Could Britain Really Become an Islamic Republic?
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I was reflecting on the comments made by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu about Britain which have caused some outrage. He referred to our country as “the Islamic Republic of Britain.” Now in doing so he was simply repeating a JD Vance line from 2024. The US V-P had previously joked that the UK could one day become the first Islamic republic with nuclear weapons. It was a joke with a sting in it and some of us said that at the time.
It goes without saying that the UK is not an Islamic republic. We have a King, an established Church, a parliamentary system and a history stretching back centuries. But Britain is increasingly a pale ghost of what it was even 50 years ago and THAT is the real point here. We are changing and to dismiss Netanyahu’s comments is folly because there is a much more interesting question lurking just underneath what he said.
Could Britain ever become the sort of country Netanyahu is talking about?
Not next year. Not even in ten years. But what about in fifty years from now? Is it a possibility? That is things where things become much less comfortable. Muslims do not have to become a MAJORITY, just a strong enough block to grab power and then the rest will follow.
Our gutless politicians love talking about immigration in economic terms. We hear all about the GDP, skills shortages, tax receipts and the supposed need for ever more care workers. These things all deny something much more basic and obvious.
What happens to a country when its population changes dramatically over a relatively short period of time. And lets not kid ourselves that Britain has already changed dramatically.
According to the 2021 Census, there were around 3.9 million Muslims living in England and Wales, roughly 6.5% of the population. Ten years earlier the figure was 4.9%. Now those numbers will definitely have INCREASED since that census in 2021.
This doesn’t mean that Britain is about to become an Islamic country. But demography is destiny and culture and religion really do matter. Once you change the people living in a country, over time you inevitably change the country itself. Britain isn’t exempt from that basic reality and the cowardly politicians who look the other way aren’t helping us.
Has Britain enough confidence in itself to insist that those who come here adapt to Britain, rather than Britain endlessly adapting itself to everyone who arrives? I see no evidence of this from the Establishment whatsoever.
Just consider some of the issues that confront us. Religious sensitivities in schools. Free speech. Blasphemy. Segregation. Grooming gangs. Policing. The role of religion in public life.
If you treat each individual controversy as an isolated incident them you see one reality. But if you step back a bit and look at things as a whole then you have to ask whether something larger is going on. Something darker.
We can all see a disturbing double standard that is at work. You can mock Christianity all day long. You can ridicule the Church of England, insult Christian beliefs and make jokes about Jesus and nobody in public life seems remotely bothered. If you try applying the same attitude to Islam, suddenly everyone becomes terribly nervous. That isn’t confidence. It is the exact opposite. It’s fear.
You see cultures do not survive just because they have been around for a long time. They survive because people believe they are worth defending. I do not believe our current establishment thinks that what we is worth saving.
There is no way that huge demographic and cultural changes can take place indefinitely without political consequences.
So maybe Netanyahu has the courage to say what our leaders are too scared to say? You can sometimes see things from a distance that are less clear close up! I believe his comments raise some perfectly legitimate questions.
What exactly do we want Britain to be in fifty years? Do we still believe Britain has a distinctive culture, a BRITISH culture? Do we insist that the people who settle here assimilate and accept our laws and traditions? Are there British traditions and values which newcomers must accept rather than challenge? Or is it diversity uber alles?
It seems to me have reached the point where even asking these questions is considered somehow unacceptable and that is wrong. It’s also indicative that we are morphing into something most of us don’t want and which could bring an end to the thing we understand to be Britain.
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