Immigration

This subject is certainly a hot potato at the moment. Politicians in the main, with exception of Nick Griffin, avoid it like the plague. Many have strong views but are inhibited because the feel that they will be called racists. Yesterday was a bit of a shock. The respectable and socially conservative Town's Women's Guild have stated that about 80% of the respondents to a recent survey in their organisation say the mass immigration is destroying the cultural identity of the British people. A few weeks previously the former Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, said that the very DNA of Britain is being radically changed by excessive immigration. He has been strongly criticised by clerics in the Anglican Church. Critics will say that this is nonsense because Britain has always been a haven for those seeking either asylum or a better life. This is undoubtedly true. From about 400AD, together with much of Western Europe, Britain received enormous numbers from abroad, from the Anglo-Saxon invasions that occurred after the Romans left our shores to the coming of the Vikings about three hundred years later. This completely changed our culture from Celtic to an Anglo-Saxon one. After the Norman

Conquest our language and culture were once again changed. Norman French gradually amalgamated with Anglo-Saxon to produce the English we speak today. Most of Western Europe was going through similar turbulent incursions. Goths, Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Huns, Vandals, and Lombards poured out of the steppes of Central Asia and overthrew the Roman based civilisations of Europe between the years 400 and 600 AD. Rome itself was sacked by the barbarians in 410AD and later in 556AD.

But it is fascinating to realise that these massive and destructive movements were very different to the tide of immigration today. Fifty years after the barbarian invasions it would have taken a DNA specialist, if this technique had existed, to disentangle the racial mix of the time. The tribes were all of Indo-European stock and they would be virtually indistinguishable within a generation. Secondly, and this is vastly more important, the invaders quickly picked up the culture of the host countries and most became at least nominally Christian, though many at first adhered to the Arian heresy.

Today things are very different. There a fifty-three million Muslims in Europe,and sixteen millions in the EU, many of whom are convinced that their religion and culture are superior to those of Europe. They have no desire to integrate: in fact some groups are quite adamant that their aim is to Islamise Europe totally.

A few years ago Colonel Ghadaffi of Libya stated publically, that such are the number of Muslims in Europe,over 50 million at present,that our continent would become Islamic without a bullet or a shot being fired. Given the vastly superior fertility of Muslim families this is feasible. Also there is a cultural vacuum in post-Christian Europe that is waiting to be filled.

Just before he died, Derek Prince said that Britain would be the first European state to become a Muslim one, an opinion that the well-known Baptist minster, David Pawson, fully concurs with. See his video series on this important subject. Are they panic mongers or do they have some truth?