“No Go Zones” For Brits Proliferate As Muslims Conquer London
Independent:
Islamic extremists have created “no-go” areas across Britain where it is too dangerous for non-Muslims to enter, one of the Church of England’s most senior bishops warns today.
The Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester and the Church’s only Asian bishop, says that people of a different race or faith face physical attack if they live or work in communities dominated by a strict Muslim ideology.
he Muslim Council of Britain today described his comments as “frantic scaremongering”, while William Hague, the shadow foreign secretary, said the bishop had “probably put it too strongly”.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said the idea of no-go areas was “a gross caricature of reality”.
Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, Bishop Nazir-Ali compares the threat to the use of intimidation by the far-Right, and says that it is becoming increasingly difficult for Christianity to be the nation’s public religion in a multifaith, multicultural society.
His comments come as a poll of the General Synod - the Church’s parliament - shows that its senior leaders, including bishops, also believe that Britain is being damaged by large-scale immigration.
Bishop Nazir-Ali, who was born in Pakistan, gives warning that attempts are being made to give Britain an increasingly Islamic character by introducing the call to prayer and wider use of sharia law, a legal system based on the Koran.
In an attack on the Government’s response to immigration and the influx of “people of other faiths to these shores”, he blames its “novel philosophy of multiculturalism” for allowing society to become deeply divided, and accuses ministers of lacking a “moral and spiritual vision”.
Echoing Trevor Phillips, the chairman of the Commission for Equalities and Human Rights, who has said that the country is “sleepwalking into segregation”, the bishop argues that multiculturalism has led to deep divisions.
David Davis, the shadow home secretary, has accused Muslims of promoting a kind of “voluntary apartheid” by shutting themselves in closed societies and demanding immunity from criticism.
In the Synod survey, to be published this week, bishops, senior clergy and influential churchgoers said that an increasingly multi-faith society threatens the country’s Christian heritage and blamed the divisions on the Government’s failure to integrate immigrants into their communities.
It found that more than one in three believe that a mass influx of people of other faiths is dildiluting the Christian nature of Britain and only a quarter feel that they have been integrated into society.
The overwhelming majority - 80 per cent - said that the Government has not upheld the place of religion in public life and up to 63 per cent fear that the Church will be disestablished within a generation, breaking a bond that has existed between the Church and State since the Reformation.
Calls for disestablishment have grown following research showing that attendance at Mass has overtaken the number of worshippers at Church of England Sunday services.
Bishop Nazir-Ali, whose father converted from Islam to Catholicism, was criticised by Ibrahim Mogra, of the Muslim Council of Britain. He said: “It’s irresponsible for a man of his position to make these comments.
“He should accept that Britain is a multicultural society in which we are free to follow our religion at the same time as being extremely proud to be British. We wouldn’t allow ‘no-go’ areas to happen. I smell extreme intolerance when people criticise multiculturalism without proper evidence of what has gone wrong.”
But the Bishop’s concerns are shared by other members of the General Synod.
The Rt Rev Nicholas Reade, the Bishop of Blackburn, which has a large Muslim community, said that it was increasingly difficult for Christians to share their faith in areas where there was a high proportion of immigrants of other faiths.
He believes that increasing pressure will be put on the Government to begin the process of disestablishment and end the preferential status given to the Church of England. “The writing is on the wall,” he said.
Gordon Brown relinquished Downing Street’s involvement in appointing bishops in one of his first facts as Prime Minister - a move viewed by some as a significant step towards disestablishment.
Last night, Mr Davis said: “Bishop Nazir-Ali has drawn attention to a deeply serious problem. The Government’s confused and counter-productive approach risks creating a number of closed societies instead of one open, cohesive one. It generates the risk of encouraging radicalisation and creating home-grown terrorism.”
Inayat Bunglawala, assistant secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said: “Bishop Nazir-Ali appears to be exercised by what he perceives as the decline in the influence of Christianity upon this country, but trying to frantically scaremonger about Islam and Muslims seems to us to be a rather unethical way of trying to reverse this.
“He talks about the rise of ‘Islamic extremism’ but fails to mention how some of the policies of our government and especially that of the United States in the Middle East over several decades now has clearly contributed to this phenomenon.”
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The “failure to integrate” is part of the problem, it’s letting them in in the first place that leads to the problem England finds itself in. They should be bundled together, put on a raft and set adrift out at sea.
January 6th, 2008 at 11:09 amLast night, Mr Davis said: “Bishop Nazir-Ali has drawn attention to a deeply serious problem. The Government’s confused and counter-productive approach risks creating a number of closed societies instead of one open, cohesive one. It generates the risk of encouraging radicalisation and creating home-grown terrorism.”
WHY can’t the multiculti idiots see this? To perpetuate the fantasy of the MC/PC BS, is suicide.
January 6th, 2008 at 12:02 pmInayat Bunglawala, assistant secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said: “Bishop Nazir-Ali appears to be exercised by what he perceives as the decline in the influence of Christianity upon this country, but trying to frantically scaremonger about Islam and Muslims seems to us to be a rather unethical way of trying to reverse this.”
Me: There have been over 1,000 terrorist incidents by your fooking religious scumbags since 9-11. Seems to me your religion and its view of the non-Islamic world is responsible Islamophobia.
At least the Bishop doesn’t place bombs in trains asshole, like your mustifoon followers of Al Shatain do.
“He talks about the rise of ‘Islamic extremism’ but fails to mention how some of the policies of our government and especially that of the United States in the Middle East over several decades now has clearly contributed to this phenomenon.”
me: What a pack of lies that comment is. US Policy has NOTHING to do with Islamic Imperialism or Islamic Supremacy.
Go back in history. Before the US was a country…what exactly was pissing off all the Mooselems anyways?
There are over 200 references to fighting and war in the Hadith. Their goal is world conquest…same as their false prophet’s goal was.
The jihadists and their sympathizers, like this lying ass fool have given the world three choices: submit, convert or die.
The Islamo-facists have divided the world into the house of islam and the house of war. We, and all of the west are in the latter.
No policy change by the US or Britain, will change the facist’s minds about the West.
This last comment is called kitma or tagyiya in Islam. It is deceit pure and simple.
Multiculturalism and tolerance work fine in societies that are the products of Jdeo-Christian progress…It doesn’t work in 7th Century pagan societies like Islam.
Islam does not accept western ideas of freedom in government. They will only accept a government that enshrines Sharia law and the child-molesting prophet’s Sunna.
Educate yourselves fooking British Westophobes.
January 6th, 2008 at 12:07 pmWatch what is happening in England and France closely, as we are heading down the same liberal path. We preach tolerance and acceptance, but these people who are coming in both legally and illegally do feel the need to be tolerant of those of us that were born here.
January 6th, 2008 at 12:19 pmWe can change the road we are traveling, we need to make assymalation a necessity for those who wish to live here let alone become citizens. This includes speaking English, and understanding that just because honor killings are the custom where you came from you are here no and it is not accepted!!
Dan, “over 1000″, as of today there have 10,318.
www.thereligionofpeace.com
January 6th, 2008 at 12:25 pm@John Cunningham
Yeah, I left out a zero. Thanks for the correction.
January 6th, 2008 at 12:30 pmIslam at the front door and sneaky China at the back door…
January 6th, 2008 at 12:44 pmWatch the Fox News report on Malmo, Sweden.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byQD8VPhvdM
January 6th, 2008 at 1:10 pmThanks to Brian H for posting the rest of that.
Great comments everyone!
January 6th, 2008 at 1:13 pmDo the governing entities want to create massive civil wars and strife in all nations so that they can come to our rescue as a saving, one world force ????
Let me mull this over……..Hmmmmm……..HELL YES!!!!!!!!!!!
Will their utopia be as they plan ???…. don’t think sooo..
January 6th, 2008 at 1:31 pmWhat a diverse and valuable culture they bring! We are truly a better hemisphere due to their presence!
Fucking leftists, opening the door to these assholes.
January 6th, 2008 at 1:52 pmNot just Britain. All over Europe!
Tons of stuff over at Islam Watch.
January 6th, 2008 at 1:55 pmSeems Mark Steyn was right on in America Alone. All Americans best pay attention - the present situation in Great Britain’s could easily be our future.
January 6th, 2008 at 2:06 pmIn a nutshell the current plight of Great Britain (and the EU in general) is the result of a socialist-styled government of trading hand-outs (government distributed tax dollars for healthcare, higher education, building programs, etc, etc) in return for votes resulting in having to import additional wage-earners to provide additional tax revenues to keep buying additional votes. Good short-term plan for career politicians, bad long-term plan for citizens.
Recalling that the US dem platform of “change” champions the EU model, should the dems take control in ‘08 we are reading our future in this article.
Easy fix!!
KICK THEM BACK TO THEIR OWN fooked up COUNTRIES!
January 6th, 2008 at 2:10 pmFuck them all. We should take all muslim immigrants both legal and illegal and round them up, ship them out and dump them off in some nice muslim paradise like Saudi Arabia, or Somalia.
January 6th, 2008 at 2:53 pmmulticulturalism is of anglo-saxon culture, kind of “arbeit macht frei” in a free market and ideologies, yeah, we were mocked when we pass a few stiff laws, but these laws are the guaranties of integration ; after a few decades we can see which county in EU is fucked or not with the islamist threat ; and I can emphasize my statement as far as us ; if you don’t want to get fucked, you need a strond conscienceness of your identity ; we have been reproched our self identity, since De gaulle, but It WORKED SO FAR, our islam is becoming a french islam controlled by the state
January 6th, 2008 at 3:26 pmAt Phil in blanks-I have also read America Alone,and am starting to think he was right also. I hope it does not get like this in the US.
January 6th, 2008 at 3:56 pmHow do you spell United Kingdom?—-
T—O—A—S—T
January 6th, 2008 at 5:23 pmShowing tolerance toward the intolerable is ridiculous. As our government bends over backwards to accomodate the demands of a culture that has so little regard to anyone non muslim, the citizenry will be the first to snap back. By that time you have stepped in it deeply and the options will be late and few.
January 6th, 2008 at 6:52 pmJust read on Real Clear Politics that “America is voting with its heart”. God Almighty, this is the problem. Not enough intelligence in this country to figure it out. If we don’t wake up and vote with our heads, we are headed right down Muslim Alley.
January 6th, 2008 at 9:40 pm