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Victorian Laws Against Priests Meddling in Politics Are Now Needed More Than Ever – To Prevent Imams Doing the Same

by Steven Tucker
27 July 2024 11:46 AM

Over the last few weeks, we have just seen proud and open Islamic radicals elected into the House of Commons, and apparent race-related riots on the streets of Leeds. At first glance, the increasingly sectarian nature of U.K. politics seems to be a thoroughly modern phenomenon. Yet, surprisingly, there is one specific little-covered aspect of this lamentable trend which has genuine roots in centuries gone by, having its origins directly in the days of old Catholic Ireland – which is odd, as at first glance it appears to centre entirely upon the ever-growing issue of British political Islam. 

As regular readers will be aware, The Muslim Vote (TMV) is a new religio-political pressure group that recently approached Sir Keir Starmer, issuing him with a list of 18 demands if he and his Labour Party wished to retain the votes of the U.K.’s estimated four million Muslims. They had previously voted for Labour in the main as a handy pro-mass immigration, pro-multiculturalism, force – but the party could no longer take them for granted, according to this new lobby group. 


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stewart
stewart
9 months ago

Pointless law. Unenforceable without creating all sorts of knock on problems. Like driving even more support for the religious martyrs they will create.

We’re stuck with the problem. Shouldn’t have let all those Muslims in in the first place if they didn’t want them to have political influence.

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RW
RW
9 months ago
Reply to  stewart

It’s one thing to let Muslims have political influence over worldly affairs which concern them, eg, regulations for mosques in resdential neighbourhoods. But Imams claiming that Allah requires people to ‘vote’ for a certain foreign policy is something entirely different, as they’re not formally speaking in their own capacity as fallible and opinionated humans in this case. An atheist would claim that they obviously do because this cannot possibly be different. But not all people are atheists.

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stewart
stewart
9 months ago
Reply to  RW

Does it really matter what the method of coercion is?

What’s the difference between an Imam saying God will be angry with you or a BBC appartchik telling you you’re a facist if you think certain things?

To me both act with coercive intent.

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Arum
Arum
9 months ago
Reply to  stewart

To believers I guess there would be a huge difference

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RW
RW
9 months ago
Reply to  stewart

Not even the most ardent admirers of the BBC believe that life is a temporary trial to prove yourself worthy in the eyes of the BBC and that – after death – a council of former BBC directors general, Dr Who actors and Chris Packham as climate expert will judge your eternal soul to either be worthy of joining the ranks of the blessedly carbon free in paradise or spend an eternity being tortured among the other damned in hell.

Two historical examples:

In Mein Kampf, Hitler made a dedicated effort to show that what he believed to be his political mission was grounded in a positive vision of lived Christanity and that he was really doing (or rather, panning to do) the true work of God on earth.

From January to September 1915, divisons of the German 5th army under crown prince William of Prussia conquered most of the forest of Argonne in a series of bloody, close-combat trench fighting actions from the French. This involved weeks of digging saps while constantly being shelled until the sap heads where sufficiently close to the French trenches. After preparatory artillery barrage, the German infantrists would climb out into the open, work their way accross the devasted forest of no man’s land as good as they could and finally, break into the enemy trenches and kill those who didn’t surrender with hand grenades and bayonets. After each major success, a field church service the crown prince attended would be held where the exact same people, now in as good a dress uniform as they could muster, would listen to a sermon and sing hymns to thank the Lord Almighty that he had granted victory to them.

Religion used to mean a lot more to people than us modern moral relativists and spiritually lazy agnosticists can imagine. It sill means a lot to people who aren’t.

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
9 months ago
Reply to  stewart

Hardly a problematic law if it has been applied only once.

Useful else otherwise churches will have to register as campaign organisations and account for their expenditure; more seriously it would facilitate religion based politics which we got rid of a long long time ago in GB.

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RW
RW
9 months ago

It’s nice to see Mr Tucker apply his considerable writing skills to a serious topic instead of just trying to be funny.

Giles Fraser, a left-wing Anglican priest, or, worded in another way, Giles Fraser, a professional Christian preacher who just doesn’t believe in God, is making a fallacious argument, either knowingly or because he simply can’t imagine that religion could be more than going through some traditional motions: 500 British business leaders arguing for a certain economic policy they believe to be necessary is them talking about a topic people can legitimately have different opinions about. Eg, is a policy 500 British business leaders favour really good for everyone or mainly for themselves and could 500 British business leader not as well live with policies favoring them a little less and other people somewhat more? This is not true for a Vote for Rufur Lameun’ or your soul will be damned for eternity! statement by some set of religious leaders. These deal with absolute truths. They’re not absolutely truths to non-believers, like one Giles Fraser, but to believers, they are.

The very concept of elections requires that voters are free to make up their own mind, ie, that elections are part of the way humans organize their own worldy affairs with God tacitly tolerating whatever folly comes from this. People who claim otherwise seek to abolish them.

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Arum
Arum
9 months ago

The spiritual influence law should definitely not be repealed, but I would not be at all surprised if it was being broken behind closed doors and in a language other than English.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
9 months ago
Reply to  Arum

In some constituencies the Imams instruct the ‘bruvvers’ to apply for postal votes and when received the Imam sends his troops out to collect the unmarked slips which are then filled in at the local mosque.

George Galloway won the Rochdale by-election with a postal vote amounting to 42 % of votes cast. Fraud? Heavens know. Move along now.

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cchambers
cchambers
9 months ago

Seems pretty clearly to be a free speech issue. The imam should be free to make his statement about who should be voted for. The person who votes has the autonomy to follow the imam’s directive or not. Any other organisation or person can mount a campaign against the imam’s directive if they think it is wrong. The best counter to misinformation is information, not suppression.

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Norfolk-Sceptic
Norfolk-Sceptic
9 months ago
Reply to  cchambers

“The person who votes has the autonomy to follow the imam’s directive or not.”

🙂

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RW
RW
9 months ago
Reply to  cchambers

Our idea of democracy relies fundamentally on the protestant notion that man is the arbiter of his own conscience. Religions which deny that can only coexist peacefully with it when the religious leaders refrain from making political statements in their capacity as such. The Imam is free to speak his opinion. But he must not claim that it would be the will of God instead of just his opinion.

Freedom of speech refers to the freedom to inform others and not to the freedom of giving illegal or illegitimate orders to them.

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
9 months ago

I suppose Blair will be kicking himself fo not revoking that law as he revoked so many other useful laws. No doubt hiw protege Starmer will do it instead.

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Claphamanian
Claphamanian
9 months ago

Our Jess only won her seat by 600 votes.

On the other hand, Dr Alin-Khan who has done medical service for charities in Gaza and Israel increased her majority by some thousands.

On the Gaza issue itself, as a start-up party with little funding, the Workers Party secured 200,000 votes.

And these Labour MPs try to deflect attention from all this by claiming that people from all diverse backgrounds voted for Labour.

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harrydaly
harrydaly
9 months ago

Shouldn’t Steven Tucker be concluding that we ought to discriminate against Moslems for some or all of … entry to the country/right to reside/right to vote/citizenship?

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Twm Morgan
Twm Morgan
9 months ago
Reply to  harrydaly

I’m sure he left that to us. And I have long thought as much.

Although I hate to say to, and I’d love to think I am wrong, but as our present governments, including those of the future, will not see a problem until it is far too late, there is a high probability of a civil war of religion within the next fourty years.
Yes, I do fear for my grandchildren.

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harrydaly
harrydaly
9 months ago
Reply to  Twm Morgan

But why leave it at all? Why not follow what he thinks to where it takes him? Is he, for all his outspokeness, afraid to take that last step?

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RTSC
RTSC
9 months ago

The British Establishment, particularly Labour, currently has the tiger they imported by the tail but their grip is visibly slipping.

They are now terrified of what they have done, since it has started to impact on “their people.” The widely publicised pictures of Angela Rayner, wearing a cover-all dress, pleading with a group of Muslim “Community Leaders (all men, no women permitted) for their votes demonstrates that Labour is now awake to the threat but thinks that appeasement will work.

It won’t.

We are rapidly heading towards large-scale civil unrest.

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Timothy Bradshaw
Timothy Bradshaw
9 months ago

What of the ‘spiritual influence’ of political activist college tutors sending out e mails to their students to get up and vote Labour? That certainly happened and no doubt happens.

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