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Tommy Robinson holds what used to be common-sense principles: the United Kingdom is historically a Christian, Anglo-Saxon-Celtic nation, with a liberty-based history, and it should be protected from a government-sanctioned invasion by people who hate Christianity, the UK\u2019s Anglo-Saxon-Celtic heritage, and freedom. He also contends that people who violate the UK\u2019s laws, even if they\u2019re Britain\u2019s hostile new citizens, should face legal consequences.<\/p>

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For espousing these views, Robinson faces endless government persecution and receives routine death threats. The most recent death threat, made openly and smugly, came from the \u201cPalestinian,\u201d Muslim head of the venerable Oxford Union Society (\u201cOUS\u201d), more colloquially known as the \u201cOxford debating society\u201d.<\/p>\n

The University of Oxford, a collection of 43 separate colleges, was established 930 years ago as an institution to further Catholic education in England. That remained its central purpose for several centuries. When the Protestant Reformation arrived, its raison d\u2019\u00eatre shifted to furthering the Church of England. Along the way, it added such Western cultural pursuits as science, literature, history, philosophy, etc.<\/p>\n

The list of notable alumni, given its 900-plus-year history, is truly too long to recite, and the Wikipedia entry doesn\u2019t even try. ChatGPT gave it a valiant effort, which you can check out here. It is not an understatement to say that Oxford played a significant role in creating the modern West.<\/p>\n

It would be unfortunate if Oxford continued playing a significant role in the West. Myriad stories in recent years (which, again, I asked ChatGPT to collate) show Oxford waging an intellectual war against the West, all in the name of \u201cdecolonization.\u201d What\u2019s new is that the president of the OUS seems determined to take that war from an intellectual effort into a real war, complete with bloodshed.<\/p>\n

The OUS was founded in 1823 as The United Debating Society, with its first debate examining whether the English Revolution under Cromwell resulted from Charles I\u2019s tyranny or from \u201cthe democratic spirit of the times.\u201d As the subject matter suggests, it was a British-oriented society, and so it remained for almost two centuries. Its officer lists, to the extent they\u2019re available from 1950 onward, had decidedly British names. That\u2019s no longer the case, but before I get there, you need to see what Arwa Hanin Elrayess, the most recent OUS president, said to Tommy Robinson in a newly released video recording this past spring:<\/p>\n

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Wow. After claiming the West, and not Islam, is more violent, Aisha Khan Aziz tells Tommy Robinson the mob outside would kill him if it weren’t for security. The students applaud. pic.twitter.com\/vQ97Khthze<\/p>

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Perhaps tonight\u2019s motion is less about the West\u2019s relationship with Islam and more about yours. Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known to his hooligans as Tommy Robinson. Stephen, there is a crowd outside rioting against you tonight, and without the protection and generosity of a Muslim Palestinian president and a mostly South Asian executive committee, you would be quite literally cooked.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In other words, you, Tommy Robinson, a citizen of Great Britain, are currently alive at this moment only because I, your Muslim overlord, am allowing you to live. Lots of people have commented on this shocking statement, and you can see some of the comments here.<\/p>\n

But what interested me is Elrayess\u2019s statement about the people running the venerable OUS. Here\u2019s what I learned, with thanks to ChatGPT for identifying the probable historic ethnic\/national origins of these people\u2019s last names. The officers are:<\/p>\n

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  • Arwa Hanin Elrayess \u2013 Arab\/Muslim<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Prajwal Pandey \u2013 Indian or Nepali<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Catherine Xu \u2013 Chinese<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Harry Aldridge \u2013 British<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The standing committee members are:<\/p>\n

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    • Dheeraj K. \u201cDK\u201d Singh \u2013 Indian<\/strong><\/li>\n
    • Milo Donovan \u2013 Irish<\/strong><\/li>\n
    • Vishnu Vadlamani \u2013 Indian<\/strong><\/li>\n
    • Oliver Douglas \u2013 British<\/strong><\/li>\n
    • Claire Yun Luo \u2013 Chinese<\/strong><\/li>\n
    • Ben Ashworth \u2013 British<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      And the secretary\u2019s committee members are:<\/p>\n

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      • Henry Nicholls \u2013 British<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Fadel Semane \u2013 Arab\/Muslim<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Saara Lunawat \u2013 Indian<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Matteo Brunel \u2013 French or Italian<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Toby Bowes Lyon \u2013 British<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Euan Willis \u2013 British<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Adil Rahoo \u2013 Pakistani<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Shahmir Aziz \u2013 Pakistani<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Ea Ventura Marty \u2013 French<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Daniel Ratajczyk \u2013 Polish<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Santiago Vazquez \u2013 Hispanic (Spain or Latin America)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Out of 21 people associated with the OUS, only seven have ethnic roots in the UK (counting the Irish man). Most, as Elrayess said, come from Southeast Asia and have no genetic or emotional connection to the UK. Moreover, as Elrayess explicitly stated, those who support a traditional Great Britain are there on sufferance, allowed to live only if they support the new ruling class.<\/p>\n

        Right before WWII, Vera Lynn sang that jaunty tune, \u201cThere\u2019ll always be an England.\u201d<\/p>\n