Weakened by Marxism, the Church is helpless before militant Islam
The call to prayer, in Arabic, is blaring. Bearded proselytisers of a Salafist sect offer free copies of the Koran to London’s uninitiated. Significantly, the stall is located outside the famous St John the Evangelist church at Waterloo. This beacon of Christian hope (the Greco-Roman neoclassical structure was destroyed in the Blitz and rebuilt after the war) has become a vibrant cultural centre, with classical concerts – and multi-faith events. Recently an imam was invited to preach the word told to Mohammed (PBUH). We suspect that the liberal St John’s would welcome the recruitment to Islam outside their gate, and that anyone who complained would be straying from the path of virtue.
Since Matthew Arnold’s poem Dover Beach, the tide has continued to ebb further from our shores. The withdrawal of Christianity from Western society has left a vacuum that Marxism failed to fill, but Douglas Murray’s controversial book The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity and Islam leaves no doubt about what will replace our Judeo-Christian heritage. The church could be a bastion of continuity in a changing world, but its leaders’ immersion in left-wing ideology has undermined defences to the great tide of Islam. That the usurper has little in common with egalitarian socialism – or with Christianity – is irrelevant, but it’s a mass movement with the force to overturn the ancien regime.
Thirty years ago, one of us (RW) penned a series of articles in the Salisbury Review on the creep of Marxism into the clerical establishment. Subversive entryism was made possible by a compromised Christian leadership, despite stark warnings by some notable critics. We should remember them for their struggle, and for their words of wisdom amidst a fudge of relativism. With a few exceptions such as Bishop Nazir-Ali (before he resigned), the Church of England lacks such correctives today.
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