Baroness Warsi is full of...

I'm not KS...and I don’t know what the Crusader Rabbit or NZC crowd are going to make of this…Baroness Warsi, David Cameron’s token female Muslim badge of “diversity” is off to make a speech at the Vatican.

In it, she will apparently call for the UK and Europe to have “more confidence” in the role of Christianity in public life and points the finger of blame at “militant secularism”.

My fear today is that a militant secularisation is taking hold of our societies. We see it in any number of things: when signs of religion cannot be displayed or worn in government buildings; and where religion is sidelined, marginalised and downgraded in the public sphere.

She even has the barefaced cheek to trot out the Secularism leads to Totalitarianism canard, it’s almost a surprise that she managed to hold back from mentioning Hitler by name…but then she probably doesn’t want to embarrass her host.

It’s not militant Athesism (I’ll use the word, even if she daren’t) that’s responsible for nurses being banned from wearing crucifixes; it’s the fear of offending other religions, specifically your Religion, Sayeeda. Atheists don’t really care if you want to wear religious symbols, even if the more militant ones might be quite rude in the way they ridicule religious belief.

It’s not even the likes of Richard Dawkins that are driving the increasing secularism of most of the Western world, he’s just successfully selling his product into that growing market;  it’s the nightly news showing us where blind religious belief will take you and a couple of kgs of semtex, that’s doing more than anything to turn us off middle-eastern sourced myths.

What Sayeeda Warsi wants is stronger Christian voice in British public life, because that will legitimise an Islamic voice at the top table – how about an Imam alongside the Bishops in the House of Lords? We can argue all day about the pros and cons of society’s drift from Faith to Reason, but assuredly, opening the door to the aggressive and backward Death Cult of Islam is a leap backwards.