No Go Zones for Brits in Britain

While I would think this would astound me, it might have in a prior lifetime. Not now. What does astound me is what is happening here in America. Two lovely Arab girls were murdered in cold blood byn their father in Texas and you can hear a pin drop ….. a pin drop! No one is talking about. There should be righteous outrage. Taking to the streets. Two lovely Arab American girls were murdered by their father in an honor killing. Pretend it was something like Matthew Shepard — what then?

If you think what is happening in Britiain can’t happen here. YOU ARE WRONG.

Bishop warns of no-go zones for non-Muslims

By Jonathan Wynne-Jones and Robyn Powell, Telegraph

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Islamic extremists have created "no-go" areas across Britain where it is too dangerous for non-Muslims to enter, one of the Church of England’s most senior bishops warns today.

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His
comments come as a poll of the General Synod – the Church’s parliament
– shows that its senior leaders, including bishops, also believe that
Britain is being damaged by large-scale immigration.

Bishop
Nazir-Ali, who was born in Pakistan, gives warning that attempts are
being made to give Britain an increasingly Islamic character by
introducing the call to prayer and wider use of sharia law, a legal
system based on the Koran.

In an attack on the
Government’s response to immigration and the influx of "people of other
faiths to these shores", he blames its "novel philosophy of
multiculturalism" for allowing society to become deeply divided, and
accuses ministers of lacking a "moral and spiritual vision".

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Echoing
Trevor Phillips, the chairman of the Commission for Equalities and
Human Rights, who has said that the country is "sleepwalking into
segregation", the bishop argues that multiculturalism has led to deep
divisions.

David Davis, the shadow home secretary,
has accused Muslims of promoting a kind of "voluntary apartheid" by
shutting themselves in closed societies and demanding immunity from
criticism.

In the Synod survey, to be published
this week, bishops, senior clergy and influential churchgoers said that
an increasingly multi-faith society threatens the country’s Christian
heritage and blamed the divisions on the Government’s failure to
integrate immigrants into their communities.

It
found that more than one in three believe that a mass influx of people
of other faiths is diluting the Christian nature of Britain and only a
quarter feel that they have been integrated into society.

The
overwhelming majority – 80 per cent – said that the Government has not
upheld the place of religion in public life and up to 63 per cent fear
that the Church will be disestablished within a generation, breaking a
bond that has existed between the Church and State since the
Reformation.

Calls for disestablishment have
grown following research showing that attendance at Mass has overtaken
the number of worshippers at Church of England Sunday services.

Bishop
Nazir-Ali, whose father converted from Islam to Catholicism, was
criticised by Ibrahim Mogra, of the Muslim Council of Britain. He said:
"It’s irresponsible for a man of his position to make these comments.

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"He
should accept that Britain is a multicultural society in which we are
free to follow our religion at the same time as being extremely proud
to be British. We wouldn’t allow ‘no-go’ areas to happen. I smell
extreme intolerance when people criticise multiculturalism without
proper evidence of what has gone wrong."

Oh, that’s rich.

	Religious membership in Britain: click to enlarge

But the Bishop’s concerns are shared by other members of the General Synod.

The
Rt Rev Nicholas Reade, the Bishop of Blackburn, which has a large
Muslim community, said that it was increasingly difficult for
Christians to share their faith in areas where there was a high
proportion of immigrants of other faiths.

He
believes that increasing pressure will be put on the Government to
begin the process of disestablishment and end the preferential status
given to the Church of England. "The writing is on the wall," he said.

Gordon
Brown relinquished Downing Street’s involvement in appointing bishops
in one of his first facts as Prime Minister – a move viewed by some as
a significant step towards disestablishment.

Read it all. Depressing.