In my mind it does not matter one iota what you think of anyone's ideas - NOTHING justifies this sort of premeditated violencce. And yet liberals seem to think that an "offensive" article is justification enough for meting out violence.
It seems to me that Antifa are the real fascists - the 21st Century brownshirts.
Journalist, Andy Ngo beaten up by Antifa thugs
Today Andy Ngo was singled out by Antifa thugs and beaten up and is in hospital.
It seems to me that Antifa are the real fascists - the 21st Century brownshirts.
Journalist, Andy Ngo beaten up by Antifa thugs
Today Andy Ngo was singled out by Antifa thugs and beaten up and is in hospital.
I really believe Twitter is so perverse they will ban Andy Ngo instead of Antifa.
He seems to have been singled out for this treatment because he wrote and article.
"Just a reminder that Andy Ngo was the author of the massively islamophobic WSJ article which claimed there was Sharia law in Tower Hamlets because he saw an 'alcohol restricted' sign.
An article which you dislike is reason to assault someone?!
The "offending" article from the WSJ.
A
Visit to Islamic England
Muslims
headed to Friday prayer while non-Muslims went the other way. No one
made eye contact.
Andy Ngo
WSJ,
28 August, 2018
London
Other
tourists may remember London for its spectacular sights and history,
but I remember it for Islam. When I was visiting the U.K. as a
teenager in 2006, I got lost in an East London market. There I saw a
group of women wearing head-to-toe black cloaks. I froze, confused
and intimidated by the faceless figures. It was my first encounter
with the niqab, which covers everything but a woman’s eyes.
This
summer, I found myself heading back to the U.K. as it was plunging
into a debate over Islamic dress. Boris Johnson, the country’s
former foreign secretary and London’s ex-mayor, wrote a column
opposing attempts to ban face-covering veils. Nonetheless, he added,
“it is absolutely ridiculous that people should choose to go around
looking like letter boxes.” The responses could hardly have been
more heated.
I
wanted to cut past the polemics and experience London’s Muslim
communities for myself. My first visit was to Tower Hamlets, an East
London borough that is about 38% Muslim, among the highest in the
U.K. As I walked down Whitechapel Road, the adhan, or call to prayer,
echoed through the neighborhood. Muslims walked in one direction for
jumu’ah, Friday prayer, while non-Muslims went the opposite way.
Each group kept its distance and avoided eye contact with the other.
A sign was posted on a pole: “Alcohol restricted zone.”
Women
and girls were dressed in hijabs, niqabs and abayas (robes). Some of
the males wore skullcaps and thawbs, Arabic tunics, with their
trousers tailored just above the ankles as per Muhammad’s example.
The scene could have been lifted out of Riyadh, a testament to the
Arabization of Britain’s South Asian Muslims. At the barbershop,
women waited outside under the hot sun while their sons and husbands
were groomed.
Inside
the East London Mosque, visitors were expected to dress “modestly.”
Headscarves were provided at reception for any woman who showed up
without one. A kind man on staff showed me around the men’s
quarters. He gave me a bag filled with booklets about Islam. In one,
Muslims are encouraged to “re-establish the Shari’ah,” or
Islamic law. Those who ignore this mandate are “of little worth to
any society.”
That
night, I visited the Houses of Parliament. Rifle-carrying police
officers greeted me when I stepped out of the Tube. The extra
security was mobilized in response to last year’s car and stabbing
attack in Westminster by Khalid Masood, who killed five people.
Outside the station, there are roadblocks along Westminster Bridge
and a new security fence in front of the palace yard. I asked an
officer about Masood’s attack. “I’d rather not talk about it,”
he replied. “I was there that day.”
Forty-eight
hours later, I woke up to the news that a car had rammed a
Westminster security barrier. Police arrested Salih Khater, a
29-year-old Sudanese refugee who had been given asylum and British
citizenship. Three people were injured in the attack. London’s
mayor, Sadiq Khan, expressed support for banning vehicles from parts
of Parliament Square.
Next
I visited Leyton, another district in East London where some Muslim
social norms prevail. An Arab cafe near the Tube station was filled
with men; no women were inside. An Islamic bookstore sold
hijab-wearing dolls for children. The dolls had blank, featureless
faces, since human depictions are prohibited in conservative Islam.
I
stopped outside the Masjid al-Tawhid, a South Asian Salafi mosque and
madrassa (school), just before afternoon prayer time. A group of
girls in robes and veils walked around back, toward the dumpsters,
where the women’s entrance is located. I later saw the Islamic
Shari’a Council of Leyton. This community has religious,
educational, business and legal institutions to maintain a separate
identity.
All
this gave me pause. But I was unprepared for what I would see next in
Luton, a small town 30 miles north of London and the birthplace of
the English Defense League, which has held unruly anti-Muslim
demonstrations. At the Central Mosque, I met a friendly group of
Punjabi-speaking young men.
“You’ve come to see Luton?” one
struggled to ask me in English. The young men asked me to follow them
through the town center.
Within
minutes, we walked by three other mosques, which were vibrant and
filled with young men coming and going. We passed a church, which was
closed and decrepit, with a window that had been vandalized with
eggs. We squeezed by hundreds of residents busy preparing for the Eid
al-Adha holiday. Girls in hijabs gathered around tables to paint
henna designs on their hands.
All the businesses had a religious
flair: The eateries were halal, the fitness center was
sex-segregated, and the boutiques displayed “modest” outfits on
mannequins. Pakistani flags flew high and proud. I never saw a Union
Jack.
The
men finally led me to a discreet building that housed a small Islamic
center. They spoke privately to its imam. I was led upstairs to see
him. The imam asked me if I was prepared to convert. Apparently there
had been some miscommunication with the young men. I told the imam I
wasn’t ready for that, but I would appreciate any literature I
could take home. He led me to a bookshelf and said I could have
whatever I wanted. I grabbed the first booklet that was in English.
It was by Zakir Naik, a fundamentalist preacher from India.
“The
Qur’an says that Hijab has been prescribed for the women,” the
booklet explained in one section, “so that they are recognised as
modest women and this will also prevent them from being molested.”
Other
tourists might remember London for Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly
Circus and Big Ben. I’ll remember it for its failed
multiculturalism. Or perhaps this is what successful multiculturalism
looks like.
Mr.
Ngo is an editor at Quillette.
Here is a rebuttal from Business Insider
Here is Andy Ngo with Tucker Carlson
From CNN 4 years ago.
London's 'Muslim Patrol' aims to impose Sharia law in East London
Note, Whitechapel, mentioned in the piece above and Tower Hamlets are adjacent
