Interesting. Going by the names of the Council members, 22 out of 90 are Muslims. I think one woman and 21 men.
Not yet a majority, but certainly a substantial number. Enough to explain why the Council was working with the police to wreck the parade, although it almost certainly helps bring business into the city.
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Interesting. Going by the names of the Council members, 22 out of 90 are Muslims. I think one woman and 21 men.
Not yet a majority, but certainly a substantial number. Enough to explain why the Council was working with the police to wreck the parade, although it almost certainly helps bring business into the city.”
Islam rejects “Capitalism”! They are incompatible.
As well as being symbolic of England and English traditions; which apparently are viewed as being 'overly problematic' to bring into 'certain areas'.
It was Richard the Lionheart who officially claimed St George as England's patron saint in the 12th century. (During the Crusades an apparition of St George reportedly appeared on the walls of Jerusalem waving his sword and encouraging the English onto a victorious assault on the Holy city.) Two centuries later, following the creation of the noble order of St George and the Standard of St George, which was always carried into battle, the rallying cry of the English army was "God for England, Harry and St George''. And after victory at Agincourt, St George's Day was, according to H P Maskell in his book The Taverns of Old England, "made a double feast and ordered to be observed with the same dignity as Christmas Day''.