This was first published in AP here….
Islamic Call to Prayer in Government of Scotland
Could you imagine the newly elected Australian Prime Minister tweeting a video on Good Friday which showed the Islamic call to prayer being held in Government house? How would you feel? This is what happened in Scotland this Easter. The Scottish First Minister tweeted a boast about how the first Islamic call to prayer was done in Bute House (the government house) in Scotland.
Muslims break their fast at sunset with the call to prayer. Today, Sheikh Rabbani performed the call to prayer in Bute House with friends from across different faith communities.
Quite possibly the first time the Islamic call to prayer has been performed in Bute House! pic.twitter.com/xU4XwDZdln
— Humza Yousaf (@HumzaYousaf) March 28, 2024
Last year, at the same time, just after his election, he tweeted a photo of him and his all-male relatives, praying in the same building. What does it matter and why is it significant? What lessons, if any, are there to be learned for the Church in Australia? I think it is – and many others seem to agree – as evidenced by the almost 800,000 who read my tweet reporting on this extraordinary event.
To get the background to this you need to read about Islamism in Britain – https://www.christiantoday.com/article/islamism.in.britain.part.1.is.there.a.problem/141433.htm
And about the new hate crime legislation in Scotland.
What is the issue here? Surely this is about freedom of religion and religious tolerance? The problem is that the Islamic call to prayer is fundamentally intolerant. It says that there is no God but Allah and Muhammed is his prophet. All those who do not agree are excluded. No Christian would accept that the Islamic version of God is correct. We believe in the Trinity, which Muslims regard as blasphemous – and we believe that Jesus Christ is God – again that is anathema to Muslims.
Some will argue that this was an ‘interfaith event’ because people from different faiths were invited to observe this historic occasion. More fool them. The Islamic call to prayer specifically excludes their faiths. That may be logical and fair enough – but you cannot claim, as Humza Yousaf did, that on the one hand you are celebrating ‘interfaith’ whilst at the same time tweeting a message which deliberately negates that!
The irony is that he tweeted his inflammatory message on Good Friday. We have to assume that the First Minister was not ignorant of what that meant. It would be equivalent to a significant politician tweeting in Saudi Arabia that Muhammed was not a prophet at Ramadan! As someone observed, it was as though Satan was trolling! Which given that the devil is the father of lies, is not an unreasonable assumption. If he could use Peter to attack Christ, he can also use a minor politician!
Humza Yousaf then issued a meaningless message about how he appreciated Christians doing social work (ie. his job) – an Easter message which did not mention Christ at all. But once again some Christian leaders were fooled – they took the patronising waffle as some kind of affirmation – and didn’t seem to notice the lack of mention about Christ. Nor did they seem aware of the significance of the Muslim call to prayer taking place in Bute House.
Where is the modern Jenny Geddes? She is a woman famous for throwing her three-legged stool at the minister’s head in St Giles Cathedral on the 23rd of July 1637. What had he done? She yelled as she threw it “The devil give you colic! The belly of you! False thief! You dare say the Mass in my ear?”. Whether she said it or not – she is credited with starting a revolution that transformed Scotland – she is honoured in St Giles for doing so. One can only speculate what she would have said about the Islamic call to prayer. Not that we would recommend stool throwing, of any kind. Not least because such expressions of disagreement are about to be outlawed in Scotland on April 1st. From that day, those who disagree with Islam could find themselves in court, accused of hate crime. (Please note that this is not an April Fool – this is the Orwellian reality of modern Scotland).
This was not the first time that the First Minister has boasted about Islam taking over in Scotland. A year ago, he tweeted a photo after his election by party members, of himself and his male family members praying in Bute House. Given that he had only won this election because the progressives within the SNP progressives were horrified about the possibility that a Bible-believing Christian, Kate Forbes, might win, it is beyond ironic that such religious displays are being celebrated.
One can only imagine the furore if Kate Forbes had been elected and tweeted photos of a Christian prayer meeting being held in Bute House! Of course she would never have done that. If she had done so, then the progressives would have shrieked about the coming theocracy. But Islam, which actually does believe in theocracy, unlike Christianity, gets a free pass. As the old proverb says, ‘those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad.’ If you doubt this could happen in Australia think of how Dan Andrews gave $8.4 million to ‘support Victoria’s Islamic communities’ – https://www.danandrews.com.au/news/backing-victorias-islamic-communitieswhilst at the same time threatening to prosecute Christians who actually believe and practise the Bible! You can be prosecuted for misgendering someone, but it is not a crime if a Muslim cleric urges people to spit on the Jews so that they drown. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/uproar-as-nsw-police-afp-drop-investigations-into-southwest-sydney-hatespeech-clerics/news-story/70b0914992b54a4fbf512628f38e4c48
Meanwhile this Easter in the US and elsewhere, the Trans activists got to promote their ideology on Christianity’s prime day, when the supposedly Catholic President Biden celebrated Easter Sunday by issuing a proclamation announcing Transgender Visibility day.
All of this is incredibly revealing – and depressing. As Scotland, the UK and the USA, or at least their governing elites, have rejected Christianity – they are replacing it not with a liberal secular Nirvana, but rather with Islam and ‘Progressive’ ideologies. It’s a stark warning to Australia. Do we have to go this way? Or can we be pulled back from the brink?
As a Scot in exile, I weep for Scotland, but I don’t despair. I fear for Australia, but I don’t despair. The one who is Lord of Lords and King of Kings rose on Easter Sunday. He lives forever. The nations are to Him as a drop in the bucket. All the religious and political leaders of this world die – Christ alone lives forever. And because he lives, we also shall live. We proclaim Him…. the rest is just meaningless.
David Robertson
Should Christians be Culture Warriors? – AP
“Happy Ramadan” lights in London over Easter and who knows what prayer goes on in City Hall with Sadiq Khan in charge.
My faith is not so weak that I need a Good Friday message from my elected officials to feel special.
No one suggested that it was! Not quite sure what your point is or what it has to do with the article. Feel free to explain!
Limited mainstream media coverage perhaps? Liberal elite fear how Joe/Jo average really feel about this utter nonsense?
Isn’t this the same Humza Yousaf who said during the Leadership election campaign that he kept his religion and politics separate?
Not be outdone by any means, we Irish too have this woke progressive madness permeating society via our political leaders. These same leaders have their very own concocted and draconion so called ‘hate speech’ law coming down the line too!
There’s grounds to be encouraged though, the Irish people will only tolerate so much.
The pushback from the voters was very evident in the Irish governments recent unnecessary referendums to make two amendments to the constitution whereby the people categorically gave the government a good kicking with a resounding NO vote on both counts. This was followed by the sudden resignation of the Taoiseach (PM) shortly thereafter.
There’s hope yet perhaps.
Sad to say but Scotland is sinking further into the mire ….. Good on you David for speaking out against this because the vast majority of church leaders if they can be called this are as quiet as church mice.
Hello there,
On the beach about 2 weeks ago I lifted my eyes to the sky to see a plane going by when my eyes were met with a stunning huge RAINBOW 🌈 making its presence known and who the author is.
I said a quiet Thank you,and remained standing on the beach for another few minutes.
There are no substitute’s to express God’s creation however God’s masterpieces have been stolen to promote gay campaign’s etc
As Humza performed his Islamic call for independence of Scotland…..I mean for Islam ,i wondered if it would mean anything to Scotland ?
It doesn’t.
And trying to add to Scottish heritage is a pie in the sky not a Rainbow 🌈
Hi I couldn’t agree with you more , the thing I find so awful is the vast amount of people are just accepting it. It’s like the pig farm down the road the smell gets into everything.
Thank you for this David 🙏
I just can’t get my head around how the liberal elites and the average Hamish on the streets of Scotland can’t see the threat posed by Islam. It is literally every bad thing they imagine Christianity to be: intolerant, homophobic and prone to violence.
Muslims have figured out how to play the victim and take advantage of the leftist narratives and they are comfortably outbreeding the native populations of the UK. People scoff at the idea of them taking over, but what is going to prevent that from happening? Nobody seems to have an answer to that. Secular humanists assume they can accommodate all religions under their umbrella, but they forget secular humanism has grown specifically out of Christian culture. It isn’t compatible with Islam.