Month: October 2025

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Remembering October 7th

Yesterday (Oct 5th 2025) I went with a friend to the October 7th Memorial gathering in Trafalgar Square.

The event was about an hour and a half. Completely Jewish, so as a Christian one did feel a little out of place. There was a lot of prayer and some songs in Hebrew.

Much of the time was taken up with people who were survivors of October 7th or family of people who had been killed or taken hostage. On top of that was the presence of folk from Manchester. Watch prayers for Manchester ….

https://vimeo.com/1124759854

Several Jewish dignatories and even one lady who was a Holocaust survivor. All extremely moving and quite sombre. How anyone intelligent person can pretend that October 7th never happened is beyond me. Watch a Nova Festival survivor ..

What was lovely though was the absence of anger, just sorrow.

At one point we sang the National Anthem. These are people who are profoundly integrated into British society. After all their God is our God. It is a good time to be praying that they discover their Messiah!

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The problem of Islam

Yesterday I had an unfortunate conversation with two young Moslem men. They were approaching a street performer who had just shared the gospel between songs and their opening comment was enough for me to need to step in and protect the performer.

Young men like this have been so indoctrinated that they simply hate the Jews. What on earth goes on in our local mosques and then online at home should deeply concern us all. The level of anger and vitriol spewing from their mouths was not new to me. I’ve heard it all before. But clearly their understanding of middle eastern history and geography is so skewed. Almost every line I started to say was greeted with grins and the response “free free Palestine”. After a few minutes it was obvious that this was not a discussion. They were so closed in their thinking that further interaction was pointless. BTW these weren’t migrants, they both had English accents.

Then this morning’s news of the attack on the Manchester Synagogue. Simply horrendous. But as a Jewish spokesman said on the radio, what can you do when people are motivated by the thinking of a desert dwelling tribal warlord from the Dark Ages?!

I would urge anyone reading this and disturbed by what I have said to go to an online Qur’an site and read the book for yourself. Try searching for words such as peace, kill, neck, jihad.

And if you aren’t a Christian, when you finished the Qur’an, try the New Testament and compare Mohammad to Jesus. You will be surprised.