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Breaking: Ealing backs down over SBS funding cut I've hear from a friend that Ealing Council has backed down over its much condemned decision to cut funding for Southall Black Sisters. No surprise the original plans came from a Conservative run council, but I bet they were surprised at the strength of the opposition to their plans. The demonstration in support of SBS was on Thursday/Friday. Anyway, once I know more I'll post it. [ Add comment ] 'The Muslims... are like cockroaches' This was one of the more shocking bits from Peter Oborne's recent documentary 'It shouldn't happen to a Muslim'. A BNP activist tells Oborne about this views on Jews: "Probably seem as an ally.... for the future. There's there's the potential there for teamwork... the avenue there is for fresher cooperation." Then the BNP operatives run into this guy who is opposing the building of a local mosque.... (7 minutes in). The full doc is on YouTube: part 1 / part 2 / part 3 / part 4 / part 5 and part 6. Part 6 features Michael Gove MP at the start (one of my favourite bits) - who is confronted with the article where he wrote that wearing the full veil in itself is a badge of allegiance to Islamist politics. In other words, if you wear the full veil you're an al-Qaeda supporter. Of course, he'd hate to think that would inspire anyone to pull the veil off a woman... after all she's only an al-qaeda supporter right? Michael Gove MP presumably interviewed a lot of niqabi women for the purposes of an article. Or maybe he was just inciting hatred. Who knows eh? [ Add comment ] Progress, of sorts "A US judge has ruled that the first war crimes trial at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre, involving Osama Bin Laden's former driver, can go ahead. Judge James Robertson dismissed a claim from lawyers for Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni, that it should be stopped while he challenged the process's legality. The situation is far from perfect, but at least some of the inmates are actually having trials, rather than being stuck in limbo. Hopefully whoever wins the Presidency will speed things up. [ Add comment ] Freedom of religion will free Muslim women One of the world's favourite topics by far, for many good and some unsavoury reasons, was raised by Nesrine Malik's latest article on comment is free. She gives her take on the discussion of women and Islam at IslamExpo. Her main point was, We certainly need more freedom to question our faith without being accused of rejecting it. I think everyone could do with that freedom, female or otherwise. There is a profound lack of self-criticism and openness in Muslim socities that is really a whole other kettle of fish. As for individual rights, I say create avenues for people in Muslim communities to freely reject religious diktats without fearing for their lives or wellbeing. Of course, not without fearing ostracisation, that goes without saying, and there's nothing that can be done about that. Unfortunately, nothing can be done to allay people's homocidal tendencies until they have been fulfilled (or at least hard evidence has been found that they are going to be fulfilled). But in areas where ghettoisation has created an impossible environment to think differently or leave, local government can work on funding refuges, for women and men alike. That would be my answer to the question of liberating Muslim women. As for questioning the actual doctrinal framing of a woman's status, it must be remembered that these doctrines are accepted and revered, by men and women alike, as abhorrent as they may seem to some. No one is going to accept the overhaul of what they see as sacrosanct by a bunch of liberal lefties. That might just turn out to be a wasted effort. What wouldn't be a wasted effort is to tell people born to Muslim families that they have the choice of rejecting things they don't like, and that if they do, they don't have to fear for their lives. [ Add comment ] Stats show knife crime falls The British Crime Survey, which is based on interviews with the public, revealed that nearly 130,000 violent offences involved a knife last year, down 43,000 on the previous year. In London, where the problem is worst, the Metropolitan police figures showed a 16% decrease in "knife enabled" crimes, the survey said.But no people, we should panic! Make sure you have that knife-proof vest because according to Neil Clark, life was perfect in the 1950s and now all these multicultural people have made our lives sooooooo much more scary! [ Add comment ] |
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