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Some years ago I realised that the IRA and their mainland bombing campaign were heading for defeat. They planted a bomb in a litter bin in Warrington. Just what they hoped to achieve by blowing up Warrington was quite beyond me, since the locals could generally be relied upon to come close to that every Saturday night.
Now we read that a radicalised Muslim, with “a history of mental illness”, has planted a bomb in a restaurant in Exeter. I have been to Exeter and its not as charming as you might think. Quite what an exercise like this can possibly achieve is known only in the dimmest recesses of the mind of the most gullible Muslim – admittedly there may be plenty of them.
The IRA cruelly killed a small child, all to no avail. In Exeter, mercifully, only the bomber himself has been injured. No doubt the Madrasah’s in Pakistan will hope to keep the grants flowing in and keep themselves in the no doubt lucrative business of turning lowest common denominators into grade A student radicals. Its hard to see who else is benefiting from this pyrotechnic pantomime.
Well said Cranmer! Oh that our real active Archbishops were so insightful.
His expose of “religio-politics or politico-religiosity” points out an interesting week for Gordon Brown. He examines Browns “messianic vision ” as outlined in his address to the Church of Scotland. He has made his point in his first sything paragraph.
“It is ironic that the week during which Gordon Brown has legislated for animal/hybrid embryos, saviour siblings, 24-week abortion, and the eradication of fatherhood, that he should have prefaced this perverse amoral agenda with a speech in which he outlined his ‘moral vision’.”
But he continues to good effect. He is dismissive of all the usual moralising drivel that Brown spouts but seems particularly cutting of Brown’s soft-peddling on Islam and the way he equates it to Christianity.
“He appears to have read the same bowdlerised Penguin edition of the Qur’an as Mr & Mrs Blair.”
At a time when terrorism is as rife in the world as it has ever been (such that the UN fears for a dirty bomb attack on the Olympics), rife to such a degree that Browns own government plans to circumscribe our freedoms in draconian fashion, Brown can persuade himself that circumstances now make “possible for the first time in history something we have only dreamt about: the creation of a truly global society.” Cranmer points to more of this guff. Following on from Brown’s speech to the liberal glitterati in Massachusetts it is illustrative of how he continues to move his fantasy divisions from the fantasy bunker he inhabits in his head.
Pointedly Cranmer points out that at this Church of Scotland gathering “there were no references to Jesus, no mention of God, and scant references to Scripture” in Browns remarks. Brown is in far too much trouble with his backbenchers for those.
Its an interesting picture that Cranmer chooses to illustrate his point.
Is that the Sword of Damocles I see hanging over Browns head?
