Last week Muslims demonstrating outside Westminster Cathedral over the Pope's recent remarks, made deadly threats of violence against anyone who insulted the Muslim faith. Many of the Christians attending Mass complained to the police in fear of their lives.
The Metropolitan Police has also decided not to take action against the controversial Muslim figure, Anjem Choudary, who allegedly said in a television interview about the row over the Pope that anyone who insulted the Muslim faith would be "subject to capital punishment".
Police received about 25 complaints from members of the public about the protest, which was said to have left worshipers attending the cathedral on September 17 feeling "upset" and "intimidated".
Following a protest outside the Danish embassy in London in February, over Muslim-related cartoons, an inquiry led to charges including soliciting to murder and inciting racial hatred.
However, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, told a meeting of his force's police authority yesterday that, after reviewing the evidence, Scotland Yard officers had concluded that "no substantive offences" were committed during the cathedral demonstration. (Telegraph.co.uk)
A double standard in justice is operating in Londonistan. Many non-Muslims are being arrested for questionable verbal attacks against Muslims while the Muslims who are threatening violent attacks are being ignored by the police.
Is this what the Western free-world has to look forward to?
Posted by Walt in Londonistan, Social Issues categories at 12:06 PM EDT
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TV censorship has gone too far. The children show, "VeggieTales", had references to God and the Bible removed before NBC would allow the broadcast of the 1/2 hour show. NBC has ruled that mentioning God or the Bible is not politically correct.
"VeggieTales" is a collection of animated home videos for children that encourage moral behavior based on Christian and biblical principles. More than 50 million copies have been sold since 1993, according to Big Idea Inc., which produces the series.
Two weeks ago, NBC began airing 30-minute episodes of "VeggieTales" on Saturday mornings (9 a.m. on KUSA-Channel 9). The show was edited to comply with the network's broadcast standards, said NBC spokeswoman Rebecca Marks.
"VeggieTales" creator Phil Vischer, who was responsible for readying episodes for network broadcast, said he didn't know until just weeks before the shows were to begin airing that nonhistorical references to God and the Bible would have to be removed.
Had he known how much he'd have to change the show - including Bob and Larry's tagline, "Remember kids, God made you special, and he loves you very much," that concludes each episode - Vischer said he wouldn't have signed on for the network deal. (DenverPost.com)
Interesting though, NBC is still debating whether or not to run Modonna mounting a Crucifix duirng her concert on her upcoming special on NBC.
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Last week, a Scotland motorist was jailed for two nights for revving up his muscle car in a racist manner.
Witnesses claimed he had been trying to intimidate a Libyan couple on the pavement. Ronnie, of Stirling, claims he was only revving the powerful V8 engine to avoid another £15,000 repair bill.
But off-duty Chief Inspector Eoin Jenkins thought he was targeting Muslim Isam Maigel and his wife Hana Saad. (SundayMail.co.uk)
The racist charge was dropped but he was fined for yelling and swearing at Chief Inspector Eoin Jenkins.
Go to Daniel Pipes Blog to view a long list of similar Londonistan Follies that occurred over the last three years in the UK.
Posted by Walt in Londonistan, Social Issues categories at 9:19 AM EDT
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The Berlin's Deutsche Oper, not wanting to offend the 3.2 million German Muslims, has pulled the performances of the Mozart opera, which shows the severed heads of the Prophet Mohammad, Buddha and Jesus. The police warned that it could pose an "incalculable" security risk because of the violent reactions to Muslims to previous issues, such as the Pope's remarks last week and the Danish cartoons last year. There was no mention of offending Christians or Buddhists.
However, Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans on Wednesday not to bow to fears of Islamic violence after a Berlin opera house canceled the Mozart opera work just because some scenes could enrage Muslims.
"I think the cancellation was a mistake. I think self-censorship does not help us against people who want to practice violence in the name of Islam," she told reporters. "It makes no sense to retreat."
Merkel's comments, which echoed those of other senior German politicians, fueled a row over the cancellation of Mozart's "Idomeneo" which overshadowed a government-sponsored conference to promote dialogue with the country's 3.2 million Muslims. (Reuters)
Merkel offered to make her point on the issue by recommending all attendees at the conference, which half are Muslim, to attend the opera if the cancellation is reversed. All agreed.
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by Thomas E. Brewton
Progressive educators today proudly declare that they don’t warp students’ minds by teaching specific bodies of knowledge, by teaching to the test; they teach students how to think. That concept is a meaningless and dangerous abstraction.
Commenting upon a recent posting, a reader wrote:
“…. Now, if you go to college, you learn how to analyze information critically as opposed to reeling with whatever gut, emotional response you get. You learn not “What to think,” but “How to think.” The only way that education will ever succeed in our times is if it raises a generation of children who can not only read, but read between the lines.”
No one would disagree with the sentiment that children should be able to understand the context of what they read and have a sufficient breadth of knowledge to bring critical judgment to what they read.
But the concept of learning how to think, as a stand-alone pedagogy, is meaningless. One has to think about something, and, in order to understand what one is thinking about, is necessary to learn a great many facts about that something. In many cases understanding comes only with much practice and drill.
One might as well hand an oboe to an untutored music student and lecture him on how to think about playing the oboe, without benefit of being able to read music and without practice to master the mechanics of producing correct notes from the instrument.
This is particularly true, for example, in mathematics. When a teacher presents a concept with a blackboard demonstration, keener students may be able to follow each step of the process. But only later, working alone at home on assignments, will the student discover what he doesn’t know and in the process learn the concept sufficiently well to solve similar problems in the future.
When students are allowed to use electronic calculators to solve problems, their minds are not engaged in any meaningful way with mathematics itself. They might as well be playing a video game.
But they are learning how to think about mathematical problems. They just don’t really understand what they are thinking about.
Even teachers’ unions dominated by progressive liberalism have begun to admit that the various genres of new math fail to teach mathematics to students. When it doesn’t matter whether students can solve problems and get correct answers, when it is believed sufficient for students to have some conceptual idea about a problem, we have a nation of students falling each year farther behind Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and other Asian students in real scientific accomplishment.
The problem lies with the qualification that students have a breadth of knowledge. A good analogy is the story of seven blind men on all sides of an elephant, each feeling one part of the elephant and describing what he takes to be its nature. Only a sighted person, walking all around the elephant and studying its habits and moods over time can know how to think about an elephant.
What learning how to think has come to mean is something quite different, and it applies primarily to the so-called social sciences: history, political science, anthropology, psychology, etc.
In practice, teaching students how to think means appealing to the normal rebelliousness of youth by telling them that they should ignore what their parents and their churches teach them, that the only standards that matter are the opinions of their peers. Students should, for example, experiment with homosexual and heterosexual congress.
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Pop star Beyonce Knowles recently stated in an interview that she only makes records for blacks. Her only fallout is about 70% drop in her her new album, B'and, and booed at the MOBO awards in London on Wednesday night when she failed to turn up to collect her three prizes.
Beyonce, 25, said in an interview with Blender magazine: "I make black records. I write records like I speak, and I don't try to change my songs so everyone else likes them."
For her to make such a statement and not get and any real flack from the press is astonishing. If a white singer stated that they only make records for whites, do you think the reaction to the media would have been so light? I am sure there would be racist accusations across the board.
Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3805965a1860,00.html
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In the UK you can get away preaching death but being accused of making a racist remark can get you convicted even if there is no victim and an only witness testified she was not sure what was said. The real victim is an unknown women traditionally-dressed as an Asian woman that never came forward.
Robert McGlynn, 40, was seen shouting abuse at the unknown woman through the open window of his car as he drove through Swansea, South Wales, in June. . .
. . . Mrs Rees told the court that she saw McGlynn shouting abuse at the traditionally-dressed Asian woman. She thought that she heard the words “Paki whore” and “Sieg Heil”.
Mrs Rees, who was stationary at a junction at the time, told the court: “He was shouting, his face was quite contorted with the effort he was putting in. To me it appeared that he was being venomous. His face appeared quite contorted.”
She added: “But I could not swear to the words I did hear.”
Following the conviction, McGlynn stated:
“This is a crime without a victim with evidence from someone who admitted they didn’t really hear what was happening and who had already had an award for reporting the case before she stepped into court.
“I am completely innocent and it worries me what is happening in Britain today.
“You have mad mullahs preaching death and destruction in our streets and nothing is done while law-abiding people can be convicted of nothing more than driving their car with the window open.”
Is this what the rest of Europe and US can look forward to?
Source: Times On-line
Posted by Walt in Londonistan, Social Issues categories at 6:58 AM EDT
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Here's another no brainer from the UK, or as some now call them Londonistan. Again, London politics have succumbed to the whims of the Muslims in the UK.
Police have agreed to consult a panel of Muslim leaders before mounting counter-terrorist raids or arrests. Members of the panel will offer their assessment of whether information police have on a suspect is too flimsy and will also consider the consequences on community relations of a raid.
Members will be security vetted and will have to promise not to reveal any intelligence they are shown. They will not have to sign the Official Secrets Act. (Times Online)
And the Muslim leaders are not going to tell anyone of the impending raids? I think not!
Posted by Walt in Londonistan, Terrorism categories at 7:33 AM EDT
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In the UK, first they made sure the prison toilets in London were not facing towards Mecca, and then the UK introduced the first ever burka-styled hospital gown. Now a new cemetery being built in Nottingham that will be the first UK burial ground to have all graves facing toward Mecca.
All headstones at the 40-acre burial site will face northeast, enabling the dead to look over their shoulder toward Mecca, the manner prescribed for followers of Islam in the UK.
Church leaders have criticized the decision by local officials, saying that imposing a Muslim model on Christians, who traditionally are buried facing east, is discriminatory.
"This is a sensitive issue to all people. I hope the situation will be reviewed with wide consultation and a policy introduced that takes account of the needs of all," the Rt. Rev. George Cassidy, bishop of Southwell and Nottingham, told the London Daily Mail. (World Net Daily)
The Muslim population in the Nottingham area is less than 5%.
Posted by Walt in Christianity, Londonistan, Religon, Social Issues categories at 7:32 AM EDT
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Is the new burqua-style hospital gown being introduced in the Lancashire UK hospitals this fall, an invention of the Middle East Arabs countries?
The answer is NO! They are an invention by a British women, Karen Jacob who is the linen services manager at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals. The purpose is to afford religious modesty to all women who wish to be covered head to foot.
The £12 outfits - made in Yorkshire - cover the entire head, neck and body, leaving just a slot for the eyes.
The burqua-style gowns come with trousers, two styles of head-dress and elasticated cuffs to prevent women's arms from being revealed.
They will be available to patients at in Chorley and Preston from November.
The gowns were trialled at Royal Preston Hospital and proved so successful that a number of other NHS Trusts have also expressed an interest in offering them. (BBC News)
Because this idea is a first in the world of fashion, the West Yorkshire-based firm, Interweave, which makes the garments, believes the demand for the gowns could be huge. They are hoping this new polically correct fashion will appeal to the millions of women who may wish to use these modest coverings.
Now why hasn't the Muslim world think of this first?
Posted by Walt in Fashion, Londonistan, Religon categories at 7:30 AM EDT
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