Diversity is 'a gift', says Archbishop Justin welby during a visit to Southall

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has described both the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby and recent attacks on Muslims as “evil acts” by those who seek to “spread hate and cause division”.

“The attacks on minority ethnic groups across the country that there have been over the last few weeks are inexecusable, unacceptable and a scandal to a tradition of hospitality in this country of which we should be deeply proud and which has contributed far more to us than it has taken from us,” he told an inter-faith audience gathered at Featherstone High School in Southall, west London.

He added: “I want, as I have already done, to acknowledge the pressure that our Muslim friends and colleagues have faced over the last few weeks. There have been terrible attacks, I know that the vast majority of those in this country and especially people of faith would join me in condemning utterly any act of violence against anyone because of their faith.

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4 comments on “Diversity is 'a gift', says Archbishop Justin welby during a visit to Southall

  1. Milton Finch says:

    “Diversity is a gift until the correct numbers are achieved. Then all those that believe differently than us can be unseated by the diverse ones.” TEC activists and Muslims in a foreign country

  2. Milton Finch says:

    It would be such a blessing if THE body of Christ would start acting like THE body of Christ and not some body infected by a cancer that is left with no Godly Medical alternative. But and yet we wait upon His coming? His Resurrection is upon us. We are His. He is Us. We are His Body!

  3. Milton Finch says:

    PENTECOST! ALLELUJAH!! What are We going to do with Him now that He has Us? The Body of Christ awaits direction. From within? mission (folks). MISSION!

  4. Milton Finch says:

    The only pressure Muslims have felt is from a “religion” that has no mission. No religion at all, really. You could term it a gentle breeze under a shady tree…but no real religion. Make Muslims know your Lord. He will put their lord of submission to shame. They have returned to a rotten lesser humanly written law. And that over a “LAW” written spiritually, yet and more so, “really” and more than “naturally”, upon one’s heart?