We all know how deals with the devil usually wind up.
Lord Scott, a former UK Supreme Court judge, has a
far-from-original way to combat ‘Islamophobia’: it’s called unilateral
prostration. During a debate on how relationships between the Muslim community
and other religious groups in the UK might be improved, he suggested the following:
“I do just wonder that if an improvement is needed between the faith groups, one way of promoting that might be to encourage interfaith marriages.”
If you find the concept of “interfaith marriages” with Islam
as one of the parties less than entirely plausible, you’ve probably been paying
attention. Here’s how it worked out in Lord Scott’s family:
“Of my two sons one has become a Muslim and of my two daughters one of those has become a Muslim, and I have 12 lovely grandchildren, seven of whom are little Muslims.”
Umm ... call me a nit-picker, but that’s not “interfaith
marriage”. That’s wholesale capitulation. I believe the technical term is “conversion”.
And it’s all one way.
And it’s all one way.