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.
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