The scapegoat

In defence of the Archbishop – it seems everyone is piling in on him.

Let us look at the roots of this furore. All the Archbishop said was that some elements of shari’a should be recognised in Britain. So what? Some elements of shari’a are already recognised in Britain. And this is a consequence of unfettered and large-scale immigration of Muslims to the UK. This, combined with the high birth rate of Muslims, make not just some elements of shari’a unavoidable, but shari’a itself, inevitable in the UK in less the 50 years, and consequently the end of the historic cultural identity of this nation.

The fault for this catastrophic state of affairs does not lie with the Archbishop. I don’t recall the Archbishop or the Synod defining immigration policy, or allowing shari’a mortgages, shari’a banking, inhumane Halal methods of slaughter, turning a blind eye to the oppression of Muslim women, recognition of polygamous marriages - it is successive governments, and New Labour one in particular, that has allowed these to happen, and has placed the nation in mortal peril. We would not be in a state of hysteria over some statement over shari’a were it not for these facts, and the Archbishop had nothing to do with any of them.

Then there is the duplicitous handing over the powers of parliament to an un-elected bunch of commissars in Brussels. If the main opinion forming papers in the UK had made half the hue and cry over this issue as they have over the Archbishop’s comments, we would now be preparing for a referendum on the EU, recovering our parliamentary powers, and thus be able to do something concrete for the defence of the nation.

So what we have here is that main newspapers, the so-called opinion forming broadsheets, have ignored two huge elephants in the room threatening to squash us - the EU constitution and unfettered immigration and growth of the Muslim population, and instead concentrated their fire on the goat.

Whatever one may think of the Archbishop, his incomprehensibility, or wishy-washy liberalism, I find this large scale attack on one man, a genuinely good man, a scurrilous and disguised attempt to shift the blame for the current state of affairs.

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