What Are They NOT Telling Us?
On Wednesday 29th April, over 500 armed police raided a former orphanage, now the home of an Islamic religious sect named The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light (AROPL), in Crewe. In a later report, the police stressed that the operation was in response to reports of serious sexual offences, forced marriage and modern slavery, and had nothing to do with any investigation into religion or extremist threat.
Curious. Allegations of serious sexual offences and trafficking are of course extremely worrying, but would an early morning raid to arrest the perpetrators normally merit so large and carefully-planned a police operation? What did they expect to encounter … or find?
Let us look into this sect a little more deeply. The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light is seen as a fanatical Islamic religious group, founded by an Eyptian-American named Abdullah Hashem Aba al-Sadiq, who claims to be the Mahdi and the Messiah for Muslims, Christians and Jews. It is apparently an offshoot of Shia Islam, but has been rejected by mainstream Muslim groups. That aside, its headquarters are in Crewe – the main building in fact targeted by the police – and around 150 men, women and children live on site, with a possible further (though unverified) 35,000 followers living throughout the UK in local chapters. The AROPL Tik-Tok group has 96,000 followers, and the group is known to be active in at least 40 other countries, though banned in countries such as Malaysia, Iraq, Egypt, Turkey, Sweden, and Algeria.
The leader, Abdullah Hashem Aba al-Sadiq, teaches an interesting line in conspiracy theories and extra-terrestrial involvement; requires his followers to wear a black uniform and beanies; hand over most of their money; and apparently imposes strict military-style training on followers, while keeping the Crewe compound under drone surveillance, with heavily padded security guards on the gates. Small wonder that neighbours in Crewe have been so alarmed!
We are told that the raid last week took place because a former member of the group had alleged offences of sexual abuse, forced marriage and slavery. There were subsequently ten arrests made, all of those arrested having now been released on bail, pending further investigation. But are we seriously to believe, given the group’s history, that the only offences for which they are under investigation have to do with sex trafficking and exploitation? Given the scale of the operation, this has more the feel of activities hostile to the public good being kept from public scrutiny. On the positive side, it could be said that any suppression of facts is to avoid civil unrest and minimise public alarm – but, negatively, it might equally be regarded as orchestrated manipulation to protect the interests of a wider ethnic minority group and suppress growing public unease.
Surely the public has a right to know the full truth, so that we may better defend ourselves from threat?
The United Kingdom is a sovereign state made up of four countries, all alike founded on Christian belief and values. Those values are currently under threat from ideologies and religions overtly hostile to the established faith of our land. Yet all too often it feels as if government and those in authority are actively seeking to support and promote belief systems that are at base inimical to our shared history, traditions, and culture.
In recent years, for instance, there has been an horrific and alarming rise in antisemitic hate crime, driven by vocal support for Palestine. Demonstrators on pro-Palestine marches have indeed openly called for the annihilation of the Israeli state and for death to all Jews, and have been shocking in their open display of hatred – yet the police have done almost nothing. And it is only this week, in wake of the unprovoked stabbing of two Jewish men in Golders Green, that Sir Keir Starmer has at last acknowledged the problem and called for robust counter measures.
Similarly, there appears in London to be clear evidence of Asian grooming gangs targeting vulnerable young white girls, yet this has been robustly denied by mayor Sadiq Khan, who, despite all the evidence, has attempted to maintain there’s no problem.
In the name of multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and inclusive Britain, what are we not being told? This is not implementing a policy of tolerance and inclusivity – it is moral cowardice and capitulation, and it is time for the people of this land to wake up and demand the full truth. Most of all, it is time for us as a nation to recover our Christian identity and faith, and to stand fearlessly for the truth.
The motto and battlecry of the United Kingdom is Dieu et mon droit – God and my right. Let us never forget that we are under the banner of the Sovereign Lord God. If we will only now turn back to Him in repentance and trust, it is in His name that we shall win back the land.