Soft Jihad and Absent Knights

On Islamic Cultural Conquest, Part III

In Britain today, it seems the knights have well and truly left the building.

This year during Ramadan, the prestigious St. George’s Hall at Windsor Castle, for the first time in history, hosted Islamic prayers. In case you were still wondering what I’ve been getting at in the last two posts on Islamic cultural conquest (here and here) below is a visceral example of what being conquered ideologically will look (and sound) like.

Windsor castle is one of the oldest and most prestigious castles in England, dating back almost a thousand years. These Islamic prayers for “Iftar” (the breaking of the fast during Ramadan) were beamed around the world. Everyone saw them and heard them. They were not only unopposed by the leaders and politicians of the nation, but welcomed and even participated in. This has been a regular pattern in recent years, with Muslim prayers and services welcomed in English cathedrals, often with high profile liberals supporting and commending such moves.

While many of the several hundred British Muslims praying there may merely have seen this as a nice hospitable gesture—one further step to multicultural social “harmony”—a growing number of Muslims will know exactly what is going on here. They will know the symbolic significance of this latest “hill”. Ever since the founding of the Church of England, the king has been “defender of the faith.” He is now the proud defender of “the faiths”, welcoming idolatrous prayers into what has been a symbolic “citadel” of British culture, named after a great dragon-slayer, no less.

It seems especially poignant to me as I first watched that clip that the ceiling of St. George’s hall is bedecked with shields of The Most Noble Order of the Garter, the oldest and highest ranking knighthood for chivalry in the history of Britain, dating back to the 12th century. Is there not some significance in this?

Granted, these are now “symbolic” shields, like our many “symbolic” knights of the realm. Yet should this not awaken us a little? Should it not beg a few questions in our mind? What happened to the chivalrous knights of Britain who helped defend Christendom? Where and when did they become merely symbolic? Who are they meant to be today and why do they no longer defend this realm? Why do those in the equivalent positions to be Most Noble in our time watch the heritage and future of this nation trickle away generation by generation, not only doing little to stop it but often actively encouraging it? And what would old St. George himself say?

An Unconvincing Revival

It is notable that around the very same time that these Iftar prayers were happening in that great dragon-slayer’s hall, CBN reported on a “prophecy” about taking back the nation of Britain for Christ.