Britain’s Headlong Race Toward Islam, By Richard Miller (Londonistan)

The American Thinker article from March 5, 2025, by Thomas Lifson,

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/the_uk_s_race_toward_islam_continues.html

delivers a scathing indictment of what it describes as the UK's headlong "race toward Islam," a cultural and political catastrophe threatening to dismantle Britain's Christian heritage. Lifson zeros in on the onset of Ramadan on March 1, 2025, marked by a month-long Islamic celebration of fasting and feasting. The article argues that Leftists in the UK have forged a dangerous alliance with Islam, united by their shared enmity toward Christian values, specifically targeting the Bible as practiced through Christianity. Lifson points to state-run schools prioritising Islamic education over Britain's "long and storied history" as proof of this betrayal. This isn't mere cultural drift—it's a calculated erosion, he warns, driven by demographic shifts, with the 2021 UK Census (per Wikipedia) revealing Muslims now at 6.0 percent of the population, London's proportion at 15 percent, and an alarming 5,200 annual conversions, particularly in prisons where Muslims now constitute 18 percent of inmates, a breeding ground for radicalisation.

Lifson's critique is unrelenting, portraying Islamisation as a dual threat: a top-down elite surrender and a grassroots invasion, with Leftists and Islamists conspiring to subvert Britain's identity. He invokes "Taqiyya"—a concept in Islamic jurisprudence allowing dissimulation—painting a picture of a nation sleepwalking into theocracy. The scale of this shift is staggering: mosques outnumbering churches in London, Sharia councils operating in parallel to British law, and political parties like Labour pandering to Muslim voters, winning 60 percent of their support in 2024 (per a BBC analysis). This isn't integration—it's capitulation, a race toward an alien ideology that rejects Western liberalism, women's rights, and free speech in favor of Sharia law and jihadist aspirations.

To underscore the dire threat of Islamisation, additional sources amplify this alarm with chilling clarity. The Wikipedia entry on "Islam in the United Kingdom," updated February 28, 2025, confirms the demographic surge Lifson highlights—nearly four million Muslims (6.0 percent of the population), with London at 15 percent—and notes 5,200 annual conversions, many in prisons where Muslims now make up 18 percent of inmates, up from 8 percent in 2002. This prison radicalisation isn't incidental; it's a pipeline for extremism, as scholars like Olivier Roy and Gilles Kepel warn, with Britain a known hub for Islamist activity since the 1990s. The Heritage Foundation's report, "Understanding and Defeating Islamism in the United Kingdom," undated but cited in web results, reveals 23,000 Islamist terror threats on UK intelligence radar in 2017, with 3,000 actively monitored, and 900 Britons joining ISIS by 2019, underscoring a security nightmare Lifson only hints at. A March 5, 2025, Breitbart article, "UK: Ramadan Begins with Calls for Sharia Law and Jihad," reports pro-Hamas chants and Sharia advocacy at London rallies, documenting a brazen push for Islamic dominance that threatens British sovereignty. These aren't isolated incidents—they're symptoms of a creeping jihadist agenda, with mosques (423 in London versus 378 churches) becoming outposts of a parallel legal and cultural system.

Pew Research's 2024 projections, cited in the Daily Mail, warn of a Muslim majority in some UK areas by 2050, a demographic time bomb that could render Britain unrecognisable, governed by Sharia rather than common law. The Daily Mail's report also notes the rise of "no-go zones" in cities like Birmingham and Bradford, where police fear to tread, and women face harassment for not wearing hijabs—a stark contrast to Britain's historical freedoms. Even the Guardian's February 26, 2025, piece, "British Muslims: Integration, Not Isolation," which claims 80 percent of Muslims identify as British first, can't mask the reality: a 2023 YouGov poll shows 20 percent support for Sharia law, and a 2016 ICM poll found 23 percent of British Muslims sympathising with jihadist attacks. This isn't integration—it's a Trojan horse, with a significant minority harbouring ambitions to replace British values with an oppressive, medieval code.

The UK's slide into Islamisation is a betrayal of its Christian roots and a direct threat to its security, culture, and freedom. Labour's pandering, and the Sentencing Council's recent move to give ethnic minorities and transgender criminals special treatment (per the Daily Sceptic, March 5, 2025) are all facets of a nation losing its soul. Far from a benign evolution, this is a deliberate assault, driven by demographic conquest, political cowardice, and ideological fanaticism. Britain must wake up before the muezzin's call drowns out Big Ben.