Brits Told: Be Nicer to Muslims
Cameron Millar, Daily Star
Brits have been ordered to be nicer to Muslims – despite having one of the most tolerant attitudes to Islam in the world. A United Nations committee said it was concerned that “negative public attitudes towards Muslim members of society” were developing in the UK. The committee also voiced its concern over Government plans to extend the detention of terror suspects. But a source said: “Funnily enough, they didn’t seem to mention the treatment of non-Muslims in Saudi Arabia and Iran.”
[Treat Muslims better, Britain told by UN -MPACUK]
The Blears Fallacy
Soumaya Ghannoushi, Guardian CiF
One of the most frequent criticisms of Islam is that it institutes no distinction between the secular and the sacred. “State and religion should never be mixed,” Muslims are often reprimanded. “You need only look at the Arab region, with its miserable breed of religion-manipulating despots to see that.” So, when you hear that Hazel Blears is creating a made-to-measure committee of Islamic theologians, a sort of church for Muslims, the irony becomes too striking for words.
British opposition leader eyes ‘Sharia law for bike theft’
AFP
LONDON (AFP) — The man who could become Britain’s next prime minister joked Thursday that he was thinking about bringing in Sharia law for bicycle thieves after having his own bike stolen outside a London supermarket. “I’m contemplating introducing Sharia law for bicycle theft,” said the leader of the main opposition Conservative Party, David Cameron, referring to the Islamic law code, after thieves took his bike as he stopped to pick up groceries near his west London home.
[Hug a hoodie? Or kill a bike thief?? -Sam Leith, Telegraph]
Muslim schools fuel segregation, say teachers
Graeme Paton, Telegraph
Speaking at the conference, Wesley Paxton, a further education lecturer from Hull, will say: “More faith schools in 2008 is probably going to mean more Islamic schools.” He adds: “As is often pointed out, there are already many schools with more than a 50 per cent non-white enrolment. “What benefit will there be by emphasising difference, by removing what non-Islamic influences these people will have, and reduce their chances of having a balanced upbringing?”
Muslim schools fuel segregation, say teachers (well, one right-wing teacher) (Islamophobia Watch)
Mel P: Is it Islam or Islamism? (Bradford Muslim)
Ed stifling debate again (Indigo Jo Blogs)
France: Interviews with woman who was refused citizenship (Islam in Europe)
Two Muslim women file suit, say McDonald’s banned headscarves (Islamophobia Watch)
Little Solace for Srebrenica Muslims (IslamOnline.net & Newspapers)
Revenge (Jonathan Freedland, Guardian)
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