The Question of Religion  

 

"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion." Steven Weinberg 

 

A secular state is a state or country that is officially neutral in matters of religion, neither supporting nor opposing any particular religious beliefs or practices. A secular state also treats all its citizens equally regardless of religion, and does not give preferential treatment for a citizen from a particular religion over other religions. Most often it has no state religion or equivalent. If there is a state religion, this should have only a symbolic meaning, not affecting the ordinary life of its citizens, and especially not making any distinction based on someone's religion. Wikipedia  

 

Can committed believers of any faith share a common political life in the context of a secular Integralist state?  Many British believers may want the policies of the state to reflect their deeply held religious convictions and values.  Integralism is secular and does not permit the state imposing religiously inspired values in the absence of any purely secular justification.   

 

We believe Religion can have a place and coexist with the interests of the nation, so long as it does not go against the national interest. Though we do however acknowledge the historical context, continuity and identity, offered by our Pagan and Christian heritage, and whose retrospective achievements and aesthetics will be integral to our national rebirth. We are distrusting of any organisation that claims a higher authority and loyalty to that of ones country. Such organisations not only deny the national community and seek to divide and humiliate us. When a religious organisation or sect, like the current strands of radical Islam, become a sectional group in its own right, it poses the same threat as any form of Marxism and operates in the same way, an international sectional interest that directly opposes the state and can physically attack it. We believe that to create a unified society, we respect people right to belief but your loyalty to your country must come above all, religious beliefs must come second. This is a view held by most religious people and has how our secular nation has worked for hundreds of years we are simply re affirming this. As we are concerned with the education an invigoration of our people we are also distrusting of any organisation which denies that which is proven fact by science and as in the case of the question of allegiance, seeks to impose its own moral code and truths. 

 

Our view on the question of Islam in Britain is an altogether volatile and very complex affair. In short we do believe that Islam can exist in our vision for Britain that is under a few reasonable conditions that we expect of all religions. Islam is in its essence no different to any of the other Abrahamic faiths; the difference being Islam is a far more recent addition to our shores. Though one can read through the Qur'an and regularly encounter some fairly disturbing and violent passages the same could be said of the bible or the tanakh which for instance preach that adultery is punishable by death.  

 

But the latter religions historically have been able to better adapt to the national frame work and become subservient or have been able to influence the laws of the land and the interests of the state, again historically. We believe that religion can exist so long as it does not work against the nation, therefore service to the nation, and the uphold of British civilization should, to the individual be the only higher authority in the public domain, religion can only exist as a personal private institution. When religions like radical Islam or fundamental Christianity do spill out into the real world they cause no end of problems because when radical Islam or Christianity becomes an internationalist and sectional self interest in its own right it becomes a challenging power to the interests of the state.  

 

What we therefore have to distinguish between is the two Islam’s; one the political radical Islam, a sectional interest that seeks to only further its own interests and establish our nation as an Islamic state, the other a personal doctrine whereby the individual’s loyalty to Islam is secondary to that of loyalty to Britain and  British society as a whole. Thus we are not to be confused with the rest of Britain’s ‘nationalist’ groups who use the issue in a vote winning and calculating way that reflects their bigotry. Parties like those damage our cause for their own gains because everyone knows that when the now more politically correct nationalist groups say ‘Muslims’ they really mean Pakistani’s, regardless of faith.  Thus making the issue untouchable, as it is now assumed when the ‘far right’ talk about religion they mean race hate. Clearly the BNP chairman had no qualms with Islam when he went to stay in Libya at Colonel Kaddafi’s expense to raise funds for the National Front on part of his ‘anti-Zionist’ credentials.  

 

Until this supposed clash of civilizations came about, religion was somewhat dormant as a force in British politics, what we must accept therefore the current political climate is a product of ‘political Islam’ when is started demanding special privileges, burning flags and handing out fatwa’s. The reason political Islam has manifested itself is the inherent weakness in liberal democracy. Those being, firstly that we must respect and endorse views we do not agree with as an equally valid opinion to our own, in the customary tradition of British far play which is degraded and exploited in this way, whilst along those lines, the animosity one would normally receive for preventing another from speaking has to been warped whereby those who speak out against this are branded as ‘Islamophobes’, true to the double standards of liberal democracy.  

 

Secondly because the very system of liberal democracy encourages sectionalism, there is at present no pressure to be British and assimilate to our cultural, traditional values, Muslims are encouraged to take what they do in the mosques into public life and hold onto their values protected by the shield of religious belief which is beyond criticism. All this is exacerbated by a culture in which the individual expresses what they should think instead of what they do think, to a point where every play, radio broadcast, article, film, and television programme must be measured against the reaction of radical Islam.  

 

This has to stop because we and British society will not tolerate it any longer. So what is our solution? Its simple, That Muslims be given a choice, loyalty to Britain and respect for British values, or loyalty to international Islam and adherence to Jihadist barbarism the latter will lose their British citizenship because we will not allow ourselves to be subjugated in this manner.  

 

The interpretation of the Qur'an would ideally be one of universal Sufism, to disregard the old Islamic ideals of international brotherhood and the forced violent islamification of the host nation, emphasising instead the spiritual and mystical aspects of Islam and a peaceful coexistence with the rest of society. Our fundamental belief is that our nation must be unified and we must establish a sense of community, wherein the greatest significance in individual life is to endorse Britain, any religious body must work with us within these confines or it is technically against us. There is no excuse why Muslims or any other religious groups cannot be all they can to Britain, when Britain has been all they can to them. We are proud of how accommodating the British character is and we hope Britain’s patriotic; British Muslims can join us in that pride and reap the fruits of a unified strong Britain.