A number of religious organizations are speaking out after British Prime Minister David Cameron was attacked by a group of left-wing activists following his claim that the U.K. was a “Christian nation.”

Cameron had delivered an address before Easter where he said that Britian was a Christian nation and that Christians needed to be “more evangelical” about their faith and to “get out there and make a difference to people’s lives.”  He also said that being a “Christian country” did not mean that you condemned those of other faiths.

“People can secularize those traditions but it doesn’t take away from the fact that the country was based in Christian traditions,” Anil Bhanot, managing director of Hindu Council U.K. said.  He added that he was “very comfortable” with the U.K. being described as a Christian country.

“A sense of the sacred is to be cherished,” the head of the Muslim Council of Britain said.   Secretary General Farooq Murad said no one could deny that the U.K. remains a Christian country.

The left-wing critics say that Cameron was deliberately causing divisions within the nation by making his statement.