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3,462 Nigerian Christians hacked to death by jihadists — don’t these black lives matter?

When one black man was killed in the US, the cry of "I can't breathe" reverberated round the world – or at least the Western world – and 'taking the knee' became a ritual to signify that black lives matter,…

Khalid Mahmood MP: Labour has been captured by “woke social media warriors”

May 9, 2021
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Khalid Mahmood, Labour MP for Birmingham Perry Barr, actually resigned from the Opposition Front Bench a few weeks ago, though nobody noticed until he launched an astonishing broadside against his…

David Lammy and the anti-Empire racism of religious illiteracy

April 29, 2021
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When it transpired recently that thousands of black and Asian soldiers who died fighting for the British Empire had been 'unequally' commemorated in death, the absence of headstones and other…

Sharia certainties and woke certitude cry out for reformation

December 8, 2020
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This is a guest post by Mike Stallard, who has been in education all his life, and is now retired. Reza Aslan is an Iranian who lives in USA.…

Guardian ‘reveals’ Amy Coney Barrett is Roman Catholic (and takes her faith seriously)

October 2, 2020
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The Guardian has revealed that Amy Coney Barrett, Donald Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, is Roman Catholic. Quite why they have only just cottoned on to this is something…

BBC censors Sikh history in case it offends Muslims

October 6, 2019
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Lord (Indarjit) Singh has been almost as permanent a fixture on BBC Radio 4's 'Thought for the Day' as the Bishop of Leeds, Nick Baines. The BBC likes a certain…

Islamophobia definition creates a backdoor blasphemy law: it will be used to outlaw all criticism of Islam

May 15, 2019
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Published below is an open letter to the Home Secretary Sajid Javid concerning the definition of 'Islamophobia' which has been proposed by the All Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims.…

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Give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the transgender-inculcated person

March 11, 2019
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'Give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the man' is a Jesuit maxim attributed to Saint Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society…

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Christophobia: Met Police arrest street preacher and confiscate his Bible

February 25, 2019
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Over the weekend a Christian street preacher was arrested outside Southgate tube station, London N14. It is reported that he was being 'Islamophobic', but what preceded the encounter with the…

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Pope Francis: God willed the Reformation and the Church of England

February 7, 2019
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Pope Francis went to Abu Dhabi this week to meet the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, which is good and pleasant. No doubt the Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church…

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Rev’d Jonathan Aitken calls the nation to pray for Parliament

December 9, 2018
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From The Times' 'Credo' column yesterday, by the Rev'd Jonathan Aitken, reproduced here with permission: After a seismic week of political and constitutional upheavals at Westminster, might this be a…

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Four-day week: mandatory indolence or an interfaith ‘sacred weekend’?

October 23, 2018
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When Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell mooted imposing a four-day week on the British economy (that is, a four-day working week; Labour has no plans to re-calibrate or 'modernise' the solar…

Trump to Europe: “You are losing your culture”

July 13, 2018
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While the media pore over Donald Trump's interview with the Sun, focusing on the possibility a post-(soft) Brexit US/UK trade deal ("..it will probably kill the deal") and Boris Johnson…

Iftar in the Cathedral is exactly what the Queen (and Jesus) would want

June 11, 2018
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If it had been called 'Tea & Chapatis' no-one would have batted an eyelid. But the meal had an upper-case Islamic name – Iftar – and it involved Arabic food:…

Met Police confirm that criticism of Islam constitutes ‘Islamophobia’

June 5, 2018
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The Metropolitan Police Service report 'Hate Crimes against London's Muslim Communities' was published five years ago, and it outlines the everyday nature of Islamophobic incidents: The Islamophobic incidents reported to…

There is only one way for Christians to respond to ‘Punish a Muslim Day’

March 16, 2018
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Punish a Muslim Day apparently falls on 3rd April this year. No idea what day it was last year: it isn't clear if it's governed by the phases of the…

Christian Scout leader expelled for expressing concerns about the Scout Association’s anti-Christian bias

February 14, 2018
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Brian Walker has been a member of the Scout Association since he was a boy. He got all his badges and tied all his knots; he swam and climbed and…

The Paris Statement: a true Europe (marked by Christianity) vs the false Europe (utopian and tyrannical)

October 10, 2017
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In May 2017, a group of conservative scholars and intellectuals met in Paris... No, don't yawn. They say they were "brought together by their common concern about the current state…

Mandatory organ donation for Christians: a presumed opt-out for Muslims?

October 5, 2017
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While the media obsess about the P45 prankster, the set falling to pieces or the plague of frogs in Theresa May's throat, you could be forgiven for missing that the…

If it’s the “so-called Islamic State”, why is Mohammed not the “so-called Prophet”?

September 18, 2017
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The BBC and Channel 4 News appear to have a policy of referring to the ISIS/ISIL/Daesh as the "so-called Islamic State". Senior BBC News Producer David Waddell has explained why…