"If anything has to give way, it's not the English way of life, it's diversity and multiculturalism."

Discussing immigration English identity, and why Islam is incompatible with British traditions, with Steven Edginton on GB News.

“If you're going to import millions of Muslims into this country, you have to hope they don't read their texts too closely…

“Christianity and Islam are completely different traditions on separate tracks that, if they're brought together, will not meld to form one train. They’re on a collision course.”

I spoke to Steven Edginton on GB News about why mass immigration must end, why assimilation is impossible at scale, and why Islam is incompatible with British traditions.

We began by discussing my contentious article in The Critic about Robert Tombs’ comments at the Now & England conference, praising the Michaela School as a model for integrating the children of immigrants.

“Katherine Birbalsingh is doing her best to pick up the pieces of a fragmented culture and trying to do her best, and she should be lauded for that effort. But the government should never have out Britain in the position that its in, in the first place, to necessitate a Michaela School. Michaela School essentially an imperial project: it's the sort of school you would set up overseas in British-controlled India to craft their civil service in the mold of the British government, rather than trying to encourage the sons and daughters of immigrants to cosplay as Brits. And I just don't think it's going to work. I don't think we can compartmentalise people's deeply held religious convictions by layering over the top of it a British identity…

“Even if every single children of immigrants went to the Michaela School, you would still by virtue of demographics render Britain culturally unrecognizable…

“And so, when Katherine says multiculturalism, what I think she means is compartmentalizing people's deeply held religious and cultural convictions to being nothing more than a costume and some food options on a buffet…

“What it does show is that, for Diversity to work — and what Diversity means is ethnic heterogeneity, announced as a “strength” by everyone from Michael Gove to Keir Starmer — requires top-down control. It requires a state to act like a strict headmistress.”

This is premised on the false liberal anthropology of the blank slate: that all cultural differences, economic disparities, and material inequalities can be ameliorated by the equitable redistribution of resources and the right education, because all human beings share a latent egalitarian nature which makes us basically indistinguishable when uncovered.

“The problem is liberalism: it's this belief that we're all interchangeable blank slates: that economic disparities, and differences in education, and the pure happenstance of geography are the only thing that tears us apart, and so what we need to do is take every man in Mogadishu, drop him in Manchester, give him social housing, give him a few classes on women's consent, and he'll be as British as you and me. It fundamentally doesn't work…

“They seem to think well-funded civics programmes are sufficient to integrate millions of recent arrivals who either have no inclination or no desire to bend their cultures to the British way of life.”

The most violent and indigestible of these foreign subcultures, imported under the doctrine of the blank slate, is Islam.

It is not the only problem: CCP infiltration, ethno-nepotism among Indians in business and politics, and the different ways that African cultures understand honesty and time are all unwelcome intrusions upon England’s high-trust spontaneously ordered culture.

However, it does present the most immediate existential threat, and it has the strongest lobby in British politics. (See my previous reporting on the Islamic Network that has ideologically captured counter-terrorism policies at the Home Office.)

“Muslims do not share the belief in universal innocent human dignity that Christians do. They have this concept called ‘assabiyah.’ It's found in the Quran and hadith. It basically means ‘clanish loyalty’, and that means that you can lie, cheat, and steal so long as it advantages your family, your extended clan, your religion, or the Ummah — which is the idea that all Muslims are one race, which is why Islamophobia has been defined as ‘a kind of racism.’ We're actually implementing if, Angela Raina is going off the All party Parliamentary Group definition of Islamophobia for her new working group — she would be implementing the Islamic view of race into British law.

“Sharia law has a completely parallel understanding of again human worth than common law and Christianity does. The best example to set this up is that Christ, obviously, said ‘Do not judge lest you shall be judged’, and caused the adulteress, who is going to be stoned by the crowd, to have her life spared. Muhammad, when he migrated from Mecca to Medina, the first thing he did when he was rejected by the Jewish tribes already there, who said, ‘Well, you're not the messiah’ — he reinstated the penalty of stoning for apostasy and adultery. So, completely different traditions on separate tracks that if they're brought together, they're not going to meld into one train: they're going to be on a collision course.

“So I just have to say: just don't permit parallel religions to have any hold over your political system. Just like if Israel were to stop being majority Jewish, they would see that as a existential threat to the continuity of the country, if England stops being majority English… if we were to become a minority, then of course that would be a existential threat to the future of England.”

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