A nation complicit in its own destruction
In June this year the Government approved sharia-compliant student loans, meaning that Muslim students will no longer be required to pay interest on government loans provided to cover their tuition fees and living costs. According to the Department for Education, what this means in practice is that, following graduation, instead of repaying the money they have received with interest (something forbidden under sharia law), Muslim students benefitting from ‘alternative student finance’ will submit contributions to a Takaful fund, which “contributions”— based on the student’s earnings — will then fund future sharia-compliant student loans. As stated on the DfE website, ‘Students will make contributions back to a Takaful fund of the same amount and at the same time as students making repayments for conventional loans. We will base these contributions on what people earn, not what they have received.’ In other words, though the branding will be different in order to avoid obvious infringement of Sharia rules – and there will clearly be a separate fund under Muslim control – in practical terms there’ll be zero effect.
The architect of this bold new initiative is apparently the Muslim Council of Britain, working in conjunction with The U.K. Islamic Financial Council, established in 2008 to promote and enhance a global Islamic finance industry. In misplaced support of this, it has long been the Government’s proud boast that London is the largest centre for Islamic Finance outside the Muslim world, and the last few years have seen all our financial institutions and banks becoming increasingly Sharia compliant. Whatever is claimed, this is not a matter for rejoicing. The clear goal of Islam – literally meaning ‘submission’ – is to establish world dominance over all other belief systems and cultures. Muslims believe that Allah is the one and only God and that Mohammed is his prophet. They categorically deny the divinity of Christ, portraying Him as an inferior prophet to Mohammed, and there are well over 100 verses in the Koran calling for war against non-believers, and for the death of infidels (see for example https://quran.com/9). It follows from this that all other teachings and belief systems are regarded by Muslims as an abomination, which cannot and must not be tolerated.
It is this world-view that underpins the growing violence against Christians that we are witnessing across the world. And it is this same world-view that we are promoting in our enthusiastic support for the extension of Sharia-compliant finance in the UK. At every level this is wrong. Morally, it’s wrong because it’s based on a lie – on a carefully orchestrated deception designed to give the illusion of conformity with Sharia, but which in reality is simply pointless ‘window dressing’. Spiritually, it’s wrong, because it requires the British people to support the religious mandates of a faith overtly hostile to Christian belief, and thereby to deny our heritage and the obligations of our own faith – obligations that call for truth, respect for all, and provision for the needy and those less able to care for themselves.
The growing demand for Sharia-compliant finance is at base a mask for the extension of Sharia rules onto British society. It is part of a covert, but deliberate, attempt to take control. A planned Islamisation of British culture and society, that we are seeing steadily gaining influence at every level.
There are now, for example, an estimated 1,884 mosques in Britain, holding around £1.5 billion in assets. In reality, the number is likely to be far higher. Some of these mosques have Sharia Councils, where religious leaders arbitrate disputes within the community on such things as marriage and divorce, and to resolve conflict. The exact number of sharia law courts currently operating in Britain is again unknown, but the number is estimated to be around 85, making the UK the Western capital for religious rulings on marriage and family matters, and attracting Muslims seeking resolution from across Europe and North America.
In tandem with this, a recent article in the Daily Mail reported that in certain areas of England and Wales, 43% of the population cannot speak English, leading Reform UK to claim that migrant integration into the British way of life is now almost impossible.
Meanwhile, the row over illegal immigrants continues to rage, but whatever solution is found – and God grant the problem is resolved – our national identity and values will remain under threat, unless we take conscious and urgent action to re-assert and defend the values that once made our nation ‘great’. We are certainly a multi-cultural, diverse society, but the foundations of our nation are Christian, and others seeking to make their home in our land must respect our faith and embrace our values and way of life.
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