Dear Mr XXXX,
Here are excerpts from an article in
http://www.christianvoice.org.uk/islam8.html, which confirms my reports of
local names being changed in UK cities because of Muslim objections to their
Christian associations. The article refers to Tower Hamlets where 30% of the
population are Muslim:
“The renaming of council wards was carried out between 1998 and 2002 as part
of local government 're-organisation' under the Boundaries Commission. In
1998 there were 19 wards in Tower Hamlets of which 7 had two councillors.
These became 17 wards with three seats each. A recommendation to abolish
four of the six wards named after the Christian faith (St Marys, St Peters,
St James and Holy Trinity) and rename the other two came from the 1998
Council. That Council had a ruling group of 41 Labour councillors (of whom a
crucial 21 were Muslim) to 9 LibDems (no Muslims at that time, although
there were some Muslim LibDem candidates). The name 'Holy Trinity' will have
been especially offensive to Muslims. An attempt was also made to change the
names of St Dunstans and St Katharines Wards. However, after local protests
the Home Office decided that for historical reasons for the time being those
names could remain, although a designation has been added to these Wards in
preparation for a change in the future. St Dunstans Ward is now St Dunstan's
and Stepney Green Ward and St Katherines Ward is now St Katharine's and
Wapping Ward.”
I am sure you will be interested to read this account from an impeccable
source of the plight of Christians in Muslim enclaves. Political correctness
means we read little of this in the press, and the idea that there are
‘no-go’ areas for non-Muslims is denied by the ‘liberal’ Establishment:
‘Mr. Dennis Delderfield, resident of Tower Hamlets, former member of the
Court of Common Council of the City of London (the governing body of the
City) and for five years a member of the General Synod of the Church of
England, states:
"This year the Council announced that they would twin the Borough with
Janine, which Israel has claimed is the centre of Islamic terrorism. This
year saw the closure of St Patrick's Roman Catholic School in spite of many
protests by local people, and the Council hope that more church schools will
be closed. Teams of Asian youths roam the area and attacks on white people
are common, some resulting in death. Christian priests and nuns have been
spat at and insulted in the street. The aim is to turn the London Borough of
Tower Hamlets into an exclusive Moslem enclave, and this is well on the way;
anyone who objects is labelled a racist."’
Do you still believe that there is no drive of Islamization in the UK?
Yours sincerely, Robert Houghton.
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> Here are excerpts from an article in
> http://www.christianvoice.org.uk/islam8.html, which confirms my reports
> ...
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Comment:-
Isn't this fallacious circular reasoning that proves absolutely nothing
about the "Islamization", Islam or Muslim beliefs. Aren't you confirming
that you hold the same fringe and offensive anti-Muslimism outlook, as
Stephen Green, on his one-man, bigoted, "Christian Voice" blog (see below)?
Here an extract from the "Christian group may seek ban on Qur'an" article
that appeared in the "Guardian" sometime ago :-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/oct/12/religion.immigrationpolicy
<Extract> ...
Protestant evangelical pressure group has warned that it will try to use the
government's racial and religious hatred law to prosecute bookshops selling
the Qur'an for inciting religious hatred.
Christian Voice, a fringe fundamentalist group which first came to public
prominence this year when it campaigned against the BBC's broadcasting of
Jerry Springer The Opera, was among the evangelical organisations taking
part in a 1,000-strong demonstration against the bill outside parliament
yesterday as the House of Lords held a second reading debate on the measure.
Its director, Stephen Green, said the organisation would consider taking out
prosecutions against shops selling the Islamic holy book. He told the
Guardian: "If the Qur'an is not hate speech, I don't know what is. We will
report staff who sell it. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that unbelievers
must be killed."
The sectarian organisation's tactics have regularly appalled other Christian
groups. Its website proclaims its right to protect its own freedom of speech
in attacking other religious groups: MPs "have no right to try to stifle our
freedom to preach the gospel. It is not just Islam which is the problem. If
a preacher is explaining the horrors of Hinduism ... a charge of stirring up
religious hatred would be almost inevitable. Preaching against sin in
general, or adultery or homosexuality in particular, may also land a
preacher in court."
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Simply, readers, who want a good belly laugh, can easily check out
"Christian Voice" banal anti-Islam antics at these neutral links:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Voice_(UK)
http://technorati.com/tag/christianvoice
http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/?p=559
http://technorati.com/tag/stephengreen
I always thought that evangelical Protestantism and Catholicism were
sectarian oil and water. Haven't you confirmed that "an enemy of your enemy
is a friend" in these duplicitous Islamophobia circumstances?
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Peace
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Zuiko Azumazi
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