Little Englanders foaming at the mouth about Islam in Britain, you sound like a 75 year old pished guy in a bowler hat and orange sash ranting in the pub about the looming threat of the papacy.

Ordinary Muslims you'd encounter in the UK are no more sinister and alien than ordinary Catholics. One day a week they maybe (or not) go to a fancy building to talk about God in a way that you don't connect with. Please try to be normal about that rather than let it eat your whole identity.

@petealexharris It's not a fancy building, it's an ex-lamp shop in a quite nice 1930s art deco office block.

I assume the chip-shop 2 doors along has come up with some new recipes. Sales opportunity to follow up.

#perfectly_normal_island

@WellsiteGeo @petealexharris #Cambridge used to have a couple of back street houses knocked together, but does have a fancy building these days.

https://www.cibsejournal.com/case-studies/case-study-cambridge-central-mosque/

Case study: Cambridge Central Mosque - CIBSE Journal

Cambridge’s elegant new mosque has comfort and sustainability at its heart thanks to the involvement of the environmental engineer at the project’s inception. Andy Pearson looks at how Skelly & Couch’s creative design worked with the grand scale of the prayer hall to provide natural ventilation and daylighting for more than 1,000 worshippers

CIBSE Journal
@petealexharris it’s so bad in Britain we all had to learn Arabic numerals when I was at school!
@petealexharris There are more practicing Catholics than Anglicans in England today. You don't hear them spouting this bile. Though to be fair, white nationalists are really Mammonists, not Christians of any stripe.
@petealexharris There is something so rich about Brits complaining about immigrants - we basically invented mass immigration and only used it one half the planet.

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Immigrants have simply invented a new kind of Englishman who can tan and handle spicy food. Long overdue upgrades.

@petealexharris when I was a kid I happened to read The Religions of Man by Huston Smith. As the title indicates it was typical mid 20th c Western academic writing, but he had a gift for sharing something of the interior reason why people value their religions as a practitioner. After each religion was covered I would feel a bit of regret that I hadn’t been brought up in the covered religion. 1/2
@petealexharris It shifted my default for talking about religion to seeking to understand the good people experience from their path to the ultimate, away from arguing over the differences from my path. (As a confirmed Episoscopalian with liturgical opinions that shift helps every week at church, much less when talking to my neighbors or traveling). 2/2