In the European Appeasement Olympics, Who Wins?

"Anyone in the United Kingdom who believes in freedom, recognizes the danger of Islam, and has any self-respect should rally to Robinson's cause."
Not easily done in a police state worthy of a Stalinist Gulag. Robinson's case shows Britain has outlawed it's own citizenry, or at the very least, subjected them to Dhimmi status.

This is what happens when you embarrass the police, or call attention to their failures. They're often just a little touchy about it when someone points out they failed, failed to protect someone, failed to protect a child, failed at their job.

And in a still larger sense, the country has invested itself in national policies that are failing rapidly, resulting in deaths, attacks, drains on the economy and strains in the streets . . .

...but what's that saying again? "It's difficult to get a man to see something when his paycheck depends on him not seeing it."

This is what happens when you embarrass the police, or call attention to their failures. They're often just a little touchy about it when someone points out they failed, failed to protect someone, failed to protect a child, failed at their job.

Apparently shock is not what we should concern ourselves about. Britain has turned and the smell is rotten. It is time to retreat and admit defeat. Once we admit defeat, then we can regroup and figure a way to fight back.

As an American, I feel secure that because of my Constitution that my country will be able to survive the onslaught. The entire free world must come together and draw a line, just as Churchill did when he acknowledged the Iron Curtain which fell across Europe after WW2. United we stand, divided we fall. Fortunately, America has the strength and the distance (read:isolation) to keep the enemies at bay for a while. Will the rest of America stand with us? Only time will tell.

What has happened to Tommy is disgusting.
I think Islamization of the west has more to do with the ever increasing number of unprincipled western politicians lining their pockets with middle eastern money than political correctness. I truly hate to think this way, but what other reason is there for our own politicians to sell their home population out.
But of course, those politicians don't get into office without our vote, so maybe it's the population as a whole that is to be blamed for their disengagement, or their utter stupidity !

While reprehensible, I would argue that things are proceeding quite logically.

In my opinion, the root of all government censorship is when a government or society adopts a worldview and a set of polices that can't stand up to public scrutiny and free debate. That is the case with Multiculturalism. It's nonsense, and it's highly illogical. But the people in power have devoted so much of themselves to it that it's impossible for them to turn back. The ruling classes know that it's failed, but there are no easy solutions and they simply can't admit to the scope of their traitorous, idiotic policies--so instead they'll take out their wrath on their critics. Their goal now is to just keep the lid on the pressure cooker as best they can, and the easiest way to do that at the moment is to silence native critics. I think you can probably also expect a few token arrests of some Muslim firebrands in the future, in a pathetic attempt by the government to put on a show of "fairness," but there's nothing fair about it for the native peoples of the West. Their leaders have betrayed their nations.

I would argue that Christianity (as the central ideology of the the society) in Western Europe died in the trenches of WWI, and since then we've seen several replacement Utopian ideologies. Communism, fascism, and now the third one: Multiculturalism. I suspect it will end about as well as the other two did.

Lord Pearson of Rannoch and Mr Gerard Batten MEP are the only politicians with the courage to challenge the imprisonment of Mr Tommy Robinson.

As a British citizen living and operating abroad for forty seven years, I am in utter dismay at the state of the supposed 'rule of law' in the United Kingdom generally, and this case in particular. I am sure we could all cite countless examples, but this particular event may be the most egregious of its type.

Ironically I operate in several countries where the British Government, either via the Foreign Office or through its local diplomatic presence, purports to promote democracy and the 'rule of law'. However, the sheer duplicity of the Government's actions, or failure to act as in this case, undermines any credibility it might have had. Also as a resident of Indonesia, the World's largest muslim country, the contrast with the muslim community of the United Kingdom is immediately evident and most stark. Indonesian muslims shake their heads in disbelief at what Britain has tolerated and even facilitated - the twenty years of abuse by 'grooming gangs', ignored by all those responsible, being just one example.

Lord Pearson has undertaken to hold Home Secretary Javid to account for Tommy's safety and, should this lead to a private prosecution against Javid, today I have pledged a significant financial commitment to support the case.

It comes as some comfort to read intelligent comments, and know that one isn't alone with one's thoughts. The sad fact is that too many Brits seem to prefer to adopt the stances of the three monkeys, or are conditioned by political correctness, rather than admit that the UK is seriously derailing itself.
What was the point of Brexit, which was also a rejection of the EU and merkelian neo-Marxist agenda, if the same irresponsible and dangerous idiocy is being pushed by paid off UK politicians?

Britain is on a dangerous slope and they are falling at breakneck speed to their own demise. Britain has never been successfully invaded since the Normans in 1066. Napoleon tried and failed, Hitler tried and failed but the Muslims, the new Ottoman Empire has finally succeeded where all other failed. Europe is where my ancestors came from. However, I am ashamed of my motherlands. They have allowed socialism in to their borders like a Trojan horse and then allowed the horse to gallop all over them. Political correctness, unrestrained immigration, failure to enforce the rule of law against crime, anti-gun laws, and the destruction basic human right in favor of sharia law. The Brits will no longer be in a few short years.

As an Anglophile and supporter of the United States' long and noble alliance with the United Kingdom, I am sad to observe the injustice and outrage taking place in Britain today. Tommy Robinson is a patriot who, many times in his young life, has summoned remarkable courage to stand for his convictions. For very good reason, he opposes the encroachment of Islam into Western Europe, into Britain, and into his hometown of Luton. He deserves the praise and aid of the British government, but instead has received only cruel rebuff for his love of country. Winston Churchill would weep.
Alice Hoagland, mother of Mark Bingham UA Flt. 93, 9/11/01

it would appear that the nazis running UKistan intend to kill tommy robinson, and in much the same way that the soviets murdered people they sent to the gulag: by the hands of criminals also in custody. the people who run UKistan are *anything* but stupid; they know *exactly* what they are doing. thus, when mr. robinson is murdered, or beaten until he is a vegetable, the blood will be on their hands.

remember, nazis, it was the commies who pushed hardest for the nuremburg trials. how will U feel on the same docket? or would U rather wait until the pious muslims take over, so U can stop the silly virtue-signalling and turn into the vicious liar, thief, murderer, slaver, and rapist (long for "pious muslim") that U always wanted to be?

Cowards deserve their bondage. Stick a fork in formerly Great Britain. Prostrate yourself to Allah. Oh, they already have. Never mind.

England is dead....long live Englanistan!

I applaud the Gatestone Institute for getting out some info on this incident, having spent an hour trying to find anything (?) Statements such as "mass Muslim rape of infidel girls" are simplistic, reactionary, mis-leading and extremely unhelpful – but it's good to be able to read some views on this incident during the 'current' blackout here in the UK

Unbelievable how the UK has sunk to this level. Britain has provided such a great influence for the West, and now is imperiled because of a few insidious, and weak leaders.

Great article btw

Great to see that the Gatestone Institute is not being cowed by the totalitarian UK government and its cowardly bureaucrats.

I watched the video also. I am appalled at the action of the police and that Tommy was sentenced without access to his lawyer. How good to see the people rallying in Whitehall to his defence! May this be just the start of legitimate and ongoing protest till he is freed.
This action, like so many in the UK these days, shames my country.

Oh dear Bruce. 'It sounds like Soviet or Nazi "justice," not like British jurisprudence.' You have clearly not been in a British court recently, generally the most corrupt person in a British court is the judge. The following is an exact judicial statement taken from a court transcript'

'Which as Mr X (the defendant) said, might well amount to a criminal matter, but certainly would be disastrous so far as these documents was concerned. It is not a necessary consequence.There is no suggestion that Mr X (bank manager and plaintiff) knew that this was a non starter. It had been a change in the European Regulations, I think, a matter of months beforehand. There are more innocent explanations which, whilst embarrassing so far as Mr X (the bank manager) is concerned, do not amount to fraud.'

A complete and contemptible lie by the judge, it was fraud but the bank manager who was also a magistrate in the same court, was being protected by him. An immediate challenge by the defendant resulted in the judge refusing any appeal. The UK judiciary are more bent than the people they judge, Tommy does not stand a chance when put before them.

However, summing up, it is clear that the politicians currently controlling European governments, have a death wish for their respective societies. The future is going to be pretty ugly unless a giant killer appears on the scene!

Disgraceful behaviour from the "Authorities". People need to back Tommy Robinson in his mission to save Britain from the actions of Child Molesters .

Whatever he did or said before this conviction, he is now a Prisoner of Conscience and deserves attention by Amnesty International & Index on Censorship. Is this likely?

This is a disgrace. We will yet regret this appeasement behaviour. D Munro

When I read this sort of thing I can no longer identify with the country where I was born. The sacrifices and efforts made in the last world war seem to be trampled on by politicians who pretend to represent the interests of the nation and people. Theresa May was never elected by the people. As she was against Brexit, she should never have accepted the function of PM, integrity oblige.
Churchill must be rolling in his grave.

Just one correction, Tommy Robinson was born Steven Lennon, not Bellon.

Also, I am British. I must say, after this, it no longer feels like the country I know and grew up in anymore. Our government and establishment clearly have an agenda and they intend on sticking to it, even if it means becoming totalitarian. I would say they are no longer legitimate. To lock a man up for, essentially journalism, which the mainstream media should've been doing (in fact you could ask why none of them were at that trial or any of the others), it's quite sickening.

But perhaps none of this is surprising. Governments going all the way back to the 1960s have been pushing this multicultural, multiracial agenda on us (despite the fact that the general public has always been against it in every poll ever taken). Tommy Robinson is a predictable reaction to the chaos and mess that's occurred as a result of those policies. There's no reason to expect them to make a U-turn on them now and start supporting the indigenous Brit again. Instead, they target the response to their own policies.

How will all this end? At the moment increased tyranny is looking more and more likely. There are enormous demographic problems that are steadily bubbling away in the background, strongly linked to all of this as well. The indigenous Brit may just have to fight for his own survival, in his own land. How did it come to this, after the victories of WWI and WWII? Why does it appear that the governments of not just Britain, but much of Western Europe, have turned against their own people in favour of a hostile foreign ideology? That needs to be closely examined and investigated. Right now however, British people need to stick together and start to fight to get their own country back.

And so it goes. Another step closer to hobnailed boots in Trafalger Square and the sound of Islamic calls to prayer from Westminster Abbey. From Churchill to May in one generation. Two thousand years of magnificent cultural achievement fast becoming an Orwellian nightmare. Rule Britannia and hang your head in shame. It breaks my heart.

In the video of Mr Robinson's arrest, he is told by one of the policeman that he is being arrested "on suspicion of a breach of the peace"; Mr Robinson rightly asks what that means. A breach of the peace cannot be "suspected", it is a self-evident disturbance or commotion causing fear, injury, damage and obstruction. It is either happening or it isn't. So much for modern British policing.

I'm Australian but many many years ago I was privileged to attend a boarding school near Henley on Thames and came to love England and greatly appreciate the inhabitants. It is with horror over the last few years that I have followed with increasing disbelief its slow, but ever accelerating plummet into islamisation and acceptance of more and more sharia law over the law of Westminster. I've watched uncomprehendingly as creatures like May banned decent people from England but happily allowed known terrorists and hate preachers in to spread their poison. Blair was an unmitigated disaster but now this frightful creature has become PM of this once amazing country and is hastening its demise as fast as possible. she is a fit companion for other traitors to their countries like Merkhel, Macron and many others. Now I see Tommy Robinson rounded up for no reason, exactly as Russia or Turkey would do it, and with indecent haste incarcerated once again because he was shining the spotlight on the abysmal police degradation from a once respected force, and the other incompetent and useless administrators that has brought England to its knees. Tommy will be deliberately imprisoned with muslims, as happened before, in the hope that he is killed and his annoyance will go away. Shame on you all and shame on the English people for having allowed this travesty to come about in their country where freedoms are dying and a stone age, violent, misogynistic ideology of hate is taking over the country.

While the cost to Tommy, his family and friends are huge, I'm wondering the about the total costs of allowing Islam into the UK. The financial figures must be stratospheric covering things including housing, health, education, unemployment and disability support, child support, incarceration costs, security monitoring, legal costs to fight cases where there has been substantial payouts to Muslims who have cleverly clawed into our way of life. All of this going to a cult that despises us. They hate our country (all western countries) they hate our entire way of life and yet through the lifeline that we give them Muslims are successfully cutting our very own life supply off. The costs go way beyond financial, for now there is a heavy sense of despair because at same time we're being fleeced we are also being silenced and shamed. Daring to have an antagonist attitude casts us as monsters. Less than human for we show no compassion for a people who it seems have suffered for centuries. Every part of our society has now been altered because of the arrival of Islam into our borders and Despite every effort to accommodate and be hospitable it's useless. For whatever we do I can assure you Muslims will never be grateful or satisfied. For it is their duty to Allah that they wipe us out. As it seems our governments are intent on continuing the flow without ever mentioning how many more, there has to come a breaking point. Our infrastructure is already In crises as this tiny island is a mess. Our coping skills are in shreds because no one understands why things are so awful. We all see what's happening and know that something very wrong and sinister is going on. Those that are trying to save us are stopped at our borders or simply arrested and removed. The atmosphere is thick, heavy and ominous.

Just another example of a society being destroyed by the corrosive cult of Political Correctness.

We have a very sick society when stating a verifiable truth can be deemed to be a hate crime.
Our children and grand children who are at risk of being a white minority in the land of theirs and their ancestors birth will curse us.

You who call evil good and call good evil are now the oppressors.

It questions why the alleged authorities are so frightened of allowing this kind of journalism. The judge claimed to have said that this was not about free speech and freedom of expression. This judge should be disbarred I have never witnessed so much prejudice against one individual who is exposing the authorities for the cowards they are. Is there some sort of foreign office policy agreement with Saudi Arabia that we get contracts as long as Islam is promoted and more mosques build? Saudi fund and supply anti west material as broadcast on TV via programmes such as 'Panorama' on the BBC. There is a lot of sculduggery going on that this countries population is not being informed on. If anything happens to Mr Robinson there will be an outcry and condemnation of the authorities and dare it be said, civil war. Mosques being destroyed and anything Islamic will be a target, perhaps this is what the government wants so it can look as if it is out of their hands. Sneaky and treacherous bunch governments.

Re: "Tommy Robinson" ... "is a champion of those victimized children, a voice for freedom, and a living rebuke to the cowardice of the British media, police, social workers, and other officials and public figures who knew what was going on in flats in Rotherham, Newcastle, and elsewhere, but stayed silent."

In other words, he is a rebuke to the "Busybody Class" of self-proclaimed "expert-Authority" parasites, also known as professional "we're better than you!" - meddlers who only exist to use extortive victimology to enslave others.

It seems Tommy Robinson is a victim of the same supremely un-British injustice as the Rotherham girls he was trying to defend. So too, are the values of truth and freedom which Britain has traditionally championed.

Where is Tommy Robinson being imprisoned? How can he be contacted/supported by those who share his views and admire his courage?

Sitting here in Denmark, I can hardly believe, what I see.
England, the kingdom of fair justice???
Such things only happen in China, North Korea, Russia, African and Muslim countries etc, but never in England. But it did.

I agree with Bruce Bawer completely. This recent arrest of Tommy Robinson is appalling.

Gatestone, please keep following this and keeping your readers informed.

Let's all join together and make British authorities feel the heat for their disgraceful behaviour.

The judge has light the fuse. Anyone one that looks at this as an injustice will be branded far right. The label carries with it an accusation of racism. What this judge has done is ramp up a recruitment of ordinary family people to the right of politics. Ordinary people will now be labelled far right.

This is insane. The reaction will probably be a ramping up of Islamist recruitment on the left. This is the result of Islamic infiltration into western politics and in particular British politics.

There will be more talk about violence and civil uprising. The answer has to be political. In my view the answer lies the 'For Britain' party. Anyone living in Britain should sign up and become a member and campaign and vote. Voting this government out is the only solution and do not allow space for Corbin and cronies.

Britain should brace for Muslim / Islamist violent reaction. They have done it before with success so Britain can expect them to do it again.

This time Muslims will have to make a choice between being British with British customs and law or siding with Islamist that have a very public agenda.

Starting position will be to get Sadiq Khan out of his political appointment and get someone to do the job properly.

Back in the 1930s and 1940s we saw the rise and fall of Nazism, and the emergence of large numbers of collaborators helping the Nazi cause, even helping round up Jews for the concentration camps.

Now we have the rise of Islamist fascism in much of Western Europe, along with the emergence of politicians, police and social workers and others who willingly collaborate with Islamist criminals and their rape and torture gangs.

In this case, how shameful for the UK, to jail Tommy Robinson, a man who has been an outstanding advocate for the victims of Islamic criminals and and of Western civilisation.

What gutless hypocrites run the UK. They are shaming Winston Churchill. Would Labour be better? Of course not. Talk about decline and fall!

Western civilization is under siege. My brothers and sisters across the pond seem to have conceded the fight. God will not save the Queen or the population. This is the middle of the fight. If Mr. Robinson and others of his ilk do not prevail, we can kiss Europe goodbye. Is he the Sisyphus of Western Civ? We're 1 or 2 generations away from its obliteration. All hail Sharia! Check birthrates around the Western world, and try not to be shocked. The EU sold its soul to try to keep their socialist ways. You know, free healthcare and other stuff. Bye-bye.

NOTHING THAT I AM SAYING SHOULD BE SEEN AS DEFENDING THE ACTIONS OF THE UK GOVERNMENT BECAUSE THEY'RE ENGAGING IN STANDARD SAUL ALINSKY GOVERNMENT LAWFARE!

I am simply pointing out the differences in the legal systems. A blanket ban on any matters before the court is standard operating procedure in the UK! Just because things happen a certain way in the US doesn't mean that every other English speaking country with a Common Law system operates in an identical fashion!

Reporting on matters before the court may have a negative impact on the rights of Defendants, especialy with the sort of viscious slurs that the the lamestream media throws at people! There may well be good reasons for this prohibition!

Tommy should not have commented on the matter until AFTER the Defendants had been sentenced, because doing so before placed him within the ambit of sub judice contempt. The elementss of sub juduce contempt are as follows:

a) material was published within the legal sense of the term; and
b) the publication of that material happened while the proceedings were sub judice (that is, before a Judge); and
c) the publication has the tendency to interfere with the administration of justice in the proceedings that are before the Judge.

Had I been representing Tommy Robinson, I would have advised him against reporting on the matter until AFTER the Defendants had been sentenced so as to avoid a charge of sub judice contempt or any other nasty charge that the UK Government sought to lay against him. It is a great pity that Tommy did not take legal advice PRIOR to embarking on his latest reporting spree. The UK Government has been exceptionally heavy-handed in the way it has used the judicial system to harass Tommy! I unreservedly condemn that system for its behaviour in this regard! I am terrified that if he goes to jail the British screws will put him in a wing with Muslims so that the Muslims can kill him. Bureaucrats are directing this assault on Tommy's human rights!

A petition to free Robinson has garnered over 125,000 signatures and is growing. The government wants him dead because the grooming racket may reach into high levels of government. He may be put in isolation in the prison to protect him from the prison Muslims.

Tommy Robinson is a great Patriot. He is now a political prisoner in what is known as the totalitarian state of the UK. This is unconscionable. I don't live there, but if I did I would be in the streets protesting. FREE TOMMY ROBINSON. Support the 1st amendment.

Tommy Robinson is a true hero, selfless is one word that describes him, fearless is another. I care about his plight, I deplore those who have conspired to cause he and his family harm. I care and I will contribute. Tommy champions our collective well being and his defense is our self defense.

This is a death sentence for Tommy Robinson. Why wasn't he offered bail? Why did the whole trial and sentencing take just 24 hours? Why the media blackout in Britain? What prison and cell has been carefully selected for TR?
This is an extraordinary act of cowardice by the British "justice" system. If there was any doubt as to whether or not the justice system favoured Islam, that doubt has been removed. Sadly, it is inevitable that Britain will become an Islamic country ruled by Sharia law for what else could describe this judgement? Under Sharia law it is illegal to criticise Islam. This is the only "offence" committed by Tommy Robinson.
There is a world wide push by the left and Islamists to outlaw any criticism of Islam. We all have a responsibility to fight this erosion of our rights or we might one day become the next Tommy Robinson.

In the Iliad we learned of the outcome when foolish Trojans let in that damn wooden horse within their perimeter. The final nail will be hammered by the next Jew-hating Islam-appeasing Labour Government.
Brittanistan. Get used to the name. It's coming.

The total roundup and deportation of all Muslims is the only way to save Great Britain. But the Brits have no moral courage and no battle courage either. Real men would not stand by and watch their young girls being raped, nor tolerate the belligerent, thankless riots and disruption they bring to the host nations where they reside . Muslims are members of an international crime family which plunders the wealth of nations, tortures, rapes and lays waste to everything they touch. They need to be forcibly removed from every nation that wants to survive. No exceptions!

This is scary. Thank you for reporting on it, especially as there is a media blackout in the U.K. on the rape trials and Tommy Robinson's arrest. Apparently thousands of people gathered at 10 Downing St. in protest.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."
John F. Kennedy

Release Tommy Robinson right now you pathetic Islamic appeasers.

It is a great miscarriage of justice that Muslim rapists are protected, while people who oppose rape are demonized and convicted.
In the name of political correctness, the Muslim rapists have more rights than the infidels who want to keep law and order in their own home countries.
Yes, this is great miscarriage of justice and national suicide.

Perhaps a "storm the Bastille" moment is warranted to rescue Tommy Robinson, as well as all of British society and Western Civilization itself. A storm swell of Liberty defenders must flood the streets and the voices of Free People need to be heard like the trumpets at Jericho.

Well said. I follow Tommy Robinson. He is a freedom fighter. The Leftist Islamist alliance from hell is slowly taking over the UK. They have the Media, Universities and now the Police. He is jailed under a May govt because May is too coward to take on the alliance. The children of the UK will be spitting on their prior politicians graves.

Tommy Robinson got 13 months for being a reporter going about his business. It is alleged that he is in solitary confinement in Hull Prison awaiting judicial review.

In the meantime the UK Government has issued D Notices banning any reporting of him or of the huge demonstration at Downing Street today.

A petition to free Tommy exceeded 100,000 signatures this morning, in record time.

The UK is Orwellian, it is corrupt, it is a police state.

Free speech is being suppressed all over the once democratic countries. Say anything about Islamic Extremism, or the gay choices and you will get charged. Christians can be the only target worthy of abuse in these countries and nobody who attacks Christians will be attacked by heathenistic groups such as Islam, politicians and ect. Complete disgrace to all Christians in this day when everyone is out to get them.

Tommy has long been a fighter for freedom, using all legal means. He knows his Koran and what the agenda of our deep state is.
That is why the liberal elites hate and fear him so. These traitors have deliberately allowed others sent to their jails for nothing but "conscience raising reports" to get attacked. Paul Golding comes to mind from only a few months ago.
The BBC of course-like the Guardian, Channel 4, Amnesty , the Tories and those fearless human rights lawyers we see on telly every time a Jihadi John needs a safari suit-have said, say and will continue to say-"nothing".
I can't think of a more stupid and inevitable way of creating a civil war. If our Referendum Vote means nothing, if Islam and migration can't be reported for media-cocooned excuses over "cultural sensitivity"-then where else will Britains Patriots have to go to , but the streets? We've had REAL civil wars and riots, rebellions here before-and all start with this denial of our free speech, our rights to have the contract with the elites honoured. All we'll need is a martyr-and these clowns above seem stupid enough to risk us getting one I covenant to pray for Tommy and his family, lots of us are watching. We're not having an EU Nazi Soviet in this country,

Thank you Bruce Bawer - I doubt we would have heard about this news from the MSM. I have to say I'm shocked to the core - I didn't think the farcical British "justice" system would go so far as to punish Tommy so blatantly without cause, given his fame and popularity -- and for a so-called "offense" that any decent lawyer could surely knock down easily. Freedom of speech has been stifled for several years now, but there was still hope that somehow a few good men WITH CLOUT would manifest themselves and try to stop Britain becoming the fascist state it now so clearly resembles. WHERE ARE THEY ALL HIDING? Shame on them!

"Anyone in the United Kingdom who believes in freedom, recognizes the danger of Islam, and has any self-respect should rally to Robinson's cause."
How about Brits living outside the UK? Any suggestions for useful protests?

British government is playing with fire. I wonder for how long the sheepish British populace is going to tolerate the blatant abuse of their not just democratic by simply human rights. Are people of Britain going to fall under sharia law enforced by their so called "conservative" government? Is Brexit dead?

It is up to see; however the undemocratic attack on Tommy Robinson; who is very far from being an extreme right can be a triggering point. I still keep my hope in Britain alive although it is diminishing rapidly.

Were this to happen in Venezuela, Cuba, Iran or North Korea, it would be quite natural. But it is happening in England, the land of Hume, Mill, Bentham, A. Smith and other equally important thinkers on the general theme of liberty and freedom. Very troublesome indeed and with profound implications for other voices who would like to share the same message. ¡Scary!

Even in Soviet Russia or :modern" Iran, the time from arrest to conviction and sentencing usually took more than a few hours.

TR is now officially a journalist - so where's the outrage from his alleged peers?

PS: Please name and shame the "judge" who committed this politics-motivated crime!

I am still shocked that the Brits have willingly let such a travesty happen to their country. Thousands were lined up at Windsor Castle to witness the Royals appearing for a wedding and apparently to forget their woes for a day, or perhaps have a good memory for when that time comes when they are required to submit to Islam or be killed. Incredible.

Islamists in Britain have excelled at employing accusations of racism and Islamophobia to intimidate the authorities into ignoring their illegal activities and denigrating anyone who dares to expose their lawless actions. The recent arrest and conviction of Tommy Robinson for simply reporting on a Muslim gang's sex grooming trial is an ominous development. It may signify that Islamism has become so powerful and pervasive in Britain that its march toward dominance is irreversible. Unless Britain's leaders wake up soon and start taking their country back from the Islamists, I predict that the nation will eventually fall to Islamic domination.

What is happening in our country is unbelievable and Tommy Robinson is a great ambassador for unlocking the terrible cowardice of this government.
People will grow in support of Tommy and eventually there will be a turning of the population against this spineless leadership and against the growing threat from Islam
Mark my words

Dear Lord, we Must pray 4 this man's safety! I have read about Britain'a lack of concern for these girls...some very, very, young. It is horrible and inconceivable to me that this is allowed to go on. And, is very probably going on in America.

I am British, I cannot comment due to the risk of up to 2 years in prison.

You see, I don't live in a free country, but I like reading information from countries that are free. Must be nice being able to say things without fearing that the police will break down your door.

People think I am crazy when I say I am more afraid of my government and its police force than I am of islamic terrorists. Yes, well . . .

I have today and yesterday looked at all the mainstream media outlets and only the Metro and the Independent even mentioned his arrest, but no follow-up about his conviction and imprisonment. From the rest, not a word.

I now hear that the internet is being scrubbed clean of any reports on this matter. Even Breitbart has caved in and taken down their take on this grave injustice. There seems to be some kind of a gagging order in place.

I have posted several blogs on Facebook and elsewhere that may actually be construed as breaking the law, simply for telling the truth and voicing an opinion.

I am ashamed pf what my country has become and I am even frightened of it.

So, Tommy Robinson goes to jail, but the Muslims can chant "death to the infidels" and wave placards saying "behead those who insult islam," and it's OK with the authorities. I wrote the British Embassy a letter, asking about matters such as these...AND I never received the courtesy of a reply.

I thought the Netherlands have a problem. But this exceeds everything - total corruption of our world from within and without.

I would like to draw attention to the fact that the UK once knew how dangerous Islam was to the world.
In fact Prime Minister William Gladstone once said about the Quran "as long as this book exists, there will be no peace in the world"

The problem in the UK is that there is no longer any organized political opposition to socialism, uncontrolled immigration, Islam, the EU, etc. UKIP is a disorganized rabble that won't accept the sort of discipline and leadership that could make it a real political force. The Conservative Party is no longer conservative (certainly not its leadership), and hasn't been for decades -- there are conservative politicians in it, and most voters think it's conservative, but the party leadership establishment is socialist, globalist and corrupt. They sell their influence to the interests who fund the party establishment, and use the money and party organization to put as many of their supporters in Parliament as possible. Theresa May and her government are a perfect example, lying to the public and negotiating what is supposed to be withdrawal from the EU, but is much more in than out. Out wouldn't require any negotiated terms.

Nothing is going to improve in the UK unless there is some organized resistance to the present order of things. Either a new conservative political party that can attract public support, or by Tory voters reclaiming their party by getting involved in local party politics, and demanding that candidates be chosen to stand for election who represent them, and not the party leadership. Ordinary Brits don't like much of anything about the way their country is being run, but, for now, there is no party they can vote for that will change it.

Sadly, I agree with the article, but if I may just explain the suddenness with which sentencing took place, Tommy was on a suspended sentence for reporting an earlier rape trial, which was interdicted for the media. It was this suspended sentence that was activated, and added to.

As I said a long time ago, the western world has gone mad!!

As a student and great admirer of British history and culture the depths that the British government has descended to actually cause me great distress. What level of arrogance led Theresa May, or Cressida Dick, or even Judge Marson, all presumably people with at least some knowledge of English history and jurisprudence, to such outrageous actions. It is actually intended as serious bodily harm or even murder because they know too well who waits in prison to deal with Tommy. One can only hope that the imprisonment of, and probable physical harm to, Tommy Robinson will serve as a spark to finally kick start the resistance by the British working classes, who have been abandoned by both major parties. Millions of decent people around the world will be praying for Tommy, even as that reviled creature at the helm crafts her wicked web around the proud memories of a fallen nation.

Difficult to categorize this arrest of a person who has exposed the child raping epidemic as ESCALATING in all British cities & towns & despite numerous expose's & reports has massively grown in scale as the Rapists see that the Police & courts are totally unable to deal with the scale or the perpetrators.

The Government has an issue out of control with a Muslim Male element at only just over 2.5% of the population & they are unable to control this.

By continually exposing this as Robinson has shown the Government impotence in the face of this onslaught on predominantly white British school girls I further illustrates the failure of the Multicultural so-called experiment( actually a betrayal of the working class poor)
This may lead to RIOTS should Robinson be killed in prison which is a distinct possibility.

Follow the money. The British economy, like the EU, may depend significantly on investments from the Islamic world.

I am going to speak up about this. When I was a young flight attendant traveling through Europe in the l970's...yes...that long ago, I was kidnapped in Brussels, Belgium by a Muslim man. I remembered seeing a tennis racket in the back seat of the car as I was thrown in, and when the vehicle finally stopped on a deserved road under a bridge, I managed to grab the racket and hit this guy so hard he cursed and I grabbed the keys from the car and threw them out the window, jumped out and ran for my life. Yes, he was reported to the police, they identified the guy and deported him after he spent some time in jail. I don't understand Europe or the U.K. these days! This has been going on for decades. It happened to me. I would not walk around Europe or the U.K. as a young woman without a loaded gun!

Tommy Robinson is exactly what the West needs in leadership and citizen action to save Western Civilization. Nothing less will suffice to save us from the progressive, globalist, Islamist JACOBIN jihad. The British government's unfair treatment of Tommy Robinson demonstrates that Britain is indeed under Sharia.

And in a country where Muslim rapists are getting less than 5 years sentences, this is like a death sentence just by its length. What will people in England do about it other than complain, and not too loudly. The multicultural, diversity leftist and the sheeple have surrendered to the threats of the militants so quickly that it exceeds even my worst expectations. It must be that the young can be taught so much personal guilt for their identity that they don't even fight against their own extermination.

It seems that, finally, Britain has joined the third world as an Islamic country. The authorities have gone crazy. How is it possible that a person can be arrested by the police and within a couple of hours have received a sentence of 13 months in jail. It's like in Turkey or North Korea.

My God, the UK is turning into a copy of Adolf's N*zi Germany. The knock on the door at midnight and hauled away to the concentration camps is coming to the UK, or should I say it's here already.
The authorities are so afraid of the truth they will go to any lengths to shut down people like Tommy Robinson and protect the people who should be jailed for heinous crimes against white indigenous children.
I suppose my name with many others will be on a 'hate' list just because we speak out about the dangers of Islam. It's not that we propose violence, all we are doing is speaking out against the biggest threat to civilization since WW2.
God Bless Tommy Robinson, I just hope he comes out of prison alive and not in a box. Looks like this is what the establishment want.

May God protect Tommy, who has battled bravely against the infestation of Islam that is choking this once great nation. In my early sixties, I have never felt so ashamed of my country, and fearful of the Orwellian future.

Bruce Bawer is right on the money with this article. We in Britain now have a government and virtually the whole police force and local services in league with Muslims wherever they may be in the country. We are being betrayed because as Bruce points out here, they are all terrified of sparking Islamic uprisings. How cowardly an approach, is that? Being dictated to by a minority because they threaten violence if questioned about their cultural attitudes, particularly when it comes to the mass grooming of young vulnerable girls. Very few politicians are doing anything to stop this, they bring it up in conversation and then quickly forget in the hope that the people will also. That's why they hate it when someone such as Tommy Robinson report honestly when there is court action against Muslim grooming gangs. All he is doing is what the BBC, SKY NEWS, ITV, and others refuse point blank to report on. All terrified of attacks themselves of course, but they come up with lame wristed excuses as to the reasons why they don't report on a crime that is so horrific and ruins thousands of young girls lives in today's Britain. I'm ashamed of them for the public display of cowardice, instead of reporting honestly, they prefer to keep quiet and hope nobody realises what these Muslim grooming gangs are up to.
I hold the government accountable for what these Muslims are doing, their refusal to challenge the cultural practices, and their refusal to acknowledge how widespread this crime is. They have let down all the children involved and the parents, some of whom were told to keep quiet when their daughter was groomed by these animals. Some were threatened with court action if they opened up to anyone, although the police really had nothing to fear because the newspapers and TV couldn't be bothered and in fact were complicit in keeping things quiet. This country used to be a great place to live and enjoy life, but now it is slowly becoming a branch of the Islamic Caliphate. Of course, we get denials from politicians and local authorities who are so gutless they make our ancestors turn somersaults in their coffins! Never in all my life have I seen such a display of cowardice as I see in some people today. As long as it's not their daughters or family members being raped and abused, they simply don't care, we are just supposed to accept this as collateral damage and do as the authorities do and turn a blind eye! I consider them all to be cringing cowards who should resign from whatever job they are in because they are obviously too scared to carry out their duties honestly! FFS grow some!

Tommy needs to be released ASAP or the people should rise up and damned it. Tommy is now a martyr for the lack of justice that the UK is suffering from. Once the beacon of freedom, the UK has fallen into the den of despair, either their citizens rise up of the fascists forces in the UK government or it will prevail where King John couldn't.