Shadee Elmasry – What Started the UK RIOTS- Blogging Theology Explains
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Days ago, we had 3 children that were
horribly murdered
by someone who was characterized
as a Muslim immigrant,
who had a Muslim name.
Now all of this is fake news. The
individual who did it was a Welsh born,
UK born
man who comes from a Christian Rwandan family,
who's not a Muslim. He doesn't have a
Muslim name. It has nothing to do with
Muslims anyway.
And now that's accepted,
the name had given to him, the Muslim
name is a fake name. He never had
that name.
But nevertheless, that was the tinderbox that that
really erupted and started riots. But they're continuing.
Most are being attacked,
Muslim women in hijab or niqab are being
spat on or thrown as I mean, it's
horrible what's happening. But what triggered it was
this a a ghastly massacre of these children,
which had nothing to do with Islam or
Muslims or immigrants or anything at all. Mhmm.
That was the the particular local circumstance. But,
yes, of course, the the wider mood music
that has
talks that has made the whole thing toxic
is being fed by these points that you
made. I agree. No. This group. Is the
EDL organizing,
in any formal fashion these riots?
I I don't think so. I mean, I'm
not sure, but EDL technically doesn't really exist.
Tommy Robinson is the kind of figurehead.
But EDL,
what we're dealing here, I think, are a
network of online associations and groups
that, you know, contact each other via WhatsApp
or via Twitter or X. Or,
it's not like a formal structure,
but there are far right groups like Patriotic
Alternative,
for example, and other groups which,
have been active for a long, long time
against Muslims and against immigrants anyway. And now
that they are revivified,
that they are activate activating much more,
and so attacks attacks on Muslims particularly who
have become the other,
demonized,
hated,
and misunderstood and lied about. And I really
wanna stress how mainstream this is. The newspapers
like The Times, The London Times, The Telegraph,
The Daily Mail,
drip, drip, drip over the months. And I
read these papers every day, have been characterizing
Muslims ever so subtly or not so subtly
as the enemy within.
Mhmm. And so and this is new. I
I I don't remember this, like, a year
ago or 2. Yes. Of course, it was
homophobia.
This really is is the next level. Yeah.
Something's going on. And when you say what
you have about about
your your theory, your perspective,
I think that's when what you say becomes
very relevant. Something's going on but we're actually
seeing up the rhetoric
where where
new new things are happening now. I liked
a lot what Loki brought to the table,
and he said that a lot of the
stuff that appears to be organic just from
the people and from social media networks, it's
actually, cooked up
far more organized behind the scenes.
But there the the way of influence these
days is not to do what,
fascists did in the past and have one
man of power and say, this is our
government. This is what we're doing. But it's
actually to feed
100, maybe 1,000 of micro influencers
to feed them
and make it look like it's the people's
will.
Right? That that this is what the people
want. Exactly. And I think we have influencers
as well, like Tommy Robinson. That's not his
real name, but,
he's very active indeed. Now he's in exile
in Spain or Cyprus. I forget where.
But but he he's a a very, potent,
figurehead.
But, you know, through his tweets but since
he was let back on ex by Elon
Elon Musk, where he was banned before, he's
now got over 800,000 followers, and they retweet
his stuff.
Now he is known to be funded
and supported legally,
financially by Zionist groups. This is not a
conspiracy theory. It's well documented.
Powerful Zionist figures,
encourage and finance and support him legally as
well. Yeah.
And,
unfortunately, people like Andrew Tate, who is a
Muslim,
and I'm not backstabbing him. This is a
public record. He has made some very, very
unfortunate statements re in recent days, which appeared
to support this narrative.
So do you do you recall what he
exactly he said? Because I wasn't on, Twitter.
I wasn't on x for a while.
Then some people convinced me to say, just
get back on a little bit.
So I Yeah. I caught up. I got
on when he was sort of backtracking his
statements.
Yeah. I mean, I don't know what it
was. Maybe 2 or 3 days ago, maybe
2 days ago, he he he he he
published a tweet which was like a like
a Lego figure, a toy figure. But, basically,
it it was of it meant to portray
a brown immigrant
on a boat.
Because the thing about boats is is a
is a kind of a trigger word in
Britain. So we had the idea of people,
immigrants coming on boats across the sea, across
the English Channel,
and just arriving here in big numbers, and
that they're characterized as Muslim or brown, and
this racial thing matters here. So that this
picture he showed was this, like, this this
Lego like picture of a of a young
brown man with a knife in his hand,
a big knife,
and massive amounts of money on him as
well on this boat. So the idea is
he's a threat,
a violent threat to Britain.
He's brown, he's an immigrant,
he's got lots of money, so he's not
really poor. He's not like a desperate person
at all. He's got a lot of money.
And it was a really, really,
racist and Islamophobic
trope. It triggered a lot of people.
I have no idea why Andrew Tate did
that. It it it really I mean, he's
got millions of followers. Yeah. But I've only
got a humble, you know, 500,000. This guy
has got millions and millions of followers.
And, yeah, there has been a little bit
of backtracking, but I don't know if he's
actually,
kind of, you know, repented of that and
changed his mind. I don't know. Let's talk
about physically on the ground.
British people have a decent economy. They got
jobs.
Shouldn't this thing die off as soon as
the work week begins again?
Well, we'll see. I mean,
there is a lot of hardship here amongst
many people because of the of inflation and
because of the post COVID economy.
We're better off than some places. This is
for sure. But, I keep on expecting it
just to stop. The police are very active
now in suppressing these, but these wildfires keep
on breaking out all over the place. You
know, it's happening in in the south of
England, then the northwest, then the east, and
one doesn't really know when they're gonna happen
next. It's like wildfires. It seems to be
out of control, you know,
And so who knows when it will end?
I think it will end. These these riots
will end. Of course, they will. What happens
next? I don't know. There is there is
chatter in the Muslim community here. I'm told
that people are Muslims are getting very worried.
Some are thinking of leaving the country.
There's talk of of, a very dark future,
coming, coming about through changes in law. I
don't know. But, we're very difficult. And and
it's not like, by the way, most places
are dangerous. Most people
if you look around most places, you won't
see anything, but there are these pockets of
violence, and we're not used to that in
Britain. I may it may sound odd. We
don't live in a normally
turbulent violent society. We normally live in a
fairly peaceful society, actually. So that's why it's
so shocking.
I can't help but mentioning the irony that
today British people are saying these people don't
belong in our country.
There's too many of them.
And I can't help but What people? What
people don't Regular
British, maybe right leaning shopkeepers or what have
you. No. No. What what what people are
they saying don't belong? They're brown people, immigrants,
etcetera.
Okay. Right?
Okay. Yep.
Mhmm.
How do we respond to that? Well, easy.
In the 19 fifties, the 19 sixties in
Britain particularly,
the government, the state
invited,
people to come and work here in our
in our in our NHS, our health system,
in our factories,
in our transportation
system. They were invited and welcomed here because
we were short of of of manpower. We
needed people to work. At no point were
they told that they were told to bugger
off after 5 minutes. They were welcomed here.
To turn around 30, 40, 50 years later
saying,
we don't want you here anymore,
that's not doesn't work like that. These people
have they're hardworking, they've got families, houses, they've
got children, they've got grandchildren now, You've ever
only ever known the United Kingdom. Yeah. Only
ever known the British way of life. So
I'm sorry, it's a bit late to complain
when they were invited here in the first
place. It didn't work like that.
And the the the irony of it is
that a lot of these,
subconsonant
immigrants,
their grandparents 80 years ago were saying the
same exact thing about the British.
Like, both people's grandparents were saying the exact
same thing.
Right? So this guy who's being told, you
go back to Pakistan. You don't belong here.
His grandfather was telling your grandfather
that, you know,
right leaning
guy, get out of our country as a
colonizer.
Right? Yeah. Things
tend to boomerang back, and it takes 3
generations. There is a bit of that. Yeah.
There is a bit but but the Empire
Strikes Back, really. There's a bit of that.
In the name of the the Star Wars
film. But there's another thing here. When we,
the British people, move in very large numbers,
say, to places like Spain, if we do,
or France or other places. Do you know
what we call ourselves? We call ourselves expats.
Yeah. We don't call ourselves immigrants. Oh, no.
No. Even
in Latin America.
And by the way, when we live in
these other countries, and I've seen it firsthand
as someone who lives part time in France,
do most of us bother to learn French
or English or Yeah. Or Spanish? Many, many
don't, actually. That's true. They form so called
expat communities,
and and have their jokes about the foreigners
even though they're living in those countries. So
what we don't really practice, what we preach
about assimilation Yeah. About opt in culture and
custom. Some do, but a lot don't. And
it's very interesting how how we have this
double standard.