Continuing a recent trend among Church of England high-ups of wading into contentious issues, Bishop of Rochester Michael Nazir-Ali has written that radical Islam is poised to fill what he calls a moral vacuum left in Britain by Christianity's long withdrawing roar.
"[Britain's] systems of governance, of the rule of law, of the assumption of trust in common life all find their inspiration in Scripture," argues Nazir-Ali in the current issue of Standpoint, a new magazine for which the Centre for Social Cohesion's director Douglas Murray is a monthly columnist.
Sometime in the 1960s, Nazir-Ali writes, Christianity ebbed dramatically from Britain's "public discourse".
"It is this situation that has created the moral and spiritual vacuum in which we now find ourselves," Nazir-Ali writes. "While the Christian consensus was dissolved, nothing else, except perhaps endless self-indulgence, was put in its place."
Now, he writes, that vacuum is open to radical Islam to fill - at least with regards to Britain's two million Muslims. Read the whole piece here.
