This threat results from the growing official tendency to link the public expression of politically-incorrect religious opinions with racial incitement.
It is important to remember that the Christian street preacher Dale Mcalpine was arrested by Cumbria Police for a 'racially' aggravated public order offence when he upheld biblical teaching about sexual morality in Workington town centre in April.
In a Christian-influenced Parliamentary democracy, Her Majesty's subjects, irrespective of their ethnic origin, should be free to criticise Islam and should not be accused of racism for doing so.
They should be free to say that Islam is a religion that tends towards violence in its proselytisation and its treatment of those who convert from Islam to other faiths.
They should be free to say that it is a religion that tends to oppress women.
They should be free to point out its appalling record on religious liberty in countries it dominates.
They should be free to say, if they are Christian, that its scripture, the Koran, is completely wrong about the nature of God the Holy Trinity and about Jesus Christ, God Incarnate.
The joint statement by Northumbria Police and Gateshead Council is disturbingly illustrative of the politically-correct ideology that almost led to a religious hatred bill being passed into law under the last Labour government. It links an apparent attack on Islam which involved no violence against any individual with a threat to community relations:
Our community is one of mutual respect and we continue to work together with community leaders, residents and people of all faiths and beliefs to maintain good community relations.
How long will it be before a Christian is arrested in the UK for 'inciting racial hatred' because he or she peaceably but publicly exposed the theological errors of the Koran?
It's because they're scared.
ReplyDeleteYeah well said CC.
ReplyDeleteThe absurdness of charging these men with “racial hatred” when in fact, the Koran does not represent a specific racial group anyway.
How long until the Christian message itself is deemed as offensive to the Qu’ran and liable for prosecution under the “incitement” laws?
Roger Pearse commented on this, but unfortunately I botched the posting. Sorry Roger. The link to Roger's piece is in Stuart's piece on echurchwebsites. See Sound Sites.
ReplyDeleteSo you think it would be acceptable to offend people of other religions who are living here? there are a vast amount of moderate Muslims here who will go about their religion peacefully, these people are doing Britain no harm by building mosques and practicing their religion here. You criticising islam in this way makes you just as ignorant as the very small percentage of Islamic extremists preaching hatred towards Christianity. We should be embracing their culture as 95% of Muslims in this country are embracing ours
ReplyDeletePerhaps Muslims should not be accepted as our cultural equals until they achieve equality of disrespect.
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