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I was watching a DT blog the other day written by George Pitcher concerning British Muslims and advocating tolerance and so forth. In no time at all there were quite a flood of comments 90% of which were negative, a number of which were very anti-religion of any kind.

As a Catholic of Irish origins but London born, I have an empathy with all British Asians (note not just Muslims), following 9/11 and 7/7 they are often viewed as the “Enemy Within”. This has always been so for Catholics, take a “Catholic Stance” on anything even today and watch the vitriol and bile flow in the “Reader’s Comments of the DT, if you doubt me.

Total Ignorance and Fear

“All religion is evil and blood-soaked. The greatest achievement of the West (and on which every other advancement depended) was the neutralisation of wicked religion.”

My Reply to That…

A rather childish view of human history. The reality is far more important here which is broadly speaking that “Inhuman atrocities have been carried out in the Name of one religion or another over history.” One may also point out that the same could be said of Communism, Fascism and any other number of ’causes’. The Killing Fields of Cambodia had no religious context the same as most tribal murders in black Africa and yet have ended millions of lives.

There is only one thread to follow in all these things and that is best described not as “religion” but “Politics and Power”. If you examine the Palestinian situation, it is obvious that the Middle Eastern Arab States and others such as Iran and Turkey, could have solved it decades ago but they haven’t – why ?

Feeding the mob in the Bazaars poppycock about, ‘jihad our Muslim brothers etc’ is merely to keep them distracted and for their rulers to keep hold of power. Our English Kings were not adverse to a similar tactic when the Barons got a little restive: “Let’s go fight for the French Possessions !” was the cry, Poitiers and Agincourt the result.

The real tensions and struggles within Islam are best illustrated by the inevitable rise of women from the shadows which is painful in this male dominated society because it cuts mainly across “Tribal Customs” rather more than Islamic ones. The closer in both economic terms and commerce the Muslim World gets to the West, the more difficult it all becomes for them, the more fearful they become for the very fabric of their society.

The story of how ladies underwear is sold in Saudi Arabia is a very interesting illustration – look it up – news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world…. But at the same time, don’t be too smug because for all our apparent “sophistication”, remember the impact upon our society of “Women’s Lib” and the destruction of what was a male dominated order to life in Britain, not all the results were positive.

Politics and human greed is what it is all about and few things are what they seem. Every year in Northern Ireland there is the “Marching Season” which mainly celebrates the “Derry Apprentices” who defied a Catholic Army, paid for by the King of France. When news reached Rome of the ‘Catholic Defeat’, the Pope had all the church bells rung in celebration because he had serious political problems with the French King at that time.