Wife of vicar beaten for ‘being a Christian’ by Asian yobs speaks of shock at faith hate attack; Jan insists her husband feared publicity over the attack could lead to racial tension
The wife of a clergyman http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3809 felt by his congregation.
Canon Michael Ainsworth, 57, was set upon by three Asian youths shouting anti-Christian http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3411 when he confronted them for rowdy behaviour outside St George-in-the-East church in Shadwell, leaving him with two black eyes and cuts and bruises.
His wife, Janina Ainsworth, 56, took Palm Sunday services yesterday after Canon Ainsworth was re-admitted to hospital for his injuries. She said: “It is obvious that it does contain a religious element.
“Quite clearly, there are mindless individuals in every community under the influence of drink and drugs who will engage in random acts of violence. But we’re very shocked.” She said her husband was expected home to the rectory next to the church in Cannon Street Road tonight.
“We do know that churchyards have been quite vulnerable places so we are going to be working with the church, the police and the local council to look at security,” she added.
“We have had very strong messages of support from the East London Mosque and Tower Hamlets Mosque with whom we’ve got good relations.
“Clearly the Muslim community is very shocked. These individuals were under the influence and this was a random act.”
The Bishop of London, the Rt Rev Richard Chartres, said clergymen who were part of the community were “vulnerable” to attacks.
“Over the years we’ve had murders, we’ve had assaults on clergy,”he said. “Therefore we have over the past few years been beefing up our security and operations.
“But of course if you go out into the streets, if you belong to the community, if you’re a part of it, then you are vulnerable.”
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From a correspondent: Part of the reason this case is getting so much play in the UK may be because the government is looking for a “test case” to legitimize its new, Medieval “http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1972" law, which rolls back centuries of social progress and criminalizes some forms of religious speech and opinion in the interest of legislating “tolerance” as the UK continues to fracture under the weight of multiculturalism. A white, Christian victim and Muslim, Asian yobs looks perfect to cynical officials anxious to placate whites before rolling the “tolerance” juggernaut on top of ancient freedoms won at the cost of blood and suffering. However, as with other measures involving Islam that have a wide variety of implications, this attack still shows that whites and our collective cultural expressions are under threat from the Third World population. The fact that the white victim is a cleric with the established (official government) Church of England, whose leader Rowan Williams recently advocated Shariah Law, is interesting, as is the fact that victim Michael Ainsworth is so deluded by political correctness that he feared that publicity would anger whites and endanger his beloved multiculturalism. We have seen a recent, disturbing trend of white victims and their families allowing themselves to become victims again by making appeals for white people in general not to connect their victimhood with the fact that multiculturalism endangers us all.