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Honour crimes are “sordid criminal behaviour”: UK judge

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

A British judge went out of his way to denounce “honour” crimes in a case involving three children of Pakistani descent being cared for by a non-Muslim family. The children’s mother is in prison for setting her sister-in-law’s house on fire in a dispute involving alleged violations of family honour. The father [...]

Muslim woman jailed for forcing daughters to marry

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

A British Muslim mother has been sentenced to three years for forcing her school-age daughters to marry cousins in Pakistan.
A Muslim mother who forced her two daughters to marry their cousins in Pakistan has been jailed for three years and ordered to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register.
She told her elder daughter that if she didn’t [...]

“White liberalism” hinders action against forced marriage

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

So says Baroness Sayeeda Warsi (at right), a British Muslim peer, Conservative MP, and Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion and Social Action.
PC SENSITIVITIES must not block efforts to protect women from forced marriage and violence, a leading Muslim peer said yesterday.
Sayeeda Warsi believes “white liberalism” – the belief people cannot talk about such matters because [...]

Children are safer with their natural parents

Friday, May 8th, 2009

A mountain of evidence has accumulated indicating that children living with step-parents are at far greater risk of abuse than those living with biological parents. The Times of London columnist Camilla Cavendish wonders why British child-protection authorities are ignoring the elephant in the room.
The Cinderella Effect is the name given to analysis in Canada, the [...]

Christians donate more despite recession

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Stewardship, a Christian financial support charity in the UK, finds that giving has increased three percent during the last six months.
Since October last year, some 30,000 Sovereign Account holders with the ministry have donated more than £24 million in support to charities, churches and mission workers.
Stewardship Chief Executive, David Jones, said: “Our clients tend to [...]

Glasgow shop robbed by men wearing Muslim veils

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

A Glasgow jewellery shop has decided to bar individuals wearing face coverings after being robbed by two men in Muslim female dress. BBC News reports.
ATAA Jewellers in the west end of Glasgow was raided by two Asian men entirely covered apart from their eyes.
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The two girls working at the time were left so shaken [...]

Why is this man smiling?

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

This has got to be the strangest video by a prominent politician that I’ve ever seen. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown grins inanely, jerks back and forth, and even flaps his arms a bit while delivering a message to bolster public confidence in Parliament by tightening up MP’s expense allowances.
One wonders if this tomfoolery [...]

UK to train Muslims to manipulate Google rankings

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

The British Home Office calls it “search engine optimisation”, but that’s just a euphemism for “manipulation”.  Whatever you call it, it’s idiotic and futile.
Whitehall officials will train pro-West Islamic groups to manipulate their Google search ranking in an attempt to drown out extremist voices online, The Register has learned.
The policy is being developed despite recent [...]

State emphasis on niceness reaps nastiness

Monday, March 30th, 2009

The Tyranny of Nice in the UK.
Renowned political philosopher Kenneth Minogue remarks on a paradox at the heart of contemporary British society. For many years, government policies and public institutions have been based on compassion, empathy, and concern; yet, increasingly, the result is a society manifesting the opposite qualities—indifference, lawlessness, and violence.
Young offenders are [...]

Bishop Nazir-Ali resigns to work with persecuted Christians

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, one of the Church of England’s most outspoken leaders, has unexpectedly announced his retirement as Bishop of Rochester, effective 1 September. He will turn 60 in August and could have remained in office for another ten years. Instead, he now plans to minister to Christians in Muslim-majority nations who face [...]

Foreign women imprisoned in brothels in Northern Ireland

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

In the past year, Northern Ireland police have rescued women from Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Far East who were imprisoned in homes and forced to work as sex slaves.
Assistant Chief Constable Drew Harris detailed the extent of the illegal sex trade at the launch of a new support service to help victims.
The officer said [...]

“If women were in charge we wouldn’t be in this economic mess”

Friday, March 20th, 2009

Because, as we all know, women never spend more than they earn.
That inane claim was made by a co-host of a morning TV talk show in Britain.

Rowan Atkinson defends free speech in “gay hate” law

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Speaking at a meeting in the British House of Lords on Tuesday, renowned comedian Rowan Atkinson strongly opposed a scheme to remove free speech protection from the offence of “homophobic hatred”.
Mr Atkinson, famous for his roles in Blackadder and Mr Bean, told Peers in the House of Lords: “Do I think that I would risk [...]

Border checks could be discriminatory

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission has issued a warning that monitoring people crossing the border could be discriminatory.  Apparently, “human rights” are more important than national security.
The Human Rights Commission in the North has warned that plans to introduce checks on people crossing the Border may lead to racial discrimination.
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The Northern Ireland Human Rights [...]

Parents object to one-armed children’s TV show host

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

About a month ago, a charming young woman named Cerrie Burnell (at right) became a presenter (host) on the BBC children’s TV show CBeebies. She has proved a very controversial choice, for the BBC soon received complaints from parents that Ms Burnell was scaring their toddlers.
How exactly does she scare children? It’s her appearance: [...]