Archive for the ‘United Kingdom’ Category
February 26th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Last June, the Cambridgeshire Constabulary set up a helpline for issues related to honour-based violence and forced marriage. An average of 30 calls per month have been received, resulting in 61 investigations. Chief Constable Julie Spence gives a few examples of calls to the hotline: contact from women as young as 14 fearful of being [...]
Tags: Forced marriage, Honour crime
Posted in Law Crime and Legal Issues, United Kingdom | 1 Comment »
February 26th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Ofsted, the British government’s education watchdog, has made an astonishing discovery. Back to basics discipline in school would curb bad behaviour […] Traditional rules such as banning children with shaven heads and those wearing designer trainers or gang colours have proved effective in maintaining order at the best comprehensives, according to a report by Ofsted. [...]
Tags: Child rearing, Education, Folly
Posted in United Kingdom | 1 Comment »
February 20th, 2009 | Comments Off
Four women from Moldova were promised jobs in London but, when they arrived, they were forced to work as prostitutes for 20 hours a day. They have now won a landmark lawsuit against the couple who deceived and coerced them into prostitution. Identified only as AT, NT, ML and AK, the young women, all from [...]
Tags: Barbarism, Culture of life, Human trafficking, Moldova
Posted in Europe, Life Issues, United Kingdom | Comments Off
February 14th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Yesterday, Archbishop of York John Sentamu decried public intolerance toward Christians and cited as a recent example the threatened disciplinary action against school receptionist Jennie Cain for asking friends to pray for her and her five-year-old daughter. Now several more Church of England bishops have done the same. The Bishop of Bradford, the Rt Rev [...]
Tags: Civil liberties, Jennie Cain, Persecution, Tyranny
Posted in Christianity, Religious Liberty/Persecution, United Kingdom | 1 Comment »
February 14th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Earlier this week, a council in the north of England removed a Christian woman from the roster of approved foster parents after a 16-year-old Muslim girl in her care converted to Christianity and was baptized. It is now alleged that the girl went into foster care after her father physically assaulted her and threatened that [...]
Tags: Civil liberties, England, Forced marriage, Persecution, Tyranny, UK politics
Posted in Christianity, Religious Liberty/Persecution, United Kingdom | 1 Comment »
February 13th, 2009 | Comments Off
Britain’s spineless government [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW6PRABq4HM[/youtube] Dutch MP banned from Britain Labour minister praises Muslims because “secular commentators are afraid to criticise them.” “Freedom go to hell” and other choice slogans. When the original screening was cancelled Lord Ahmed told the Pakistani press it was “a victory for the Muslim community”. Fitna the movie PLEASE SIGN THE [...]
Tags: Civil liberties, Cowardice, Dhimmitude, Geert Wilders, Netherlands, Pat Condell, Tyranny, UK politics
Posted in Europe, Islam, United Kingdom | Comments Off
February 13th, 2009 | Comments Off
Archbishop of York John Sentamu (at right) defends Christian prayer in today’s Daily Mail. Defending prayer has become necessary because British Christians are now being persecuted over prayer. In recent days, prayer has found its way into the headlines for other reasons altogether. Last week, community nurse Caroline Petrie was suspended as a result of [...]
Tags: Jennie Cain, John Sentamu, Persecution, UK politics
Posted in Christianity, Religious Liberty/Persecution, United Kingdom | Comments Off
February 11th, 2009 | Comments Off
Police in Lancashire, England, have used new legal powers to save a young woman from being coerced to marry against her will. A Forced Marriage Protection Order was issued to prevent her father from taking her to Pakistan. The orders, which were added to the Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 in November last year, [...]
Tags: Culture of life, England, Forced marriage, Pakistan
Posted in Law Crime and Legal Issues, Life Issues, United Kingdom | Comments Off
February 9th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Muslim apostaphobia in the UK. This clip is from a recent episode of the British TV show Dispatches. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-CMJ2vVMtk[/youtube] The presenter reads from two books that he purchased at an Islamic bookstore in London: The punishment by death in the case of apostasy has been unanimously agreed upon by all the four schools of Islamic [...]
Tags: Film and TV, Islamic teaching, Persecution
Posted in Christianity, Islam, Religious Liberty/Persecution, United Kingdom | 2 Comments »
February 8th, 2009 | 3 Comments
Dr Andrew Wakefield sparked a major international scare with his 1998 article purporting to find a link between autism and the triple vaccine against measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR). An in-depth investigation by The Sunday Times of London has discovered that his results were based on falsified data. The research was published in February 1998 [...]
Tags: Chutzpah, Health and medical, Methodology, The Lancet
Posted in Life Issues, Media and Journalism, Statistics, United Kingdom | 3 Comments »
February 8th, 2009 | 4 Comments
Another outrageous act of official discrimination against Christians in the United Kingdom. A council in the north of England has removed a Christian woman from the roster of approved foster parents after a 16-year-old Muslim girl in her care converted to Christianity. The woman has taken care of more than 80 children in ten years [...]
Tags: Civil liberties, England, Marriage and family, Persecution, Tyranny, UK politics
Posted in Christianity, Life Issues, Religious Liberty/Persecution, United Kingdom | 4 Comments »
February 6th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Erica Connor, former head teacher at a school in Surrey, England, has sued Surrey County Council for failing to support her when she was harassed and vilified by Muslim governors. She accuses the council of cowardice and claims her experience at the school was so stressful that she was forced to take permanent sick leave [...]
Tags: Education, England, Erica Connor, Islamic teaching, Multiculturalism
Posted in Islam, Law Crime and Legal Issues, United Kingdom | 2 Comments »
February 1st, 2009 | 2 Comments
Peter Hitchens is outraged by the “child welfare” authorities who ordered two young children taken away from their grandparents and given to a homosexual couple for adoption. People in Western societies were encouraged to show tolerance for homosexuals, but now we are being tyrannised into giving approval. For objecting to having their grandchildren adopted by [...]
Tags: Marriage and family, Modernity, Scotland, Sexuality, Tyranny, UK politics
Posted in Life Issues, United Kingdom, Worldview Issues | 2 Comments »
January 28th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Europhile Conservative MP Ken Clarke was only this month elevated to the Shadow Cabinet, but already a major rift has emerged between him and party leader David Cameron. Mr Cameron has pledged to introduce pro-marriage tax reforms, but Mr Clarke dismisses that as “social engineering”. “My view of Conservatism is that it’s not for us [...]
Tags: Culture of life, Government finance, Marriage and family, Modernity, Persecution, Sexuality, Tyranny, UK politics
Posted in Life Issues, United Kingdom | 1 Comment »
January 27th, 2009 | Comments Off
Two million fewer pints of beer sold every day as pubs suffer in recession — London Telegraph, 27 Jan.
Tags: Beer and wine, Business and finance, England, Financial crisis
Posted in Economics, In a Jocular Vein, United Kingdom | Comments Off