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London About To Elect Muslim Mayor — Who Defends Islamists........
Breitbart ^ | 3 May 2016 | Raheem Kassam

Posted on 05/04/2016 9:42:27 AM PDT by Cheerio

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The following is an extract from a speech made by the Prince of Wales in 2013:

For myself, I have for some time now been deeply troubled by the growing difficulties faced by Christian communities in various parts of the Middle East. It seems to me that we cannot ignore the fact that Christians in the Middle East are, increasingly, being deliberately targeted by fundamentalist Islamist militants. Christianity was, literally, born in the Middle East and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ. Their church communities link us straight back to the early Church, as I was reminded by hearing Aramaic, Our Lord's own language, spoken and sung a few hours ago.

Yet, today, the Middle East and North Africa has the lowest concentration of Christians in the world – just four per cent of the population and it is clear that the Christian population of the Middle East has dropped dramatically over the last century and is falling still further.

This has an effect on all of us, although, of course, primarily on those Christians who can no longer continue to live in the Middle East: we all lose something immensely and irreplaceably precious when such a rich tradition dating back two thousand years begins to disappear. It is, therefore, especially delightful to see such a rich panoply of church life here to-day, including the Antiochian, Greek, Coptic, Syrian, and Armenian Orthodox Churches, the Melkite, Maronite, Syrian Catholic, Chaldean, and Roman Catholic Churches, as well as the Church of the East, and Churches established, dare I say it, somewhat more recently, including the Anglican Church!

Not surprisingly, this speech did not get a lot of publicity. The left wing media delights in presenting a caricature of the Prince of Wales to the world. They do this by ignoring many of the things he says unless they push their particular agenda (meaning his environmentalism - one of the few areas he is on their side on - gets a lot publicity) or unless they can be spun to make him look foolish. They do this because he is fundamentally a conservative and they like making conservatives look like fools.

I'm not happy about the way the London election looks like going, but it's largely down to the fact that the voters are likely to go Labour rather than Conservative this time, simply because of the inertia of change - and the Labour candidate happens to be Muslim.

61 posted on 05/05/2016 11:44:32 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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