A terrible terrorist attack with a large number of victims took place in Egypt. On Friday, in the south of the country, in the Minya Governorate, terrorists fired at the bus with the local Copt Christians. More than 30 people died. Dozens were wounded.
On Monday, Europe's largest indoor concert arena in Britain's Manchester was blown up. A suicide bomber associated with the Middle East pseudo-caliphate blew himself up in the crowd of people. 22 people died, including 12 children. There are more than a hundred wounded. A few people went missing. The police are arresting suspects of complicity. The name of the terrorist is Salman Abedi.
Under Muammar Gaddafi, the father of the suicide bomber, Ramadan Abadi, was also considered a terrorist. Since the UK supported all those who opposed Gaddafi, it gave Ramadan political asylum. The family moved to London and then to Manchester, where the future suicide bomber Salman was born. He got the ideas of radical Islam from terrorists, who spawned in Libya after the British and the French committed military aggression there, during which Muammar Gaddafi was killed, and the state was destroyed. Now, they are getting payback.
One more important and already civilizational fact. The suicide bomber’s father, Ramadan Abedi, who was arrested in Libya, was a muezzin of the central mosque of the Greater Manchester county. In Islam, the muezzin is a clerical official, who, with his voice and often through a loudspeaker, summons people to the obligatory prayer, namaz. But the mosque, where Ramadan Abedi served as a muezzin, was placed in a used-to-be Christian church of the 19th century.
In the 20th century, this Gothic building made of red brick belonged to the Methodist church, and in 1962, the church was closed. Five years later, it was bought by some Arab sponsors. Since a mosque can be located in any beautiful place, and there are no architectural canons for its structure in Islam, they simply removed crosses from the spires and moved in. In addition to the mosque, there is the Manchester Islamic Center here now. The organization's website says that it provides counselling services in various social issues. That is, the topic of consultations is very broad, and chances are that the service is in demand, because now in Manchester, every sixth person is Muslim.
The dynamics of urban Islamization reflects the British trend — replacement of Christianity with Islam. According to the American analytical Gatestone Institute, since 2001, 500 Christian churches have closed in London. And 423 mosques have been opened. A holy place is never empty. Muslims often settled in the same buildings. A striking coincidence: the number of closed Christian churches and newly opened mosques in London is approximately the same during the same period. If we talk about parishioners, it is already estimated that by 2020 in the UK, Muslims will constitute the majority.
For the UK, it’s a very painful process. It’s believed that there are about 20 million Muslims in Russia. But for us, they are our people with whom we have lived side by side for centuries, having accumulated a huge positive experience. In the UK, and in the rest of Europe, it’s a completely different situation, different historical experience, and different current dynamics.
