Tommy Robinson No holds barred interview

[soulman101]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2tV...ndex=1&t=1704s
Watch it with an open mind .

[Dubbag]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2tV...ndex=1&t=1704s
Watch it with an open mind .

No thanks.
Like watching Hamas's children television network programming.
Protect your mind before watching...🤣

[Omegstrat6]

Certainly no fan of TR, but it is rare that even those who express views we might violently disagree with are wrong about everything. Obviously he has matured/mellowed over time and comes across as more thoughtful than the thick and thuggish persona much of the media present him as.

His views are very much a product of his experiences growing up in Luton and I have no doubt that he is telling the truth about the drug and grooming gangs amongst the Muslim community there, the rise of Islamic extremism and the subsequent unevenly handed instructions to the police to treat his own protests more harshly than those Muslim extremists who openly gloated over 9/11. Given his own -readily admitted- penchant for "hooliganism" (as he calls it) all this makes his reactions understandable.

HOWEVER that propensity for violence does him little favour and it would be totally disingenuous for anyone to claim that his rallies do not attract right wing racists. He might have more credence if he more forcefully stated that the vast majority of Muslims are not extremists and that the evidence clearly shows that, pro rata, there are no more drug or grooming gangs within Pakistani communities than there are within white ones.

I totally agree with him that Islamic extremism with its repressive and hateful ideology poses a genuine threat and that (just as the authorities seem to balk at being too critical of Zionism for fear of being labelled anti-Semitic) they shy away from clamping down harder on its proponents for fear of accusations of Islamophobia.

What was telling was his comment that young male Muslims with a similar upbringing as himself may be drawn to Islamic extremism just as he was drawn to football gangs. A degree of self awareness perhaps? That levels of deprivation and lack of opportunity lead young males (of any colour/culture) into violence or gangs should hardly be a surprise though.