THANK YOU....that book has been on the stoat "wish list" at Amazon for quite some time, but your recommendation makes me want to put it in the shopping cart much sooner....sincerely appreciated :-)
Posted on 03/16/2008 12:31:40 PM PDT by Stoat
An Anglican priest is in hospital after he was beaten up and insulted in what appears to be a “faith hate” assault by Asian youths.
Canon Michael Ainsworth, 57, was kicked and punched in the head and left with deep cuts, bruising and two black eyes in the grounds of his historic church in east London after he asked three Asian youths there to be quiet.
The attack at the 18th-century St George in the East Church in Stepney follows a number of apparently anti-Christian attacks in recent months in the same area.
Alan Green, area dean for Tower Hamlets, said: “It was a nasty cowardly attack. There were several groups in the churchyard and two from one group attacked him and the other group came and helped him back to the house.
“He was kicked and punched in the head as he lay on the ground, I believe that what was shouted was ‘you f****** priest’ before they attacked him.”
A Metropolitan police spokesman said: “The suspects are Asian . . . and the incident is being investigated as an alleged faith hate crime.”
The church had previously been targeted when a brick smashed a window during a service. Allan Ramanoop, a member of the parochial church council, said: “On one occasion, youths shouted: ‘This should not be a church, this should be a mosque, you should not be here’.
“The youths are anti-Christian. It’s terrible what they have done to Canon Ainsworth. We’ve never had violence like that before.”
A parishioner raised the alarm after the attack on March 5, but the youths had fled by the time police arrived.
The church was consecrated in 1729 and designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, a pupil of Sir Christopher Wren. It was severely damaged during the blitz but rebuilt in the 1960s.
Ainsworth was discharged from hospital but has now gone back in. Yesterday, he was visited in St Bartholomew’s hospital by his wife Jan, who is also a priest as well as being the Church of England’s chief education officer.
She said her husband was concerned publicity about the attack could fuel inter-faith tensions. “He does not want the level of fuss and attention. I think he feels it’s quite difficult in the local area.”
The Met recorded an upsurge in attacks against Muslims after the July 2005 bombings in London. There are also numerous attacks against Jews but, according to police statistics, relatively few Christians are attacked because of their faith.
Indeed he was.
Here's a convenient link to his "Rivers of Blood" speech and related articles of the day for readers who may not be familiar with it:
An essential, important video...thanks very much for posting.
Britain needs to be a little more specific; their lump-’em-all-together strategy can’t be making the Far Eastern Asians very happy.
Ping.
EXACTLY!
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Sounds like he may be suffering from a case of terminal liberalism.
It's the politically correct code word used in the press to refer to Muslims - the British equivalent to the French 'Youths'.
vaudine
I wish that we Yanks could do more than offer our moral support to our British Friends. Hopefully things won't get so bad that massive weapons-smuggling operations will become necessary in order for them to reclaim their country, but their Government doesn't appear to be of the opinion that there's much of a problem.
I’m afraid to say, only the BNP can save England now.
THANK YOU....that book has been on the stoat "wish list" at Amazon for quite some time, but your recommendation makes me want to put it in the shopping cart much sooner....sincerely appreciated :-)
I use large parts of it to enhance the Boy Scout Outdoors teaching that I do.
Sounds like he may be suffering from a case of terminal liberalism
From the linked Daily Mail article:
He was left lying on the ground with deep cuts, bruising and two black eyes.
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Canon Ainsworth, a father of four, was taken to hospital and discharged after treatment, but was readmitted after a relapse.
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There's nothing quite like multiple, extended hospital stays for serious trauma and head injuries to provide an opportunity and motivation for deeply reflective, philosophical thought.
I hope and pray that he will be able to recover from his physical injuries as well as his liberalism, which could easily have been a terminal case.
I would have used that entire quote as well as others in the title of my FR post if space had been allowed. Sadly, many of these 'news' sources dance around and studiously avoid several of the most salient facts of the matter, and one must read multiple sources in order to get a reasonably accurate picture of what happened.
ping for later ...
The BNP has been so hysterically vilified by the press in the UK and elsewhere that in any 'news' story involving them you'd think that you were reading about the very worst stereotypes of the Klan.
I'm not seeing any political party in the UK that has the combination of workable, useful and appropriate ideas, the will to implement them, along with sufficient popular support to make the changes that truly need to be made.
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