A senior Church of England bishop, Dr. Michael Nazir-Ali, says Islamic extremists have created zones in England where Christians and non-Muslims dare not go, for fear of their safety:
The Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester and the Church's only Asian bishop, says that people of a different race or faith face physical attack if they live or work in communities dominated by a strict Muslim ideology.Bishop Nazir-Ali warns that attempts are being made to give Britain an increasingly Islamic character
Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, he compares the threat to the use of intimidation by the far-Right, and says that it is becoming increasingly difficult for Christianity to be the nation's public religion in a multifaith, multicultural society.
His comments come as a poll of the General Synod - the Church's parliament - shows that its senior leaders, including bishops, also believe that Britain is being damaged by large-scale immigration.
Bishop Nazir-Ali, who was born in Pakistan, gives warning that attempts are being made to give Britain an increasingly Islamic character by introducing the call to prayer and wider use of sharia law, a legal system based on the Koran.
In an attack on the Government's response to immigration and the influx of "people of other faiths to these shores", he blames its "novel philosophy of multiculturalism" for allowing society to become deeply divided, and accuses ministers of lacking a "moral and spiritual vision".
Echoing Trevor Phillips, the chairman of the Commission for Equalities and Human Rights, who has said that the country is "sleepwalking into segregation", the bishop argues that multiculturalism has led to deep divisions.
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Lynn:
Powell was, in context, speaking about skin color as much if not more than religion. The (admittedly alarming) rise of militant mosques, in the East End of London and some of the (former) manufacturing towns in the Midlands and North, has only occurred in recent years in the U.K.
Derek:
The former, clearly ...
Larry said:
" . . . The (admittedly alarming) rise of militant mosques, in the East End of London and some of the (former) manufacturing towns in the Midlands and North, has only occurred in recent years in the U.K."
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Larry:
There have been lots and lots of Islamic Hijrahs in the last 1400 years, and "recent" does not necessarily mean unprecedented or out of character. Andrew Bostom has alot to say about the outcome of those previous migrations - and for the most part, I'm betting it's a pretty bleak tale. (Any day now, I'm going to start reading "The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of the Non-muslims." Really.)
Lynn:
How could you not read my comment and not thought I meant IN THE U.K.?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Huh? Of course you're talking about the UK. My point being, that the "hijrah" of muslims in the UK (or anywhere else, for that matter) is just one of many such migrations, and that, although radicalisation may appear to be a recent phenomenon - it may actually be part and parcel with islam's central narrative: a process of initial migration - peaceful at first, while the community is weak - followed by a period of consolidation of power and implementation of Islamic norms, leading up to agression, confrontation and ultimately conflict for the dominance of Islamic law. . . .
Maybe I missed something.
It is not possible for multiculturalism to succeed and there are few that dare to research into or debate about the problems that immigration has caused. Even so, if you Google «failure of multiculturalism» you get more than 700 results. We need to be less concerned about what is politically correct and more concerned about what is true. Any researcher daring to conduct objective research into the consequences of mass immigration risks becoming an outcast deprived of research funds and employment.
We cannot possibly absorbe into our society all of the needy from every corner of the world. The third world has to take responsibility for limiting its population growth otherwise its economies will never develope. Well-meaning journalists and academics suppress criticism; official support and funding are given exclusively to those that sing the praises of multiculturalism and that intentionally marginalize native culture. In order for multiculturalism to succeed society in general would have to believe in it, but no-one really does. In reality multiculturalism results in the breaking up of society into alternative cultures in conflict with each other. Multiculturalism treats all cultures as if they were all equally good and functional. The tendency is to seek out and idealise the similarities between cultures while ignoring the incompatabilities, the result is the loss of any sort of cultural identity. Realities such as the systematic discrimination of women under Islam are conveniently ignored.
A society can only function if there is a common culture in which all of its groups can at least agree upon which political system and which code of conduct it is to follow. The family, local communities, a national state and European civilisation are all under threat from multiculturalism. The loss of these institutions will result in; chaos, terror, the call for a strong leader and inevitably war. The glue that binds us together is being dissolved. Liberalists and socialists campaign for freedom and equality while forgetting the requirements for brotherhood. Brotherhood requires national cohesion politically and culturally. The more immigration the less there is that unites society and the more there is that divides it. There is less solidarity and less will to finance the welfare state, as evidenced by widespread tax-evasion among immigrants. Immigrants are over-represented in crime statistics and it is a fact that more of the native population are murdered by immigrants than vice versa.
The Nation, that moral entity that has evolved through thousands of years of proud history is being eroded away and a weakened national identity encourages egoism rather than global solidarity.
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