kenneal - lagger wrote:This article from The New Statesman shows why Saudi Arabia is so keen to build mosques for Germany and anywhere else that will take them. We would be better off paying for them to be built ourselves.
We should not be building ANY more Mosques ANYWHERE in this country. I will be clear here and state that I have an antipathy towards any form of organised religion. Christianity being no exception. However, to the extent that we have historically separated church and state in this country and have, to a large extent, tamed the beast of Christianity such that is now largely a
reflection of our secular values as opposed to being a cultural
driver, I am content that we allow Christianity to continue to be our national religion. Islam, on the other hand, is utterly unreconstructed and shows absolutely no capacity whatsoever of being reconstructible any time soon. Consequently, it does not belong here and should never have been allowed a foothold in the first place.
Now, of course, I would like to be able to separate my attitude towards the religion of Islam from any attitude towards Muslims. But, for
precisely the reason of having
not being separated from a larger civic life, as happened with Christianity in the Enlightenment, it is impossible to separate the ideology of Islam from the cultural fact of being a Muslim because the vast majority of
Muslims refuse to recognise such a distinction.
And so we are where we are. And where we are is not a good place.