Islamist YouTubers And The 1% Rule

The election of several openly Islamist candidates in the recent general election has caused alarm in some quarters. This, coupled with the ongoing protests against Israel’s Draconian but necessary onslaught on Hamas with the resulting loss of civilian lives, and terror plots  in Europe as well as the UK, has led many people to believe there will be something akin to an Islamist revolution in Britain. Happily, this is not the case.

Aside from the protesters and rioters, the people who make the loudest noise about these matters are Islamists on YouTube. A number of them are extremely influential. For example, Ali Dawah has close to a million and a quarter subscribers. Mohammed Hijab has around the same number. Yasir Qadhi, who likes to present himself as more of an intellectual, currently has around 640k subscribers.

Anjem Choudary had quite a large following on YouTube and social media but he is currently on trial – not for the first time – for terrorist offences. Odious though some of his beliefs are, he would almost certainly not have fallen foul of the law in the United States due to the First Amendment to the Constitution.

With claims of no-go areas in certain parts of the country and the operation of Sharia courts, it is understandable that some people might believe the situation is more dire than it is, but the truth is that die-hard Islamists constitute only a tiny minority, although like the trans lobby (currently so much in the news), they make a lot of noise.

For one thing, the vast majority of Moslems in Britain are largely nominal Moslems. They may go to mosque every Friday but many spend more time in Mecca Bookmakers than facing Mecca.  Some have even been known to drink alcohol – shock, horror.

There are reasons for this. Like all religions, Islam is a revealed truth, but in recent years the foundations of its beliefs have come under serious attack, not simply from atheists and Christian apologists who mock its Prophet, but from serious scholars.

The Prophet is widely believed to have hailed from Mecca, but recent archaeological discoveries and other prosaic facts suggest that this claim is untenable.  Mosques are supposed to face Mecca, but early mosques faced Petra in Jordan.  There are several other reasons Mecca isn’t tenable as the home of Islam, one being that the Saudi Government has allowed extensive building work in the city. The Saudis regard themselves, rightly, as the Guardians of Islam, and if they considered Mecca to be of such historical importance, they would never have permitted this.

There is also the unreliability of early Islamic texts. These are so unreliable that some scholars have concluded Muhammad did not actually exist. We need not go this far, but the earliest accounts we have of his activities are far from contemporaneous. We know how unreliable is the oral tradition of anything or any person. In short, Muhammad has become a mythical figure whether or not he existed.

In his 2016 work, Real People Who Became Legends, Edward Goodman lists many such people,  including notably Adolf Hitler, who while most definitely a real person, has had reams of rubbish written about him. Who could forget the notorious Hitler Diaries? One does not have to look to the historical record to find totally spurious works about famous or infamous individuals. It is a standing joke that some celebrities have to read the Sunday tabloids to find out what they were doing last week.

One of the big sticking points with the Prophet is his marriage to Aisha, whom he is said to have married when she was just six, consummating the marriage when she was nine. But he was also said to have had ten other wives whom he “visited” every night. In what universe? This is clearly a tale that was  made up out of the whole cloth to portray him as superhuman, which begs the question why should we believe the Aisha story either, or anything else?

With universal access to knowledge, through the Internet, many younger Moslems, especially in the Islamic world itself, are aware of these discrepancies, and while the Islamist menace is supposedly growing, they are leaving the faith en masse. In Iran, and increasingly Pakistan, people are either converting to Christianity or turning their backs on religion completely. Many ex-Moslems have taken to YouTube to mock or simply condemn the religion. The ex-Moslem known as the Apostate Prophet is filled with such bile that although an atheist, he regularly teams up with Christian apologist David Wood to pour scorn on Islam. Wood’s tactics have included eating the Qur’an, something he did with his first sidekick, the late Nabeel Qureshi (pictured above), another ex-Moslem.

Which brings us, finally, to the 1% rule. If you are not familiar with this, here is a short video that explains it, but basically, in any population by any criterion or none, around 1% will have beliefs that are just plain crazy. This applies to literally any population: professions, age groups, by religion, race, state, or just people picked at random from a pin stuck in a world map.

By focusing on this tiny minority, the media attempts to portray the entire group as deranged, “haters” or whatever. In the West, any supporter of “nationalism” will be smeared so. The same thing is happening to Moslems who don’t toe the line. The YouTubers mentioned above: Ali Dawah, Mohammed Hijab, Yasir Qadhi...are not simply Moslems, they are clowns.

In Britain, most Moslems have no time for clowns, but they also have no time for the organised homosexual movement or the trans movement. Like the vast majority of parents they are appalled at what is going on in schools – not only in Britain but in many other Western nations – to wit, the sexualisation of the young, but unlike most white parents, they are prepared to take a vociferous stand against it.

The often made claim that mainstream Islam is not compatible with liberal British values doe not stack up either. Islam is teetotal; the temperance movement has a long tradition in these islands. And, Douglas Murray take note, male homosexuality has traditionally been anathema to all strata of Western society.

Nor is Islam a recent import; there has been a small Islamic presence in Britain since at least the early Nineteenth Century; the first mosques were founded by white converts as far back as 1889.

A lot more could be written in this vein, but it will suffice to say that the Islamist threat to Britain and the West, has been and continues to be wildly exaggerated, and the very real problem of terrorism will abate when the current madness in the Middle East has been sorted permanently. This is a problem that has existed since before the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, but which cannot go on much longer due to the ongoing realignments of  several governments, including the Saudis, who realise Islamism is as big a threat to their survival as it is to ours.