Islamophobia Awareness Month? What? There is still a month that isn’t devoted to some gay or trans cause?
Anyway, in the UK and Commonwealth countries, the poppy is worn in November in honor of those who have been killed in war, specifically World War I (remember, Armistice Day/Veterans Day/Remembrance Day is November 11).
So why would Britain’s leading leftist politician, Keir Starmer, remove his poppy before engaging in a bit of Islamopandering? Is he aware that many Muslims in the UK retain, in accordance with traditional Islamic doctrine, loyalty to the umma above loyalty to any nation-state? Is he aware that many have nothing but contempt for the society and laws of the “most vile of created beings” (Qur’an 98:6)? And instead of deploring this situation, he acquiesces to it and plays along with it? It certainly seems so.
“Keir Starmer sparks fury as poppy goes missing in Islamophobia video ahead of protests,” by David Maddox and Katie Harris, Express, November 2, 2023:
Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of “disrespecting” the war dead by failing to wear his poppy when he produced a video on Islamophobia earlier this week.
It was noticed that Sir Keir wore the same suit and tie for the video as he had done when he gave a speech earlier on the Israel-Gaza crisis as he tried to deal with growing divisions in his party over demands for him to call for a ceasefire.
With leftwing and Muslim party members criticising his refusal to support a ceasefire, which would allow Hamas terrorists to regroup and rearm for more atrocities, he produced a video on Islamophobia awareness month in what some saw as a cynical attempt to make peace with Muslim communities over his Israel policy.
The concerns have come as anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian extremist protest groups have been planning “a million-person march” on Remembrance Day in a deliberate attempt to disrupt the day Britain remembers those who died in the World Wars defending freedom.
There are concerns privately expressed that while Sir Keir has refused to support the protests his failure to wear a poppy could be seen as “a greenlight” for those who want to cause chaos in London that weekend.
Labour have insisted that Sir Keir did not remove the poppy for the purposes of the video but have refused to comment on the reasons it was not present….
John Allan says
‘Anyway, in the UK and Commonwealth countries, the poppy is worn in November in honor of those who have been killed in war, specifically World War I …’
WWI AND WWII!
Hoi Polloi says
“The poppy is the enduring symbol of remembrance of the First World War. It is strongly linked with Armistice Day (11 November), but the poppy’s origin as a popular symbol of remembrance lies in the landscapes of the First World War.” The intent in RS’s statement, it seemed obvious to me, was that it is a remembrance of war dead that is rooted in WWl.
Imperial Museum
Why We Wear Poppies On Remembrance Day
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjtt-aT5qqCAxU7mWoFHaJnD2cQFnoECA0QAw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwm.org.uk%2Fhistory%2Fwhy-we-wear-poppies-on-remembrance-day%23%3A~%3Atext%3DThe%2520poppy%2520is%2520the%2520enduring%2Cof%2520the%2520First%2520World%2520War.&usg=AOvVaw22lnJPJodBpDcYQcQn-goM&opi=89978449
puzzled says
Read TE Lawrence the “Seven Pillars of Wisdom” where the arabs in the levant were more than glad to get rid of the Turks. Lawrence describes how the Turks were cowards in fighting and how they raped and pillaged the arab communities the Turks came across.
Read the book, I’m sure it is free online.
Hoi Polloi says
Thanks. Here it is:
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100111h.html
Goofy says
Don’t forget that the only one word description of Islam is SURRENDER!
Keir Starmer has apparently understood that much!
Shawn says
Very very hard to watch someone try and appease an enemy imported by traitors.
somehistory says
“Sunak orders police to stop pro-Palestinian protest disrupting Remembrance events”
“Rishi Sunak has demanded that the Metropolitan Police makes “robust use” of all its powers to protect next weekend’s Remembrance events from being disrupted by a pro-Palestinian protest.
The Prime Minister wrote to Sir Mark Rowley, the Met Police commissioner, on Friday to argue that the force had “the powers necessary” to ensure that protests did not “disrupt or disturb” acts of Remembrance.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/sunak-orders-police-to-stop-pro-palestinian-protest-disrupting-remembrance-events/ar-AA1jlD2k?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=65e84d51c15f4246a74fdff4072c45d9&ei=27
Hoi Polloi says
Thanks. I saw Keir and his two-faced to poppy or not to poppy, but not, of course, on mainstream media. Sunak must have picked up on the outcry about muslims desecrating numerous Rememberance displays. We’ll see.
somehistory says
Yes, we will see how it goes.
rick says
If there were enough Nazi voters in a Western democracy, I take it that Labour Party would craft a campaign advancing and “respecting” Nazi views. The all Holy vote.
Hoi Polloi says
Seems so.
tgusa says
Starmer is hoping they will rape and stab him last.
Hudders. says
DESPICABLE.
This is what happens when you dance with the devil, as ‘Sir’ Keir has been doing.
The music sounded good at first; but now fear spoils the tune.
His pandering to islamo-marxist power voting blocs have now come back to trouble him.
After his disasterous grovelling, snivelling visit to a house of hell; a mosque that is,
He dare not antogonize or upset the extreme leftist/muslim base again so soon it seems.
It’s pathetic. Taking off the poppy like that is beyond insulting to the sacred memories of those who served or serve.
& he knows it. The cowardly socialist appeasing scum.
The real power of the UK labour party is the Corbyn acolytes.
& Corbyn himself might just be the most dangerous man in the UK at present.
His is an agitator extrordinaire.
& is allied with the most extreme radical islamic/marxist groups in the country.
NEW LABOUR. SAME DANGER.
tgusa says
It is called the Labour party because they want your labor to support their insulting disgusting country killing policies.
tim gallagher says
I think that if there is a growth in hatred for islam, which is what I suspect this term “islamophobia” means, then it is a good sign because it means that more people must be waking up to the evil nature of islam. Muslims seem to have this weird mentality where they think (i guess because their bullshit version of what god might be like, this allah thing, said that this is the way it should be and we should all fall into line with the bullshit) that they can kill non-Muslims in endless terrorist attacks, rape non-Muslim girls and women, and we, the non-Muslims, are going to go on liking the scum. What a gigantic con these Muslims are trying to get away with. And it actually worked with so many fools. If Muslims want see less “islamophobia” then they should start treating non-Muslims well, follow the golden rule of treating non-Muslims the way they would like to be treated themselves and they might be liked. It’ll never happen, of course, so I hope the well deserved hatred for Muslims increases as more people, finally, wake up to the malignancy that is islam. What a better world it would be without islam fouling it up. As for Starmer and all the other appeasers of islam, what a pathetic dope you are. Wake up, you gullible idiot.
Steve Brown says
I couldn’t have put it better, Tim. What I would like to see is across the board abhorrence for this despicable ideology, and a major push back against their constant whining and the spread of their contagion. Actually, I just want to see a lot less of Islam, in all its guises….
aum says
Starmer the man who supported Corbyn for the Labour leadership twice says it all.
puzzled says
Read TE Lawrence the “Seven Pillars of Wisdom” where the arabs in the levant were more than glad to get rid of the Turks. Lawrence describes how the Turks were cowards in fighting and how they raped and pillaged the arab communities the Turks came across.
Read the book, I’m sure it is free online.