by Andrea Widburg
Back in March, I used my podcast to highlight Harman Singh Kapoor and his wife, Khushi Harman Kapoor. They are both Sikh, and they run a restaurant in London. Kapoor has been waging a fierce battle against rising Islam in the UK. Two of the ways he does so are to refuse to serve Halal food in his restaurant and to speak out against Islam. So, of course, the mob has been after him and his restaurant. Here’s just one example of what they face:
In sum, he is an outspoken anti-Muslim, and the mob is determined to silence him.
Things have been escalating lately, not in terms of the mob, but in terms of the Sharia-compliant British government. In March, the police arrested Kapoor following protests outside of his restaurant.
They were acting, they said, because he posted a video saying that if people tried to hurt his family, he was armed and ready to kill in their defense. In other words, the traditional British right of self-defense and defense of others, which no longer exists in the UK. Merely voicing it is an arrestable offense.
In May, the police again arrested him:
And then, last night (November 13), his wife said that the police again arrested Kapoor. Although they eventually responded to the mob (see below), it’s unclear whether any arrests were made, and as of her text, the mob was still baying at her door.
Enter help from an unexpected source: John Cleese—or at least, that’s what Kapoor’s wife claims, and Cleese has not refuted it. Moreover, his subsequent posts suggest he doesn’t intend to. Here’s what she had to say:
Cleese hasn’t explicitly addressed her shout-out to him, but his posts supporting Kapoor (including posts today), along with Cleese’s own revelation that the government is abandoning its ancient free-speech principles to appease Muslims, suggest she’s probably telling the truth.
So, what about John Cleese? We all know him as one of the funniest members of Monty Python’s Flying Circus and as Basil Fawlty. He has always been a leftist. But he was also raised in a now-distant UK that had a tradition of liberty. For that reason, he’s begun to realize that the modern UK has a problem.
As part of that realization, Cleese has done at least two things: First, he’s flirting with arrest by making jokes about Muslims:
The Sharia-compliant UK government doesn’t like this kind of thing.
Second, Cleese has been vocal about supporting Kapoor. Here is just one example:
Cleese was also paying close attention to the most recent mobs around Kapoor’s restaurant yesterday, for he retweeted a couple of posts about these attacks, including this one:
Since Kapoor’s arrest, Cleese has continued to voice anger at what happened, and to shout out support for Kapoor himself:
John Cleese has had a revelation that the rest of Britain must have if it is to survive. If it’s any help to the beleaguered Brits, they have America as a role model. In the second half of the 18th Century, British citizens in America were so dismayed by the British government’s failure to extend the ancient rights of Englishmen to the colonies that they fought a war to preserve those rights—and look how well that fight served America.
Keep an eye on this story. Maybe it’ll have legs and be the straw that broke the camel’s back when it comes to what polite, and way-too-meek Brits are willing to put up with from their increasingly sharia-compliant government.