A. E. Houseman’s book “A Shropshire Lad” was one of the first books given me by my father, certainly my first book of verse. It revealed a nostalgic time not so very long gone of rural innocence coupled with untimely mortality.
Houseman had not seen the county before writing most of his poems.
I wonder what he’d think of it now:
Nine men deny a range of sexual offences against seven girls in Shropshire. The men, who are aged between 21 and 59 and from Telford, face more than 50 charges at Stafford Crown Court. Charges include rape, controlling child prostitution and sexual activity with girls under the age of 16. One of the defendants is accused of trafficking a child in the UK for exploitation.
The men on trial are Ahdel Ali, 23, Murbarek Ali, 28, Mohammed Ali Sultan, 24, Tanveer Ahmed, 39, Mahroof Khan, 33, Noshad Hussain, 21, Mohammed Islam Choudhrey, 52, Mohammed Younis, 59 and 34-year-old Abdul Rouf. They enticed the girls, groomed the girls and exploited them either for their own sexual gratification or for money.” They deny all of the charges, which relate to the alleged sexual abuse and exploitation of girls in Wellington between September 2007 and December 2009.
The victims are seven teenage girls, one of whom was 13 years old at the time the alleged offences were committed.
The prosecutor has taken pains to say that these alleged crimes have nothing to do with “race, religion, colour or creed.”
Which of course goes without saying, one should think.
All Your Snack Bars!
..and as for one of Britains so called “New Towns”, `Telford`: Wikipedia says, “Some individuals still refuse to put Telford in their address, instead using the original local name (such as Wellington or Dawley)”.
….should be some bargain priced properties there. I’m on the hunt for a new home, best check it out (and my Remington 800 – oh, wait, they’ve been banned over here).
So it’s just as bad in Shropshire, as it is in Ruralshire?
surely some soccer hooligans can repay the misunderstood lads and go collect some nice young muslim girls for dates to the local pitch? Now those boys know how to treat the ladies. And sharia specifies 100 lashes with a cane no bigger than your thumb wielded by a man of “medium build” for any and all fornication. So let the fathers do the whipping.
I am sure there are many, many others in the UK who would assist with the administration of the whipping…Hold a national lottery and let the winners do the job.
I weep for England as they have allowed some true vipers to nest in their midst.
Hmmmmmmmm… At the risk of sounding less than, you know, multi-cultural and cosmopolitan, I have to ask; I wonder how this squares with that sharia law I hear so much about.
Of course, as long as the girls are all infidels…
http://shariah4america.com/
for a troubling look at where we are headed after the PCpolits keep giving them the rope to hang us with.
Thanks for the link, G-man. How much evidence does anybody need?–it’s all around us. SO many time-worn but oh-so-true sayings come to mind: “None are so blind as those who will not see”; “Whistling past the graveyard”; “Head-in-the-sand”; “Sleep-walking through history”–they ALL apply.
“What we have here” (h/t Strother Martin) is a “failure of nerve.” We have allowed the left to slowly but surely erode the confidence of the West in its own civilization. This is what the beginning of Dihimmitude looks like..
And the really ironic part of the link G-man posted is the part where they propose to use the Washington Monument as a hoisting mechanism for impaling child molesters on a pike.
Does conversion to Islam require mental illness as a precursor?
Woodchippers, like “Fargo”.
Or, to paraphrase another flick, “call a coupla hard, axe-swingin’ Paul Bunyans, who’ll go to work on the mens here with a pair of pliers and a blow torch. You hear me talkin’, Telford boy? I ain’t through with you by a damn sight. I’ma get medieval on your arse.”
Anymouse wins the thread!
But BigFred is a close second..
Woodchipper dressed with pork fat…
I am not worthy!
Perversely, I believe that the Mohammedan strictures will fall mostly upon the girls, for their unchaste behavior, failure to be with male relatives, and all that garbage.
Really, why do we bother feigning respect and tolerance for barbaric beliefs and behavior. It seem that the Muslim faith at its core is no more civilized than Mayan human sacrifices or similar ancient practices by unenlightened societies.
They may believe it, but we should not accept, tolerate or encourage it. However, anyone choosing to live with a 7th Century value system in their own land can probably be ignored. It is not our duty or burden to try to civilize the world.
We have done the whole “under the starry flag, civilizing with a Krag” thing in other climes and places, and the western world spent a couple of centuries bearing “the white man’s burden” in savage lands. Happily the lessons took in some areas, but many were a waste of our blood and treasure.
But, the cancerous debasement of western civilization by Mohammedan immigrants must not be allowed to happen. Perhaps not to the extreme of “convert or die” but certainly to a firm “not welcome here, so go home!” policy.
Western culture has quite enough problems within that must be resolved, and any tolerance for Muslim barbarism cannot be allowed to destroy our present fragile culture.
Indeed, “the bones of one Pomeranian grenadier” are a fair price to keep them out, but too exorbitant a price to try to meddle in the internal problems in Muslim nations.
‘The prosecutor has taken pains to say that these alleged crimes have nothing to do with “race, religion, colour or creed.”’
Of course they don’t. Since Western Civilization is viewed as debased, corrupt, hypocritic, and something that needs to be best forgotten, all England, in the absence of pushback, will be like this eventually, regardless of surname of the perpetrator. Just a matter of time–unless there is pushback.
People are equal under the law. Cultural practices should not be so viewed. Unless, that is, you are an empire, content solely to maintain power over various nationalities, letting them do as they would as long as they don’t challenge you.
Nation or empire. Nation or empire. Modern progressive liberalism has made its choice. What of the rest of us?
Read some Houseman in a college English class…especially this one, which begins:
ON moonlit heath and lonesome bank
The sheep beside me graze;
And yon the gallows used to clank
Fast by the four cross ways
Maybe the gallows need to clank in Shropshire again.
“The prosecutor has taken pains to say that these alleged crimes have nothing to do with “race, religion, colour or creed.” ”
Of course not. But it is a matter of a thoroughly corrupt and misogynistic culture referred to as ‘islam.’
You know, that same culture that has engaged worldwide & unabated in the slave trade since it’s inception?
Speaking of….anyone seen this month’s National Geographic?
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/06/child-brides/gorney-text
I wonder of any of the British commentariat refers to the perps as “Britons.”
Obviously, not a ‘Smith’ or ‘Jones’ among the list. And it’s coming here too….or should I have said ‘it’s here too’.
My teeth can’t take all this gnashing.
Muslims, Kill em all and let GOD sort em out. I’m tired of playing babysitter to a bunch of idiots that think their god is great and everyone else has to bow to them and theirs. Come on down south, we’ll show you what real justice is like down here. Never to be heard from again!!!!
You stay classy, smb56!