England: Where Chanting for Jihad is Fine, But Silent Praying is Not
While thousands of Muslims marched through the streets of London chanting anti-semitic slogans last week, British police were busy fining a Christian woman for praying — in her head — outside an abortion clinic.
Stupid woman. If you’re going to pray outside an abortion clinic in the UK, wear a hijab.
‘Our mistake ma’am. We thought you was protesting abortion. But you say you’re calling for a holy jihad against the Jews?
‘Well that’s fine then. Diversity is our strength!
‘Here’s our number. Don’t hesitate to call if someone looks at your with Islamophobia. Til next time then.’
Two police officers approached Isabel Vaughn-Spruce as she stood on the footpath near an abortion clinic in Birmingham on October 18.
Here’s the transcript:
Police: “Are you here as a part of an organised protest?”
Vaughn-Spruce: “No”
Police: “Are you part of a pro-life organisation? Or pro-choice organisation?”
Vaughn-Spruce: “I am, but I’m not here in that capacity.”
Police: “Okay. Are you here praying for the lives of unborn children?”
Let me break in here for a second.
How can police officers in a Western liberal democracy even ask that? If it weren’t so sinister, it would be a Monty Python sketch.
How obscene is it to think that a British police officer can demand to know your thoughts and then, depending on whether those thoughts comply with government policy, charge you with a crime!
Would atheists who stand and ‘contemplate’ the status of life in the womb be arrested? If not, isn’t this discrimination on religious grounds?
Meanwhile, pro-Palestinian marchers can block traffic for hours while chanting death to Jews, but a solitary woman standing silently outside an abortion clinic… oh, we can’t have that in a free society!
Back to the transcript:
Police: “Are you here praying for the lives of unborn children?”
Vaughn-Spruce: “No, I’m not.”
Police: “Can your action be carried out somewhere else?”
Vaughn-Spruce: “I can pray elsewhere but I want to pray here today.”
Police: “Right. Why have you chosen this location to stand?”
Vaughn-Spruce: “You know this is an abortion centre that I’m standing outside of?”
Police: “Ok. Are you aware there is a public space protction order in place here?”
Vaughn-Spruce: “Yes I am.”
Police: “And are you aware that you’re breaching the public protection order?”
It’s not thousands of Muslims chanting genocidal threats to Jews that represent a public protection order. Oh no, it’s the middle-aged woman with wrong thoughts in her head who is the real danger.
Thank God the police were on hand to deal with her before her silent prayer got completely out of control.
Police: “And are you aware that you’re breaching the public protection order?”
Vaughn-Spruce: “I’m not. No.”
Police: “Will you move from here to outside the exclusion zone?”
Vaughn-Spruce: “I don’t believe I need to.”
Police: “Okay. If not, why are you unwilling to move beyond the exclusion zone?”
Vaughn-Spruce: “Because I believe I’ve got a right to be here.”
Police: “Okay. Right. Um. If you believe that you are present to protest in any form…”
Vaughn-Spruce: “I’m not here to protest, no.”
Police: “Right. Well you’re in the Public Spaces Protection Orders zone, you’re, you’re breaching it.”
Vaughn-Spruce: “I’m in the zone. I’m not protesting.”
Police: “Yes. Yes. So, well, you’re going to be given a penalty notice today, okay? And, um, that will be given to you with the offence failing to comply with the the Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2014. And my colleague is going to issue you with a ticket.”
Standing silently, on your own, thinking government-declared naughty thoughts is regarded as anti-social behaviour?
You can’t make this stuff up!
Vaughn-Spruce: “Just to make it clear, I’m not protesting. I know there’s a zone here, but I’m not protesting within the zone. I’m just silently praying.”
Police: “What’s your date of birth, Isabel…”
Silly Isabel. Did she not know that all she needed to do was shout “Allahu Akbar” and she would have suddenly become invisible!
If she’d been carrying a dodgy flag, chanting words of incitement and tearing down posters of kidnapped people, the police would have looked the other way.
Secularism removed Christ from the West. But a building cannot stand without foundations, and nature abhors a vacuum.
Hate on Christianity all you want, but if you eliminate it from the public square, something is bound to fill the void.
The West is now looking flirtatiously at Woke and at Islam.
Unless we put Christ back into Christendom, your choice will be Dylan Mulvaney or Muhammad. And Muhammad doesn’t have patience for the pronoun people.
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Originally published at The James Macpherson Report.
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Unbelievable, insane that a so-called ” Catholic ” Leader of the Free World would bless a man (Mulvaney ) who wants to ” be impregnated by a woman “!Islam has seeded Moslems all over the World , even as far away as Iceland, in line with its intention to take over the World and make it Islamic ,ruled by Sharia Law. Scotland’s First Minister (Hunza ) is one and supports “Gay Rights “. In Australia we have more than one Moslem Labor MP in Federal Parliament . The size of this Pro -Palestine Demonstration in London is one example of how much the numbers against us have grown in many European countries and in Australia. Moslems have large families. We Christians are now the persecuted ones by “The Thought Police ” as this case in London demonstrates . Our children are prevented by HEC fees and other economic factors from having more than one child which bodes ill for Australia’s security and freedoms. I am proud to be part Montenegrin, descended from the Founder of the country, the ONLY nation in the Balkans , which, despite its tiny population, never surrendered or compromised with Islam whose men raped our women, killed our men , and stole the best of our young sons to be brought up as Moslems to fight and kill us . Throughout it all, we relied in Jesus whilst many of our neighbours converted to Islam. Israel is fighting all alone for its survival against Hamas who beheaded Israeli babies and took hostage nearly 300 people. Of course , they cannot compromise or cease hostilities as the UN has asked . Note : Albanese has not signed the Declaration in Support of Israel because the Labor Party relies on Moslem votes in some NSW electrorates to keep it in power.