Christophobia and the Assault on the Anglosphere

How was it that at the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century an all-party parliamentary group of British MPs was more exercised by Islamophobia than by the treatment of Christians? Whilst legislators and the media preoccupied themselves with “blasphemy” directed towards Islam as “hate crime”, the police proceeded to arrest a devout Catholic for the offence of “praying outside an anti-abortion clinic”.[1] Meanwhile in Scotland, the Scottish National Party leadership candidate Kate Forbes found her candidacy “damaged” by her deeply held Christian beliefs.[2] By contrast, her rival, Humza Yousaf, who subsequently became the new leader of the SNP, had no such problem with his candidacy for the leadership of the party on the grounds of his Muslim faith.

Capturing this transvaluation of Christianity, a former chair of the Conservative Party declared that she was “truly ashamed” of her party, not for abandoning the Christian faith, but for its lack of…