Britain’s social emergency

An MP has been forced out of political life by forces that threaten British society

Conservative MP Mike Freer who has announced he is stepping down

Is there anyone in the British government who is brave enough to acknowledge the social emergency that has now developed in the UK as a result of intimidation and antisemitism from within the Muslim community?

It has reached the stage where a government minister has been forced out of parliament by Muslim intimidation.

Mike Freer, a minister at the Department of Justice, no less, has said he will step down from parliament because he and his loved ones can no longer endure the threats to his life over his support for Israel. 

Over a decade during which he has served as the Conservative MP for Finchley and Golders Green — one of the most heavily Jewish constituencies in the country — Freer, who is gay and not Jewish, says he has received “several serious threats” to his safety. 

He now wears a knife-proof vest when attending constituency events and says he feels lucky to be alive. In 2021, a government reshuffle meant he had to cancel his planned constituency surgery in order to remain in Westminster. While he was there an Islamist terrorist, Ali Harbi Ali, was lurking with a knife outside his constituency office waiting fruitlessly to attack him. One month later, Ali murdered fellow Tory MP Sir David Amess in a frenzied knife attack over Amess's support for air strikes against ISIS and his membership of Conservative Friends of Israel.

Ten years previously, Freer was targeted by the group Muslims against Crusades (which was later banned). It posted online a picture of Freer with the message “Let Stephen Timms be a warning to you”. In 2010 Timms, a Labour MP, had been stabbed in his constituency surgery by an al Qaeda supporter. 

When members of Muslims against Crusades burst into an event that Freer was holding in a mosque, one said he was “a Jewish homosexual pig defiling the house of Allah”. In subsequent years, Freer was targeted with numerous threats, abusive notes were stuck on his car and mock petrol bombs were left on the steps of his constituency office. The last straw was a suspected arson attempt on his office last December which Freer believes was also motivated by his views.

It is beyond shocking that in Britain, the cradle of parliamentary democracy, a fine and much respected MP has been forced out by intimidation. This has happened as an inevitable consequence of the increasing Islamisation of Britain — the progressive attempt to impose conformity with Islam and suppress views held to be inimical to Muslim attitudes — and the supine refusal by successive governments to acknowledge this, let alone do anything about it.

Even to mention this is to be accused of “Islamophobia”. But the evidence is overwhelming, and deeply alarming.