A publication called Time Out London justifies it becoming an Islamic city.
As an example:
For a start, Islam is not an alien religion to London. At the end of World War I the city sat at the heart of an Empire that had 160 million Muslim subjects, 80 million in India alone. London was the largest Islamic capital in the world.
All that means is that London was the capital city of a country that once had an empire that was so large that it included some Muslims. That logic is as silly as saying that ancient Rome was a Jewish city, because the Roman Empire included all of the Holy Lands and its Hebrew inhabitants.
Alcohol is haram, or forbidden, to Muslims. As London is above the national average for alcohol-related deaths in males, with 17.6 per 100,000 people (Camden has 31.6 per 100,000 males), turning all the city’s pubs into juice bars would have a massive positive effect on public health. Forbid alcohol throughout the country, and you’d avoid many of the 22,000 alcohol-related deaths and the £7.3 billion national bill for alcohol-related crime and disorder each year.
Bar fights or suicide bombings. Which one sounds better? And as far as that business goes, fanatically religious Muslims will put side that prohibition if they want to blend into the white society in advance of their committing major acts of terrorism, as many of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers did.
‘The world is green and beautiful,’ said the prophet Muhammad, ‘and Allah has appointed you his guardian over it.’ The Islamic concept of halifa or trusteeship obliges Muslims to look after the natural world and Muhammad was one of the first ever environmentalists, advocating hima – areas where wildlife and forestry are protected. So we could expect more public parks under Islam, but halifa also applies to recycling: in 2006, 12,000 Muslims attended a series of sermons at the East London Mosque explaining the theological evidence for a link between behaving in an environmentally sustainable way and the Islamic faith.
All the explosions and bombings at or around oil fields — that does contribute to environmental degradation, neither is it carbon neutral. I am also not aware that there are many wildlife reserves and public parks in Islamic countries.
In an Islamic London, Christians and Jews – with their allegiance to the Bible and the Talmud – would be protected as ‘peoples of the book’.
Later, and contradictorily, this person writes:
Under Islam all ethnicities are equal. Once you have submitted to Allah you are a Muslim – it doesn’t matter what colour you are. End of story.
“Under Islam” the races might be equal in theory, but this doesn’t preclude interracial and sectarian fighting among Mohammedans in the real world. Also in the real world, Christians and Jews are objects of Islamic persecution. One day of reading Robert Spencer’s blogs will teach you that.
Each Muslim is obliged to pay zakat, a welfare tax of 2.5 per cent of annual income, that is distributed to the poor and the needy. If the working population of London, 5.2 million, was predominantly Muslim this would produce approximately £3.2bn each year.
Last I looked, the British income tax rates were a lot higher than 2.5%, and that’s not counting VAT. Though considering everything holistically, I wouldn’t consider it much of an advantage. I would rather pay a 70% tax rate in a white society than a 2.5% one in a non-white society; my standard of living would be far higher.
