On Friday 11 September at 7.30pm at the Emmanuel Centre in London, Winston Marshall will host a live debate between two prominent voices with sharply differing perspectives on a question that continues to shape politics, culture, religion and public discourse around the world:
Is Islam compatible with the West?
Arguing from different viewpoints, journalist and author Maajid Nawaz and historian Raymond Ibrahim will engage in a candid and robust discussion on faith, integration, liberal values, history and the future of Western societies.
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No. The late Sir Roger Scruton was clear that Sharia/Quran bound Islam and the secular West (The concept of secular does not exist in Islam) are completely incompatible.
In 2002 in "The West and the Rest" (post 9/11) he expounds at length on this. Similarly in the essay "The Defence of the West" in his collection "Confessions of a Heretic" a more concise explanation.
Islam colonises. That is its MO for conversion. Many of those ME/Maghreb countries now Islamic were Christian.
Lebanon in my lifetime.
There will be blood whilst Labour pander to Muslims for votes.
First establish if the west has actual core values