The Crisis Britain Refuses to Confront

“When the finger points at the moon, the idiots point at the finger,” goes the old Chinese saying.

To describe what led to the riots in Belfast last month is not to condone or excuse them. It’s simply to grasp that these were not random events and that the criminal scenes that unfolded did not arise spontaneously. The only way to prevent these things from happening in the future—or at least to stop them from slipping beyond control—is to understand why these disturbances seem to keep happening.

For Americans, what is happening in Northern Ireland, and in the United Kingdom generally, may be a warning of what awaits them.

Let’s start with the basic facts. Late on June 9 in Belfast, a knifeman attacked a Northern Irishman named Stephen Ogilvie. The accused, who was subdued by passers-by, is a 30-year-old Sudanese Muslim immigrant called Hadi Alodid. In fact, Alodid attempted to behead his victim, who lost an eye and sustained deep facial lacerations. Alodid arrived via Ireland in 2023 and was granted asylum. It is not known how many other so-called asylum seekers have crossed the Irish border in this way.

In Northern Ireland, the result has been rioting and, even more disgracefully, the expulsion of innocent immigrants from their homes. Welcome to Britain in 2026.

Northern Ireland’s twentieth-century religious violence was apparently about Christian sectarianism, but in reality, it was largely a disagreement about nationality. What unfolded this month was much more fundamental, as Ulster underwent one of the most explosive reactions to phenomena that have unfolded across the United Kingdom, in part because of Islamic mass immigration. It is important that Americans understand these phenomena so that they can appreciate what may await them should Islamic immigration on this scale continue.

Examples abound. Due in part to Islamic immigration and the resulting pro-Hamas violence, British Jews, for example, now feel less safe than at any time in living memory. So do many others. In areas with large Muslim communities especially, there is growing evidence of widespread electoral fraud. But the most shocking phenomenon of all is that of the largely Pakistani rape gangs.

Over decades, in town after town, thousands of mainly Pakistani men have carried out the organised mass rape of women and girls, typically white Britons. In just one town, Rotherham, it is estimated that 1,510 women and girls were raped or sexually abused by members of a Pakistani male population of just 4,000. Girls were trafficked across their own country for rape and abuse, with some raped by hundreds of Muslim men. This nationwide horror, and its attempted cover-up by many politicians, police officers, members of the press, and social and medical services, has rightly been called “Britain’s Chernobyl,” as it implicates much of the legacy political class.

For now, Britain’s establishment largely does nothing or makes these problems worse. The Labour government continues to drag its heels on any serious inquiry into the mass rape. So a new political party, Restore Britain, crowdfunded its own inquiry, which revealed that sexual abuse was apparently at times combined with Islamic lectures directed at victims for their perceived sins. Much of the evidence is stomach-churning.

Britain is also becoming acquainted with the imported practices of family-based voting and polygamous marriage. Independent election observers are usually associated with third-world countries, but they are now needed in Britain. In 2022, the monitoring group Democracy Volunteers reported that 85 percent of family voters were from Asian families. Family voting is a form of electoral fraud in which family members enter the polling booth together, allowing ballot papers to be seen. Yet the Labour government is abandoning even the previous Conservative government’s tepid attempts to combat the practice, “going soft on electoral fraud [in] a wider lurch to the sectarian Left,” according to a former minister.

Likewise, rising welfare payments for polygamous marriages will surely encourage people trafficking and forced marriage. Estimates suggest that there are up to 20,000 polygamous marriages in Britain, which is hardly surprising, since a 2024 poll showed that around a third of British Muslims favour sharia law. So we are forced to subsidise another Islamic tradition.

No political party has yet proposed a serious programme of reform, but there are signs that this is finally beginning to change, not least through efforts to push Muslims to integrate into our culture. Support is growing for an emergency moratorium on immigration from terror-source countries, which should include visas, leave to remain, citizenship, asylum, and university entry. This would include Somalia, Pakistan, Yemen, Iran, and others, covering most Islamic immigration. Other reforms will need to include banning the IRGC and the Muslim Brotherhood, ending funding for UNRWA, creating a planning system for new mosques that requires public votes, closing all sharia courts and imposing stringent penalties, and so on.

For Americans, this is all a clear warning about what might be coming. We all need to abandon the post-1960s globalist fiction that all cultures are equally capable of integrating into ours. Across the West, demand for sharia law among parts of the Islamic population needs to be condemned as the totalitarian political movement that it is. For the good of all, Western countries therefore need urgently to stem the inward flow of Islamic immigration.