St Paul’s Cathedral has not as yet physically erected the joint crescent-and-cross symbol – but it has done so figuratively. In 2019, St Paul’s held its first (but not last) “interfaith iftar” there, iftar being the ritual feast Muslims hold to break fasting after sunset during Ramadan.
How is it possible to have an “interfaith” iftar? It is a specifically Islamic ceremony. It would be like having an “interfaith” Black Mass for Buddhists. How long before St Paul’s goes the way of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople/Istanbul and is forcibly transformed into a mosque outright?
In 2017, meanwhile, as part of what the Archbishop of Canterbury laughably called “a clearly Christian service”, an all-girl Islamic choir sang a nasheed hymn with the equally “clearly Christian” title Insha Allah within the central space of St Paul’s.
A moving part of a service marking the #Grenfell tragedy which affected so many. These children were welcome contributors to a clearly Christian service where we showed the healing love of Christ to all; Blessed are those who mourn. Matt 5:4
— Archbishop of Canterbury (@JustinWelby) December 15, 2017
When, do you think, Finsbury Park mosque will return the interfaith favour by hosting an all-Christian girl’s choir to sing the “clearly Muslim” song Onwards, Christian Soldiers? As long ago as 2008, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, sparked controversy after proclaiming that, thanks to demographic changes, the adoption of certain aspects of sharia law across Britain in years to come was “unavoidable”, a prospect he appeared to welcome. According to the Arch-Imam:
“It’s not as if we’re bringing in an alien and rival system; we already have in this country a number of situations in which the internal law of religious communities is recognised by the law of the land … There is a place for finding what would be a constructive accommodation with some aspects of Muslim law as we already do with some kinds of aspects of other religious law.”
Straight from the lying mouth of Lord Ivywood.
His story is not history
The most amusing character in Chesterton’s novel is Misysra Ammon, the “Prophet of the Moon”, a loony autodidact engaged by Lord Ivywood to give ridiculous lectures to High Society, arguing England was really always Islamic, so that to embrace Islamisation was simply for the land to re-embrace its historic lost Muslim identity. To “prove” this, Ammon rewrites history shamelessly. Amongst other things …
- Englishmen eat turkey on Christmas Day in honour of the identically named “Country of the Servant of the Prophet”.
- The English language contains various words beginning with “Al”, the Arabic language word for “the”, as in Alhambra or algebra: for instance “Alsop’s Beer” and “Albert Memorial”.
- Horse-shoes are U-shaped in imitation of the crescent moon of Islam, a truth lost during the temporary period when Britain was “oppressed by the passing superstition of the Galileans.”
- Noughts and Crosses was an Eastern invention, and originally called Noughts and Crescents; likewise, the mathematical “plus sign” was not always a cross, but a crescent moon, a “hygienic curve” soon to be rightfully reintroduced.
Chesterton was having great fun here, but unfortunately his jokes once more later came true. Consider the touring international museum exhibition 1001 Islamic Inventions, which began in Manchester, now an English city with a very large and growing Muslim population, in 2006, with the aim of convincing the world that all wonders actually invented by white Christians were truly invented by black and brown Muslims, even up to and including the Rubik’s Cube (not a joke, the exhibition really said this). As I once wrote elsewhere:
“Muslims also invented human flight, rather than the Wright Brothers, because in the ninth century a man named Abbas ibn Firnas strapped a special cloak to himself like Batman and jumped off the top of a tall mosque. He immediately plummeted to the ground and sustained “minor injuries” rather than actually flying but, nonetheless, explained the exhibition’s book-catalogue, “For Muslims, flight has a spiritual dimension,” as in all those stories about magic carpets … Dams, glass, windmills, buildings, medicine, money, maths, geometry, art (albeit perhaps not human portraiture), libraries, bookshops, universities, towns, the countryside, paper, textiles, writing, agriculture, vaccines, clocks, music, cameras, the concept of personal hygiene, even the toothbrush—all were invented by Muslims. Five hundred years later, when white men from Colgate finally developed some toothpaste, this latter creation could at last be used.”
Misysra Ammon could not have done any better than that. And yet, despite being even more obviously fictional than the 1001 Nights, 1001 Islamic Inventions received money from leading British scientific charities like the Wellcome Trust and toured London’s Houses of Parliament, Brussels’ European Parliament and New York’s UN General Assembly buildings. Meanwhile, according to certain other Islamist ideologues, Muslims discovered America and wrote the US Constitution. How come it guarantees freedom of speech and religion, then? I hold these untruths to be self-evident. What a shame the West’s current ruling class don’t do likewise.
A very interesting Submission
The key thing Chesterton got wrong about the Islamic conquest of Britain was that it would necessitate secret military intervention. Another of Lord Ivywood’s schemes, of allowing voters to place a crescent rather than a cross on their ballot papers at elections so as to avoid causing offence, points towards the true way in which creeping Islamisation will occur: via the demographic conquest of mass immigration. As one character has it, these were to be the four stages of the British Empire: “Victory over barbarians. Employment of barbarians. Alliance with barbarians. Conquest by barbarians.”
To see how Islamic subjugation truly works in 2024 Britain, examine an extraordinary document of blackmail issued by electoral pressure group “Muslim Vote” to the country’s likely next PM, Keir Starmer, following May’s local elections, where Starmer’s Labour Party lost some council seats it had been expected to hold due to Muslim voters withholding support over Labour’s support for Israel. If Starmer wanted Britain’s estimated four million Muslim votes back, besides dropping support for the Jews, he would have to, effectively, adopt blasphemy laws (but only for Islam) through the back door, disingenuously redefine terrorism to Muslims’ specific advantage, spend more taxpayers’ cash on Muslim-populated areas than non-Muslim ones, and even help legally “Ensure insurance quotes don’t cost more for someone called ‘Muhammad’.” Makes Chesterton’s idea of a whole Turkish army hiding out somewhere in the English countryside quaint by comparison …
Far more realistic in this respect is another much more recent sort-of sci-fi novel about Western Islamisation, the French writer Michel Houellebecq’s 2015 book Submission, in which an Islamist President named Mohammed Ben Abbes takes over France simply by virtue of winning an election. Through to a presidential run-off against Marine Le Pen in a near-future ballot, France’s left-wing progressives make common cause with the nation’s millions of Muslims rather than stoop to vote for the supposed “Far-Right” candidate Le Pen.
The odd thing is, that when Ben Abbas does take power, as part of his own personal sharia he introduces a strange new post-capitalist (or, rather, pre-capitalist,) Islam-friendly, form of economic system called Distributism, whose original co-inventor was none other than … G.K. Chesterton!
Like Chesterton, Houellebecq too maintained he was satirising not Islam, but a degenerate progressive ruling class who may one day allow such an alien ideology to take the West over. Unlike Chesterton, however, the post-religious Houellebecq has said that “I would maintain that an alliance between Catholics and Muslims is possible” as a co-religious bulwark against the godless, post-religious, modern entropy that is currently swallowing and killing the West wholesale.
Does Chesterton’s posited fictional Chrislam have some viable real-life future to it after all? Thanks to the spineless Lord Ivywoods currently running Western civilisation into the ground, I fear we might be about to be forced to find out.
Was GKC a prophet? Or is it all exaggeration and panic?
Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer with over ten books to his name. His latest, Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science, comparing the woke pseudoscience of today to the totalitarian pseudoscience of the past, was released in 2023.
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