The latest assault on Christians is happening in Speakers’ Corner in London’s Hyde Park. A Christian man has been told that he can no longer display his banner, which declares nothing more than “The blood of Jesus Christ.” Whether this ban on signage is a new law that will be applied to any and all posters being hung by every religious denomination, as well as the rest of the speakers who pontificate at the park, remains to be seen.
As a victim of homophobic abuse from a bunch of Muslim regulars at Speakers’ Corner, which I reported to the police at the time of occurrence, I was told that had the death threats against me happened just metres from where I was standing (outside the park), then the police could make arrests. Speakers’ Corner, as it happens, is outside the law of the UK, according to the Met police. Anything goes, they told me. Anything except a declaration of an allegiance to Jesus. Call for jihad in the name of Muhammad and it’s fine, but make calls for people to come together in Christ and that’s a step too far for the cops in Hyde Park.
This isn’t the first time we’re seeing double standards by the police in relation to Christian preachers here in the UK. Three men were arrested and charged in Bristol for the offence of reading from the Bible on a public street. Meanwhile, dawah stalls litter a large number of streets in London, from Dalston Junction to Woolwich, over to Kilburn and beyond. There is a permanent one set up in Leicester Square which blasts music (noise pollution) and hands out free Qurans and bad advice. These men never get tackled by police or shut down or asked to move along. They certainly don’t get arrested. Lee Rigby’s killers were free to walk around Greenwich park distributing extremist Islamic material with no complaints from the public, and no arrests made by the police. The three Christian men in Bristol, however, were mocked by the public, and the police were applauded and cheered when they made the arrests. It’s a scene that replicates the mocking of Jesus during his arrest, trial and punishment on his way to the cross.
The arresting of Christian preachers can be contrasted with the way the UK police interact with Muslim preachers on the streets. The police generally stand there, impotent, whilst taking a belly and an earful of verbal abuse from yet another angry Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar” at them. The police, in these instances, in a bid to save face in the eyes of the public, are shamed into making a reluctant arrest. And any arrest of a Muslim preacher is not made without the fear of violent reprisal towards the arresting officers. The cops know this, and so they pick on the easy religious targets such as truly peaceful Christians.
The banners that are normally on display in the very small section of Hyde Park that is known as Speakers’ Corner generally verge on the ridiculous. The Blood of Jesus Christ pales in comparison to the rest of the posters and banners which generally tell of the end of the world being nigh, advocate for socialism, claim that meat is murder, offer free psychic healing and hugs, as well as tell tales of extraterrestrial life forms sending radio signals to interfere with our brains. The most offensive sign that I’ve seen at Speakers’ Corner, and on the majority of dawah stalls, are those that tell me Jesus is a Muslim. No, Jesus is not a Muslim. As a Christian, I would not get away with putting up a poster stating that Muhammad was a Christian. I’d be met by a braying mob before being swiftly arrested. The Blood of Jesus is not an offensive statement; it is the very heart of Christianity. The Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation states that we drink it in the Communion wine, with Christ’s body being found and ingested in the wafer.
The Christ energy invigorates the Western world. You could be forgiven for thinking that He is the blueprint for liberalism and leftist ideals — love thy neighbour, welcome the other, communal eating with outcasts, giving of your own wealth to help those in need, and reserving judgement of others whilst here on earth, but His words and deeds are different from big government taking your money from you and redistributing it without your permission. All of that just for starters. The blood of Jesus is understood to be salvific to the Christian mind. It is healing and redemptive. Why is Jesus’ death becoming a dangerous thing to the UK police? It’s baffling to me why our authorities and the general public seem to be siding with Islam rather than Christianity. What has gone wrong with us as a people and a nation that the blood of Christ is becoming a dirty thing in the eyes and minds of the public?
mortimer says
Very good analysis by Joshua Winston of the double standards currently used by police whenever Muslims are involved. Leftards are using Islam to destroy Europe’s Christian culture. After they destroy Christian Europe, the Leftards think they can easily destroy their Islamic ‘noble savages’ and convert them to Globalist Leftism … sure … ‘easy’. Stalin tried that and the Chinese are putting putting thousands in re-education camps.
In the UK, Muslim feelings are considered to be more important than the feelings of all others. This is putting the law totally into the realm of SUBJECTIVITY and selective outrage … which should never happen.
While it should be illegal to solicit murder or genocide, it should never be illegal to promote ideas, no matter how unreasonable or foolish.
At one time, before Galileo, it was unreasonable and foolish to say the earth revolved around the sun!
What is going to awaken UK out of its Leftist dream? While many Britons know some proverbial ‘nice Muslims’, almost no one in UK has done the study of Islam that would permit them to master any of Islam’s supremacist political teachings.
British politicians especially are about 90% naive and/or STUPID about Islam.
Ronald Sevenster says
It is not that the police are stupid. They fear for their lives if they hurt the feelings of Muslims. That’s why their calculation is easily made. Each time Christians and Muslims are perceived as offending each other, just arrest the Christians. Nothing to fear from them. In one word: the police are cowards.
CogitoErgoSum says
Elizabeth II — Defender of the Faith?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eLNTB3FlcI
mortimer says
Queen Elizabeth is a very devout evangelical Christian. She should tell some of her bishops to go out and stop the arrests of Christian preachers.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, is she not the head of the Church of England? Wouldn’t that put her on the same level in her Church as the Pope is in the Roman Catholic Church? Yet, I hear little to nothing from her on matters of religion. Her bishops are probably busy doing the same as some of the Pope’s bishops — helping Muslims build more mosques.
Salome says
No. It’s more a ‘constitutional’ thing, like the constitutional monarchy. She acts on advice of Parliament, but basically leaves it to the bishops to run things.
CogitoErgoSum says
I should have looked at the Church of England website first. It says the archbishops of Canterbury and York are jointly responsible for the vision of direction of the Church. The Queen is the Supreme Governor of the Church and she appoints archbishops, bishops and deans of cathedrals on the advice of the Prime Minister. So while she does not exactly lead the Church she has control over who gets to be the leaders. That’s still quite a bit of power and control over the Church.
CogitoErgoSum says
Oh, here is the link to the page from the Church of England website that contains that information:
https://www.churchofengland.org/about/leadership-and-governance
gravenimage says
The Queen *should* speak out against the destruction of her realm–but she has stayed largely silent, and her son Charles is an open Islamophile, Things in Britain are likely to become even worse under him.
Jedothek says
In what sense is she evangelical?
Salome says
It means she isn’t into bells and smells like her late mother.
R Russell says
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, refused to assist Nissar Hussain the Christian convert from Islam who was hospitalised after one of several attacks on him as an apostate. I doubt the church of England will be of any assistance.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
Trick_or_Treat says
Evangelical? Where does this woman normally do her evangelising? You Tube? Hilll (heretic) Channel? Inyourfacebook? Don’t recall having seen her about. Is there anyone she’s led to Christ in the past year willing to put their hand up?
Like ‘Christian’, or (excuse me) “Defender of theFaith” [lol], or one of those ‘Jesus Saves’ or ‘<' bumper stickers, it's a 'nice' tag I suppose.
Trick_or_Treat says
PS: …about as “devout” as she is “Evangelical” it would appear.
Nevertheless, Christ is coming for the Church soon – very soon. Have YOU accepted Him as Lord and Saviour yet? Are YOU ready and prepared?
….and scumbag Epstein DIDN’T kill himself!
No Muzzies Here says
The UK is in process of welcoming its new overlords, and they will eliminate the Christians when they get into power. The UK is preparing Christians for their future.
Michael Copeland says
“Jihad will continue until all the Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, Atheists are killed. Quran does NOT permit survival of non-muslims” – Abdullah Zuber
“Allah, strike…the Christians ..count them and kill them to the last one” – Al-Aqsa TV
R Russell says
Some Christians are praying for revival. David Hathaway and Clifford Hill organise meetings.
Angemon says
Or people who say “mean” things online.
James Lincoln says
Angemon says,
“The cops …pick on the easy religious targets such as truly peaceful Christians.”
Apparently it is safer, at least in the short run, for the cops to go after the low hanging fruit…
mortimer says
I think if this preacher returned with a lord bishop or two, dressed in full clericals, there would be no arrest. The religious leaders of the UK are not doing their job. They should be going out to support street preachers and lending their support to them. The UK is officially in law Christian. No Christian preacher should ever be arrested for preaching a Christian doctrine.
CogitoErgoSum says
Indeed, and where is the Queen and the other royals? Just what faith are they defending? (And Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself.)
FYI says
I admire Christian Street Preachers as they preach the authentic Gospel as it really is, emphasising the need for repentance.
It is interesting to watch muslim dawa teams vs Christian Evangelists:The muslims are using their pagan Arab god’s false knowledge to justify their evil cult whereas the Christians are speaking through the Holy Spirit.
idiotically.the muslims claim they win these “debates” but in terms of WISDOM they lose as they have not understood{or chose not to understand}God’s Wisdom and persist in their delusion that alla is god /Christians are polytheists etc.
The main reason the muslims run away when confronted by the Truth is 1}that they prefer the freedom to do the evil allah permits them to do
2}they know full well that muhammed cannot have been a morally good example:yet they defend rape,pederasry etc
3}2 thessalonians 2 v 10-12;the real reason: By rejecting the Truth given to them by the Christian preachers they prefer instead to be guided by “the power of error so that they believe what is false”
And Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself
Jayell says
How can anyone in their right mind claim that a person was a member of a group or movement that didn’t exist in any way, shape or form when that person was alive? There is some logic in saying that Mohammed might a ‘Christian’ to some extent if Jesus’s teachings were incorporated into islam. That would be highly dubious, however, because although muslims claim to venerate ‘Isa’, none of his key teachings seem to be in the Qur’an.
By the way, and slightly off the point, UK readers might like to know that a young man might be sent to prison because he’s been convicted of Hate Speech at York Crown Court for saying that ‘muslims should be wiped off the face of the earth’. The fact the muslims already do this sort of thing regularly and furthermore have a habit of actually wiping people that they don’t like off the face of the earth appears to be neither here nor there.
gravenimage says
Yes–Islam rejects every teaching of Jesus–especially “Love thy neighbor as thyself”, which is the greatest commandment and the basis of Christianity.
Kate R. says
You are not exactly correct. Jesus said the greatest commandment is to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind, and the second is like it, love your neighbor as yourself.” Matthew 22:36-40
Importantly, critically, love of God is first. People forget that. This is the basis of Christianity and our First Commandment as well.
gravenimage says
Yes–you are right, Kate:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+22%3A36-40&version=KJV
But Jesus does say that loving your neighbor is “like unto it”.
Spiro says
That’s amazing England surrendered without
a shot being fired
I guess next they’ll proclaim Islam the equal to the church of England or maybe superior
Anna Yelena says
I read a while back, in a magazine called The Trumpet, a deranged fanatic Muslim stated that they will take England from the inside out. Looks like they’re succeeding and we might add all of Europe. The Cult of Mo is alive.
Trick_or_Treat says
Yep, …even though the enemy invader walks right up and hits them fair over the head with it! Like, how f**kin’ THICK are their skulls?!
(..and Epstein DIDN’T kill himself!)
Rufolino says
In practice, Islam is already “above” Christianity in Britain.
For example. You can burn a Bible but you can’t burn a Koran.
David Longfellow says
England, land of cowards.
Mario Alexis Portella says
Don’t forget to add stupidity. Let’s hope we can stop the Islamic threat in America, for this might happen to us https://thegreatarchitect.blog/2019/11/18/the-islamic-states-of-america/
R Russell says
The blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, cleanses us from all sin.
This is why they don’t want the Blood mentioned.
But the blood shall never lose its power. Look up the hymn on YouTube and declare the power of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Trick_or_Treat says
+1???
abad says
+1
somehistory says
Jesus did warn His followers that they would be “hated by the world,” and “persecuted because of His Name.” He said, “Count the cost,” knowing that this treatment would be part of that cost, part of the price one pays for his faith and the rewards that come because of that faith.
And the Apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthian Christians, “To the one, we are an odor of death and demise; to the other, a fragrance that brings life.”
The moslims smell the odor of death, and so do the other people who find the blood of Christ to be offensive, something to avoid and to sneer at with contempt. This contempt is spreading.
Trick_or_Treat says
+1???
Kepha says
+1
abad says
+1
Mario Alexis Portella says
America, watch out!! It might be called the Islamic States of America if we don’t stop the threat!!! https://thegreatarchitect.blog/2019/11/18/the-islamic-states-of-america/
paul 316 says
Good article…the time people will wake up is when its too late to do anything about an Islamic take over. The people here at this site know all to well what we are up against, but for most in America, they are oblivious to the facts and seem to have a lackadaisical attitude at knowing anything that is outside of their comfort zone.
gravenimage says
The blood of Christ is now offensive in the UK
…………….
I doubt these idiots even know what the blood of Christ even refers to. They probably think it is some sort of call for violence, rather than its opposite.
Meanwhile, Muslims at Speaker’s Corner regularly preach actual violence without repercussion. Insanity.
CogitoErgoSum says
Good point, Graven. It never occurred to me that there may be people living in the UK who do not even understand what the sign means. Could some actually be so poorly informed about Christianity that they think the sign is a call for bloodshed? Hard to believe but it may be so — and there is a growing number who are not willing to listen so as to learn either — along with a growing number who think letting people remain ignorant of Christ is a good thing too.
gravenimage says
I had an acquaintance who thought just this, CogitoErgoSum. Sadly, I think this ignorance is quote common.
Moreover, you find this stupidity in academia, as well. Here is one example:
https://www.ghi-dc.org/fileadmin/user_upload/GHI_Washington/Publications/Bulletin30/3.pdf
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, how barbaric of those Christians to make the Romans (or Muslims or Communists, etc.) crucify them, or behead them or chop them into pieces. And to top it off, how utterly tasteless to want to remember such things as ever having happened (I say with deep sarcasm.)
gravenimage says
Spot on, CogitoErgoSum–as though deploring violence against victims were the same as calling for violence, or perpetrating it oneself.
But then, it is just the same re Anti-Jihadists–as though citing the terrible violence of Islam is as bad–or worse–than perpetrating such violence.
Lydia Church says
The devil is behind this… and it is spreading.
They want to outlaw the gospel all over.
But the truth marches on unhindered!
We must obey God rather than man in matters like this. Acts 5; 29
Yes, and in the last paragraph, a few items.
1. We are to judge, but with righteous judgment, as Jesus said. Not in the wrong way with arrogance, etc.
2. With Jesus you see the heart of the Father. If His ways were fully followed, it would be heaven on earth and everyone would share and there would be no poverty. But of course His ways are not usually followed, or only in one direction. That is why His will about on earth as in heaven won’t occur until after the apocalypse and judgment and return of Jesus. The kingdom is among us in the sense that as Christians, we live this way. When you try to expand it with the unsaved, it does not work because most do not want to repent of their sins, which causes the trouble on earth in the first place. And then you can’t help those who won’t repent and don’t want to be helped, such as homeless drug addicts. So you have to use discretion in such matters with charity, now more than ever with the drug epidemics. But most liberals don’t realize you can’t have heaven on earth without the redemption of Jesus which makes it possible for those who have received salvation and submitted to God to have the power to live according to God’s ways. But it is still two separate kingdoms until God installs His kingdom later, which we can’t do. They think they can create a utopia on earth full of unrepentant, selfish sinners that includes world peace and sharing the wealth. The unsaved sin nature of man is the problem as to why this won’t work. So… good luck with that one! And the same false belief is sweeping apostate Christianity and goes by names such as ‘dominionislm,’ ‘kingdom now theology,’ and ‘bringing the kingdom’ which man cannot do, Christian or not. Only God can usher in His own kingdom! The only way we can share the kingdom is by inviting the lost into it by sharing the saving gospel of Jesus Christ, as this person in the photo was doing. THAT is what transforms society in numerous ways. We live it out that we are transformed by the Holy Spirit by doing good such as charity too, one application of that. But you can’t force God’s ways, the gospel, and charity on others and most reject it, now more than ever. You can’t help those who don’t want to help themselves and who don’t want to change but remain in their sins. But charity will never save anyone, only the gospel will. It is the difference of Cain’s offering versus Abel’s. Deep lessons are behind all of what is in the Bible.
AntiIslamicman says
Cowards
dfhdnjdn says
What has gone wrong?
Idolatry is what has happened!
The UK population as a whole worships the false systems of Roman Catholicism (counterfeit Christianity), Islam and self – and a few others.
God has promised that –
“For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted”
Isaiah 60:12.
It really is the ABC of the Bible.
gravenimage says
No, most Britons are not Catholic.
Nor does Catholicism reject the blood of Christ. What rot.
Dum Spiro says
This statement you made in the article is inaccurate: “The Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation states that we drink it in the Communion wine, with Christ’s body being found and ingested in the wafer.”
That sounds too much like impanation and consubstantiation. Check out these links:
https://www.catholic.com/video/explaining-transubstantiation
https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/impanation
Those links can help you understand better…
— Spero
toomanyhobbies says
yet the blood of the far too many victims is not???
David Ashton says
The “Church” of “England” has also just announced that all Christians must repent of their “guilt” for the Holocaust which was allegedly caused by Christian theology. You can find a few verses in the New Testament which sound anti-Jewish. You can also find a few in the Old Testament/Tanakh itsef that are not exactly totally unqualified endorsements of the Jewish people. Perhaps the Bible should be banned under the hate-crime provisions of the UK secular “equality” ideology.
The Quran also has more than a few verses which also sound anti-Jewish. Perhaps the Quran too should be banned, likewise? Oh no, I thought not,
somehistory says
I would not be surprised if the Bible is banned in the U.K. and elsewhere. Christians in Indonesia are not allowed to speak to moslims there about religion or offer the Bible to moslims.
In SA, people are not allowed to display the Bible, etc. Christians are severely persecuted in Iran.
The. U.K. is, more and more, conforming to what moslims want and say is correct. We can most likely expect something like is done in molsim countries soon for the U.K. and Canada, and Germany, etc.
gravenimage says
Britons *saved* many from the Holocaust. This is such rot.