Dr Ian Paul

“As I prepare to take my leave of our shared home place, I find comfort in an old Greek proverb: ‘A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they will never sit’,” Seamus Mallon's autobiography ended.

Who really wrote the Qur'an? psephizo.com/life-ministry/… via @psephizo IMPORTANT INFO ON MUSLIM/Quran origins!

@SnowMartyn @danny__kruger @danny_kruger You don’t recognise it as an assertion of Islam over a space in anticipation of the Umma?

@Psephizo @danny__kruger @danny_kruger Being valued. Feeling a part of British society.

Nick Timothy and Nigel Farage are right, and Sadiq Khan and Keir Starmer are wrong. Small groups of people, of whatever religion, praying in public places is fine. And as a Christian country we should allow a special privilege for churches to lead services in our national spaces, like the Palm Sunday celebration that happens in Trafalgar Square. What we don't want is mass ritual observances intended to claim the civic realm for another religion, or assert the domination of another culture over our own Christian traditions. What happens in our national spaces is not neutral. People use Trafalgar Square, for celebrations and demonstrations, to make a point about the kind of country they want us to be. The Palm Sunday pageant reminds us of who we are - not as individuals (many or most of us don't identify as Christians at all) but as a national community, with the roots of our institutions in the ground of the Bible and our most solemn communal moments, from coronations to funerals, mediated through the liturgies of the Church. A mass Adhan held there, or in any town square, is making a different point: that Britain is not a Christian country, and that - inshallah - one day it shall be Muslim. This is unacceptable to the British public and indeed incompatible with our constitution. As ever with these debates, the issue is partly one of kind and partly one of degree. There is an issue with Islam itself as a religion which in most interpretations does not admit of pluralism or freedom of conscience, and therefore is inherently aggrandising, including over territory. But with a bit of confidence and a bit of toleration we could handle that - if it were not for the issue of degree. It is the scale of Islam in Britain, and the ambition of its leaders for greater scale, that makes the problem. The numbers of people who assembled for the adhan in Trafalgar Square, clearly and openly claiming the territory for a faith with no connection (indeed, with strong doctrinal disagreement) with the model of Western liberal democracy that Britain has developed and exported to the world - that is the problem. The numbers, whether everyone there understood it this way or not (and I suspect many did), convey an explicit threat to the foundations of our country. Being relaxed about other people's religion is a good thing, a very British thing. I don't mind modern druids dancing around Stonehenge in my constituency (arguably, though the historicity is tenuous, they have a claim to the place). I don't mind small groups of Hindus or Buddhists or Muslims demonstrating the reality of Britain's religious toleration by worshiping in Trafalgar Square. But let's not kid ourselves about this adhan, or pretend that we're just seeing another harmless expression of Britain's religious diversity. We are seeing an abuse of liberalism, led by people who are not themselves liberal; or - let us imagine they are acting in good faith - who are themselves deceived about what they are doing. It should not happen again. And it would be good to hear the Church of England say so.

“…that was bullshit. I did not want to leave @BBCWomansHour. I loved it. I absolutely loved it. But I couldn’t stay in that atmosphere…” In her own words: Jenni Murray, speaking in 2021, on how she was muzzled

Golda explained it best. This land was named “Palestine” by the Romans nearly 2,000 years ago, after crushing a Jewish revolt, as an attempt to erase Jewish identity and invoke the memory of the long defeated Philistines. For centuries, the region was ruled by the Ottomans and later the British. There was never an independent Arab state here called Palestine. Golda Meir put it plainly: “East and West Bank was Palestine. I’m a Palestinian. From ’21 to ’48 I carried a Palestinian passport. There was no such thing here as Jews, Arabs and Palestinians. There were Jews and Arabs.” Golda Meir, Former Prime Minister of Israel Image credit: Willem van de Poll. CC BY-SA 3.0. Color added. H/T🇮🇱 The Nation of Israel Lives

@SnowMartyn @danny__kruger @danny_kruger Martyn, what do you think the significance is for Muslims of saying the Adhan in such a prominent public place?

@danny__kruger @danny_kruger So while I share your view that our country should hold onto our Christian heritage, I don’t hold to your approach of sowing suspicion and division.

The Trafalgar Square prayer session *was* straight out of the Islamist playbook. Nick Timothy is right about this. Anyone who knows anything about the Muslim Brotherhood should be concerned where Britain is heading, says Jake Wallis Simons buff.ly/ZN8Cqbq

Amnesty International? Silent. The UN? Silent. Human Rights Council? Silent. The Red Cross? Silent.

Iran executed the 19-year-old champion, Saleh Mohammadi for protesting the Khamenei regime. Nothing from Greta Thunberg, Gary Lineker, Charlotte Church, sectarian Muslim politicians. No hunger strikes on University campuses. Where have all the “human rights” activists gone?

Another fake “journalist” on @pressfreedom’s Gaza list just got unmasked by PIJ as a commander killed in action. That’s now at least the third PIJ commander posing as press. So far 60% of “journalists” killed in Gaza have been identified as combatants. The truth is coming out.

Interesting to see the overlap between people who believe individual silent prayer near an abortion clinic is an act of deliberate intimidation, and people who believe mass ritual prayer taking over a public space is unworthy of comment.

Yasser Arafat's personal assistant: "Arafat wanted all of palestine" "Arafat didn't want the Oslo accords" "Hamas founder was paid by the palestinian authority" But hey, you should never listen to the palestinians! Listen to the BBC and NYT instead!

For almost 2000 years, "Palestine" was simply a European Christian term for the "Holy Land" or "Land of Israel" That is why the British chose "Palestine" as the name of the mandate "Palestine" is a foreign, colonial label. The idea it has local historical roots is just stupid

@charliebelllive Seems rather apposite. ἐν ᾧ μέτρῳ μετρεῖτε μετρηθήσεται ὑμῖν.

@Psephizo It’s pretty pathetic!

What an excellent response to the letter from @charliebelllive

An excellent review by @Psephizo of a recent biography of the Dame Sarah psephizo.com/reviews/what-i…

What is the problem with claiming that Jesus is "inclusive"? How does it match up to the Jesus we meet in the gospels, and what problems does it create? psephizo.com/biblical-studi…

@charliebelllive I think you might be disappointed.

Good to see that the new Bishop of Stepney is in favour of same sex blessings. gov.uk/government/new…

The trouble with the 'inclusive' Jesus psephizo.com/biblical-studi… via @psephizo

Today I am proud that the second edition of my 7 October Parliamentary Commission Report is being published. It's on 7Octparliamentarycommission.co.uk We cannot allow history to be distorted and 7 Oct denial to win @AppgIsrael #7October #Israel