Who wants to change my way of life?
For me it started with the halal meat issue. Suddenly I found out I was eating halal killed meat without my knowledge or consent. It appears my consent was not important but someone else’s religion was important and so I must eat meat according to their ways not mine or my elected democratic governments.
I sat up and took notice. All along I had been made afraid to speak out regarding religion. It is deep in us, a reluctance to talk openly about politics or religion. There are always two sides and never any meeting in the middle with these two issues so there is no point in arguing over them.
However this last week with the issues of radicalisation of schools due to sheer numbers and a religion which is not mine it appears we have to sit up and take notice or we shall lose that which we have come to think is our normality; the way we now live could be eroded while we are kept sedated and afraid to stick up for our own ways.
We are not an aggressive people, some say we have been too softened and had things too easy. Perhaps this is right, but we have also been led to believe that we can become more civilised and that civilised people do not behave in a manner which would impinge on someone else’s beliefs.
But my beliefs are being impinged upon and no one is sticking up for me.
I am not part of a large group of people who all have the same beliefs. I am a free thinker and have always been taught no one can ever take your mind from you, it is always free.
However in this country we now have a sub culture which is growing rapidly and whose doctrines appear to want to impinge on mine. In fact the people operating this sub culture call my people whores and teach their children to chant disrespectful things about my culture.
Yet many of these people are oppressed. Yes here in my country where we thought we were free and women were entitled to the same rights as men there is a complete sub culture of people who do not believe this and are actively working towards changing our norm.
I read, today, an article in the Daily Mail by a man who is a muslim; a man who has lived in this country for decades, as a muslim; what he says might come as a shock to many so I am printing extracts of relevant points :-
“I fear Islamic extremism in these schools is just the tip of the iceberg By MANZOOR MOGHAL, chairman of the Muslim Forum, who warned 10 years ago in the Mail of militants targeting our schools.
As Ofsted demonstrates, within the education system of England’s second largest city, there are now alien practices that should have no part in an inclusive, cohesive society, such as a ban on music, gender segregation, the cancellation of Christmas events, the bullying of non-Muslim staff and restrictions on the teaching of subjects that do not match fundamentalist doctrines.
In one primary school, western women were reportedly described as ‘white prostitutes’, while a session of anti-Christian chants was organised at assembly.
Terrified of accusations of racism, obsessed with the official state creed of diversity, our political class has wilfully turned a blind eye to the dangerous fundamentalism in our midst.
Governing bodies have also been given much greater powers, becoming almost autonomous entities even though governors often lack professional expertise or experience in education.
Greater influence for school governors was meant to be a vehicle for enhancing local democracy, but in Birmingham it has become a weapon of radicalism.
Modern Britain’s fixation with multi-culturalism has also played its part.
Instead of greater integration, this political creed has promoted separatism by emphasising differences and encouraging minority ethnic groups to cling to the customs of their homeland.
In Birmingham, this has resulted in the rejection of western values by the governing bodies of too many Muslim-dominated schools.
The fact is that the overwhelming majority of hard-working Muslim citizens in Britain would be appalled at the thought of their children being radicalised.
As an East African Asian, I first settled in this country in 1972, having fled Idi Amin’s brutal, racially intolerant regime in Uganda.
I found Britain a wonderfully open, welcoming nation, devoid of the kind of lethal prejudice that I had experienced in Uganda.
Here, I could practise my faith and enjoy family life without any totalitarian state intervention.
It would have seemed utterly bizarre when I first arrived to learn that, 40 years later, schools here would be scarred by segregation, intimidation and anti-white, anti-British sentiments.
Sadly, what is happening in Birmingham schools is just part of a wider pattern of radical Islamic extremism gaining ground in Britain, reflected in the spread of Sharia courts, the prevalence of the female veil or burka and the incidence of forced marriages.
Almost a century after women first won the vote in this country, a growing number of British Muslim women are treated as second-class citizens thanks to the growth of radicalism.
In the same vein, the British democratic system — once the most robust in the world — has been increasingly debased by the import of corrupt practices from parts of the developing world, such as the abuse of postal votes and the excessive obedience to tribal elders.
The cesspit of Tower Hamlets council in East London, currently the subject of eight official investigations (into alleged vote-rigging), is a monument to this political degradation.
And in the context of education, Birmingham may just be the tip of the iceberg. If Ofsted were to investigate places such as Dewsbury, Oldham, Derby and Bradford, I imagine it would find much the same trends.
Personally, I would also take religion out of state schools altogether, as happens in France.
I know Britain is a Christian country and that some Catholic and Church of England schools are among the best in the land. But, for me, faith should belong to the private realm rather than the educational structure.
It is wrong, I feel, for the taxpayer to be required to support different types of religious ethos.
If we had an entirely secular state system, it would be much harder for the zealots to gain ground.”
It is in the interests of the people of this country that our democratically elected government now protects the people who elected them. We do not want interference of our voting system, we do not want women to be oppressed, we do not want people to be segregated and we do not want our principles and beliefs thrown away by people who state they come here to offer their families a better life, yet want to change our country into a similar place to the one they are purportedly escaping from. when all it appears they want is to destroy our life as we know it.
It is also worthy of note that the Government is today moving into schools in Bradford and it appears Manzoor Moghul is right in his belief that this type of interference is not confined to one city but is far more widespread that many people realize.
