Sheikh Yasser al-Habib recently failed in his efforts to buy Torsa Island after the owner refused to sell it to the Islamic extremist: now media personality and commentator Fr. Calvin Robinson has launched a bid to purchase the island “for Christendom”.
Before the owner refused sale to al-Habib – who broadcasts in Arabic via Fadak TV, reportedly raised £3 million pounds from his followers in order to purchase the island.
al-Habib, who came to the UK as an asylum seeker and runs military style training camps there, had planned to build a school, hospital and mosque on the island which were all to be run in accordance with Islamic law and act as a “homeland” for Muslims.
Fr. Robinson, who was previously a GB News host, is running a GiveSendGo campaign in hopes of raising £1.5 million pounds (approximately €1,780,916) to purchase the 270 acre island and turn it into a Christian monastery/retreat.
So far £133,345 has been raided from just under 5,000 donors with Fr. Robinson promising that should the campaign fail to reach its target all donations will be reimbursed.
Speaking to Gript, Fr. Robinson, who is an Old Catholic Priest, said that conservatives and Christians “tend to sit back and let everyone else just get on with whatever they want to get on with”.
He said that this “reserved attitude” allowed the world to “implode around us” and that now is the time for Christians “to be more proactive”.
Fr. Robinson said that the left “are great” at “organising themselves and taking over institutions” pointing to the influence of Gramsci and the Frankfurt School.
He said that the idea behind the Torsa Island project was to “to regain some of that energy” and declare that “we are a Christian nation, that is a good thing.”
He said that when “there is a competing, conflicting ideology attempting to gain ground” Christians needed to show they are “not ashamed” of their faith and heritage and have the courage to “say no”.
“Britain is a Christian nation, and we should have Christian institutions, and this one in particular will be a Christian retreat centre for people that want to escape modernity, take a breath, step outside of the hubbub of day to day life,”.
He elaborated that the island would be used to allow weary hearted individuals to leave their electronic devices at home, “put on your wellies, come and get your hands dirty and interact with God’s good creation,” while absorbing the beauty of the Scottish islands and “being at one with God in His beautiful environment, in his natural creation.”