The 2024 General Election is probably the first time that we have seen an Islamic agenda openly influencing an election in the U.K.
This influence is seen clearly in the extent to which parties and candidates are keen to present themselves as supportive of Palestinians in the Gaza conflict. There is also a concerted campaign to get Muslims voting on Islamic issues.
Muslim votes may swing marginal constituencies
The Henry Jackson Society has released a report showing that Islam is the largest minority religion in 129 of the 220 most marginal seats in the General Election. That’s 58.6% of the marginal seats. A marginal seat is one where the margin of victory is expected to be no more than 10% of the electorate. There are 220 marginal seats in this election which is just over a third (33.8%) of all available seats.
Islam is the largest religious minority in more than half of the marginal seats currently held by the Conservatives (98 out of 176, or 55.6%). Islam is also the largest minority religion in all the marginal seats currently held by Labour (three out of three, or 100%).
The Henry Jackson Society website, has a helpful table showing the Muslim population in each constituency.
In 2011, Muslims represented 10% or more of the population in 82 constituencies. Today, they represent 10% or more of the population in 120 constituencies.
In 2011, Muslims represented 25% or more of the population in 21 constituencies. Today it is 30 constituencies.
Muslims now represent 50% or more of the population in four constituencies.
Support for a state of Palestine
Polling carried out in April this year found that British Muslims are more likely to have a positive view of Hamas than a negative one. Only one in four British Muslims believe Hamas committed murder and rape in Israel on October 7th 2023. Almost half of British Muslims feel more sympathy with Hamas than with Israel.
One in four British Muslims (25%) name the Israel-Palestine conflict as their most important election issue, compared with just 3% of the public. In the Rochdale by-election in February, George Galloway overturned a Labour majority by running an explicitly pro-Palestine campaign. After winning, Galloway said in his victory speech: “Keir Starmer, this is for Gaza.” In the May local elections, pro-Palestine candidates were victorious in areas with high Muslim populations.
Mindful of all this, political parties and candidates have been keen to declare their support for the Palestinian cause.
The Labour Party manifesto states that it will call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release of all hostages. It says that:
We are committed to recognising a Palestinian state as a contribution to a renewed peace process which results in a two-state solution with a safe and secure Israel alongside a viable and sovereign Palestinian state.
These statements are clearly in the manifesto in order to attract the Muslim vote. Israel believes that recognising a Palestinian state would be rewarding terrorism and that the result would be a new terrorist state. Recognising a Palestinian state will not help to achieve peace in the region.
The Liberal Democrat manifesto also says that they will call for an immediate ceasefire, and “provide the space to reach a two-state solution based on 1967 borders with security and dignity for Israelis and Palestinians”. 1967 borders means prior to the six-day war of 1967 when Israel managed to capture the strategically important Golan heights. Remembering that almost as soon as Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, missiles were being fired from Gaza into Israel, the situation would be even worse if Israel was to withdraw from the Golan heights. Palestinians would then be able to fire missiles into Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
The Green Party also intends to recognise a Palestinian state, as does the SNP. Plaid Cymru goes further by also calling for Israeli Government ministers to be held accountable for war crimes, including genocide, and calls on “the U.K. Government to expel the Israeli Ambassador until such time as the Israeli Government ends its apartheid and illegal actions”. It also wants a ban on arms sales to the state of Israel.
In addition to the manifestos, we have seen individual candidates calling for recognition of a Palestinian state. Labour candidate Sarah Owen is one example, tweeting her support for the Palestinian cause in the colours of the Palestinian flag.
The Labour candidate Sarah Champion, who has been MP for Rotherham, has also tweeted her support for the Palestinians in a tweet with Palestinian colours.
This is quite a turnaround for Sarah Champion who resigned as Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities in 2017 after writing that: “Britain has a problem with British Pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls.” This is merely a statement of fact, and a fact that has particularly affected her constituency in Rotherham. Nevertheless, it is a politically incorrect fact for which she was forced to resign and apologise. She has gone from being a fearless campaigner for the victims of these grooming gangs to promoting the Palestinian cause in order to attract Muslim voters.
Many other Labour candidates are endorsed by Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East, which calls for “immediate recognition of the State of Palestine by the U.K. Government”. The website currently lists 70 former Labour MPs as amongst its supporters.
The Muslim Vote
Earlier this year, a new initiative in British politics appeared – The Muslim Vote. My colleague Carys Moseley did a detailed exposé of The Muslim Vote (TMV) last month.
TMV has tweeted 17 demands to Keir Starmer. These include: recognising a Palestinian state, ending military ties with Israel, allowing Muslims to pray at school, removing the new ‘extremism’ definition, adopting the APPG definition of Islamophobia, and ensuring sharia compliant pensions are available at every workplace. That’s quite a list and, as I have written before, adopting the APPG definition of Islamophobia would result in an Islamic blasphemy law.
The approach of TMV is sometimes quite threatening. In a now deleted tweet, TMV said: “Now @UKLabour the scary thing for you is we’re only going to get stronger from here. You may win the 2024 battle but we are here for the 25 year war. And it is not going to look pretty for Labour if it continues as it is today.”
TMV has recommended candidates for multiple constituencies in this election. Many of these are independent candidates. Some are standing for the Green Party, and some for the Workers Party of Britain – George Galloway’s party. A couple of endorsed candidates are Liberal Democrats.
TMV has introduced Islamic sectarian politics into the U.K. Islam has not influenced U.K. politics before in any meaningful way. Now it has started to. This influence is only likely to increase from here.
Candidates exposed
A candidate endorsed by The Muslim Vote, Akhmed Yakoob, is standing as an independent candidate in Birmingham Ladywood which has 42% Muslim electorate. He has been forced to apologise after saying on a podcast earlier this year that “70% of hell is going to be women”. He also made inappropriate comments about domestic violence. His campaign is centred on support for Palestine, with posters calling on people to “lend Gaza your vote”.
A Plaid Cymru candidate was dropped after the Telegraph revealed that she had liked tweets from Nick Griffin, the former leader of the BNP, and had liked a social media post describing Hamas as “the resistance”.
More exposures will doubtless emerge over time.
Islam is now influencing U.K. politics
Whatever happens in this election, which may turn out to be historic for other reasons, it may well go down in history as the first U.K. election in which Islam had a significant influence. The influence of Islam is only increasing over time as Islam grows faster than other religions. If this is the first election with Islamic factors playing a part, it certainly won’t be the last.
Tim Dieppe is Head of Public Policy at Christian Concern.
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Risks Of 5G Are Serious – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
So far 7 idiot down-voters.
Some people are so anti-science it is incredible.
The combinations of microwave frequencies in 5G are dangerous.
Not sci-fi but sci-fact.
Thursday morning A404 & A4155 Little Marlow Rd Marlow
We were beeped by somebody who looked like the Late Her Majesty. According to a video I saw she’s alive and well and living in Marlow.
Hope you gotta lotta honks!
The two Jameses at New World Next Week highlight the WPATH Files from Environmental Progress, showing that ‘gender medicine’ is neither science or medicine. It is 70 pages of documented child brutality (plus all the evidence) – avoid eating while reading. Link to full document on this page:
https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/wpath-files
The WPATH Files reveal that WPATH is neither a medical organization nor a scientific organization. The group is engaging in unregulated experiment on some of the most vulnerable individuals in society. The ethical and legal obligation of securing informed consent is being disregarded, and members show little concern for the potential long-term outcomes of patients. Awareness exists among members regarding the debilitating and potentially fatal side effects of experimental hormone therapies. There is evidence that members know puberty blockers are experimental and that young patients lack a comprehensive understanding of the long-term physical and psychological effects of hormonal and surgical interventions, making cognitive consent impossible.
Ralph Nader on the probable – and likely severe – undercount of the death toll in Gaza…..
https://nader.org/2024/03/05/stop-the-worsening-undercount-of-palestinian-casualties-in-gaza/
….on the back of over 100 weapons deliveries from the US (let alone the UK) in the last 150+ days (1.5 deliveries per day)…..
https://truthout.org/articles/report-us-has-secretly-sent-israel-over-100-weapons-shipments-in-last-150-days/
…..which even the WSJ covers (courtesy of Meryl Nass’ substack):
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/wsj-article-verbatim-describes-us?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
It is so disgusting and nobody cares.
More or less daily there are references to
1) a recent pandemic. Didn’t happen.
2) “covid” “vaccines”. No such thing.
3) “gender critical” views. Made up term designed to make the understanding of reality shared by 99% of the world’s population into some kind of weird cult, whereas the opposite is true.
4) “trans women”. There are men and women, that’s it.
Language matters. I hope new people come to DS every day. I would not like them to think that we accept the corruption of language that our enemies are using to confuse and manipulate.
Hear, hear.
Tucker covers Bidens address to the nation ! Watch it if you can ! It’s diabolical cringe
( The speech not Tucker )
“‘Islamophobia’ is being used by Islamists to control debate”- “It is entirely right to call out anti-Muslim hatred”, says Steven Pollard in the Jewish Chronicle.
No, Mr. Pollard, it isn’t. Nobody ever calls out “Anti-Christian Hatred”, so why should Islam or Judaism get special status? The whole concept of “hate speech” is utterly alien to the West, and has no place in western laws.
But you’ll be glad to know that Backstabbing Weasel Gove is about to appoint a new “Islamo-phobia Tsar” (funny how the Communists who murdered the Tsar and his family, even throwing some alive down mine shafts, have now brought that word “Tsar” into English jargon). The new “Tsar” is reported to be Fiyaz Mughal, founder of “Tell Mama”.
Michael Gove to appoint new anti-Muslim hatred adviser ahead of new extremism definition next week (gbnews.com)
You may remember the scandal of “Tell Mama” years ago, when UK Muslims were encouraged to ring the “Helpline” with harrowing tales of Vicious Gangs of White Men rampaging through the streets of their native land, attacking helpless Muslim women and children, ripping off headscarves and raping at will. But just like the harrowing tale of one Muslim man who claimed a gang of British National Party thugs had beaten him up and left him for dead in a forest, all these tales of white people assaulting Muslims were proven by the long-suffering police to be a pack of lies.
You may also remember that this Muslim Mughal (Mughal comes from “Mongol”), was kicked out of Uganda and then Kenya along with all other Indian Subcontinentals by “evil African dictators”, but instead of returning to India, they all swarmed into the West.
You may also remember the reason the Africans of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda kicked them all out: because they were taking over all the top positions in the government, legal system and business, treating the Indigenous Africans like second-class citizens in their own lands. As the great African leader Jomo Kenyatta, “Father of the Kenyan Nation” explained, “There are too many ticks on the lion’s belly”, before chucking them all out of Kenya, followed by Tanzania and Uganda.
And nobody ever called the Africans “racist” for defending their own people.