WHOSE SIDE IS THE NATIONAL SECULAR SOCIETY ON ? CHRISTIAN ...OR MUSLIM ?

Sir Richard Dannatt, formerly Chief of General Staff in the British Army.

An evangelical Anglican, Dannatt called for a return to traditional Judeo-Christian values in order to counter "the Islamist threat" within British society.

In a Daily Mail interview, he said: "When I see the Islamist threat in this country I hope it doesn't make undue progress because there is a moral and spiritual vacuum in this country." British society, he said, "has always been embedded in Christian values; once you have pulled the anchor up there is a danger that our society moves with the prevailing wind."

In his view, "There is an element of the moral compass spinning. I think it is up to society to realise that is the situation we are in." He identified aspects of radical Islam as the heart of the matter: "We can't wish the Islamist challenge to our society away and I believe that the army both in Iraq and Afghanistan and probably wherever we go next, is fighting the foreign dimension of the challenge to our accepted way of life."

It is important, he added, "to face up to the Islamist threat, to those who act in the name of Islam and in a perverted way try to impose Islam by force on societies that do not wish it." He concluded: "It is said that we live in a post Christian society.

I think that is a great shame.

The broader Judeo-Christian tradition has underpinned British society. It underpins the British Army."

The NSS drew attention to him bragging in Alpha News in 2007 that he "been invited to speak at an Alpha course 300 miles from his home", been picked up, "flew there for the evening, gave the talk, and flew home again" – seeming to involve 1,200 helicopter miles paid for by the public purse. He told them "It was rather good actually. You ought to try it."

(secularism.org.uk)

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