Category Archives: United Kingdom

UK Muslims petition against “Jesus and Mo” cartoon

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From People of Shambhala.

Lucky beer. Yes, the bottle is in the shape of the Buddha. No, so far there have been no petitions, riots, murders, etc. in response.

Do you wish the West was just a little more like Victorian Britain? No? Then you might be surprised to know that some people do. The Atheist, Secularist & Humanist Society of the University College London is currently under the spotlight for posting an image from the online “Jesus and Mo” cartoon on its Facebook page. The ASHS uses the page to promote social events that usually involving drinking — they’re students. The image depicts Jesus and Islam’s prophet Mohammed in a bar with a pint of Guinness beer each.

No prizes for guessing that the college union has received “complaints” and that the society is being pressured to remove the image.

Something needs to be pointed out here. I understand that Muslims are upset, but how many of them are going to be checking the Atheist, Secularist & Humanist Society’s Facebook page for the next boozing session? Err… well… none. That’s right, none of the offended actually need to be offended. It’s a lifestyle choice.

Anyway, Muslims in Leamington, a northern British town 131 miles from London, have added their names to a petition that demands the ASHS take down a cartoon. The ASHA has received an… read more (and WARNING: see the offending image).

UK RACISM CHARGE: BLACK MP TWEETS ‘WHITES LOVE TO DIVIDE AND RULE’

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But what will happen?

Diane Abbott faces calls to resign over ‘racist’ tweet that says ‘white people love to play divide and rule

Black MP Diane Abbott is facing calls to quit over a remark on Twitter that has been deemed racist against white people.

The shadow minister for public health said during a conversation about the sentencing of Stephen Lawrence’s murderers that ‘white people love to play “divide and rule”,’ adding ‘we should not play their game’.

The tweet came with a hashtag that spelt out ‘tactic as old as colonialism’.

Her comment was made to freelance journalist Bim Adewunmi, another Twitter user who had been commenting about the sentencing of Gary Dobson and David Norris for Stephen’s murder.

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Post-9/11 and the problem of abstraction

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From European Son
Architect company MVRDV provoked shock and outrage in early december when its plan for the building of two skyscrapers in Seoul, South Korea, came to public attention.

The two buildings strongly resembled New York’s Twin Towers, destroyed by al-Qaeda terrorists on September 11, 2001 — a day that is burned into the national psyche of the USA, and the psyches of individuals all around the world. Incredibly, the fashionable architecture firm designed a kind of exploding center, called the Cloud, that would join the two towers.

Things come into view soft focus. It takes a split second before we see the uniqueness of anything — a face in the crowd, for example. The architectural design does look like a photo of the Twin Towers exploding, at least until you look at it close up, or from above (which most of us won’t be doing).

No surprise that MVRDV quickly issued an apology, saying… read more.

‘We were sacked for being white and Christian’, claim principal and his wife dismissed from Dubai-backed ‘multicultural’ college

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This is the first part of the article from

The Daily Mail

h/t Tundra T

  •  Malory Nye says he was forced out by Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education because he was ‘not an Arab and not a Muslim’

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 2:26 PM on 30th December 2011

A principal and his wife have been sacked from a college whose stated aim is to promote multiculturalism because they are white Christians, they claim.

Professor Malory Nye, 47, says he was dismissed from the Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education in Dundee, Scotland, because his race and religion were seen by his superiors as a threat to its core Muslim values.

He says the college’s claims to pursuing multicultural values were a charade and that he was dismissed so he could be replaced by a Muslim.

His wife Isabel Campbell-Nye, 42, alleges she was forced from her position as head of the English language centre because she attracted too many students who were not Muslims or Arabs.

Dismissed: Malory Nye and his wife Isabel say Al-Maktoum College's claim to promote multiculturalism was a charadeDismissed: Malory Nye and his wife Isabel say Al-Maktoum College’s claim to promote multiculturalism was a charade

The independent college, whose patron is Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, the Deputy Ruler of Dubai, advertises itself as a research-led institution ‘that promotes a greater understanding of different religions and cultures in a multicultural context, for the benefit of the wider community’.

The couple are taking the college to an employment tribunal claiming racial and religious discrimination, and unfair dismissal.

Mrs Campbell-Nye is also claiming sex discrimination after she was suspended and later dismissed apparently because she is married to Prof Nye.

The couple, from Perth, were marched off the college grounds in June and have not been allowed to return since.

They claim they were given no reason for their suspensions and were dismissed in November despite no evidence of any wrongdoing.

The couple have also lodged grievances against the chancellor of the College Lord Elder – a Labour peer and close friend of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown – for his handling of what they describe as a ‘sham’ disciplinary process.

Agenda? The couple say the college, which is sponsored by the Dubai royal family, wanted more Muslim studentsAgenda? The couple say the college, which is sponsored by the Dubai royal family, wanted more Muslim students

Paul Weston: Britain now has a different kind of political party

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From European Son

Paul Weston (right) on the Michael Coren Show.

Last month Britain’s Independent newspaper reported that the controversial English Defence League movement, which campaigns against radical Islam, had signed a “pact” with the relatively new British Freedom Party. The Independent’s headline suggested that, through the alliance, the EDL was preparing to “storm local elections.” According to the article in the Independent, “The English Defence League plans to field candidates for the first time in local elections after an alliance is finalised between the far-right group and the British Freedom Party, which was set up by disgruntled members of the British National Party.”

Being associated with the EDL street protest movement has helped propel British Freedom into the spotlight. Several, largely critical, reports have been published by smaller British media outlets in the last day or two, and the party’s chairman, Paul Weston, was also recently interviewed on the Canadian Sun TV’s Michael Coren Show.

However, this may not be the only association. British Freedom’s name hints at the loose alliance of “freedom” parties in Europe, whose spiritual head is Dutch MP Geert Wilders.

Mr. Weston, a former member of the anti-EU United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), describes himself as a “classical liberal.” I wanted to ask him about these associations and alliances, and to find out how he sees British Freedom. My interview with Mr. Weston, which took place on December 10, is reproduced below.

 

ES: Congratulations on being on [Canada’s] Sun TV. That’s a pretty big achievement for such a new party. How do you feel the British Freedom Party is coming along?

PW: We’re getting our name out into the mainstream media. We had a piece in The Independent on us. It wasn’t very friendly of course, but it still gets your name out there. People are gradually starting to hear about us, so it’s not bad.

ES: And you’re getting quite a few people joining, I gather.

PS: Yes, yes, we are.

ES: I guess one complaint might be that there are just a lot of these parties out there. So, how is British Freedom different from say UKIP, the Conservatives, the BNP, etc.? Continue Reading →

Double Standards Under British Law

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From Hudson NY

Rhea Page savagely attacked by a gang of Muslim girls.

Is it appropriate for a judge to suspend a sentence of a convicted, violent criminal – so that he can walk free instead of serving time – if the criminal is “religious”?

In early 2010 Cherie Blair Q.C., wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair, suspended the sentence of Shamso Miah, who had assaulted and injured a man.

According to the police, on the day of the incident Miah, a Muslim, had left a mosque, and gone to a local bank, where he became embroiled in a disagreement with another man, Mohammed Furcan, whom he then punched in the face. Furcan chased Miah outside and demanded to know why he had been assaulted, at which point Miah punched him to the ground, breaking his jaw. Miah claimed that he had acted in self-defense, but security cameras at the bank showed this to be a lie.

“I am going to suspend this sentence for the period of two years,” Blair told Miah at sentencing, “based on the fact you are a religious person and have not been in trouble before.”

Terry Sanderson of the National Secular Society told the Daily Mail that “we strongly feel that this kind of consideration [for a felon’s religion] should not play any part in sentencing. The idea that someone who is religious gets a lighter sentence is outrageous.”

For several decades – especially over the last ten years – British authorities have placed “community cohesion” over equality before the law. Roughly translated, “community cohesion” means that cultures have a higher priority than people. If a policy – or actions — by an authority might possibly “offend” some of the louder members of a… read more.

At least one of the “students” who attacked the UK embassy in Iran – identified as a Rev Guard COMMANDER!!!

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CNN:

iReport — Head of the Revolutionary Guards IRGC Qods brigade
” Karim Jalali” — Among today’s attackers at the British Embassy in Tehran.
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According to the regime, university “students” stormed the embassy. But this guy is a Quds force officer, Karim Jalali. It means that the Sepah was behind it at direct orders of the supreme leader.
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Source:
http://www.farshadebrahimi.com/2011/11/iranian-revolutionary-guards-occupying.html

Concealing support for the English Defence League (EDL)

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An interesting snippet of testimony was given today by a witness at the Leveson enquiry into press standards and ethics, which is currently being held in the High Court in London.

It is common knowledge that within the British press a “gentleman’s agreement” has persisted over coverage of certain issues: specifically, accurate reportage of the exponential growth of opposition to immigration and Islam in Europe, and the emergence of non-racist parties to address it.

This agreement originates from a 2007 conference held by the NUJ (National Union of Journalists) – which produced infamous “Guidelines” – and at which it was decided to place a Cordon de Silence around the entirety of these matters, only drip-feeding out information whenever absolutely necessary.

But the evidence blurted out by the former Daily Star journalist Richard Peppitt is a surprising eye-opener, especially given recent events and the apparent overwhelming response to them online, that would seem to suggest that the multicultural destruction of Britain was something enthusiastically backed by most people in the country.

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UK withdraws diplomatic staff from Iran after attack

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More at link below including some video

BBC:

Iran has apologised for the attacks but Britain has warned Tehran of ‘serious consequences’

Britain is withdrawing some diplomats from Iran following the attack on its embassy in the capital, Tehran, on Tuesday, diplomatic sources say.

The Foreign Office said “some staff” were leaving “for their own safety”, but gave no further details of the numbers involved.

Norway has said it has closed its embassy, citing security concerns.

Tuesday’s attack followed Britain’s decision to impose further sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme.

It led to Iran’s parliament voting to reduce diplomatic relations with the UK.

‘Hasty’

Hundreds of protesters – whom Iran described as “students” – massed outside the embassy compound on Tuesday afternoon before scaling the walls and the gates, burning British flags and a car.

BBC manages to make Islam the protector of women who end up in forced marriages.

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This is stunning, even for the Islamic-propagandist BBC. I think actually this has nothing to do with political correctness whatsoever. At this point, given a few things I have seen recently on the BBC, they are actually schilling for Islam. It isn’t that they are being politically correct in whitewashing it’s horror. Their reporting really only makes sense in the context of selling the religion to Europeans as a liberal one.

The video below is from this article, which also only mentions Islam or Muslim in a very positive way, despite the horror of the story and the horror of the typical consequence of refusing a forced marriage.

“In the past two weeks we’ve witnessed a coup d’état”

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Peter Hitchens chillingly reflects in the London Daily Mail today (How long before the grey dictators march on London?) on how the European Union is entering a frighteningly authoritarian endgame:

Civilian juntas have seized power in Rome and Athens. Soon, similar gangs of grey men may be sweeping aside national governments in Madrid and Lisbon. Nobody much [in the media] is protesting. In time – don’t rule it out – it could be our turn here [in Britain]…

Our ruling Left-wing elite seem oddly untroubled by the ruthless snuffing-out of national sovereignty across southern Europe. If the same thing had been done by a bunch of colonels, they would have been piously outraged…

But of course these putsches are the work of the European Union, a project the Left have long supported. And the EU is more subtle than any colonels. There is no need for midnight arrests or tanks on the streets. The enormous invisible power of the EU’s law and institutions gets its way without any need for such things.

He continues.

The sheer dictatorial nerve of Italy’s new viceroy, Mario Monti, is impressive. He has formed a government without a single elected politician in it…

Once again, please pay close attention. This is the best warning you will ever get of what the EU is really about. It is an empire, in which the great nations of Europe, including ours, are intended to disappear for ever.

What’s taking place in Europe should stagger and frighten us all, but it doesn’t seem to affect the populous, and it’s true horror is not even momentarily permeating the mainstream media. Maybe because it’s all happening so smoothly, so effortlessly? It’s almost as if the European system had been gently and deliberately designed for decades, with the aim of facilitating precisely such a total removal of democracy, and its substitution with a Euro-statist technocracy.

The British Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan, also this week, very adroitly summarized events in the following speech to the European Parliament.

SERIAL KILLER CONVERTS TO ISLAM FOR BETTER MEALS

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Life for the mustard couldn’t be better, even behind bars.

So what we have here, is a clear example of the privileged lifestyle for Muslims (only) causing others to convert to benefit themselves. This is a classic case of how dhimmitude has worked throughout the centuries to the benefit of Islam, turning once Christian lands into Muslim hell holes, one dhimmi at a time. This is going on with the UK taxpayer footing the bill. KGS

NOTE: It also kind of throws a monkey wrench into the carefully manicured meme of Muslims being discriminated against in the West (read = Islamofauxbia).

H/T: Gaia

Levi Bellfield ‘converts to Islam while in jail after changing his name to Mohammed and only eating halal meat’

  • Serial killer ‘becomes Muslim for better meals and a cushier life’

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

Last updated at 8:06 AM on 7th November 2011

Convert: Bellfield, who sources claim has turned to Islam, was given a second life term in June for killing schoolgirl Milly Dowler

Convert: Bellfield, who sources claim has turned to Islam, was given a second life term in June for killing schoolgirl Milly Dowler

The killer of schoolgirl Milly Dowler has changed his name and is converting to Islam in jail, it has been claimed.

Levi Bellfield, 43, has changed his name to Mohammed, only eats halal meat and prays to Allah five times a day at Wakefield Prison.

The triple murderer is serving a second whole life sentence at the prison for killing Milly, 13, at Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in March 2002.

He was already in jail for murdering Marsha McDonnell, 19, in 2003 and Amelie Delagrange, 22, as well as attempting to murder Kate Sheedy, 18, in 2004.

Staff at Wakefield Prison believe Bellfield has only changed his faith to gain special treatment at the jail, and because he is concerned about his security.

It is also thought he may have made the lifestyle change to impress the Muslim extremists who have given him a hard time while he been incarcerated there.

A prison insider told the Daily Mirror: ‘His diet must be cooked to halal guidelines. It is generally accepted the food is better.

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KILLER WAS DEPORTED 3 TIMES

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 From The Scottish Daily Express

(wiki link is mine)

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Eritrean national Yonas Beraki, 33, was jailed for life this week after admitting killing Genet Kida

Friday November 4,2011

By Paul Jeeves

AN illegal immigrant who murdered his ex-girlfriend by pushing her off a bridge into a busy road smuggled himself back to the UK in a lorry after being deported three times.

 

Eritrean national Yonas Beraki, 33, was jailed for life this week after admitting killing Genet Kidane.

After returning for the third time he even told his 41-year-old ex where and how he planned to kill her weeks before pushing her off the 25ft bridge as she walked to work. She was found in the road by her 22-year-old daughter.

Coventry Crown Court heard that fellow Eritrean Ms Kidane had been living in the UK legally since 2005.

Jailing Beraki, Judge Griffiths-Jones said: “You were deported from this country but you came back, in my judgment, to pursue your obsession of not accepting the end of the relationship.”