Archive for the ‘United Kingdom’ Category
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 was refused care [...]
Tags: Culture of life, Honour crime, Islamic teaching
Posted in Islam, Law Crime and Legal Issues, Life Issues, United Kingdom | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Tags: England, Forced marriage, Islamic teaching, Pakistan
Posted in Islam, Law Crime and Legal Issues, United Kingdom | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Tags: Forced marriage, Islamic teaching, Political correctness, Sayeeda Warsi
Posted in Islam, Life Issues, United Kingdom | 1 Comment »
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, [...]
Tags: Child rearing, Culture of life, Marriage and family, Political correctness
Posted in Life Issues, United Kingdom | 1 Comment »
April 28th, 2009 | 1 Comment
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 [...]
Tags: Financial crisis, Philanthropy
Posted in Christianity, Economics, United Kingdom | 1 Comment »
April 28th, 2009 | 1 Comment
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. […] The two girls working at the time were left [...]
Tags: Hypocrisy, Islamic teaching, Scotland
Posted in Islam, Law Crime and Legal Issues, United Kingdom | 1 Comment »
April 22nd, 2009 | Comments Off
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. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAspEPVQECE[/youtube] One wonders if this [...]
Tags: Folly, Gordon Brown, UK politics
Posted in In a Jocular Vein, United Kingdom | Comments Off
April 19th, 2009 | 1 Comment
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 [...]
Tags: Folly, Internet, Islamic teaching, UK politics
Posted in Computers and technology, Islam, United Kingdom | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Tags: Culture of life, Folly, Kenneth Minogue, Modernity, Tyranny, UK politics
Posted in United Kingdom, Worldview Issues | 3 Comments »
March 29th, 2009 | 1 Comment
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 harassment and [...]
Tags: Church of England, Michael Nazir-Ali, Persecution
Posted in Anglican, Christianity, Islam, Religious Liberty/Persecution, United Kingdom | 1 Comment »
March 26th, 2009 | 1 Comment
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 [...]
Tags: Barbarism, Human trafficking, Northern Ireland, Sexuality
Posted in Life Issues, United Kingdom | 1 Comment »
March 20th, 2009 | 1 Comment
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.
Tags: Chutzpah, Film and TV, Financial crisis, Folly
Posted in Economics, United Kingdom | 1 Comment »
March 19th, 2009 | 1 Comment
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 [...]
Tags: Civil liberties, Rowan Atkinson, Sexuality, UK politics
Posted in Europe, Law Crime and Legal Issues, United Kingdom, Worldview Issues | 1 Comment »
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. […] The Northern [...]
Tags: Human Rights Commissions, Ireland, Schmaltz
Posted in Europe, International, United Kingdom | 1 Comment »
February 28th, 2009 | 1 Comment
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: [...]
Tags: Cerrie Burnell, Cowardice, Culture of life, Film and TV
Posted in Life Issues, United Kingdom | 1 Comment »