Complaints have started to pour into Nick Griffin MEP’s Northwest constituency office from aggrieved voters in
Manchester after it was announced that the city’s cathedral had decided to Africanise St George and turn this
traditional day into a jazz festival.
The project, which appears to be the brainchild of well-known anti-British Manchester Cathedral crank Canon
Andrew Shanks, has, as part of its propaganda lied outright about St George, claiming that the patron saint
of England is also a “mythic hero in the Islamic tradition.”
According to page 12 of the February 2011 edition of Manchester Cathedral News, which is the church’s official
newsletter, St George has been replaced by “a young Afro-Caribbean lad in an England football shirt”.
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Canon Shanks was quoted as saying that he and other churchmen wanted to help ‘re-brand’ St George’s Day.
“This will be an experimental event, with fresh poetry by leading poets and a jazz accompaniment specially
composed for the event,” the church newsletter said.
“There’s a political aspect to this, as well. Certain groups on the far right are keen to try and appropriate
St George as ‘their’ saint.
“Our ‘giant’ George, representing the ideal of a truly inclusive England, is a young Afro-Caribbean lad in
an England football shirt,” the newsletter read.
Finally, the church newsletter took to lying openly, saying that “(N)or shall we forget that St. George
(Al Khidr) is also a mythic hero in Islamic tradition.”
In reality, the legend of St George pre-dates Islam by over 300 years. St George was a mythical figure who
supposedly lived from 275 to 303 AD, and Islam was only created by Mohammed in 610 AD.
Finally, Al Khidr (which is Arabic for “the Green One”) is mentioned in the Koran as being a contemporary of
Moses, not early Christianity.
The blatant lies by the clergy of Manchester Cathedral on this matter reveal the sinister aspect to their
anti-British propaganda, which justifies fabrications in the name of “diversity.”
“What has it come to when our own church tells us to be ashamed of our Englishness and instead to celebrate
the occupation of our country by people who have arrived here from the other side of the world within my
lifetime," said one lady’s letter.
"I had always hoped that one day the British people would wake up to what has happened to their country and
that the English would be the people to lead the Scots, Welsh and Irish in the campaign to reclaim it.
"Let's hope that this hi-jacking of St George's Day stirs the English people of Manchester at the very least,"
she said.
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