Boris Johnson For President--He Actually Confronts The Apologists For Jihadi John!

If only we could bring back the days of Lend-Lease, and lease Boris for about a decade.

He knows how to run a complex operation...like London, one of the world's most complex cities.

He also knows up from down, right from wrong, and he won't allow people to piss on his shoes and claim it's raining.

Witness this conversation between Boris and Mr. Asim Quereshi, spokesman for a 'human rights' group in the UK named Cage, who referred to Jihadi John as a 'beautiful person', and blamed his horrific behaviour on alllll those baaaaaad raaaacist people in the UK who made poor John feel unwelcome as he studied for his degree at one of the great universities of London. Poor, poor boy...he was driven I say, driven!, to murder innocents on camera and publish his exploits to the world. Of course Beautiful John did wear a mask throughout...

Mr. Quereshi is offended that Boris would call him out for defending Beautiful Jihadi John and his beautiful murders. The cell phone Mr. Q uses breaks up a bit, so the transcript is below. Thanks to The Telegraph for publishing, btw.





Boris Johnson confronts Asim Qureshi – the full transcript
Asim Qureshi from Cage
Boris over the last couple of days you have said a lot of things about my organisation. I feel that our opinions on this matter have been somewhat unfairly represented. What this young man has done is absolutely horrific.
Boris Johnson
It's important that you should get this out there, because it wasn't entirely clear.
I have to say what moved me to anger is the thought you were claiming that the fault for the radicalisation of this young guy lay with the security services.
I watched you explain how he had been seeking a 'career overseas' and had been impeded. Actually he was going off to join a terrorist group in Somalia.
I really, really think that the focus of your indignation and your outrage should be on people who go out to join groups that throw gays off cliffs, that behead people who don't subscribe to their version of Islam, that glorify in the execution of innocent journalists and aid workers.
They should be the object of your wrath, not the security services who are trying to keep us safe.
I urge you more powerfully to differentiate between people like Mr Emwazi and ordinary Muslims and not cry Islamophobia when people criticise, attack, denounce those who engage in such atrocities.
Asim Qureshi
You don't need to do that, the whole of the Muslim community is against these kind of people.
Boris Johnson
I watched you very carefully and you were asked several times to condemn and denounce what Mr Emwazi had been doing.
You started off by instantly drawing comparisons with Tony Blair and Dick Cheney and all sorts of other irrelevant nonsense.
If you are going to have an impact on the lives on the minds of young Muslims you have got to focus on what these people are doing wrong and not immediately start scattering blame around. You have got to focus on what they have got wrong about Islam.
Asim Qureshi
We never said he was radicalised by MI5 to commit beheadings.
Boris Johnson
You did say that.
Asim Quereshi
I said we want to understand whether or not security agencies, their actions led to him feeling that he is not part of UK society.
Boris Johnson
I just feel you have got it 100 per cent the wrong way up. The security services are trying to keep us safe. They cannot conceivably be blamed.
If you are a human rights group funded by charity then you should be sticking up for the human rights of those being beheaded in Syria and Northern Iraq, that should be the focus of your concern.


BTW, ya'll: The argument that Mr. Quershi advances is the very same one used to excuse the Boston Marathon bombers, and a variant (involving that 'offensive' video) was used to excuse the Benghazi murderers. Same playbook, identical story line, always advanced by Muslim jihadists and the American Left--beginning with our current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

St. Michael And All Angels Still In Cranmer's Crosshairs, And In Boris Johnson's As Well

Oh, my.

Not a good thing. And it can't be fun walking into work everyday, knowing the boss hates you for breathing, is looking for any hint of a reason to not only fire you but make you unemployable in perpetuity. Hang in there, Ms. Katharine.

After all, today marks the day the Washington, D.C. teacher's union managed to obtain the resignation of Michelle Rhee, the superintendent who insisted that success is the only option. The D.C. schools are amongst the best-funded and worst-performing in the nation. Obviously, they are happy for that state of affairs to continue a while longer.

Boris Johnson weighs in on the larger debate via an article in the Telegraph.

And along the way, he offers words of support to the young lady:

That is why the most important voice in the great university debate belongs this week not to Lord Browne or any of the politicians – but to Katharine Birbalsingh, the deputy head of a south London school. She has now become the latest great martyr to what I can only call political correctness. She was sent home from her school after having the effrontery to suggest that Lefty thinking in education was inhibiting discipline, standards and competition. But isn't she right?

Isn't she right to point to the central importance of discipline and the authority of teachers in driving up educational standards? She strikes me as being a principled person who has reached the end of her tether, and I welcome the move to reinstate her.


His essay is well worth a read, anywhere in the world, because OS thinks we all face the same challenges at bottom. Teaching kids is really hard work, and success is not guaranteed.

Here's hoping she is not just tolerated, but embraced, if not at this rather obviously failing school, then at another where the leadership believes success is more desirable than failure.

Here's hoping...but in the meantime, let's not allow her to be quietly isolated and eviscerated later, when ThePeopleInChargeOfSuchThings believe no one is looking.