In June a 22-year-old woman went missing from her village in Karnataka state. Rumours circulated that she was the victim of a “love jihad”. A Pakistani-based organisation has sent a professional “jihadist lover” to forcibly convert her to Islam.
In reality, as the police discovered, the woman had been poisoned by a serial killer.
Where did the fictitious story of the “jihadist lover” come from?
Well, according to the Hindu Janjagruthi Samiti, 30,000 women in Karnataka have gone missing since Pakistani terrorists launched the “love jihad” operation a year ago! So it would be easy to assume that she was just another victim.
Or not. In fact, nowhere near that figure of women have gone missing in Kanataka. In fact, for those women who have been traced by the police there is not a “jihadist lover” in sight. In fact, the other women, who are not yet traced, are suspected of having committed suicide or having eloped. And in fact, the religious identity of the men, with whom they are suspected of having eloped, is a varied as the religious identity of the women themselves.
So what is the Hindu Janjagruthi Samiti on about?
The Hindu Janjagruthi Samiti is on to the creation of a situation ripe for it to justify and garner support for its attacks on non-Hindus in India. Ripe for fascism to flourish. Thankfully this is Karnataka and not Gujarat. They have not succeeded, yet.
This is exactly the tactics that the BNP are using in Britain.
Due to some deficiency in their education and humanity, the BNP have been conditioned to believe that Britain ought be a land of white celts and anglo-saxons only. Just like the Hindutva belief that India should be a land of Hindus only. Or the hard-line Islamists wanting to rid their countries of infidels. Or the wacko Christians who want the holy land purged of Palestinians to bring on the return of Christ.
Now, to achieve this goal, the BNP has to garner support. This is no easy task, but given the right circumstances, you could turn your back for a little too long only to find that your country has become a fascist state. See Nazi Germany.
What does a fascist organisation do to garner support?
Well, they spread malicious rumours, scapegoating the weakest minority group for the legitimate problems that communities are facing. Times of recession are particularly fertile for this sort of action. This is because are many legitimate problems, that the government and mainstream parties are having trouble addressing, or are not addressing. The fascist organisation can claim they are the only ones addressing these real legitimate problems, when, in fact, all they are doing is blaming these problems on minority groups. Thinking that the BNP is confronting their problems where other parties are not, people will vote for them in droves.
As well as economic hardships, there are several other things that play into the hands of fascist parties. The first is the demonisation of minority groups by respected parts of our societies. This makes fascism acceptable. When Muslim-bashing becomes the norm for everything from international wars to dress codes in schools, everything from feminism to how animals are slaughtered for meat. Then somehow it becomes ok to blame muslims for bigger issues. Unemployment. Crime. Housing issues. Healthcare cuts. Education policies. The next thing you know…? British Muslims killed by lynch mobs, or in concentration camps? Then what? Let’s start on some other minorities that don’t fit into the BNP view of Britain.
The second thing that plays into the hands of fascist parties is when the media, the great disseminator of culture, is biased towards promoting stories that put the minority group in a negative light. These stories sell because they fuel the growing hysteria.
Anyway, here are some legitimate issues that the BNP currently exploit.
1) Alienisation of Britons from their changing communities.
Many British people have seen huge changes in their communities. New people have settled, bringing new and very different cultures with them. Without a strong cultural identity themselves, they feel lost and alienated and taken over.
The BNP’s solution to this is to get rid of these new people, probably violently. This mistakenly destroys one of the mainstays of British culture and our economy. Multiculturalism. Over the centuries people have come to Britain from all over the world and brought their cultures with them. These cultures and the interplay between them have influenced our language, the arts and our entire cultural life and identity. This has given Britain much of the innovative edge it is admired for.
A better solution to the alienisation of people from their changing communities, would be to look for ways for people to better identify themselves with their communities. Promoting the great British multiculturalism is one way. But this still leaves an ‘indigenous’ Briton with a feeling that, whereas all these new people have their culture to bring to the table, what culture does he or she have? One of the things Britons have, that many of the newer immigrant populations do not have, is a social drinking culture. But this is already very popular, and increasingly taken too far, perhaps just because these ‘indigenous’ Britons can’t see anything else that is really part of their identity. The Hindu community can have their Diwali and the ‘indiginous’ Britons can knock pints back in a pub. What we need is other options. Here are some other things, other than multiculturalism and drinking, which are very British:
Welsh choirs
Fish and chips at the seaside
Bell ringing
Morris dancing
Country music and dancing
Pantomimes
And there is much much more! So if you are a Briton, feeling alienated by a community of increasingly visible cultural elements that you do not naturally identify with. Then get out there, join a welsh choir, learn to bell ring, pick up your fiddle and join a folk band!
If, however, you are more interested in salsa dancing, or listening to RnB, then realise that you are enjoying the benefits of British multiculturalism.
2) Economic hardship.
The BNP’s solution to economic hardship is to blame immigrants. Unemployment is because immigrants are taking all the jobs. Lack of housing is because immigrants are taking all the housing (not those double home owners!). Immigrants are clogging up NHS waiting lists.
Obviously immigrants are not to blame for these things. Certainly a growing population is bound to affect communities negatively if the local government does not put resources in place. But immigrants are not a drain on the economy, despite the lies that the BNP may put forward and the myths that parts of the media propagate. Often immigrants do the work that keeps Britain on its feet - nurses, cleaners, shopkeepers - work that is hard and not well paid.
Before the huge influx of Poles to Britain, bricklayers, plasters and plumbers were hard to come by. This was because Britain had not invested in training people in these professions. The result of this was that these workers could charge premium wages for their work, putting a strain on Britain’s construction work. There were stories of lawyers giving up their profession to train as plumbers, because they could earn much more. With the accession of Poland to the EU, came an influx of the construction workers that Britain desperately needed. Why were the Polish immigrants construction workers and not PR executives? Because Britain had plenty of PR executives already! As well as easing the shortage of workers on Britain’s building sites, these Polish workers inevitably brought about a depreciation in construction workers’ wages. This did not make the original construction workers happy. Blaming Polish immigrants for this is wrong, they were just responding to the opportunity provided by Britain’s need for construction workers. Blaming the government for not being longsighted enough to train people in these professions is the correct response.
The real solution to economic hardship is to look at what is causing this. If something is to blame for the current recession, then it is two decades of bad governance that has sold off our lives to risk-taking fat bankers. Now some of those bankers and policy makers may be immigrants, and most are descendants of immigrants, but the same can be said of the entire population of Britain. Holding our government to account and calling for changes to the system would be a much better solution than hounding Eastern Europeans and Muslims out of the country.
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