The Defeatists in Church and Media
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Wed, 2005-07-20 11:35
A quote from Mark Steyn in The Daily Telegraph, 19
July 2005
Consider the Bishop of Lichfield, who at Evensong, on the night of the
bombings, was at pains to assure his congregants: "Just as the IRA has
nothing to do with Christianity, so this kind of terror has nothing to
do with any of the world faiths." It's not so much the explicit
fatuousness of the assertion so much as the broader message it
conveys: we're the defeatist wimps; bomb us and we'll apologise to
you. That's why in Britain the Anglican Church is in a death-spiral
and Islam is the fastest-growing religion. There's no market for a
faith that has no faith in itself. [...]
The Guardian hires as a "trainee journalist" a member of Hizb ut
Tahir, "Britain's most radical Islamic group" (as his own newspaper
described them) and in his first column post-7/7 he mocks the idea
that anyone could be "shocked" at a group of Yorkshiremen blowing up
London: "Second- and third-generation Muslims are without the
don't-rock-the-boat attitude that restricted our forefathers. We're
much sassier with our opinions, not caring if the boat rocks" - or the
bus blows, or the Tube vaporises. Fellow Guardian employee David
Foulkes, who was killed in the Edgware Road blast, would no doubt be
heartened to know he'd died for the cause of Muslim "sassiness".