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."

[arthurus]

I think Britain is fairly well past the beginning of that end.

[arthurus]

Britain will not come back. France has a better chance of pulling back from the Islamic grave than does Britain. Pray, rather for Ireland and Poland. Can they stand while the rest of Europe disappears under the minarets?

[Tarpon]

Tanks for no-go zones. Bet that would fix the problems.

[arthurus]

In that Next war the forces of the government will not be on the side of the patriots, not the army; not the police forces.

[arthurus]

Permitting Islamic immigration to the West is an act of national suicide

[arthurus]

They need to be knocked back down and reminded that they are just guestsNothing short of expulsion will be sufficient. Their numbers are too great. A democratic government probably is incapable of the necessary action once this enemy is within the gates. If England was still a real monarchy it could be done the way such things were done centuries ago.

[Alas Babylon!]

JERUSALEM

by William Blake
Updated for the 21st Century

And did those feet in ancient time
walk upon England’s mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
on England’s pleasant pastures seen?
And did the countenance divine
shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
among these dark Satanic MillsMosques?

Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!
I will not cease from mental fight,
nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,
till we have built Jerusalem
In England’s green and pleasant Land.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Wow! The truth is spoken! Let this be a warning that when these fanatics become a majority they harass, rape and kill Christians and Jews.

[freema]

Most welcome, Huber. It’s hard to forget he was one of the candidates for ABC.

[Peanut Gallery]

ping

[Churchillspirit]

I am sorry if I did not make my views clear enough for you.

Best wishes to you.

[Zero Sum]

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

***

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

This has always irked me. If someone feels guilty about their own wealth, then they can always give it away; but to remain wealthy while demanding that other people make sacrifices to assuage one's own guilt ("raising awareness" and the like) is the height of hypocrisy.

[Tolik]

Thanks for the ping. Tolerating intolerance is considered to be enlightened, for some strange reason. I think its a suicide.

[Orthodoxy]

Remember Constantinople! should be the cry of every true American that wants to save this nation because this is our example of the results of appeasing Islam to the point of being surrounded...

Great Britian is a foolish nation and we are blind to our own demise...

[uksupport1]

If there are no-go zones in the UK, I wish someone would point out to me where they are supposed to be?!? I have not, nor anyone else that I know, heard of any. Sounds like hysterical nonsense to me.