Christopher Howse: Oxford's own Mesopotamia

Last year, the Bishop of Oxford said that he had received death threats for supporting the broadcasting of the call to prayer from another mosque in Oxford, in the Cowley Road.

Oxford has given up its Anglican preferences. The vacuum will be filled, if not by liberalism, then secularism, but not yet Islam.

Old Mesopotamia is called Iraq today, and its Christian population still dwindles as secular Ba’athism is replaced by Islam. The muezzin’s call has reached Cherwell’s edge, but awaits much response.

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