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Londonistan Paperback – May 2, 2007
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- Print length212 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherEncounter Books
- Publication dateMay 2, 2007
- Dimensions6.62 x 0.72 x 8.96 inches
- ISBN-101594031975
- ISBN-13978-1594031977
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"In this book, the British journalist Melanie Phillips documents not only the establishment and growth of Muslim extremist groups in London but the administrative incompetence and cultural weakness that permitted it to happen. Some pusillanimity that she records would be funny if it were not so deeply disturbing." -- Theodore Dalrymple, The American Conservative
"Melanie Phillips's Londonistan is a last-minute warning for Britain and for much of the free world ... This book is powerful and frightening, but also courageous. In dictatorships, you need courage to fight evil; in the free world, you need courage to see the evil." Natan Sharansky -- Natan Sharansky
"Londonistan" is a courageous exposé of what is happening in Britain as well as a last minute wake up call for the British to act now before it is too late. -- Isi Leibler, Israeli Insider
Londonistan...is an eloquent warning of the dangers of "multicultural paralysis" and appeasing what Miss Phillips calls "clerical fascism -- Washington Times
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Born in 1951, Melanie read English at St Anne's College, Oxford before training as a journalist on the Evening Echo, Hemel Hempstead. After a short period on New Society magazine, she joined the Guardian in 1977 and soon became its social services correspondent and social policy leader writer. After a stint as the paper's news editor, she started writing her column in 1987, taking it to the Observer and then the Sunday Times before starting to write for the Daily Mail in December 2001.
Apart from All Must Have Prizes, she is the author of The Sex-Change Society: Feminised Britain and the Neutered Male, published by the Social Market Foundation, and America's Social Revolution, published by Civitas. She also wrote a play, Traitors, which was performed at the Drill Hall in London in 1985.
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- Publisher : Encounter Books; Revised edition (May 2, 2007)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 212 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1594031975
- ISBN-13 : 978-1594031977
- Item Weight : 14.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 6.62 x 0.72 x 8.96 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,897,271 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Melanie Phillips is a British journalist, broadcaster and author. Her weekly column, which currently appears in The Times of London, has been published over the years in the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times and Daily Mail. She writes for the Jerusalem Post and Jewish Chronicle, is a regular panellist on BBC Radio's The Moral Maze and speaks on public platforms throughout the English-speaking world.
Her best-selling book Londonistan, about the British establishment's capitulation to Islamist aggression, was published in 2006 by Encounter, New York. She followed this in 2010 with The World Turned Upside Down: the Global Battle over God, Truth and Power, with a foreword by David Mamet and also published by Encounter. The updated edition of Guardian Angel, her memoir, was published in August 2016.
You can follow Melanie’s work at www.facebook.com/MelanieLatest or on Twitter at @melanieLatest.
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All the people on the Left, anti-Christian, and anti-Israel should read this. Supposing that they were well-meaning, honest, and loving to their neighbors as they are to their pets, that won't keep them from being the targets of Islam. Islam hates them as much as they hate Jews and Christians. The sooner these well-meaning (and ill-meaning) people realize how foolishly they are acting the better. This book should do the job of opening the eyes of the well-meaning ones. It's a religious war, folks. A secular society can't fight a religious war; the secular has no values to stand for, nothing worth defending (as long as the agressors have been victimized), while Islam is mad as a rabid dog. Appeasement? Yeah, right. One thing is for certain: when the paradise-seeking Jihadist next door starts cutting throats in your neighborhood, they won't ignore you because you're pro-Palestinian or an atheist. Those, and other excuses, won't get you off the hook.
If a whole civilization has nothing to stand for, and everything has the same value in this crazy multi-cultural society of ours, if we have no definitive values, no faith in God, no respect for our history, what is there left for us to defend? Well, somebody else's history, values and faith. The West has reached a point of no return.
But this book is not about philisophy at all. This is a tremendous work of clear-sighted journalism. A wake-up call and a challenge for every lover of Freedom. The author will never get the honorable mentions she so much deserves, because those who ought to give them are the ones tightening the ropes around our necks, selling us cheap to the enemy.
A cultural suicide is taking place in Europe. It is not new, we've been suffering it since the rich sons-of-mummy-and-daddy turned Left in the late 60's. The Left decided they had to buy their redemption from the guilt complex they carried by siding with their dads' historical victims. The enemy showed up, alright, in the person of Islam (=fascism turned pious, in an Arab fashion). This is not to say, as the author repeatedly mentions, that all muslims are fascists. Of course not. The problem is that all the fascists claim to be muslim.
Melanie Phillips has shown a lot of courage by reporting the facts of this struggle in the UK. Describing the big picture as well as the small picures composed of the daily lives of the Brithish citizens. Fearless, straightforward, clear-minded, and right on target, she gives the names, quotes the public statements, and does an powerful analysis of the general political situation worldwide and the implications in our daily lives.
This book is dynamite. If you don't wake up reading this, you're probably alive only physically, not morally, and not spiritually. This book was such a thrill to read, despite its pessimism, and is so well written, so direct, so powerful, that I can't remember one that impressed me so much since "The Gulag Archipelago", long ago. Its pessimism doesn't overpower. It has the quality of detachedness, of being able to see the trees through the thick wood, of not getting entangled fruitlessly in discussions.
The hunger for power of the judges is exposed. The organised church, faithless, soulless, and politicised, is put to shame. The British political class are there: destroying the leftovers of what was a great country, for the votes of the mob & the irate (a lot of sound & fury). The media, but specially the BBC, is exposed for its biased policy against one religion and in favor of another (the BBC is an issue that deserves a separate book).
And it all comes down to one issue: Israel. It is not even the US, or capitalism vs communism; it is not Bush; it is not even a clash of civilizations,as some intellectuals would like to say. The istmus test is Israel. Why is it so? Read, and find out for yourself. (the Bible has a lot to say about that too).
Melanie Phillips' chapter "The Human Rights Jihad" and "Multicultural Paralysis" just may be the best flinty eyed analysis of Islam that I've yet read. In Melanie Phillips own words: "Since radical egalitarianism meant that all lifestyles were of equal value, the very notion of a majority culture or normative rules of behavior became suspect as innately exclusive, prejudiced or oppressive. Moral judgments between different lifestyles or behavior became discrimination; and prejudice, the term for discrimination between lifestyles became the sin that obviated the moral codes at the heart of Judaism and Christianity, which had formed the bedrock of Western civilization. . . . Democracy became effectively redefined from majority rule among equal citizens to power-sharing among ethnic and other interest groups. Multiculturalism became the orthodoxy of the day, along with nonjudgmentalism and lifestyle choice. The only taboo now was the expression of normative majority values such as monogamy, heterosexuality, Christianity or Britishness. . . .
"A trend that has transformed the whole of British life during the past four decades - one which has drastically weakened it from within to the threat from without. That trend is multiculturalism, the doctrine that is the orthodoxy throughout all the institutions of British public life. Put at its simplest, it holds that Britain is now made up of many cultures that are all equal and therefore have to be treated in an identical fashion, and that any attempt to impose the majority culture over those of minorities is by definition racist. . . The expression of British majority values therefore became synonymous with racism. Multiculturalism and anti-racism were now the weapons with which minorities were equipped to beat the majority. . . .
"Multiculturalism is said to promote equal treatment for all cultures. But this is not true. There is one culture that it does not treat equally at all, and that is the indigenous British culture. What purports to be an agenda of equality actually promotes the radical deconstruction of majority culture, the idea of the nation itself and the values of Western democracy - in particular its understanding of morality and truth. . .
"In other words, "diversity" is a fig leaf. What is clearly not part of diversity, however is to put the Christian faith into practice. The "diversity" agenda is thus a cover for an attack on Christianity, on the illogical premise that it is divisive and exclusive whereas minority faiths are not. So as Christianity is eased out, all faiths and unfaith are being encouraged to fill the gap. . .
"The consequences of this moral and cultural relativism is that people are increasingly unable to make moral distinctions based on behavior. Such moral equivalence rapidly mutates into moral inversion, in which those doing wrong are excused if they belong to a "victim" group while those at the receiving end of their behavior are blamed simply because they belong to the "oppressive" majority. Such a climate of moral inversion has turned Britain and Europe into fertile territory for manipulative propaganda by both terrorists and their ideological bedfellows. There is a tendency to equate and then invert the behavior of the perpetrators of violence and that of their victims, so that self-defense is misrepresented as aggression while the original violence is viewed sympathetically as understandable and even justified."
Phillips' book is an extraordinarily insightful and powerful analysis of the forces enabling Islam in the West today. They say the first step in solving a problem is understanding that problem. Phillips' book is crucial in taking that first step. The tragedy is that many in the West today will reflexively reject her analysis leaving no hope whatsoever for ultimately solving the problems posed by Islam and its handmaiden the radicalized left to the very continued existence of Western civilization.
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