TO scapegaot

The Telegraph and the Times, and several other papers, had several leading commentators writing on this issue. Every one of them was critical of the Archbishop. The comments for each of these articles were running into the hundreds, and not one voice was raised in the Archbishop’s defence. Now this is strange indeed. Sherlock Holmes would be intrigued. There never is a case so clear that not one voice can be found that is contrary to the prevailing view.

I began to ask myself why this was so. Now for the last month or so the papers have been full of Islam and Muslims. The pressure in the UK was rising fast, and anti-Islamic sentiment was boiling over. Then along came the Archbishop, stating the obvious, and in fact stating what the government had already sanctioned. What a godsend. The papers latched on to this and directed their fire at this hapless man. And the readers vented their anger – the anger and resentment that was boiling over, had at last found a target.

How convenient. A scapegoat had been found. How delicious and ironic that the scapegoat happened to be a prominent Christian as well. Meanwhile, the real perpetrators of this disaster, the government and their willing multiculti accomplices, and the press, got away with it. Why do I include the main press? It has been obvious for sometime now that there was no credible opposition to the government. It was the duty of the press to form the opposition, to challenge the government on its immigration policy, its subservience to Islamic demands, Islamic this and shari’a that, to raise a hue and cry over the signing away of the parliament to an undemocratic and unanswerable body in Brussels. But no. They were engaged at the time in Westminster tittle-tattle.

The fact remains that it is not the Archbishop's job to interfere, or criticise, the policy decisions of the government on matters other then those directly pertaining to the church. Does he have any hand in the policy decisions that have led to this mess? Of course not. It was the job of the Opposition and the broadsheet press to do so. In that, both of them signally failed, and now they are trying to pass the buck, and at the same time hide behind the Bishop’s robes.

Whatever you may think of the Archbishop - that he failed to provide leadership to his flock, that he prevaricated in his support for persecuted Christians, I accept they are valid. On the subtle charge of Islamisation/shariasing of Britain- No.

Thank you BTW for responding.

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