One of the all-time great Rock Hall moments: Dolly’s “Jolene” with Rob Halford (Judas Priest), Pat Benatar, Annie Lennox, Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran), Pink, and Sheryl Crow. Zac Brown Band held it down as the house band.
Rest easy, Dolly 🤘
The doctor who delivered Dolly Parton in a one-room Tennessee cabin in 1946 was paid with a sack of cornmeal. Her father farmed other people's land and could not read or write. Eighty years later, the reading program she built in his name has mailed more than 300 million books.
She wrote "I Will Always Love You" on the same afternoon she wrote "Jolene," as a goodbye to Porter Wagoner, and released it in 1974. Elvis wanted it. The night before the session, Colonel Tom Parker called and said Presley would only record it if they got half the publishing, meaning half of everything the song ever earned. She had been in Nashville ten years by then. She said no, and cried all night. Whitney Houston cut her version in 1992, held number one for fourteen weeks, and Forbes later put Parton's royalties from it near $10 million. She put some of that money into an office complex in Nashville and called the place the house that Whitney built.
Dollywood opened in Pigeon Forge in 1986 because she wanted paychecks in the county she came from. Around 4,000 people work there now. Three million visitors come every year. The University of Tennessee put its economic impact at $1.8 billion, and it is the largest employer in Sevier County. Since 2022 the company has paid tuition, fees, and books in full for every worker from their first day, seasonal hires included.
Wildfires tore through those mountains in November 2016, killing fourteen people and destroying more than 2,400 buildings. Her foundation was handing out money within 48 hours. Every family that lost a home got $1,000 a month for six months, regardless of income. The final check was $5,000. Total delivered: $8.9 million.
In April 2020 she sent $1 million to Vanderbilt for coronavirus research. When Moderna's vaccine results ran in the New England Journal of Medicine that November, her fund appeared in the footnotes.
Carl Dean, her husband of nearly sixty years, died in March 2025. The note she wrote to fans afterward ended with the same five words she wrote for Porter Wagoner back in 1974. She died in Nashville today. Her family asked that instead of flowers, people give to the Imagination Library, which still mails 3.4 million books a month to children who will never get to meet her.
Without it having been officially declared, I believe the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is now, in effect and in different degrees, under Sharia law. Once we realise this, or at least accept it as a possibility, the actions of the UK Government, Parliament, Home Office, Foreign Office, Mayors of London and Manchester, Border Force, police forces, law courts, councils, media, education and culture industries stop being incomprehensible — which is what they have been for some time to the vast majority of the British people — and all make perfect, if still impossible to believe, sense.
But what is Sharia? Sharia is an Arabic word that means ‘way’ or ‘path’, and refers to a body of religious law based on the scriptures of Islam, and in particular on the Qur’an, which was dictated in the early-Seventh Century by the illiterate Arabian warlord and prophet, Abu al-Qasim Muhammad; but also on the Hadith, which refers to anecdotes about and statements made by Muhammad and his followers; and on the Sunnah, which records the traditions and practices of Muhammad that constitute a model for Muslims to follow. This includes, preminently, his marriage to a 6-year-old girl and rape of her when she was 9 years old. As a result, there is, for instance, no age of consent for marriage or sex under Sharia law, just as there is no legal category of rape.
But Islam is not only its so-called ‘holy’ books and the laws derived from them. Every time a Muslim rapes another British woman or knifes another British child or beheads another British man we are subject to wall-to-wall media coverage of Muslims telling us that rape and murder are contrary to the teachings of the Qur’an. As numerous quotations from this manual for the conquest and enslavement of non-Muslim peoples will confirm, they most certainly are not; but the British people have little interest in the correct interpretation of the dogma of Islam. Our interest is in how that dogma is used in practice both in countries already conquered by Islam and to justify the criminal, violent and obscene behaviour of Muslims in countries undergoing conquest. Countries like Britain.
The model for, and source of, the Islamisation of Britain is Pakistan — or, to give the state its full name, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. This is one of the 50 countries in the world in which the majority of the population is Muslim; one of the 48 states (including Muslim-minority countries) in which Sharia plays some role in the legal system; one of the 17 in which Islam is the State Religion; one of 8 that is an Islamic State; and the one country from which the majority of the Muslims living in and emigrating to Britain — nearly 2 million — have come.
With 235 million people and 96.3% of the population following Islam, Pakistan has the second largest Muslim population of any country in the world. As a result, Pakistan is now one of 13 countries (the others are Afghanistan, Bahrain, Brunei, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Mauritania, parts of Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen) in which Sharia is applied not only to family law (that is, overseeing marriage, divorce, custody of children, inheritance, etc.) but also to criminal law. In Sharia criminal courts, a Muslim woman’s testimony is worth half that of a Muslim man or disregarded altogether, and Hudud punishments (for crimes against Allah) include floggings for apostasy, refusing to pray, consumption of alcohol, extra-marital sex or homosexuality, amputations for theft and the stoning to death of women for adultery.
The Islamisation of Britain, however, extends well beyong the infiltration of Sharia into UK laws and its enforcement (most blatantly in two-tier policing and sentencing according to race and religion, whereby a Pakistani Muslim child rapist receives a lesser sentence than the Britain who protests against their crimes) and reaches into our politics, our civil society and our social and cultural practices.
Perhaps more important than whether or not the British people are ready to believe — even now — that Britain is already under Sharia law, a poll commissioned in 2024 by the Henry Jackson Society, a US national security think tank, found that 32% of Muslims living in Britain today expressed a desire for Sharia law to be implemented in the UK within the next 20 years, and the same percentage wanted Islam to be declared the national religion of Britain. The British people, in other words, who have been indoctrinated into self-hatred and national loathing by 30 years and more of propaganda, may not think Britain is being Islamised, but millions of Muslims living in Britain think it is, and under current UK immigration policy millions more will be joining them.
This doesn’t mean that Sharia laws have been formally incorporated into UK law, which is not how Islam, historically, goes about conquering non-Muslim countries far more powerful than the countries of the invading population. This is a far slower and more subtle process. Even in Pakistan — which is now categorised as an ‘authoritarian’ state, ranked among the 10 worst countries in the word for democracy, and in which the government operates under the de facto control of the military — the relationship between Sharia and the court system is incomplete and above all subject to the corruption of unqualified and corrupt judges.
In 1991, the Islamic State of Pakistan made into law the Enforcement of Sharia Act. This made Sharia the supreme law of Pakistan. As a consequence, new legislation, like the Punjab Protection of Women against Violence Act 2016, were challenged for being against the injunctions of Islam. Similarly, the Domestic Violence Bill 2020 could not be passed due to opposition from religious political parties and the Council for Islamic Ideology. While blasphemy laws passed under the military dictatorship of Zia ul-Haq, who ruled Pakistan between 1977 and 1988, could not be repealed despite repeated calls to do so from civil society.
Equally, homicide has been brought back under Qisas (retaliatory) and Diyat (compensatory) laws, which makes murder, rather than being a public offence against the state, a private offence against the victim and their families, who can seek blood money. Under such retaliatory justice, families have employed murderers to commit so-called ‘honour-killings’ of women in their own family with legal impunity.
In one case, village elders ordered the rape of a 17-year-old girl after her brother was accused of raping another girl. These are the same ‘elders’ through whom UK police now obediently communicate with the Muslim diaspora in Britain. Under Sharia law, it is women and girls who are punished for the crimes of men. Indeed, in 2003 the National Commission on the Status of Women in Pakistan reported that as many as 88% of women imprisoned in Pakistan were victims of rape or gang rape who were unable to provide the required four male witnesses, under Sharia law, to prove they were raped, and had therefore been convicted of unlawful sex (zinā). The Enforcement of Sharia Act 1991, in other words, has acted as an effective and insuperable barrier to the liberalisation and democratisation of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
This, it seems to me, tells us something about the similar but, at present, less advanced process of Islamisation in the UK, and why it is that Islam has been promoted as the ideology of the former nation states of Europe that have been so effectively dismantled by forty years of neoliberalism and the ideology of woke, and are now all but defenceless against the new political economy of stakeholder capitalism by which we are governed in the West. Islam — which the British people rightly associate with religious fundamentalism, cultural barbarity, misogyny, military dictatorship, human rights abuses, ‘honour’ killings, child rape and terrorism — is the ideology we are now expected to accept and embrace and not to oppose on pain of charges of racism, Islamophobia and our arrest for hate speech.
Unless we stop this, not with protests and marches and other out-of-date and useless spectacles of a democratic consensus that doesn’t exist but with revolutionary political action that will criminalise Islam as a terrorist ideology and deport every Muslim from Britain, there will come a time, soon, when the trafficking of our children in cages as sex slaves to Pakistan, the rape of our women on the street by gangs of Muslim men, and the beheading of our men by African savages, will not only become the norm it almost already is, but will be sanctioned under Sharia law, and anyone protesting against or opposing it will be arrested under its injunctions. The sectarian dungeon of Pakistan and the barbarous savagery of the Sudan is an image of our future in Britain, unless . . .