A Muslim family say they were stared at and branded ‘terrorists’ in Skegness.
The group of twelve, seven of whom were women wearing hijabs, say they were stared at as if they were “some kind of aliens” when they visited the Lincolnshire seaside town.
They visited ‘Skeggy’ for the first time last week and say they will not be returning. Walking past a pub, a man shouted ‘terrorists’ at them.
They complained about their visit to the ‘Tell Mama’ website, which specialises in stories of discrimination against Muslims.
Lincolnshire Police say no incident was reported.
THEM AND US
The family themselves later added to the ‘them and us’ atmosphere around the story by saying they were ‘so happy’ to see another Muslim woman, who they say smiled at them and said ‘Salaam’ (Arabic for ‘peace’).
One of the group said: “Once we reached the main area where there were shops, we noticed a lot of people just staring at us as if we were some form of aliens. It didn’t really bother us until we walked past the pub and a man shouted ‘terrorists,’” she said.
That comment in itself, although crass, reflects a reasonable public association of Islam with terrorism which the British establishment have yet to grasp.
‘COMMUNITIES’ NEED TO FEEL ‘COMFORTABLE’
A ‘Tell Mama’ spokesperson said: “The family will not be returning back to Skegness and such incidents will no doubt impact on wider perceptions within Muslim communities around areas.
“This is also worrying since communities need to feel comfortable around each other in our country, rather than feeling polarized. We are sure that the people of Skegness are not reflected through the actions of a few.”
The trouble is, Muslims themselves have done so much, with their ostentatious dress, their demands (and those of multi-culturalists) for halal food not only to be sold in supermarkets but enforced in schools and prisons, planning applications for mega mosques, the development of Muslim ghettoes, to emphasise Muslim polarisation from the Christian majority in the United Kingdom.
DIVISIVE PLURAL
Tacet UK Muslim acceptance of terrorism and support for self-styled Islamic State has not helped. And then ‘Tell Mama’ complain ‘communities’, itself a divisive plural, are not feeling ‘comfortable’ around each other.
Of course we aren’t. Muslims have made it very clear they don’t feel comfortable among Christians and secularists, while the latter are wary of Muslims. Muslims absolutely do not want to integrate, they want British society to accede to their way of doing things.
If follows that for hijab-clad women to moan about people staring at them as if they are ‘aliens’ is trying to have their cake and eat it. Islam and the expression of it really is alien to the UK.
SPIRITUAL BATTLE
For a generation there has been a spiritual battle in the United Kingdom between Christianity and Secularism. Now Islam is added to the mix. Secularism has no answer to Islam except appeasement and Christianity needs to recover the faith of the Apostles and Martyrs.
If we are not to come under the sway of Islam, Christian men to stand up and start pressing our leaders to proclaim this is a Christian country. It would be entirely Biblical to say those happy with that state of affairs are welcome here but those intent on agitating for Islam can leave.
Joshua told the people of Israel to make their minds up between competing politico-religious beliefs:
Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
King Asa dramatically realised a nation’s political destiny revolved around its belief system:
2Chron 15:12 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul; 13 That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
Such a penalty for sedition horrifies us today, but if Islam keeps growing, middle-eastern Christians’ experience of Islamic State, not to mention persecution of those of their number who convert to Christianity within these shores shows Muslims will be quite happy with it in the united Kingdom when push comes to shove. Given current demographic trends, there isn’t much time to reclaim our Christian heritage.
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The word “alien” does not mean people from another planet, as these Muslims are not alone in supposing. It means foreigners, especially remotely different foreigners. The aliens from space are fiction, but in the 1960s it was fact that even French people were legally aliens, and had to report regularly to a police station .
So the Muslim women went out of their way to appear outlandishly different in a carefree seaside resort, and they were stared at as if they were aliens. That is because they were aliens.
What is the point of wearing these clothes anyway, except to make themselves look different ? It isn’t a requirement of Islam that they should.
They might have British passports, but you can’t expect passers-by to know know that, and you can’t expect passers-by to know what their intentions are.
Hi Stephen,
I agree with you that the Muslim community in the UK (and other countries) bear a lot of responsibility for their own feelings of alienation – many haven’t even tried to integrate. But that is no excuse for calling anyone a “terrorist” (unless they are of course!). Such language expressed to ordinary Muslims is mindless, childish, and possibly hateful. True believers, saved by grace as we are, should be expressing our love for Muslims by sensitively, winsomely, and boldly telling them the gospel.
It was someone outside a pub who shouted that, I believe.