A Christian Eye on Politics
February 2008.
Recently this column highlighted how, what one might call, 'inherent Britishness' seems to be fast vanishing from British shores due to the combined effects of such factors as uncontrolled abortion and the huge influx of immigrants - both legal and illegal!
Britain is now experiencing a large population surge which is almost entirely immigrant-fueled, even while families of British ancestry are shrinking, the ideal family having shrunk from an ideal 2.2 children to a staggering 1.7 children. This, of course, is insufficient to ensure ongoing national prosperity but immigrants have (seemingly) come to the rescue - but there is a cost. The cost to the UK National Health Service of maternity care for mothers born outside the UK has risen by a mind-boggling £200m in just a decade (source: BBC News website; January 29th 2008). It should be understood that this is state free health care with no cost to the individual - the British tax payer picks up the bill. Right now the British government should launch a national campaign to dissuade all abortion and to encourage Brits to again start having larger families; but - if anything - the opposite may be observed.
This stance of The Christian Hawk should never be misunderstood, of course, for we passionately believe that all nations and races are a blessing of God and we are strongly anti-racist. However, there is a massive cultural problem here and we do not support multi-culturalism - immigrant families coming to British shores should be prepared to take on, and to fully accept, traditional British cultural standards rather than immediately going to work in establishing ghettoes. Without doubt, the Asian Indians and large portions of the Caribbean West Indian community have been very successfull in this area, but certain other immigrant groups far less so; religion comes in here: the polytheism of Hinduism means that Indians have few problems with Christianity, also many West Indians are at least loosely Christian, or generally sympathetic to the Christian gospel.
The great problem comes with Asians who come from strongly Islamic cultures, such as Pakistan and here successive British governments are strongly at fault for not doing their 'homework.' Certain British cities now have huge 'Islamic areas' because it was never made clear to immigrants that Britain is a Christian country which is opposed to ethnic and religious ghettoism. Mosques have not only sprung up in many towns and cities but several British local councils even make a degree of cash funding available to assist their building! This is leading to the amazing phenomenon of large numbers of Britons starting to leave cities with a strong eastern immigrant presence because they - themselves - are starting to feel culturally unwelcome, or even isolated. There is now even talk of 'no-go areas' for cultural Europeans within certain cities although various police chiefs are strongly denying it.
The problems originally developed, of course, when the 'movers and shakers' of British society started to establish secularism. Secularism rules religion to be firmly 'off the agenda' but it does so in a truly myopic fashion since secularism itself carries many of the traits of a religion. This move immediately made British leaders decide not to defend Christianity as the national religion even though a substantial number of British people - even if not active church-goers - feel culturally bound to Christianity. Nature, it is said, abhors a vacuum, and the decision not to defend Christianity as a national religion was very quickly perceived by militant Islamics who, apparently, wasted no time in exploiting a perceived 'looseness' within British culture. Certain militant Islamic leaders are now even starting to talk of their desire to convert Britain to Islam. The problems were caused by secularism and the liberally-motivated rejection of Christianity.
Of course, all of this could have been very different. The problem with Liberalism is that it is more or less committed to appeasement, it believes in almost nothing except liberalism and "freedom" (of which it always holds a distorted view). But a Britain which had full confidence in its Christianity would have firmly laid out the ground rules for immigrants from an Islamic country, or culture. It would have clearly stated what would be acceptable, and what would be unacceptable. Such a Britain, which had not gone down the meandering, vague and uncertain path of Liberalism and Secularism, would not - I repeat - would not have countenanced the building of hundreds of mosques, or the free establishment of firmly Islamic areas within British towns and cities.
The Christian Hawk
February 1 2008.