How Islam Wins at Politics.

I've seen many posts on many blogs and videos about the so-callled special protection for those of the Muslim faith. It's true that a Muslim minority appears to get preferential political treatment. But you have to understand the cause to understand the effect.

You'll hear that the Labour party favour Muslims to a pathological degree, because they rely on Muslim votes and to an extent that's true.

But you need to understand Islam first before you can understand how it can subvert Western laws with impunity, how it can garner political support far in excess of the numbers in the general population.

The first thing to understand is Islam is not a religion, or more accurately not merely a religion. It is many things; it is an ideology, a way of life, it is all-encompassing. It is a good Muslim's duty to embrace Islam in all aspects of his or her life.

This affects the way Muslims view politics. If you take the rule that is is a good Muslim's duty to involve Islam in all things, then you start to understand how Muslims have a greater affect on politics far in advance of their actual numbers in society.

It is a good Muslim's duty to vote for another Muslim if there is one to vote for (especially if the other options are non-Muslim) or failing that the most Muslim-friendly candidate.

No matter how mad, bad, right, wrong..... if the candidate favours Muslims or is a Muslim then Muslim voters understand it is their duty to vote for them.

Now then, given that the average voter turnout in the UK can be as low as 59%, That means that thanks to our first past the post election system candidates only need to get just over half of that to win. So candidates can win elections even if only 30% of the population vote for them.

Now, imagine a block of people in your constituency that vote en-masse in a particular way. They are a useful boost to your chances of getting elected when they start to approach 10% of the local population. When they approach 20% they can virtually guarantee your election and when they approach 30% you lock out any other candidate. Christians? Jews? Atheists? Socialists? Liberals? Don't need 'em. In fact if you are a Muslim candidate and sound moderate, some of the non-Muslim fools will actually vote for you.

You cannot lose because any other candidate has to garner the support of 30% of the population just to get parity. While you are certain of your 20 or 30 percent block vote, your nearest rival is busy herding cats doing deals trying to get the rest of the population to vote for them.

That's why in any situation in local or National politics, the Muslim block vote gets preference on policies. It's how a Muslim population can punch above is weight when it comes to politics. It's why Theresa May wears a headscarf in Mosques, it's why supposedly pro-feminist Labour candidates put up with addressing gender-segregated audiences.

Now then, comes the big question: How do you deal with that bias in the voting system?

I'm not going to deal with how the political elites see the Muslim block-vote as a usefull ally, that's maybe for another time. Especially as to how dangerous it is to underestimate it and just think of it as just a voting "trend". Until it bites them on the arse and they can do nothing about it.