Stephen Cottrell, the Archbishop of York, also standing in for Canterbury too has been in the press: Archbishop criticises Reform's Farage over 'knee-jerk' UK asylum plans. He's saying:
- The Reform party's mass deportation policy will cause more problems than it solves
- Reform have nothing that will deal with the underlying root causes anyway
- The left are doubling down to maintain a dubious narrative to undermine proper dialogue
- The right, in his terms - Islam, are not interested in the values of the west(whatever they might be)
The biggest surprise for me is that someone in a high seat is finally making a bold stand against the narrative by pointing out that Islam, at the core, typifies Nationalism*1. Yet the left, who use the racist and fascist card on a whim*2, are saying nothing about it curiously. One has to assume that some nationalists are more equal than others.
Such is the nature of Nationalism, which we can see playing out strongly here.
What's even more surprising is everyone else, who are neither left wing or islamic, often get called 'the far right' or 'racist' as a political slur, are not pointing it out either! Its just like Israel and the Jews not pointing out how their own civil rights are being trampled on by the left. Very strange.
Notes:
- I'm not saying that Nationalism is a good or bad thing, that Islam is right or wrong for being a nationalist ideology or that something should or should not be done about it. I am saying it is what it is.
- What language will we have left to use to convey meaning under extreme difficulty when a de facto fascist or racist appears to take over I wonder - the wolf cried long ago?