By Tim Dieppe2023-05-22T16:23:00
If we are never offending people, then it is highly unlikely that we are preaching the gospel, argues Tim Dieppe
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the brutal murder of Fusileer Lee Rigby on the streets on Woolwich in broad daylight by Muslim converts who quoted from the Qur’an to justify their actions.
It is also the 6th anniversary of the Manchester Bombing which killed 22 people with 64 injured.
The Home Secretary stated in February that 80 per cent of counter-terrorism police network’s live investigations are Islamist terrorism. MI5 is clear that Islamist terrorism is our greatest threat, making up around three quarters of its caseload. The current national threat level from terrorism is ‘substantial’ – meaning that an attack is ‘likely’. The last time the MI5 Director General gave his annual update, in November 2022, he said that another eight potentially-deadly late-stage attack plots had been disrupted in the last year.
We now know that one of these attack plots was an attempt on the life of Christian evangelist Hatun Tash.
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2023-07-28T09:01:00Z By Pepsy Ngole
Felix Ngole won a landmark legal case against the University of Sheffield in 2019 after they expelled him for his views on sexuality and marriage. Now he has had a job offer withdrawn for the same reason. His wife shares their story
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