Treated With Contempt
Particularly galling is the way in which Yousaf Bashir, who was part of a gang that hurled abuse at members of the Royal Anglian Regiment as they marched through Luton last Tuesday, has been given twenty-four hour police protection.
It is, of course, wrong that someone should have attacked Yousaf Bashir’s house on Friday, breaking his ground floor windows and smashing in the front door. If caught, those that committed these crimes should be tried and punished.
However, why should the police give Yousaf Bashir and his family preferential treatment? Millions of British people have had to suffer far worse criminality than Yousaf Bashir, without receiving any semblance of police protection.
But, what else should we really expect by now? As Peter Hitchens observed in his Mail on Sunday column, we should aim our anger not at these misguided individuals but at the liberal Left which has brought us to this point – for it is they rather than Islamic protesters that are the sources of these problems. He observed:
We teach our children to be ashamed of our past. We tell them our sailors at Trafalgar had weevils in their biscuits but not that by astonishing courage and endurance they saved Europe from endless tyranny.
We act ashamed of the Christian religion that formed our laws and institutions. We encourage new arrivals to speak their own languages, to stay in isolated communities.
We never say that there are two sides to hospitality – a concept our Muslim citizens understand very well – and that those who are welcomed are expected to be loyal members of the society they have voluntarily joined. What do we expect these people and their children to think if we treat our own nation with contempt?
Britain is not actually very much like Britain anymore. Culturally, morally and in so many other ways it has changed beyond compare. Like Peter Hitchens I still cling to the idea that it is not too late to stop the disintegration of our society, but, if so, then time is very short indeed.
Your Comments:
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- Sara Jones
I think that this story has been totally out of propotion. Why does Yousaf Bashir not deserve police protection? If people think it is okay to attack an innocent man and vandalise his house like criminals then ‘Yes’ he does deserve protection.
Also the protesters did not break any laws and they have not harmed or killed anyone. Do you think the soldiers can’t talk a few words? Did they go home crying… they had people throwing shoes at them in Iraq, they can take it.
These protesters have a right to protest!
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As I said, those that attacked Yousaf Bashir’s house should be punished if they are caught. However, my point is that why does Yousaf Bashir deserve far greater levels of police protection than anyone else?
I know a number of people who have had their houses ‘attacked’ – one had his house repeatedly vandalised and burgled in fact. However, since they were not political protesters then they did not receive 24 hour police protection. Is that right? Why should Yousaf Bashir receive greater protection than anyone else?
