(All that culture. It just warms my heart when it isn’t trying to stop it altogether)
2. BBC: ‘Drastic action’ needed on Ebola
Nearly 400 people have died in the outbreak which started in Guinea and has spread to neighbouring Sierra Leone and Liberia.
It is the largest outbreak in terms of cases, deaths and geographical spread.
The WHO said it was “gravely concerned” and there was potential for “further international spread”.
(I’m not sure why but this reminds me of a bit of gothic poetry:
“I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.”
It’s probably nothing though)
(remember: The most important thing in a post-modern world, is never say anything true. Because if everything is relative then everything is true and if everything is true then why say anything that is actually verifiable and interferes with someone’s agenda)
A Christian working at London Heathrow Airport has claimed that harassment by fundamentalist Muslim colleagues led to her dismissal.
Nohad Halawi, 49, says she was wrongly accused of being ‘anti-Islam’ and unlawfully dismissed while working as a uniformed beauty consultant in the duty-free shop at Terminal 3.
Having now taken her case to the Court of Appeal, she is appealing against employment tribunal decisions that, because she was self-employed, she was not a ‘worker or employee’ entitled to seek the protection of unfair dismissal and anti-discrimination laws.
4. China Steps Up ‘Anti-Terrorism’ Measures Targeting Ramadan
Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have ordered mosques frequented by mostly Muslim ethnic minority Uyghurs to use the holy month of Ramadan to publicize Beijing’s anti-terrorism campaign, according to an exile Uyghur group.
The municipal government in the regional capital Urumqi has ordered mosques to “propagandize” China’s anti-terrorism policies on the eve of the beginning of Ramadan on Saturday, and just ahead of the fifth anniversary of deadly ethnic riots that left nearly 200 people dead in 2009, the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) told RFA.
(Video from last year)
5. Defending Karbala Channel 4
6. Channel 4: Meet the cleric ‘encouraging British Muslims’ to fight jihad
Thank you Wrath of Khan, M, ML, and many more. A few more things to post. If there is any good news, it is getting more difficult for muslims to convince the average Joe that Islam is not a problem in Western countries.
Eeyore you aren’t the only one struck by that passage and current events, I personally don’t think this is the end times but it is a very nasty time.