The danger of toxic ideology.

 

There was a time when Roman Catholics were persecuted in Britain and there was a time when Protestants were persecuted in Britain. Many were burnt at the stake as heretics. I would call that extremist fundamentalism.

The vast majority of British people are not going to stand for the Islamisation of Britain. What many people fear is cultural fragmentation in Britain. We have a King who wants to be the head of all faiths when he's the head of the Church of England. You cannot have it both ways and this kind of relativism is dangerous. Britain is not a Muslim country even if many British citizens are Muslims. 

Many British citizens are Chinese but it seems curious that Muslims are particularly signalled out for opprobrium rather than other religious minority groups. The right-wing Conservative Douglas Murray, seems to be tar all Muslims with the same brush. The Muslim group known as Islamic State or Daesh, are a violent Salafi jihadist group, but we should bear in mind, that most of their victims in the Middle East, were Muslims and not westerners. 

Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany wanted to build a railway from Berlin to Baghdad and to get the support of the Arabs in Mesopotamia, he paid for the restoration of the tomb of Saladin. He told the Arabs that Germany would join a jihad against the infidels. 

What we should be wary of is toxic ideology no matter where it comes from. Ideology is often used as a mask to conceal vested interests and hidden agendas.