The Witchfinder believes the Malicious Communication Act and similar acts should be reformed to vastly narrow what they cover. However, as long as they exist your author believes they should be applied even-handedly and Bahar Mustafa should be jailed for her bigoted, racist, hate speech – then shunned by decent society as well as employers upon her release.
Bahar Mustafa’s bigoted views that anti-white racism cannot exist have no place in a civilised society. Image is both a parody under s30A Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and a criticism.
The crime that finally caused the BBC to accept that racism could be directed at white people was the tragic murder of Ross Parker.
The senseless killing of this young man by a vicious, racially motivated gang in the British town of Peterborough caused even the infamously leftist BBC to say this –
“Racism was once defined as ‘prejudice plus power’ – […] However, the ‘racist murders’ of Kriss Donald in Glasgow in 2004 and Ross Parker in Peterborough in 2001, young white men killed by Asians, demonstrate how society has been forced to redefine racism”
BBC article here, (archive here). In 2006, the Guardian (Observer) reported UK Home Office figures showing nearly half of all racist murder victims in the preceding decade had been white (archive here).
Racism is no more acceptable when perpetrated by non-Caucasians than when perpetrated by Caucasians. Anyone who disagree might want to talk to the residents of the UK town of Rotherham.
What happened in Rotherham? To quote the BBC it was about child sex abuse on ‘industrial scale’ (archive here). The perpetrators? To quote feminist Suzanne Moore in the Guardian newspaper (archive here), “men of Pakistani and Kashmiri descent, working in gangs to rape and torture girls”, who “called the girls ‘white trash'”.
It is true that the UK has harsh, vaguely worded communications laws. It is true that Bahar Mustafa or at least some of her supporters may have perceived her remarks as a joke or a frustrated comment. That makes her remarks no less divisive and unfortunately, as Rotherham shows, the UK has a problem with extremists (such as jihadists) who simply would not perceive Mustafa’s remark as a joke but instead see it as legitimisation of their own hate-filled worldview.
This blog has never called, even in jest, for the extermination of ‘all’ of any social group. Were I to write an article headlined, ‘kill all [x] people’ doubtless the local constabulary would soon be in touch. Whilst the current laws are on the statute book there is no reason Bahar Mustafa should escape punishment.
I came to this issue via YouTube, I was shocked. If there was sufficient evidence, such as intent to incite hatred and violence against a group or individuals, then yes, she should have been charged. I am shocked she was not, surely bias? Is this like the political correctness where UK police refused to charge Pakistani and Somali muslims for gang rape, for fear of accusations of ‘racism’? The 2014 Jay Report said political correctness affected the police’s decision making. Well this Mustafa girl is white, even though she is Turkish Cypriot, she can claim what she wants to, she is clearly white. I assume the Racial & Religious Hatred Act 2006 would apply? Given Count Dankula in Scotland was charged with a hate crime, for a joke involving a NAZI saluting pug, this Mustafa case would appear to be far more bigotted. When it suits the far left cultural Marxists, they claim ‘free speech’, but deny it exists for their bogeymen ‘facists!’ Hypocrisy. Her claim based upon the looney American neo Marxist definition of racism = prejudice+power is tosh, it was only ever defined as such by the looney far left, not in language or law. She is a muslim Turk, a group (white people from central Asia), who oppressed east Europeans for centuries, she is a member of a patriarchal group, so by her own neo Marxist definition, she has power! She should have been charged. She now works for Cystic Fibrosis Trust, which does concern me that a charity employs an apparent racist and bigot, though I note she was not successfully charged with a hate crime? I suggest we all write to them to register our concern, and assurances that it does not harbour such racist hate and bigotry.