Jihad

Daily Mail terror porn – your daily dose of Islamic State propaganda

"WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT", screeches the Daily Mail – virtually every day – as it displays the heinous horrors being visited upon Christians, Yazidis and apostate Muslims by ISIS / ISIL / Islamic State / Daesh on what is undoubtedly…

Queen's Birthday Honours: Bishop Anba Angaelos honoured for services to religious freedom

June 13, 2015
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Congratulations to His Grace Bishop Anba Angaelos on being appointed OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2015. As General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the UK, he…

Homophobia, Islamophobia and the triumph of ideological 'Truth'

March 22, 2015
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Christianophobia has never really caught on. Perhaps it is a clumsy etymological construction: three syllables before '-ophobia' is at least one phonetic unit too many, and it isn't at…

Queen's chaplain agnostic on "good or evil" violence in the Qur'an

March 12, 2015
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Apparently, young people are turning to Jihad because school's a drudge and mainstream religion is not sufficiently 'exciting'. That's the general headline summary of a speech given by Justin…

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…

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…

"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…

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…

Canon Andrew White ordered home with $57m bounty on his head

November 26, 2014
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"It's the end for Iraqi Christians," writes Josh Glancy in The Sunday Times, as he recounts the appalling horrors, heartbreaks and sheer despair of Iraq's Christians, many thousands of…

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…

Tories select anti-Israel activist who supports boycott and sanctions

October 25, 2014
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When Kelly Tolhurst was selected in an "open primary" to fight the forthcoming by-election in Rochester & Strood, there was jubilation that the Conservative Party had found in her…

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…

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…

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…

Eric Pickles: Jihad will be defeated by the "guiding principles of the English Reformation"

September 5, 2014
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Since Sayeeda Warsi left the Government, the Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP has assumed direct responsibility for matters of faith. They were, of course, always under the aegis as Secretary…

The flaw in the Fatwa on the so-called Islamic State

September 2, 2014
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This really is quite magnificent. To those who insist Muslims cannot or will not integrate with or conform to British values, customs and traditions, this fatwa (= religious opinion; not…

The Islamic State presents us with a wholly abnormal situation of national emergency

August 22, 2014
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Say we catch the barbarous "Jihadi John" or "John the Beatle" or "John the Jailer" or whatever he's called. And say we then gather the evidence against him and bring…

As long as Obama spouts the fallacy that the Islamic State "speaks for no religion", we will never kill the root

August 21, 2014
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It would appear that the barbaric Islamist who decapitated US journalist James Foley was a dude named John, probably from East London, who took a brief sojourn in Syria with…