Police stand in line as a fire rages in Tottenham.

  English.alijazeera.net (excerpts):  Riots have spread to new areas of London while looting erupted in the cities of Burmingham, Liverpool and Bristol, as Britain's worst violence in decades extended into the third night.  Shops and cars were set ablaze across London late on Monday and early Tuesday, as authorities struggled to contain the unrest in the capital city which will host next summer's Olympic games.  Looting by groups of hooded youths spread to Ealing in west London and Camden in the north.  Television pictures showed groups of men running through the streets and smashing shop windows.  They also set fire to buildings in Croydon, a south London suburb, and Clapham, where they looted shops and cash machines and set fire to at least one shop.  Local residents in Croydon were evacuated due to the spreading fire, while the Guardian newspaper quoted a nearby officer as admitting, "We can't cope.  We have passed a breaking point."  London fire brigade received 264 emergency calls overnight Saturday and attended 49 fires in the Tottenham area.  The violence which began in the north Tottenham district on Saturday, also spread to Peckham and Lewisham.  In Peckham, flames leapt into the air from a torched building, while rubble was strewn across the street.  People walked in and out of shops looting.  Police with riot shields responded by charging them as they tried to seal off an area around Hackney Central station in the east of the city.  Dozens of officers have now been deployed to the streets of Hackney.  Wealthy neighborhoods were not spared with rampagers forcing their way into Michelin-starred restaurant.  The Ledbury in Notting Hill before stealing diners phones, plates off the tables, and attempting to take the till.  Al Jazeera correspondent Barnaby Philips, reporting from Totterham, said lots of people are out on the streets, but there is anguish and dismay about what has happened in this country over the weekend.  People realize jobs, property and investments have been damaged for years to come and they are very distraught about it.  The initial case of violence in Hackney is said to be the use of "stop and search" power on black youths by the police.  A large proportion of the black community in London believes the police use "stop and search" powers too much.  They feel they have been unfairly stopped using these powers.  As the police struggled to contain the spiraling disorder, the ordered London football clubs to call off matches.  The violence which is unrelated to football began near Tottenham's ground in north London over the death of Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old man who was shot dead by the police on Thursday.  Very few details of Duggan's death has been released.  Tottenham is a deprived area.  "Unemployment is very, very high...they are frustrated," Uzodinma Wigwe, 49, said, who lost his job as a cleaner recently.   

Commentary:  Anyone who is up to date on Christian-related news, knows that Britain has been on a spiritual downward spiral for quite some time.  Hundreds of churches have been closed in recent years and many have been turned into mosques.  There are 85 Shariah courts in Britain and most of the population is agnostic or Muslim.  The anger of the Lord rises against those who forsake Him, "My anger will be kindled against them in that day and I will forsake them and I will hide My face from them and they will be devoured and many evils and troubles will befall them, so that they will say in that day, Has not this evil come upon us because our God is not among us?" Deuteronomy 31:17.  God pronounced this to backsliding Israel, but the same anger is kindled against all nations that depart from God.  "The wicked will be turned into hell and all nations that forget God" Psalm 9:17.  "There will be signs in the sun and in the moon and stars, and nations will be in distress with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring" Luke 21:25.