Yesterday was the tenth anniversary of the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby. Many people have sought to draw lessons lessons from the tragedy, the barbarism, but we are going to take a sideways look. For us, this story shows Christian parents how essential it is to radicalise their children in the Christian faith before someone else radicalises them in theirs. Contact us on the pop-up form to keep in touch – especially if you are a pastor or a parent.
Murder of Lee Rigby
On 22nd May 2023, two young Islamist terrorists drove a car into Fusilier Lee Rigby, from behind, then stabbed him multiple times. They carried out their attack near the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, southeast London.
In Spiked-Online, Tom Slater writes: ‘They had set out that day to kill a soldier, and spotted Rigby’s army-issue backpack and ‘Help for Heroes’ hoodie as he walked back from Woolwich Arsenal station. They hacked at Rigby’s body. They tried to decapitate him. Then they waited for the police to arrive, hoping to go out in a blaze of glory – as martyrs.’
When armed police turned up, the terrorists ran at them with their knives and a rusty useless revolver. Instead of killing them, the marksmen shot them in the legs and incapacitated them. Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale were tried and convicted.
For Tom Slater, the lesson is that the woke establishment want us to forget about atrocities such as the murder of Lee Rigby, the murder of Sir David Amess MP and the Manchester Arena bombing. If not to forget, then not to attribute these events to Islamic Terrorism or associate them with Islam at all.
‘Religion of Peace’
For David Cameron in 2015, in a joint press conference with Egypt’s President Sisi, Islam was a ‘religion of peace’. The then Prime Minster made the claim in the same breath as stating ‘the problem of extremist Islamism and violence’ had been ‘growing’. Terrorism, he said, was a perversion of Islam (even though Islam has historically spread at the point of a sword).
The authorities today want the ‘Prevent’ counter-terrorism programme they set up in 2003, and which became a ‘strategy’ in 2011, to focus equally on ‘far-right’ extremism to provide a bit of balance, just so they can claim that Islamic Terrorism is only one threat we face, not the main one.
Tom Slater writes: ‘Our elites have become increasingly uncomfortable with us talking about Islamist terrorism, even as it continues to wreak havoc on our streets. This reticence is bred of a deep fear and loathing of the public. Non-Muslim Brits are thought of as a pogrom-in-waiting, as one ‘difficult conversation’ away from going on an anti-Muslim rampage.’
Caught by Street Islam
For us, there is another lesson, closer to the Christian heart. We must never forget the two terrorists were British boys from Christian families. Both were named after the warrior Archangel (Dan 10:13-21, 12:1, Jude 1:9, Rev 12:7). Their parents came from southern Nigeria.
However, the boys had contact on the streets with Omar Bakri Muhammad and Anjem Choudary, the co-founders of the banned British group al-Muhajiroun. See the BBC report here. That is how the ringleader, Michael Adebolajo, could rant to a camera or phone held by a passer-by: ‘The only reason we have killed this man today is because Muslims are dying daily by British soldiers.’
It was a preposterous thing for him to say until we realise the extent of the indoctrination he had received while being radicalised in Islam. He now identified as Muslim.
‘You will lose your child’
A friend and neighbour of Michael Adebowale who lives in nearby Greenwich, warned parents they must take real care of their children.
Magdalene Edwards told Channel 4 News she first noticed Michael Adebowale in Muslim dress a year before and asked if he had converted to Islam. She told him to ‘be careful’.
He was ‘angry’, she said, ‘as a lot of young people are’. She added that extremists looking to radicalise the young ‘are only looking for the weak ones, the ones that have no support, so we have a duty as parents to keep an eye on those children. If you take your finger off the pulse for one second, you’ve got to believe me, you will lose your child.’
Watch Magdalene here → (Our quotes above are from 1.06 to 1.55 mins.)
Radicalise your children!
It isn’t just Muslims with their table in the town square trying to draw children away from their parents and the Christian faith. Children are under terrible pressure from teachers and other children in schools to adopt the ways of the world. They are being indoctrinated daily with Secularism, Gender ideology, Evolutionism and Eco-fanaticism. Online, they can be sucked in to pseudo-Christian cults, New Age, even suicide promotion.
How are Christian parents going to make their children bullet-proof against such pressure?
The Bible shows us how:
Deut 6:1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: … 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
In other words, Christian parents must radicalise their children in the Christian faith before someone else radicalises them in theirs.
Parents must explain the ways of the Lord to their children, sitting down, standing up, at mealtimes, going out, coming in. Spend time with them. Fathers especially must spend time with their sons, mothers with daughters. Contrast God’s ways with the ways of the world. Show how the Christian faith is radical, how it challenges the systems and the leaders of this world. Parents, forget ‘quality time’. This exercise needs ALL your time. Or you will lose your child.
If you are a parent, even before you teach your children, you need to know the word of God yourself. You need to know Bible doctrine on gender, sexuality, family, creation, justification, salvation, government, spiritual armour, the whole of the Christian faith.
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I lost both my children but not to Islam to this current woke agenda at university. After my daughter disclosed to university that she suffered from mild anxiety they offered her counselling through which they brainwashed her into believing that her anxiety was down to her being a closet gay. She pursued that lifestyle for 3 yrs but I was constantly interceding in my prayer room and now she’s returned home and repented plus going to chutch church again, walking with the lord and now asking us to pray for her a husband. However the enemy has not stopped there because once my daughter was delivered he went after my son who was also counciled by his university and now identifies as being non binory. He told us that he wanted us to call him by his new preferred name but we refused so he walked out and we havent seen him for a year. My only hope now is that the Lord will once again answer my prayers and deliver him just as he did my daughter. The universities have alot to answer for , the councillor actually gave my son the advice to walk out if we didn’t come in agreement. But I serve a wonderful,faithful and powerful God and im convinced that he hears my prayers. Thankyou Jesus