No individual or institution in Britain can possibly be ignorant of the incessant sabre rattling and beating of drums of war against Iran and its people, which features in the British media now. Yet again, the Middle East is experiencing intransigence and confrontation from a West hell bent on supporting a war, which regrettably includes the Queen’s Monarchical Britain. It is this information that urges me to question the Church of England hierarchy and its response to this highly dangerous state of affairs.

Without doubt, any military attack against Iran will result in collateral damage – a convenient sanitised term frequently used by the West’s warmongers to disguise civilian carnage, which, as always will involve great numbers of children in addition to adults. An Israeli or Western bomb does not differentiate between Iran’s military and its innocent civilian population.

The indiscriminate maiming and slaughter of great numbers of Iranian children will create a humanitarian disaster, leaving many orphans in its destructive wake, a concern that directs millions of us to ask the peace loving Church of England Hierarchy this question.

“If you have not already done so, will you soon, before it is too late, be publicly condemning, via all the media channels available, the distinct probability of an atrocious, mad and inhumane act, the bombing of Iran, and the unavoidable blood bath, death and grief that will follow?”

On the other hand, a clear majority in England do NOT expect the Church of England’s hierarchy and its influential members in the Queen’s House-of-Lords to remain silent.

Only the passing of time and the conscience of the Church of England hierarchy will reveal the answer to that question, but the Church, like the rest of the country is fearfully aware that the clocks of war are ticking relentlessly towards a blood bath in Iran that a Church in pursuit of peace and compassion should seek to prevent.

William Gladys February 2012.

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