UK: progressive ideology spawns ... radical colonisation

Melanie Phillips, The capture of Tower Hamlets

Now we can see what these cultural kamikazes are helping bring about. In the east London borough of Tower Hamlets, a man with reported links to radical Islamism, Lutfur Rahman, has been elected Mayor of the borough, giving him control of a billion-pound budget and thus the apparent installation of a platform for the progressive intimidation and silencing of British Muslims who do not want to live under sharia law, let alone the non-Muslim majority in the area.

... Andrew Gilligan ... writes on his blog:

For the last eight months – without complaint or challenge from Mr Rahman – this blog and newspaper have laid out his close links with a group of powerful local businessmen and with a Muslim supremacist body, the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) - which believes, in its own words, in transforming the “very infrastructure of society, its institutions, its culture, its political order and its creed… from ignorance to Islam.” Mr Rahman has refused to deny these claims.

We have told how the borough’s change from a conventional council leader to a mayoral system came about as a result of a campaign led and financed by these two groups – and how the IFE, in its words, wanted to “get one of our brothers” into the position.

We have described in detail, again without complaint or challenge by Mr Rahman, his deeply problematic two years as council leader until he was removed from that post six months ago, partly as a result of our investigations. After he secured the leadership with the help of the IFE, millions of pounds were channelled to front organisations of the IFE, a man with close links to the IFE was appointed as assistant chief executive of the council despite being unqualified for the position and the secular, white chief executive was forced out. Various efforts were made to “Islamicise” the borough. Extremist literature was stocked in Tower Hamlets’ public libraries.

The outcome is that Britain’s establishment is actively assisting the progressive Balkanisation of Britain, in accordance with the global strategy of the Muslim Brotherhood and their allies to take over the west. Astoundingly, the security and political establishment even now still chooses to embrace the Brotherhood, treating them as authoritative Muslim spokesmen and even employing them as counter-extremism advisers, on the ludicrous basis that they are merely religious ideologues who can be used to divide British Muslims and divert them from al Qaeda...

But of course, it is Islamophobic exaggeration and scare-mongering to say so.

DailyMail, Mohammed is now the most popular name for baby boys

Mohammed has become the most popular name for newborn boys in Britain.

It shot up from third the previous year, overtaking Jack, which had topped the list for the past 14 years but was relegated to third spot...

A total of 7,549 newborns were given 12 variations of the Islamic prophet Mohammed’s name last year, such as Muhammad and Mohammad.

The second most popular boy’s name, Oliver, was given to 7,364 babies.

Harry and Alfie came in fourth and fifth place respectively.

Lawrence Auster, More Muhammads than Harrys

What's the big deal? Why should anyone get excited or alarmed about this? The simple fact is that Muslims overwhelmingly name their sons Muhammad. Therefore if you let Muslims mass-immigrate into your country, you will end up with a sub-population that overwhelmingly names their sons Muhammad, and that name will inevitably become the most popular male name in your country. Period. A leads to B leads to C. If you have a problem with having lots of people in your country named Muhammad, then you shouldn't invite Muslims into your country. And if you have already made the suicidal mistake of doing so, you must, If you don't want to complete the suicide, recognize your error and retract and reverse the invitation.

There is really nothing more to say about the subject. All else is escapist b.s. or dhimmi surrender.

It's great here, says the mother of eight living in a £2.6m townhouse paid for by you

A mother of eight has told of her ‘great’ life in a £2.6million home funded by taxpayers.

Francesca Walker receives more than £90,000 a year in benefits to pay the rent on the five-bed villa, plus other payouts...

Miss Walker, 33, has Tory leader David Cameron, actor Hugh Grant and Four Weddings writer Richard Curtis as neighbours in fashionable Notting Hill, West London.

Her four-storey home boasts five bedrooms, three bathrooms, a double living room, study and roof terrace...

None of the available council houses was big enough, so the local authority pays for her to rent from a private landlord.

Andrew Bolt, Visit London and breed. They’ll pay and house you well

... the British Government’s attempts to cut back on a welfare rort that puts welfare recipients with huge families in London houses that most taxpayers could never afford themselves...

The examples are astonishing and explain much about third-world immigration to Britain, welfarism and a growing resentment of those who feel they are being taken advantage of.

The Age, Public-housing stretch lets refugee families spread their wings

A SHY smile is Saido Gali's answer, at first. The question is an obvious one: does she want more children? She has eight and another boy on the way...

Australia's humanitarian resettlement of African refugees - 41,310 live in Melbourne - has thrown up a basic challenge for the state government: how to house the large families ...

... Melbourne's public housing high-rises are made ''a bit like Lego''. If carefully done, walls could be breached and flats joined. This meant a three-bedroom flat could become a six-bedroom home with two bathrooms and two toilets. Across the public high-rises - as the government's eight-year, $640 million renovation has rolled through - dozens of flats have been opened up in this way.

Mrs Gali, who is now raising her children alone... Of her new place, adorned with a 20-seater modular couch that hugs three walls, she says: "It is a nice place. A good place for them to grow up."

Andrew Bolt, Why doesn’t the ABC next run a recruiting drive for al Qaeda?

Now ABC Online uses taxpayers’ money to publish the rantings of a spokesman for an Islamist group which is so radical that it is banned or restricted in several countries and brands our soldiers as ”terrorists”.

Has the ABC lost its mind? It even fails to identify just what Hizb ut Tahrir is and stands for, describing it only in the most flattering terms: as the world’s “largest global Islamic political party”.

File under: dumb and dumber

Progressive ideology spawns ... Darwinian segregation

Segregation in the school system

The NSW school system is now clearly segregated. This is to the detriment of all students who are no longer mixing with children from a broad range of abilities and backgrounds.

White students have fled to Catholic schools in small country towns, leaving local public schools almost totally dominated by Aboriginal students. Middle-eastern kids fill some south-Western Sydney schools and Tongan students are over-represented in others. Middle-class white children congregate in homogenous private schools on Sydney’s northern and eastern suburbs. An increasing number of children are enrolling in Islamic and Exclusive Brethren schools. Greek Orthodox and Jewish schools are also enrolling their own.

Children from China, Korea and Vietnam are over-represented in selective schools...

What are the social consequences of growing segregation in the school system?

A Darwinian approach now seems to prevail in school education.

Ethnic lines divide city

MIGRANTS settling in suburbs with good schools and other amenities may cause tensions with the established community, a leading demographer warns.

Monash University sociologist Dr Bob Birrell said existing residents were likely to be concerned about their way of life being changed when suburbs became dominated by distinct ethnic groups.

"There's competition for amenity; for example, access to a high performance high school like Glen Waverley Secondary College in the City of Monash," he said.

Migrants from top source countries China, India and Sri Lanka are drawn to suburbs such as Glen Waverley, an analysis of settler trends has confirmed.

File under: the fruits of brain-dead Australian ideologues who believe that the problems of segregation occurring overseas won't happen here because (like any good ideologue) all they need is one more chance to make their utopian diversity dream come true, despite having failed to eventuate everywhere else.

Bernard Salt: half man, half ideologue

Today I was listening to demographer Bernard Salt on radio 2UE (no link), celebrating the ever-expanding diversification of Sydney.

Surnames reflect changing suburbia

Meet the Patels, who have overtaken Smiths as the most common surname in Parramatta.

And in Cabramatta you'll find the Nguyens, Trans and Huynhs, while at Lakemba Kahn and Islam are among the top surnames.

In Parramatta, the geographical heart of Sydney, Smith and Jones don't even make it into the top 20. The most common family names are Patel, Singh and Chen.

Salt says that immigrants congregate in areas because of: shared language, ethnic food shops, and being close to family and friends. He says this is good and natural.

Does Salt apply the same beliefs to white people? If he did, he would acknowledge that the ever-expanding wave of diversity continually encroaching into white areas is bad and unnatural for whites. Indeed it is, which is why they move out.

But does Salt mention this downside of diversity? Nope, apparently we're meant to celebrate and enjoy the limitless diversification.

Bernard's brain is a house divided. He must think whites are a different species.

And later I found a previous 2UE story on the introduction of quiet carriages onto Queensland Rail, which Bernald Salt welcomes. And I have to agree, it's long overdue. I've lost count of the number of times I've wanted to throttle noisy and rude people on the trains, it's an everyday occurrence these days.

But that's where the common sense ends for Salt. He then notes that Japan has even more enlightened rules of civility that frown upon anyone who even uses a mobile phone on a train. He suggests that is due to Japan's higher population density. Apparently we will become uber civilised when the population reaches critical mass.

Alas, it's not a convincing argument. What's more convincing is that Japan's racial and ethnic homogeneity provides a higher degree of empathy and care factor, which is fertile soil for rules of civility. In diversity, however, empathy and authority do not so readily cross ethnic boundaries.

So does Salt consider the racial factor? Nope, that part of his brain is cryogenically frozen by the ideology of non-discrimination. So I wouldn't bet on Salt's demographic nirvana being realised anytime soon.

File under: part man, part freak.

Asian migrant intake soars

July 29, 2010, Herald Sun:

AUSTRALIA'S Asian migrant population has soared in the past decade, with almost a million Chinese, Indians and Vietnamese now calling the nation home.

The Asian-born population has risen from 5.3 per cent in 1999 to almost 9 per cent, an Australian Bureau of Statistics report reveals...

Monash University demographer Dr Bob Birrell said the figure, which includes foreign students, was enormous.

"You can see why Melbourne has been growing so rapidly and why there are concerns about congestion and quality of life," he said.

Dr Birrell said more than half of the nation's 300,000 migrant growth in 2008-09 occurred in Melbourne and Sydney and was mainly driven by Asian settlers.