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This Week in Stupid (04⧸12⧸2016)

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	Hello everyone, welcome to this week in Stupid for the 4th of December 2016.
	I appear to have picked up a bit of a cold overnight, so I'm probably going to sound a bit out of sorts.
	This week, Germany submits to Sharia law.
	Okay, that headline is wildly hyperbolic.
	Germany has not literally implemented Sharia law, but an important precedent has been set in Germany, and I think it's worth paying attention to.
	A German court has ruled that seven Islamists who formed a vigilante patrol to enforce Sharia law on the streets of Wuppertal, but fuck yourself, that's what.
	Did not break German law and were simply exercising their right to free speech.
	The self-appointed Sharia police sparked public outrage in September 2014 when they distributed yellow leaflets which established a Sharia-controlled zone in the Elbefield district of Wuppertal.
	The men urged both Muslim and non-Muslim passerbys to attend mosques and to refrain from alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, gambling, music, pornography, and prostitution.
	The Vigilantes are followers of Salafism, a virulently anti-Western ideology that openly seeks to replace democracy in Germany and elsewhere with an Islamic government based on Sharia law.
	Vuppenthal mayor Peter Young said he hoped the police would take a hard line against the Islamists.
	The intention of these people is to provoke and intimidate and force their ideology upon others.
	We will not allow this.
	We have had exactly the same problem in Britain with Islamist patrols just like this, asking for exactly the same thing and espousing exactly the same kind of ideology.
	This is the sort of thing Andy Chowdhury and his followers promote.
	This is what it looks like.
	Ramesa and Chowdhury both live in East London, which is home to one of the largest Muslim populations in the UK.
	In one part of town, Ramesa and his associates have set up so-called Sharia patrols to go out and discourage behaviour that they deem un-Islamic.
	On this night, they stopped to talk to a couple of non-Muslim men who were in a park drinking beer, which is forbidden under Islam.
	So we're just reminding anyway, we're reminding the community about staying safe.
	And in this area, there's lot of gambling that goes on, a lot of alcohol drinking, and it leads to a lot of problems.
	So we advise you, and we advise anyone you see, to stay away from these things.
	Get the prostitutes off our streets!
	But the patrols are not always so friendly.
	Online clips give a very different picture.
	A woman in a short skirt is abused.
	Vigilantes cannot dress like that in Mr. Era.
	I'm so poor.
	We don't care if you're a fool at all.
	Muslim patrols.
	We don't care.
	It's not so Great Britain.
	You need to get out of here.
	A man the patrol thinks is gay is insulted.
	Get out of here quicker then.
	You're dirty, mate.
	You're a gay mate.
	Get out of here, mate.
	That's pretty unpleasant and intimidating, and that's when they're being filmed.
	Imagine what it's like when they're not.
	But anyway, these people, and I don't want to be like everyone I don't like is an SJW, but they are kind of like Islamic SJWs.
	They're going around being just annoying moral busybodies, completely unwilling to waver or capitulate on any point of debate, and they literally think that they are being oppressed.
	And I'm not joking.
	I'm sensing a double standard here, because essentially, you're very quick to condemn acts of violence by the West, but you refuse to condemn any act of violence by your fellow Muslims.
	No, I believe that there's a difference between the oppressor and oppressed.
	Of course, he thinks he's oppressed.
	Of fucking course.
	He's a victim, isn't he?
	Andy Chowdhury, victim of the evil, tyrannical system that won't let him oppress other people.
	Like I said, I don't just want to go, oh, everyone's an SJW, but it's exactly the same mindset.
	It's exactly the same motive that makes them want to do it.
	They're the victims of the evil Western democracies, what would otherwise be known as the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.
	And it's up to them to smash it by enforcing their own set of particular laws that means everyone else has to do as they're fucking told.
	All of these types of people are just anti-freedom, and it really pisses me off.
	I really cannot stand the fact that these people think they have a justification to do anything of the sort in any sphere, whether it's the fucking, whether it's the stupid alt-right ethno-nationalists going, right, okay, all non-whites out of the country, whether it's fucking SJWs going, right, you are going to use these gender pronouns, whether it's Islamists saying, how dare you be gay and walk in a Muslim area.
	They are all anti-freedom authoritarians, and they will all overturn the system that we should all value, that gives us the ability to at least speak our bloody minds, if given half the chance.
	So we can't tolerate these people doing this kind of thing in any way, shape, or form.
	And thankfully, in this country, we do that.
	We actually do jail Muslim patrols who go around harassing gays and women and just people relaxing.
	These people are actually jailed in this country on charges of harassment, which is exactly what they're doing.
	Meanwhile, in Germany, the Wuppenthal District Court ruled that the men couldn't possibly have been intimidating passers-by and prosecuting them would have infringed on their freedom of expression.
	Are you fucking kidding me?
	How is that infringing on their freedom of expression?
	You don't have the freedom to go around bullying people as part of an organized gang on the streets.
	Unfucking believable.
	The public prosecutor argued that the men who wore orange vests emblazoned with the words Sharia police had violated a law that bans wearing uniforms at public rallies.
	The law which especially prohibits uniforms that express political views was originally designed to prevent neo-Nazi groups from parading in public.
	This is Germany, remember.
	According to Baumot, the vests were illegal because they had a deliberate, intimidating, and militant effect.
	So far, I have had absolutely no reason to think that these Sharia patrols were any different to the ones that we've seen in Britain.
	And if that's the case, I would have thought that simply the harassing effect of this was enough to get these men prosecuted.
	But even under their own logic, they're all wearing orange vests with Sharia police written on it.
	How is that not a fucking uniform?
	How is that not a political expression?
	But not only that, you can't allow people to parade around acting like they're some special police going around intimidating and bullying people because of their different sexuality, beliefs, actions, or whatever.
	You can't allow that.
	And the Wuppatal chief of police knows exactly what I mean when she says the pseudo-police represent a threat to the rule of law and that only police appointed and employed by the state have the legitimate right to act as police in Germany.
	She added, the monopoly of power lies exclusively with the state.
	Behaviour that intimidates, threatens or provokes will not be tolerated, especially in the pursuit of a political goal, which is what Islamism is.
	She says, these Sharia police are not legitimate.
	Call the police when you meet these people.
	Goddamn, absolutely.
	At least the police are in touch with what the fuck this actually means.
	This is the point.
	The courts are, well, they couldn't possibly have felt intimidated.
	Okay, let's say they didn't.
	Let's say everyone just laughed in their faces.
	It does not matter.
	You can't have people acting as self-appointed police.
	And if you say that, no, no, don't worry, what they've been doing isn't illegal, they are going to take that as a green light to carry on.
	And other people will say, well, the police don't do anything about them.
	Well, the authorities won't do anything about them, and so they must have some kind of authority of their own to be able to do this.
	And the thing is, the German courts seem to not think that their own laws are more important than laws made in other countries, specifically ones in the Middle East.
	In May 2016, for example, an appeals court in Bamberg recognised the marriage of a 15-year-old Syrian girl to her 21-year-old cousin.
	The court ruled the marriage was valid because it was contracted in Syria where such marriages are allowed according to Sharia law, which does not set any age limit to marriage.
	The ruling effectively legalised Sharia child marriages in Germany.
	Well, it effectively has.
	I mean, anyone could then go to Syria, marry a child of whatever age, bring them back, and say, well, I was married under Sharia law, so now I am going to live in Germany with a child bride.
	And there will be precedent under German law to support my case.
	And this is apparently in direct violation of the German civil code, which specifically says that German law should be supreme if there is some kind of conflict.
	So, I've no idea what to tell you, Germany.
	What are you doing?
	Why are you doing this to yourself?
	You don't have to do this.
	Most Muslims aren't asking you to do this.
	It's only a very noisy, loud minority of annoying, moral busybodies who are self-appointed and have absolutely no legitimacy.
	You can just tell them no.
	And if they continue, you can say, right, well, we're going to punish you under the various laws that we actually have to deal with this kind of thing.
	So, since we're being tremendous Islamophobes, let's have a look into Dane Casey's report into Muslim communities in Britain and how they're isolated and so cut off from the rest of society that they see the UK as 75% Islamic.
	Muslims in some parts of the country are so cut off from the rest of society they believe the majority of Britons share their faith.
	According to a shock new report, major review by government integration czar Dame Louise Casey has found that thousands of Muslims live in enclaves with their own housing states, schools and television channels.
	These are effectively colonies.
	I know this because I grew up on British bases.
	I grew up in Germany in JHQ.
	I speak no fucking German.
	Because I didn't have to.
	Because everything around me was English, everyone I knew was English, and the TV stations, the radio stations, they were all English.
	Because we had a British colony in Germany, a small military base, in order to, well, protect against the Russians, probably, and keep the Germans in line after World War II.
	But I think it's been closed down, actually, but that's where I grew up.
	And so when I see this, I'm sitting, this is all I'm thinking.
	I know what it's like to grow up in such an environment, so I can tell you I know it when I see it.
	And I'm giving you this first-hand experience so you can understand that I know that this is a barrier to integration.
	There is simply no chance whatsoever of these people integrating into British society when they live like this.
	Some rarely, if ever, leave their neighbourhoods and believe that Britain is a Muslim country in which up to three quarters of the population follow Islam, according to sources who have seen the report.
	Again, it was the same when I lived in Germany.
	I might visit the local town of Münchenglabach perhaps once or twice a month.
	I very rarely had an actual need to go there.
	The new review says Muslim enclaves are concentrated in northern areas such as Bradford, Dewsbury, and Blackburn, according to the reports in the Sunday Times.
	The newspaper quotes sources saying the report will send shockwaves through the system by attacking the government, particularly the Home Office, for failing to manage the consequences of mass migration and promote integration.
	It said the report will criticise the police for pandering to ethnic minorities and say some institutions are so politically correct that they are playing into the hands of the far right.
	This is of course exactly what's happening and I'll discuss it a bit later on in the video when I talk about Comrade Corbyn.
	That was from the Daily Mail and this was also reported on by The Guardian.
	UK Muslims show worrying belief in conspiracy theories, claims Think Tank.
	Their interpretation is Britain's Muslim communities have separatist tendencies and a deeply worrying belief in conspiracy theories.
	For some reason this is always framed as a defence of these people, even though the Daily Mail's article wasn't actually an attack.
	They say the controversial policy exchange report, however, does acknowledge that 93% of British Muslims have a strong attachment to Britain.
	Well, if they thought it was a majority Muslim country, I suppose they would.
	But their attitudes to many issues such as the NHS unemployment and immigration are broadly in line with the rest of the population.
	I doubt they are on immigration, mate.
	I really would be surprised.
	But with things like the NHS and unemployment, well, yeah, why wouldn't they be?
	Most of them live in quite poor communities.
	Of course they're going to be in line with benefits and free healthcare.
	But we're not worried about these things.
	These things are not the problem at all.
	There are a set of specific problems coming out of the Muslim communities.
	Did you ask them how they feel about those?
	Because I'd like to hear the Muslim community saying, yeah, we condemn almost all of these things that have been happening that have been deeply impactful for the communities surrounding them.
	And of course the Muslim Council of Britain has strongly criticised the Think Tank's report, saying it seemed to pursue an agenda to cast British Muslims as separate, dangerous and in need of saving, while the Think Tank had provided ample fodder to countless headlines demonising Muslims.
	Well look, I'm so fucking sorry that reporting on this sounds like demonising them.
	But to suggest that they are pursuing the agenda to make them look separate, when these communities have deliberately separated themselves and wants to keep it that way because that's how they like it, you're just being an apologist.
	These things are what the communities themselves are doing.
	It's okay to talk about them.
	So the policy exchange report, Unsettled Belonging, are based upon an ICM poll which is described as the most comprehensive to date of British Muslim opinion based on interviews with 3,000 people.
	Its findings say that Britain's Muslims live on average somewhat more separately than other minorities, with 53% apparently showing an appetite to integrate more with non-Muslims in all aspects of life.
	That's a really very lovely way of sounding that almost half of them don't even want to integrate.
	I mean that is your description of it an appetite to integrate more, not fully, just more, with non-Muslim society is very soft, isn't it?
	But saying 47% have got no interest at all in integrating, which seems to be what you're suggesting, is, well, very disturbing, is it not?
	And it also found that 31% believe the US government was behind 9-11 terror attacks, with a further than 7% blaming the Jews, and only 4% saying al-Qaeda was responsible.
	Well, Jesus fucking Christ.
	That opens a can of worms, doesn't it?
	I'm not even going to go into it.
	I fucking know.
	The think tank also highlighted findings that British Muslims were more likely to condemn acts of political violence and terrorism than the rest of the population, which is great, but that's probably because they have to do it quite often.
	I hate to be blunt about this.
	But that one in four British Muslims claimed that extremist views do not exist.
	When asked what they'd do, if they became aware someone close to them was getting involved with people who support terrorism in Syria, only 52% said they would report them to the police.
	So 48% of them would have some knowledge of a person getting involved with terror groups in Syria, as in joining ISIS or having interactions with people in ISIS, coordinating, cooperating, and whatnot, and they wouldn't say a thing.
	Just, I'm sorry, I don't care who you are, and I don't care what the relation that person has with you, if you think they might be getting involved in terrorism, or supporting or facilitating it in any way, you have a moral duty to report that person.
	A foreword to the pamphlet by the Labour MP for Birmingham, Perry Barr, Khalid Mahood, said it was startling that so many British Muslims seemed to be ready to entertain wild and outlandish conspiracy theories about dark forces at work to do down Muslims.
	And again, this is exactly the kind of mindset the SJWs have.
	As if there is a grand patriarchy out to persecute women or black people or whatever, when they're just living in a free society.
	And they can do what the fuck they like, basically.
	He said that the poll found that organisations such as the Muslim Council of Britain had very little support amongst British Muslims and were failing to reflect their views on issues such as Prevent.
	He suggested the government needed to realise their views only represented the sectional demands of those on the fringes of British Muslim life.
	And I think that's a very important thing.
	I'm very annoyed by these special interest groups because I think often they do.
	Again, just like feminists petitioning the government in what is in women's interest, they don't represent women.
	a tiny fringe group of seven percent of the population and yet they become the seven percent is enough to make the government think well christ this must be representative when it's not And the thing is, these failings are all important to note, because these are all contributing factors to what the left is finally realising is the global rise of the right.
	I'm not going to go through this independent article because it's really, really long and really obnoxious.
	You'd think they could be a little more humble in defeat, since they were the ones who miscarried so badly.
	But anyway.
	So this week, Jeremy Corbyn has been making the rounds trying to deal with the establishment losing to the right wing, as he met with Europe's centre-left leaders to see what could be done.
	Europe's centre-left parties must reject the establishment or watch the populist far-right win across the continent.
	Jeremy Corbyn has finally fucking warned.
	Yes, well done, Jeremy, we've realised that.
	I mean, it only took Brexit and Trump for you to realise that these populist uprisings are fucking serious, and you should be taking them seriously.
	But let's talk about your definition of the establishment.
	In a speech to Labour's European sister parties at the Party of European Socialists conference in Prague, well that just fucking says it all, doesn't it?
	You are not liberals, are you?
	I mean, don't get wrong, I mean it's a good question of whether you ever have been, but you've always kind of claimed to be the sort of liberal left-wing party, and it really is now looking like you're not in any way, shape, or form.
	Just so people are aware.
	I mean, I want this fucking stamped on your manifesto.
	We are not a liberal party.
	But I think the public are beginning to see that anyway.
	Corbyn warned that the populist right had correctly identified the problems with the prevailing economic model.
	That is one problem we're having, is the economic model.
	But it's not the only one, Jeremy.
	You have to understand there are social ills as well as economic ills.
	But gangs of Muslims roaming the streets bullying natives because they don't follow Islamic laws isn't an economic problem.
	And I do wonder if that's the reason that he ignores the social issues coming from these communities.
	He argued the solutions of those anti-immigrant, anti-EU and anti-Islam parties were only toxic dead ends that would not solve people's problems.
	Now, this is very interesting, isn't it?
	I've never for the life of me been able to understand why the left is in any way pro-immigration.
	It just creates extra competition and pressure, social pressure for the working class.
	No good comes of it for the people who are, quote, the most vulnerable in society, as Jeremy Corbyn so often likes to say.
	And yet, for some reason, he is pro-immigration.
	I can only assume that this comes from the attitude they must hold, that immigrants are not held to the same moral standards as the rest of us.
	This is the problem, though.
	It's conflating Muslims with Islamists.
	Islamism is a specific political ideology.
	Muslims are people who follow a religion.
	And as we've already seen, most of the community doesn't respect the Islamists themselves, or any other kind of self-appointed moral busybody that claims to represent them.
	Basically, this is why it's bad to politicize identities.
	Now I have to talk about the Muslim community, even though I know it's only a very small segment of that community.
	Because the left wants to do this by identity instead of ideology, as in what they are rather than what they think, we can't, and the left can't, take any action against them.
	And so Corbyn is forced to pretend the problem isn't also social, as well as economic.
	Corbyn's comments come a day before Austria votes in a rerun of its presidential election in which a far-right Norbert Hofer could be on the verge of victory.
	Other countries across Europe have also seen extreme right-wingers poised to take power, with the Freedom Party leading the polls in Austria and the Front National set to make the final round of the French presidential election.
	Yes, just in case you're on the left, you should be looking at this in horror.
	And I want you to understand: if you're a progressive leftist who engages in identity politics, you made this happen.
	Your individual contributions to the people you annoyed with your stupid identity politics, obscuring the real issues in what's going on in these communities and others and whatnot, you made this happen.
	Your contribution was to this end result.
	In some minuscule way, influencing a few, maybe a dozen people in your life or something.
	The thousands of you that are doing it have all contributed to this atmosphere where people are sick of not being able to talk about something that's really going on without you screaming bigot.
	It doesn't even matter if they are bigots.
	Do you understand?
	Even if they are bigots, these things are really happening.
	These events are real.
	So it doesn't matter.
	We're talking about real life, not your ideology.
	Because you scream bigot and then refusing to go any further with anything is you saying, well, I just don't want to think about it.
	It's like that doesn't change real life.
	Corbyn says, politics has been shaken across the world.
	As socialists and progressives, we know very well why the populist right is gaining ground.
	No, you don't.
	That's the problem.
	You don't know shit.
	He says, we know the gap between rich and poor is widening.
	Yes, it is.
	And, as the Bank of England has said, mass immigration has been partially responsible for that.
	By flooding the marketplace with low-wage earners.
	It makes it there's more competition for the existing ones, and it's a beneficial state of affairs for the corporate global power you will go on to complain about.
	We know the living standards are stagnating or falling and insecurity is growing.
	We know that people rightly still left behind by forces unleashed by globalization, powerless in the face of a deregulated corporate power.
	Yeah, exactly.
	They do.
	And this mass immigration is entirely in the favour of deregulated corporate power.
	This should be a regulation against corporate power.
	Even if you don't care about the social issues that come with it, you can look at the economic issues and say, well, this only benefits one class of people in society, and it's not the class of people who have to bear the burden of it.
	It should be just entirely left-wing to be anti-immigration on the basis it is basically a form of class warfare.
	He then says, in many cases, the populist right do identify the right problems, but their solutions are toxic dead ends of the past.
	And this is where he slips right into ideological mode.
	How exactly can just limiting immigration to Western countries be toxic?
	How could that be toxic?
	At worst, it could be considered neutral.
	Okay, well, you're not doing any good for some, you're doing some good for others.
	And this good that is being done is being done to the poorest people in society, which is the very mandate of the government.
	As in this is how you get the working class to vote for you, you do things in their interests.
	And ending mass immigration is certainly one of them.
	And then Corbyn says of the right wing, something utterly, utterly partisan.
	He says they are political parasites feeding off people's concerns and worsening conditions, blaming the most vulnerable for society's ills, instead of offering a way for taking back real control of our lives from the elites who serve their own interests.
	Jeremy, that's every politician.
	They all do this, or at least you would think they should do this, because the purpose of politicians was to serve the interest of the public.
	So they should be responsive to people's concerns.
	They should literally be saying, okay, what are your concerns?
	That's what you want done.
	Well, then it's my job to fucking do it.
	And if you vote for me, I'll go do that because that's what you want done.
	And since they're winning everywhere, that means that's what most people want, you cunt.
	That's fucking democracy, you twat.
	That's the point.
	They want their interests served, which also serves the interest of the people serving the public interest.
	For the love of God, Jeremy, you're such a twat.
	Really pisses me off.
	You're such a moralising self-righteous cunt.
	The fact that you would attribute this only to right-wingers because you're so fucking pure really pisses me off, you twats.
	Fucking honestly, what?
	What a cunt.
	Honestly, I can completely understand why you're so unpopular.
	I really can.
	And you have to understand, Jeremy, you are killing the Labour Party.
	Just you personally are killing the Labour Party.
	But I guess he is at least advocating for some kind of change, even though the change he embodies would be changed for the worse.
	He says, unless political progressive parties and movements break with the failed economic and political establishment, it is the siren voices of the populist far right that will fill the gap.
	Fine, Jeremy, yeah.
	Okay, well, that's you can at least see that something needs to be altered.
	But when I said that you, Jeremy, are killing the Labour Party, I really mean it.
	Since you've taken over, it's been nothing but division, civil war, and now the inevitable decline as people literally vote for anyone other than you.
	Labour has few safe seats left after a resurgence in support for UKIP and the Liberal Democrats following the Brexit vote, senior party sources have claimed.
	The party was defeated in the Richmond Park by-election on Friday when Lib Dem Sarah Olney clinched victory, losing its deposit for the first time since 1909 in a London by-election.
	I just want to point out that the Liberal Democrats basically completely discredited themselves after the coalition with the Conservatives and the Conservatives won a majority after being in coalition with them.
	The Lib Dems were on a really low ebb, but now they've come back to wipe out incumbent Zach Goldsmith's 23,000 majority could usurp the party as a credible anti-establishment opposition with its pro-European approach to Brexit.
	I don't want to see the Liberal Democrats become a viable opposition party because they're spineless and servile.
	I don't think they have it in them to stand up for Britain as a nation within the EU or outside of it, and I certainly don't think that they're going to be standing for the working class.
	But it's got so bad that former leadership hopeful Chuka Unana told the Times that there were no safe Labour seats.
	Labour is doing that badly.
	This defeat in Richmond Park was so bad, they polled 1,515 votes.
	They claim to have more than 1,600 Labour Party members living in this constituency.
	Your own people aren't voting for you.
	You're fucked.
	Corbyn, you have killed this party.
	Under your leadership, you have killed this party.
	And it's because you're an ideological lunatic who can't see the wood for the fucking trees.
	You have to start paying attention to people's real problems.
	You have to start actually listening to the Deimos rather than proudly declaring you and your cult followers are always right and you will win them over by just sticking and going further and further left.
	Because that's not the fucking solution.
	So I started looking around for parties that might be more similar or at least more well aligned to what I want to see in society.
	And I found the Liberal Party of Britain.
	And I went and had a look at their website.
	And I really did find myself in agreement with the way that they were presenting themselves.
	Okay, not the actual standard and style of the website, which was hideous to look at, but the things that they were saying, I was in total agreement with.
	So if anyone can put me in contact with any of the MPs or like political candidates, they haven't got any MPs, just the political candidates, then I'd love to hear from them.
	And I'd love to get them on and interview them and give them a bit more exposure for their views and ideas and just see if we can see exactly what they thought about things.

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