{"id":9294,"date":"2016-09-02T11:48:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T10:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=9294"},"modified":"2016-09-02T12:50:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T11:50:24","slug":"muslims-branded-terrorists-in-skegness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/muslims-branded-terrorists-in-skegness\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslims branded terrorists in Skegness"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9295\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9295\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/muslims-branded-terrorists-in-skegness\/skegness\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9295\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Skegness-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"Seven of the Muslim family of twelve wore burkas.\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Skegness-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Skegness.jpg 463w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No fewer than seven of the Muslim family of twelve wore burkas when they visited Skegness.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Muslim family say they were <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/muslim-family-skegness-trip-accused-of-being-terrorists-islamophobia-a7220001.html\" target=\"_blank\">stared at and branded &#8216;terrorists&#8217; in Skegness<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0group of twelve, seven of whom were women wearing hijabs,\u00a0say they were stared at as if they were \u201csome kind of aliens\u201d when they visited the Lincolnshire seaside town.<\/p>\n<p>They visited &#8216;Skeggy&#8217; for the first time last week and say they will not be returning. \u00a0Walking past a pub, a man shouted &#8216;terrorists&#8217; at them.<\/p>\n<p>They complained about\u00a0their visit\u00a0to the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tellmamauk.org\/trip-skegness-ends-abuse-muslim-family\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Tell Mama&#8217; website<\/a><\/strong>, which specialises in stories of discrimination against Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Lincolnshire Police say no incident was reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THEM AND US<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9296\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9296\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/muslims-branded-terrorists-in-skegness\/muslimsonthebeach\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9296\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MuslimsontheBeach-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"Islam vs secularism reflected in dress on the beach.\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MuslimsontheBeach-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MuslimsontheBeach-600x333.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MuslimsontheBeach-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MuslimsontheBeach.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Islam vs secularism expressed in dress on the beach.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The family themselves later added to the &#8216;them and us&#8217; atmosphere around the story by saying they were &#8216;so happy&#8217; to see another Muslim woman, who they say smiled at them and said &#8216;Salaam&#8217; (Arabic for &#8216;peace&#8217;).<\/p>\n<p>One of the group said: \u201cOnce 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\u2019t really bother us until we walked past the pub and a man shouted \u2018terrorists,\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>That comment in itself, although crass, reflects a reasonable public association of Islam with terrorism which the British establishment have yet to grasp.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9297\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9297\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/muslims-branded-terrorists-in-skegness\/pentax-digital-camera-31\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9297\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9297\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2010Halal-010-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Halal food on the shelves inside ASDA in Slough\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2010Halal-010-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2010Halal-010-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2010Halal-010-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2010Halal-010-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Halal food on the shelves of ASDA in Slough<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>&#8216;COMMUNITIES&#8217; NEED TO FEEL &#8216;COMFORTABLE&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A &#8216;Tell Mama&#8217; spokesperson said: \u00a0\u201cThe family will not be returning back to Skegness and such incidents will no doubt impact on wider perceptions within Muslim communities around areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0in schools and prisons, planning applications for mega mosques, the development of Muslim ghettoes, to emphasise Muslim\u00a0polarisation from the\u00a0Christian majority in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DIVISIVE PLURAL<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9298\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9298\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/muslims-branded-terrorists-in-skegness\/pentax-digital-camera-32\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9298\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2010OctHalal-001-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The UK's take-away food trade is now dominated by Muslim 'Halal' outlets, happy to take money from 'unbelievers'.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2010OctHalal-001-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2010OctHalal-001-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2010OctHalal-001-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2010OctHalal-001-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UK&#8217;s take-away food trade has become\u00a0dominated by Muslim &#8216;Halal&#8217; outlets, happy to take money from &#8216;unbelievers&#8217;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tacet UK Muslim acceptance of terrorism and support for self-styled Islamic State has not helped. \u00a0And then &#8216;Tell Mama&#8217; complain &#8216;communities&#8217;, itself a divisive plural, are not feeling &#8216;comfortable&#8217; around each other.<\/p>\n<p>Of course we aren&#8217;t. \u00a0Muslims have made it very clear they don&#8217;t feel comfortable among Christians and secularists, while the latter\u00a0are wary of Muslims. \u00a0Muslims absolutely do not want to integrate, they want British society to accede to their way of doing things.<\/p>\n<p>If follows that for hijab-clad women to moan about people staring at them as if they are &#8216;aliens&#8217; is trying to have their cake and eat it. \u00a0Islam and the expression of it really is alien to the UK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SPIRITUAL BATTLE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For a generation there has been a spiritual battle in the United Kingdom between Christianity and Secularism. \u00a0Now Islam is added to the mix. \u00a0Secularism has no answer to Islam except appeasement and Christianity needs to recover the faith of the Apostles and Martyrs.<\/p>\n<p>If we are not to come under the sway of Islam,\u00a0Christian men to stand up and start pressing our leaders to proclaim this is a Christian country. \u00a0It 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.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9299\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9299\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/muslims-branded-terrorists-in-skegness\/pentax-digital-camera-33\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9299\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9299\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2010Aldgatec-001-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"'Choose today whom ye will serve.'\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2010Aldgatec-001-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2010Aldgatec-001-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2010Aldgatec-001-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2010Aldgatec-001-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8216;Choose this day whom ye will serve.&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Joshua told the people of Israel to make their minds up between competing politico-religious beliefs:<\/p>\n<p><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>King Asa dramatically realised a nation&#8217;s political destiny revolved around its belief system:<\/p>\n<p><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Such a penalty for sedition horrifies us today, but if Islam keeps growing, middle-eastern Christians&#8217; 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\u00a0happy with it in the united Kingdom when push comes to shove. Given current demographic trends, there isn&#8217;t much time to reclaim our Christian heritage.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/2013jul03mm\/\" target=\"_blank\">Come along to our prayer meeting near the site of the proposed West Ham &#8216;mega mosque&#8217; tomorrow on Saturday 3rd September. \u00a0Postcode E15 3ND. \u00a0Nearest tube: Abbey Road DLR<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Find out how to join Christian Voice and stand up for the King of kings (clicking on the link below does not commit you to join)<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/P1OVTZ-gb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3940\" style=\"border: 0px;\" title=\"Join Today!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Join_donate_Logo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Please note that persons wishing to comment on this story must enter a valid email address. Comments from persons leaving fictitious email addresses will be trashed.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Muslim family say they were stared at and branded &#8216;terrorists&#8217; in Skegness. The\u00a0group of twelve, seven of whom were women wearing hijabs,\u00a0say they were stared at as if they were \u201csome kind of aliens\u201d when they visited the Lincolnshire seaside town. 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