would be treason. In the United Kingdom, it’s “diversity.”
