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October 31st, 2020 
Awake Goy 
“Scottish Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf reeled off a list of positions in Scottish public life, all held by white people. But he conspicuously failed to mention that Scotland is 96 percent white, as it didn’t fit the narrative.
A strange and confusing scene befell the Scottish Parliament earlier this month. Like most people on the planet (and indeed in Scotland), the incident passed me by at the time, but it came to my attention after footage began circulating on social media.
The clip in question features the Scottish Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf reeling off a list of positions in the Scottish legal profession and law enforcement, and then saying – or more accurately, spitting – the word “white” after them.
You might think he was describing the colour of tiling they had all opted for in their bathrooms. But no, Mr Yousaf was pointing out the melanin levels of these senior lawyers, judges and policemen.
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Mr Yousaf, who is not white, then decided he would talk directly to his pastier constituents and said: “As people of colour, we don’t need your gestures. Don’t just tweet Black Lives Matter. Don’t just post a hashtag. Don’t just take the knee. Don’t just tell us how you’re not a racist – I take that as a bare minimum. You must be anti-racist.”
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/493284-west-self-hatred-humza-yousaf-scotland-facts-feelings/
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“Building links with Pakistan” [18/10/13]
“Scottish Government makes its first visit to the country.
The Minister travelled to Pakistan from India, where he undertook a range of business, trade and investment engagements over six days to strengthen Scottish connections with that country. Both India and Pakistan are priority nations for the Scottish Government’s overseas engagement.
“Scotland’s Pakistani diaspora have contributed immeasurably to our way of life. We have a vibrant and diverse Pakistani community and many Scots, like myself, have strong family, business or other connections with Pakistan.
“The Scottish Government’s ambition is to build on and strengthen the historic and modern links between our nations. Pakistan is the world’s 15th largest economy, the world’s third largest English-speaking nation and has a population of 172 million – of which two thirds are under the age of 25.
Humza Yousaf is the first Muslim Minister to be appointed to the Scottish Government.
His father was born in Mian Channu, Pakistan in 1956 and came to Scotland in 1964. His father’s parents were born in Pathankot, India, but moved to Mian Channu, Pakistan post-partition. His mother’s parents were born in Ludhiana, India before moving to Faisalabad, Pakistan post-partition. His paternal grandfather was a tailor in Pakistan and worked in the Singer sewing factory in Clydebank when he came to Scotland.
There are currently a number of business and trade links between Scotland and Pakistan. In 2011 exports to Pakistan were worth £25 million. There are currently around 5,000 visitors to Scotland from Pakistan each year with expenditure of around £2 million – £4 million. There are links between schools in Glasgow and Pakistan through the British Council’s Connecting Classrooms programme. In 2008/09, around 640 students from Pakistan were studying at Scottish universities and colleges. Direct university to university and college to college links exist including through the Commonwealth Scholars & Fellows programme.”
https://news.gov.scot/news/building-links-with-Pakistan
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Re: The Controlled Op – Tommy Robinson – Article by:
“Mohammed Ansar: My 18 months with former EDL leader Tommy Robinson”
“Three hours of debate followed. Tommy meanwhile seemed to enjoy ordering the most expensive thing on the menu. He liked his steak on the rare side. At the end of it we both tweeted two statements from Tommy – that I “must be reading a different Qur’an to everyone else” and “if every Muslim was like you there would be no problem”. The response was shocked and sceptical. That I had passed the Tommy Robinson test for acceptability was nothing to be pleased about. He had to meet more people. We needed to do more work.
In the midst of all this came the brutal killing of drummer Lee Rigby. The morning after, I joined the media junket in Woolwich. I felt we needed to not only condemn the attack but to promote unity among communities, to call for tolerance and to ask for people to search out peace. A few days later I met Tommy again, in the back streets of Newcastle, where an EDL rally was being held.
We got into a heated debate almost immediately. I challenged him, claiming he was going to stoke fear and increase tensions. He was pumped. He wasn’t listening. A sizeable crowd gathered quickly at the end of the road and our debate ended up being little more than a platform for Tommy to vent. And then it happened again. We both looked at each other, sighed, laughed and before I knew it, he had put his arm around me. A little taken aback, the anti-fascist in me despised it, but the person of faith accepted it. I had to laugh. How can we begin to build a bridge if I cannot accept a gesture, however cynical?
It was only when I arrived in Bristol the next morning that Nicky Campbell showed me we had been “papped” and the picture was in the Sunday Mirror.
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One of those days when we did see him was when visiting the Aisha mosque in Walsall. In the wake of an attack on the mosque, the committee had – remarkably – invited Tommy and I to film there. We arrived to find they had prepared an enormous spread of food (while Tommy was respectful he still refused to eat) and we toured the mosque with sheikh Ibrahim Mogra, assistant general secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain, discussing the place for an enlightened Islam and mosques in contemporary society. It felt as if we were making progress.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/19/my-journey-with-edl-tommy-robinson
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