Posted on 04/07/2023 9:23:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
There are around four million Muslims in Britain, and with that rapidly growing population come societal changes. Oxford’s Magdalen College has in the past celebrated St. George’s Day on April 23 with a ceremonial dinner; this year, however, St. George’s Day plans have been deep-sixed, and Magdalen will instead host a formal dinner to mark the end of Ramadan. In Britain’s celebration of diversity, there is room for only the one observance, not both.
GB News reported Wednesday that “an annual St George’s Day dinner has been cancelled by an Oxford college.” Magdalen College “usually holds an annual banquet to mark the day of the English saint, with students and academics dining together to enjoy a traditional feast.” It’s understandable that the college would take this step: the patron saint of England has been out of favor for years now.
As far back as 2006, the UK’s Daily Mail reported that “the Church of England is considering rejecting England’s patron saint St George on the grounds that his image is too warlike and may offend Muslims.” St. George didn’t end up getting deep-sixed altogether, but he was severely deemphasized, and not just by the Church of England. In May 2013, the Telegraph noted that in the town of Radstock, Somerset, “a local council decided against flying the flag of St George after concerns were raised that it would offend the town’s 16 Muslim residents.” In April 2016, according to the Express, the Bristol City Council “refused to host St George’s Day celebrations because the area is ‘too multicultural.’”
Stories of this kind are all too easy to find. According to Breitbart,
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Doxosticon for Orhtodox Great Vespers on the eve of the Feast of St. George the Trophy-bearer:
True to your name was the manner of your life,
O George the Victorious.
For taking up the cross of Christ on your shoulders,
you tilled the earth parched by diabolical delusion.
As you uprooted the thorny religion of the idols,
you planted the vine of the Orthodox faith everywhere.
Therefore you pour out healings for the faithful throughout the civilized world;
and you have shown yourself to be a righteous husbandman of the Trinity.
We beseech you: intercede for the peace of the world and the salvation of our souls
St. George is the patron saint of England. It is sort like an English version of St. Patrick’s Day.
Sounds like the Brits are going full Muzzie on us.
The U.K. has become a Muslim nation presided over by Mullah Chuck.
I agree. let us celebrate the child-raping mass murderer, instead of Jesus Christ!
Turkey was one of the few Islamic states that had a democracy. The problem with Islam is that it creates too many blood thirsty crazies for it to be stable under a Democracy. Turkey is now a dictatorship under Erdogan.
Yeah! Have your religious jihadists take a day off from stabbing, hacking and running over innocent people.
Sorry that decent, peaceful Moslems in the UK have this element amongst them that wages jihad against the Western Christians, Jews, etc.
Only four million?
Robert Spencer is usually on the ball but when was the last time he visited a major British city?
The UK is submitting to its eventual destiny. Isn’t the most popular name among newborns “Muhammad” now?
Perfidious Albion doing what it takes to take away those long-held Christian traditions!
Wut???
How long before they start hanging homosexuals and forcing real women to wear a burqa?
They voted for this, and now their going to get it good and hard. /spit
We're committing suicide.
That’s the trend. How many of the Christians are Christians in name only? How many muzzies are muzzies in name only? Big difference.
The politicians know that Christianity is fading, but muzziedom is growing, and that they should favor the death cult if they want to get ahead in politics.
Perhaps if they threw gays off rooftops they’d keep their day.
Democrats would then vote in droves for them. Oh yeah, they already do!
Hey UK. Look at how Sweden has fared since allowing all those Muzzies to “migrate” there. Muzzies invade not migrate. They have no intention of assimilating but testablishing a Caliphate under Sharia Law.
I can’t help but think of CS Lewis when I hear of Magdalen College. Times have changed.
Look at how Sweden has fared? How has Sweden fared?
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