From the excellent jesusandmo.net
No, not really. Naming childen after a genocidal dictator who helped to plunge the 20th century world into war is not happening, but it might as well be.
The news that a record number of children are being given variations on the name of a murderous, genocidal, illiterate rapist paedophile called Mohammed should give us the same sense of anger and betrayal, as if suddenly a group of people popped up in Britain and started calling their male babies ‘Adolf’.
Here’s how Brietbart have covered this worrying story:
Muhammad is the most popular name for boys in Britain, pushing the traditional British names of Oliver and Jack into second and third place respectively, according to the website BabyCentre.
There is a surge in Arabic names generally, with Nur a new entry in the girls’ top 100, jumping straight to number 29, and Maryam rising 59 places to number 35. Omar, Ali, and Ibrahim are new to the boys’ top 100.
The decline in popularity of more traditional names may be due to the higher birth rate among second generation immigrants who tend to have large families, as well as cultural traditions within different migrant groups.
The higher status boys are held in amongst certain religious groups – including Islam where the treatment of women and gender segregation has been highlighted on numerous occasions – could explain why boys are given the name of their Prophet but there is no significant girls’ name to replicate the trend.
Read the rest of the Brietbart story here:
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/12/01/Muhammed-the-most-popular-baby-name-for-boys
Although I’ve not looked at the size or breadth or geographical location for this survey, this news item that states that a growing number of people, are naming their children after one of the worst men in history, and should give us all cause for concern. The naming of children is a special thing and to name children after a man who, among other crimes, raped a nine year old girl and called it marriage, will strike many as these parents having a sense of admiration for the sort of scumbag who possessed ‘qualities’, that are not the sort that any sensible person would wish on their child.
Muslim parents are naming their boys after a man who, with his deranged followers and in his lifetime, slaughtered his way across the Arabian penninsular wiping out those who would not recognise Mohammed’s twisted, sometimes derivative and often violent creed. To name a child after such a man is no different in its moral perversity than naming children after the Moors Murderers or after Charles Manson or having twins and calling them ‘Fred and Rose’.
The name ‘Mohammed’ is as soaked in blood as the names ‘Adolf’ or ‘Josef’ or ‘Pol Pot’ are to students of 20th Century history, and the growth in use of it should make us awake from slumber. It is never a good idea for a society to have within it those who admire and name children after a murdering pedarastic bandit, especially not one whose followers have culturally, religiously and economically impoverished whatever civilisation they have encountered or conquered. Islam is an ideology which mass-murdered its way across India, the Middle East and the Levant, North Africa and Persia and was only stopped by force of arms from conquering Europe. It is an ideology whose threats should be taken seriously, and which still harbours desires for world domination, and the subjugation of all those of differing belief. We might just as well have a rash of children all being named ‘Adolf’ or ‘Stalin’ or ‘Mao’ because the violence, intolerance and rapaciousness of Islam is very much like that of other authoritarian and dictatorial belief systems such as nationalist fascism and communism.
