https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/12/the_surrender_of_britain_islamism_and_appeasement.htmlThe Surrender of Britain: Islamism and Appeasement23 Dec, 2025
Lars Møller
In the annals of civilizational decline, few spectacles rival that of a once-mighty empire wilting under the weight of its own timidity. Britain, the cradle of parliamentary democracy, Magna Carta, and the Enlightenment’s unyielding torch, now teeters on the brink of self-inflicted oblivion. The antithesis of multicultural harmony, the year 2025 brings another pitiful surrender to the forces of Islamic extremism, a phenomenon chillingly encapsulated by Melanie Phillips in her prescient 2006 tome Londonistan.
Phillips, a Cassandra of our age, warned of London’s metamorphosis into a “terror state within”, a hub for jihadist recruitment and financing, born of a toxic brew: the collapse of British identity, the paralysis of multiculturalism, and an elite’s craven fear of the “Islamophobia” epithet. Nearly two decades later, her prophecies have ossified into reality. Under the slick populism of Mayor Sadiq Khan, London—once the beating heart of Western liberty—has devolved into a cauldron of knife assaults by immigrant gangs, appeasing police, who cower before Sharia vigilantism, and a surge in antisemitism that drives Jews to contemplate exodus. Britain’s trajectory is the inexorable outcome of ideological surrender: a movement from ordered civilization towards anarchy and Islamic barbarism. To ignore this is to abdicate responsibility for action.
Melanie Phillips’s Londonistan was a forensic dissection of Britain’s self-sabotage. Drawing on exhaustive evidence—from the fatwa against Salman Rushdie to the unchecked proliferation of Islamist mosques—she exposed how the British establishment, in thrall to relativism, allowed radical Islam to metastasize. The capital, dubbed “Londonistan” by exasperated European intelligence agencies, became a safe haven for extremists like Abu Qatada and Omar Bakri Muhammad, who preached jihad under the noses of MI5. Phillips argued that this was no accident: the erosion of Christianity and national pride created a vacuum filled by a “virulent form of multiculturalism” that equated Western critique with bigotry.
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Enter Sadiq Khan, London’s mayor since 2016 and the poster child for this perfidious populism. Elected on promises of unity, Khan has presided over a tenure marred by denial and deflection, his Muslim identity weaponized to shield Islamist excesses. Critics like Tory MP Lee Anderson have thundered that “Islamists have got control” of Khan, who has “given our capital city away to his mates”. While Anderson’s rhetoric invites charges of Islamophobia—a slur that Khan deploys with alacrity—the substance endures scrutiny. Under Khan, “hate crimes” have skyrocketed: a 120% rise in antisemitic incidents and 67% in Islamophobic ones from 2023 to 2024 (cf. Metropolitan Police data). Yet Khan’s response? Platitudes about “shared endeavor”, funding workshops that challenge “hate” without naming the elephant: Islamist antisemitism fueling the fire.
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Britain’s arc bends towards chaos. Knife-wielding patrols enforce parallel laws. Morally confused, police officers kneel to “sensitivities”. Antisemitism, a far-right relic before the time of mass migration, thrives among Islamists, as does jihadist supremacism, with 84% of 264 identified rape-gang offenders found to be South Asian (cf. the Quilliam Foundation’s 2017 report). Civilization—rule of law, free speech, Judeo-Christian ethos—frays as Sharia courts multiply.
This barbarism is no clash of civilizations but a conquest by default. Phillips warned of a “half-Sharia, half-post-Enlightenment” dystopia; we inhabit it. Khan’s London, Cleese’s “unrecognizable” metropolis, heralds a Britain bartered away.
If only the British people would unite and show the courage to reclaim Britain, deporting Islamist warriors, restoring the rule of law, and affirming the superiority of Western values. However, the reality is dismal. One fine day, with the caliphate in place, Big Ben will toll for a lost civilization.
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