Amritsar - Virtue Signalling Archbishop's Grovelling Apology

Here we go again. Just months after then Prime Minister, Theresa May, did so in Parliament yet another prominent British figure feels the need to apologize for the Amritsar Massacre perpetrated by a rogue British general during the British Raj in 1919.

Not content with laying a wreath and whispering a silent prayer in remembrance, the head of the world Anglican Church, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, turned virtue signaling to an embarrassing display of undignified groveling. (See here)

Prostrating himself face down before the memorial plinth was over the top even for an agenda driven Archbishop who is more concerned with things temporal than things spiritual such as saving souls and preparing them for eternity.

One is bound to ask what is it about that terrible event in Amritsar a century ago that compels politicians to keep apologizing for it when British colonial history is littered with similar atrocities, particularly in Africa?

The answer is simple; being the cynical, duplicitous people that they are, politicians recognise that the Indian diaspora in Great Britain is a significant voting block that can swing an election whereas the African diaspora is not.

Like the Roman Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis, Archbishop Welby is a left-wing activist who is not shy to make public his support for socialist causes or his fanatical support for the undemocratic tyranny that the European Union has become.

This support for ‘progressive’ causes includes the Islamisation of Great Britain regardless of its barbaric practices or its goal of subjugating Christians and Jews or, failing that, killing them.

For a global church leader the Archbishop appears to be ignorant of events worldwide where his fellow Christians are being systematically erased by Muslims from areas they have lived in since the dawn of Christianity.

Ancient Christian communities are being erased from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Syria as well as Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Across Africa from Mali and Nigeria in the west to Kenya, Sudan and Somalia in the east, Christians are being enslaved and slaughtered in their tens of thousands. As far afield as Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Philippines Christians are being slaughtered by the so-called religion of peace that the Archbishop champions. (List of Islamic terror attacks against Christians here) 

Apart from the Archbishop and the Pope, it is acknowledged around the world that Christianity is now the most persecuted religion on the planet. Even the governments in the predominantly Judeo-Christian continents of Europe and America, Christianity is being vilified and removed from the public square. 

If he took a short walk from his residence at Lambeth Palace, Archbishop Welby could prostrate himself face down on Westminster Bridge where an adherent of Islam murdered four innocent civilians or have his chauffeur drive him to London Bridge, Tavistock Square, Aldgate, Manchester Arena and elsewhere in his home country where Muslims have murdered innocents in the name of Allah, as commanded by their prophet and in accordance with their holy book, the Koran.

As we commemorate the eighteenth anniversary of the World Trade Centre atrocity where Muslims murdered almost three thousand people and injured a further six thousand, it is incumbent upon the Archbishop to make the pilgrimage and prostrate himself face down at Ground Zero or else the world might think his theatrical performance in Amritsar was a nothing other than a virtue signaling publicity stunt.

To conclude: While Archbishop Welby is virtue signaling and apologizing for events from a century ago he is ignoring the fact that his flock at home is dwindling and his empty churches are decaying into dereliction or being turned into warehouses, vehicle workshops and mosques or demolished at the behest of land developers.

It appears that disparaging one’s own country and apologizing for events in history is the in thing to do for the new ‘woke’ generation of political leaders, including Barack Obama, and high-profile personalities like the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Pope of Rome.

A previous article on the Amritsar apology circus here 

Politicians Apologizing for the Amritsar Massacre Again

The weekly session of Prime Ministers Questions from the House of Commons is supposedly an opportunity for the Leader of the Opposition and ordinary backbench MP’s to question the Prime Minister on any topic of concern.

Since the proceedings were televised in November 1989 the event has become a choreographed piece of theatre where questions are submitted in advance and the answers scripted to make the Prime Minister and the Members look good.

It is also an opportunity for the politicians to virtue signal to the core voters in their constituencies and to burnish their ideological credentials on the national and international stage.

Before the first question is asked it has become customary for the Prime Minister to make a virtue signaling statement by remembering some anniversary or commemorative day to give the impression that they care about something close to their hearts.

With her Brexit policy in a shambles and her government in total disarray Theresa May opened the last session with an apology for the Amritsar Massacre committed by the British Raj in India a century ago.

Since former Prime Ministers David Cameron, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have already apologized for the Amritsar Massacre and the fact that Mrs. May couldn’t care less about events in India a century ago this was deflection from her current problems and a cynical use of an historical event for personal and political ends.

By bringing up this dark event in British history yet again she is burnishing her compassionate credentials and signaling to the world that the British and their Empire are responsible for the all the misfortune that ails the world today.

This continual apologizing for misdeeds of our ancestors only entrenches the dislike of the British by foreign powers who are convinced that the British people still have a superiority complex from their glory days and need bringing down a peg two. The European Union being a classic example whose contempt and dislike for the British is palpable.

Worse still, this continuous hand-wringing and faux repentance is leading to demands that reparations be paid to people with no legacy of hurt from the Empire and as penance for actions committed centuries ago.

In Prime Ministers Questions last year Mrs. May marked the anniversary of the Finsbury Park mosque attack where, sadly, one person was killed and nine injured by a nutcase with car.

I have never heard Mrs. May remember in Parliament Fuselier Lee Rigby who was brutally murdered by Muslims outside a London school in May 2013.

If she really wanted to atone for historical wrong-doing she could have apologized for the Clifford Tower massacre where the entire Jewish population of York were wiped out in 1190 or the horrific massacre of the Scots at Glencoe in February 1692.

The St. Brides Day massacre of the Danes by Ethelred the Unready in 1002 remains a dark stain on British history which would have solicited an apology if Mrs. May and the political class were chasing the Danish vote.

Apart from virtue signaling to the world, the act of tarnishing the image of Great Britain by apologizing for past wrong-doing is a cynical appeal for votes from a target community.

The Indian and Muslim communities in Great Britain are big enough to influence the outcome of elections hence remembering the Amritsar massacre and the Finsbury Park mosque attack.

The Jewish and Danish communities on the other hand are small and therefore massacres involving them is not worth a mention.

As a patriotic Brit I will acknowledge that the British Empire was not as pure as the driven snow and I regret the terrible event at Amritsar but the Raj was no worse, and in many ways better, than any other imperial power during their time in history.

On the contrary there were many positive outcomes from the British Empire from which billions of people around the world are still benefiting to this day.

I will conclude by saying that unlike the political class I am not ashamed of British history and I will never apologize for anything that happened in the course of our glorious past. And for the benefit of the permanently offended and the politically correct, I am not ashamed of my culture, my Judeo-Christian heritage or my skin color either.