Unholy Islamic Mess

Many people in the UK come from families that were once overtly Christian but which have now left active worship and belief in God behind. Some would say we’ve progressed, others would say exactly the opposite. Either way we still have a great deal of reverence for religion: many of us take our sons and daughters to church to be baptised, we go there for weddings, and finally we end up in God’s house as guest of honour at our own funeral. And because we retain this connection with our religion we award it a degree of special protection. Yes we sometimes parody God, a little, but we still treat Him with a reasonable degree of respect. He certainly gets better treatment than those who sully their hands in the devious game of politics.

Now that people who adhere to other religions live alongside us in our towns and cities, we afford their faiths the same protection and respect that we give to our own state religion. It wouldn’t be British to do otherwise. Unfortunately this magnanimous policy has lead to a few problems because we are now expected to give the same degree of protection to a political and legal organisation that seeks to challenge our own long established institutions, just because it goes by the same name as a well known religion.

And it’s lead us into a mess, an Unholy Islamic Mess.