The decline of Christian values is destroying Britishness and has created a “moral vacuum” which radical Islam is filling, one of the Church of England’s leading bishops has warned.
In a lacerating attack on liberal values, the Right Reverend Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, said the country was mired in a doctrine of ‘endless self-indulgence’ that had brought an explosion in public violence and binge-drinking.
In a blow to Gordon Brown, he mocked the ’scramblings and scratchings’ of politicians who try to cast new British values such as respect and tolerance.
The Pakistani-born bishop dated the downfall of Christianity from the ’social and sexual revolution’ of the 1960s.
He said Church leaders had capitulated to Marxist revolutionary thinking and quoted an academic who blames the loss of ‘faith and piety among women’ for the steep decline in Christian worship.
I tend to agree with the Bishop though not completely, Islam is a danger to core Western values, not just Christian ones. I have no tolerance for intolerance and make no apologies for being free, a freedom that being a Westerner brings. Islam is wholly intolerant and while co-existence may be possible between Islamic lands and Western ones, Islam on our shores must be fought. Islam in Europe is tearing at our social fabric and absuing our tolerance. Our own liberal values may yet be the seeds of our demise. We face the greatest threat to our civilization since the Turks were last at the Gates of Vienna in 1683. Then Islam seemed poised to overrun Christian Europe. We are in a new phase of a very old war. Islamic immigration is a Trojan Horse that is permitting an erosion of liberal values. Frankly when one hears stories like this:
A self-styled female holy warrior of al-Qa’eda is exploiting free speech laws to harness the internet as a “bomb” to recruit others to wage jihad on the West. Malika El Aroud, a 48-year-old Belgian of Moroccan origin, has been convicted in Switzerland for her part in running terror websites showing execution videos and promoting statements from al-Qa’eda linked groups. Six months ago, she was among 14 people arrested on suspicion of plotting attacks on targets in Brussels and of planning to free a convicted Tunisian al-Qa’eda terrorist.
Malika El Aroud is not Belgian, she is Moroccan and she needs to be jailed or be deported. How stupid can we be? We let the enemy foment from our own soil, we let them plan the demise of our culture from within. If something were to make me a conservative, it will be this issue. Gordon Brown and Labour better understand this issue or face ouster at the polls. We will find ourselves a minority in our own countries.
The story from the Daily Mail. The Telegraph asks if Britain needs Christian values? Well, it certainly does not need Islamic ones.