Great Britain: Bishop warns of no-go zones for non-Muslims (Too dangerous to enter)

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | January 5, 2007 | Jonathan Wynne-Jones

[Stoat]

Bishop warns of no-go zones for non-Muslims

By Jonathan Wynne-Jones
 

Last Updated: 7:53pm GMT 05/01/2008

 

 

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.

• The Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester and the Church's only Asian bishop, says that people of a different race or faith face physical attack if they live or work in communities dominated by a strict Muslim ideology.

  	Bishop Nazir-Ali warns that attempts are being made to give Britain an increasingly Islamic character

  Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, he compares the threat to the use of intimidation by the far-Right, and says that it is becoming increasingly difficult for Christianity to be the nation's public religion in a multifaith, multicultural society.

  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".

  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.

  "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."

  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.

  Last night, Mr Davis said: "Bishop Nazir-Ali has drawn attention to a deeply serious problem. The Government's confused and counter-productive approach risks creating a number of closed societies instead of one open, cohesive one. It generates the risk of encouraging radicalisation and creating home-grown terrorism."

[Issaquahking]

We may very well see why the second amendment was wrote. We didn’t have a standing army when the country was forming up our government. So in order to protect the citizenery, the men would all have guns. Should there be a problem that threatened the community, all men were expected to rise up together, and solve the problem. That will be a situation when the islamofacists make there move here this century, if not, decade.

[weegee]

I thought that the yutes who torch cars and blow up buses don’t do these things in their own neighborhoods.

[weegee]

Law enforcement has seen to it that any non-gang gun activity is prosecuted as a crime and that even our military must now read each target his rights before pulling the trigger.

[Issaquahking]

William Wallace: Ay, fight and you may die, run and you'll live. At least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom.

How will you choose? BLOAT and be ready tomorrow.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Multiculturalism - When you hate yourself enough to embrace the very worst...

[weegee]

The guilt felt by wealthy liberals has done a lot to drag this nation down.

[kalee]

On Tues Dec 24th the UN passed this Pakistani resolution. Read it and weep! We in the West will fall all over ourselves to keep from “offending” them while they rape, loot and destroy our societies from within.

http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/LTD/N07/579/32/PDF/N0757932.pdf?OpenElement

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Unfortunately, it’s not just the libtards, the sense of success guilt is creeping into many other groups.

[GinaLolaB]

It is amazing that the English did not want Catholicism yet they let these slimy muzzies take over England. Oh, I forgot, no one is allowed to call it England anymore because it is not PC. England, England, England.

[Stoat]

Who want invest in area that mostly Radical Islam I don’t think any sane mind business person want too

I would want to invest in gun shops in surrounding areas so that the non-muzzie people could defend themselves properly, but sadly that's not possible in Great Britain.

[353FMG]

There is no use saying prayers for anyone who does not want to help himself. It is like saying prayers for a foolish skydiver who jumps from an airplane without a parachute hoping that he will land safely. We cannot expect a miracle every time we say a prayer.

[Mojohemi]

Guilt by omission is the death of Christendom.
Multiculturism created Balkanization, neighborhoods today is nothing more than a large motel; people don’t even speak to each other any longer. The melting pot is a large joke.
It has destroyed neighborhoods in the USA that was at one time the best the country had to offer but, today you can drive through at your own risk.

[Stoat]

Coming soon to big cities in the U.S.

For decades we have had minority areas in the big cities where white people take their lives in their hands if they dare to enter, but I'm not aware of such areas based entirely upon a religion.  I suppose that Dearborn, Michigan would be a city worth watching in this context, but we generally have not had the problem with militant enclaves of Islamofascism....yet.

[Graybeard58]

Coming soon to big cities in the U.S.

Already in big cities in the U.S., not muslim but gangs.

[353FMG]

It’s no use condescendingly belittling what is happening in Britain when the same is slowly taking place right here in the US. We have the opportunity to learn from the Europeans but instead we are keeping a blind eye for the insidiously creeping menace of Islam. I have yet to hear any American politician warn of the increasing threat to our independence and freedom because of Islam.

Visit any international airport in the afternoon and watch the droves of incoming Muslims invading our country. Come to think of it; we are even more stupid than the Europeans by not learning from their mistakes.

[Stoat]

Come to think of it; we are even more stupid than the Europeans by not learning from their mistakes.

This is a long-heralded American tradition, at least among the elites and of course the Left.

We are constantly being lectured on how much more 'enlightened' Europeans are, but even a passing glance in the direction of truth and historical accuracy shatters this lie. Any yardstick one chooses shows America far ahead, and this absolutely infuriates the Left.

The old saying "Socialism arrives by bicycle" can be amended to "....by bicycle and camel."

[freema]

Ping

[buccaneer81]

I'm wondering if the constitutional protections afforded religions here in the US could be challenged with respect to islam on the grounds that it is not, in fact, a religion in the accepted sense.

I've wondered that myself. You better believe that if The Klan started their own "religion", it wouldn't be afforded Constitutional protection.

Islam is a murderous death cult, but our elites hate Christianity so much that they will never shut Islam down.

[elcid1970]

There are “infidel no-go sites” in Gaza and the West Bank. Doesn’t slow down the IDF air force one little bit. They pick off these murdering islamomuzzie bastards in their cars, one by one. The Palis are forced to use entire coffins to bury one shred of muzzie flesh.

Too bad the bloody RAF can’t do likewise! And this Yank will bet there’s plenty of angry Brits out there who think the same.

[thinking]

“believe that Britain is being damaged by large-scale immigration.”

Really!!, what a novel statement, what great insight...this statement is truly revolutionary...rather late me thinks, the damage is done....