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The news out of the United Kingdom every day is so mind-bogglingly stupid, so rife with cultural suicide and betrayal, that it can become numbing. But a brief video that began circulating on Wednesday was even worse than the general run of the daily news out of the Sceptered Isle, and showed, as if anyone on the planet doesn’t know by now, what shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain will be like in five years, and ten.
The video shows several rows of primary schoolchildren, neatly arranged on prayer rugs, kneeling and prostrating themselves before Allah. This was, however, not footage from an Islamic school in Britain or anywhere else. On the contrary, all the children in the video are clearly English non-Muslims. Making matters even worse, the incident took place in what is supposed to be a Christian school, at least nominally. It’s clear, however, that like the Church of England in general, this Church of England primary school has left behind Christianity long ago.
No one would have known it had happened at all if it hadn’t been for one child’s father calling attention to it. Premier Christian News reported Wednesday that “a parent, whose child was encouraged to practice Islamic prayer at a Church of England primary school, has sparked furore after reporting the incident to Richard Tice.”
A parent. There are at least twenty-two children prostrating themselves in the video, and yet apparently only one parent has said a word about it. And he only found out because his daughter told him: “The father told Mr Tice that when saying goodnight to his daughter, she told him: ‘We did prayers to Allah yesterday.’ He said believed his child had been ‘coerced, manipulated and cajoled’ into the prayer. He said a teacher had shown her a video of Muslims kneeling on prayer mats, before encouraging pupils to ‘have a go’. ‘We all need to do the performing of the prayer,” the teacher allegedly said.”
The other parents either didn’t hear about this incident at all, or knew that in Britain today, one risks ruinous accusations of “racism” and “Islamophobia” for uttering even the mildest murmur of protest about this sort of thing. And so they opted to keep silent, and preserve, at least for now, the fragile equilibrium of their personal and professional lives.
If the schools keep doing this, however, that equilibrium will be upset soon enough. Meanwhile, the lone parental complaint is attracting some welcome attention: “the deputy leader of Reform UK has written to the Archbishop of Canterbury, expressing ‘significant concern’ on behalf of parents in his Lincolnshire constituency.” The Archbishop of Canterbury, however, is a woman who reveres leftism more than traditional Christianity, and so is unlikely to see anything amiss here.
Meanwhile, the expected face-saving has begun: “a spokesperson for the Diocesan Board of Education told The Telegraph that kneeling in a manner akin to the prayer was ‘outside the lesson’s intended approach’. However, they insisted that it was ‘not an act of worship, and no child was required to take part.’”
One thing the hapless spokesperson did not point out was that the prayer was all wrong from an Islamic standpoint, as the girls were praying together with the boys, which would never happen in a mosque. In proper Islamic prayer, the women pray behind the men; if a woman passes in front of a man during prayer, his prayer is invalidated. Nevertheless, the Diocesan Board of Education wonk’s claim that this was “not an act of worship” is absurd. What are the children prostrating for, if they’re not worshipping?
The Church of England is only vestigially Christian at this point, but actively promoting Islamic prayer goes farther in betraying the faith it’s supposed to uphold than it has done before. This illustrates the fact that nature abhors a vacuum. The Church of England couldn’t keep on teaching nothing in particular forever; something was going to fill the gap after it discarded Christianity. And now we know what that something is. There will be much more of this in diverse, multicultural Britain, until it is taken for granted all over that unhappy land that children of whatever creed are to be taught Islamic prayer, and other aspects of the beliefs of their overlords.
