UK Police Taking Orders Directly From the Mosques?

Anyone who has visited the UK’s capital recently, will know that the right to protest is alive and kicking. No matter how inflammatory the language, the Metropolitan Police are seemingly loathe to intervene when it comes to the Islamic cause du jour. Back in June 2023, MET Chief Sir Mark Rowley insisted his force ‘cannot legally stop’ pro-Palestine protests. In November 2023, Rowley went further and defied government pressure to ban a pro-Palestine march, which was controversially scheduled for Armistice Day. Even after the synagogue attack earlier this month, the police refused an outright ban. Instead, in a statement on X, the MET urged the group to “do the responsible thing and delay or cancel their plans.” Starmer himself would go no further than imploring the protestors to “respect the grief of British Jews”.

The kid gloves approach to policing however, is not universal. Last weekend’s planned UKIP protest in Tower Hamlets – London’s Little Mecca – was blocked by the MET Police, on the grounds that there was a “realistic prospect of serious disorder”. While it is undoubtedly true that the protest (described as a ‘mass deportation tour’ and a ‘crusade’ to ‘reclaim Whitechapel from the Islamists’) would have proved provocative, it is notable that the MET stops short of announcing who precisely it expects to be disorderly. With Tower Hamlets 40% Muslim, I suspect they know only too well who.

MET Commander Nick John, put it delicately:

“Tower Hamlets has the largest percentage of Muslim residents anywhere in the UK and the prospect of this protest taking place in the heart of the borough has been the cause of significant concern locally.

It is our assessment that there is a realistic prospect of serious disorder if it was to go ahead in the proposed location. This is in addition to the disruption that two large protests taking place on a key arterial route through east London would cause.

We have a responsibility to use the powers available to us to take steps to avoid both those outcomes. UKIP are free to organise their protest in an alternative location but they will not be holding it in Tower Hamlets.”

Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

Weasel words nowadays are de rigueur throughout the British Constabulary. When Hizb ut-Tahrir – an Islamic fundamentalist group so racy, it is banned in all Arab countries except Lebanon, Yemen and the UAE – called for “Jihad, jihad, jihad” outside the Turkish Embassy in 2023, the MET Police pontificated that the word jihad “had a number of meanings”. During the Leeds riots of 2024, West Yorkshire Police fled for their lives after the Muslim mob peppered them with bricks and missiles. According to Assistant Chief Constable Pat Twiggs, “this allowed for further community mediation to take place in order to calm the situation.” But when a copy of the Koran was being burnt in Manchester back in 2023, Greater Manchester Police uncharacteristically leapt into action, arresting the culprit immediately. As Assistant Chief Constable Stephanie Parker explained, “We understand the deep concern this will cause within some of our diverse communities … We recognise the right people have for freedom of expression, but when this crosses into intimidation to cause harm or distress we will always look to take action when it is reported to us.” Perhaps the police were unaware of the irony of this statement, as a man had been shot just two days prior in Sweden for doing the same thing. Shootings it seems, are neither ‘intimidating’ nor ‘distressing’.

With two-tier policing (and indeed, a two-tier society) no longer up for debate, it is interesting to note not merely the carte blanche afforded to Islam, but also the sense that the ‘community leaders’ and the mosques are playing a fundamental role in shaping police policy in Britain. It is no longer uncommon to witness community outreach videos opening and signing off in Arabic, with officers no doubt keen to audition early for Al Jazeera.

West Midlands Police:

Merseyside Police:

Greater Manchester Police:

Infinitely worse however, was the response of West Midlands Police to the disorder in Birmingham, in the wake of the Southport murders, where hordes of masked, armed Muslim men were allowed to run amok. Astonishingly, Superintendent Emlyn Richards admitted subservient negotiations with Muslim leaders. “We had the opportunity to meet with community leaders… to understand the style of policing that we needed to deliver” he said. He went on to confirm that the ‘community’ was keen to ensure the rioting “was policed within themselves.” The tail it seems is well and truly wagging the dog:

Speaking of dogs, an interesting aside is the palpable absence of police dogs from these proceedings. Almost two decades ago, it was revealed that police sniffer dogs would be forced to wear dog shoes or ‘booties’ in an effort to ‘avoid offending’ Muslims. Tayside Police apologised for using an image of a puppy on postcards to advertise their new non-emergency phone number. And earlier this year, it was reported that Islamic terrorists including Hashem Abedi and hate preacher Anjem Choudary are exempt from sniffer dog searches at HMP Frankland in Manchester.

One causal factor in terms of police acquiescence could be that the UK constabulary have adopted the term ‘Islamophobia’ (even while the Labour government rows back on its own definition of the term), and are implementing it as a blasphemy law in all but name. That, at least, is the suspicion of Conservative MP Nick Timothy, who has urged the College of Policing to “Produce new guidance to make clear to your officers and prosecutors that the law exists to protect people from harm and discrimination, but not to protect religious ideas and beliefs from scrutiny or criticism.”

I suspect Timothy is rather on the money in this regard. Police capitulation in the face of an increasingly restive Muslim population, is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it’s Korangate (the case of an autistic boy subject to death threats for the minor scuffing of a Koran), Batley Grammar School (where a Muslim mob forced a teacher into hiding for showing depictions of the Prophet Muhammad), or The Lady of Heaven (a film about the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad) which was pulled in response to Muslim threats, the police response is always the same: de-escalation and leniency, rather than simple law enforcement.

The numbers tell the tale. Over 1,800 arrests were made during the Southport riots, mostly for ‘far-right’ types who dared wave flags, post naughty tweets or say things the police didn’t like. But invariably when Muslims riot, there is not a handcuff in sight.

The mosques themselves are problematic, and might be better thought of as military outposts. Not content with being hate-preaching factories – a common occurrence, seeing as 110 extremist mosques were identified back in 2017 – some mosques are obviously little more than armouries, as evidenced by the famous raid on the Finsbury Park mosque. This is obviously fully understood by UK police, who were filmed advising Muslim mobs to ‘discard’ their weapons at the mosque with assurances that they need not fear arrest.

Armouries the mosques may be, but they’re clearly not fortified enough for the UK government, which has seen fit to plough another £10 million into mosque security. Mosque attacks do occur of course, but the fact that no one was injured during the recent arson attack on the Peacehaven mosque while two people were killed at the Heaton Park synagogue, suggests a flagrant degree of gaslighting on behalf of the Home Office:

From the beginning of his tenure as Prime Minister, Keir Starmer promised a ‘standing army’ of police to deal with anti-Muslim rioting. Perhaps he simply means the UK constabulary in its entirety; a constabulary, much like the government, which clearly knows who is issuing the orders on the streets of Britain.

The remedy, in the unlikely event anyone in Westminster wants to try it, is going to be a bitter pill: sack the woke commissars, enforce the law without fear or favour, and brace the nation for the inevitable Muslim insurrection when they realise their get out of jail free card has expired. With Keir Starmer at the helm however, there’s more chance of us ending up singing ‘God save the Prophet!’ And even then, that will likely be in Arabic!

Frank Haviland is the Editor of The New Conservative, and the author of Banalysis: The Lie Destroying the West.

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This piece was first published in The European Conservativeand is reproduced by kind permission.

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