ISLAMIST-inspired motorists continue to take the lives of innocent people by careering into crowds, mainly in Germany, and hordes of young mainly Muslim men arrive illegally on our shores. But the UK is making such overtures to the 7 per cent of its population who adhere to the purported ‘religion of peace’ that a visitor could be forgiven for thinking that we are an Islamic state.
Seemingly ignoring the fact that the major terrorist threat to the UK comes from Islam and the industrial levels of rape and sexual abuse meted out to young white girls by Muslim men, we are gaslit into believing that ‘diversity is a strength’. We are exhorted to celebrate the religions and customs of our minority communities, not only Muslims, almost to the complete exclusion of our own.
In my hometown of Hull, Iftar (the evening meal of Muslims in Ramadan) was celebrated in Hull Minster and was delightfully taken down in a rant by a couple of ‘Hulligans’ who asked, amongst other things, if there would be ‘a two-minute silence to reflect on all the Islamic-inspired terrorist atrocities that have happened’, an ‘Easter Day Hot Cross Bun Tasting at the Mosque’ or would ‘any camp gentlemen be directed straight up to the central tower without even a sandwich’.
Another example, an outrage in fact, is the cancelling of Easter celebrations by the headmistress of Norwood Primary School in Eastleigh, Hampshire. This was done in the name of ‘inclusivity’; an inclusivity which, ironically, excludes Christianity. Instead, the school will celebrate ‘refugee week’. Presumably the children will not be taught the distinction between legal and illegal refuges. They will doubtless be indoctrinated into the cult of multiculturalism and how it enriches our society except the bits about sharia law, knife crime and rape gangs.
The man who raised the cancellation of Easter celebrations on his Facebook page appears to have had his ‘thinking checked’ as he is now bending over backwards and sideways in issuing prolific apologies. He never meant for it to happen; clearly his understanding of social media was somewhat deficient.
While there is no evidence that Norwood Primary will be celebrating Ramadan or Eid (while it would not be surprising) plenty of other schools, many of them Christian, are doing so. These include Anglican schools St Mary’s Slough, St Peter’s Rochdale, St Peter’s Burnley and Emmaus (also a Catholic school) Liverpool. To be fair, none of these has cancelled Easter, but quite why any Christian schools should be celebrating events relevant to a religion which is completely incompatible with Christianity is hard to fathom.
Thus, Christmas cribs are deemed offensive to certain religious minorities; crucifixes likewise. While singing Christmas carols can be offensive to religious minorities, we increasingly hear the call to prayer being broadcast in parts of the UK, most recently inside the Christian chapel at Windsor Castle. Other Christian churches have broadcast the call to prayer and, in 2022, these included Westminster Abbey. On a positive note, it makes a refreshing change to see a religious ceremony taking place in an Anglican church.
London, which has a seemingly un-shiftable Muslim mayor, Sir Sadiq Khan, is festooned with lights celebrating the season of Ramadan. I have been in Islamic countries, including Saudi Arabia, during Ramadan and I have seen no such thing as Ramadan lights, only a few decorative but discreet lanterns. The kingdom now, and only recently, has adopted a Ramadan Lights initiative designed to attract tourists. We in the UK have been quick to follow suit. Without a care for Net Zero, global warming or increased emissions, Mayor Khan switched on the Ramadan lights at Piccadilly Circus.
Our ruling classes, represented by King Charles and Queen Camilla and by our Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, appear to have been recruited to the British Muslim Appreciation Society. The above-mentioned call to prayer in the Windsor Castle chapel was preceded by the embarrassing sight of our King and his Queen selecting dates for Iftar and packing them for a local hospital for the benefit of Muslim patients.
Our King seems to be fully signed up to the Islamification agenda. He founded Mosaic which brings together ‘Muslim men and women from across ethnic and theological difference who are holding positions of religious authority for a leadership programme’. A key figure in Mosaic is Asif Aziz (the ‘meanest landlord in Britain’) who established the Aziz Foundation to bring together his philanthropic works, including Mosaic.
His ‘philanthropic works’ include trying to establish a mosque at Piccadilly Circus and the Aziz Foundation provided the background work for the execrable APPG on British Muslims which seeks to ban any criticism of Muslims or Islam. Christians and Christianity are, of course, ‘fair game’. The Aziz Foundation, as well as bankrolling Sadiq Khan’s Ramadan lights, also funds a media watchdog run by the government-proscribed Muslim Council of Great Britain.
There is clearly a campaign to educate the wider population about Muslim ways, especially related to Ramadan, and the mainstream press acts as a willing mouthpiece. Barely a report of the date-packing incident or Iftar fails to include the fact that dates are the food traditionally eaten first to break the Ramadan fast at the end of each day. The mainstream media plays a significant role in our re-education.
If our media and social elites are to be believed, there is a national obsession with Ramadan and an enforced awareness that it is taking place and uninvited insights into what Muslims undergo during Ramadan. We have, as at least one university has told its staff, to support Muslims during this time of ‘additional challenges’. The same university is distributing free ‘Iftar packs’ to its Muslim students. What happens if a non-Muslim takes one is not explained. On the same note, all meat available at some UK universities is halal. Those who wish the animals from which their meat comes to be slaughtered humanely have no choice but to eat halal meat.
The Iftar roadshow moved from royal to parliamentary premises when it was celebrated, the call to prayer being duly issued, in Westminster Hall. The assembled multitude of Muslims were addressed by Starmer, who focused on how it was ‘a difficult time for Muslims in the UK’. The difficulty for Muslims arose because of what was happening in Gaza and how that conflict abroad was affecting Muslim communities ‘here at home’. There was no reference to the death of Palestinian Christians and destruction of Christian churches in Gaza, let alone to the October 7 hostages still in captivity there. One imagines it is also a hard time for their friends and relatives in the UK.
A remarkable number of blind eyes have been turned to the weekly pro-Palestine protests on our streets involving Muslims and their fellow-travellers such as Queers for Palestine and the outpouring of bile towards Jews and Israel. You do not have to be a Zionist or a supporter of Israel’s actions in Gaza to wonder how long such protests would be tolerated if the outpouring of hatred was aimed at Muslims.
While many Muslims find deep spiritual significance in Ramadan, it raises the question of why non-Muslim communities are increasingly expected to participate in public acknowledgments of the event. Having an early breakfast and then a huge meal in the evening is no great hardship, although not drinking even water possibly needs some reconsideration. Why we non-Muslims must make such accommodation, largely unprompted by our Muslim communities, is opaque to say the least.
We are not imposing Ramadan on UK Muslims. Notwithstanding some cultural and community pressure, they participate of their own volition. Christians often simultaneously observe Lent. But, in terms of fasting, penance and almsgiving, we are instructed in theBible to ‘oil our heads’, dress properly and not to let our ‘left hand know what our right hand is doing’, meaning that our observance and practices are largely private. On that basis, it would probably be impossible to have communal celebrations akin to ‘Big Iftars’ like those recently witnessed inside our national monuments.
Another obvious question arises about the extent to which any of this would be reciprocated by the Muslim community. There are not yet any Christian Churches in Saudi Arabia and manifestations of the Christian faith such as wearing a cross or possessing a Bible are forbidden.
It is distressing to think where this will end for the UK. I imagine our political overlords are acting in good faith under the impression that we must ‘reach out’ to our Muslim brethren, make them feel safe in our country and show them we are not prejudiced. Only thus will they integrate and not impose the Caliphate upon us. Such naivety is staggering. If this is how we act when the Muslim population lies at 7 per cent, how will we behave when it is 10 per cent, 15 per cent, and growing? It increased by 1.6million in the decade up to 2021.
Predictions of a Muslim majority in the UK by 2050 may be exaggerated. But that is to miss the point. A majority is not required for Islam to wield power in this country. Pressure grows for Sharia courts, already present in the UK, to have legal jurisdiction. An insight into how they might work was provided by the Koran dropping incident involving an autistic boy in West Yorkshire. The boy was issued with death threats, taken to task publicly by an Islamic leader and his mother humiliated, with members of the Yorkshire police present.
The UK is in danger of sliding into a cultural abyss and a moral vacuum where traditional British values, and the Christian religion, are eclipsed by Islam. The tragedy is that we will have done this to ourselves.
