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The Telegraph informs us in a deserving article by Jonathan Wynne-Jones about "no-go zones for non-Muslims" in Britain.
The article is, as I said, basically deserving and I suppose we can not expect from a broadsheet newspaper anything more bold. However, as long as we don't even dare to address the problem without the use of euphemisms, relativations and weak, vague and fuzzy statements, such as to blame the Government instead of the immigrants themselves for the failure to integrate (I wonder why other immigrant groups are not doing too badly, integrationwise), or letting a speaker of the British Muslim blather about the lack of "proper evidence", we won't be able to solve it -- in Britain or anywhere else where Christians have become an endangered species.
Read all at Roncesvalles.
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One Bishop Who Knows about What He Is Talking - Christians Endangerd In Muslim Neighborhoods
The Telegraph informs us in a deserving article by Jonathan Wynne-Jones about "no-go zones for non-Muslims" in Britain.
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.If the Bishop of Blackburn is talking about "faiths" (plural), I wonder which faiths that might be. Jews? Hindus?
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.
David Davis, the shadow home secretary, has accused Muslims of promoting a kind of "voluntary apartheid" by shutting themselves in closed societies and demanding immunity from criticism.
In the Synod survey, to be published this week, bishops, senior clergy and influential churchgoers said that an increasingly multi-faith society threatens the country's Christian heritage and blamed the divisions on the Government's failure to integrate immigrants into their communities.
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Bishop Nazir-Ali, whose father converted from Islam to Catholicism, was criticised by Ibrahim Mogra, of the Muslim Council of Britain. He said: "It's irresponsible for a man of his position to make these comments.
"He should accept that Britain is a multicultural society in which we are free to follow our religion at the same time as being extremely proud to be British. We wouldn't allow 'no-go' areas to happen. I smell extreme intolerance when people criticise multiculturalism without proper evidence of what has gone wrong."
But the Bishop's concerns are shared by other members of the General Synod.
The Rt Rev Nicholas Reade, the Bishop of Blackburn, which has a large Muslim community, said that it was increasingly difficult for Christians to share their faith in areas where there was a high proportion of immigrants of other faiths.
Read the rest here.
The article is, as I said, basically deserving and I suppose we can not expect from a broadsheet newspaper anything more bold. However, as long as we don't even dare to address the problem without the use of euphemisms, relativations and weak, vague and fuzzy statements, such as to blame the Government instead of the immigrants themselves for the failure to integrate (I wonder why other immigrant groups are not doing too badly, integrationwise), or letting a speaker of the British Muslim blather about the lack of "proper evidence", we won't be able to solve it -- in Britain or anywhere else where Christians have become an endangered species.
Read all at Roncesvalles.
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From the Daily Mail: One of the Church of England’s most outspoken bishops is to resign a decade early after years of disenchantment with the liberal drift of Anglicanism.The Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali – the Church’s only Asian diocesan...
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Because I think the Archbishop of Canterbury is such an idiot, and his calling for Sharia in Britain a treasonous act possibly calling for the ultimate punishment, I can't help but post all the latest news with regards to this issue as soon as it...
- Another Death Threat (uk)
This time, against the UK Bishop of Rochester, who spoke out about Muslim no-go areas in the UK. Not only are certain Muslims incensed. The Church of England doesn't approve of the bishop's stance, either. From this source on February 2, 2008:...
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The Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, is under police protection after he and his family received death threats over his claim that parts of Britain had become “no-go areas” for non-Muslims. The Bishop is also facing anger from the most senior...
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Thanks to Religion of Pieces for sending this to us. From BBC News: A senior Anglican bishop has accused many Muslims of being guilty of double standards in their view of the world. The Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali, told the Sunday Times some...