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Islam, Islamism and Islamophobia: our culture has lost its reason, or its capacity to reason

This is a guest post by the Rev’d Dr Gavin Ashenden. ___________________________ The public square is a charged place. Three contenders are striving against each other. Emotion, reason and fundamentalism are locked in a public struggle for the soul and…

England has defeated religious fanatics in the past, and will do so again

May 24, 2017
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When in 1587 Pope Sixtus V began conspiring with King Philip II of Spain in 'The Enterprise of England', it was the world's most powerful religious leader giving his blessing…

Trump’s Saudi Islam speech will not bind Islamic State’s progenitors

May 22, 2017
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Donald Trump goes to Saudi Arabia and the world awaits his much-trailed Islam speech. And what a mighty fine speech it was. The President of the United States boldly reiterated…

Adrian Elms was a violent Christian before he became Muslim terrorist Khalid Masood

March 24, 2017
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Through the modern geopolitical lens of Western categorical convenience, the world's countries are invariably ascribed a religion, or at least identified by majority ethnic religious adherence. Hence terms like 'Muslim…

Qur’an in the Eucharist? The Provost of Glasgow Cathedral subverts Christian revelation

January 12, 2017
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This is a guest post by the Rev’d Dr Gavin Ashenden, Chaplain to the Queen. __________________________ I have just returned from Paris where I was invited to be part of…

The Spectator brands Justin Welby “liberal left” – for seeking Islamist understanding

October 5, 2016
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Spectator columnist and associate editor Rod Liddle sometimes sounds like he's channeling the EDL, or at least supping with Ukip, but he is, in fact, a fully paid-up member of…

Do we really need a faith minister for “fairies, goblins and imaginary friends”?

September 15, 2016
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We live in an age of ever-increasing secularity, in which religious practice must be half-hidden and religious conviction often-denied. You have to excavate quite deep to discover the moral sources…

Why is it "great to welcome" Muslim hate-preachers to Lambeth Palace?

July 31, 2016
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"Great to welcome Herod Antipas to the Cenacle on Mount Zion today," tweeted Jesus, just after the Tetrarch of Galilee has ordered the decapitation of the notorious hate-preacher John…

Pope Francis is in denial: our struggle is religious, and it's against virulent Islamism

July 28, 2016
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"Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the…

Sadiq Khan is Muslim. Get over it!

May 7, 2016
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Sadiq Khan has been elected the first Muslim mayor of London. Muslim, Muslim, Muslim. Islam, Islam, Islam. The council-estate sons and daughters of Pakistani bus drivers are taking over…

May we no longer say Jehovah's Witnesses are not real Christians?

April 18, 2016
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Dr Shiraz Maher is a lecturer at King's College London and a Senior Fellow of The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR). His list…

What British Muslims Really Think, or what Christians need to rethink?

April 14, 2016
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Channel 4's documentary What British Muslims Really Think informed us that 52% of them want homosexuality to be outlawed; 39% believe that a woman should always obey her husband;…

Welby defends the right to offend – kind of

February 5, 2016
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During a House of Lords debate on the question of 'Islam: Extremism', the Archbishop of Canterbury interjected in defence of the right to offend. He said: My Lords, it…

Mosque without minaret? Baroness Warsi spectacularly misses the point

December 17, 2015
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What's the main problem with Islam? The mosque and minaret, or the Wahhabi-Salafist apprehension of Mohammed? Professor Sayeeda Warsi (of St Mary’s University, Twickenham) explains: “What I would like…

Donald Trump is an ignorant chump, but banning him from Britain would be an offence against freedom

December 9, 2015
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Say what you will, write as you want, think what you like, but Donald Trump is on the demotic ascendant and is currently in pole position to win the…

Nissar Hussain battered with a pickaxe in Bradford for converting from Islam to Christianity

November 21, 2015
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Quite a few British Muslims are eager to abandon the path of Mohammed and the faith of their forefathers. Some are brave enough to convert to Christianity and make…

Paris attacks: "They are cutting us all down, one by one."

November 14, 2015
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World leaders will today wear their best grave faces and pronounce their most solemn sympathies. There will be a chorus of condemnation with a recapitulation of our common humanity.…

Jihadi John has gone to meet Mohammed

November 13, 2015
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It is reported by the Pentagon that there is a "high degree of certainty" that the Islamic State serial beheader Mohammed Emwazi – aka Jihadi John – has been…

Why isn't Richard Dawkins prosecuted under the Malicious Communications Act?

November 6, 2015
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Ursula Presgrave (left) posted on Facebook: "Anyone born with down syndrome should be put down, it's just cruel to let them lead a pointless life of a vegetable." For…

Bradford ex-Muslim Christian converts "have given up on the Church of England"

October 3, 2015
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"Muslim family are driven from their home... after they converted to Christianity." "Neighbours vandalise car and call them 'blasphemers'"; "windows are constantly smashed"; "family attacked in the street"; "Bradford…