 |
| Jewish-Muslim-Christian temple heralds Pope Francis' 'Abrahamic House'. Source: Church Militant |
My in-tray receives regular reports of Christians around the world being oppressed for their faith. Links in the right hand column to International Christian Concern and to the Barnabas Fund regularly highlight the dangers faced including kidnapping, rape and murder in countries such as Nigeria.
Leaving aside state persecution such as that suffered by the Uighurs in China, I do not receive similar reports about oppressed Muslims. That is because they are regularly carrying out the persecution if not identified as such.
In an article Nigerian kidnappings reach crisis point there is no mention of Islam or Muslims, just a reference to Boko Harem, an Islamist group among the worst of oppressors.
Similarly in Great Britain grooming gangs who regarded young British white girls as "easy meat" were often referred to as of Asian Origin.
Islamist brutality is constantly swept under the carpet while any perceived criticism is branded as Islamophobia, defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "Intense dislike or fear of Islam, esp. as a political force; hostility or prejudice towards Muslims".
As kind as many individual Muslims may be, plenty of people, particularly such as those Christians in Nigeria have good reason to fear Islam's political ideology.
It came as no surprise that Professor Swaran Singh's report on alleged anti-Muslim sentiment found that
Professor Singh "analysed 1,418 complaints relating to 727 separate incidents as recorded in the Tories' complaints database between 2015 and 2020" but complaining is encouraged among Muslims while Christians in this country are prevented from speaking.
The inquests into the Fishmongers' Hall terrorism attack clearly illustrate that there is much to fear from Islamic fundamentalists yet apologists constantly ignore the reality, promoting Islam on a par with Judaism and Christianity despite all the evidence that it is utter folly.
The Quran is quite clear as to who are the enemies of Islam and what is to be done to them. Jesus is quite clear as to what we are to do to our enemies. Continue to pray for the conversion of Muslims.
ReplyDeleteAs I see it, the problem is rooted in the social tensions which are likely to arise when very significant numbers of people whose values and worldview differ radically from - and in some respects are wholly opposed to - those of the people among whom they come to live, once they to settle permanently. I'm not making any particular value judgement in saying this, but simply stating what seems to me to be a pragmatic fact.
ReplyDeleteI remember making this argument way back in the 1960s when I was a young university student at the time when quite large numbers of south Asian folk were being encouraged to move to Britain. In the 'summer of love' era it wasn't an especially popular point of view! But I expected back then that social tensions would increase as a consequence of those migrations, and the only thing that now surprises me is that they've taken a lot longer than I anticipated - over half a century now - to emerge.
Speaking of folly, rum goings on in Winchester.
ReplyDeletehttps://ashenden.org/2021/05/28/bishops-who-bully-reflections-on-a-safeguarding-scandal/#comments
"Bishops who Bully – Reflections on a Safeguarding Scandal."