Yesterday, I talked about the pervasiveness of sin and how that manifest itself in the corruption we see all around us. There is a particularly troubling situation in the United Kingdom, in which hundreds of thousands of young girls have found themselves in harm’s way, on the receiving end of unspeakable acts. It’s another reminder that evil is prevalent in this world, and godlessness leads to acute lawlessness. The Bible teaches us in 1st Timothy 4 (ESV):
1Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, 2 through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, 3 who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 4 For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, 5 for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.
Verse 10 says: “For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.”
The website of Christian Concern, which addresses issues from a Christian perspective in the U.K., posted this information:
Rupert Lowe MP has published the results of his Rape Gang Inquiry this week in a 219-page document which can be found online here. This report gives some helpful perspective on the scale and nature of these crimes.
The largest section of the report consists of twenty victim testimonies which make for harrowing reading. There are also some whistleblower testimonies. Then there is quite a lot of discussion of enabling factors, the Islamic influence, and recommendations.
Those are the words of Christian Concern Head of Public Policy Tim Dieppe, who related: “The report cites evidence that these crimes were carried out by mostly Muslim men with predominantly Pakistani heritage. These gangs have been operating around the country since the 1950s. The report estimates that at least 250,000 young white girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and lifelong trauma.”
These gangs have been in operation in almost 150 districts throughout the country. And, the link between this behavior and the teachings of Islam is emphasized in the report. Dieppe wrote:
Christian Concern published last year a report by Dr Mark Durie entitled UK Grooming Gangs and Islam. In his report, Dr Durie identified eight aspects of Islamic law and theology that are proposed to influence and enable grooming gang criminality.
The Rape Gang Inquiry Report has a section on the influence of Islam which discusses these very same eight factors. Dr Durie’s report for Christian Concern is cited, and Dr Durie himself is thanked in the acknowledgements for enriching the report with his expert knowledge.’
Member of Parliament Lowe posted on X: “Our inquiry report proves that without doubt there is an undeniable link between religion and the rape gangs. Islam. As a country, we need to find the courage to finally say so.”
As S.A. McCarthy, writing for The Washington Stand, noted: “…the vast majority of British institutions — from police and prosecutors to social care and health care workers — routinely, regularly, repeatedly failed to protect British girls from the widespread abuse committed by Muslim rape gangs.”
McCarthy also notes: “Many in politics, public policy, academia, and media have pointed to terrorist acts and mass murders committed in the name of Allah or ‘jihad,’ the Muslim concept of a ‘holy war’ against the Western world, as evidence that mass immigration from Muslim majority countries poses an existential threat to the social, moral, legal, and cultural fabric of Western nations, like the U.K. or the U.S.”
He goes on to say:
Under traditional Islamic jurisprudence, the term “hijrah” refers to conquest via immigration, effectively inundating a non-Muslim country so completely with Muslim immigration that Muslims can subsequently undermine, topple, and eventually replace all major institutions and subjugate the nation to Islam. “Islamic jurisprudence also addresses the treatment of non-Muslim populations conquered through jihad,” the Inquiry observed in its report. Islam differentiates between infidels living in Muslim-dominated territories, who are largely considered “safe” from jihad provided certain obligations are fulfilled, and infidels who live in non-Muslim territories, who are fair game for violence, warfare, subjugation, conquest, and eventual enslavement. The Inquiry affirmed that the crimes perpetrated by the Muslim rape gangs “are not isolated instances of criminality, but stem from imported pre-modern clan systems embedded within certain ethno-cultural communities, reinforced by specifically Islamic collectivism.”
He also stated:
While some American legislators and law enforcement officials are sounding the alarm over the rise of the practice of sharia law, the U.K.’s tragic Rape Gang Inquiry stands as a stark, brutal warning: if it is happening in the U.K. on such an enormous scale, then there is a good chance that it is happening in the U.S. on a smaller scale.
In fact, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin confirmed recently that federal law enforcement agents have already found similar-style rape gangs.
There are quite a few issues that arise from this report on unspeakable activity, that is practiced by those who, quite frankly, hold to a different worldview than ours as Christians. The God of the Bible is emphatically NOT the god, or Allah, of Islam. The means to the Islamic end is far different than the prosecution of the Christian gospel and the adherence to the Great Commission, predicated on the love of our Savior, who died for us.
These are the direct products of hearts that have not been regenerated by the power of the gospel, where sin is in control and operators claim to follow a religious system, but one that does not save the soul. While we are called to love all, we must reject practices that do not comport with the perspectives of the Scriptures. And, we must not be deceived into tolerating what does not save.