Unto Timothy…as I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus … that thou mightiest charge some that they teach no other doctrine… (1 Tim. 1:2-3)

When will it stop? Will New Zealand follow Britain into shameful subservience to a menacing Muslim presence as has happened in that country? Will our nation like America see Muslims take over whole communities (55 per cent now in Dearborn, home of the Model T Ford) or elect a Muslim New York mayor just 25 years after the 9/11 Muslim terrorist attack that murdered thousands in that city?

Recently in Britain an official report was released about Muslim “grooming gangs” preying on young lower class white school girls, although “grooming” is too mild a description for what the report found. Fact is since 2,000, 250,000 British school girls have been drugged, sexually assaulted, and trafficked, mainly by Muslim immigrants.

Those who reported their assaults were blamed or ignored. Some fathers who attempted to rescue their daughters were arrested. People who tried to expose this behaviour were imprisoned. Apparently, officials were afraid of being labelled racist or being accused of inciting racial tensions. They were more fearful of being found insensitive toward Muslim immigrants than of being punished for failing to protect young girls from sexual abuse and exploitation. 

In Nigeria many thousands of Christians have been mercilessly slaughtered in less than a year by Muslim Jihadists and the nation’s Government is seemingly unable or unwilling to stop it. Around the world Islam is on the rise and wherever its numbers allow is persecuting both Christians and Jews. In Britain Muslims are said to be behind a rising tide of anti-Semitism.

Meanwhile what the non-gospel believing masses in Western countries fail to grasp is that it is their very heritage of freedom to believe and practise Christian values that is now threatened by Muslims intolerant to the gospel message of salvation through Jesus.

Jacinda Ardern, former Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand, said after the appalling Christchurch massacre of Muslims in that city’s mosques, that “they are us”. She and most New Zealanders rightly condemned the attack by a lone gunman as an atrocity. However, while deploring that attack, it must be said the Muslim religion and its practices are definitely “not us”.

Why? Because this nation has its roots in belief in the gospel of Jesus Christ, not the message of the Quran or that of the Prophet Mohammed. New Zealand is unique in all the countries of the world in that in the last 2,000 years only this land saw more than half of its mid-19^th century population committed to weekly Bible study. It is also unique in that prior to Polynesian immigration different races lived here in peace for over 1,000 years.

Those are traditions that should be valued and honoured. Yet Muslims have no regard for them. I know because I have publicly asked them. Instead they adhere to the political and social tradition of Islam with its history of war, forced conversion, slavery, ill treatment of women and harsh Sharia law, and, however mildly, seek to import that into this country.

And it’s not just a matter of belief but also of politics. Islam demands that its doctrines be expressed in the body politic. Sharia law and Sharia courts must be introduced – they certainly have been in Britain - even in countries with a contrary history of Christian values dating back more than a thousand years. Though relishing the freedom in Western countries to promote their teachings Muslims refuse Christians the right to promote theirs when it comes obeying the commandments of Christ in the Bible which include so preaching the gospel as to debunk the views of those deny it.

For example, in New Zealand it is now difficult, if not impossible in many cases, to buy meat from the supermarket that has not been halal killed. Yet in 1 Cor. 10: 25-31 the Apostle Paul instructs Christian believers to buy and eat meat “asking no question for conscience sake”. However, if the Christian is told “this meat has been offered in sacrifice to idols”, the apostle says “eat not for sake of him that shewed it”.

Supermarkets in New Zealand acknowledge meat they sell is “halal killed” and other foodstuffs, including yoghurt, are labelled as containing “halal product”.  By doing so they proclaim such foods have been offered in sacrifice to the false god or idol, Allah, at the behest of his prophet Muhammed.

Thus, freedom to choose non-halal killed beef, mutton and lamb is compromised in New Zealand because Muslim slaughter men who pray to Allah as they cut the animals’ throats are routinely kept on for the entire shift and thus no non-halal meat is processed in that time. Fact is worship of the false god Allah is being forced down the throats of Christian New Zealanders every time they buy meat from the supermarket.

What’s more freedom to speak out against the false beliefs and unwelcome practices of some Muslims – such as genital mutilation of young girls which was alleged to have been conducted in at least one New Zealand hospital  -- has been severely curtailed in this country by a misguided tolerance for this and other non-Christian procedures.

What’s more, stand up and say that the Quran is lying when it denies that Christ died on the cross to pay for the whole world’s sin, and that He rose from the grave to give life to all who put trust in Him and you may possibly be arrested for supposedly uttering “hate speech”.

So, the jury is out on whether New Zealand will follow Britain down the perilous path of compromise that resulted in one British evangelist being arrested and handcuffed by police because he had these words displayed in large print on the back of his van: “For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life”.

Only hatred of God and his grace would deny the right to publicly proclaim the love of God in John 3:16. Its message should be written on every heart but will it soon be a “hate crime” in New Zealand to openly and publicly display what it says?

November 24, 2025

John Dudley Aldworth

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