This mood of mounting anxiety and distrust is about more than immigration, though. It is also about the way in which the establishment has shut down anything or anyone that calls into question the multicultural fantasy that is sold to us.
The systematic cover-up of largely Pakistani-Muslim grooming gangs by the authorities is a striking example of the elites prioritising political correctness over victims of crime. Anytime grooming gangs were mentioned and discussions arose about whether the cultural attitudes of particular communities may have contributed to it, the conversation was shut down as an example of racism and Islamophobia.
Then there is the growing problem of Islamist terrorism. Over the past decade, there have been far too many terror attacks and many more have been thwarted. Just last month, an Islamist extremist was found guilty of plotting to bomb the hospital where he worked. Yet despite this looming threat, we seem unable to have serious conversations about Islamism. When Sir David Amess was murdered by an Islamist in 2021, the discussion around his death absurdly focussed around social-media civility. When 22 people were killed at the Manchester Arena in 2017, we were told to not ‘look back in anger’.
Then there are the scores of foreign criminals who, despite committing heinous acts, have been allowed to stay in the country. When Abdul Ezedi attacked a woman and her two children with a corrosive substance in Clapham, London this year, many were shocked to learn he was granted asylum despite being denied multiple times previously. He had also committed two sexual offences while in the UK. Yet instead of discussing how we can better remove foreign criminals or prevent them from coming here in the first place, Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy and Conservative MP Caroline Nokes went on BBC Two’s Newsnight to talk about sexist microaggressions.
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