NOVAE MILITIAE

Well, here is a classic example. Time Out is one of those myriad of arts and entertainment mags devoted to the cultural backwaters of liberal/leftism. Occasionally such rags take a stab at serious political writing, and the following is an example of what can happen when these folks decide to reveal that they are out of their depth. The author of this "piece" is some wisp posing as a male named Michael Hodges:

Is London's future Islamic?

It’s the capital’s fastest growing religion, based on noble traditions and compassionate principles, yet Islam can still be tainted by mistrust and misunderstanding. Here Time Out argues that an Islamic London would be a better place. . . .

For a start, Islam is not an alien religion to London. At the end of World War I the city sat at the heart of an Empire that had 160 million Muslim subjects, 80 million in India alone. London was the largest Islamic capital in the world. Forty years later and the end of the Empire, unrest and war and poverty in south Asia had lead to mass immigration to the mother country and London became a Muslim capital in another sense. . . .

Public health

On the surface, Islamic health doesn’t look good: the 2001 census showed that 24 per cent of Muslim women and 21 per cent of Muslim men suffered long-term illness and disability. But these are factors of social conditions rather than religion. In fact, Islam offers Londoners potential health benefits: the Muslim act of prayer is designed to keep worshippers fit, their joints supple and, at five times a day, their stomachs trim. The regular washing of the feet and hands required before prayers promotes public hygiene and would reduce the transmission of superbugs in London’s hospitals.

Alcohol is haram, or forbidden, to Muslims. As London is above the national average for alcohol-related deaths in males, with 17.6 per 100,000 people (Camden has 31.6 per 100,000 males), turning all the city’s pubs into juice bars would have a massive positive effect on public health. Forbid alcohol throughout the country, and you’d avoid many of the 22,000 alcohol-related deaths and the £7.3 billion national bill for alcohol-related crime and disorder each year.

Ecology

‘The world is green and beautiful,’ said the prophet Muhammad, ‘and Allah has appointed you his guardian over it.’ The Islamic concept of halifa or trusteeship obliges Muslims to look after the natural world and Muhammad was one of the first ever environmentalists, advocating hima – areas where wildlife and forestry are protected. So we could expect more public parks under Islam, but halifa also applies to recycling: in 2006, 12,000 Muslims attended a series of sermons at the East London Mosque explaining the theological evidence for a link between behaving in an environmentally sustainable way and the Islamic faith.

Social justice

Each Muslim is obliged to pay zakat, a welfare tax of 2.5 per cent of annual income, that is distributed to the poor and the needy. If the working population of London, 5.2 million, was predominantly Muslim this would produce approximately £3.2bn each year. More importantly, everyone would be obliged to consider those Londoners who haven’t shared their good fortune. London would become a little less cruel.

And so forth, and so on. The entire article can be read at:

http://www.timeout.com/london/features/2993.html .

This is the cultural version of AIDS, and Brits who love their country should be doing everything in their power to rid themselves of this disease.  Assuming they have time, that is; it might already be too late.  Brits, the heirs of a culture rivaling the cultures of the Jews and the Greeks and the Romans:  rise to the occasion!  Do something,  damn you!  Read the psalm in the blog entry below.  "There is always hope!"

http://novaemilitiae.squarespace.com/periodic-musings-blog/2005/12/15/aragorns-rage.html

From the Psalter of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer:

http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/?p=106#more-106

And the United States and Europe need to do the same.  Once again, hats off to Larry Auster:

http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/007973.html

First, this flag was the flag of the Republic of West Florida, the flag of those who revolted first against the Spaniards.  The republic, alas, was only later to be annexed by the United States.  Then adopted by the Texans as the "Lone Star."  Next, the unofficial flag of the Confederacy.

The flag stands for sovereignty.  First, the lone individual in his sovereign individuality.  Then, the lone state in its sovereignty.  The message communicated by this flag is that it is the individual and his republic who stand above the government of any confederation or union. It is an express denial of empire.

Read my lips, "Dubya."  You have betrayed every principle of the Founding Fathers, every principle of the Republic for which they stood, and, paradoxically , every principle of the Republic of Texas.