Lance Welton – The Unz Review Sept 20, 2022
Leicester is an ancient city of around 350,000 people in English Midlands—only an hour’s drive from Wolverhampton, the hometown of England’s all-too-prescient immigration patriot Enoch Powell. Founded by the Romans, by the Middle Ages it was one of the country’s major trading posts, becoming heavily industrialized during the nineteenth century. It came to international attention in 2012 when the remains of Shakespeare’s famous hunchback King Richard III were found there [Richard III could be buried under Leicester car park, archaeologists say, by Press Association, The Guardian, August 24, 2012].
However, Leicester has long held the attention of British leftists by becoming the country’s most “diverse” city. In the early 1970s, large numbers of South Asians began arriving in Leicester to work in its factories. Some 25% of the Ugandan Asians expelled by Idi Amin in 1972 settled in Leicester. By 1991, Leicester was 28% non-white. In the 2001 census, it was 36% non-white, and by 2011 it had tipped over into being Britain’s first “majority minority city.”
One of Leicester’s Members of Parliament, a black woman of West Indian descent called Claudia Webbe, who was convicted late last year of criminal harassment of her husband’s lover and expelled from the Labour parliamentary group, tweeted on September 17th that:
Leicester is a shining example of how people from different cultures can live together side by side. Our diversity is what makes Leicester special. We are the city where the minorities make up the majority. And we are richer for this vibrant exchange of cultures.
But it appears that Leicester is very far from the beacon of Multicultural harmony that Webbe imagines—which is clearly why she sent out that tweet. In late August, Leicester degenerated into violent rioting, which then continued for almost two weeks, flaring up as recently as September 18th. And this was not a matter of evil “white supremacists” being unhappy about the takeover of what was once an English city. The violence was between Hindus and Muslims.
Naturally, the Pravda-like taxpayer-funded broadcaster BBC (= a much bigger NPR) tried to cover up what was happening. At first, it simply didn’t report the riots, so people learnt about them from alternative media or from local media. Then the BBC carefully reported them without actually giving away any information that would question the “Diversity Is Our Strength” and “Only Whites Can Be Racist” mantras.
Eventually, the BBC admitted that hundreds of people had been rioting in Leicester: “It is the latest in a series of disturbances, including violence following an India and Pakistan cricket match on 28 August” [Hundreds on streets in Leicester disorder, BBC News, September 17, 2022].
In other words, the taxpayer-funded broadcaster had suppressed what was happening on the streets of Leicester for over a week.
Earlier that day, the BBC had reported that there had been disturbances in Leicester and that various young men had been arrested. But it had given no information whatsoever on the cause of these disturbances or the fact that they were anything to do with Muslims and Hindus. It was also relegated to the regional news section [East Leicester disorder leads to 27 arrests, BBC News, September 17, 2022].
The leftist tabloid The Mirror did report the disorder when it happened—but failed to mention it was rioting between Muslims and Hindus [Huge brawl breaks out in UK street as mob throw punches after India vs Pakistan cricket match, by Hannah Dodd & Liam Buckler, The Mirror, September 1, 2022].
So, what has actually been happening in this wonderful example of imported urban diversity?
To its credit, local newspaper the Leicester Mercury was on the case immediately. On August 28th, there was a cricket match between India and Pakistan. It should be emphasized that India (80% Hindu) and Pakistan (overwhelmingly Muslim) hate each other and are engaged in a decades-old border dispute [Why India and Pakistan Hate Each Other, by Shamila Chaudhary, Foreign Policy, February 4, 2014].
India won the match, so Hindus poured onto the streets of the Belgrave area of Leicester to celebrate. Naturally, this rather upset the Pakistanis who lived in the area. The Pakistanis started chanting Islamic phrases, which provoked the Hindus. The Hindus chanted their own offensive phrase, and fighting began, which included police officers, themselves South Asian in many cases, being injured. A video of the disorder soon began to circulate on social media [Violence flares during India v Pakistan cricket street celebrations in Belgrave, Leicester, by Asha Patel, Leicester Mercury, August 30, 2022]. In this video, Muslims had gone into a Hindu area at night and were attacking people’s houses.
The Hindus taunted the Muslims by chanting the Hindi phrase “Jai Shri Ram.” This is offensive because it has been chanted in India during anti-Muslim riots and during attacks on mosques by Hindu nationalists. It literally means “Victory to Lord Ram” and is regarded as “hate speech,” so inflammatory is it for Pakistanis and Indian Muslims [The 3 Most Polarizing Words in India, by Snigdha Poonam, Foreign Policy, February 13, 2020]. They also chanted “Pakistan Murdabad” which translates as “Death to Pakistan” and dates back to the partition of India in 1947 when Hindus and Muslims massacred each other [Why is violence breaking out in Leicester?, by John Connolly, The Spectator, September 18, 2022].
The rioting then continued every night, with young male Muslims and Hindus coming onto the streets, entering each other’s “areas” of Leicester, provoking each other and then fighting. This even started happening during the day. A video, published on September 18th, shows a gang of Hindus turning up in a Muslim area and chanting “Victory to Lord Ram!”
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The same video shows large numbers of Hindus marching through a Muslim area of the city, again during the day. That such an illegal march could take place at all is only evidence that the British authorities have lost control of parts of Leicester. They are now exclaves of India or of Pakistan.
The riots soon made it into the Indian media, which interpreted them as anti-Hindu. Reports appeared that, according to witnesses, a Muslim mob vandalized a Hindu temple in Leicester and someone pulled down a saffron flag hanging outside it “amid hooting and cheering by a group of people” [Scared would be understatement: UK’s Leicester riot witness, India Today, September 19, 2021].
Everything was made worse by online rumours that a mosque had also been attacked, which turned out to be false. Claudia Webbe even tried to blame the “Far Right”—the white Far Right, naturally—for stirring up trouble between the communities (which also turned out to be false according to The Spectator’s Connolly).
By September 6, the police had managed to calm down much of the violence, but it still continued to some extent, even though they were using emergency stop and search powers and patrolling the streets at night [Appeals for calm and an end to violence after days of unrest in Leicester, by Asha Patel, Leicester Mercury, September 8, 2022].
Disorder seriously flared up again—supposedly due to social media disinformation about assaults on Hindus by Muslims—last weekend, September 17-18, with Hindus marching through the streets of a Muslim area, as seen in the video above. Over the same weekend, there was conflict in a Muslim area, with bottles being thrown, including at the police.
Muslim Majid Freeman told The Guardian, “We can’t trust the police, we’re going to defend our community ourselves.” Fifteen people were arrested over the weekend to try to stop further disorder [Police call for calm after ‘serious disorder’ breaks out in Leicester, by Aina Khan and Mark Brown, The Guardian, September 18, 2022].
Apparently half of 27 people arrested were not from Leicestershire, the county (= state) that surrounds Leicester. So Hindus and Muslims were coming from other parts of the country to take part in these riots [Half of those arrested over clashes in Leicester from outside county, by Rajeev Sayal et al., The Guardian, September 19, 2022].
There is no “hot take” as to what is happening in Leicester. It is wearisome in its predictability.
As Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam showed years ago, to his great embarrassment, there is no such thing as a “multicultural society.” As he acknowledged:
Residents of all races tend to “hunker down.” Trust (even of one’s own race) is lower, altruism and community cooperation rarer, friends fewer.
[E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture, by Robert Putnam, Scandinavian Political Studies, 2007].
But if there is to be cooperation, it will be within race, within ethnic group and within religious community. The inevitable result: areas of England that are no longer England and a system of ethnic minority warring microcosms even within those areas.
The amazing thing about Britain is that this problem is entirely self-inflicted—basically within the reign (1952-2022) of the late Queen Elizabeth II. Fittingly, police had to be diverted from her funeral to quell the Leicester riots: https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/quiet-day-east-leicester-officers-7604608 .
As U.K. journalist Julia Hartley-Brewer has put it:
Hundreds of young Muslim + Hindu men, wearing masks or balaclavas, are in violent running street battles against each other night after night for 3 weeks.
Not in India or Pakistan.
Here in Leicester.
This must be the "cultural enrichment" we've heard so much about. pic.twitter.com/li49tbwJ6e
— Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1) September 18, 2022
Hundreds of young Muslim + Hindu men, wearing masks or balaclavas, are in violent running street battles against each other night after night for 3 weeks. Not in India or Pakistan. Here in Leicester. This must be the “cultural enrichment” we’ve heard so much about.
Needless to say, for this she has been called ”racist,” but she hasn’t backed down [Julia Hartley-Brewer under fire over Leicester disorder comments with Monty Don leading the criticism, by Joe Mellor, London Economic, September 19, 2022].
Lance Welton [email him] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York.
(Republished from VDare by permission of author or representative)
I have often mentioned the inter ethnic racism in London, and even in specific ethnic groups, where the cast system is alive and well.
The various regime are responsible for ghetto Britain. Some UK cities are dominated by ethnic factions, and in London, it tends to be in boroughs, but some boroughs are big enough to be a typical UK city.
You can easily see the ethnic dominance. You don’t even need to see any local sheeple. Just drive around at 3am, and you can see the imposition of of their cultural building practices on UK streets. The High Street looks like its been teleported from some distant land, and all because the councillors, and planners do it their way, not the white way.
At the end of the day, most social unrest incidents are organised by the deep state. Problem, reaction, and solution, which was devised before the problem.
India should have wiped Pakistan off the map when it had the chance. Wherever they go, Muslims are always trouble.
I’m guessing they didn’t get the memo from George Soros.
This kind of thing MAKES ME SIKH! (sorry, couldn’t resist)
Both India and the part of India re-named Pakistan are SAFE countries, so if they can’t behave themselves, SEND THEM BACK.
Enoch Powell was right. Already the jews have made it “illegal” to mention unacceptable behaviour by immigrants, with the result that non-Whites really do “hold the whip hand” as Enoch predicted.
Having been unfortunate enough to have lived among these sub-Humans, I used to ask “If they hate us that much, why are they here?”. I don’t ask that any more. It’s because of all the government hand-outs that they wouldn’t get in their own countries.
Stop PAYING them to be here, and they’d go away.
Time to get rid of the bird feeders.
https://downwithjugears.blogspot.com/2010/04/illegals-are-for-birds.html
Good news, because even the middle-class morons of Britain will have trouble playing down the fact that wogs are a mess and have brought this mess to our own towns
Moslems mark their territory by piling up rubbish; Whitey’s bins are not as good as the gardens, pavements and roads for depositing it
This is nothing but the colonial legacy of the JEWISH East-India company, also known as the mighty British Empire…
Moreover, the concept of colonisation of modern times was also initiated and financed by these crafty people following their expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492 by Isabel and Ferdinand of Spain.
2/3 of them went back to North Africa, and the rest of Muslim countries under Ottoman control, and the 1/3 came northwards, to Antwerp and Amsterdam Where they set up the 1st Dutch East India Company and the Dutch colonial Empire, and after ruining the Amsterdam stock exchange a couple of times, they moved all their Shekkels to the City of London where they invested it in the new venture they called the British Empire. And today the Brits are reaping the bounty of that century’s long Multi-Cultural adventure.
“As Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam showed years ago, to his great embarrassment, there is no such thing as a “multicultural society.” ”
To his great embarrassment? Not a chance, pretending to be white, Putnam and his tribe have been turning white communities into multicultural toilet bowls since the days of ancient Egypt. Harvard is ground zero for promoting white genocide, and the JFK School of Government is just another Jewish think tank where they implement the policy promoted by another Jewish Harvard professor Noel Ignatiev who spewed filth toward whites his entire career: “treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.” He vowed “to abolish the white race.” and bring about a cultural and psychological genocide for whites. “The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists. Make no mistake about it, we intend to keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females too, until the social construct known as the white race is destroyed – not deconstructed but destroyed.” Harvard promotes the extermination of the white race along with the governments of each nation promoting non-white immigration and ‘diversity’.
Here is the face of Robert Putnam, it’s laughable to think he laments the disintegration of white communities and cohesion with a face like this: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zocalopublicsquare.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F10%2Frobertputnam-634×423.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
Let’s take a look at the face of Ignatiev, who brayed for European Christian blood his entire career: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.Lsj8z30lI_Wm6nS7MhqjGwAAAA%26pid%3DApi&f=1
Augustin–not true: the Jews are crapping their wogs onto all the White countries, not just those that had an “Empire”. Our first one was for spreading Protestantism and reducing Catholicism, in my opinion; the masses had only just been permitted to read the whole Bible in their own languages and were ignited by “God”. For centuries, Rome kept the Bible hidden, just rationing a few verses on Sundays
The video is by far the most interesting part of this … how many imbeciles would note the the typically Queen Anne/ Early Victorian architecture of this ‘Pakistani Area’ of ‘Town’…
Or that these once affluent streets would have been peopled with throngs of ‘English’ politely going about their business merely 70 years ago… even the roughians and urchins… were all English… the pubs and buses full… of English…
English children playing…unmolested…
Because of course irregardless of the BBc and successive establishment traitors in gover-ment…
Subcontinentals and mendacious West lndians really don’t belong in England in numbers over single digits…
They have their own countries….
northamerika + europa will be
balkanised-kaukasided thats
jewish idea + wish !
nothing you can do against as
long you listen to your jewish
steered medias + political traitors .
ABOLISH MAIN STREAM MEDIA !
DONT PAY IT !
Marthas Vineyard has shown :
diversity is no strength for the rich .
all rich are your enemies ,not
important which colour,race, religion !
Excellent comment by Barney above. Part of his comment includes the issue of government “handouts” to the degenerates, inducements for the undesirables to come and then stay. Such programs are criminally insane and violently suicidal.
Barney stated, “Stop PAYING them to be here, and they’d go away.” But, Barney, it won’t be that simple now. The scum won’t just go peacefully; they’re going to wreak havoc until they’re firmly stopped and what’s left of them forcibly ejected. but that’s the price we are going to have to pay for not putting a stop to this madness much sooner and hanging the agents of subversion and treachery who aided and abetted the flood of invaders.
Here in the Jewnited States the major problem is, of course, the monkey pox plague of an infestation of blacks, 90% of whom are much worse than being merely worthless as they offer NOTHING but abject degradation and destruction. Government handouts of taxpayer money, called welfare here, started as temporary relief for those suffering hardship, but that turned decades ago into rampant abuse of the system and spawned generations of welfare parasites.
I knew a few whites who spent a couple years growing up in the housing projects of New Orleans and they worked their asses off to get out of the projects and the welfare condition as quickly as possible; they considered it deeply shameful to be on welfare. In contrast, most of the niggers couldn’t have cared less and didn’t want to lift a finger to change their condition, they just wanted whitey and the magical money fairy “government” to keep giving them free shit.
The welfare system is wildly corrupt, deeply dysfunctional, and does great harm o society, yet there will surely be cities on fire when the money train stops. But it HAS to stop. A monster has been created and that monster is going to go on a vicious rampage when they stop getting all the handouts, but that is a day of reckoning we actually need to happen.
The place to which I strategically relocated a couple years ago doesn’t so much have a monkey pox nigger problem, as they’re about 2% of the population (which is still too much), but mongrel hispanics have been flooding in and now represent about 30% of the population. The older generation hispanics work very hard to make a better life for their families and don’t cause many problems, but their younger generation are quickly morphing into nigger wannabes. Much like the Hindu street-shitters versus Muslim street-shitters issue in Leicester, there is a growing problem where I am between the Mexican mongrels versus the El Salvadoran mongrels versus the Honduran mongrels.
The simple solution to part of the problem is, of course, sensible legal immigration control; one had better be able to prove they have actual value and a marketable skill to expect to be allowed in. The migrant invasions going on now in all western countries, compliments of the Jew instigators, are insanely suicidal for the societies subjected to such planned destruction.
The other solution involves grinding the handout train to a halt. This will cause violent short-term disruption, but it has to happen.
Wow, what a picturesque experience it must be for working/middle class Brit to go outside in his home town and listening one huge angry mob bawling “La ilaha illallah!!!!” and the other one “Jai Shri Ram!!!!” But remember, diversity is our greatest strenght and you don’t wanna be labelled “nazi” or “white supremacist” for showing your disgust, do you?
Re: Augustin on September 22, 2022 at 11:16 am
“…….This is nothing but the colonial legacy of the JEWISH East-India company, also known as the mighty British Empire…
Moreover, the concept of colonisation of modern times was also initiated and financed by these crafty people following their expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492 by Isabel and Ferdinand of Spain”
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Further to this…re Spain in 1400’s….this is important as it set the template for Jews and the future. If you follow Deanna Spingola and Charles Giuliani…the Spanish Inquisition was run by crypto/ marrano Jews. Columbus was also a Jew.
What was happening was …….much like Jews in 20th century wanted Jews to be expelled from Germany etc and used Holocaust fear porn to herd the Jews to stolen Palestine…err..Israhell……..so Spanish Inquisition was created and implemented much like Holocaust .The Inquisition was also not as violent as claimed…not even close…but again all controlled by jews to herd jews.
(((Columbus))) was able to manouevre Spain to make Morocco and Jamaica exempt from Spanish Inquisition, and the (((jews))) fled there and commenced with PIRATE operations…hence the jews were the original Pirates of the Carribean..so Columbus and kosher cronies lied , backstabbed and stole from Spain. The irony is Spain wants to make amends with Jews ancestors….restoring citizenship etc.
Jews then fled to Holland…and then finally to Britain. The Jews probably anticipated an Island nation was a good bet as a base..as who ruled the seas back then would be the global power…but with their Freemason colleagues… later set up the creation of the USA, which has gone on to be the thugs and bullies for Jews
The rest is history….
That ‘woman’ in that picture. Please remove that thing from britain. What the hell is that? If you want that kind of thing in your country then please take it and welcome. Yet more coons from coonville. Why do these things even come to britain to begin with? If I was a god knows what ‘she’ is, I’d stay there where I’d fit in. But instead ‘she’ comes to britain, dresses up like whitey, puts on bright red lipstick so she looks like god knows what else, and ponces about like a bearded lady at a fairground. I don’t give a damn if ‘she’ was born in britain, she doesn’t belong here, ‘she’ belongs with the other jabberwockys.
@ UMBRA BELLATOR
FACE IT ! to change the situation for
better does not help any jew apointed
president or jewish judges or tricky new
laws ! only CIVIL WAR HELPS !
in USA/UK/Canada/Australia/NZ/
Europa
@lewis jones you obviously still can’t read properly, and you still have this pesky habit of making others say what they’re not saying just to seek some attention…, you’re a useless mosquito shagger lewis, and therefore I don’t see any point in discussing anything with you after the feast of fried air about your “Curved horizons”, in other words; the complete nonsense you embarrassed yourself with last July when commenting on one of my posts about the “miracle “of being able to see Calais from Dover, despite your holy and unquestionable supposed Earth curvature, and of which I happened to have kept an extract, as it was so hilarious:
lewis jones on July 13, 2022 at 9:21 am
Augustin–you need to properly take into account the altitude of the observer (you) and also the altitude of the opposite land, and you need to know how to factor refraction into it, depending on the conditions of the atmosphere. (English Channel question). Apart from refraction, it was worked out in Ancient Greek times
Lewis, I spare you the embarrassment of not publishing the entire exchange, by leaving it only to this pearl of yours.
Have a good day.
White’s upset at his home base, made by looted colonial wealth… Whitey saying only he is allowed to travel to foreign shores, destroy superior cultures, steal their sciences and wealth and establish puppet government. Whitey plays the moral high ground when it was whitey that divided India by vesting power from the Mogals and giving it to subservient hindu slaves…. Whitey is so much a nasty racist with no remorse to his evil history…. Whitey forgets the common wealth nation status quo whitey created to continue White’s dominating control via its minions… Whitey will be turned to black soon thanks to whiteys love for BBC…
This absurdity of flooding white majority countries with unmixable 3rd worlders has taken hold in all such countries, especially in their major cities. I was in Toronto recently, whites are in the minority there now. Canada itself was 96% white in the mid 70’s. How does one relate to the identity of the people of a country? For me, it’s by race. Destroying the cohesiveness of a country by flooding them with multiple races and cultures is the signature of the Globalists, Marxists and supremacist Jews, but I repeat myself.
Yet
Americans get into fist-fights over Donald Trump and joe Biden when both are zionists.
It’s your fault.
augustin–I always have a good day, as it is easy to be happy when you are not cursed with an animal’s brain-power like the Flat Earthers are. (I admit I like provoking them)
M’s comment is all backwards; wogs are crap, on the whole, because of low intelligence, paranoia, fear, a love of rape, and jealousy about the people who can organise, and understand physics. Whites should take their land to stop it all being wasted on monkey-men