Only God Can Save Britain Now

The UK has been on fire recently. We've had the killing of innocent schoolchildren at a dance class, mass protests turning into violence, armed Islamic gangs roaming the streets, the police operating with entirely different standards for different communities, the government quickly becoming totalitarian, and the church standing with no idea how to understand moral categories or biblical application. So, it’s not going great…

Context

All of this was started by the killing of three girls, Bebe King (6), Elsie Dot Stancombe (7) and Alicia de Silva Aguiar (9), stabbed to death by 17-year-old Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, the son of Rwandan immigrants, at a Taylor Swift dance class. 

Those asking for this event ‘not to be politicised’ fail to see that there is significant political context to this murderous rampage. The immigration graph in the UK looks like Al Gore’s famous ‘hockey stick’ climate graph, but in this case it is, in fact, not total fiction based on future predictions, but rock-solid historical data, and may if anything be under-reported. It is also true that second generation immigrants, at least in the Islamic community, are more radical and less assimilated than their first generation immigrant parents. 

This man may not be Muslim and many have said he isn’t. The fact is that we don’t actually know either way. On one hand, Rwanda is a majority Christian country. On the other hand, this attack does remind everyone of numerous similar attacks by Muslim terrorists across the country in recent years, and everybody gets the feeling that if he was a good choirboy who had ever read a book by Douglas Wilson, we’d know exactly what his ideological leanings were. Without further information to go on, people have therefore made the fairly reasonable assumption that he was at least not well assimilated into British values.

More broadly, there are entire cities in England where the white British are in the minority. This includes London itself, where you can find street signs in Bengali, and the Cockneys—who have lived in that area for half a millennium—have been pushed out by harassment, crime and high prices. 

Crime in the UK almost certainly reflects that of other European nations, where third-world migrants are vastly overrepresented particularly in regards violent crimes such as rape and murder. 

And there have been multiple high profile attacks on the British population in recent years, several of which targeted young girls. This includes the Rotherham grooming gang scandal where 1400 girls were raped by Pakistani gangs (and which was ignored by police for fears of being called ‘Islamophobic’), the bombing of an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, and this most recent attack. As such, this is a particularly sore spot for the British people, who justly surmise that their young girls are under threat from violent foreign men without due protection from anyone in power. 

None of this is to say that the Brits don't commit crimes in their own right, but the rates of attacking innocent girls seem much higher among certain communities, and these attacks were committed by people whose presence here you can question as legitimate. They are definitely here because of political choices that have been made, and as such these were politically preventable crimes. The British people have voted against mass immigration in 2010, in 2015, in 2016, in 2017 and in 2019, and each time they have not got it.

Contrary to the popular narrative, Brits as a whole are an extremely welcoming people. In general, people really like nice Nigerian Christians, Philippino nurses, and Asian engineers. But they have also started to notice the crime rates, the ethnic segregation and the Islamification of their country. 

And yet when attacks like those mentioned above happen, they are told ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’, ‘Diversity Is Our Strength’, and that the worst possible thing would be any rise of the ‘far-right.’ They are usually told this before the bodies are even buried. Any mention of the underlying causes and ideologies of those perpetrating these attacks is labelled ‘racist’ and ‘islamophobic’.

Protests & Riots

In the wake of July’s killings, there was a vigil that turned into a protest which then became a riot. The specific cause of that violence was that a man was arrested walking towards the vigil with a knife, and the rumour was spread that he was from the local mosque, which he wasn’t. But the tinderbox was lit, and Britain descended into several days of widespread mass protest, the majority of which was, in fact, non-violent, but a significant enough portion of it was that it would be inappropriate to use the oft-quoted term ‘fiery but mostly peaceful’. 

From a Christian perspective, all such violence must be condemned. Assaulting police, burning out buildings, and destroying businesses owned by foreigners is both a crime and a sin. Those who did so need to repent utterly, and should be imprisoned. 

It is understandable how many decent foreign immigrants felt threatened during recent weeks. My wife works with a lovely woman from abroad; she’s friendly, hard-working, and also dark-skinned. She has received a few personal threats over the past few days simply for looking different. Once again, this is abominable behaviour. To hate someone for their skin colour is to hate the image of God. 

But the notion that everyone involved in these protests, or that everyone with concerns about the impacts of mass immigration is engaging in such sin, or is ‘far-right’ is absurd. Indeed, such protests have in fact been joined by many assimilated immigrants of other ethnicities, and such people have been extremely well-received. Most people instinctively realise the difference between hating people for their ethnicity and having genuine concern for border security. So does Scripture for that matter—Israel was not permitted to mistreat foreigners, but Nehemiah is commended for building the kind of border wall Donald Trump could only dream of. 

Islamist Response

In response to the protests on the ‘British’ side, the Muslim communities mobilised into something they called the Muslim Defence League. They were filmed in huge numbers in Birmingham with no police presence to restrain them. Many internet videos show such groups carrying swords, machetes and blunt objects, one gang was filmed violently beating a white man standing in a pub, another showed them kicking an unconscious white man in the head, yet another video showed them describing themselves as “asserting dominance,” another showed two white men being chased and beaten, and a Sky News journalist was forced to stop filming after being surrounded by masked Middle Eastern men making gun signs. 

Though there is plenty of evidence that the ‘British’ side of the protests involved extensive property damage, no similar videos of interpersonal violence against defenceless Muslims seem to exist. In my research, I found one video of an apparently Muslim man getting hit in the face one time by a protestor as he walked straight into a protest—once again, something to be roundly condemned—but not anything resembling an equivalent level of intensity. 

And in all of this, we are being told by figures like the Muslim Mayor of London, Sadiq Kahn, and disgraced former Scottish First Minister, Humza Yousaf, that Muslims no longer feel safe in the UK. In some way, I can sympathise with that - I think if I was on the other side of this, I would feel nervous. But the reality is that there seemed to be zero Muslims killed or beaten during all of this by Brits - as far as I can find - and quite a lot of Brits beaten by Muslims. 

Given the fact that 40% of British Muslims support Sharia law, that more British Muslims have joined ISIS and the Nusra Front than have joined the British armed forces, the near constant persecution of Christians by Muslims throughout its near-1500 year history including many places around the world today, and that Britain is on track to be an Islamic nation by 2050, it does feel like, statistically speaking, the average Brit has more reason to feel unsafe than the average Muslim.

Government

Britain has had a left-wing Labour government in power for just over a month now, and those in power have leveraged this moment to take greater leaps towards totalitarianism than anyone would have thought possible in such a short space of time. Prime Minister Kier Starmer, a radical leftist, condemned the entire thing as “far-right thuggery” and promised protection to the “Muslim community”. Any notions of legitimate concerns about immigration or the protection of the white working classes from gangs of criminals have been ignored. 

The actions of the government and its henchmen, the British police, have led to accusations of ‘two-tier policing’, with even Elon Musk himself noting the double standard. Indeed this claim is not so much an accusation as a mere observation of fact. 

One video shows a policeman politely asking Muslim gangs to leave their weapons in a nearby mosque. Would it be the same on the other side? (Not that we even see such weapons being carried on the other side of these protests.) We see large gangs of Middle Eastern men carrying machetes, smashing up cars, and beating lone white people with zero police presence. Labour MP Jess Philips even tweeted a defence of such armed Muslim gangs in her constituency of Birmingham Yardley. 

And if we look at prosecutions, well we have on one side a man jailed for 26 months for “gesticulating and shouting at [police officers]” and a 55-year-old women was arrested for posting ‘incorrect information’ on social media. Meanwhile the government is releasing criminals from jail, including those who killed a young white boy with machetes, who were released after just six months. Other cases include Hamoud Al Soaimi, who raped a child under the age of thirteen, and was given a two year suspended sentence, and two Muslim men who violently assaulted police in Manchester Airport just a few weeks ago who have yet to be charged. 

The British police are going further, threatening to arrest people for retweeting things they don’t like, saying that they have officers dedicated to scouring social media for such posts. Meanwhile only 6% of burglaries are solved in the country. 

British media are totally complicit in this bias. Hilariously, one of our best known ‘impartial’ political commentators, Andrew Marr, predicted that, “Suddenly, for once, for the first time in many of our lives, actually, Britain looks like a little haven of peace and stability. And that in itself is going to draw money into this country.” Such a now-thoroughly-debunked prediction should end his credibility as a political journalist, but will likely lead only to accolades and promotions.

The incesutous nature of the love-affair between the British mainstream media and the ruling class was perhaps best epitomised by the incredible moment when Home Secretary Yvette Cooper was given a not-so-rigorous interview on ITV, the interviewer being her own husband.

In all of this, Britain’s slide towards a totalitarian government has taken the kind of leap forward that not even the most conspiratorial right-winger could have imagined just a few weeks ago. 

The Church

Whilst all of this has gone on, the British church has come out with the kind of strong, prophetic condemnation one would hope. Only they’ve managed to do so on the side of the government and the Islamists.

A useful working example of this is Krish Kandiah, a man who does some excellent work regarding fostering, but who in every other area does the work of a hardcore Marxist. For my American audience, consider him our version of Russell Moore, but much worse. He’s the guy who gets to write for the British Pravda, also known as The Guardian, to give the ‘Christian’ perspective on things. Which coincidentally always happens to align neatly with The Guardian’s perspective on things. He’s also someone who criticised Donald Trump immediately after the failed assassination attempt for standing up and saying ‘Fight! Fight!’, complaining that he should have quoted the introductory monologue to Love Actually. No, I’m not kidding. (Love Actually is a movie I turned off after two minutes due to the pornographic nature of one of its opening scenes, and seems like a strange choice for a Christian leader to endorse.) 

He has released articles, videos and endless tweets on this complaining, of course, about racism and the far-right, but mentioned nothing of the gangs of armed Muslims, the governmental overreach or the need for consistent standards of justice. This is a man who ran interference for Black Lives Matter, even as their London protest saw 27 police officers injured (more than seem to have been injured during these riots) and yet who told people to go and join a BLM protest. 

Similarly Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby came out to condemn the ‘far-right’ and Premier Magazine, the UK’s equivalent to Christianity Today, released a piece saying how wonderful immigration is with no mention of any potential downsides. 

What we have in the UK is not just two-tier governance, but a two-tier church. A church that condemns violence only in one direction. A church that celebrates the release of violent criminals from prison as an act of compassion, but that calls for harsh treatment of those who tweet ‘misinformation’. A church that will say strong words about anything other than its own government or the religion of Islam. A church that loves its neighbour, but seemingly never thinks how that might apply to a white, working class neighbour, or a neighbour to the right of them politically, or a neighbour—likely a brother or sister in Christ of a different ethnicity—being persecuted by Muslims in another country. 

As I have already mentioned in this article, but which will likely be ignored entirely, such actual far-right and racist sentiments do exist and need to be condemned, but to say that is the only issue is either obtuse or downright deceptive. All of this reeks of middle-class snobbery, and it is little wonder that the church in the UK is in near-total collapse. 

What To Do

My take is that we are in pretty serious trouble here in the UK and that these twin issues of mass Islamic immigration and leftist government overreach will continue unabated. The union between the two has been solidified for the next couple of years at least. 

And this is what happens when you reject God as a nation. I still maintain that we are a Christian nation, despite many Christian protests to the contrary, because that is objectively true both constitutionally and historically. Our king must pledge allegiance to Christ before we accept him as our leader, and our 1500 years of Christian faith are not immediately expunged by half a century of godlessness. 

We are, however, a backsliding Christian nation, as Israel in Judges with a generation that does not know God. And like Israel in that time, our nation is being handed over to tyrants and oppressors. 

I do not believe that there is a solution to be found in the working classes either. Yes, there have been some minor allusions to Christianity in all of this, and some recognise that things were better when we were an explicitly Christian nation, and therefore it is a potential field ripe for the harvest. But that harvest has yet to be reaped and if they were offered the chance to become a truly Christian nation right now—one without no-fault divorce, in which pornography was illegal, in which the welfare state was dismantled and abortion was criminalised—they would reject it outright. Some may chant Christ is King. Unfortunately, not many believe it. 

A nation that has arguably had more light than any other in history, with more moves of God, more gospel witness, more truth and more blessing as a result, and which has rejected it all, is now seeing how quickly it can collapse. 

If we continue down this road, we will become either a communist nation or an islamic one, likely in my lifetime. Popular uprising cannot save us; it will almost certainly fail, or if it succeeds, it will not right the ship but simply sink it in a different direction. Nothing less than mass repentance will do. 

So what can save Britain now? Only God. 

I will be taking three days of prayer and fasting at the start of September for our country. I’d ask you to join me. Because if God does not show up, it’s end of story for Britain.