Melanie Phillips, (do you know Melanie Phillips?), she’s a Jewish journalist. She is a very sharp lady. She writes some very incisive articles some of which are basically backing up the Christian worldview in much better ways than the bishops of the Church of England do.
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Melanie Phillips (you know Melanie Phillips), she’s a Jewish journalist. She is a very sharp lady. She writes some very incisive articles some of which are basically backing up the Christian worldview in much better ways than the bishops of the Church of England do.
She wrote an article back in August 2024 called Britain’s Multicultural Disaster. I’ll quote a few things from her article. She said,
The murder last week of three little girls aged six, seven and nine at a school in Southport, in a stabbing attack by the British-born son of Rwandan immigrants which left several others injured, detonated the beginning of some of the most serious rioting seen in Britain for years.
Britain’s multicultural disaster – Melanie Phillips
Inflamed by false accounts spread on social media that the attacker was a Syrian Muslim asylum-seeker and that he was on an MI6 watch list, violent mobs in Southport rioted, attacked a local mosque and left more than 50 police officers injured.
Since then, increasingly violent clashes have ensued in around a dozen cities. Whipped up by agitators such as Stephen Lennon (aka “Tommy Robinson”) and other influencers, anti-immigrant mobs attacked mosques and horrifyingly tried to set fire to a hostel for asylum-seekers, with Muslim mobs in turn seeking out white people to attack. In Bolton, Muslim groups shouting “Allahu akhbar” clashed with anti-Muslim rioters. A mob in Middlesbrough shouted “smash the p—s” and “there ain’t no black in the Union Jack” while targeting the homes of migrants, while footage on social media from elsewhere in the city appeared to show groups of Asian men attacking white men.
This is the result of years of ignoring the incendiary twin developments of mass immigration and progressive Islamisation, which I wrote about in my 2006 book Londonistan and which have got so much worse since then.
There’s been a remorseless series of attacks by Muslim extremists. After the 7/7 London bombings that killed 52 people in July 2005, the attack in 2017 on an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester killed 22 and injured more than a thousand. Eight people were murdered and 48 injured in the London Bridge attack a month later. In 2021, a teacher in Batley, West Yorkshire, went into hiding for his life after showing an image of Muhammad to his pupils in a lesson about the limits of free speech; he is still in hiding.
In hiding and fearing for his life. Melanie says these and other such incidents are never discussed honestly.
The issue of Muslim aggression is ignored or censored. Problems with the Islamic religion or culture are regarded as taboo. Anyone who does speak plainly about such issues is immediately ‘hung out to dry’ as ‘right-wing’ or ‘far-right’ which are the incoherent labels that are fixed on anyone who contradicts left-wing dogma in order to stigmatize and silence them as social pariahs.
This is not to excuse what has happened in the riots, the anti-immigrant violence has been appalling, but this is a tinder box that has been constructed for years and under successive administrations starting with Tony Blair’s government which set out to transform the country into a multicultural society through mass immigration.
Now, at this point, you may be hearing screams of horror; you may even feel horrified yourself, I don’t know. There are screams of horror from the Left with accusations of racism and even of fascism for questioning mass immigration and multiculturalism. They’ll say this is intolerant and bordering on fascism, but you find that they are often totally intolerant themselves and they seem to want a totally totalitarian regime in which no one else can disagree with them.
So, Melanie Phillips goes on to say,
Multiculturalism, for the benefit of those who have been asleep inside a cocoon for the past several decades, is not the template for a tolerant society. Tolerance of other cultures and ethnicities should be a given in any civilised country. Multiculturalism, by contrast, is a doctrine which says all cultures must be deemed to have values that are no better or worse than any other. Multiculturalism therefore makes it impossible for a western society to require new arrivals to conform to its precepts such as equality for women, freedom of speech and tolerance of minorities.
Britain’s multicultural disaster – Melanie Phillips
We could add a few things to that. We could say it makes it impossible for us to assert the primacy of the Christian faith as the basis for the laws and values of this society, an influence upon which our history and culture are based.
Multiculturism teaches that all gods are equal and that we’re being discriminatory if we say that God meant it when he gave the Ten Commandments saying you shall have no other gods before me. In other words, the God of the Bible is the unique God.
The New Testament tells us there is One God and One Mediator between God and humanity, Jesus Christ, who said,
“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14.6
The Bible also tells us that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again from the dead to give forgiveness of sin and eternal life to all those who repent and believe the Gospel.
If you believe that’s true and it’s important, then you have to stand on that truth and you’ll find that people who are of other faiths don’t believe it. Whoever accepts this and teaches this has a big issue when it comes to the multifaith and the multicultural agenda.
Being a believing Christian means we can’t call Muhammad ‘the prophet Muhammad’ because in our terms, he’s not a prophet of God. We have to say this because the Quran, whose origin is attributed the revelations given to Muhammad by Allah, denies the central Christian message that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, equal with the Father, who died for our sins and rose again from the dead to give forgiveness and eternal life to all believers.
Now, according to 1 John Chapter 2, this makes the message of the Quran one that is ‘Antichrist’.
1 John 2.22 says,
22 Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. 23 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also. 1 John 2.22-23
Therefore, basically, it’s one or the other. You cannot accept that Muhammad and what the Quran says is true and that the Bible is true at the same time, because they contradict, they exclude each other.
If you believe that the Bible is true, then you have to stand on the truth of the Bible, and you have to resist the advances of Islam, especially if it wants to enforce its religion upon us.
We also see that there’s been a huge influence in this country of yoga and Hinduism. In fact, many of the sort of comfortable middle-class people around here practice yoga as their form of ‘spirituality’, and it has taken over much of the religious life of our country.
Yoga is based upon a wrong principle, based upon the principle that you can discover God within yourself through meditation and doing these exercises.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi says,
Man is divine the inner man is fully Divine. Be still and know that you are God. When you know that you are God you’ll begin to live godhood.”
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi – Founder of Transcendental Meditation
Swami Muktananda, another Yogi, a teacher who brought the tradition of Siddha Yoga to the West says in his teachings,
Kneel to your own self. Honour and worship your own being. God dwells within you as You!
Swami Muktananda – Founder of Siddha Yoga
So, can we take that teaching as equal to what the Bible says? Can we? Certainly not!
The Bible says that God doesn’t dwell within you as you. The Bible actually says that within you and within me there dwells a sinful human nature. Paul wrote of himself,
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. Romans 7.18
Therefore, if I look within me to find God, I find a sinful human nature which I need to be set free from through repentance and faith in Jesus. And I have to ask God to come from outside of my life into my life through accepting Jesus as personal Saviour.
So you have these ideas which are put to us and we’re supposed to say that they’re all equal. But they’re not. One is true, the other is not true.
Yet, even that doesn’t mean that we should hate Muslims and Hindus of course not. Even if we see a hostility to our faith, Jesus told us to love our enemies.
43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbour and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. Matthew 5.43-45
But it does mean we can’t put their religions on the same level as biblical faith in Jesus the Messiah either. What we believe is true or what they believe is true, but they can’t be equally true.
I hope you can see that this is all relevant to the whole issue of multiculturalism because, going back to what Melanie Phillips said, multiculturalism
… is therefore a recipe for the destruction of the west — and indeed of society itself, since it effectively produces tribes warring against each other for power and supremacy, creating divisions which destroy a unified society. Far from producing racial harmony, multiculturalism is a formula for racial and ethnic hatred and worse.
Britain’s multicultural disaster – Melanie Phillips
For years, some of us warned that the wilful destruction of British and western culture, the deliberate concealment of what was happening and the denigration and harassment of anyone who objected would not only destroy social cohesion but risked a violent backlash from neo-Nazis, thugs and agitators of various stripes (and the rise of “populist” politicians) alongside ordinary people who had simply had enough. That’s what we’re now seeing playing out on the streets of Britain.
Today, I have to say, I totally agree with that statement; it is what you can see happening.