From a Muslim mayor to an education regulator and Scotland’s next First Minister — Britain is quietly being Islamised.
Migrant mayors who can’t speak English. School regulators pushing hijabs. Justice ministers pledging loyalty to Sharia. Welcome to 2025 Britain — where faith-based politics and identity quotas are replacing Enlightenment values.
In this powerful video, Harris Sultan exposes the ideological capture of Britain’s institutions—from education to law—and asks the uncomfortable question: Is this multiculturalism or civilisational suicide?
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My thoughts exactly. Western Civilisation courtesy of Christianity is dying at the hands of Islamists [ = monotheism for dummies !] Same is happening in NZ with an overlay of a return to Stone Age behaviour. We need to BE AWAKE...
>"Western Civilisation courtesy of Christianity"
Depends how you define 'Western civilisation'. In terms of governance (government and law) we have the ancient Greeks and the Roman Empire to thank. Christianity did very little 'civilising' during the Dark Ages when Europe regressed to a state of barbarity. The turning points were the Renaissance, which had nothing to do with Christianity, and the Enlightenment, which was a major step towards secularisation through the establishment of the Deist paradigm which sees the Christian God as an entity that started the whole show but has little or no direct bearing on current events.
Those that stand for nothing, fall for anything. They live amongst us.
Deists don't handle facts vs fiction. Each to their own but no need to criticise others who don't share your beliefs. MC
How sad that the country that created NZ looks very likely to collapse back into its own Stone Age, perhaps just a generation or two before us.
Christianity made a big contribution towards the Enlightenment and it is a very narrow perspective that believes it didn't by concentrating only on the French viewpoint and ignoring other European and American thinkers.
Modern aggressive atheism in its attack on Christianity is . I believe contributing to the takeover by Islamists in Western Culture.
Christianity is considerably more tolerant of hose with different belief systems including atheism , than Islam ever can or will be. As a secularist you will be forced to honour Mohammad and Koran dictates in an Islamic state.
I have respect for some Confucian beliefs , but have no desire to become one. I can't understand why that is not so for an atheist toward Christianity. Tolerance doesn't mean having to personally accept the beliefs.
I also prefer Jesus to Mohammad who was a warlord and married a preteen girl , along with very many other women. Women are also strongly subjugated as encouraged by the Koran by some Muslims , which I would definitely not like. The Imams in Britain are very aggressive in forcing their beliefs on others like forcing secular schools and other public spaces to have their prayer rooms. Historically Islam expanded by conquest in battle. Jihad is now their agenda.
>"Deists don't handle facts vs fiction. "
Anon 1148 kindly explain. I would say that the contrary was more likely true as the Deists (Isaac Newton, for instance) were edging towards making a distinction between what SJ Gould a couple of hundred years later referred to as the "nonoverlapping magisteria" of the empirical and the mystical.
This ain't about beliefs but about reasoned discussion among people who know their history and philosophy of science. Does that include you?
Christianity needs to be separated, like very other belief system, from what people may choose to do with it. That some, or even most, have not "done Christianity very well", does not negate it. In fact this is what Christianity predicts will happen, because true adherence always comes at a cost, when most prefer comfort. There is NO other belief system that so eloquently articulates the value of man, his struggles, a way through these, and the imperative of personal (not tribal) responsibility. The notion that ALL are born in the image of God and have rights commensurate with that has NO parallel anywhere else in history, ancient or modern, and was the genesis of the (unfolding and vexed) concept of universal rights. Christianity goes, and the West falls ... it is as simple as that!
>"Christianity goes, and the West falls ... it is as simple as that!"
Funny how the economically strongest, politically most stable, and, according to the UN Happiness Index, happiest countries in the world tend to be places like Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands where most people have long ditched formal institutional religion. The association between religiosity and happiness is inverse - the more of one, the less of the other.
>" There is NO other belief system that so eloquently articulates the value of man, his struggles, a way through these, and the imperative of personal (not tribal) responsibility."
This case could be made for any religion by adherents of it. My favourite is Buddhism which regards human beings as being inherently good as opposed to the vile doctrine of 'original sin' which tars everyone with the same brush and then offers a 'solution' based on a human blood sacrifice.
>"The notion that ALL are born in the image of God and have rights commensurate with that has NO parallel anywhere else in history, ancient or modern, and was the genesis of the (unfolding and vexed) concept of universal rights."
Well, it took THEM many centuries to realise that - with a little help from Deists and agnostics (as we would call them today, although the term did not exist until the mid-19thC). Even then it didn't sink in right away - recall the hymn that includes the words "The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, and ordered their estate." No, Sir/Madam whichever you are, your Middle Eastern cult did not give us the notion of human equality - far, far from it.
Britian is falling apart because of their absolutely disastrous economic policies related to their belief in the Empire and their own greatness. The British people believed they were special after 300 years of colonialism. Now the US has fallen into the same trap.
Newton was definitely not a deist but a very devout Christian who believed God was active in people's lives . He believed God helped him through reading scripture to understand the workings and laws of the Universe. To declare he was a deist is to read his theological ideas very superficially. Gallileo , Kepler and Copernicus , Maxwell , Faraday and very many other prominent scientists were devout Christians. Our own Ernest Rutherford came from a committed Christian home.
It's hard to pigeonhole people using categories that were not well recognised or defined at the time. You then get statements like "X was close to" or "X was inclined towards" whatever paradigm. 'Deism' as a label appears in the early 17thC but only became widely used by commentators in the late 19thC. A complicating factor is that many modern writers regard deism as being independent of Christianity although the two can co-occur.
From Google:
"Newton's view has been considered to be close to deism, and several biographers and scholars labelled him as a deist who is strongly influenced by Christianity."
Rutherford's name appears in the Wikipedia list of deists.
The other names are not on that list.
Stephen Hawking made statements that any 18thC deist would concur with (especially about a God having created the laws by which the universe operates but not intervening thereafter) but in later life became explicitly atheistic.
Oh no Hawking did NOT become atheistic. A staunch member of the congregation of Little St Mary's in Cambridge. Would drive himself into church and take part in High Anglican liturgy. Know friends who were there. Family had his ashes interred in Westminster Abbey alongside Newton. AND scientists went APE!!!! He had prepared material re his beliefs and filed away in secret.... I will not expose them here.
From the man's own mouth:
"It’s my view that ... there is no god. No one created our universe, and no one directs our fate."
If that ain't an atheist talking I'm not a Dutchman!
ANY great Brit gets interred at Westminster Abbey. You'll find the grave of Charles Darwin there too. No scientist who has any clue about these things would have 'gone ape'.
Deism was used by Lord Hubert (1583-1648) and he was called the father of Deism and the word was used by many scholars in his book. Certainly you can believe in a God who set the Universe in motion with laws and then it was hands off which is not incompatible with a God who also intervenes in people's lives . The Christian God is not a created god so is distinct from and above his creation and can override his laws of nature. I do wonder about the many recorded sightings of a solar eclipse viewed by pagans and believers at the time of the resurrection . An eclipse can't occur at full moon.
Newton ( !642-1717) believed in miracles and mysticism and sought out knowledge about the divine and spiritual world through prayer and meditation.
I didn't say Rutherford was not a deist but he did have a very devout prayerful Christian mother.
When we were last in the U.K. we read a report that in one Southampton school pupils had 26 different first languages. How do you start on the curriculum?
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