Re: will britain convert to islam?

"William S. Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht
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> They have found insanity and death...

that was already the case when margaret (the bitch)tatcher was in power !
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> "Heinrich Müller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > The idea is not as impossible, as bizarre or distant as you might think.
> An
> > astonishing Channel 4 programme last week - The Last White Kids -- 
showed
> > two English children who live in an entirely Muslim district becoming
> > enthusiastic attenders at the local mosque, wrapping themselves in
Islamic
> > draperies and learning the Koran.
> >
> > Amie Gallagher, nine, and her sister Ashlene, 12, are all-too-typical
> > children of modern Britain in some ways, daughters of a single-parent
> > household where the father is absent.
> >
> > In Islam they seem to have found something that would otherwise be
missing
> > from their lives. At the mosque there is authority, certainty, even
> > disciplined education in the Arabic language and the Koran.
> >
> > This has happened because the Gallaghers are the only white family in a
> > suburb otherwise completely dominated by Asian Muslims.
> >
> > If they move away, as they may well do, then perhaps the two girls'
> > attachment to the mosque will fail. Their brother, Jake, has not
followed
> > them down the Muslim path and has instead become even more defiantly
> English
> > than he might otherwise have done.
> >
> > But this strange little story contains a warning for Britain as a whole,
> as
> > it careers ever more rapidly down the path of permissiveness which began
> so
> > gently in the Sixties and now slopes ever more steeply downwards towards
> > sexual chaos, drunkenness, family breakdown and the epidemic use of
> > stupefying drugs.
> >
> > Sooner or later, as in every other era of human history, there will be a
> > revulsion against this licence, a desire to stop the waste, cruelty and
> > misery which these things bring, especially to children.
> >
> > Where will that revulsion come from? In the 18th and 19th Centuries it
> came
> > from Christianity and the mighty but forgotten Temperance movements
which
> > reacted against the squalor and misery of Hogarth's Gin Lane, and whose
> > effects we still just feel.
> >
> > But Christianity shows little sign of doing the job a second time. Its
> > leaders are more concerned about foreign conflict than about domestic
> > misery, and more interested in the sexual tastes of bishops than in
trying
> > to regulate the confused sex lives of Britain's young.
> >
> > The Christian churches have all but disappeared from the lives of the
> > British people. The chapels of Wales are gaunt ruins, the great Roman
> > Catholic churches of the industrial North West are often empty and
> derelict,
> > the Anglicans scuttle about in their hallowed, lovely buildings like
mice
> > amid ancient ruins, rarely even beginning to fill spaces designed for
> > multitudes.
> >
> > The choirs and the bells gradually fall silent, the hymns are no longer
> sung
> > and one by one the doors are locked and places which in some cases have
> seen
> > worship for centuries become bare museums of a dead faith.
> >
> > Few listen to what these churches say. They have become exclusive clubs,
> > whose members celebrate bizarre rituals which are baffling to outsiders.
> >
> > The Christian message is a difficult and complicated one, which if not
> > learned in childhood is hard for adults to understand. The Christian
> > ceremonies, viewed coldly by an outsider unschooled in 2,000 years of
> > tradition, are positively peculiar. Why would anyone eat God?
> >
> > When Christianity was part of our culture and its beliefs were handed
down
> > in homes and schools, its familiarity kept it strong. Everyone knew
Bible
> > stories, hymns and prayers. Now it is at least as alien to many young
> people
> > as Islam, if not more so because it does not seem to be interested in
> them.
> >
> > But Islam is interested in them. And Islam is growing. More and more
> British
> > cities have seen the domes and minarets of smart, prominently positioned
> new
> > mosques rising in their neighbourhoods.
> >
> > A large and imposing Islamic centre is now nearing completion in Oxford,
> one
> > of Christian England's holiest places. Imagine what would happen if
> > Anglicans sought to build a Christian centre in Qom, Isfahan, Najaf or
> > anywhere on the soil of Saudi Arabia, and wonder what Muslim leaders
think
> > of Christian feebleness on such matters.
> >
> > Thanks to the immigration of recent decades, Britain has a young,
> energetic
> > and swelling Muslim population which is increasingly assertive about its
> > faith.
> >
> > Official Islam may disapprove of such things but there have even been
> signs
> > of the Muslim intolerance towards Christianity that is a nasty feature
of
> so
> > many Islamic societies.
> >
> > In the Bradford suburb of Girlington, not far from where the Gallaghers
> live
> > in Manningham, Asian youths tried to set fire to an Anglican church.
Soon
> > afterwards, a Brownie pack leader was attacked in a nearby street by
young
> > men who snarled 'Christian bitch' at her.
> >
> > An isolated and meaningless incident? You might hope so, but it would be
> > unwise to be sure.
> >
> > If you travel to these areas, you get the sense that Islam, one of the
> great
> > forces of history, long ago defeated by the armies and navies of a
mighty
> > Christian Europe, is once again feeling its strength and finding that it
> has
> > been able to penetrate what were once the most impregnable fortresses of
> its
> > great rival.
> >
> > Islam's appeal, wherever it has triumphed, has been in its simplicity.
It
> > requires submission to some basic, straightforward rules which are
easily
> > kept, and in return it offers that most wonderful and rare commodity,
> peace
> > of mind. To modern Westerners, its attitude towards women seems
incredibly
> > backward and even hateful.
> >
> > But as the reactions of Ashlene and Amie Gallagher show, its discipline,
> > safety and certainties have an appeal for girls lost in the churning
seas
> of
> > permissiveness, whose own families have been weakened by the crumbling
of
> > the two-parent family, the absence of fathers and the impermanence of
> > husbands, if there are husbands in the first place rather than
boyfriends
> > and ' babyfathers'.
> >
> > And in most societies it is the women who sustain religions in the home
> and
> > among children. In a country in the grip of unbelief, those with strong,
> > clear convictions and an uncluttered message have a great advantage over
> > those who offer nothing but choices to the perplexed and cannot seem to
> make
> > up their minds about anything.
> >
> > So if eventually Britain begins to sicken of strong lager, pools of
vomit,
> > Bacardi Breezers, bouncers looming on every High Street, the
battlefields
> in
> > the streets of many towns on Friday and Saturday nights, ecstasy
tablets,
> > cocaine, football-worship, pregnant 12-year-olds, morning-after pills
and
> > all that goes with them, is it possible that puritan Islam will be the
> cause
> > that benefits?
> >
> > If bureaucratic police and feeble justice continue to fail to suppress
> crime
> > and disorder, will the savage but simple remedies of Sharia law begin to
> > appeal to the British poor, who are already weary of seeing dishonesty
> > triumph everywhere and lawless violence go unchecked?
> >
> > Might Islam become respectable among the politically correct middle
> classes,
> > in a way that Christianity never really can, because Christianity is
> always
> > associated in this country with the conservative, imperial past?
> >
> > You will already find plenty of bright young Muslims in our
universities,
> > many of whom are impressive and diligent students, and their influence
is
> > bound to increase as they move into the professions.
> >
> > The idea of an Islamic Britain may seem highly unlikely now, amid what
> still
> > seems to be more or less a Western, Christian society. We are used to
> > thinking of Islam as a religion of backward regions, and of backward
> people.
> >
> > But we should remember that Muslim armies came within inches of taking
> > Vienna in 1683 and were only driven from Spain in 1492. In those days it
> was
> > the Islamic world that was making the great scientific advances which we
> now
> > assume are ours by right.
> >
> > And is it any more unlikely than the things which have happened here in
> the
> > past 40 years, during which a country of peaceful, self-restrained,
lawful
> > and rather prudish men and women has been transformed into the land of
sex
> > and swearing on TV, ladettes, semi-legal cannabis and armed police?
> >
> > If we don't respect our own customs and religion, we may end up, as
> Ashlene
> > and Amie Gallagher have done, respecting someone else's. Don't be
> surprised.
> >
> >
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