Vice President JD Vance’s recent dig at Europe over its anti-free-speech totalitarianism isn’t the first time he’s criticized America’s overseas neighbors.
Last summer, Vance triggered massive fury from U.K. leftists after he mocked the British far-left’s just-then election victory by saying the country was on track to be the first “truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon.”
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JD Vance: “UK will be first Islamist country with nuclear weapons.” pic.twitter.com/t9rpMySCwo
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“I have to beat up on the UK,” he began. “I was talking with a friend recently and we were talking about, you know, one of the big dangers in the world, of course, is nuclear proliferation, though, of course, the Biden administration doesn’t care about it.”
“And I was talking about, you know, what is the first truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon, and we were like, maybe it’s Iran, you know, maybe Pakistan already kind of counts, and then we sort of finally decided maybe it’s actually the UK, since Labour just took over,” he added.
The quip referenced the fact that the U.K. has been overtaken by Islam thanks to years of leftist-supported mass immigration from Muslim nations.
So much so that Vincent Cooper of The Commentator predicted in 2013 that the U.K. will be a majority Muslim country by 2050.
“This projection is based on reasonably good data,” he wrote. “Between 2004 and 2008, the Muslim population of the UK grew at an annual rate of 6.7 percent, making Muslims 4 percent of the population in 2008.”
“Extrapolating from those figures would mean that the Muslim population in 2020 would be 8 percent, 15 percent in 2030, 28 percent in 2040 and finally, in 2050, the Muslim population of the UK would exceed 50 percent of the total population,” he added.
The UK Muslim population is 6.9% at present and growing fast. Muslim population in British cities. Birmingham 29.9%, Bradford 30.5% Newcastle 10.3% Cardif 9.3% Leicester 23.5% London 15% Manchester 22.3%.I could go on but you can see Britain will soon be a Muslim-run nation. pic.twitter.com/0TE3XPSzGB
— Imtiaz Mahmood (@ImtiazMadmood) November 20, 2023
A couple of years later in 2017, Professor David Coleman of Oxford University told the Christian Broadcasting Network that continued mass migration would lead to “the end of Britain as we know it.”
“The point I was making is the change in the number of people and particularly the change in the origins of people, in their religion, in their cultural background, would make Britain unrecognizable compared with the present time,” he told the network.
Policy analyst George Igler concurred with Coleman’s take but warned that the more Muslim the country becomes, the less safe it’ll be.
“When you look at places like Luton, when you look at the experience of women in Cologne, we already have a window into what this future will be like,” he said. “It’s going to violence and sexual violence against non-Muslims. It’s going to be insistence on Sharia Law.”
Speaking of shariah law, GB News reported last year that Britain has become the defacto “Western capital” for shariah law courts, with at least 85 of such courts operating in the country.
“These religious bodies have become increasingly influential, drawing Muslims from across Europe and North America who seek religious rulings on marriage and family matters,” according to the network.
“The councils, typically consisting of panels of Islamic scholars who are almost always male, serve as informal bodies issuing religious rulings particularly focused on marriages and divorces,” the network’s reporting continued.
NEW: The UK has become the ‘western capital’ for Sharia courts with 85 Sharia courts and 30 councils.
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— Megh Updates ™ (@MeghUpdates) December 24, 2024
Despite these facts, U.K. leaders had the audacity to cry foul over Vance’s quip.
“I don’t recognize that characterization,” U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, a leftist, said at the time, as reported by The Guardian. “I’m very proud of the election success that Labour had recently.”
“We won votes across all different communities, across the whole of the country, and we’re interested in governing on behalf of Britain and also working with our international allies,” she continued.
Treasury Minister James Murray also cried foul.
“I don’t know what he was driving at in that comment, to be honest,” he said. “I mean, in Britain, we’re very proud of our diversity.”
Even the supposed conservative MP complained.
“I disagree with the Labour party fundamentally on many issues, but I do not agree with that view, quite frankly,” he said. “I think it’s actually quite offensive, frankly, to my colleagues in the Labour party.”
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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