Is Birmingham still part of Britain?

weekend blog

You’ll all be aware of some recent kerfuffle in Birmingham whereby local authorities and supposed ‘community leaders’ decided that certain people from a certain country and religion were not welcome in the city on the occasion of a football-kicking game.

Google helpfully informs us that: “Birmingham is a “super-diverse” city, with the majority of its population belonging to Black, Asian, and other minority ethnic groups.”

According to the 2021 Census, 51.4% of the population is from a Black, Asian, or other minority ethnic group, compared to 48.6% who are White. The largest single ethnic group outside of White British is Pakistani, followed by Black African and Indian. It is likely that, since the 2021 Census, the proportion of White British has fallen and the proportion of Asians has risen.

Here is a breakdown of the ethnicity in Birmingham based on the 2021 Census: 

• Total population: 1,143,870
• White: 48.6% – 556,608
• Asian: 31.0% – 355,384
• Black: 11.0% – 125,760
• Mixed: 4.8% – 55,205
• Other: 4.5% – 51,965

But I heard somewhere that over 50% of Birmingham’s population of under-30s are now ‘Asian’.

Here’s is a list of Birmingham’s MPs: Preet Gill, Tahir Ali, Shabana Mahmood, Ayoub Khan, Jess Phillips, Paulette Hamilton, Liam Byrne, Laurence Turner, Al Carns.

First comes Saturday, then comes Sunday

That brings us to the phrase: “first comes Saturday then comes Sunday”. Google tells us: ‘The phrase “first comes Saturday then comes Sunday” (Arabic: min sallaf es-sabt lāqā el-ḥadd qiddāmūh), is a Middle Eastern proverb meaning that one event inevitably follows another. It is often used in a threatening or fearful context to imply that persecution of one minority group (Jews, represented by their holy day – Saturday) will be followed by persecution of another (Christians, represented by their holy day – Sunday).’

Wikipedia explains: “Recent uses of the proverb have been attributed to Arab Christians expressing a fear that they might soon be ostracized on a scale akin to that which was seen during the Jewish exodus from Muslim-majority countries. It is often reported to be used by Muslim fundamentalists as a slogan to intimidate local Christian communities”.

According to a publication by the American Foreign Policy Council, the proverb in the form “After Saturday, Sunday”, was brandished as a popular slogan among supporters of Haj Amin al-Husseini‘s faction during the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine. The message is reported to have meant that once the Jews had been driven out, the Christians would be expelled.

In my weekend blog, I mentioned a book by Lebanon-born writer Brigitte Gabriel:

In her book, Brigitte Gabriel describes the complete disaster which befell Lebanon – once one of the most successful and ‘diverse’ countries in the blighted Middle East. One group apparently decided that life was much too complicated with people from so many different cultures and religions living peacefully alongside each other. So this group nobly decided to simplify things by murdering anyone who didn’t belong to their tribe. This turned the once thriving Lebanon into yet another corrupt, bankrupt, poverty-stricken, excrement-covered, Third-world, failed-state hell-hole.

As the British shrug their shoulders at the fact that Birmingham is becoming a no-go zone for Jews, some people, looking at what has happened in far too many other countries (like Lebanon?), might start to worry that in Britain too, we may soon experience “first comes Saturday, then comes Sunday”.

As for Birmingham

• Is Birmingham part of Britain now? I couldn’t possibly comment
• Will Birmingham still be part of Britain in 20 years? I definitely couldn’t possibly comment