There can hardly be a more graphic illustration of Britain’s helter-skelter slide into dhimmitude that this story:
Two Christian preachers were stopped from handing out Bible extracts by police because they were in a Muslim area, it was claimed yesterday. They say they were told by a Muslim police community support officer that they could not preach there and that attempting to convert Muslims to Christianity was a hate crime.
The community officer is also said to have told the two men: 'You have been warned. If you come back here and get beat up, well, you have been warned.' A police constable who was present during the incident in the Alum Rock area of Birmingham is also alleged to have told the preachers not to return to the district.
The noteworthy point about this incident is that it was a Muslim police ancillary officer who was involved. He did not uphold the law of the land, which gives people the freedom to say in public whatever they want within the law. Instead he upheld the Islamist principle that this particular area of an English city was a Muslim area, within which it was not permissible to do anything contrary to Muslim principles such as preach Christianity.
When the Bishop of Rochester recently warned that Britain was developing Muslim no-go areas, he was denounced the length and breadth of the establishment, with government ministers and bishops falling over each other to declare that they did not recognise the country he was describing. ‘There are no no-go areas in Britain’ they all declared. Well, here it is, in glowing technicolour and flashing lights, in Alum Rock Birmingham. What are they all saying now, those government ministers and bishops of the Church of England, to a situation where in the heart of England a British police support officer, employed by the British state to enforce the law of England, aggressively prevents Christians from preaching the established faith of England on the grounds that this is now a ‘hate crime’?
This is not a one-off. Alert readers will note that it was the West Midlands police force which tried to prosecute the Dispatches TV programme for revealing the true ‘hate crime’ in Britain’s so-called moderate mosques which preach hatred of the west and sedition. This in turn is only the tip of a much bigger iceberg. Up and down the country, police forces led by politically correct imbeciles are recruiting large numbers of Muslims, mainly as police community support officers like the officer in Alum Rock, in order to ‘build bridges’ with the Muslim community, and with minimal or non-existent security vetting in case they upset or offend the said Muslim community. The result is, among other things, the development of Muslim no-go areas enforced by British police officers.
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You do put up some interesting information!!Most of the time that I respond to something like this, I get myself into trouble. What I say seems pretty reasonable to me when I write it, but I guess maybe I don't explain it very well or something because people usually end up mad at me. But here goes.... if you feel it's inappropriate, please feel free to delete this comment. I sincerely don't want to be unfair to anyone.I know it's considered to be the "right" thing to do to treat everyone the same, but in any group of people, individuals or larger groups, there is frequently one that is going to be more agressive. We hate doing it, but sometimes it's essential to push back with the same amount of force. We find acting like this distasteful because we generally interact with people who have respect for their host country and try to fit into the population, by learning the language, customs and laws. I think we've all had to deal with this on a personal level, we've all had that houseguest that tried to change menus, even move the furniture around. If we are not able to send the houseguest packing, we need to establish rules that are suitable for all concerned, probably rules that heavily favor the people who own the house.It's sad that the Christians were treated like this, but where this is going next? I'm sure it won't stop there. Will they try to outlaw all religions and customs throughout the world except for Islam? In Canada, the Muslim children were permitted to carry daggers to school because it was part of their religion. Canadian children were forbidden to take knives to school. It was unheard of! Probably most of the Muslims are fine people, but we have to admit that some do have a reputation for fanaticism, and now we're letting them be armed?? We had moved from Canada before this happened, but if my kids had been in school then, I would have pulled them out and home schooled them.So what do you think, Keith? What Would Jesus Do?
ReplyDeleteLois you raise some great points.I think there is a lot of confusion between genuine religion and cultural issues. For example, many Muslim leaders see the west as being "christian" which it no longer is. Equally many things attributed to being Muslim are a cultural thing not a religious thing, such as carrying knives.Christians tend, by nature, to be less assertive of their rights than other people. We would rather pray for our leaders than fight for our rights. That means that scenarios like the one described in my post are quite common.Another factor is that while the dominant catch-cry in the West is "tolerance" that tolerance is by no means equally distributed. For example, the US media TENDS to portray homosexuals as nice loving people and Christians as narrow-minded bigots. The Law and Order series, for example, has a very strong anti-christian bias. Any other group that was so consistently negatively portrayed in the media would be organising protests and talking to lawyers.Despite the fact that 80% of Americans claim to be strongly religious, how often do you see that reflected in mainstream media?Some time ago, in Melbourne there were two pastors who were convicted of vilifying Muslims for discussing the Koran at a seminar and teaching christians how to share their faith with Muslims and how to show genuine love to them. Eventually the case was overturned on appeal but only after huge cost to the people involved.On the other hand, there is a lot of racism that comes out, including from christians. I was pretty disgusted by protests against a proposed Muslim school to be built on the outskirts of Sydney. It seems to have been a silly place to want to build a school and the local council eventually rejected it for town planning reasons. The comments of some people, including christian leaders, were pretty bad I think.Western democracies have protected people by the rule of law which basically says the laws should apply equally to everyone. You can't break the law just because you are the king or because you belong to a particular group. We might disagree with certain laws but the consequences of breaking laws should apply equally to everyone.Muslims, atheists, Jews and Christians should all be treated alike. If it's illegal for one person to take a knife to school then it's illegal for everyone. If our constitution says that people have freedom of speech and freedom to associate then that applies to everyone.I don't think that we should discriminate against Muslims. Once you start picking on one group then it becomes easy to pick on other groups- including christians.I don't think we should accommodate every demand for special treatment either.
ReplyDeleteExtremely well put, Keith. Thanks for such a great response.
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