Pat Condell (@patcondell)

Islam deserves no respect, and the #Batley mob is the reason why. It has brought nothing positive to our society because it has nothing positive to bring. All it has ever done is demand privilege with menaces, and all we’ve ever done is back away and apologise. An observer from another planet would be hard pressed not to conclude that Islam exists for the sole purpose of keeping humanity backward and ignorant. It has no redeeming features at all. Its presence in the UK is de-civilising our society and threatening our freedom. This is a religion that wants us, as non-believers, converted or dead. A religion that says a woman has only half the worth of a man. A religion that allows little girls to be married to (meaning raped by) old men. A religion that literally advocates execution for homosexuals, adulterers, and apostates. That anyone could seriously regard these inhuman values as having anything to do with the life force that put us here is beyond comprehension. They would need to be in the grip of some kind of mind virus. Yet, despite its ugly teachings, all of which are incompatible with western liberal values, everything possible is done to accommodate this noxious creed in our society, far beyond what most people would regard as reasonable. It has never belonged here, and it will never be respected here, and Muslims had better get used to that.