The official explanation is that, due to the station’s diverse and multicultural workforce, such messages are shown at times of religious significance. Being Ramadan, one of the largest train stations in the country was treated to a sign which displayed a so-called ‘Hadith of the Day’ which read:
This begs the question: where are all those fervent atheists who for years have screamed about not having 'religion stuffed down their throats' and who regard the wearing of a cross round one's neck as offensive and intrusive? Or those who complain about having to hear church bells?
Nowhere to be seen, that's where!
As for the ever increasing intrusion of islam: well, any debate about this has long since become impossible - not just because of the imminent threat of violence but because of the more insidious accusations of being racist, islamophobic and bigoted, all of which can nowadays have pernicious consequences for one's work and private life.
The first reports about grooming gangs came out a dozen years ago. what has happened since then? Exactly ...!
1. Islam adheres strongly to core beliefs while many other faiths seek appeasement, which fail to understand this is seen as weakness.
2. Islam has, as many faiths have, a small core of people who don't believe, or who's belief is corrupted. Most people outside of Islam know those who say anything against it are pursued ruthlessly, and the majority of the Islam faithful remain eerily silent. It is fear of violence and destruction that dampens any sort of discussion.
I look forward to this crude binary behaviour, which does not belong in the UK, being banished. Again.
Those who wish to worship in peace of course should be allowed to do so.
Apparently the habit of putting random sayings on the board at King's Cross has been stopped. North Londoners are distraught, calling the decision cowardly. Indeed. Perhaps not as cowardly as putting the words up in the first place......
Indeed. However, the vast majority of the people I know are disgusted by the apparent rise of Islam in the UK. They don't agree with the allowances made by the authorities to the Islamic section of the population. The don't agree with cathedrals being used for silent discos or pitch-and-putt either. They don't agree with non of the leading politicians in the UK being Christian. They themselves may not be practising Christians but they know their basic beliefs and behaviours stem from a long tradition of Christian values. In fact, I only know one practising Christian and he is the only one with woolly appeasement views. The problem really is that We-The-People are not listened to because the working class public are assumed to be uninformed idiots by the so-called elites. The people I know don't agree with all sorts of things that are being imposed on us but they have not found a polite way of doing anything about it all.
Great article. We swim in a soup of lies. The truth, like the light that shines in the darkness, is that only Jesus rose from the dead and offers forgiveness and eternal life. Place your beliefs elsewhere at your peril, literally.
This begs the question: where are all those fervent atheists who for years have screamed about not having 'religion stuffed down their throats' and who regard the wearing of a cross round one's neck as offensive and intrusive? Or those who complain about having to hear church bells?
Nowhere to be seen, that's where!
As for the ever increasing intrusion of islam: well, any debate about this has long since become impossible - not just because of the imminent threat of violence but because of the more insidious accusations of being racist, islamophobic and bigoted, all of which can nowadays have pernicious consequences for one's work and private life.
The first reports about grooming gangs came out a dozen years ago. what has happened since then? Exactly ...!
Thank you Frederick for raising this so clearly.
Two points:
1. Islam adheres strongly to core beliefs while many other faiths seek appeasement, which fail to understand this is seen as weakness.
2. Islam has, as many faiths have, a small core of people who don't believe, or who's belief is corrupted. Most people outside of Islam know those who say anything against it are pursued ruthlessly, and the majority of the Islam faithful remain eerily silent. It is fear of violence and destruction that dampens any sort of discussion.
I look forward to this crude binary behaviour, which does not belong in the UK, being banished. Again.
Those who wish to worship in peace of course should be allowed to do so.
Apparently the habit of putting random sayings on the board at King's Cross has been stopped. North Londoners are distraught, calling the decision cowardly. Indeed. Perhaps not as cowardly as putting the words up in the first place......
Indeed. However, the vast majority of the people I know are disgusted by the apparent rise of Islam in the UK. They don't agree with the allowances made by the authorities to the Islamic section of the population. The don't agree with cathedrals being used for silent discos or pitch-and-putt either. They don't agree with non of the leading politicians in the UK being Christian. They themselves may not be practising Christians but they know their basic beliefs and behaviours stem from a long tradition of Christian values. In fact, I only know one practising Christian and he is the only one with woolly appeasement views. The problem really is that We-The-People are not listened to because the working class public are assumed to be uninformed idiots by the so-called elites. The people I know don't agree with all sorts of things that are being imposed on us but they have not found a polite way of doing anything about it all.
Great article. We swim in a soup of lies. The truth, like the light that shines in the darkness, is that only Jesus rose from the dead and offers forgiveness and eternal life. Place your beliefs elsewhere at your peril, literally.
“The Prophet Muhammad (PigShitUponHim) said: All the sons of Adam are sinners but the best of the sinners are those who repent often.”
I am amongst the best of sinners in that case even though I never repent of my sinning.