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.
WOW! Just wonderful....I'm delighted to hear that you're doing this, and from your posts here at FR I know that those kids are truly Blessed to have you as their instructor. Full steam ahead, and thank you so very much for doing what you do....you're improving the lives of many people in a very tangible way. :-)
But they have been drinking the Fool-aid of Feminist Thought Speech Nanny State Accommodation. Just imagine if Oprah had written their laws and policies for the last 40 years. White guilt will lead to their extermination at the previously and currently offended Muslim hordes.The apocalypse that is South Africa is only a few years ahead for them.”Give us your country and Die”, is on the lips of every young Muslim.While he apes rappers, waves the Koran and slaps his Anglo-Saxon girlfriend.All the while chasing his sister down the street with a knife because she talked to the white Bobby they had intimidated off THEIR street corner last month.
I think that much of what you recount is already present in some ‘hoods here in the USA, and will become de-facto national policy if America goes Socialist later this year.
The amount of popular support for the Leftist trash aiming to be Commander in Chief over here in the USA is astonishing to me, and speaks volumes to the lack of education and short-sightedness embraced so wholeheartedly by so very many people.
Given their track records, statements, associations and openly espoused agendas, they should (in a coherent world) be laughed off the stage before they even get to the starting gate. The fact that they are taken so very seriously by so many causes me the most profound concern for the future not only of our great country but for all of Western civilization.
EUrabian Koranimals PING.
Don't miss Jihad in east Londonistan by Melanie Phillips:
...From the rather fuller stories about this incident in today’s papers, it is clear that this is far from the first such attack in the area. Indeed, there appear to have been many attacks on vicars or churches by Muslims who are clearly intent on turning east London into a no-go area for Christians (and, given the stoning of the Jewish group visiting the area on Holocaust Remembrance Day, for Jews as well...
Helen Oster March 16th, 2008 9:45pm
Well, what a surprise.............I spend about 1 -2 hours each day, responding to hate-filled diatribes on "Yahoo Answers", from people who apparently believe that ALL the problems in the Middle East are caused by Israel & the Jewish presence. I try in vain to disseminate the facts - that the "Palestinians" as a nation of Moslems, were a creation of Egyptian-born Yasser Arafat, in 1964, with the main goal of destroying the Jewish people living in the Land of Israel. - still the defined goal of Hamas, Hezbollah & the government of Iran today. I offer facts & figures that detail how many disputed pieces of land which are claimed by the "Palestinian" Moslems, were in many cases not owned, but rented from absentee Arab landlords. The land was then purchased by Jewish philanthropists & charitable organisations, piece by piece from these absentee Arab landlords. I try to raise awareness of how the Jewish effort in the 1800s to revitalise the land attracted a large immigration of Arabs from neighbouring areas who were drawn by employment opportunities and healthier living conditions. There was never any attempt to "rid" the area of the few Arabs that there were, or of those Arabs that immigrated into this area along with the Jews.
I focus upon how this contrasts with the actions of the governments of Morocco, Egypt, Iran (then Persia), Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon Syria & Yemen, who caused thousands of Jewish people to flee the homes that had been owned & lived in by their families for generations. They ended up in pre-State 'Palestine'. (Even a cursory glance at the general Jewish population of Israel today, reveals a majority of dark-skinned Israelis, bearing testimony to their Middle-Eastern roots). Nevertheless, I continue to read the same messages of hate, every single day. Not just from "Palestinians", but from people who ally themselves with the "Palestinian" cause.
In Jerusalem, out walking with my children aged 8 & 10, I've had stones thrown at me by Arab youths, but we've come to not only expect that here, but to expect the face of the civilised world to turn against us. The writing is on the wall for Britain, too. By 2010, if current census predictions are accurate, there will be more Moslems in Birmingham - the UK's second city - than non-Moslems. Maybe in 3 or 4 generations, when ordinary Britons are being accused of having "stolen" a Moslem country, those who are currently blind supporters of Islam & detractors of Israel, will recall how it all began.
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