Thousands of English joining the religion of Muhammad

An article published in a magazine called Radiance Weekly in March 2004 (posted at Free Republic) estimates that 14,000 English white people have converted to Islam. Many converts have been inspired by the writings of Charles Le Gai Eaton, a former Foreign Office diplomat and author of Islam and the Destiny of Man, who says:

I have received letters from people who are put off by the wishy-washy standards of contemporary Christianity and they are looking for a religion which does not compromise too much with the modern world.

Now isn’t that amazing? In the name of modern values such as secularism, equality, tolerance, and unlimited personal freedom, the British gave up their Christianity, or, rather, turned it into watered-down left-liberalism; they gave up their national identity, one of the oldest and proudest in the world; they gave up their traditional English ethos, an object of admiration to the whole world; and they gave up their racial identity as a white country. And in the process of giving up everything they have ever been for the sake of secularism, equality, tolerance, and unlimited personal freedom, they let in and welcomed millions of unassimilable Muslims, whose non-secular, non-egalitarian, unfree, and intolerant religion now attracts many Britons who are looking for something solid and moral to give structure and meaning to their empty lives!

All of which leads to an obvious question: if the Britons’ wholesale abandonment of their traditional British ethos and identity for the sake of liberalism was going to end with their adopting the Islamic ethos and identity, why the hell didn’t they simply hold onto their own in the first place?

Posted by Lawrence Auster at October 29, 2005 12:00 AM | Send