I hate to say it, but the “Norman Conquest of England” is going to pale compared to what it appears that the history books will eventually record as “The Great Islamic Conquest of England.”

Unfortunately, the ghost of Neville Chamberlain’s lives on in the hearts of far too many Brits. You can’t establish “peace in our times” with those who have a fanatical intent on destroying you. The English (Europeans in general) seem to have developed a touch of amnesia where the experiences of past generations are concerned.

Perhaps as the Muslim population of Britain increases our native British Christian friends can begin to empathise, genuinely, with the feelings of the native peoples of North America as the Christians who came to North America from Europe started installing their culture.

Are you a Christian #2?

Oh my. My good friends live in Camberley and I’ve been there. I can’t imagine a giant mosque towering over the area, sigh. It’s such a lovely, quaint place. I’m glad the churches are fighting this!

#3, why do you ask?

#5 - because your remark doesn’t sound like something a Christian would say.
Britain is - was - a Christian country, the Dowry of Mary, and to mark the occasion of an invasion of this land by non-Christians with beliefs aggressively opposed to Christ with anything other than tears, is impious, particularly snarky comments to the effect they had it coming. Whatever else came with sinful, fallen Europeans to North America, Christ came with them, to the salvation of heathen souls here. Outside the Church there is no salvation, as I am sure you are aware.

Dear TridentineVirginian, your username and use of the term “Dowry of Mary” - which honestly I have never heard or seen before in my nearly 60 years - tells me we don’t even have the same understanding of “the Church” and its authority. Also, I have lived for years in American communities that have included Muslims and even mosques, and none of the Muslims I have encountered have supported or advocated terrorism or the wiping out any of us who are have been their neighboring “infidels”: whether Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, or whatever else. Frankly, I worry more about what Scientology does to people’s lives and souls than Islam.