Samizdat in England

If the solution to Muslim extremism in Britain being offered by 'moderate' Muslims is to give the extremists what they want (i.e. changes in British foreign policy), then the so-called 'moderates' are nothing more than the mouthpieces of the extremists they claim to reject. No doubt if given the changes they want, we will be told that only if yet more legal restrictions are placed on what we kuffir can say about Islam will we be able to to placate Muslim 'anger' and thereby prevent those wicked extremists from blowing us up....Recognizing Muslim 'anger' for what it is, Perry de Haviland, samizdata.net/blog.

Samizdat, for those who have forgotten the ways of the old Soviet Union, was a name for an underground network, a distribution system for literature and opinion regarded as politically incorrect by the Politburo's censors. If you wanted to publish a report about, say, a factory for baby carriages that produced nothing but transfer payments for the commissar who ran it, you'd put it on a mimeograph master, run your little hand press to make some copies, and distribute it surreptitiously. In London, described as Londonistan by several bloggers and a recent novelist, it is illegal to openly criticize any benighted group, even if leaders of that group advocate the slaughter of Britons, the overthrow of the English government, and the conversion of the survivors to an alien faith. Perry de Havilland probably puts himself at significant risk in putting this blog online, but kudos to him for doing so. In a country where defending yourself from an armed robber can put you in jail, an underground network to speak truth to power is needed.

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