When I was in England in 2004, the number of Muslims attending a mosque surpassed the number of Brits attending the State Church of England. I asked a friend of mine, who has served for a number of years planting churches in London, if this meant that they now would request parity? To which he responded no, they are demanding preference.
England is now clamoring to make several concessions to Islam, like changing school curriculum to remove facts that are offensive to Islam, which includes how Christianity really influenced the western world.
Europe seems to have an insatiable appetite for ridding itself of every Christian vestige in order to accommodate secularism and Islam. Tragically, they have forgotten that every secular country desired the demise of a free England, e.g. Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler, and that Islam is not a religion that accommodates, but one that must, by Koranic mandate, dominate. Islam brings not just religion, but a religion that is inextricably tied to an Islamic state, which, when powerful enough, will displace the present state of affairs.
We found that the Brits we talked with outside of London were very concerned and even outraged at the Islamization of their beloved homeland.
While there I read a book by a British Historian Michael Burleigh, entitled “Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War on Terror.” What caused me to buy the book was a statement that I saw while perusing it in the store. Burleigh said, “The Americans are wrong”, and he meant that Americans were wrong to think that Europeans were going to sit idly by while Islam takes over their countries.
He did indeed write a compelling book, and I for one hope he is right, but the last five years have not been encouraging.
