‘Are you saying then, that you have no immigration problems in Britain?’
No. We have reducing levels of muslim immigration and a huge increase in Polish immigration - the opposite of US immigration.
‘I will grant you that a majority of Brits are white, however, to call them Christian is a bit of a stretch, isn’t it? I would be curious as to how many below the age of forty consider themselves practicing Christians.’
According to a recent BBC News 24 poll 67% consider themselves to be Christians though only 17% regularly attend church. 85% said Britain must continue to be a Christian society. Nearly half of those who said they were atheists still wanted Britain to remain a christian society. It is foolish to confuse church attendance with faith.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4434096.stm
America is a secular country, Britain is a Christian country. America has separated church and state, Britain has not. Our head of state is also the head of our official church. Your President is secular. We have ‘Lords Spiritual’ who sit in government and vote on legislation from the church’s point of view. Two thirds of British schools are state-funded christian faith schools. Americans may go to church more, but that doesn’t make you a more Christian country.
‘Please don’t think me smug, britemp, because I know that we have very similar problems here, and very few are willing to even acknowledge them, much less do anything to prevent our own suicide.’
I don’t - I appreciate your perspective, but the views of Britain given abroad by the MSM are highly misleading. For example, having read the media would most Americans believe that Britain has fewer total muslims than America has african-american converts to islam or that Britain has admitted fewer muslim immigrants since 1950 than the US has since 1995?
Reports of the death of Britain are somewht premature and invariably politically motivated by the same type of people who cannot wait to see the end of America too.
I would. My mom, who lives in Orange County, California, one of the most conservative places on earth, is less than a mile from one of the biggest mosques in the US, in Anaheim, built brand spanking new. I live in northern Virginia, and women in not just the hijab scarves, but the full-on "niqab", that covers everything but the eyes is an everyday sight. EVERYDAY -- these gals are in the grocery stores and banks, nothing but their eyes showing. Five miles from the nation's capitol. We're in denial over here in the US about the number of muslims in our midst.
but the views of Britain given abroad by the MSM are highly misleading.
What? The MSM is not telling the whole truth about something? I'm shocked, just shocked! < /sarcasm