Valley Blues, on 08 February 2024 - 04:36 PM, said:
Not necessarily all it seems. The asylum seekers left their countries of birth out of fear, because they were dissidents or from marginalised groups. Some of them left because they were already Christians and were under threat as a consequence. Others have little or no reason to follow the religion of their oppressors.
They arrive here after an ordeal of a journey and are dumped on a boat instead of being given the freedom they anticipated. The system is designed to be unwelcoming, but they do get well treated by some British people at least viz. the clergy who visit them on board. The Church folk show them kindness when they are feeling desperate, so no wonder they are tempted to join them.
In the case of the Clapham attacker, none of have any idea whether his conversion was genuine or not, because we never knew him. It doesn't follow that because he committed a nasty crime he can't have converted to Christianity. He didn't shout "Allah be praised" while chucking the toxic liquid about, did he?
People using this board should thank themselves lucky they've never been put in a position where they have to leave everything and everybody behind them and escape to a different country. A modicum of sympathy wouldn't come amiss.