Wanted: Men of Integrity! 😉

 God give us men! A time like this demands

    Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands;

    Men whom the lust of office does not kill;

      Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy;

    Men who possess opinions and a will;

      Men who have honor; men who will not lie.

    Men who can stand before a demagogue

      And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking;

    Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog

      In public duty and in private thinking;

    For while the rabble, with their thumb-worn creeds,

    Their large professions and their little deeds,

    Mingle in selfish strife, lo! Freedom weeps,

    Wrong rules the land, and waiting Justice sleeps.

- Josiah Gilbert Holland

Fast forward ⏩ to April 2025... 

So was it a case of blatant racism or was it religious persecution in modern day Britain?

It is said that the pen is mightier than the sword! And so I write... ✍️ 

As an ardent, life long student of commerce, missions, history and cultures, I have been trying to wrap my head around the thought that the world hasn't actually changed much in spite of all our technological advancement. We have natural stupidity versus artificial intelligence as of today! Whattaworld! What a world! 🌎 🌍

A sham tribunal and biased investigation on  false accusations and allegations led to what was supposed to be a forty minute hearing and pronouncement of a verdict to a four hour marathon debate with three adjournments and a prejudiced verdict at the end. It was one brown man against five white racist pigs! Keep reading.

It was one man's word against another to start with! A "service user," a racist bigot with "white privilege" against a Christian missionary who happened to be his carer. Friends turned into  enemies fast when he was blocked on social media handles as a precaution. The false narrative cooked up thereafter led to a  suspension, investigation, termination and eventually a one year ban from healthcare professional work. As if a Minister of Religion was going to be affected by that nonsensical verdict. As the Scots jokingly say, "Forgive the fellow, but never forget the bastard's face!"

Britain has to move away from its colonial mindsets and learn to treat people as humans at least in the twenty first century. The rationale that a five member panel could come up with is that there is evidence of malpractice and manipulation! One of the accusations was that religious activity was done when I prayed for the fellow, but it was on his request! Another was that I didn't inform the company about recieving a hundred pounds into my bank account, after he requested my bank details! There was clearly no manipulation, force or coercion of any sort. The money was promptly transferred back to his account afterwards sensing danger. However, the trap was already set and he had complained about it to the Company Adigo Limited, Care Commission, Scottish Social Services Council and even the Police! As if I would sacrifice my integrity, my entire life, family, marriage, four daughter's future, global ministry, a recent five year visa extension after a hefty payment totalling around 35,000 pounds to the Home Office as visa fees and Immigration Health surcharges... Why would I give up all that for a hundred pounds? What planet are these guys living in?

See how the system is created to be unfair and unjust to immigrants like me even after having lived quietly here in the United Kingdom for more than five years! Like Pontius Pilate washing hands, the company said that I am not yet a permanent employee and am still on probation! The trade union Unison said that they would have helped if I was registered with them for more than eight weeks! I was only four weeks at that time. How convenient. The Christian lawyer that I was to get help was probably a distant relative of Shylock, and demanded only two thousand pounds as his pound of flesh! I would have gladly given him my one month's salary if I still had a job! So I was left alone trusting God in the whole process. One person with God on his side is always a majority!

"You are a risk to the community, and so we have to unfortunately ban you for a year so as to keep the society safe." Really? Seriously? My response was after I took permission for an uninterrupted five minutes, with the chicken biryani still on my mind because it was past lunchtime by now. We began at 10 am sharp on the 17th of April on Teams platform. I was in England at the time to dedicate the newly bought house of a distant relative, which I actually did in between all the tamasha (joke!) of the day.

Let me respond now. Risk to the community? How can a Christian missionary and a pastor like me be a risk to society? How come I have maintained my integrity and testimony after a successful career as a full time minister for over thirty years and in over twenty nations in four continents? How come I have no track record of any criminal cases so far until the age of fifty? How come I have stayed in, sometimes, strangers homes all around the world as an itinerant preacher and still have not one complaint whatsoever? How come I have pastored four churches faithfully in India and Qatar and now successfully planted three churches here in Edinburgh in Scotland? How come I got my Passport from India after Police verification? How come I didn't have any issues in getting a Police Clearance Certificate from Mumbai and Navi Mumbai in Western India where I lived for more than twenty years before my migration to Great Britain! How come I got a Police Clearance Certificate from Qatar in the Middle East where I lived and ministered as a Religious Worker for about three years? How come I got two PVG  Certificates from Disclosure Scotland in a period of five years without any problems after thorough background checks? How come my neighbours love me and speak well of me after living in their midst plainly for more than five years at the same address? How come the churches that I have ministered in here in the UK are more than willing to welcome me back to their pulpit again? How come my marriage to my wife survived twenty six years? How come my four daughters still love me to the moon and back? And lastly and more importantly, how come the Police in Scotland never bothered about that idiot's complaint and never even called me once on the phone, visited my door to enquire, or call me to the station, after more than two months now? Something is wrong,  right? The system is wrong. 

"Never trust the British." A friend had adviced me years back, and I have never gotten away from that truth. History is on my side, and it proves time and again what the British legacy is around the world. I have some great friends all over the UK with whom I laugh and cry, hug and joke around with. However, it is a fact and a ground reality that most British people, including some in the Church are a bunch of racists, and need to learn lessons from history. They are experts in smiling to your face, while the dagger 🗡️ goes in at the back, and you will know that you are bleeding only later! It's time to beat the system, evaluate the system and change the system. I am hopeful for the future.

So let's Make Britain Great Again! Any takers?

Rev. Anil Alexander 

I aspire to inspire before I expire.

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