St George’s day celebration replaced with Eid

Instead of feasting in the Saint’s honour, a formal Eid dinner will take its place at Oxford University’s Magdalen College.

For over 500 years, Oxford University’s Magdalen College holds an annual banquet to honour St. George, the English patron saint, whose story of bravery, honour, and chivalry as both a warrior defeating the dragon and as a martyr for the Christian faith, provides a suitable role model for all proud Englishmen to emulate.

Though Magdalen College sees St. George as a heroic figure no more, and like many historical figures under the censorious gaze of new-age universities, Oxford has sentenced St. George to the chopping block. Yet it has replaced him with something as equally religious yet much more unrecognisable and foreign.

Instead of feasting in the Saint’s honour, a formal Eid dinner will take its place to commemorate one of the most important days in the Islamic calendar, with the college refusing to do the same for the English hero. So much for ‘diversity is our strength’.

Of course the decision makes no logical sense. While the recorded Christian population of Great Britain unfortunately fell by almost thirty percentage points between 2001 – 2021, Christianity remains the dominant faith in nation., with atheism some five million behind in second place. Islam sits in a respectable third place, but is only 1/8th the size of the native Christian population. Being the national patron saint of a Christian nation, St. George must be prioritised, not Ramadan.

But we are dealing with an institution that wishes to torch the history and customs of the land which have allowed these ancient schools of learning to plant their empires into the soil. To further twist the knife in, the college scheduled this dinner after Eid actually takes place, solely for the purpose of booting the usual St. George’s banquet out of the campus (or is it an honest mix-up on the calendar?. You be the judge).

In Michel Houellebecq’s book Submission, the eccentric French author theorises what an Islamic-political takeover of his native France would resemble, and it naturally involves the university system hacking its very skin off in order to accommodate its new occupiers. Women are prohibited from accepting teaching positions, and a strict Arabian dress code is enforced that is out-of-synch with the Parisian climate.

The Eid dinner at Magdalen college will be trapped inside the same confines. The meal will be tee-total and conform to ritualistic animal sacrifice – a fact which should make the green thumbed faculty and students a little bit queasy.

Yet it is not just animal rights activists or student alcoholics who should feel aggrieved. This should outrage us all; our culture, and one of the sacred pillars of our history, is being torn down, martyred on the steps of anti-English hatred, and left to die in silence.