{"id":690,"date":"2011-02-06T13:03:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T13:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/2011\/02\/06\/cameron-is-right\/"},"modified":"2011-02-06T13:03:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T13:03:38","slug":"cameron-is-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/2011\/02\/06\/cameron-is-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron is Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reproduced below is an article from Conservative Home by Haras Rafiq<\/a>, supporting the Prime Minister\u2019s Recent Speech in Munich.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the wake of the rise of the Tunisian and Egypt dissent against oppressive, totalitarian regimes, Prime Minister Cameron has come out fighting against one of our own oppressive totalitarian movement in the UK \u2013 the Islamists. He is right in his analysis that the only way to tackle the growing rise of Islamist inspired terrorism is to tackle the growing phenomenon that is at the root of the problem \u2013 Islamism which has to an extent been sponsored by the state.<\/p>\n

As a British Muslim born in the UK, hailing from parents who originally emigrated here in the 1950s, I have seen the rise of Islamist extremism first hand and experienced the tactics and strategies that have been used to promote and grow the capacity for this divisive and dangerous ideology.<\/p>\n

It is natural when immigrant societies first move to pastures new that they tend to congregate together. With regards to Muslims, this was usually filtered further by their country of origin and we were never classified as \u201cMuslims\u201d \u2013 rather by the country of our family\u2019s origin and in my case, Pakistani. Our faith was an extension of our identity, not the primary identifier.<\/p>\n

Due to the fact that the Asian population was lower than it is currently in the UK, the school that I attended only had 5% of its students that were from Asian immigrant families and we found that this presented us with no option but to integrate with students of a different faith \u2013 something that has helped me immensely to grow both as a British Citizen and a Muslim. There has never been a dichotomy for me in being both, just as there had not been for many of the Muslim immigrants at that time in being Pakistani\/Muslim, Indian\/Muslim, Bangladeshi\/Muslim etc and for many of their offspring the word British has been substituted for the Asian country of origin. <\/p>\n

However, the subsequent creation and sponsoring of faith based identity politics, often from the very top, has allowed those that entered the UK much later to exploit an over-exaggerated form of multiculturalism that has left predominantly Muslim immigrant communities without any resilience to these new messages of: isolation, confusion around identity, segregation, intolerance, hate, victim mentality and a focus on affairs abroad.\u00a0 By allowing and often promoting this, the state has played its part and many \u201cforeign\u201d communities (including non-Muslim) still live in isolation and segregation.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, funding the growth of these new ideas \u2013 initially out of compassion and subsequently when things have gone wrong \u2013 helped these ideas to ferment and build capacity. The desire by those in authority to be seen to be doing something, often misplaced \u201cvote grabbing\u201d by appearing on platforms with people that formulate the ideas of extremism, gave these extremists exactly the political legitimacy that they need to sell back to their community.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to 2011 and we have another phenomenon emanating from the state, one that has been using the tactic of funding and promoting (apparently) \u201cnon violent\u201d extremists to stop jihadis from blowing themselves up.<\/p>\n

Well, guess what, this has not worked either.<\/p>\n

A couple of examples to highlight this point:<\/p>\n