@@walterwhite3018 he made amends and works hard to stamp out extremism. He joined that Jihad because he didn't feel at home and in place in Great Britain. It's like you've learned nothing from reading into this man's experience.
***** Well, no. Although they are there as a result of a lot hard work and intelligence so provided they keep it up they're not very likely to have much trouble scraping a living together.
***** "So there". No. Have you been to an Oxford or Cambridge interview? Did the people who didn't get near the place apply, then demonstrate more intelligence and hard-work than those who got in and then fail? I'm not saying all education is a level playing field from the start but the Oxford admissions process gives a lot of opportunity for students who aren't from private schools the chance to shine. You initially implied Oxford places and success in life is achieved without effort: they're not. Ask an Oxford student how much they work to get a first. Or work for the grueling internships in big companies. Or work to get in there in the first place.
***** Well it's just obvious they're less likely to be unsuccessful if they're already doing so well. I'm just saying the view that if you have little intelligence and do little hard work but you can get into Oxford because you're school is posh is a little bit outdated. There is quite a bit of positive discrimination in the admission process.
SelfReferencingName I think it's more the fact that those born into richer family's are more likely to be pushed to get good grades and to get into Oxbridge.
I agree and respect what Majid Nawaz does but I am white British born and bred, and all those things he has spoken about happened to me in London, I was often stopped and searched before the London Riots that is . and my fingerprints and DNA taken despite never being prosecuted( i have no criminal record) and have always stayed inside the law except for Marajuana use. So it upsets me that Blacks etc may be stopped and you feel excluded but don't think that doesn't happen to young working class white people either!
Stop and search being stopped, has lead to a rise in knife crime in certain areas in London. The vast majority of those knife crimes are happening in areas of London mostly habited by ethnic minority's. I am no racist, but if there is 1 section of society carrying out those crimes in that specific area I suspect it is wise to search those sections. White, Black or otherwise. Searching others may help Diversity quotas but will probably not help reduce the unfortunate crime that is occurring. Crime prevention is the key, NOT racism! All lives matter, tackle it in the most productive way to prevent more losses.
I was born an bred in Britain but no longer feel at home in many parts of my Country. What makes me feel a stranger is the fact that the government and media are blatantly opposed to my Judao Christian culture. They on the face of it seem to be planning what can only be described as a sort of ethnic cleansing. This has been achieved in many cities and seems to be spreading outwards from there. So many like me afraid to speak out and forced further and to the pereferees of our land.
@Tall T.S.S What a lot of Muslims dont get that when Sharia law is implemented more in Muslim countries, they flee to western countries, but then demand Sharia Law in the country they moved to. Muslims need to be asked, even if Sharia law was implemented worldwide, and they couldn't stand it anymore, where would they flee to seek asylum or get refugee status......?
Exactly! Promoting British culture is how you integrate people. You can't integrate by letting cultural enclaves to appear. You can't promote other cultures, which are Anti-West, and then expect these people to integrate.
I like Nawaz but this wasn't very good. He has no right to complain about having his DNA taken from him if he was part of an extreme, militant Islamic organization.
To reduce ‘Britishness’ to a ‘feeling’ is both to make it practically of no account as well as to be part of its deconstruction. Multiculturalism has dealt a death blow to ‘Britishness’, and what we are witnessing now is that anything, literally anything at all can be termed being ‘British’, from three-quarter empty parish churches to 100,000 Muslims gathering in Birmingham for end of Ramadan celebrations. But out of this cultural mush-mash will inevitably arise a new dominant culture, either globalist in its outlook like a universal humanism, or more narrow in its precepts, like Islam. I think that worse than ‘Britishness’ being a feeling, I think it is now only a memory.
Well am a Brit and a great fan of Maajid, man o man, he's been through a lot and one and only who promotes British values being Muslim. He call spade a spade and doesn't hesitate to call out stupid behaviours. Luv him
While i do like Maajid Nawaz i do have to disagree slightly. To be 'British' is nothing like 'American'. The US is a nation of immigrants, supposedly a bastion of equality and equal opportunity for those that wish to work to better their lives, or it is atleast by concept. Being British is Angelo Saxon, christian/pagan based culture with thousands of years of history within its making. Its a nation of islanders that have come together despite a bloody past to represent a force for good. We drink tea and eat crumpets, have a rich history of sport and rampant alcoholism through social interaction in pubs. We have our own unique food, music and literature. We are well mannered and respectful, well educated and innovative. Represented by our monarchy and championed by our unbeatable 'stiff upper lip attitude' We cannot be simply defined by our acceptance of diversity alone. Feeling accepted in Britain is a privilege, but does not make one British. Being British is not understood or appreciated in today's society. We are losing our culture.
Racial identity (for many people) is undetachable from their values. They will not adapt. I think we try to hard to make multicultural paradises out of European countries. Britain is a white European country. Deep inside we all know this to be true.
Aside from my 5x great grandmother who was Scottish all my ancestors are English so I too am more English than British, however England Scotland and Wales make up Britain and we've been that way for a long time. It really doesn't matter how we feel because if you're English Scottish or Welsh you are British. Saying all that, I'm for Scotland and Wales going independent and we go back to the English Scottish and Welsh and forget word British altogether. In fact, I wouldn't mind another Edward I lol
He is laying this out very diplomatically.. one can argue that being "British" or "European" is believing in democracy, freedom of speech, equality for opportunity, equality between genders, a secular state (christianity is stripped for its influence), belief in the scientific endevour, in trade, commerce, and a staunch attitude towards those who are trying to enforce values that break with all of the above. It has been some years since this video was posted, and we have f.ex seen government trying to stifle voices that critique religious fundamentalism, labeling them as racist. The only thing that keeps us from defining this (in the world history) unique mix of universal freedoms as "British" or "European" is the fear of it having a divisive effect. One can truly only see it when it is contrasted against cultures that don't share the same values.
British is English, Scottish or Welsh the rest are British citizenship holder, nothing more nothing less. British isn't just about Freedom of Speech etc not that we have Freedom of Speech anymore because we now have hate speech laws to keep the foreigners happy. We no longer have Freedom of Association, again, to keep the foreigners happy. We no longer have the freedom to eat whatever we want as pork is now banned in many schools across England and you guessed it - to keep the foreigners happy, how very British to ban pork in school lol and to bring in "hate speech laws". The guy in this video said himself he belongs to the Pakistan Muslim community, so I guess he by his own claim is Pakistani muslim British. Oh and Fyi the Pakistan Muslim "British" guy doesn't believe in democracy as he hopes Britain rejoins the EU without another a vote. And you're right Christianity has no influence in England anymore but the same can't be said for the muslim council of Britain and all those Muslim islamic sharia courts... Great.
It is imprudent to loosen national security measures simply to help assorted citizens "feel more British". Some British citizens feel no sense of loyalty, patriotism, or responsibilty to their mother country and refuse to cultivate any such feeling toward her. I usually agree with Maajid, but not on this point. He tends to suppose the event that resulted in his own paradigm shift would have the same effect on others.
He opposes racial profiling and also opposes government poking into a person's private business. He's a liberal at heart. He's merely stating those values.
British values change and that is a British value. We tolerate, but we honour fair play. We prize inventiveness and heritage, exploration and tradition. Inclusivity, openness, honesty and integrity are British values. Human rights however are an ideal, there are no rights outside of law, so in order to have rights you must observe the rule of law, and that means accepting the burden of responsibility. Democracy is compromise, not mob rule. We live in a secular liberal democracy and our elected government should represent and respect the majority will of the electorate. I believe Maajid Nawaz would serve well to represent the values of the British people. If he were to stand for election in my ward he would receive my vote.
The original Windrush generation came here to the "mother country" as they wanted to be part of British culture. They were Christians, drank alcohol, liked cricket, football and pop music - all British stuff. They got still got treated like poo.
Well, old bean, I was brought up in the 'working class' of Sydney, and don't want to alarm you old carrot, but we in the working class were brought up to be polite to people. I have met many a crass person who belongs to the upper classes old chap...and they think because they have oodles of money that they can treat those below then with total disdain. There is good in all classes: Lower, middle and upper, old syrup.
You cannot define Britishness, but you need to make that word more inclusive?? That's a bit confusing, how can you extend it's meaning if you can't define it?? Translation: "I don't believe British culture is White Brits' property" / "White brits' must kowtow and accept that anyone can appropriate their culture".
Just heard the best come back to one of Maadji's six form rants "in the word of Judge Judy - why don't you open your ears and close your mouth" he got burned like a Joan of Arc
See it's now 2020 5 years later and this is what we get if we hurt someone's feeling, it's all good to feel British but what about being British acting British obay British laws and not Shariah laws , to wave the British flag and not the isis flag, What about our feelings when we can't be proud and wave the British flag because it might hurt the feeling's of so called British people come on Maajid, debate me , I'm not racist but what about our feelings we can't complain we can't say anything about the truth . because you can't handle the truth .
“Just because you can’t define it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist”. Like Majjid Nawaz’s fervour, for a (quiet) Muslim Dominance of Britain maybe? Demographically, he knows Britain will likely, one day, be majority Muslim, and he appears to be steering it in the most passive and eloquent way. So, let’s take note maybe? “Just because you can’t define it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist”!
YES, PERHAPS WE CAN'T NECESSARILY DEFINE WHAT IT MEANS TO BE BRITISH, AMERICAN, CHINESE ,ETC ; BUT WE KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE ! BUT MORE IMPORTANT IS FEELING AND BEING SENTIENT, CONSCIOUS, ALIVE EXPERIENCING, LOVE, COMPASSION, JOY, SADNESS , CURIOUSITY, ETC, ETC AS A HUMAN BEING AND THAT OUGHT TO TRANFORM ONESELF INTO A HIGHER ORDER AND REALIZATION THAT TRANSENDS NATIONALISM AND TRIBALISTIC IDENTIFICATION !
Yeah.... that would work if every other Briton were to agree, point for point, with his "definition" of what being British is all about. But they don´t, do they? I daresay outside the hallowed halls of Oxford University, or metropolitan London, few would, point for point. So the entire argument falls flat on its face.
Define African, let countries who are majority black retire black but define a new term of the specific country they live in because of mass migration of whites for example! And it must be forced by equality movements! Let me see it go unscathed by any media or SJW's. We know equality or the shrinkage of white population(multiculturalism) is only good in white majority countries! In others, UN would hold a council and whites would be held accountable! British people actually think that becoming a minority in their own city is a good thing...
Tags Hagar you are ignorant. Maahig is doing the best for Islam he is Muslim and I am Christian apologist I recognize the mistake of my religion. He does a great to his faith and others people. He seeks the Muslim to assimilate in the society they lived.😀
If you can't define what being British is then you don't have a British identity at all. A "feeling" isn't going to cut it. Belonging to a tribe everybody feels that. But what is it specifically that distinguishes the British tribe from all the others? A nation is ultimately divided by border, language, and culture. The problem is Western Civilization is in an identity crisis at the moment.
By definition 'British values'/ Britishness are broad terms to encompass all values and lifestyles held by British citizens. Hence, the most patriotic guy on the street and the most disillusioned citizen have the exact same level of 'Britishness' and both embody British values.
The right to silence has issues, if it's done as some sort of protest by a liberal minded individual to prove a point, get over it. If it's done by a migrant triing to avoid being ddeported then were's the problem. It requires both sides to be truthful and honest. SOME HOPE!!
@@mjh277 If you have English Scottish or Welsh ancestor's/DNA then you're British, it really is as simple as that. He always felt like a foreigner because he isn't English, he is a British citizenship holder. British citizenship can be striped for some born in Britain but not for the English Scottish or Welsh because we're British.
He said himself he belongs to the 'Pakistan Muslim community' so very British, as British as you can get. He has zero English Scottish or Welsh in him, he is a British citizenship holder but he is as British as you will get lol after all being British is just a "feeling"
What is actually meant by British values that some people are not following? Is fornication and producing bastered children a British value? Is being athiest agnostic a British value? Eating with left hand instead of right? Is loving homosexuals a British value, if so then since when ?
Majid should be in a garden centre ..because he's been well planted .by the elite and the bad people .......keed looking and open all your ears ????? And watch him slip up on many facts and points .......in all his work.....I just hope he enjoys the 2 yes 2 million pay off 😲shock horror ....
Being human is not enough for races to coexist . We have to be compatible and we are clearly not . If uk citizens had no other countries citizens living here and they were asked you have to choose one of two races to live in the UK with us Americans or Pakistani people the answer would be Americans because the UK has a greater friendhsips with Americans that.pakistan because we are more alike and more compatible and share simiar values I as an englishma. Would fgh and die to protect our American brothers and there country because there is love for us which I feel from America . Buy I would never fight for the security or Pakistan because you are not allies you ate a darker tace that does not have out best interests at heart
have few questions for believers.i what sense they are better than atheist.are they medically more healthy, intellectually more enlightened, scientifically more advance, socially more civilized, money wise less courpt,more humane,more tolerant towards weaker sex, doesn't desires life of comfort including having advance gadgets and lastely live longer than the atheist.my own conclusions is that at the best they are not different than the others including atheist and on some of the areas they are even worse.first they are closed mind as they argue that whatever is written in Kuran bible and gita can't be challenged and everything in it scientifically validated.believer of one religion fights with others saying there holly Book and god are real and superior as political parties and theirs leaders and activists do.you have to Praise and pray the God otherwise he will become unhappy as is the case with mafia don or any other boss.preachers by remembering the religious texts become scholars and beyond reporachable.even god is not capable of binding the followers of religion in a cohesive and loving community as take muslim they keep on fighting among themselves on the name of sects, language,and nationality.prime example is Kurd people who are being killed by Iran, Iraq, turkey and Syria though they too are muslims.same infighting happens in Hinduism and christianity following countries.actually anybody can write volumes on this subject but believers are so brainwashed that they can claim whatever vaccine is developed to fight coronavirous was prescribed thousands of years back by theirs great god.
Trans rights! Yassss! Just bc you don't know how to define smthn doesn't mean you shouldn't fight for the right/ doesn't mean it's not important and means a great deal to our emotions and humanity! Thank you MN! can ben Shapiro watch this? Lol
British People are desperate to promote their values, beginning with chucking enemy combatants and their agents and agencies out of the UK. Maajid Nawaz is on the list; we know all about you mate.
There are over 200 countries on earth with 200 different races who clearly and naturlay defined themselves as different from others They have not joined under one flag because if these differences there was not enough trust . So no Pakistani people cannot be briyish which is why you are not Integrating with the native people's of the UK Multiculturalism has failed in the UK for this reason because we are different so everyone not native to this land should go home to there ancestrial lands
It's promoting libertarianism, secularism and freedom of speech. That's not a waste of time. That's part of British culture, and if anyone wants to live in Britain, they must be embraced, because it's what makes Britain a nice place to live.
@@hareecionelson5875 He supports hate speech laws in British, so much for freedom of speech. He also supports pork being banned from school's across England. He also believes Brexit should be scrapped and we shouldn't leave despite the vote to leave. So I'm not quite sure what you're talking about.
@@alfielee6567 No, Majid Nawaz certainly does not support hate speech laws, and I doubt very much he's looking to ban pork from schools, given that he is secular. As for brexit - the public were sold a lie that has been, and is continuing to be costly. But it's happened now, only watching the "I told you so"s pile up.
@@hareecionelson5875 You're wrong, he does support hate speech laws, he said so on that panel show on youtube. And FYI, pork is already banned in many schools across London and Birmingham and he said it was a good thing as 'school teachers don't have the time to check what children are always eating', after that muslim child was given pork by mistake. How were people sold a lie in regards to Brexit? Do you mean people voted to leave full stop and yet we're still stuck in the European court of human rights? Or do you mean the EU still dictate some of GB law's? Or when they said 'lets take back control of our borders" and yet they've failed miserably? If so, you're right, leave means leave and until that is achieved we didn't get what we voted for. Before we partly left the EU GB was nearly 3 trillion in debt and printing money at a faster rate than news papers whilst also borrowing money from the EU etc, housing crisis, police crisis, NHS crisis, schooling crisis, prison crisis etc etc and now we also have an energy crisis due to butting our nose into a yet another war in Europe that has nothing to do with GB. Sweden had the perfect country before they poked their nose into World politics and opened it's border's and now they've caused so many problems for themselves. World politics is a nightmare including Europe. So you all can stick your "told you so" where the sun don't shine
@@alfielee6567 Those ideas sound a lot closer to Hassan Medhi than Nawaz. considering that Nawaz spends a lot of his LBC radio air time lamenting the loss of freedom of speech through stupid hate speech laws, I still don't believe that Nawaz has come out in favour of criminalising hate speech.
You're not British. "Sense of belonging", does anyone have a sense of belonging in this country? Britishness can be defined: Anyone who was born in the British Isles, and who is the descendent of a line of people who have lived in Britain for centuries, if not millennia. The nations of the British Isles are: the English, Scots, Welsh and Irish. You may be a British citizen Maajid, but you are not British. You are not what anyone immediately thinks of when we use the term: British people. If the British people, as I define them, disappeared from the British Isles, then these islands would no longer be British. You are British by extension of my existence. I don't say these things to hurt anyones feelings, I say them to protect people. If we keep on down this road of pretending people; like for example these current refugees, are somehow our long lost brothers, and who as soon as they put their feet on British soil, immediately relieve themselves of their former identity as Syrians, or wherever else they come from, then we are going to head down a grizzly path of self-destruction. We are all British citizens, here in Britain. But we must make the necessary distinctions if we are going to have an intelligent and informed discussion about demographics and immigration in this country.
+Ayoub Mekkaoui Colonists in America and Australia did not consider themselves to be American and Australian for a long time. They considered themselves to be British. It took a few generations for a new identity to kick in. I do not know how this applies to immigrants in the U.K. today, but it is an important question to explore.
+MrCool Mug Complete nonsense. Take someone like Jim Al Khalili. Born in Iraq. Moved to Britain as a child. Physics professor at a university, president of the british humanist association, married to an english woman, spends weekends watching football, speaks with an english accent. What on earth does it matter that he isn't descended from a line of people who lived in Britain for centuries. He contributes more to the country, and in the spirit of the culture of the country, than 90% of white britons.
gary wood Well done. You've found the Wheres Wally of integrated foreigners. If you think people like him are the majority then you are sorely mistaken. I don't have a problem with people who do integrate into our society as best they can, in the spirit of becoming British, if not in blood but in spirit. My problem is with the majority of immigrants and refugees, who come here from around the world and are given no incentive to "integrate" as best they can, because they move into their little ghettoes, speak the language of the old country, and carry as they had before they moved here. I don't want to smash ghettoes either! because I know that truth be told, these people could never fully integrate, they will always be different from us. Let them stay, and just stop bringing more people in. Thats the simple answer.
MrCool Mug I never said he was the majority. I'm not the one who phrased it as an absolute. You did. To break an absolute rule, you only need find 1 exception.
gary wood I never made any such absolutes. I was being quite accurate in what I believe is true. We have to talk in generalities. Those generalities you have neither refuted or condemned. Why did you even bother talking to me?
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I've never heard of this guy, but as a fellow brown person, he makes me proud. I am proud to be British
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dpiston he's good I could take muslims like him.
That fellow brown person spent years locked up for his jihadi ways
@@walterwhite3018 he made amends and works hard to stamp out extremism. He joined that Jihad because he didn't feel at home and in place in Great Britain.
It's like you've learned nothing from reading into this man's experience.
@@briananderson2675 what? He's a racist, globalist.
It's hard to define what Oxford University students look like. However, those students look like they're from Oxford University.
***** Well, no. Although they are there as a result of a lot hard work and intelligence so provided they keep it up they're not very likely to have much trouble scraping a living together.
***** "So there". No. Have you been to an Oxford or Cambridge interview? Did the people who didn't get near the place apply, then demonstrate more intelligence and hard-work than those who got in and then fail? I'm not saying all education is a level playing field from the start but the Oxford admissions process gives a lot of opportunity for students who aren't from private schools the chance to shine. You initially implied Oxford places and success in life is achieved without effort: they're not. Ask an Oxford student how much they work to get a first. Or work for the grueling internships in big companies. Or work to get in there in the first place.
***** Well it's just obvious they're less likely to be unsuccessful if they're already doing so well. I'm just saying the view that if you have little intelligence and do little hard work but you can get into Oxford because you're school is posh is a little bit outdated. There is quite a bit of positive discrimination in the admission process.
+Mark D They all have the same look, the look of eager anticipation for their elderly relatives' deaths! haha
SelfReferencingName
I think it's more the fact that those born into richer family's are more likely to be pushed to get good grades and to get into Oxbridge.
He's a good guy, Maajid. Thank you for reminding us that British values are worth promoting.
The British values are:
Democracy
The rule of law
Individual liberty
Mutual respect
Mutual tolerance
I agree and respect what Majid Nawaz does but I am white British born and bred, and all those things he has spoken about happened to me in London, I was often stopped and searched before the London Riots that is . and my fingerprints and DNA taken despite never being prosecuted( i have no criminal record) and have always stayed inside the law except for Marajuana use. So it upsets me that Blacks etc may be stopped and you feel excluded but don't think that doesn't happen to young working class white people either!
Stop and search being stopped, has lead to a rise in knife crime in certain areas in London. The vast majority of those knife crimes are happening in areas of London mostly habited by ethnic minority's. I am no racist, but if there is 1 section of society carrying out those crimes in that specific area I suspect it is wise to search those sections. White, Black or otherwise. Searching others may help Diversity quotas but will probably not help reduce the unfortunate crime that is occurring. Crime prevention is the key, NOT racism! All lives matter, tackle it in the most productive way to prevent more losses.
I was born an bred in Britain but no longer feel at home in many parts of my Country.
What makes me feel a stranger is the fact that the government and media are blatantly opposed to my Judao Christian culture.
They on the face of it seem to be planning what can only be described as a sort of ethnic cleansing.
This has been achieved in many cities and seems to be spreading outwards from there.
So many like me afraid to speak out and forced further and to the pereferees of our land.
Britain has a caste system
This man is a leading example of a patriot I'd just add that the French did a good job too as anyone being able to be considered a French citizen
we need someone like Majid Nawaz here in America
I'm a British born Muslim man of Bangladeshi origin. I consider myself British fully....
@Tall T.S.S
What a lot of Muslims dont get that when Sharia law is implemented more in Muslim countries, they flee to western countries, but then demand Sharia Law in the country they moved to.
Muslims need to be asked, even if Sharia law was implemented worldwide, and they couldn't stand it anymore, where would they flee to seek asylum or get refugee status......?
@Tall T.S.S If you want Sharia law you're definitely not my idea of British!
kost tsou it is not a “small” percentage according to the Pew Centre.....
@@bunnystrasse A small percentage of over 1 Billion is a massive amount anyway
1pr007 it’s not even 1% 🤣🤣 go check Pew Centre! Do you need the link?
Very Heroic can't wait to read his book with Sam Harris.
very ironic when this brown man is more british then the "real" british
who's the "real British?" Just say white British
He said himself many times that he belongs to the 'Pakistani muslim community' so he is Pakistani muslim British, very British indeed.
@@corpgov
The English Scottish and Welsh are the *real* British. It isn't just a feeling after all.
Exactly! Promoting British culture is how you integrate people. You can't integrate by letting cultural enclaves to appear. You can't promote other cultures, which are Anti-West, and then expect these people to integrate.
We should all listen to Majid Nawaz. He is a Muslim I have great respect for.
spirit733t ironically Islam is a right wing ideology!
He is not a true muslim he is very liberal
Facts over feelings my friend.
I like Nawaz but this wasn't very good. He has no right to complain about having his DNA taken from him if he was part of an extreme, militant Islamic organization.
HT is militant in its views but not a violent organisation. It is not a terrorist group by any means.
Butter balls I would argue that it is a terrorist group, but not a violent one
Forest_gravy You either perfectly proved Butter Balls point. you dont know what terrorist means, look it up.
unlawful intimidation
oh shit while that is not the full definition . i was wrong xx
Being British is having a British passport, thats the sad but honest truth.
+rob valledy That is a fact, I do not know what is sad about that, but the motion was on Brirish values and the whole world can embrace those values.
As an American it is sad to see a proud people becoming a minority in their own land.
Jack Aurier well British people still make up 90% of the U.K. It’s far worse in Germany, Sweden and France
Jack Aurier yeah like the native Americans in the US
To reduce ‘Britishness’ to a ‘feeling’ is both to make it practically of no account as well as to be part of its deconstruction. Multiculturalism has dealt a death blow to ‘Britishness’, and what we are witnessing now is that anything, literally anything at all can be termed being ‘British’, from three-quarter empty parish churches to 100,000 Muslims gathering in Birmingham for end of Ramadan celebrations. But out of this cultural mush-mash will inevitably arise a new dominant culture, either globalist in its outlook like a universal humanism, or more narrow in its precepts, like Islam. I think that worse than ‘Britishness’ being a feeling, I think it is now only a memory.
The phrase 'that's not cricket' is being British in a nutshell.
Well am a Brit and a great fan of Maajid, man o man, he's been through a lot and one and only who promotes British values being Muslim. He call spade a spade and doesn't hesitate to call out stupid behaviours. Luv him
Excellent speech 👏👏👏
Loving the comments here. Be proud to be british. If you were not born here, like me, then embrace the values of this wonderful country and suceed!
While i do like Maajid Nawaz i do have to disagree slightly. To be 'British' is nothing like 'American'. The US is a nation of immigrants, supposedly a bastion of equality and equal opportunity for those that wish to work to better their lives, or it is atleast by concept. Being British is Angelo Saxon, christian/pagan based culture with thousands of years of history within its making. Its a nation of islanders that have come together despite a bloody past to represent a force for good. We drink tea and eat crumpets, have a rich history of sport and rampant alcoholism through social interaction in pubs. We have our own unique food, music and literature. We are well mannered and respectful, well educated and innovative. Represented by our monarchy and championed by our unbeatable 'stiff upper lip attitude' We cannot be simply defined by our acceptance of diversity alone. Feeling accepted in Britain is a privilege, but does not make one British.
Being British is not understood or appreciated in today's society. We are losing our culture.
Racial identity (for many people) is undetachable from their values. They will not adapt. I think we try to hard to make multicultural paradises out of European countries.
Britain is a white European country. Deep inside we all know this to be true.
so u dont want blacks in ur country
Maajid Nawaz is not a threat to the UK or if his in any country his not a threat either.
I'm Yorkshire, far more English than British
Aside from my 5x great grandmother who was Scottish all my ancestors are English so I too am more English than British, however England Scotland and Wales make up Britain and we've been that way for a long time. It really doesn't matter how we feel because if you're English Scottish or Welsh you are British.
Saying all that, I'm for Scotland and Wales going independent and we go back to the English Scottish and Welsh and forget word British altogether.
In fact, I wouldn't mind another Edward I lol
being officially anti-Islam, is not British? - who knew. the Brits have a lot to learn.
All great prophets were Blasphemers for other religions at the beginning
Blasphemy is essential for the progress of mankind
That is so true.
Its never just about feelings. And it should never be. The rule of law is paramount.
you're missing the point.
He is laying this out very diplomatically.. one can argue that being "British" or "European" is believing in democracy, freedom of speech, equality for opportunity, equality between genders, a secular state (christianity is stripped for its influence), belief in the scientific endevour, in trade, commerce, and a staunch attitude towards those who are trying to enforce values that break with all of the above. It has been some years since this video was posted, and we have f.ex seen government trying to stifle voices that critique religious fundamentalism, labeling them as racist. The only thing that keeps us from defining this (in the world history) unique mix of universal freedoms as "British" or "European" is the fear of it having a divisive effect. One can truly only see it when it is contrasted against cultures that don't share the same values.
British is English, Scottish or Welsh the rest are British citizenship holder, nothing more nothing less. British isn't just about Freedom of Speech etc not that we have Freedom of Speech anymore because we now have hate speech laws to keep the foreigners happy. We no longer have Freedom of Association, again, to keep the foreigners happy. We no longer have the freedom to eat whatever we want as pork is now banned in many schools across England and you guessed it - to keep the foreigners happy, how very British to ban pork in school lol and to bring in "hate speech laws".
The guy in this video said himself he belongs to the Pakistan Muslim community, so I guess he by his own claim is Pakistani muslim British.
Oh and Fyi the Pakistan Muslim "British" guy doesn't believe in democracy as he hopes Britain rejoins the EU without another a vote. And you're right Christianity has no influence in England anymore but the same can't be said for the muslim council of Britain and all those Muslim islamic sharia courts... Great.
It is imprudent to loosen national security measures simply to help assorted citizens "feel more British". Some British citizens feel no sense of loyalty, patriotism, or responsibilty to their mother country and refuse to cultivate any such feeling toward her. I usually agree with Maajid, but not on this point. He tends to suppose the event that resulted in his own paradigm shift would have the same effect on others.
He opposes racial profiling and also opposes government poking into a person's private business. He's a liberal at heart. He's merely stating those values.
British values change and that is a British value. We tolerate, but we honour fair play. We prize inventiveness and heritage, exploration and tradition. Inclusivity, openness, honesty and integrity are British values. Human rights however are an ideal, there are no rights outside of law, so in order to have rights you must observe the rule of law, and that means accepting the burden of responsibility. Democracy is compromise, not mob rule. We live in a secular liberal democracy and our elected government should represent and respect the majority will of the electorate.
I believe Maajid Nawaz would serve well to represent the values of the British people. If he were to stand for election in my ward he would receive my vote.
The original Windrush generation came here to the "mother country" as they wanted to be part of British culture. They were Christians, drank alcohol, liked cricket, football and pop music - all British stuff.
They got still got treated like poo.
Well, old bean, I was brought up in the 'working class' of Sydney, and don't want to alarm you old carrot, but we in the working class were brought up to be polite to people. I have met many a crass person who belongs to the upper classes old chap...and they think because they have oodles of money that they can treat those below then with total disdain. There is good in all classes: Lower, middle and upper, old syrup.
Why to deal with racial and diversity issues? Nation states are a better answer.
You cannot define Britishness, but you need to make that word more inclusive??
That's a bit confusing, how can you extend it's meaning if you can't define it??
Translation: "I don't believe British culture is White Brits' property" / "White brits' must kowtow and accept that anyone can appropriate their culture".
Love this guy. Gonna go buy his first book.
21 buthurt muslims disliked this awesome speech.
***** Some might. But they'll be called apostates by the Islamist. That's how Islam works.
+Hasnat Ibrahim
Who cares about him
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BRITAIN needs lorry 🚚 drivers not people like majid nawaz...if he had done a lorry licence,he would have been more helpful for Britain.🙄
Just heard the best come back to one of Maadji's six form rants "in the word of Judge Judy - why don't you open your ears and close your mouth" he got burned like a Joan of Arc
Ah Majid Nawaz... the guy who asks stuff like "What is native British?" talks about "British values?"...
See it's now 2020 5 years later and this is what we get if we hurt someone's feeling, it's all good to feel British but what about being British acting British obay British laws and not Shariah laws , to wave the British flag and not the isis flag,
What about our feelings when we can't be proud and wave the British flag because it might hurt the feeling's of so called British people come on Maajid, debate me , I'm not racist but what about our feelings we can't complain we can't say anything about the truth . because you can't handle the truth .
“Just because you can’t define it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist”.
Like Majjid Nawaz’s fervour, for a (quiet) Muslim Dominance of Britain maybe?
Demographically, he knows Britain will likely, one day, be majority Muslim, and he appears to be steering it in the most passive and eloquent way.
So, let’s take note maybe?
“Just because you can’t define it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist”!
And what are the "British Values"?
the plebs doffing their hat to the quality...somebody like that audience
ragean and then we can see someone with indian dress
Forelock tugging to folks with a posh accent.
That's the most important one.
In the Muslim world Majid is a giant among ants.
YES, PERHAPS WE CAN'T NECESSARILY DEFINE WHAT IT MEANS TO BE BRITISH, AMERICAN, CHINESE ,ETC ; BUT WE KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE ! BUT MORE IMPORTANT IS FEELING AND BEING SENTIENT, CONSCIOUS, ALIVE EXPERIENCING, LOVE, COMPASSION, JOY, SADNESS , CURIOUSITY, ETC, ETC AS A HUMAN BEING AND THAT OUGHT TO TRANFORM ONESELF INTO A HIGHER ORDER AND REALIZATION THAT TRANSENDS NATIONALISM AND TRIBALISTIC IDENTIFICATION !
Yeah.... that would work if every other Briton were to agree, point for point, with his "definition" of what being British is all about. But they don´t, do they? I daresay outside the hallowed halls of Oxford University, or metropolitan London, few would, point for point. So the entire argument falls flat on its face.
6 years on and it's still the same if not worse.
Define African, let countries who are majority black retire black but define a new term of the specific country they live in because of mass migration of whites for example! And it must be forced by equality movements! Let me see it go unscathed by any media or SJW's. We know equality or the shrinkage of white population(multiculturalism) is only good in white majority countries! In others, UN would hold a council and whites would be held accountable! British people actually think that becoming a minority in their own city is a good thing...
Tags Hagar you are ignorant. Maahig is doing the best for Islam he is Muslim and I am Christian apologist I recognize the mistake of my religion. He does a great to his faith and others people. He seeks the Muslim to assimilate in the society they lived.😀
You're not mehdi hassan u fool.
True
Mehdi Hassan is a filthy Muslim Taqqiya specialist.
Maajid is a great guy
1:50 humorous. It’s like in the US where Caucasian individuals in the south are sometimes impressed by a well-spoken African American
he's changed now, to and he's better, I think he's learnt to think
If you can't define what being British is then you don't have a British identity at all. A "feeling" isn't going to cut it. Belonging to a tribe everybody feels that. But what is it specifically that distinguishes the British tribe from all the others?
A nation is ultimately divided by border, language, and culture. The problem is Western Civilization is in an identity crisis at the moment.
We don't need any muslim to tell us what we should be doing. He should be telling his muslims what they should do (Grow Up).
He does
Your Pakistani mate wake up
By definition 'British values'/ Britishness are broad terms to encompass all values and lifestyles held by British citizens. Hence, the most patriotic guy on the street and the most disillusioned citizen have the exact same level of 'Britishness' and both embody British values.
This guy make lot of sense
No, no he really doesn't! He can't even define what it means to be British.
The right to silence has issues, if it's done as some sort of protest by a liberal minded individual to prove a point, get over it. If it's done by a migrant triing to avoid being ddeported then were's the problem. It requires both sides to be truthful and honest. SOME HOPE!!
Like signwriters striking by holding sticks in the air.
Well you must be sensing that 'feeling' of the British 'class' system too Maajid? Where do you place yourself in that then?
Is it important?
Is Dominic Grieve also there?
What about language, can one be brittish if their (or one of their) mother tongue(s) is some form of british english?
You can't define British? Then how do you talk about it?
Maybe he meant we cannot agree on its definition.
would have been able to roughly agree 80% 50 years ago, I'm sure
@@mjh277
If you have English Scottish or Welsh ancestor's/DNA then you're British, it really is as simple as that. He always felt like a foreigner because he isn't English, he is a British citizenship holder. British citizenship can be striped for some born in Britain but not for the English Scottish or Welsh because we're British.
Really poor argument
Maajid nawaz is as British as you will get 💪💪
He said himself he belongs to the 'Pakistan Muslim community' so very British, as British as you can get.
He has zero English Scottish or Welsh in him, he is a British citizenship holder but he is as British as you will get lol after all being British is just a "feeling"
majid please don't ever come
Not to worrie Maj .I'm still around ????????
Brilliant... Nawaz for PM :)
What is actually meant by British values that some people are not following? Is fornication and producing bastered children a British value? Is being athiest agnostic a British value? Eating with left hand instead of right?
Is loving homosexuals a British value, if so then since when ?
5:00 he's such a colossal bull shitter!
03.25 We should advocate gender equality. He forgot to mention (as long as we have the occasional visits to strip clubs allowed).
William Sheikhspeare whats wrong with strip clubs : (
+William Sheikhspeare There are male strippers you imbecile. Males and Females can both be strippers, and go to a strip club.
Dumbass.
Majid should be in a garden centre ..because he's been well planted .by the elite and the bad people .......keed looking and open all your ears ????? And watch him slip up on many facts and points .......in all his work.....I just hope he enjoys the 2 yes 2 million pay off 😲shock horror ....
Being human is not enough for races to coexist . We have to be compatible and we are clearly not .
If uk citizens had no other countries citizens living here and they were asked you have to choose one of two races to live in the UK with us
Americans or Pakistani people the answer would be Americans because the UK has a greater friendhsips with Americans that.pakistan because we are more alike and more compatible and share simiar values
I as an englishma. Would fgh and die to protect our American brothers and there country because there is love for us which I feel from America .
Buy I would never fight for the security or Pakistan because you are not allies you ate a darker tace that does not have out best interests at heart
You can't define British?
Omegalul
#DontBomb #OpenTheTeapots
Okay, you can be British but we need to be careful not to hijack a race and ethnicity.
have few questions for believers.i what sense they are better than atheist.are they medically more healthy, intellectually more enlightened, scientifically more advance, socially more civilized, money wise less courpt,more humane,more tolerant towards weaker sex, doesn't desires life of comfort including having advance gadgets and lastely live longer than the atheist.my own conclusions is that at the best they are not different than the others including atheist and on some of the areas they are even worse.first they are closed mind as they argue that whatever is written in Kuran bible and gita can't be challenged and everything in it scientifically validated.believer of one religion fights with others saying there holly Book and god are real and superior as political parties and theirs leaders and activists do.you have to Praise and pray the God otherwise he will become unhappy as is the case with mafia don or any other boss.preachers by remembering the religious texts become scholars and beyond reporachable.even god is not capable of binding the followers of religion in a cohesive and loving community as take muslim they keep on fighting among themselves on the name of sects, language,and nationality.prime example is Kurd people who are being killed by Iran, Iraq, turkey and Syria though they too are muslims.same infighting happens in Hinduism and christianity following countries.actually anybody can write volumes on this subject but believers are so brainwashed that they can claim whatever vaccine is developed to fight coronavirous was prescribed thousands of years back by theirs great god.
Trans rights!
Yassss!
Just bc you don't know how to define smthn doesn't mean you shouldn't fight for the right/ doesn't mean it's not important and means a great deal to our emotions and humanity!
Thank you MN!
can ben Shapiro watch this? Lol
1:54
What a load of nonsense! How can you feel British if cannot define what is British?
No racial-profiling = hindering the work of the police.
What a nonsensical speech
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Maajid is a wolf
whole load of nothing !
He has a slimy character. Don't know why can't trust him...
what does he say or has he said that could make you not trust him? Are you a muslim? (jokes)
Don't be fooled by this guy.
British People are desperate to promote their values, beginning with chucking enemy combatants and their agents and agencies out of the UK. Maajid Nawaz is on the list; we know all about you mate.
I see too many White statues there? Where are the African and Arabic statues?
There are over 200 countries on earth with 200 different races who clearly and naturlay defined themselves as different from others
They have not joined under one flag because if these differences there was not enough trust .
So no Pakistani people cannot be briyish which is why you are not Integrating with the native people's of the UK
Multiculturalism has failed in the UK for this reason because we are different so everyone not native to this land should go home to there ancestrial lands
This was such a useless waste of time
It's promoting libertarianism, secularism and freedom of speech. That's not a waste of time.
That's part of British culture, and if anyone wants to live in Britain, they must be embraced, because it's what makes Britain a nice place to live.
@@hareecionelson5875
He supports hate speech laws in British, so much for freedom of speech. He also supports pork being banned from school's across England. He also believes Brexit should be scrapped and we shouldn't leave despite the vote to leave. So I'm not quite sure what you're talking about.
@@alfielee6567 No, Majid Nawaz certainly does not support hate speech laws, and I doubt very much he's looking to ban pork from schools, given that he is secular.
As for brexit - the public were sold a lie that has been, and is continuing to be costly. But it's happened now, only watching the "I told you so"s pile up.
@@hareecionelson5875
You're wrong, he does support hate speech laws, he said so on that panel show on youtube. And FYI, pork is already banned in many schools across London and Birmingham and he said it was a good thing as 'school teachers don't have the time to check what children are always eating', after that muslim child was given pork by mistake.
How were people sold a lie in regards to Brexit? Do you mean people voted to leave full stop and yet we're still stuck in the European court of human rights? Or do you mean the EU still dictate some of GB law's? Or when they said 'lets take back control of our borders" and yet they've failed miserably? If so, you're right, leave means leave and until that is achieved we didn't get what we voted for. Before we partly left the EU GB was nearly 3 trillion in debt and printing money at a faster rate than news papers whilst also borrowing money from the EU etc, housing crisis, police crisis, NHS crisis, schooling crisis, prison crisis etc etc and now we also have an energy crisis due to butting our nose into a yet another war in Europe that has nothing to do with GB.
Sweden had the perfect country before they poked their nose into World politics and opened it's border's and now they've caused so many problems for themselves. World politics is a nightmare including Europe. So you all can stick your "told you so" where the sun don't shine
@@alfielee6567 Those ideas sound a lot closer to Hassan Medhi than Nawaz. considering that Nawaz spends a lot of his LBC radio air time lamenting the loss of freedom of speech through stupid hate speech laws, I still don't believe that Nawaz has come out in favour of criminalising hate speech.
You're not British. "Sense of belonging", does anyone have a sense of belonging in this country?
Britishness can be defined: Anyone who was born in the British Isles, and who is the descendent of a line of people who have lived in Britain for centuries, if not millennia. The nations of the British Isles are: the English, Scots, Welsh and Irish.
You may be a British citizen Maajid, but you are not British. You are not what anyone immediately thinks of when we use the term: British people. If the British people, as I define them, disappeared from the British Isles, then these islands would no longer be British. You are British by extension of my existence.
I don't say these things to hurt anyones feelings, I say them to protect people. If we keep on down this road of pretending people; like for example these current refugees, are somehow our long lost brothers, and who as soon as they put their feet on British soil, immediately relieve themselves of their former identity as Syrians, or wherever else they come from, then we are going to head down a grizzly path of self-destruction.
We are all British citizens, here in Britain. But we must make the necessary distinctions if we are going to have an intelligent and informed discussion about demographics and immigration in this country.
+Ayoub Mekkaoui Colonists in America and Australia did not consider themselves to be American and Australian for a long time. They considered themselves to be British. It took a few generations for a new identity to kick in.
I do not know how this applies to immigrants in the U.K. today, but it is an important question to explore.
+MrCool Mug
Complete nonsense. Take someone like Jim Al Khalili. Born in Iraq. Moved to Britain as a child. Physics professor at a university, president of the british humanist association, married to an english woman, spends weekends watching football, speaks with an english accent.
What on earth does it matter that he isn't descended from a line of people who lived in Britain for centuries. He contributes more to the country, and in the spirit of the culture of the country, than 90% of white britons.
gary wood
Well done. You've found the Wheres Wally of integrated foreigners.
If you think people like him are the majority then you are sorely mistaken. I don't have a problem with people who do integrate into our society as best they can, in the spirit of becoming British, if not in blood but in spirit. My problem is with the majority of immigrants and refugees, who come here from around the world and are given no incentive to "integrate" as best they can, because they move into their little ghettoes, speak the language of the old country, and carry as they had before they moved here. I don't want to smash ghettoes either! because I know that truth be told, these people could never fully integrate, they will always be different from us.
Let them stay, and just stop bringing more people in. Thats the simple answer.
MrCool Mug I never said he was the majority.
I'm not the one who phrased it as an absolute. You did. To break an absolute rule, you only need find 1 exception.
gary wood
I never made any such absolutes. I was being quite accurate in what I believe is true. We have to talk in generalities. Those generalities you have neither refuted or condemned. Why did you even bother talking to me?
Did the motion pass?