Why don't all these disaffected Brits convert to Christianity instead?
Why don't all these disaffected Brits convert to Christianity instead?
Melanie McDonagh
http://www.spectator.co.uk/
January 10, 2011
Why is it that the young folk revolted by contemporary excess don't simply make for the local CofE, or Catholic church, and rediscover the religion of their grandmothers, rather than getting their spirituality via Islam? It is, I think, something to do with the real malaise of contemporary Britain.
So, it seems that Lauren Booth, sister-in-law to Tony Blair, isn't so much a slightly tiresome attention seeker as bang on trend. By converting to Islam, as she very publicly did last year, she's put a face to the growing numbers of white Britons who have become Muslims, a group that last week was estimated at 100,000. Her scapegrace father, Tony Booth, unhelpfully suggested that because her mother was Jewish, the conversion didn't really count, but it would be hard to make that argument stick.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Melanie McDonagh
http://www.spectator.co.uk/
January 10, 2011
Why is it that the young folk revolted by contemporary excess don't simply make for the local CofE, or Catholic church, and rediscover the religion of their grandmothers, rather than getting their spirituality via Islam? It is, I think, something to do with the real malaise of contemporary Britain.
So, it seems that Lauren Booth, sister-in-law to Tony Blair, isn't so much a slightly tiresome attention seeker as bang on trend. By converting to Islam, as she very publicly did last year, she's put a face to the growing numbers of white Britons who have become Muslims, a group that last week was estimated at 100,000. Her scapegrace father, Tony Booth, unhelpfully suggested that because her mother was Jewish, the conversion didn't really count, but it would be hard to make that argument stick.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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