Islamic group dobs in John Cleese as a “terrorist”. By Andrew Doyle.
John Cleese has been reported to Prevent, the UK government programme designed to stop people from becoming terrorists …
The complaint against Cleese was made by a member of the public, and the details passed to 5Pillars, an Islamist media outlet based in London. … 5Pillars has ‘expressed support for an Islamic caliphate, Sharia (Islamic principles and law) penal codes and physical jihad’ and ‘repeatedly abused and intimidated Muslim liberals, counter-extremists, and human rights activists’. ….
In its report, 5Pillars repeated the complainant’s claim that Cleese’s jokes and comments ‘go beyond legitimate criticism of Islam and instead portray Muslims collectively as violent, criminal and morally depraved’. …
Five pillars promoting the new film, Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother, starring two-time Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali. The future?
The complainant to Prevent specifically cited one post that read: ‘I personally prefer a culture that does not approve of FGM, child marriage and killing infidels’. Is that really all that controversial? …
Cleese rightly rejects the nonsense term ‘Islamophobic’ and instead calls himself ‘Islamosceptic’. How could he be otherwise? This is a man who has brilliantly skewered closed systems of thought for many decades. Most of us will remember the Pythons’ televised debate with Malcolm Muggeridge and Bishop Mervyn Stockwood following the release of Life of Brian in 1979. Just imagine the conniptions if the offended party were a representative from 5Pillars. The priggish outrage of Muggeridge and Stockwood would pale by comparison. …
Cleese has responded in the best possible way: by mocking it. He has said of the report to Prevent: ‘One of the proudest moments of my life. I would like to thank everyone concerned’. In another post he wrote: ‘I look forward to being arrested’. The tyrannical mindset — always humourless — cannot bear to be ridiculed. Few will be surprised that there are those who wish to see Cleese silenced, and that they will try to weaponise the law to that end. …
Guess who’s side the UK Government is on?
The government has, of course, fallen in line with the woke orthodoxy. An official UK counter-terrorism website lists ‘cultural nationalism’ as one of the ideological strands associated with ‘extreme right-wing terrorism’. … This is the gloss it provides to the phrase ‘cultural nationalism’:
“A belief that “Western Culture” is under threat from mass migration into Europe and from a lack of integration by certain ethnic and cultural groups. The ideology tends to focus on the rejection of cultural practices such as the wearing of the burqa, or the perceived rise of the use of sharia law. In the UK this has been closely associated with anti-Islam groups.”
Imagine a future with woke governments and an ever increasing Islamic population in the UK. You’d have to ask an Imam before speaking. Or joking. No more like this:
The past?
The UK has to choose: Cleese or 5Pillars. They are clearly not compatible.