Scimitar-filled Vacuum

Clear-sighted Anglican Bishop, Michael Nazir-Ali (the one with the temerity to speak of "no-go zone" Muslim enclaves), now speaks again with insight. From the article:

...the "social and sexual" revolution of the 1960s had led to a steep decline in the influence of Christianity over society which church leaders had failed to resist.

He said that in its place, Britain had become gripped by the doctrine of "endless self-indulgence" which had led to the destruction of family life, rising levels of drug abuse and drunkenness and mindless violence on the streets.

The bishop warns that the modern politicians' catchphrases of respect and tolerance will not be strong enough to prevent this collapse of traditional virtues, and said radical Islam is now moving in to fill the void created by the decline of Christianity.

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The influence of the Gospel was, as historian Hilaire Belloc said, the defining element of the West. "The Faith is Europe. And Europe is the Faith." When this departs, it is only two or three generations before a culture reverts to the recrudescence of what René Girard called "the primitive Sacred." Surely not at a culture's center, which will hold for a while; but at its fraying edges.

The bishop is right: into the vacuum left by the rejection of the Christian faith enters, in this case, the Scimitar. And by all criteria of which I am acquainted, the Scimitar is ostensibly an expression of the primitive Sacred, regardless of its proponents' claims to revelation.

"By their fruits you shall know them."

UPDATE: You've seen it elsewhere, but for the record: The COE opines that England will be a Muslim state w/in 30 years.