Islamism

#PastoralLetter (3): a plea for religious liberty in an era of secularity

Having responded to the Preface of the Pastoral Letter from the House of Bishops “to the people and parishes of the Church of England for the General Election 2015″; and also to their first section, ‘Who is my Neighbour?’,…

Let’s stop reviling Islam with ‘Islamism’, and call the cult what it really is

March 8, 2015
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Rather like the Naming of Cats, the classifying of Islamic sects is a difficult matter, and it’s certainly not just one of your Eid-Al-Fitr games. As we’ve witnessed the…

Prophet, Islamist, cartoon or bear: which Mohammed most offends?

March 1, 2015
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Apparently we now know the identity of the Islamist butcher known as 'Jihadi John', who has an undoubted penchant for making snuff movies involving the decapitation of charitable and…

BBC spins disaffected Muslims to deflect from emerging Islamists

February 26, 2015
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The BBC published the results of a ComRes poll yesterday, which they spun in their own inimitable multiculturally-sunny and cloudless way. 'Most British Muslims "oppose Muhammad cartoons reprisals"', they…

Mehdi Hasan: "No Reformation in Europe without Muslim theologians"

January 19, 2015
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Mehdi Hasan delivered an oratorically brilliant if rather sanctimonious speech at the Oxford Union in May 2013, which now rings in the head like tinnitus in the wake of…

Cameron rebukes the Pope

January 18, 2015
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The Pope of Rome hath erred. Again. In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, Pope Francis was asked by journalists aboard the papal plane what he thought of the…

Farage is right to defend our Judæo-Christian heritage

January 17, 2015
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Some things in politics are so utterly predictable that we can guess what our politicians are going to say with a high degree of certainty before they open their…

"If 100,000 Jews leave, France will no longer be France"

January 13, 2015
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The words of French Prime Minister Manuel Valls echo down the centuries of anti-Semitic Europe, where Jews have been marginalised, persecuted, reviled, expelled and turned to ash in the…

We need a Prophetology to dispel the myths of Islam

January 10, 2015
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Thousands upon thousands of Muslims were appalled by the Charlie Hebdo massacre, and deeply shocked by the subsequent carnage at a kosher supermarket in Paris. Newspapers and TV channels…

Unbelievers and non-believers must be free to blaspheme with impunity

January 8, 2015
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Our sufferings today are the prelude of those you, Europeans and Western Christians, will also suffer in the near future.. Your liberal and democratic principles are worth nothing.. you…

Douglas Alexander champions a Global Envoy for Religious Freedom

December 22, 2014
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"Yet, at this time of great peril, I deeply regret that the British Government seems to be stepping back, rather than stepping up," writes Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander…

Charles – Defender of the persecuted Faith

December 10, 2014
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"God brings him here," said Maijida Nissan, 64, speaking about the visit of the Prince of Wales to the Chaldean Church in England gathered in Acton yesterday, many of…

Real Madrid and the offence of the cross

November 30, 2014
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It was a really tiny cross. Honestly, it was barely noticeable in all that pearly pizzazz and gaudy gold. The Crown of Alfonso XII has been a sacred symbol of…

General Synod to be addressed by Muslim extremist …NOT

November 17, 2014
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It is troubling that the first non-Christian to address the Church of England synod can be linked to extreme Islamist networks. By inviting Fuad Nahdi, the Church is lending…

Prince Charles: Defender of faith, freedom and religious liberty

November 5, 2014
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"It is an indescribable tragedy that Christianity is now under such threat in the Middle East," says the Prince of Wales in a video message to mark the launch…

Justin Welby's call to battle

October 16, 2014
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What exactly is the grand plan that is going to result in the disintegration and destruction of ISIS? On Tuesday military chiefs from 22 of the 60 countries making up…

Christians are called to be 'non-violent extremists'

October 8, 2014
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We have been here before. In fact, the illiberal proposal raises its portentous head with such frequency that it feels almost teleologically predetermined. From Labour's assault on "hate speech"…

Welby: we wrestle not against ISIL, but against Jihadi principalities and powers

September 27, 2014
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We are, once again, a nation at war. And, rather like World War I, it won't be over by Christmas. The Prime Minister has identified our target: "We should be…

Our MPs should not let fear hold them back – this is a just war against IS

September 26, 2014
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Today offers the chance for MPs to begin to redeem themselves. After an attempt by David Cameron to intervene in Syria that fell flat on its face, and an Iraq war…

We are about to enter World War III

September 24, 2014
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Last week Pope Francis took stock of all the regional conflicts, bloodshed, struggles and strife, and joined the dots. "We are now in World War III,” he told journalists on…