Britain's Elites Converting to Islam

IslamOnline.Com ^ | Mar 5, 2004

[RussianConservative]

According to a report by IslamOnLine, an Islamic website, 14,000 of England’s ‘elite’ have already converted to Islam, with more on the way.

The report cites ‘the first authoritative study of the phenomenon’ carried out by the Sunday Times on February 22, reporting that “some of Britain’s top landowners, celebrities and the offspring of senior establishment figures” have converted to Islam in recent years.

The Times study was carried out by Yahya (formerly Jonathan) Birt, himself a Muslim convert, who is the son of Lord Birt, the former director-general of the BBC. He used a breakdown of the latest census figures to conclude that there is a major migration from Christianity to Islam taking place in England, with 14,200 converts to date.

Birt is quoted as arguing that an inspirational figure similar to the American Muslim convert Malcolm X, would first have to emerge before the next stage – a mass conversion among Britons – were to happen. “You need great transitional figures to translate something alien (like Islam) into the vernacular,” Birt was quoted by the Times as saying. Professor Birt received his doctorate at Oxford University on young British Muslims.

Emma Clark, the great-granddaughter of a British prime minister also converted to Islam. Emma, whose ancestor Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, took Britain into the First World War, commented on her conversion saying, “We’re all the rage, I hope it’s not a passing fashion.”

According to the Times report, many converts have been inspired by the writings of Charles Le Gai Eaton, a former Foreign Office diplomat. “I have received letters from people who are put off by the wishy-washy standards of contemporary Christianity and they are looking for a religion which does not compromise too much with the modern world,” said Eaton, author of Islam and the Destiny of Man.

[RussianConservative]

“I have received letters from people who are put off by the wishy-washy standards of contemporary Christianity and they are looking for a religion which does not compromise accept too much with the modern Renaissance world,”

And for this, they leave Christianity to Islam? Try Orthodoxy, we do not mix words or be wishy washy.

[GeronL]

Christianity died a long time ago in Europe.

[dagoofyfoot]

Christianity died a long time ago in Europe


Sad, scary and probably true.

[Dialup Llama]

"As for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord."

[Destro]

THE FALL OF ORTHODOX ENGLAND

[GeronL]

see #5 link

[Betaille]

As Ann Coulter pointed out... Liberals are Pro-Islam... Post September 11th.
They love Islam BECAUSE of terrorism, not in spite of it. Without terrorism, Muslims would just be a bunch of Sexist, Pro-Life, Religious Right-Wing nuts.

[Destro]

It is true what I say: should the Christian faith weaken, the kingship will immediately totter. - Archbishop Wulfstan of York, The Institutes of Polity, 4 (1023).

[GeronL]

I already just now posted there anyway. =o)

[GeronL]

Can you find that column??

[LRS]

As Ann Coulter pointed out... Liberals are Pro-Islam... Post September 11th. They love Islam BECAUSE of terrorism, not in spite of it. Without terrorism, Muslims would just be a bunch of Sexist, Pro-Life, Religious Right-Wing nuts.

I knew there were some good reasons why I like that woman!

[RussianConservative]

Watch what you say of Europe...Russia, Ukraine, Belaruss, Moldovia, Serbia, Croatia, Poland, Slovakia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary all wish to have bone of contention with you and comment....oh and add Ireland and Spain too.

[tubavil]

I missed that. G-d Bless Ann Coulter!

[Dialup Llama]

>They love Islam BECAUSE of terrorism, not in spite of it.

It is terrorism aimed at the heart of the west, at Jews and at Christianity, and all of which the liberals hate. That is why the love terrorism and any religion which promotes it.

[dinok]

I agree that Christianity is loosing badly in Europe.
But I think these late converts to Islam are doing it to join the hate America and hate Israel bandwagon. Its fashionable to hate Americans and Jews in Modern Europe.

Our only hope is the Eastern European nations whose people suffered under the communists and are more America friendly. But I am not holding my breath. Russia still has dreams of grandure and so do the French and Germans.

[endthematrix]

My first thought: Every Brit thinks they are elite!

My (conspiracy) theory: They start the war on Islam and quickly convert and leave that renegade colony (USA) to fight it alone. LOL!

[Porterville]

With the church at under the controls of the state (tax exempt status) and liberals gone wild, I am not surprised.

[GeronL]

If they join the EU, they'll deserve what they get. And I am pretty sure all those countries could not give a care about my opinion of the Belgiumization of Europe and turning people into Euro-Peons.

Not that its a bad thing. =o)

[endthematrix]

She's right on the money with that one.

[CARepubGal]

Much of Western Europe is utterly depraved. Glad the East is stemming the tide. Blessed Lent!