Britain, for example, has a “fifth column” in its society. Members of that fifth column occupy influential positions in government, the legal professions, the mass media, publishing etc.
So much incredulity over why Starmer's popularity is so low "because he is a nice guy" or "because we are not in financial crisis"
The man televised trials of people who had said stuff on social media and called the nation Far Right Thugs. The Right Wing Press didn't 'spin' that…
[“So much incredulity over why Starmer’s popularity is so low “because he is a nice guy” or “because we are not in financial crisis”
The man televised trials of people who had said stuff on social media and called the nation Far Right Thugs. The Right Wing Press didn’t ‘spin’ that stuff. They were instructed to cover it verbatim.
The words were Starmer’s. The actions were Starmer’s.
For people in the country who don’t know the man personally they see a cold, uncompromising, judgmental out of touch lawyer who seems not to remotely understand the anguish of the everyday Brit, or even like them
Earlier today I heard an argument that Labour should now focus on its core vote of young metropolitans and white collar workers. That McSweeney leaving means Labour don’t have to pander to the Brexit Backing Red Wall and can focus instead on the yuppies who indulgently support The Greens.
Given that most working class folk despise Labour and sense it despises them, if the strategy is to demonise them even more and abandon them even further, Labour will struggle to ever get back into power.
The party that tackles immigration and speaks to the vilified and trampled underbelly of ordinary folk who are fed up with being ostracised in their own nation will sweep to victory.
Labour are hastening that revolution.“]
🚨🇷🇺More and more Russians are stealing food every day as the crisis deepens and sanctions begin to bite.
Just kidding – this is Starmer’s UK and the city of London, ruled by gangs while the native population is disappearing. pic.twitter.com/QmGRFvdXLB
This scene is extremely painful… and like so many others, it may pass without consequence. But it will not pass before my eyes without speaking a word of truth.
Imagine being that person returning from somewhere, carrying a few items for his children. From friends’ comments, it… pic.twitter.com/RvQAqWz19I
[“This scene is extremely painful… and like so many others, it may pass without consequence. But it will not pass before my eyes without speaking a word of truth. Imagine being that person returning from somewhere, carrying a few items for his children. From friends’ comments, it becomes clear he was a teacher, someone who raised generations. In a single moment, his children become orphans, and his wife is left a widow—giving birth to a new story of pain. The occupation assassinates civilians in broad daylight, with no accountability and no oversight. The scene unfolds in the middle of the road: Young men on a motorcycle. An unarmed man walking, carrying a few belongings. A truck loaded with fuel—had it exploded, it would have caused a massacre in every sense of the word. Civilian cars present at the moment of the assassination. Many passersby on a main, busy street. What kind of criminality is this? What ceasefire are they talking about? What peace are they speaking of? What monitoring committee are they discussing? When blood is being spilled openly, in broad daylight… What kind of oppression is this? That voice inside you must be shared with this complicit world. #AWordOfTruth in the face of an unjust world Here is #Gaza“]
The Israeli Jews giving full vent to their warped and apparently ingrained sadism.
Voting intention: Reform lead Labour by 7. At just 44% this is actually highest combined vote for 2 traditional main parties since October
➡️ REF UK 30% (nc) 🌹 LAB 23% (+2) 🌳 CON 21% (+1) 🔶 LIB DEM 12% (-2) 🌍 GREEN 10% (nc) 🟡 SNP 2% (-1)
Hard to believe that nearly a quarter of the electorate would vote Labour, after the past 18 months.
However, and leaving that aside, the poll would still translate to 342 Reform UK MPs (a quite good majority), 133 Labour (279 fewer than at present), 55 LibDems, 42 Cons (79 fewer than at present), and 35 SNP [etc].
Britain’s FPTP electoral system— winner takes (almost) all.
EXCL: Allies of Wes Streeting say he still wants to replace Keir Starmer and is willing to stand against him as soon as after Gorton byelection later this month.
This despite health secretary publicly saying PM “needs to be given a chance” and a one-on-one ‘clear the air’…
Replace one puppet of Israel and the UK Jewish lobby (Starmer-stein) with another (Streeting)? Not a very plausible strategy. In any case, most opinion polls indicate that Streeting will lose his seat at the next general election.
Russian air defense forces intercepted and destroyed 108 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over Russian regions overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
So the ex-Labour councillor and Hope Not Hate worker who helped design the Online Safety Act has been found guilty of…online child sex offences? Well I never… pic.twitter.com/g8kcSv8fyE
Starmer-stein just has none of the qualities necessary or useful in a Prime Minister.
Today’s been a significant corrective for Labour MPs. For 24 hours they were believing their own hype about Starmer fighting back. Now they realise the reality. You can’t spin away a crisis this big.
The European Union is undermining international efforts to resolve the conflict in Ukraine by supplying weapons and providing financial support to Kiev, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto told reporters:https://t.co/od7zkHCg76pic.twitter.com/CggANJ0BJK
Like the other genociders they become crazier by the day . They know the world can see them now . The game is up . The whole world hates them . They are paraiahs
— Razza , named after the footballer (@razza_my) August 18, 2025
Also, there should be reform of this whole outdated and degraded “KC” stuff.
In the 1920s, only a few (3 or 4) KCs were granted “letters patent” annually. Back then, to be “KC” really meant something. Today, almost everyone and his dog sports the “KC” label:
“In 1959, there were 181 practising Queen’s Counsel. Between 1966 and 1970, the number of practising QCs increased from 208 to 262. Wikipedia states that this number continued to grow, reaching 404 in 1978 and 601 in 1989.
From 1991 to 2000, the number of practising QCs steadily rose from 736 to 1072. In 1995, 71 QCs were appointed.
In 2006, 175 QCs were appointed out of 443 applicants. 33 of these were women, 10 were from ethnic minority backgrounds, and 4 were solicitors.
Between 1995 and 2023, data shows fluctuation in appointments, ranging from 60 in 1998 to 175 in 2006.
In 2021, 101 KCs (previously QCs) were appointed, including five solicitors.
In 2023 and 2022, 95 KCs were appointed in each year.
In 2024, 95 new KCs were appointed.
In 2025, 105 KCs were appointed, representing the biggest cohort in four years.
Efforts are ongoing to increase diversity among KC appointees, with the Bar Council actively encouraging applications from underrepresented groups and tracking statistics on women, ethnic minority lawyers, and those with disabilities.“
[Google AI/Wikipedia]
The “KC” label is now almost worthless, though of course merely being a barrister is even less valuable…
Thousands of persons are now carrying the rank “KC”. Degradation, as with titles such as “lord”, “sir” etc…
The meeting between Trump and Vladimir Zelensky on Monday will start at 08:15 p.m. Moscow time (05:15 p.m. GMT) and will last an hour, according to Trump's schedule, published by the White House:https://t.co/pw2G44xTcwpic.twitter.com/MMnTSdsSfA
A judge who allowed a French drug dealer with many other convictions including sexual assault to stay in Britain was previously a director of an asylum charity. Another example of the blatant pro-immigration bias in our judicial system ⬇️
“French“? Even Goodwin is, apparently, still infected by politically-correct nonsense-language.
(and, no, I don’t care whether the untermensch may possess a piece of paper saying that he is “French”…).
A significant number of British and English people are spontaneously “raising the colours” —flying Union Jack and St George’s Flags on their streets and outside their homes
This should be seen for what it is —an act of resistance against mass uncontrolled immigration, broken… pic.twitter.com/lZqyK2zQu2
[“A significant number of British and English people are spontaneously “raising the colours” —flying Union Jack and St George’s Flags on their streets and outside their homes This should be seen for what it is —an act of resistance against mass uncontrolled immigration, broken borders, the decision by politicians to house illegal migrants in the heart of their communities, and the loss of their national identity. The English philosopher Sir Roger Scruton once said “the English are reluctant to display their identity — reluctant to sing their national anthem, to wave their flag, or to affirm their nationhood … But the cost of this reluctance is the steady erosion of something precious —a shared first-person plural.” What he meant by that was the erosion of a “we” —the erosion of a community, an identity, a home. And this is precisely what millions of British and English people now feel, even if many do not yet want to say it out loud—that we are losing a very precious sense of “we”. Mass immigration, open borders, a state policy of multiculturalism that prioritises minorities over the majority, cultural fragmentation, and an aggressive globalism that wants you to believe the only thing that defines people from these islands is not our own distinctive identity, culture, and history but merely welcoming others and celebrating “diversity” … all this has left many people feeling utterly bewildered, lost, demoralised, and in a place that no longer looks or feels like home. This is why some people in Britain and England, on streets like the one below, are “raising the colours”. By flying their flags they are letting us all know that they do exist, they do belong, they do have a home, and there is a “we” they want to reassert and protect, no matter how much the elite class want them and you to think otherwise.“]
“Raise the banners!”…
FACTBOX: What we know about foiled terrorist attack on Crimean Bridge. This is the second time the Ukrainian special services have tried to stage a terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge since the beginning of 2025:https://t.co/JxXcj2yvcopic.twitter.com/SLhNv3BgHg
The Israeli Air Force continues to carry out airstrikes on the remaining residential neighborhoods of the Gaza Strip pic.twitter.com/OgvQbgk1j3
— Globe Eye Network 👁️ 👁️ (@GlobeEyeNetwork) August 17, 2025
More Israeli war crimes.
Every single Jewish doctor who followed me for at least 6 years, often DMing me for a chat, has either unfollowed or blocked me recently for calling Gaza what it is -an atrocity. Not one of them has ever mentioned starving children in their tweets yet we’ve heard plenty about the…
[“Every single Jewish doctor who followed me for at least 6 years, often DMing me for a chat, has either unfollowed or blocked me recently for calling Gaza what it is -an atrocity. Not one of them has ever mentioned starving children in their tweets yet we’ve heard plenty about the hostages. I’m sorry but you shouldn’t be in medicine – they all were (rightly) devastated by the anti-semitism of colleagues after 7/10 yet have shown no empathy whatsoever for innocent Palestinian kids dying of starvation and disease. I’ve kept a very balanced view, sympathy for all sides, always fighting anti-semitism hard but Israel has gone way too far and if you’re standing by that, you’ve lost your way, precious few Israelis are. Israel & Netanyahu are fuelling anti-semitism not girls with leukaemia. If you cannot take a balanced view I don’t want your follow anyway. And tragically the actions of Israel have made it highly unlikely any more hostages will be got out alive.“]
Looks like someone is belatedly and reluctantly coming to certain conclusions about “them”…
— Pepijn Leonard Demortier (@PepijnDemortier) August 16, 2025
“How can you have studied at university for so long and say such ‘harsh things’ about immigrants?”
No, buddy. The real question is: how can you have studied that long and still turn a blind eye to the murder, rape and destruction of your own people/nation?
Rotten narrative.
— Pepijn Leonard Demortier (@PepijnDemortier) August 18, 2025
That’s an interesting way of saying black and brown people commit the most crimes
Of course, Washington D.C. is largely non-white anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.#Demographics. Not entirely, though. European-origined people are about 38% of the population, and many more reside in the suburbs, in the states of Maryland and Virginia; places such as McLean.
The only UK pollster other than YouGov to correctly predict the winner in over 90% of seats at the general election last year has just forecast an enormous Reform victory at the next election Writing this up https://t.co/liUeIhMQHwpic.twitter.com/Cq1Bb3N3Kn
Yes, and not because Farage or Reform are anything much, but simply because the main System parties are hated now, held in utter contempt, and rightly so.
Newsweek: NATO Ally Warns Ukraine After Strike on Russian Pipeline
Hungary accused Ukraine of attacking and disabling a Russian oil pipeline leading to Hungary and warned Kyiv about its dependence on Hungarian electricity supplies.
Russian troops struck deployment sites of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 148 areas over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Monday:https://t.co/k0IzNxiq3Ipic.twitter.com/ktdMnfrUw3
A very interesting list, sent to me by a reader of the blog.
What interests me especially is the fact that Jews were only allowed to re-enter England during the rulership of Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell invited them to come to this country only about 40 years prior to the Bank of England’s formation in 1694.
Keir Starmer appears totally incompetent, but that is at least partly a front to conceal the treachery of the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan to import millions of non-white immigrants into Europe, and particularly the UK.
There is also the point that the “small boats” migration-invasion is only about 5% of the total invasion, the vast bulk of which is “legal”, superficially.
The mind of the public is of course focussed on the “small boats”, with 200-1,000 invaders per day coming in. Meanwhile, every single day, thousands enter “legally”, and largely unremarked in the msm. Overall, between 500,000 and 1,500,000 a year.
Within our lifetimes, this will collapse the whole society, if not stopped in its tracks.
#Putin will respond when the first #StormShadow ballistic missile hits Russian soil. I hope he will wisely make allowances for #Biden 's dementia and hold fire in the meantime. #RussianUkrainianWar
Look at how the NWO/ZOG powers (using Biden, Macron, Starmer) are still trying to attack Russia. Supplying missiles (etc), supplying intelligence, supplying training for the Kiev-regime forces. Everything except actually pushing the launch buttons themselves.
What would be the American reaction if Russia gave the same help to Venezuela, Cuba etc?
“Dahl reviewed Australian author Tony Clifton’s God Cried, a picture book about the siege of West Beirut by the Israeli army during the 1982 Lebanon War.[200] The article appeared in the August 1983 issue of the Literary Review and was the subject of much media comment and criticism at the time.[201][202][203] According to Dahl, until this point in time “a race of people”, meaning Jews, had never “switched so rapidly from much-pitied victims to barbarous murderers”. The empathy of all after the Holocaust had turned “into hatred and revulsion”.[202] Dahl wrote that Clifton’s book would make readers “violently anti-Israeli”, saying, “I am not anti-Semitic. I am anti-Israel.”[204] He asked, “must Israel, like Germany, be brought to her knees before she learns how to behave in this world?”.[205] The United States, he said, was “so utterly dominated by the great Jewish financial institutions” that “they dare not defy” Israelis.[202]
Following the Literary Review article, Dahl told a journalist from the New Statesman: “There’s a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it’s a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”[206][207] In 1990, during an interview with The Independent, Dahl explained that his issue with Israel began when they invaded Lebanon in 1982:
they killed 22,000 civilians when they bombed Beirut. It was very much hushed up in the newspapers because they are primarily Jewish-owned. I’m certainly anti-Israeli and I’ve become antisemitic in as much as that you get a Jewish person in another country like England strongly supporting Zionism. I think they should see both sides. It’s the same old thing: we all know about Jews and the rest of it. There aren’t any non-Jewish publishers anywhere, they control the media—jolly clever thing to do—that’s why the president of the United States has to sell all this stuff to Israel.”
Dahl was, in his own view, anti-Israel but not, or not necessarily, anti-Jew. Organized Jewish-Zionist lobbyists disagree, and have created a campaign against him, as seen in that Wikipedia article. His books have been savagely cut and changed, for one thing. Akin to burning books…
As for me, and as far as I can recall, I had actually never heard of Roald Dahl until I was about 25, and at that time (about 1982) had a girlfriend (7 years older) who had two young children, both of whom loved Dahl’s books. Since then, I have read Dahl’s short WW2 memoir (he was a fighter pilot at first; later, a junior air attache at the British Embassy in Washington).
I was listening last night to BBC World Service; a piece about “Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajneesh], one of the “gurus” of the 1960s and 1970s, and favoured by the hippy element (and some pop stars).
There was a whole mass of odd “gurus”, supposed religious teachers etc around at that time. Most were broadly of Hindu orientation, though some were Buddhist, or even “Christian”, e.g. the “Reverend” Jim Jones [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones]. Some invented their own religions, as did L. Ron Hubbard (who invented Scientology in the 1950s), and the “Reverend” Moon of South Korea, whose “Moonies” became a pest across the Western world. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Myung_Moon; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard
As a matter of fact, I was wandering around London, I think in 1978, aged 21, when two people, a young man and a young Asian woman, accosted me in Edgware Road. I was living in Little Venice at the time. I quickly guessed that they were Moonies but, curious, allowed myself to be invited to their HQ, which turned out to be a fairly large house in, I think, either Paddington or Notting Hill. The latter, as far as I can remember.
I was given a drink (instant coffee, I think) and a biscuit, and was then invited to an odd lecture (audience: about a dozen people, all young) by a possibly Korean, or Chinese, woman, not unattractive and aged about 30-ish.
I was slightly worried (the Moonies having been the subject of tabloid Press outrage) that I might be somehow prevented from leaving, but once the lecture was over (it concerned some weird ideas about how the Earth was created, the lecturer using a blackboard and chalk circles), I simply expessed a polite but firm intention to leave, thanked them, and walked out, never to see (as far as I know) another Moonie for the rest of my life.
As far as Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh is concerned, the only one of his disciples or former disciples I met was a woman whom my then girlfriend invited to the home we (sometimes) shared. That would have been mid-1980s.
The woman, divorced, had completed a Master’s degree at the University of Essex in the 1970s, where my 1980s girlfriend, a Cambridge graduate, had been taking a higher degree at the same time. The other woman had married a Jew, and brought her two rather unpleasant, rude and badly-behaved young sons (aged about 4 or 5) with her. She was, I had been told, a senior official in the —even then, rather notorious— Haringey Council in North West London.
She started talking about how she had at one time been involved with the Rajneesh cult (she referred to the Indian as “the Bagwash”, perhaps in an attempt not to seem brainwashed). She said that she could still see some value in what the cult taught. I could only listen, not knowing anything to speak of about that cult. I certainly had no idea that it was at least partly a “sex cult”! The afternoon did not end very amicably.
The “guru” himself is now dead, having had a heart attack at age 58 in 1990.
[“Rajneesh Shri Bhagwan” in 1984]
Listening to the BBC broadcast [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-44300915], what struck me most was the sheer decadence not (only) of the “guru” but more so of the white Western people who bowed down to what Churchill might have called (his description of Gandhi) “a half-naked native fakir“.
Of course, to be fair, Rajneesh was only an Indian con-man, not a supposed political “saint” whose activism led to the Partition of formerly British India, with the loss of life possibly topping 2 million: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India. [cf. Mandela…]
To my mind (no doubt “prejudiced”, “racist” etc…), it is almost beyond belief that young European (white) women from the UK, Germany, USA etc would want to have sexual relations with the Rajneesh creature. Does “group hypnotism” or “Stockholm Syndrome” explain some of that?
Likewise, the idiots not only accepted that Rajneesh was screwing many of the women, but accepted his extravagance on himself, as they slaved to bring in money to the cult, and/or gave their own money for the use of the “guru”.
Rajneesh had just under 100 Rolls-Royce cars, for example. The photos below show him expounding his “truths” to the “chelas”; also, his white serfs lining up to worship him as he drove past, covering them in dust. Madness. Rassenschande.
Did they stand there clapping, too? Or was mere silent worship enough?
I imagine that most of the followers were probably not hugely intelligent. Certainly, the Scottish bodyguard reminiscing on the BBC did not give a very intelligent impression. Still, interesting from the psychological point of view. The followers were (superficially) seeking enlightenment, sought it from Rajneesh, and seem not to have been too fazed by his sexual antics, or by his ownership of about 94 Rolls-Royces. Very odd, to me. I suppose that I am rather an ancient Roman, in my way…
Indeed, the Westernized Indians also look with disfavour upon the cults, such as those mentioned, the “Hare Krishna’s” etc, which mostly appeal to Western people. Books have been written, by satirical Indians, about it. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_Cola
Having said that, of course some of the major religions of today were once regarded by many of the people of the time of their inception as equally crazy. Christianity was looked upon as both mad and seditious by Rome, until Constantine adopted it. The same could be said of Islam, mutatis mutandis.
The only guides are reason, conscience, and instinct.
Looking at it in the wider historical context, cults and fantastic beliefs have always existed, but seem to flourish more during times of collapse of existing order and established belief.
Afternoon music
Hanson, Symphony no.2, “Romantic” (in three movements):
Interesting psychological experiment. Not surprising though. A virus which kills one in a thousand people has been presented as a “Black Death”, and has led to human “rabbits” wearing facemasks as ordered (and even when walking alone in the open air!), keeping away from each other, making their children into poor pathetic muzzled and isolated units even in school, and so on.
Not a bad film, but arguably far too sympathetic to the fugitive couple. Few were arrested solely for their opposition to the Vietnam War. Fugitives of that sort usually were wanted on charges of murder, manslaughter, robbing banks, setting off bombs etc.
There was a similar case in real life, seen on TV by me when I was staying on the Gulf Coast of Florida in 1999. A woman in (I think) Ohio, or somewhere that way, was arrested. A housewife/homemaker, married to a dentist who knew nothing of her past (if I am remembering correctly) or her real name. Arrested on Federal warrant originally dated sometime around 1970.
Didn't take long for Biden to start bombing and killing people in middle east, just like Obama did. But God if it was Trump that done that, he'd of been harassed and called racist and everything else.
Btw, I hated Trump, but the hypocrisy of the left/far left is insane
people are dying of a Chinese virus but it's racist to refer to it as Chinese even though it began in China. We are living in a world were right is wrong, and wrong is right, moral is immoral and immoral is moral.
Wake up, people…”they” will not be content until our whole civilization, culture, race and religion(s) are destroyed, and “they” rule over whatever raceless, cultureless humanoid mass is still living.
The schools in the UK (both fee-paying and State schools) are becoming, indeed have become, unfit for purpose. Some people think that it is somehow unlawful to homeschool. Not so: https://www.gov.uk/home-education.
More peaceful afternoon music
That Rautavaara piece is peaceful in part, but also unsettling, like much of life…
Tweeter “Jason/@j8ybb” is all too typical. Ignorant, thinks that an insult is an argument, and seems to think (or has been brainwashed into thinking) that White Northern Europeans are somehow worse than, and certainly not more advanced than, the “blacks and browns”. He also seems to despise what appears to be his own ancestry and people.
I just read a few more of the tweets from “Jason”. Sad, more than anything.
One of the pillars of a future “Threefold Social Order” society will be religious freedom. Such freedom is also said to be a pillar of our existing “Western” model of society.
“We” supposedly all agree with that ideal, meaning of course “we” white Northern Europeans. Of course, once one gets away from Northern Europe and its wider offshoots in North America, Australasia etc, that consensus ends. In the Middle East, much of Africa, South Asia etc, freedom of religion either does not exist, or exists only as a fragile plant.
In Europe, we see that the migration-invasion, and the societal takeover via a high birth rate of, in particular, Muslims, is threatening our fond belief that we have and always will have religious freedom. The pendulum is swinging. Whereas in the Middle Ages, Roman Catholic Christians repressed other religious communities and launched crusades to conquer Muslim lands (a simplification, of course, but let’s leave that aside), today the Muslims are invading Europe, not as armies (as happened several times in the past) but as migrant-invaders (immigrants, “refugees”, “asylum-seekers”, and as babies born in Europe…). If this continues unabated, we can expect to see more attempts to shut down religious freedom for non-Muslims, as shown in this cartoon:
This process can be seen in the UK. There have in fact been Muslims in the UK for a long time, at least in small numbers. An Islamic centre and cemetery was established on the edge of Woking, Surrey, in the 19thC (it can be seen just before trains enter Woking Station, on the Southern or lefthand side as the train travels from London). However, the political or societal strength has grown in more recent years, along with the numbers.
In the 1970s, the Muslim element rarely displayed itself politically. I myself recall that posters on the Underground in 1976 or 1977, advertizing the Libyan-funded film “Mohammed, Messenger of God” were often defaced, always with the same words: “Islam forbids representations”. That vandalism, along with “community” representation to the UK authorities and the film distributors, resulted in the film being renamed “The Message”.
Now, 40 or so years later, times have moved on. Despite the Muslim population of the UK only being between 5% and 6% (officially), there has been a gradual infiltration (I do not say that it has been particularly organized) into mainstream political parties, in areas where Muslim numbers are significant: parts of the North of England, the Midlands, smaller areas within London and elsewhere. The influence of Sharia law and courts has grown; the Church of England has shown itself craven (as indeed it is when confronted by the aggressive Jewish-Zionist element). In some cases, Christians wishing to display their faith, e.g. by wearing crosses etc, have been given the choice of not doing so or being dismissed.
I repeat, officially the Muslim population of the UK stands at little more than 5% (about 5.1%) so far, but a high birth rate may propel that to 10% in the short term and later to…who knows? What will then be its influence and power?
As to the Jews, in numbers they are small, somewhere between 250,000 to 280,000, though there are also very large numbers of part-Jews, many of whom have little or no day to day connection with Jewish religious practices. Their influence and power comes not from crude numbers, but from concentration in and control of key strategic areas: finance, law, politics, mainstream media and, now, large Internet organizations.
Christians and Muslims accept persons of any race into their communities, at least in principle. Both Christians and Muslims have traditionally accepted it as an article of faith that persons of other religions should be “converted”, whereas Jews do not seek converts (though some modern branches do accept small numbers, e.g. after marriage to Jews). Judaism, therefore, has never launched “crusades” or the like. The Jews do not aim to make the world Jewish, only to be the major influencing, controlling and profiting element in or over the world.
The modern Christian world of the post-Enlightenment has, in principle, accepted that people can be Christian, Muslim or Jew (or whatever else) freely. That is easy enough when it comes to beliefs, ideas, even public worship in particular buildings, though (as mentioned above) it took Europe a long time even to accept those aspects. Much of the world does not go that far.
Where things become more difficult is when the religious practice of a community contravenes the law or morality of the society as a whole. Halal slaughter, kosher slaughter, which revolt the sensibilities of thinking non-Muslims and non-Jews. Male and female genital mutilation by Muslims and Jews. The cries (now electrically amplified) of the muezzin from the minaret of the mosque. These are cases where, in my view, the demands of the society to prevent cruelty, the wish of Europeans not to hear constant mosque noise in their neighbourhood must prevail over the practices of both the Jews and the Muslims.
To take an extreme case: there were societies in the past, Aztecs, Incas, even Europeans of ancient Europe, who engaged in ritual sacrifice of humans. Would we accept such practices today just because “it is part of their religion”? I think not.
There have been problems in the recent past in relation to other religions: the Jehovah’s Witnesses, with their unwillingness to save the lives of their children via blood transfusion; the mental and sometimes physical cruelty to children of some small “Christian” sects such as the Plymouth Brethren; the contrived scam that is Scientology (the British government of the 1960s fought a long battle to suppress Scientology, because of its perceived cultic and controlling behaviour). There could be other examples given.
It might be said that even mainstream Christian religions have done very evil things, e.g. the sex scandals in the Roman Catholic Church, though those involved acts not sanctioned or encouraged by the religion as such.
In the end, society, meaning the political element, must draw the line between the zone where religion holds sway and the zone where group or community religious practice must give way before the general secular law which should protect people and animals.
Ian Robert Millard 