TIM DIEPPE
In case you hadn’t noticed, we are in Ramadan now. The evidence is clear in certain parts of London where ubiquitous Islamic Relief banners and posters urge people to “Give Zakat”. Ramadan lights are on display in Piccadilly Circus and other parts of the West End. On Sunday an open Iftar was hosted in Windsor Castle’s State Apartments. The Prime Minister tweeted Ramadan Mubarak. You could be forgiven for thinking we live in an Islamic country.
Indeed, at an event in 2023, British Islamic scholar and jurist Haitham Al-Haddad, who is Chair of the Fatwa Committee for the Islamic Council of Europe, said in a panel discussing “Muslims in the West” that the situation of Muslims living in the UK is a lot better than it was 20 years ago. He said:
Our brothers and sisters, if you go outside you think that you are in a second Afghanistan, but you are in Londonistan. So it is really amazing, overwhelming. Don’t ever, my brothers and sisters, look at yourselves as a subjugated minority. We are the leaders of humanity. We should look at ourselves as we have something to offer.
During Ramadan in particular it can feel like London has become Londonistan. It is certainly the case that Islam is growing in influence in what was once Great Britain.
Islam’s political influence
Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman didn’t hold back in a Telegraph article in February 2023:
The truth is that the Islamists, the extremists and the antisemites are in charge now. They have bullied the Labour Party, they have bullied our institutions, and now they have bullied our country into submission.
This is a crisis. And the fightback must start now, with urgency, if we are to preserve the liberties we cherish and the privileges this country affords us all. If we are to have any chance of saving our country from the mob.
She was commenting following security concerns in Parliament which led the Speaker of the House of Commons to break with Parliamentary convention amidst extraordinary scenes in Parliament.
In 2021, Sir David Ames MP was stabbed to death by a Muslim who was unashamed of his Islamic motives in court. Alo Harbi Ali told the court:
If you encourage someone to an act of Jihad it is a good thing.
Harbi Ali also stated plainly: “I killed him in the cause of Muslims and for the sake of Allah.” Back in 2010, Stephen Timms MP was stabbed by a Muslim woman with Islamic motives. He was fortunate to survive the attack. Last year Mike Freer MP announced that he would step down as an MP at the next election because of serious threats to his personal safety. He mentioned attacks by Muslims against Crusades.
After the debates on Gaza in the House of Commons last year, journalist Dan Hodges said that an MP told him “he had weighed up his own physical safety when deciding how to vote”. How many other MPs did this? Islam is now influencing our democracy, but not with benign intentions or means.
Last year we saw for the first time a clear Islamic agenda openly influencing a UK General Election. A group calling itself The Muslim Vote (TMV) made 17 political demands and endorsed various candidates. Five independent candidates backed by TMV were elected as MPs. Overall TMV claimed that 50 candidates they had endorsed won seats in the General Election and are now MPs. I expect to see a national Islamic political party by the next election. We already have one local council that is run by an Islamic political party. Tower Hamlets is controlled by Aspire, whose councillors are exclusively British Bangladeshi Muslim men. The party has no website and no publicly available constitution.
Labour politicians in particular, many of whom had their majorities slashed by TMV, are very aware of the Islamic vote. Timing her announcement to coincide with the start of Ramadan last week, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner MP launched a new working group tasked with defining “Anti-Muslim Hatred/Islamophobia”. Any such definition is likely to privilege Islam over all other religions in the UK by officially labelling criticism of Islam as Islamophobic and thus damaging free speech when it comes to Islam. As I have written elsewhere, there is no need for the Government to define ‘Islamophobia’. The term ‘anti-Muslim’ is clear and sufficient.
The fastest growing religion in the UK
At the last census in 2021 there were 3.9 million Muslims in the UK, or 6.5% of the population. This has risen quite rapidly from only 105,000 in 1960. The previous census in 2011 showed a Muslim population of 2.7 million. Islam was therefore the fastest growing religion in the UK over the 10-year period from 2011-2021, showing growth of some 44%.
The average (median) age of Christians in England and Wales is 51 years-old. This compares to the average age of Muslims at 27, and the average age of the population as a whole at 40 years-old. Already in 2015 8.1% of all school age children were Muslim. The name Muhammad, when allowing for spelling variants, has been the top boys name for babies in Britain every year since 2011.
The influence of Islam extends well beyond politics into finance, education, fashion, food and festivals. People have been arrested for criticising Islam, and some have been convicted for such. I don’t think anyone insulting any other religion or religious leader has been arrested or imprisoned for a very long time. Islam is bold, confident and assertive. The trend so far in Britain has been to gradually concede cultural ground to Islam. As the influence of Christianity has declined, Islam has stepped in to fill the spiritual and moral vacuum. Britain is gradually becoming more Islamic year by year.
This poses a challenge. Islamic ethics and values are not what made Britain Great. That was Christianity’s role. Britain has a choice. Do we bow to Allah and gradually allow Islam to gain more and more influence until we finally find ourselves living in an Islamic culture? Or do we find a way off this track to another destiny?
As a Christian I lament the decline of the influence of Christianity in Britain. I can only blame the church for its failure to boldly and unashamedly proclaim the truth of the gospel. There are signs that people are waking up to where we are heading. Even Richard Dawkins, perhaps the most famous atheist in the country, openly says he prefers the type of culture that comes from Christian values to one from Islamic values. Who would disagree? Many Muslims for a start. This poses the challenge. My view is that we can only really recover our belief in Christian values through belief in Christianity itself. We can follow the true religion, or a false one. At the moment we are moving towards a false one. I hope, for the good of the country, we change course.
Tim Dieppe is Head of Public Policy at Christian Concern. He is the author of The Challenge of Islam (Wilberforce Publications, 2025).
This article (Ramadan Begins in Londonistan) was created and published by Daily Sceptic and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the author Tim Dieppe
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Ramadan and St. Patrick: A Warning to the West
SONIA BIALLEY
People often speak of the “luck of the Irish,” but this year, that luck comes with an ominous twist. On March 17, the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day — deeply rooted in Irish identity, resilience, and Christianity — coincides with 17 Ramadan, the anniversary of the Battle of Badr (A.D. 624). This battle, pivotal in Islamic history, remains a symbol of divine intervention and victory in jihad, one that has inspired all Muslims for centuries. What Badr represented for early Islam, mass migration represents for modern Europe — a steady strategic shift aimed at reshaping the fabric of established societies.
For most Westerners, this may seem like a mere coincidence, but in Islamic history, dates matter. Just as September 11 was the date deliberately chosen to symbolize a reversal of Islamic defeats in Vienna (1683) and Belgrade (1690), so too was 17 Ramadan chosen to symbolize victory after the Battle of Badr. This set a precedent: the belief that Ramadan is the ideal time to wage jihad, and that jihadis will receive even greater rewards, whether they die in martyrdom or not.
Ireland, a historically Christian nation, will unknowingly be sharing its national holiday with the anniversary of one of Islam’s greatest victories over non-Muslims, a victory that paved the way for Islam’s expansion beyond Arabia and eventually into the Western world, at the cost of millions of lives lost in wars, raids, and forced conversions.
The entire foundation of Islamic military success is built on the idea that faith in Allah guarantees victory. This belief is rooted in the most significant Quranic war verse, interpreted by jihadis and many Islamic scholars as a command to wage jihad. This verse, referring to the Battle of Badr, emphasizes that Allah supports only those who believe in him and who fight for him to defend Islam, and that he is the one who ultimately grants victory in battle to the believers, even when they are outnumbered. Victory is never solely due to military strength and strategy. If a war is lost, it is due to lack of faith in Allah, not military inferiority.
To defend Islam means to kill non-believers or non-Muslims, who are referred to in the Quran as the “worst of creatures” and whom Islam commands not to take as friends. This is why coexistence and integration are not options in Islam: it does not assimilate. It only dominates. The same supremacist ideology drove Mohamed and his followers to commit genocide against all Jewish tribes in Arabia, slaughter tens of millions of Hindus over an 800-year period, and massacre 1.5 million Christian Armenians. Today, that same ideology continues to inspire countless Muslim adherents worldwide, as they are commanded “to fight until there is no more disbelief, and the religion is entirely for Allah.”
In this context, jihadis believe that the deeper their faith in Allah, the greater their chance of victory. This is why they become consumed with fervor and frenzy in their emotion for Allah during jihad, causing them to frantically cry out “Allahu akbar” as an expression of their devotion. They believe that this devotion will reward them with a successful kill, guaranteeing them a place in Paradise. All non-Muslims are legitimate targets for jihad, because all are guilty of rejecting Islam. There is no such thing as an innocent non-Muslim. This belief lies at the heart of not just radical Islam, but Islam itself.
Many of the most significant Islamic conquests were launched during Ramadan, a time steeped in religious significance, offering jihadis an opportunity to mirror the victory of Badr. Historical examples of this include the fall of Constantinople (1453), where the Muslim Ottomans defeated the last Christian Byzantine stronghold, and the Islamic invasion of Spain (711-1492), which resulted in centuries of Muslim rule in Europe. Even the Ottoman sieges of Vienna (1529 and 1683), although outside Ramadan, were part of an ongoing campaign to expand Islam into Europe.
Today, Western open-border policies have more than made up for any past territorial losses. The same drive for Islamic expansion continues — not through direct conquest, but through new strategies, such as emigration (Hijra), which is religiously mandated in the Quran to spread Islam beyond Muslim lands. The goal remains “to make [Islam] prevail over all religions,” ensuring its dominance wherever it takes root. Combined with high birth rates, a declining Western identity, laws suppressing criticism of Islam, and political influence, Islam no longer needs the sword. Conquest is no longer necessary to spread Islam in today’s weakened societies.
Ireland, once fiercely Irish and Christian, has already seen a dramatic transformation, embracing one of Europe’s most extreme open-border policies with little political resistance. Mass migration is reshaping the country’s culture and demographics at an unprecedented pace. This transformation mirrors the same changes taking place across Europe, where Islamic influence is growing.
Europe’s self-inflicted open-border policies, driving uncontrolled migration, are facilitating the rise of terrorist sleeper cells ready for action at any time. Meanwhile, the growing reluctance to criticize Islam, driven by fears of being criminalized for Islamophobia, is hindering law enforcement from addressing imminent jihadi threats, making societies even more susceptible to terrorist attacks — especially during Ramadan, which is typically rife with terror.
With tensions already at a breaking point following October 7, and a noticeable increase in attacks by jihadi groups worldwide, this Ramadan carries a much greater risk of violence than usual, especially with the coincidence of Islam sharing one of its most revered anniversaries with a Patron Saint, potentially igniting resentment.
Amplifying the heightened risk during this month is the rise of ISIS and Middle East instability, which could create an opening for jihadi groups advocating for the return of the Islamic caliphate to unite all Muslims under a single ruler, as mandated by Islamic law. What better time to attempt this than during Ramadan, the very month when the last caliphate was declared in 2014 by ISIS leader al-Baghdadi in Iraq, marking the twelfth anniversary on 2 Ramadan (March 2)?
Historical patterns show that caliphates arise during times of upheaval, particularly when states are weak or fail to govern effectively, as seen in Syria and Iraq. Inspired by the victory at Badr, jihadis today seek to reestablish the caliphate, drawing strength from the belief that faith and devotion to Allah guarantee victory, just as in the past.
As St. Patrick’s Day and 17 Ramadan align, history whispers its warnings. The Battle of Badr was more than just a military victory — it marked the dawn of an expanding empire, altering the course of civilization. For centuries, unchecked Islamic influence has reshaped nations, often erasing the cultures and faiths that preceded it.
Whereas St. Patrick sought to bring Christianity to Ireland, today Islam seeks to replace it — a symbolic intersection of two opposing forces that have clashed throughout history since Islam’s inception 1,400 years ago.
The West’s inability to recognize the pattern unfolding before its eyes and address the growing Islamic influence, enabled by globalist policies, makes the West increasingly susceptible to the same fate as past civilizations, such as Byzantium and Spain, which succumbed to the very same forces that threaten the West today. Ireland and Europe as a whole face a crossroads. Will they protect their identity and sovereignty, or will they allow history to repeat itself?
The luck of the Irish will not be enough to protect Ireland or the West from repeating the mistakes of history.
This article (Ramadan and St. Patrick: A Warning to the West) was created and published by American Thinker and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the author Sonia Bailley
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Ramadan Begins in Londonistan signals a new opportunity for spiritual renewal even in the heart of non-Muslim lands. Reciting Surah Kahf in Roman English https://surahkahf.com/in-roman-english/ during this holy month can bring light, guidance, and strength to believers navigating modern life with faith.