Rise in Muslim numbers worries Church
http://www.bnp.org.uk/news_detail.php?newsId=442
5th August 2005
The rise in the number of Muslims has raised
concern amongst church leaders that the country
could one day become a Muslim majority nation.
The afore mentioned church leaders are not the
supine Archbishops of the Anglican Church and the
country is not the UK, it is in fact the largest
nation on the planet- Russia and the church
leaders are from the Orthodox Church.
According to a leading Muslim the number
practicing Islamic faiths in Russia is well over
50% more than the official census. The last
Russian census in 2002 reported that 14.5million
(10%) of the total Russian population of 144
million classed themselves as Muslims but
according to estimates by Ravil Gaynutdin,
chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia, there
are 23 Muslims (16%) in Russia. Gaynutdin was
speaking in Moscow on Wednesday at a meeting of
the European Union of Muslims which was dedicated
to counteracting extremism.
Indigenous residents
“They are indigenous residents of our country,
they are not migrants or immigrants and have been
living here from time immemorial,” Gaynutdin said.
He went on to say that “the number of people
professing Islam in Russia is constantly growing”.
Gaynutdin also condemned acts of terror
“propagated under the name of Islam.”
Differing birth rates
Russia is home to an estimated 4 million refugees
from ethnic clashes in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan,
Tajikistan and Chechnya but there has been growth
in the number of European ethnic Russians, as well
as Ukrainians and Belarussians adopting Islam,
mirroring a similar trend in the UK and western
Europe. A spiritual void due to the collapse of
traditional church values and the growth in
morally damaging consumerism are believed to be
forces driving young middle class professionals
towards Islam. This together with a fall in the
ethnic Russian birth rate while Islamic migrants
maintain a higher birth rate is worrying Orthodox
leaders.
The growth of Islam in Russia has spiralled since
the collapse of the Stalinist Soviet Union. In
1991 there were 500 mosques throughout the former
Soviet Union, in Russia alone, 14 years on there
are an estimated 5,000 mosques and Moscow is home
to about 1.5 Muslims. One expert on Islam suggests
that within 50 years Russia could be a Muslim
society.
Cultural clash
The clash of civilisations is brewing along fault
lines from Pennine Lancashire and London through
the major cities of western Europe to the southern
borders of Russia with on one hand European
scientific progress, innovation and its cultural
basis in democracy, equality of the .es and
freedom of thought pitted against the Islamic
culture of intellectual repression, concentrating
power in the hands of a misogynistic theocracy.
While we in the BNP are principally concerned
about the growing influence of Islam on our own
shores, we have to look to our closely related
kinfolk on the continent and beyond and watch
carefully the battle lines being drawn up in what
is clearly a cultural clash of civilisations. How
the Dutch, Spanish and Russians deal with their
own growing Islamic populations who seek tolerance
for their faith, while at the same time demanding
change and concessions should be observed with
interest by all Britons who are concerned that we
are losing a cultural war against the forces of
Islam.
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Jim
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Western_Nationalist
Union Against Multi-culty
"Abolish Multi-Culty and String Up The Traitors!"
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