Freedom of religion is dying in Britain

After a period of religious conflict in this country Queen Elizabeth I is famously quoted as saying she had "no desire to make windows into men's souls". She understood how to let people with different, but strongly held faiths, coexist and live in peace.

Now we find the freedom to organise your religion in accordance with you conscience is no longer the right of an Englishman. Examples today are:

1. An adjudicator appointed by Exeter University has ruled that is would be okay for a Muslim to become leader of a Christian society ( in this case the CU), as any restriction on membership based on professed faith cannot be allowed. What this in effect means is that any minority religion can be crushed on campus by the majority. It presumably also means all the Christian Union members could join another religious society and use it against the faith is claims to profess. This is just madness - and of course political correctness fuelled by the intolerance and anti-Christian hatred of the National Union of Socialists Students. In other Universities aggressive anti-Christian campaigns have been mounted - of a type no one would dare to carry out against other religions.
2. The Bishop of Hereford has lost an employment tribunal for refusing to employ a man whose views disagree with the teaching and traditions of the church over 2000 years.

Now the courts and Universities decide which parts of the Christian faith are acceptable and legal - when at the same time the law is broken to allow a cow with TB to avoid slaughter and no one dares say anything about Islam.

These measures are all clearly related to left wing politics in the UK and NuLabour in particular. I don't see how any Christian, who professes the faith either of the Church of England or the Catholic church can be a member of or vote for these oppressors of traditional English religious freedom.

Malaysia's muslim establishment seems to lack faith

The Malaysian government, in direct contradiction to its constitution, will not allow a woman to have her conversion from Islam to Christianity legally accepted.

What kind of faith needs that sort of protection ? They clearly don't really believe in a God - or if they do they must imagine he's impotent and unable to act for himself, or influence individuals.

Its suggests Islam is not a religion in Malaysia, but something different that is weak and needs this form of oppression to protect it.

Convert to Islam by Thursday or die !

Christian minorities in parts of the Muslim world are simultaneously coming under violent pressure to convert to Islam, leave or be killed.

Specifically Christians in North West Pakistan are coming under pressure to covert, leave or die, and they have till Thursday to make up their minds. This story has finally broken with the BBC here ...

The Barnabas fund has articles on this here:

Threats to Pakistani Christians.
Threats to Iraqi Christians.
The gang rape of a Pakistani Christian girl.
The sadistic torture and brutal execution of Christians in Turkey.

You have to wonder if this isn't coordinated. There are no end of countries lining up to defend Muslims - where are the the western world when it need to defend Christians ?

By the way the people I'm really impressed by are the wives of the men tortured then murdered in Turkey who have forgiven their husbands killers, because that is what their faith demands.

Tilman’s widow, Suzanne Geske, was interviewed on Turkish television, where she explained that she intended to remain in Malatya with her four children. As Jesus prayed forgiveness for those who crucified him, she said “so I am going to forgive the people who took the life of my husband because, truly, they do not know what they were doing. They were fed many lies about what and who Christians are, and I am going to stay here to show them that I forgive them.” Necati’s widow has also publicly forgiven the killers.

Now that is real faith and no small amount of personal bravery.