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Monday April 2, 2007

Good lord, what on earth is happening in Britain? Some schools refuse to teach about the Holocaust for fear of upsetting Muslims? Just how badly do the British people want to be dhimmis, anyway? Because that's where they're headed.On the...
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wildwest
April 2, 2007 9:27 PM
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Well, technically they don't have a separation of church and state like we do, but religious freedom is the law in the UK, isn't it? If so, the Wahhabists are legally bound to respect it. If I didn't trust the government to enforce it, I would not only emigrate. I would fear for the future.

BC
April 2, 2007 9:42 PM
www.thewildolive.blogspot.com

Getting briefly away from cosmic civilizational conflict mode:
On a practical level, heck yes, as a Christian I would partner with the conservative, God-fearing British Muslims on this one (provided the local flavor of Islam was not "hard line").
And my guess, Rod, is that you probably would too, as you seem to indicate.
Everyone feel the D'Souza love...

tovart
April 2, 2007 9:52 PM
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Emigrate ... to France.

Derek Copold
April 2, 2007 10:53 PM
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It's like a choice between Scylla and Charybdis.

Joey
April 2, 2007 11:32 PM
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It's interesting to think about. How would this kind of situation turn out? It could do an interesting swap---maybe the Arab Muslims will become not only the majority but, with stable family structures, the "upper class." Or will Wahhabism stand in the way of that? If it weren't such a serious question, it would be a fun sociological experiment. God bless.

Grumpy Old Man
April 2, 2007 11:41 PM
http://www.globaloctopus.blogspot.com

Oh to be in England Now that Eid is here They're putting hijabs on the Spice Girls, And pouring out the beer. No House of Lords, no Debretts' No more bacon, no more brew You'll be free to be a dhimmi But not, of course, a Jew.

Gretchen
April 3, 2007 1:17 AM
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/LizzieBee

The poor white Brits, after centuries of Christian domination, have reverted back to paganism--but without the tribal cohesion. No more clan leaders to keep the tribe in order, just the nihilism of post-modernism. Not a good defense against sharia law.

beauss
April 3, 2007 2:02 AM
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Anglophile that I am it depresses me to no end, but this is life in contemporary England. During the time I lived there I often wondered "How are Muslims supposed to integrate into a culture like this?" Even as a 24-year-old hell bent on a good time, I couldn't help sensing the spiritual poverty of life there. Have you ever gone to a wild party where for some reason or another you weren't drinking? There's no way not to feel like an outsider. That's what I assume it must feel like to be a British Muslim.

Donny
April 3, 2007 2:50 AM
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You give up the God of Abraham, Isaac AND JACOB!!!!! And in comes the god of Mohammad and the spirit of drunkeness. Yeah, that's about right. It's going to be a good street fight. That much I know.

Rod Dreher
April 3, 2007 3:33 AM
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N.B., Muslims believe that Allah is the same god as the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Remember that they claim Ishmael as their patriarch.

~tv
April 3, 2007 3:58 AM
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I must say, I do love the construction of that sentence: You give up the God of Abraham, Isaac AND JACOB!!!!! It's like an advertisement for God.
"He's not just the God of Abraham and Isaac... he's the God of Abraham, Isaac AND JACOB!!!!! New and Improved!!!!! Now with more Holiness than the other leading Deities!!!!"



See what happens when I have 2 glasses of wine with dinner instead of 1? Donny gets funny. *sigh*

Scott R.
April 3, 2007 4:08 AM
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Now I had 4 glasses of wine with dinner - and matzo - but I didn't find that too funny. Actually, I find the whole concept that talking about the Holocaust happening offending Muslims frightening.

Donny
April 3, 2007 4:11 AM
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Rod, What was said of Ishmael? Ignorance is not a virtue Rod. There were Arabs before during and after Ishmael was born to Abraham and after he and Hagar were forced out. Allah and his wife Allat were Arabic gods before Muslims started their holy war to take over earth. Jacob became "Israel." Get it? Mohammad had a visit from an Angel that got a lot of Biblical history wrong too. And we now have what we have. people lumping Muslims in with people that do not alter the Bible.

Osvaldo Mandias
April 3, 2007 5:10 AM
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50% MORE salvation!

George Bowling
April 3, 2007 9:21 AM
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I live in London and am Anglo-saxon born and bred and to be honest when I read stuff like this and watch the crap the BBC pours out or see pissed up yobs battling in the streets of genteel Ealing on a Friday night I kinda want to up sticks and move back to my wifes home country of Peru.

harvey lacey
April 3, 2007 1:28 PM
http://www.harveylacey.com

Wow. That's all that can be said. "Wow!" This conversation is not unlike one would expect working in the flower bed next to the back porch when the old ladies are having a gab fest. There are a couple of points that need to be made. First, Islam and the culture that supports it is no stronger and really no different than the culture of Christianity when it comes to facing the onslaught of modernity. The same things that initiate fracturing in the Christian faith will cause the fracturing of Islam as a social force. Both faiths use irrational concepts like separatism and divine design to legislate behavior. Modernity offers the concept of freedom for the individual. Freedom is a powerful force, look at US if you doubt. What is missing with modernity is a consensus on personal responsibility to the group. I attribute this to society being in a never land where old mores are being abandoned, throwing the baby out with the bathwater. And new ones haven't been adopted because the aptmosphere is polluted with divine design ideas. It's difficult to expect a young person to embrace Christian morality when they're bombarded with Christian immorality. That's a reality, an in your face and on your screen reality. What will happen eventually will be morality will be taught as self serving. It's in one's self interest to live a moral life. What's stopping that right now is morality wears the cloak of faith.

Rod Dreher
April 3, 2007 3:53 PM
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Wow. That's all that can be said. "Wow!" Which didn't stop you from saying more, all of it risible.

wildwest
April 3, 2007 4:16 PM
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harvey is right. Benjamin Franklin is supposed to have said, "If rascals knew the value of virtue, they would become virtuous out of sheer rascality." Now why did Donny put the emphasis on AND JACOB??? Muslims worship the God of Abraham, but not Isaac (his half-brother Ishmael instead). Edomites worshipped the God of Abraham and Isaac, but not Jacob (his brother Esau was their patriarch... any Edomites around anymore?). Whoever said the Arabs worshipped Allah long before the time of Ishmael certainly knows more about Arabic history than I ever did. I thought that was all prehistoric.

Donny
April 3, 2007 5:28 PM
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wildwest, The Mecca residents were worshipping many gods, two of them Allah and Allat. It is not "pre" historic. Arabs are part of the Islamic empire. It looks as if the war and violence to solve things fits nicely into the kind of history we see of the Middle East. It should be noted that people are free to not be Christian. It is illegal in Islamic countries to give up Islam. England is slated to be an Islamic nation soon. Muslims multiply by breeding. Soon the numbers will be there for Islam to dominate in a free society, just to take it away like it has in every other Islamic nation on earth todsay. Let's hope the pagans in England can survive the Islamitization of Europe by Muslims. The Meccans were not so lucky. NOW, the Holocuast is some how insulting to Muslims???? This is far more than just a double standard.
The Anti-Christ should be soon on the horizon.
And if Islam is anything, it is Anti-Christ. Christ Jesus IS the God of Abraham, Isaac AND JACOB!!!!

wildwest
April 3, 2007 5:45 PM
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Why the AND JACOB??? Jacob as opposed to whom?

Aaron
April 3, 2007 6:27 PM
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And we now have what we have. people lumping Muslims in with people that do not alter the Bible. People that do not alter the bible has been a lonely category for 2000 years.

~tv
April 3, 2007 7:43 PM
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Jacob as opposed to whom? I nominate Herschel from "Wholly Moses."

harvey lacey
April 3, 2007 8:36 PM
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Which didn't stop you from saying more, all of it risible. Rod Dreher Rod, I was laughing AT you and not WITH you. There's a difference you know.

Donny
April 4, 2007 6:40 AM
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Jacob is Israel. God renamed him. The son of Ishmael is not Jacob. Muslims hate Israeli's (Israelites) more than even Christians. It's interesting how a clear picture is so overlooked.

harvey lacey
April 4, 2007 2:46 PM
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Rod, I was laughing AT you and not WITH you. There's a difference you know. harvey lacey Of all meat we eat I've found crow the most difficult to swallow. I can chew it until I feel it's powder and it's still almost impossible to get down the gullet not to mention the aftertaste, what an after taste. I apologize to Rod and the readers for the above comment. I was out of line and it was wrong. It would be an immature act for a twenty something and is indefensible for an almost fifty nine year old.

harvey lacey
April 4, 2007 2:48 PM
http://www.harveylacey.com

Jacob is Israel. God renamed him. The son of Ishmael is not Jacob. Muslims hate Israeli's (Israelites) more than even Christians. It's interesting how a clear picture is so overlooked. Donny yes it is.......

Franklin Evans
April 4, 2007 8:18 PM
http://madfedor.blogspot.com/

Gretchen, the Brits you refer to are being abandoned by their faith, not vice versa. The British pagans I keep contact with all echo the same concerns as the Muslims, and lack only numbers and money in the overall comparison. Perhaps the positive values of the pagans will rescue some of the abandoned British Christians from further dissolution. I'm quite certain your allusion to the opposite will in fact not happen.

Ed Darrell
April 6, 2007 5:51 AM
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And here in America, repeated surveys show most science teachers are afraid of teaching about science straight up because of their fear of backlash from fundamentalist Christians. We has met the enemy, and they is us, Pogo said.

Dennis Colby
April 6, 2007 2:18 PM
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"The white Brits are increasingly a dissolute mob of drunkards who wallow in bastardy." "Increasingly"? Not to sound crass, but "a dissolute mob of drunkards who wallow in bastardy" is a marvelous summation of London crowd scenes from Shakespeare's time to the present.

Rod Dreher
April 6, 2007 2:45 PM
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Follow the links -- the rates of drunkenness and out of wedlock births are skyrocketing in Blighty.

Jim Rockford
April 7, 2007 3:32 AM
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This isn't anything new. This is how Brits behaved until Victorian morality set about improving them. About 25% of Women in London were prostitutes at the time of Wilberforce's campaign against Slavery. What to do? Wishy-washy post-Modernism rejects Western values of right and wrong, freedom, individualism in favor of shame at being Western. Everyone is better than Europeans. No wonder Europeans including Brits are awash with drunken-ness and are ashamed of their own country. Britain is irretreviably lost to Islam. The Islam btw of Osama. About 42% of Brit Muslims want to live under Sharia and soon they will get it. They are the force of the future and the future of Britain will look much like Modern Day Egypt. So, I would emigrate to America. Like most young Dutch and German people with brains are doing. There is no future in Eurabia, only the terms and details of the surrender to Sharia and Islam.

Laban
April 15, 2007 2:18 AM
www.ukcommentators.blogspot.com

The native Brits top European league tables for crime, drunkenness, sexually transmitted disease, violence, drug abuse etc.
These are pretty much all the indicators that you see in a native culture that has been destroyed then offered welfare. People studying the pathologies of the native Brits should take a look at what happened to Native Americans, Inuit, Australian aboriginals. The question is - what happened to Brit culture ? (IMHO the death of Christianity is the answer). Dalrymple has written that young Muslims will eventually become just as hedonistic and feckless as the natives - I'm not so sure. Nature abhors a spiritual vacuum.
The demographics are eye-popping though. Bastardy continues its inexorable rise among the natives - in (white) Wales and the North-East of England over half the births are now to the unmarried - but Swinging London, where half the population is of immigrant stock (and over half the births are to women themselves born abroad) has the lowest rate.
Birth rates are pretty much in inverse relation to bastardy rates. The North-East has the lowest birth rates, while immigrant areas have the highest. The English are still on course to become a minority in England before the century's end.
http://ukcommentators.blogspot.com/2004/12/welsh-are-bastards.html http://ukcommentators.blogspot.com/2006/12/naught-for-your-comfort.html http://ukcommentators.blogspot.com/2006/05/more-demographics.html

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