{"id":963,"date":"2015-07-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.britishasianchristians.org\/full-previous-archive\/2015\/07\/14\/islamic-extremism-takes-firm-root-in-britain\/"},"modified":"2023-04-30T06:39:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T05:39:15","slug":"islamic-extremism-takes-firm-root-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishasianchristians.org\/full-previous-archive\/islamic-extremism-takes-firm-root-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic extremism takes firm root in Britain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.britishasianchristians.org\/full-previous-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/isis-militants-marching.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px none; width: 700px;\"><\/p>\n<p> In the last week or two we have had several official moments of silence for victims of Islamic extremism, first for the victims in Tunisia, then the<br \/>\n    10<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the 7-7 attacks.&nbsp; However, for most of us, the memory is fading, the news headlines taken over by various other<br \/>\n    issues.&nbsp; But of course, extremism hasn\u2019t gone away. View ITV London footage of BPCA Lee Rigby concert <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/london\/update\/2013-06-16\/inter-faith-concert-in-woolwich\/\">(click here)<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>There are many victims of such extremism, including fellow Muslims, but Christians tend to bear a great deal of the hatred and violence because they are<br \/>\n    a rival major missionary religion, and because they are seen to be adherents of a Western religion (falsely, of course, since Christianity was born<br \/>\n    in the Middle East, even though until recently, and perhaps arguably still, its main power centre has been Europe and the West).&nbsp; So, if you are,<br \/>\n    say, a Pakistani outraged at some event involving the West, you might not be able to strike the powerful \u2018far enemy\u2019, but you can avenge yourself on<br \/>\n    the satisfactorily handy and vulnerable \u2018near enemy\u2019 instead, because they are part of the \u2018same\u2019 enemy.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>If you read of a Boko Haram or tribal attack in Nigeria against a school or village in the news, what is often not stated in Western news is that the target<br \/>\n    will more than likely be Christian.&nbsp; Similarly, al-Shabab targets Christians in Kenya, and ISIS are devastating the already devastated Christian<br \/>\n    communities of Iraq and Syria.&nbsp; Then there is much both here and abroad that doesn\u2019t even make the news, whether it is the ongoing persecution<br \/>\n    of Christians in Pakistan, or attacks on Christian refugees and asylum seekers in the UK and the West, attacks on churches, Christian graveyards and<br \/>\n    Christian crosses across Europe, or attempts to cause huge casualties by bombing an Easter service in Indonesia (supposedly a \u2018moderate\u2019 Islamic country).&nbsp;<br \/>\n    In the latter instance, a 4000 strong church in a major city was targeted.&nbsp; The only reason it wasn\u2019t on the news, is due to a dream one of the<br \/>\n    church leaders had the night before, in which he saw where the bomb was.&nbsp; He acted on it, called in the security services, and they found the<br \/>\n    bomb exactly where it was in his dream.&nbsp; What was perhaps even more chilling was the security services also later found that in buildings all<br \/>\n    around the church, video cameras had been set up, ready to record and broadcast the massacre to eager (or not so eager) audiences around the world.&nbsp;<br \/>\n    Instead, there was an unintended result.&nbsp; As news got out of exactly what happened, within a week the congregation doubled to 8000, as many Muslims<br \/>\n    responded to the evident supernatural protection by converting.&nbsp; (Whilst less dramatic, there is at least one UK church which has it\u2019s building<br \/>\n    by a similar supernatural dream in which a church leader was shown what the Muslim leaders also bidding for an abandoned church building were going<br \/>\n    to offer.)&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Occasionally, Christians suffering here in the UK or Europe will make the news.&nbsp; Converting from Islam especially attracts ire, and in every branch<br \/>\n    of Islamic law should be punished by death, certainly for males, and usually for females.&nbsp; Some experts suggest that about a third of so-called<br \/>\n    \u2018honour-killings\u2019 in the UK are the killing of relatives who have converted from Islam, nearly always to Christianity.&nbsp; The problem is large enough<br \/>\n    that some Christian groups have felt the need to set up networks of safehouses for such converts, or those fleeing from forced marriages.&nbsp; Although<br \/>\n    those involved are naturally secretive and security conscious, this fact has made the news in the last year.&nbsp; Another example that has made the<br \/>\n    news is Nissar Hussain, a convert to Christianity who, along with his wife and children, has faced 19 years of near continuous persecution in the Bradford<br \/>\n    area.&nbsp; He has repeatedly had his cars smashed (a tactic also used in Birmingham, according to BPCA\u2019s contacts there), his house windows smashed,<br \/>\n    and arson attacks on a neighbouring empty house to try and burn his down, resulting in at least one house move.&nbsp; This is on top of daily intimidation,<br \/>\n    resulting in PTSD, huge stress and anxiety, as well as grave financial implications.&nbsp; When his new MP came in, he wrote a public letter, describing<br \/>\n    his suffering and the police response, summed up by one sergeant who told him \u2018Stop trying to be a crusader and move out!\u2019&nbsp; Hence his concluding<br \/>\n    plea to the MP: \u2018I cannot express in words the Police failure over the years which has led to our suffering and have no confidence in them whatsoever<br \/>\n    and am desperate for your help.\u2019&nbsp; You can read the open letter from Nissar Hussain at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raymondibrahim.com\/muslim-persecution-of-christians\/uk-muslim-convert-to-christianity-persecuted-for-19-years\/\">http:\/\/www.raymondibrahim.com\/muslim-persecution-of-christians\/uk-muslim-convert-to-christianity-persecuted-for-19-years\/<\/a>    .<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t have to be a convert, though, to face rough treatment from Islamicists.&nbsp; When a British Pakistani Christian Association (BPCA) researcher<br \/>\n    visited Birmingham last year, he listened as Asian Christians told of no-go areas in the city.&nbsp; They were afraid: \u2018We know they are going to start<br \/>\n    targeting our children next\u2019, they said.&nbsp; Many of them were from Pakistan, where Christian children face intense pressure in many schools to convert<br \/>\n    to Islam.&nbsp; BPCA also reports that one Christian family who had to flee for their lives from Pakistan after blasphemy charges were laid against<br \/>\n    one of their schoolboy sons, reported that within a few weeks of getting out of the asylum system and into council housing in Birmingham, they faced<br \/>\n    false accusations and physical attacks just like they would back in Pakistan.&nbsp; They were originally housed in a flat in an Asian area, opposite<br \/>\n    a mosque.&nbsp; Several weeks after they arrived, there was a knock on the door, and they were told that, since they were from Pakistan, they would<br \/>\n    be required to attend the mosque for at least one service a week.&nbsp;&nbsp; When they replied that they were Christians, they were asked if they<br \/>\n    were converts.&nbsp; They replied that no, both the parents families had been Christians for several generations.&nbsp; Soon after, there was another<br \/>\n    knock on the door, and the encounter was chilling.&nbsp; \u2018How dare your wife desecrate our holy mosque?&nbsp; We have video proof!\u2019&nbsp; The pole<br \/>\n    outside the mosque was the designated rubbish collection for businesses on the street.&nbsp; The video showed a Muslim woman in a headscarf placing<br \/>\n    rubbish at this point.&nbsp; The Muslims wanted this Christian family out, and they called in the Muslim landlord, who to his credit told the accusers<br \/>\n    they were talking rubbish \u2013 it was clearly another woman in the video.&nbsp; However, he didn\u2019t want to get the police involved.&nbsp; However, the<br \/>\n    next day, there was another knock at the door, and the father went to answer it.&nbsp; He opened it to be faced with drawn knives and punches, and<br \/>\n    had to flee to a nearby shop.&nbsp; The council moved the family, and they are happier where they are, but the fact that they faced exactly the same<br \/>\n    kind of attacks in the UK as they had in Pakistan has deeply shaken them.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Birmingham, of course, was also the scene of the now infamous \u2018Trojan Horse\u2019 plot to take over schools.&nbsp;&nbsp; There have been reports of such activity<br \/>\n    for several decades, but it had all been swept under the multi-cultural rug, with at least one headteacher who raised the alarm being slammed and evicted<br \/>\n    from their post.&nbsp; When the government sent in Ofsted to investigate, their findings were quite chilling, with taxpayers money in one case being<br \/>\n    used to build a religious educational facility in Pakistan, and those don\u2019t usually come in any form that could reasonably called moderate.&nbsp; There<br \/>\n    was intimidation of targeted heads and governors resulting in a number being forced out of their jobs or otherwise marginalised, curriculum changes<br \/>\n    to conform to an extreme form of Islam, and in at least one case, the appointment of \u2018religious police\u2019 amongst the students to report any behaviour<br \/>\n    deemed \u2018un-Islamic\u2019, including behaviour of their own teachers and other staff.&nbsp; Inspectors described \u2018madrassah curriculum\u2019 (madrassah are the<br \/>\n    religious Islamic schools of Pakistan), and former staff reported fellow teachers publicly praising terrorists and describing the US as the \u2018source<br \/>\n    of all evil in the world\u2019.&nbsp; Teenage pupils&#8217; mobiles were taken and broken into to find evidence of \u2018inappropriate relationships\u2019, resulting in<br \/>\n    one girl being suspended.&nbsp; In another, non-Muslim staff were banned from assemblies where children were told that white women are \u2018prostitutes\u2019,<br \/>\n    and led in anti-Christian chants.&nbsp; One primary school head said homosexuals should be executed, and books in the school promoted stoning, lashings<br \/>\n    and the like.&nbsp; Sharia law was introduced, and children told that if they didn\u2019t pray, they would go to hell; girls were told that refusing sex<br \/>\n    to husbands would result in prolonged punishment by angels.&nbsp; Christians and Jews were described as \u2018ignorant\u2019 and Christians were \u2018all liars\u2019.&nbsp;<br \/>\n    Similar things have been reported in schools in a number of other UK cities.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>It is not just Pakistani Christians who are concerned, however.&nbsp; Christians from Middle Eastern countries also express shock and dismay at the situation<br \/>\n    in this country (in fact some prominent bishops in the Middle East have publicly warned the West that what they face in their countries will come to<br \/>\n    Europe soon).&nbsp; For instance, Palestinian Christians who have had to flee for their lives from the West Bank have expressed shock at the place<br \/>\n    we give Islamic extremism in our society (and at the Church of England\u2019s unstinting support of charities which make the problems in their homeland<br \/>\n    worse, not better, but that\u2019s another story).&nbsp; They warn that that at least some of what are seen as \u2018moderate Muslim\u2019 groups who the government<br \/>\n    turns to for advice are anything but, a concern echoed by some security experts, who are concerned that there is a deliberate tactic to play the diversity<br \/>\n    and Islamophobia card until the time is right for a change of tactics.&nbsp; (Just as I am writing this, one instance of this is making the national<br \/>\n    press \u2013 an Islamic extremist preacher who taught that Islamic State is no different to Western armies is in a position of advisor to the police on<br \/>\n    countering extremism and radicalism).&nbsp; One concern is the Egyptian group Muslim Brotherhood, whose tactics in the West are generally to infiltrate<br \/>\n    and take over from the inside, and are well-funded and very adept at disguising themselves behind a mass of small and benign sounding front groups<br \/>\n    designed to appear innocuous.&nbsp; At least one church in the UK has been advised by the police to take down signs designating them a \u2018House of Prayer\u2019<br \/>\n    during Ramadan this year.&nbsp; That strongly suggests that we are far further down the road to at least a significantly sharia-tinged society than<br \/>\n    we might think, and significantly sharia-tinged societies are unlikely to stay at that level for long.&nbsp; We may delude ourselves about being prudent,<br \/>\n    or diverse, but the reality is rather different to the warm fuzzy soothing of relativistic multi-culturalism.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, there has been at least one Christian activist in the UK who has recently mentioned being on public transport and seeing a young Muslim woman<br \/>\n    take out her mobile and start filming the crowded conveyance, and seeming to stop and take photographs of him and one other individual.&nbsp; They<br \/>\n    didn\u2019t go to the police; \u2018It could have been something for an art project and just a coincidence, I suppose, but whatever the reason, it was nonchalantly<br \/>\n    and brazenly done with smiling face.&nbsp; Even if it was indeed entirely innocent, it was a reminder of how someone could play on Islamophobia \u2013 if<br \/>\n    I had challenged them, they could have played that card so easily\u2019.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>That raises an issue, though.&nbsp; Warning about this kind of thing is often the realm of far-right groups, and surely there is a problem with Islamophobia?&nbsp;<br \/>\n    BPCA chairman Wilson Chowdhry has told of how members of his own wider family, Christian children born in the UK, have been told to go back to \u2018go<br \/>\n    back home, you &#8230;.. Paki Muslims\u2019 on the bus.&nbsp; One of his team, a bearded white Christian who sometimes used to dress Asian, is sympathetic to<br \/>\n    such fears, since he was seen by many as a convert to Islam, and said it was frightening about the time of Lee Rigby\u2019s murder, with people \u2018approaching<br \/>\n    me and asking me what I was doing, was I looking for Lee Rigby, shouting from cars, or skinheads muttering darkly in train stations.\u2019&nbsp; However,<br \/>\n    he also points out that there is a well-oiled machine in some Muslim circles to exaggerate and leverage such genuine fears and incidents into gaining<br \/>\n    more power in society and more special protections for Muslims by using the British sense of fair-play and the diversity doctrine \/ victimhood card.&nbsp;<br \/>\n    He also pointed out that whilst incidents of attacks on Muslims do rise somewhat after events such as the Tunisia attacks, anti-semitic attacks and<br \/>\n    incidents are at a far higher level proportionally, and rising, and it often comes from within the Muslim community, not just in the UK, but across<br \/>\n    Europe.&nbsp; Recently a Jewish reporter dressed openly as a Jew and toured several cities across Europe filmed with a secret camera, and the worst<br \/>\n    treatment he got was in Manchester and Bradford.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The interplay of liberal cries of \u2018Islamophobia\u2019 and the need to be seen to be \u2018balanced\u2019 in a culture where extreme secularism and humanist agendas have<br \/>\n    increasing traction can lead to unexpected outcomes.&nbsp; For instance, in the world of multicultural orthodoxy, no religion should be seen as worse<br \/>\n    than another, so after the Ofsted inspections and enquiries into the Birmingham \u2018Trojan Horse schools\u2019 last year, when half a dozen were put into special<br \/>\n    measures, and a dozen more severely criticized, it was evidently deemed that to show an \u2018even hand\u2019, Christian schools should be similarly targeted<br \/>\n    and \u2018exposed\u2019 as being against the much vaunted \u2018British values\u2019.&nbsp; Ofsted chose to target two Christian schools in the North East, with one shutting,<br \/>\n    and the other escaping that fate by a whisker only after furious media and political campaigning by its governors and an absolutely united and outraged<br \/>\n    parental body.&nbsp; The parents, down to the last man and woman completely rejected the report as being without a single word of truth.&nbsp; The<br \/>\n    tactics employed were horrific, with the schools needing to appoint someone to look after the psychological welfare of the children as a result.&nbsp;<br \/>\n    It was blatantly obvious that there was a definite agenda, a result that had to be reached, and children were pounded with questions like in a police<br \/>\n    interview until they gave the required type of answer.&nbsp;&nbsp; Many children rushed to the toilets in tears and called their parents to get them<br \/>\n    out of there.&nbsp; We talked to one BPCA supporter in the area who knew families with children in both schools, who claimed that the media didn\u2019t<br \/>\n    report the half of what went on, and that many teachers and educational workers in the area from other schools were appalled at what had transpired.\n    <\/p>\n<p>If we are talking about the effect of overriding concern for \u2018community cohesion\u2019 and avoiding \u2018Islamophobia\u2019, then the recent scandal over the grooming<br \/>\n    of largely white girls by largely Pakistani gangs of paedophiles in several cities can\u2019t be avoided.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Oxford and the Northwest are<br \/>\n    the ones that have made the headlines, but there have been and doubtless still are, others.&nbsp; What is clear is that it was too much swept under<br \/>\n    the carpet. &nbsp;Factors such as the \u2018omarta\u2019 silence of the honour-shame culture in the Pakistani community, or the disenfranchisement of second<br \/>\n    <sup><\/sup>generation immigrants caught between cultures have all been blamed, but could a form of extremism have something to do with it?&nbsp; BPCA<br \/>\n    researchers noted that there is a huge level of rape and sexual harassment of Christian and Hindu females down to age 7 and younger, in Pakistan.&nbsp;<br \/>\n    On average, something like two a day from each community are not just raped, but kidnapped, raped, forced to convert and marry their rapists or sold<br \/>\n    as sex slaves or bartered brides.&nbsp; In a couple of cases, girls as young as two have been raped when their parents refused to convert to Islam.&nbsp;<br \/>\n    \u2018That just cannot be a coincidence\u2019 said one researcher, \u2018There has to be a link of some sort, direct or otherwise.\u2019&nbsp; \u2018Trojan Horse\u2019 schools calling<br \/>\n    white \/ Christian women \u2018prostitutes\u2019, provides one way in which the attitudes of Pakistan are translated into the UK environment. <\/p>\n<p>More generally, senior security and intelligence officials have gone on record saying it is only a matter of time before they miss a plot and an attack<br \/>\n    gets through.&nbsp; The BPCA understands that there has already been at least one attempt at a major attack on a UK church that has been thwarted in<br \/>\n    recent months.&nbsp;&nbsp; But what is causing all of this violence?&nbsp; Is it grievances against the West for bombings in the Middle East and the<br \/>\n    like, as so many claim?&nbsp; That will doubtless have an impact, but it is important not to give too much weight to this factor, which too many in<br \/>\n    the so-called \u2018chattering classes\u2019 do.&nbsp; Raymond Ibrahim, a Christian whose family is from Egypt, is something of an expert.&nbsp; He notes that<br \/>\n    often Islamic leaders have one message for the West and another for their \u2018home crowd\u2019.&nbsp; For instance, Al-Qaeda propaganda frequently cited things<br \/>\n    like the presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia as justification for their campaign of violence, but when Ibrahim got hold of copies of their internal<br \/>\n    documents, it was quite clear this was just subterfuge to play on the West\u2019s weakness of fearing to be seen as imperialistic or against the underdog.&nbsp;<br \/>\n    They were going to do it regardless, even had the American troops left.&nbsp; He also notes that when Islam operates from a position of weakness, it<br \/>\n    preaches peace, but when it gains more and more power in a society, it starts to practice war and violent enforcement.&nbsp; He documents this pattern<br \/>\n    throughout history, right back to the time of the founder of Islam, noting that often the first victims will be those Muslims who genuinely could be<br \/>\n    described as \u2018moderate\u2019.&nbsp; Radical preachers will push them out of leadership in mosques and so on.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A number of experts say that<br \/>\n    one of the reasons IS is gaining such support is because it can justify pretty much all its actions and tactics from the Islamic holy book and the<br \/>\n    Hadith and the life of Muhammad.&nbsp; But on the other hand, the same violence is why increasingly large numbers of Middle Eastern Muslims in the<br \/>\n    affected areas and beyond are starting to question their religion and look to other faiths, primarily Christianity, including from within ISIS itself,<br \/>\n    with recent reports that even one ISIS religious teacher of Jihad was asking for bibles.&nbsp; One western Christian who recently visited the Kurds<br \/>\n    in Iraq reported, among other things, that handing out bibles on SD cards to Kurdish soldiers was \u2018like handing out candy to kids\u2019.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>So what can people do?&nbsp; Well, for a start, people who have stayed silent can start raising the issue, even in the inevitable accusations of Islamophobia<br \/>\n    from not just Muslims, but from certain political movements, because the threat is very, very real, and burying our collective heads in the sand will<br \/>\n    not make the problem go away, and in fact will worsen the situation.&nbsp; It must be faced firmly and steadfastly.&nbsp; Lemming-like surrender in<br \/>\n    the name of political correctness and diversity is societal suicide.&nbsp; When we have a situation like we do, where certain groups of Muslims will<br \/>\n    march proclaiming publicly \u2018This town is ours\u2019 or \u2018British soldiers, go to hell\u2019 (Luton) and intimidating local newspaper editors for the un-Islamic<br \/>\n    sin of describing the Islamic sect the Ahmahdi as \u2018Muslim\u2019 (also Luton) then we need to face up to the fact that in essence we are already at the stage<br \/>\n    of forced compliance starting in some places.&nbsp; Dulled by the narcotics of \u2018multiculturalism\u2019 and the \u2018boiled frog\u2019 syndrome, we run the very grave<br \/>\n    risk of awaking only when it is too late, if indeed we haven\u2019t already reached that point.&nbsp; It\u2019s almost certainly even worse in much of Europe,<br \/>\n    with violence against Catholic churches and children in Italy, and even reports of Islamic roadblocks in one French city (Marseille).&nbsp; There is<br \/>\n    a reason why so many Jews are desperately fleeing countries such as France and Belgium.&nbsp; As has often been noted, they are like a weathervane,<br \/>\n    or the canary in the mine, and we should pay close attention.&nbsp; (Some will point out that calls to boycott goods and businesses, such as we see<br \/>\n    today in the BDS movement, is exactly how the road to the Holocaust started). <\/p>\n<p>Talking to MPs and the like could also help, as will emphasising how significant the issue is to church leaders \u2013 they will already be aware of it to some<br \/>\n    extent, but may need reminders in all the &#8216;busyness&#8217; of looking after their flocks.&nbsp; Talking to Christians in this country who have come from<br \/>\n    Muslim nations, and supporting them is also a good step to take.&nbsp; Most cities and towns will have them, whether it is Iranians, Egyptians, Pakistanis<br \/>\n    or Eritreans, or others.&nbsp; People need to be alert that church members from these nations can be targeted, even by the security services of their<br \/>\n    own country.&nbsp; There has been at least one case in recent years where Iranian agents have successfully pretended to be British Christians visiting<br \/>\n    a church and exposed Christians back in Iran to great danger.&nbsp; There are also unconfirmed reports that the intelligence service of at least one<br \/>\n    Muslim nation is actively spreading disinformation about the treatment of Christians in their nation into the immigration and asylum systems of Western<br \/>\n    nations, including the UK.&nbsp; For Christians, if nothing else, there is a spiritual self-interest in helping such Christians, because Jesus said<br \/>\n    in Matthew 25 that one of the criteria on judgement day will be how you have helped suffering brothers and sisters.&nbsp; Christians in Muslim nations<br \/>\n    are often discriminated against in the asylum process in practice.&nbsp; For instance, the US is pressing ahead with taking in Sunni Syrian refugees,<br \/>\n    but Christian Syrian refugees&#8230;.?&nbsp; Practical advantages in favouring Christian refugees (note, not to the exclusion of others) is security and<br \/>\n    (especially important in these days of austerity and economic pressure) cost.&nbsp; It will cost less to vet them, they traditionally have integrated<br \/>\n    very well into host countries, and with their experience and knowledge, they can provide alerts about extremism due to their deep experience of it<br \/>\n    in their homelands.&nbsp; These are points that you can raise with MPs and government ministers in support of a change in policy to remove the discriminatory<br \/>\n    roadblocks against vulnerable Christians accessing safety in the West. &nbsp;In a number of Muslim countries, Christian pastors report that quite often<br \/>\n    their persecutors seem to easily gain access to the West, sometimes by claiming asylum, but Christians do not, they are turned away.&nbsp; So much<br \/>\n    for \u2018overcoming barriers to diversity and inclusion\u2019!&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On a more global stage, there is at least one other issue you can raise.&nbsp; By far and away the largest recipient of UK aid is Pakistan, with a significant<br \/>\n    part of that meant for a literacy drive.&nbsp; Aside from the usual corruption issues involved in such aid, there is also the question of why we should<br \/>\n    spend money funding literacy in a state where even government schools have textbooks that severely denigrate and defame the religion and role of their<br \/>\n    minority-faith citizens, such as Hindus and Christians, without effectively using that funding to leverage changes.&nbsp; If so-called \u2018British values\u2019<br \/>\n    are to be enforced so vigorously at home, surely a smidgeon of that zeal should be applied to tax-payer funded projects abroad,&nbsp; or does that<br \/>\n    only apply to sexuality issues in Africa?&nbsp; There are evidently significant double standards at play here.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Speaking out is a must, and not being cowed by a culture dominated by a cultural and moral relativism that would rather cling to conformist factoids to<br \/>\n    than to confront hard facts.&nbsp; What does the future hold?&nbsp; We don\u2019t know for sure.&nbsp; There is a reason why most of the BPCA researchers<br \/>\n    quoted in this article are not named.&nbsp; There is the line that gets quoted all the time, but it is very applicable in this case: \u2018All it takes<br \/>\n    for evil to triumph, is for 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