UK: Reform UK councillors try to end Islamic prayers before council meetings

Britain’s National Secular Society is a bunch of communists who want to eradicate religion altogether, and are resolutely unable to see the threat of Islam, jihad, and Sharia as any greater than that of the alleged “Christian nationalism.” Britain actually has an established Christian religion, but its established Church has abandoned Christianity, and the king is abandoning the establishment of that religion, and those who fight against Islamization are expected to discard Christianity as well, and so the non-Muslim forces will tear each other apart while the Muslims steadily advance toward total power and control in British society. Reform simply doesn’t want Islamic prayers beginning council meetings in what is ostensibly a Christian country, but while other countries can take great pains to establish their national identity, in the West, to do so is “racist.”

“Reform UK councillors try to end Islamic prayers before meetings,” National Secular Society, June 26, 2026 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Reform UK councillors have attempted to end prayers before meetings at Bolton Council – despite Reform introducing Christian prayers at other councils.

At a council meeting on Wednesday, Reform group leader Cllr Trevor Jones moved a motion to “review the practice of including prayers as part of the formal proceedings of Full Council meetings”.

Labour-run Bolton Council holds prayers according to the religion of the chaplain appointed by the mayor. The current mayor Mohammed Iqbal is Muslim and the prayers recited at meetings are Islamic. The chaplains of past mayors have also recited Christian and Hindu prayers.

The motion was defeated, with several councillors pointing out the inconsistency that Reform councillors elsewhere have recently introduced Christian prayers as part of their councils’ meeting agendas.

Reform councillors also recently objected to Islamic prayers said in Arabic at Birmingham City Council.

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In the agenda, Cllr Jones said the motion “is not directed towards any individual, any faith group, or any religious tradition” and his concerns “relate solely to the role of the Council as a public authority representing the whole community”.

He said “we serve residents from a wide range of backgrounds” and that in such a “diverse society”, it is “increasingly difficult for any single religious observance to reflect the convictions of all Councillors and residents”.

He added: “whilst faith undoubtedly plays an important role in the lives of many people, I believe there is an important distinction between individual religious practice and the formal conduct of council business”.

Therefore, “the formal proceedings of the Council should be conducted in a manner that is religiously neutral,” he said.

The motion called on the council to consider replacing prayers “with a short period of silent reflection” or moving “any prayers or religious observance to a voluntary session immediately prior to the formal commencement of Council meetings”.

Wednesday’s meeting began with an Islamic prayer from the mayor’s chaplain, beginning with “Bismillah hir rahman nir raheem, in the name of Lord God Allah, the most merciful, the most kind, master of the Day of Judgement, you alone we worship and you alone we ask for help”.

Reform councillors were not present for the prayers and only entered after they finished….