Londonistan: How Britain Is Creating a Terror State Within
{{Short description|2006 book by Melanie Phillips}}
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{{Infobox book
| name = Londonistan: How Britain is Creating a Terror State Within
| italic title = force
| image = LondonistanUK.jpg
| author = Melanie Phillips
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| subjects = Islamic terrorism
Politics
| publisher = Encounter Books
| release_date = 2006
| media_type = Print (Hardcover)
| pages = 212
| isbn = 1-59403-144-4
| dewey = 363.3250941 22
| congress = HV6433.G7 P55 2006
| oclc = 64595883
}}
Londonistan: How Britain is Creating a Terror State Within is a 2006 best-selling[http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article3016028.ece The Times Christmas choice: politics] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706201718/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article3016028.ece |date=2008-07-06 }} The Times, 7 December 2007 book by the British journalist Melanie Phillips about the spread of Islamism in the United Kingdom over the previous twenty years. The book was published in London by Encounter Books.
Reception
According to Kenan Malik in The Independent, Phillips's arguments share some striking similarities with Islamists. He wrote that, "Both insist that we are in a religious world war between the forces of good and evil. Both believe that only religion can help restrain decadent behaviour and establish a proper moral framework. Both abhor the growth of secular humanism. Both see Britain as "a debauched and disorderly culture of instant gratification, with disintegrating families, feral children and violence, squalor and vulgarity on the streets".{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/londonistan-by-melanie-phillips-409502.html|title=Londonistan, by Melanie Phillips|date=2006-07-27|website=The Independent|language=en-GB|access-date=2016-06-16}}
Describing the book in The American Conservative magazine, the writer Theodore Dalrymple wrote "the British journalist Melanie Phillips documents not only the establishment and growth of Muslim extremist groups in London but the administrative incompetence and cultural weakness that permitted it to happen. Some pusillanimity that she records would be funny if it were not so deeply disturbing."{{cite news
| date = 12 February 2007
| title = Speak the Queen's Urdu
| author = Theodore Dalrymple
| author-link = Theodore Dalrymple
| work = The American Conservative
}}
Writing for The Daily Telegraph, the historian and writer Michael Burleigh decided that the book could not be more "timely" and praised her "sensible suggestions".Michael Burleigh, [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3653861/Why-we-now-grow-our-own-terrorists.html "Why we now grow our own terrorists"], The Daily Telegraph, 19 July 2006
David Smith, writing for The Observer, compared Phillips to "a crazed boxer" who "comes out swinging wildly and some of her punches land. ... But her shrill, hectoring tone does her no favours." Smith also claims that Phillips is wrong to say that piggy banks were banished from British banks in case Muslims were offended, "a small point, perhaps, but a telling one".David Smith, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/apr/22/features.review1 "Enemy within" (book review)], The Observer, 22 April 2007
Phillips has been noted to have praised the scholarship of Bat Ye'or, and Londonistan has been described by Christopher Othen as "her own book about the localised version of Eurabian dhimmitude all around her".{{cite book|title=Soldiers of a Different God: How the Counter-Jihad Movement Created Mayhem, Murder and the Trump Presidency|first=Christopher|last=Othen|page=63|year=2018|publisher=Amberley|isbn=9781445678009}}
See also
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- Criticism of multiculturalism
- Eurabia
- The Islamist
- Islamist demonstration outside Danish Embassy in London in 2006
- Islamophobia
- Londonistan
- Londonstani
- Undercover Mosque
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- {{cite book |last=Phillips |first=Melanie |author-link=Melanie Phillips |title=Londonistan |location=New York |publisher=Encounter Books |year=2006 |isbn=1594031444 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/londonistan00phil }}
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Category:2006 non-fiction books
Category:Criticism of multiculturalism
Category:Encounter Books books