Burqa That!

Johnson isn't offensive to those who wear dish-cloths
Why? Wealth, dear boy, GREAT WEALTH!

Every commentator has a duty to think, rethink and rethink again how pronouncements can be interpreted; and it is also the job of an Editor to edit or draw attention to a ‘dog whistle’ or a potential shrill of one.  Therefore, Boris Johnson I’m hoping will have the Racial Hatred Act thrown at him for his published Islamophobia.

From every perspective Johnson’s tasteless newspaper column in reference to Muslim women wearing the burqa leaves a pungent stench of constitutional racism at the nucleus of Right-Wing politics and their odious publishers. Surely, a smidgen of decency or a snippet of social intelligence resides at high office? Because going by Johnson’s past endeavours there was a behemoth chance his rambling soliloquies would offend a nation, a demographic or faith. I hear echoes of: ‘thank goodness Johnson wasn’t still Foreign Secretary’; on grounds the Islamophobia commentary had the potential to cause great reputable damage to the UK renown for multicultural tolerance. Uncertain this tallies up with the term: relief, though… for the danger hasn’t passed because Johnson is incumbency ambitious and his close aides believe he is ready to ‘Tigger’ pounce if the going gets too hot for the Maybot – we’re not out of The Hundred Acre Wood yet.

Perhaps this is a lesson for the socially retarded who see the jovial side… alas, what we now know is newspaper columns by Boris increases the eventuality of racial abuse - overtly, Right-Wing mantra encourages ‘divide and rule’ abhorrence,  what Johnson exacted was a white supremacist derangement that gifted him ultra-rights to write filth under the artificial light of banter. The BBC actually stated: ‘what’s Boris’s game, if he knew what he was doing? I became notably worrisome when the response was; ‘who knows what Boris was thinking... I suspect he knew the implications and is playing to the Far Right tune.’  The blasé interviewing attitude was chilling, to seemingly ratify an intellectual premeditation behind the ‘dog whistle’ column. Not once cometh the phrase: ‘is he a racist?’ Bewilderingly peculiar, due the fact the BBC were quite happy to polish the ‘racist slur’ turd in one direction *without evidence.*

Baroness Warsi is sadly increasingly isolated over the affair, even from the fortress of a non-Tory you feel sorry for her, for Warsi has done all she can to inform her party the problem of constitutional racism, her sorrowfulness statement of: the lack of action in regards to Johnson’s comments implies ‘business as usual’ – she is resigned to this putrid reality. A total contrast to Labour’s nuanced public debate around the precise definition of antisemitism, you could claim the mainstream media has in the long term given a vital ingredient for Corbyn’s Social Movement to govern; via getting the moral gauge right and done so without prejudice. What the CAA and Jewish Voices don’t compute is they are a sitting target for Pro-Israel Lobby Groups and as time refers they’re progressively totalitarian and you can get too comfortable in that company, as Boris Johnson will concur.

One finer factor of signing a journalistic contract three days after resigning from the Foreign Secretary position defies rules and regulations too… three months is preferred. I am as clear as a bell when I say this’ll be wiped under the ever increasing grubby carpet of ills and spills. However, yet more is significant under public commentary codes of conducts etc; did Evans and Johnson move the moral goalposts to their benefit duly for the de facto well-publicised investigative scrutiny sells inflammatory content? The name of the game… and Johnson is game enough to string a normally ill-advised sentence together, run the gauntlet of being pantomime villain, write some archetypal rambling offer of good tidings and is cartoon enough to laugh off a good slap of ‘naughty boy’ chagrin.   If you examine the causes and responsibilities of the role of the Press in regards to racism slur ‘dog whistle’ repartee; there’s a sense of dysfunction when blatant racism gets defended. – Notably, the critique habitually casts blame onto their sources to oddly deny racism. The incessant ploy of reconfirming the published intention defers responsibility, and it’s apparent in Johnson’s initial position of not vindicating Denmark’s burqa ban. It’s sadly the case the Press is rarely accused and I can assure the Editor Chris Evans since 2014 is in the clear via default. Business as usual for Far-Right publications – and to cap it all, a former Foreign Secretary who knows full well of the weaknesses government beholds and isn’t remotely fractious about the Steve Bannon association who is openly colluding with the EU Far-Right, says a lot where we are today.

I’d go further, GE2017 nearly changed the direction we find ourselves in because the litmus paper implies there’s a real sense of sleep-walking into protectionist oblivion; for the record, buying ten DUP’s votes was the worst kind of taxpayer bribery I’ve ever witnessed from a Prime Minister. According to Martin Kettle, Boris Johnson is no rebalancer of any credit; he’s not a Churchillian strategist or Roosevelt equality-conformist.  His surge of support came from email henchmen, racist bigots who storm inboxes like an eleventh Century Christian Crusade --- an uncalled for barrage of dissension aimed at Lord Shiekh, the Conservative Muslim Forum Founder; whereby, over eighty percent of Lord Shiekh’s electronic correspondences were embracing vulgarities, expletives and racism. A striking semblance of the 1930s – ‘divide and conquer' mantra , which inadvertently slowed productivity, deepened insecurities all over Europe, and then following on from the ‘divides;’ an onslaught from the authoritarian Right, blighting and ostracising faith communities, the needy and the hungry; their aim, to cultivate anger.

Boris Johnson, the presumed educated, and educator;  effectively has absconded from endorsing common sense and invited Islamophobia in to the realm of politics… not only is it unheeded it’s opprobrious it bares the rotten fruits of a social disease on par to ‘holy.’ For the flock this is all that matters, a ‘home’ for their hatred, ye-s, it is highly schismatic but self-described ‘mono’- theisms (hate rituals). Dr. Israel Shahak actively provided service to the Israeli League of Human and Civil Rights being a Holocaust survivor and renowned educator.  You’d have thought his conditioning and experiences of indescribable privations hence losses may instill a humanity far greater than most. No, Dr. Shahak avidly spoke publicly about the urgency for disruption; his charismatic serenity emulates Boris Johnson: and it was always done via the pen, he informed us: ‘There are some encouraging signs of polarisation.’

There’s nothing remotely flippant about both men; furthermore, their backgrounds couldn’t be more contrasting. One probably sublimely influenced by a risky life, etched with major conflict --- the other, who craves conflict, due to having a profoundly privileged life. If you rationally think for a second, it’ll have to be an equally fascist mind-set to let Johnson prosper, that I am afraid, means all our Human and Civil Rights are in jeopardy.