By Melanie Phillips
I wrote yesterday about the attack on Canon Michael Ainsworth in his own east London churchyard by three 'Asian' youths. From the rather fuller stories about this incident in today's papers, it is clear that this is far from the first such attack in the area. Indeed, there appear to have been many attacks on vicars or churches by Muslims who are clearly intent on turning east London into a no-go area for Christians (and, given the stoning of the Jewish group visiting the area on Holocaust Remembrance Day, for Jews as well. The mosque in the picture, by the way, was once St Sophia cathedral which was converted into a mosque on the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the fate of innumerable churches under Islamic conquest). Read more ...
I wrote yesterday about the attack on Canon Michael Ainsworth in his own east London churchyard by three 'Asian' youths. From the rather fuller stories about this incident in today's papers, it is clear that this is far from the first such attack in the area. Indeed, there appear to have been many attacks on vicars or churches by Muslims who are clearly intent on turning east London into a no-go area for Christians (and, given the stoning of the Jewish group visiting the area on Holocaust Remembrance Day, for Jews as well. The mosque in the picture, by the way, was once St Sophia cathedral which was converted into a mosque on the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the fate of innumerable churches under Islamic conquest). Read more ...
Source: Spectator
H/T: Gramfan