❤Christ, a refugee, our Prince of Peace, a beloved Jew loved by Muslims alongside Mary, should not be used as a symbol of hate. Christ is also forgiving, and who are we to say whether everyone holding the cross was doing so with Islamophobic intentions. Christ is for everyone. Does anyone know who supplied the crosses?
I am a bit shocked by the lack of empathy for the English, Welsh and Scottish people about rapid demographic change. It is historically unusual and would not be tolerated in most countries, and quite violently opposed at that. I myself am worried, and not even about Islam but general chaos, crime and decline.
At the same time, part of the current situation we've found ourselves in stems from Christian ethics that have contributed to it. I do not see an easy way to reconcile this and am personally struggling.
I attended the event and found every group I encountered (civnats, ethnats, pro immigrant groups) to be made up of mostly friendly people. If you take anything from this, take that away. Friendly, broken people trying to make sense of the world.
My conclusion is the UK is fragmented beyond recognition. There are so many ideologies and identities flying around at once, it makes the landscape hard to read and difficult to find "your people." It is very confusing.
My innate sense is that it is untenable and that eventually people will form into groups just for sanity and stabilise there. They may be religious, ethnic, or ideological.
A helpful encapsulation of this cacophony is something I saw on Twitter: Black users arguing over the event. One side was calling the other "Uncle Toms" for siding with "racists"; the other described themselves as British patriots. Then white users intervened intermittently, either claiming black people cannot be British, or expressing preference for patriotic Black people over English/Welsh/Scottish liberals. 🤣😲❤ what a time.