Posted on 02/17/2008 1:56:24 PM PST by 2banana
Sharia law at the Treasury and a drift to Islam
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has described terrorist activity as 'Anti-Islamic'
It is strangely shocking to find that Her Majesty's Treasury, that very matter-of-fact department, should be issuing bonds that comply with the ancient rules of sharia law.
It is as if your bank manager were suddenly to break off from warning you about your overdraft, fetch out a prayer mat and start offering devotions in the direction of Mecca.
As it happens, the decision makes sense on business terms. Many major investors are Muslim and it would be foolish to spurn their custom by refusing to consider their religious views.
Nobody is having Islamic banking rules thrust upon him.
Yet there is still something slightly unsettling about the news. Is it coincidental that ours is the first major Western country to offer this facility?
Official Britain has a startling enthusiasm for adjusting itself to make Muslims comfortable. The Home Secretary has weirdly described terrorist activity as 'Anti-Islamic'.
The Foreign Office was recently revealed by a whistleblower to be giving undue status to militant strands of Islam. It (unsuccessfully) prosecuted the whistleblower.
Some of this behaviour has roots in the century-old Arabism of the diplomatic service. Some of it is entirely cynical, influenced by the fact that much of Britain's oil comes from Muslim regions, or that so many Labour MPs' majorities depend on Muslim votes.
But it coincides with an increasing tendency to reduce the privileges of the Christian religion in Britain.
Christian worship in State schools has been deliberately allowed to fade into nonexistence.
Recent legislation on adoption, stem-cell research and the employment rights of homosexuals has directly challenged Christian practice and belief.
Yet multicultural liberals, many of whom profess themselves Godless and despise Christianity, are strangely ready to suck up to Islam, whose views on such topics are far fiercer than those of the most militant Christian moralist.
It sometimes seems as if we are slowly drifting, without really thinking about it, or meaning to, towards the Islamic world. It is time we did think about it, or who knows what may rush in to fill the religious vacuum left at the heart of our State by the slow death of the Church of England?
This abuse must end
Shocking revelations about mistreatment of elderly residents in Scottish care homes will outrage the public.
Inspections of 220 private and council-run establishments have uncovered appalling ill-treatment of pensioners.
Residents exposed to MRSA and other infections and a dreadful lack of hygiene in food preparation and general living conditions: that is just a fraction of the abuse. One home recorded 80 accidents in eight months.
The irony is many of these pensioners were obliged to sell their homes to pay to live in these sub-Victorian conditions.
This is one area where government regulation - oppressive and overelaborate in the business world and similar situations - is lax and inadequate. Institutions which fail basic hygiene inspections should be closed.
Our senior citizens have given a lifetime's contribution to the country. They deserve better.
But it coincides with an increasing tendency to reduce the privileges of the Christian religion in Britain.
The socialists blind ambition for power will result in their mass extermination and an eventual prohibition of everything they stand for...
England, couldn’t you have stayed English until after my family’s visit?
You can go Dhimmi after that, but I would have loved to have visited a Western country before I died.
I said on another thread that they seem to have reached a tipping point quicker than we all expected.
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