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Category Archives: Political Correctness
Christians have no right to wear cross at work, says Government
The Telegraph:
Christians do not have a right to wear a cross or crucifix openly at work, the Government is to argue in a landmark court case.
The Government has refused to say that Christians have a right to display the symbol of their faith at work Photo: PA
By David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent
9:00PM GMT 10 Mar 2012
In a highly significant move, ministers will fight a case at the European Court of Human Rights in which two British women will seek to establish their right to display the cross.
It is the first time that the Government has been forced to state whether it backs the right of Christians to wear the symbol at work.
A document seen by The Sunday Telegraph discloses that ministers will argue that because it is not a “requirement” of the Christian faith, employers can ban the wearing of the cross and sack workers who insist on doing so.
The Government’s position received an angry response last night from prominent figures including Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury.
He accused ministers and the courts of “dictating” to Christians and said it was another example of Christianity becoming sidelined in official life.
The Government’s refusal to say that Christians have a right to display the symbol of their faith at work emerged after its plans to legalise same-sex marriages were attacked by the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in Britain.
A poll commissioned by The Sunday Telegraph shows that the country is split on the issue.
Overall, 45 per cent of voters support moves to allow gay marriage, with 36 per cent against, while 19 per cent say they do not know.
However, the Prime Minister is out of step with his own party.
Exactly half of Conservative voters oppose same-sex marriage in principle and only 35 per cent back it.
There is no public appetite to change the law urgently, with more than three quarters of people polled saying it was wrong to fast-track the plan before 2015 and only 14 per cent saying it was right.
The Strasbourg case hinges on whether human rights laws protect the right to wear a cross or crucifix at work under Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
It states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief, in worship, teaching, practice and observance.”
The Christian women bringing the case, Nadia Eweida and Shirley Chaplin, claim that they were discriminated against when their employers barred them from wearing the symbols.
They want the European Court to rule that this breached their human right to manifest their religion. Continue Reading →
Charles Adler: Airport security, profiling and irrational policies at airports
England, totalitarianism, freedom of speech, selective enforcement and relative sentencing
This article is already published here on Vlad but the comments are what is really interesting. Please click down to the comments and read, and if you have not yet read the article here it is again.
The Moral Confusion of Sir Peter Bottomley MP
By Paul Weston
A planned British Freedom Party event was cancelled last week after the venue’s manager was threatened by an organisation called Unite Against Fascism ( UAF ).
The UAF is a deeply unpleasant organisation, which quite astonishingly has been publicly endorsed by our Prime Minister and various MPs – including Conservative MP Sir Peter Bottomley.
The Daily Telegraph exposed some horrific facts about the UAF last week, so I wrote to Sir Peter Bottomley via email, to ask why both he and Cameron publicly endorsed such an extremist, anti-British and hateful organisation. His response was chilling.
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Dear Sir Peter…
Mass. Cops Accuse Lesbian Sisters of Hate Crime on Gay Man
Rockland Country Times:
Mar. 7, 2012
Outside Boston, Massachusetts another strange hate crime has been filed by authorities. Two lesbians have been charged with a hate crime for an assault against a homosexual man. Apparently they used negative slurs about his sexual orientation during the fight, although the two African-American women said the gay man first used racial insults toward them.
Bottom line is in 2012 America you can go to jail for saying naughty names even if they are names that apply to your own “people.” God bless the Nanny State!
The two girls are sisters Erika Stroud, 21, of Dorchester and Felicia Stroud, 18, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, both of whom are lesbians according to their mother. Apparently the scuffle started when they bumped into the victim in a stairwell. They’ve been charged with assault and battery with the intent to intimidate, a hate crime punishable by up to 10 years in jail.
Toronto Star changes headline to be less critical of Islam
Once upon a time, the left was the most hysterical about women’s rights, both real ones and as often, synthetic rights which were impossible to address but are part and parcel of critical theory. Now, the left is throwing real rights, women’s and minorities and frankly everyones, under the bus as fast as possible to avoid telling the truth about Islam.
First picture, yesterdays headline of the Toronto star stating a factual aspect of the deal the Afghan ‘president’ made.
The above picture from Google cache grabbed by Tundra Tablods.
Below, todays headline for the exact same article:
How very shameful. The Toronto Star enjoyed a brief moment of the former glory of supporting real human rights. Of exposing tyranny and speaking truth to power and more typically, truth to ultra-conservative religious tyranny. Now, like the rest of the media (SUN NEWS NETWORK excepted) The Star has weakened its headline to avoid offending the greatest threat to women, minority, and for that matter all human rights and beneficiaries of the Enlightenment, Islam.
And now, for something completely different.
I love these guys.
Enjoy
WARNING: Language and some nudity
Sarkozi may claim to ban halal food in schools but…
Great example of the pathetic state of Western reportage.
Not one worthwhile question.
This video is from Friday on Finnish news about Kurdish Muslims demanding a new actionable law against koran burning…
At no point did the reporter ask even the most obvious questions. Two that come to mind immediately are, ‘Why should non-Muslims hold the koran as important to them? Isn’t it enough that you are allowed to hold it sacred to you in a non-Muslim land? or, ‘So if we do this, then you will protest for the open and free practice of Christianity and Judaism in Saudi Arabia including Mecca and Yathrib (Medina) and other Muslims countries?
I won’t hold my breath.
Thanks to Tundra T for the translation and video-tip
One thing is for sure. It would be great to find a way to make these Kurds go a whey
Obama, Israel, the facts
The CBC Analysis – Cold Wars and Limbo Poles
(J-Practical, March 2, 2012)
In the past weeks we’ve been regaled by “analyses” produced by the CBC on various topics. Each one is somewhat interesting, but most leave a lot to be desired. What happened to the concept of “analysis”? Why is it that there are bloggers out there who do a better analysis of events using a pitiful fraction of the bloated resources available to our national broadcaster?
The mind boggles. Here’s an example of stunning mediocrity at the CBC, which would never have been tolerated 15 years ago.
Today’s CBC.ca web page contains the report “Incidents suggest Israel-Iran ‘cold war’ intensifying” by Andre Mayer. A quick lookup tells you that “Andre Mayer writes about the arts for CBC.ca“, “a Toronto-based journalist who lives to write and writes to live“, “Senior editor at CBC Arts Online“, “Features writer for CBCNews.ca“.
So what qualifies a features and arts writer to pen a report about Israel and Iran? Apparently, at the CBC, everyone is equally qualified to report on all things – actual in-depth knowledge isn’t required. (Where’s the CBC editorial process?)
Through Andre, the CBC tells us that ” there are growing indications that Israel and Iran have actually been fighting a covert war for years”. How astute of them to notice it – but actually, most of the rest of the international community knows that Iran has been attacking Israel, through its proxies, since 1982. Nobody with a lick of sense, or a gram of actual knowledge, would say something so remarkably inane or obvious. (Where’s the CBC editorial process?)
For years, the US Congress has discussed reports of Iran sponsoring international Islamic terrorism, funding, arming training and inspiring terrorist organizations, including Hezbollah, Hamas. Just a few weeks ago, the CBC reported how Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatolla Khamenei proudly announced to the world how they’ve been materially supporting terrorist organizations’ attacks on Israel since 1982, and will continue to do so www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/02/03/iran-nuclear.html
Hezbollah has even confirmed it.
Do you think Andre Mayer even mentioned it? I doubt he was even aware of it. (Where’s the CBC fact checking and editorial process?)
Similarly, Andre didn’t mention that:
- The Iranian defence minister Ahmad Vahidi, is accused of involvement in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural centre in Buenos Aires Argentina and is on Interpol’s wanted list. www.interpol.int/Wanted-Persons/%28wanted_id%29/2007-49957
EDL documentary I – My Hometown Fanatics (Stacey Dooley Investigates)
February saw the broadcast in the UK of two separate in-depth documentaries taking the English Defence League (EDL) as their theme.
Long overdue, these programs both shared two particular characteristics. First, an almost allergic unwillingness to square up to or cite the easily-verifiable realities of Islamic doctrine, in any way. Second, an attempt by the respective filmmakers to use both editorializing and film-editing to present a slanted picture often at considerabe odds with the facts.
The first program was a childish, bordering on the infantile, effort by the BBC which purported to cover the subject of extremism in Britain in general, and Luton in Bedfordshire in particular; which is the hotbed of Islamic radicalism that gave birth to the EDL.
BBC3’s Stacey Dooley, a young lady clearly not recruited into documentary making because of her brains, failed to draw any evidence-based conclusions in her “examination” of both Islamism, and the English Defence League (EDL); which originated in her home town.
Dooley has considerable experience as a documentary maker and the format of her “investigations” are identical. They consist of the naive and ditsy Stacey being confronted with very serious issues indeed, in order to do little more than present her shallow emotional responses to the matter in question. That’s it. Simply, she doesn’t make films about issues, she uses issues to make films about herself.
However, no matter how hard the program-makers might have tried, in typical BBC fashion, to obscure the truth: much of the footage speaks volumes about the reality of life in Luton; and will prove eye-opening to many international viewers about what many working-class areas in England are like.
But some of the more laughable scenes include:
- Stacey putting on a niqab to “understand” how Muslim women feel… While ignoring the issues of choice, force and consent; let alone honour killings and gender segregation; which are inherent in Islam.
- Trying for the entire program to get an interview with the leader of the EDL, Tommy Robinson. Then, having succeeded in doing so spending all their time telling him about her views on a subject she knows nothing about (rather than asking him any questions and listening to his answers).
- Not covering the question of the demographic replacement of native Britons in Luton by South Asians, as anything other than (a) completely normal, or (b) absolutely wonderful.
- Taking at face value the pronouncements on Islam from individuals who clearly have a very strong vested interest in presenting a particular and distorted picture. And the usual crop of Muslims who do not even know the content of their own religion. (e.g. Islam “condemns the killing of the innocent”. Yes it does, but it also defines the unbeliever as necessarily guilty.)
- Not confronting preposterous statements and situations. A particularly breathtaking segment is where a community leader says that none of the remaining native residents have complained about the call to prayer being broadcast through loudhailers in their former neighborhoods. Hmmm… what always happens to people who complain about Islam?
- To say nothing of the young Muslim lad chatting up Stacey being presented as indicative of the community’s normalcy. I wonder what response a male non-Muslim program maker trying to pick up a Muslim girl would have elicited?
- Dooley also chides Tommy Robinson as unreasonable for wanting to end any discussion premised on accepting the imposition of Sharia in his country (!): this while he and Dooley are being physically intimidated by “youths” because they are talking publicly and critically about Islam; and despite this, she insistently repeats the assertion that only a “tiny, tiny” minority of Muslims are extremists. (For the record, repeated surveys have pegged support for Sharia amongst Britain’s Muslims at 60%.)
Dooley’s final conclusion suggests that what is at fault in Luton, is “ignorance” as ignorance causes extreme feelings…
Sure Stacey, because people only hate Nazism until they find out more about it.
Though “My Home Town Fanatics” inadvertently reveals much about modern Britain there is an enormous amount that it deliberately conceals. Here’s footage from Leicester for example, a town slightly further down the Islamic demographic path than Luton, to give you an idea of what I mean.
Ken Livingstone’s anti-fascist group appoints fascist as vice-chair
…and the veneer peels off the UAF. Must be all that London rain.
The Telegraph
Ken Livingstone’s anti-fascist group appoints fascist as vice-chair
By Andrew Gilligan Politics Last updated: February 29th, 2012
UAF’s conference last week. Note the small number of black and minority ethnic people
One of this blog’s oldest friends, Azad Ali, has a great new post. As the Harry’s Place blog reports, Azad is the new vice-chair of Unite Against Fascism, the ostensibly anti-racist group (in fact more of a meal-ticket for the leadership of the Socialist Workers’ Party.)
Azad is the community affairs co-ordinator of the extremist Islamic Forum of Europe, which controls the East London Mosque and which is dedicated, in its own words, to changing the “very infrastructure of society, its institutions, its culture, its political order and its creed … from ignorance to Islam.” Through “hisbah” (the enforcement of Islamic law) and “jihad,” it aims to create a “global” Islamic dictatorship, the caliphate, and its “primary work” in this “is in Europe, because it is this continent, despite all the furore about its achievements, which has a moral and spiritual vacuum.”