Re: will britain convert to islam?

Yes in about 10,000 years :)
"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.
>
>