The attacks on the Christmas market in Germany and the festivities in New Orleans has brought the subject of discontent Muslims in the West to the forefront once again.

In the German case the discontent Muslim seems to have been an anti-Islamic Muslim, originally from that most Islamic of states, Saudi Arabia, who rejected Islam for secularism and the Western Enlightenment, and was given asylum in Europe on this basis. He fully subscribed to the anti-Muslim narrative of the West and he hated Islam. He could have marched behind Tommy Robinson waving the Israeli flag and been taken as fully Westernised.

He fully subscribed to the anti-Muslim narrative of the West and he hated Islam. What he had in common with other jihadi Muslims, involved in previous attacks, and the US black Muslim convert who attacked in New Orleans, was that he was discontent with the world and decided to make some statement about it by killing innocents. Why?

It has probably always been the case that some people who leave countries and seek a new life in other lands, of very different culture, can become very discontent. It is even possible for their children, brought up in the new culture, to become even more discontent. This was certainly the case of the West Indians who came to London in the decades following the Second World War. Having lived among these people I saw how out of sorts they were and how dreadfully they were treated. They revolted against this in the 1970s and 1980s and seemed to have largely settled down now as an integral part of London life.

Some, of course, have not. The recent jihadi attack in New Orleans has drawn attention to the phenomenon of the radicalized Western black Muslim convert. One can thing of Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, or the killer of Lee Rigby, or Jermaine Lindsey, one of the London 7/7 bombers or 3 of the ISIS “Beatles” who were all of Afro-Caribbean background.

This phenomenon must be one of another kind of discontent in Western society: Western people of a different colour who have felt themselves poorly treated by the White West, for various reasons, and who have taken to a radicalised form of Islam relayed to them by that great export of California – social media. Again, it is a Western product since such a thing would be impossible in a non-globalised world. It has taken in young Western Muslims too, radically altering their own understandings of Islam that they took from their parents and changing them into caractures of Islam presented on social media.

Prior to this Californian development, born and bred Muslims had come to various parts of Europe for generations and settled down and there had been little problems – until recently. There are large Turkish communities in the UK and Germany, for instance, that have played very positive roles in these societies.

It seems to have been a number of factors that have created the West’s Muslim problem and they were all products of the West itself.

The first is the failure of Europe to reproduce itself, a fact which has led to much higher levels of immigration. Whatever the West is doing fertility rates in Europe are falling to a rate of 1 woman to 1 child and the baby boomers are living long lives, increasing the dependency ratio that threatens living standards for all. Workers are needed and governments know it. They require immigrants and manufacture concern (“stopping the boats” etc.) about illegal numbers in order to win elections, while mass migration goes on to fuel the capitalist economy. That is the truth of it.

The second is the globalised world of neo-liberalism which demands the mobility of cheap labour. This was a product of Thatcher’s Britain taken up by the EU. The objective was to smash organised labour in the West and cheapen it. This policy really took off when the USSR collapsed leading to a flood of cheap labour from the well-trained workers of the former Soviet states of eastern Europe. When this began to dry up, the West had to look elsewhere to maintain this ready supply.

The third is the West’s decision to smash up the Muslim world, making many Islamic countries unliveable for their inhabitants. This started with the decision to wage wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and destabilise other countries like Syria, Egypt, Libya, Somalia, Sudan etc. The destruction of Gadaffi’s Libya was particularly disastrous. It was the main barrier to African migration because the Libyan leader provided work in his oil industry and stopped the boats coming across the Mediterranean. All these were Western-instigated conflicts and destructions of functional states and they resulted in vast numbers fleeing war and famine.

The US is one of the most violent countries on earth and it exports its violence to the Muslim world in the name of democracy. The only Muslim countries which have higher violent death rates than America are those which Washington or Israel, that other outpost of the West, have visited and destabilised for geopolitics.

The fourth reason is the growth of individualism in the West that has sharpened the difference between Western culture and Muslims. Up until the 1990s individualism was largely a US phenomenon, generated out of the weird world of California. One of its main facets is identity politics and a turning upside-down of traditional culture so that phenomena which were almost universally condemned as perversion a generation ago in the West are now insisted upon being “celebrated”. Muslims, who fitted in easily with the old collective Europe, are largely from traditional societies with traditional values and they are increasingly at odds with the new decadent Western individualised values – just as they have arrived on large numbers in the West.

President Aliyev is the leader of perhaps the most secular Muslim state in the world, Azerbaijan. He recently explained in an interview with Dmitry Kiselev, Director General of “Rossiya Segodnya” International News Agency, one of the factors that made for good relations with Russia:

“What else brings our countries, peoples, and leadership together? It is our commitment to our national roots and traditional values. Today, this is a rarity in some regions. Either there is external control, complete moral degradation, or both combined. This is what sets us apart in a positive way, and the trends we are observing in the world – including the election of Trump as President – show that one of the factors is precisely that he, as they say, is in the same boat with us when it comes to traditional values. I believe that we will be able to reverse this harmful trend for humanity – this debauchery, this ostentatious obscurantism that we saw at the opening of the Paris Olympics – and turn it back.”

It is the progressive West that has provoked a strong sense of disenchantment amongst the bulk of humanity who wish to live stable lives of contentment which neo-liberal values and unrestrained capitalism make impossible. Conservative people in the West have been expected to adjust to the topsy-turvy world of ultra-liberalism imported from California or pay a price in career. However, how much more difficult is it for people of more substantial and long-standing cultures to change the essence of their identities to suit the transient whims of Western capitalism in exploiting new markets?

There is halal and haram to a Muslim and halal cannot be reinvented as haram or vice versa, in the way that Western value systems perform somersaults.

Muslims should, in fact, be allies of the traditional, conservative, elements of Western societies who rail against “the woke” but they have been rejected by just this element, leading to problems. Why?

My attention has been drawn to the British view of migrants as it was perfectly summed up by Kipling around a century ago, in his poem, The Stranger:

 The Stranger within my gate,
He may be true or kind,
But he does not talk my talk—
I cannot feel his mind.
I see the face and the eyes and the mouth,
But not the soul behind.

The men of my own stock
They may do ill or well,
But they tell the lies I am wonted to,
They are used to the lies I tell.
And we do not need interpreters
When we go to buy and sell.

The Stranger within my gates,
He may be evil or good,
But I cannot tell what powers control—
What reasons sway his mood;
Nor when the Gods of his far-off land
Shall repossess his blood.

The men of my own stock,
Bitter bad they may be,
But, at least, they hear the things I hear,
And see the things I see;
And whatever I think of them and their likes
They think of the likes of me.

This was my father’s belief
And this is also mine:
Let the corn be all one sheaf—
And the grapes be all one vine,
Ere our children’s teeth are set on edge
By bitter bread and wine.

There can never be common cause between the English conservative and conservative Muslim. After all: “East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.”

This brings us to the last and most significant contemporary source of alienation and discontent among Muslims and the West – Israel. It can be no accident that the recent upsurge in jihadi activity in the West is disconnected to the actions of the Zionist state and the practically unconditional support given it by the West in killing Muslims.

The re-orientation of the Right in Europe from being anti-Semitic to being anti-Muslim and pro-Zionist is an important factor in present problems. What is common among all these right-wing anti-immigrant groups seems to be a hostility toward Muslims, overt and covert, and a regard for Israel and what it does to Muslims.

In UK schools children are taught about the Jewish Holocaust and are presented with a scheme for preventing such an event in the future. This is simplified and ahistorical nonsense that has been forced on history teachers, who have no choice but to teach it. But if one were to apply it today in the UK, in earnestness, it surely would indicate that we are in one of the early stages of the Holocaust, of stereotyping and persecution of a community, involving some attempts at Kristallnacht over the summer.

The community under threat are the Muslims, not the Jews, despite all the noise made by Zionists as to the threat against them by anti-Semitism.

What the Zionists have that the Muslims do not have is a state, provided to them by the Balfour Declaration of 1917. The Muslims have, of course, many states. But they were corralled into states drawn by lines in the sand by the West and told to make the best of them, or else! Attempts at changing the lines have been met by sanctions, bombing and invasion, whilst Israel has only expanded from the borders set for it by the UN in 1947.

The Zionists seem to flit easily between the UK and their state without anyone questioning where their loyalty lies. Wasn’t the Balfour Declaration supposed to address this issue? Wasn’t a major purpose of it to get worldwide Jewry to “range itself” within a national structure provided for it, so that it was deterred from being an internationalist source of disruption? Wasn’t that the great fear of Anglicised Jews like Edwin Montagu, who just wanted to be a religion and be Englishmen, rather than being a “Jewish race” for the anti-Semites, put beyond disruption in Zionist Palestine?

The Balfour Declaration has not solved Britain’s Jewish problem as intended. It has not confined the Jews by making them a problem just for the inhabitants of Palestine, by turning them into Jewish nationalists (Zionists). In fact, it has exacerbated the problem it was supposed to solve, as Israel is now both powerful and unrestrained, and a major source of antagonism for the entire Middle East and internationally. Israel now represents an increasingly serious problem right across the West, with the large Muslim communities that have developed there, particularly after the extravagent killing spree it has gone on in Gaza, and the undermining it has done to Western values, which Muslim communities were led to believe in.

And no one is allowed to say it.

The relationship between Britain and Israel could be described as akin to that of Dr. Frankenstein and his Monster and it lies increasingly at the heart of the difficulties Muslims have with the West – and in the West. Nobody should be surprised to find such discontent growing as long as the West persists in its policy of supporting Israel in its reckless destruction and to find that Muslims increasingly see the only form of development for them as being within Islam.