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From the BBC:-

A Christian couple from Lancashire have been awarded £10,000 in an out-of-court settlement after they were questioned by police about their moral beliefs.
Helen and Joe Roberts, from Fleetwood, complained about taxpayers’ money being used for leaflets about gay rights and called homosexuality “immoral”.

Wyre Borough Council informed Lancashire Constabulary. Officers then quizzed the couple for over an hour.

The council and police said they had now apologised to the Roberts.

They also said policies had been revised to protect all parties.

I rather doubt that “all parties” claim.  “All parties” can only be treated equally if the decisions in specific cases are free of minority nepotism.  I just don’t believe that minorities who retain their ethnocentic (or faith-centric) worldviews can be as fair and self-abnegating as, regrettably, we are.  Like all councils Wyre (PDF) has its Equality Action Plan.  But how, exactly, could it implement a race-blind policy of council employment?  Does not equality imply merit under Britain’s current laws?  How is that possible if a nepotistic Pakistani happens to be taking the hiring decisions?  Genuine equality would require a certain standard in how races view themselves and eachother, and of course it does not exist.  Nor can it.

The same is true of any Marxistically-embattled minority viz-a-vis the majority.

Still, it’s good to see the Council and Lancashire Police forced into humility this time.  One must hope that a few egalitarian wings have been clipped.

The other cause for some Christmas cheer is this story from The Times:-

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There was a surreal moment on BBC 1 when Auntie’s early lunchtime News & Weather slot briefly reported today’s press conference by Super-Christians Norman Kember, James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden.

They were gathered in the sight of … who else but the world’s press to plead for the mercy of the court in Baghdad as their abductors prepare to face justice.  Beneath the picture of the three men on my TV a news-text ran horizontally, informing me that: “Iraq hostages forgive their victims”.

Now don’t mock.  This turns out to have been a most fortuitous and accurate mistake.

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There was a small but good crop of interesting stories in today’s Brit papers, including this extraordinary one headlined straight from “the last days”.  The content doesn’t actually live up to the drama of that headline - yet - but the contrary dynamics are there.  They bring into prospect a deepening of cultural division which no government, however desperate for assimilation, will be able to resolve.  I get a clear picture of the good ship MultiCult, released from her great wooden slipway blocks and even now nosing ungainly into the dirty grey waters as the Minister and his lady wife frantically search for the broken shards of the magnum.

Sharia law as authority wanes

Islamic sharia law is gaining an increasing foothold in parts of Britain, a report claims.

... the BBC Radio 4 programme Law in Action produced evidence yesterday that it was being used by some Muslims as an alternative to English criminal law. Aydarus Yusuf, 29, a youth worker from Somalia, recalled a stabbing case that was decided by an unofficial Somali “court” sitting in Woolwich, south-east London.

... Dr Prakash Shah, a senior lecturer in law at Queen Mary University of London, said such tribunals “could be more effective than the formal legal system”.

In his book Islam in Britain, Patrick Sookhdeo, director of the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity, says there is an “alternative parallel unofficial legal system” that operates in the Muslim community on a voluntary basis.

“Sharia courts now operate in most larger cities, with different sectarian and ethnic groups operating their own courts that cater to their specific needs according to their traditions,” he says. These are based on sharia councils, set up in Britain to help Muslims solve family and personal problems.

Sharia councils may grant divorces under religious law to a woman whose husband refuses to complete a civil divorce by declaring his marriage over. There is evidence that these councils are evolving into courts of arbitration.

Faizul Aqtab Siddiqi, a barrister and principal of Hijaz College Islamic University, near Nuneaton, Warwicks, said this type of court had advantages for Muslims. “It operates on a low budget, it operates on very small timescales and the process and the laws of evidence are far more lenient and it’s less awesome an environment than the English courts,” he said.

Mr Siddiqi predicted that there would be a formal network of Muslim courts within a decade.

Then, from the home side, there was this:-

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Proposition 1

The flight of the middle classes from the inner cities is threatening to undo 30 years of progress that has made Britain the best place in Europe for ethnic minorities, the country’s race equality chief said yesterday.

Trevor Phillips, the outgoing chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE), said increased polarisation and segregation in areas deserted by the better-off was “the great threat” to the development of a diverse and harmonious society.

From today’s Daily Telegraph, reporting another speech by the first among equals.  This time he wowed a conference in London to mark the 30th anniversary of the dratted Race Relations Act.

Proposition 2

As members of the Kensal Green Tribe, a gang which robbed victims at knifepoint, Donnel Carty and Delano Brown thought themselves untouchable.

Their faces concealed by hoods, they terrorised late-night London Underground passengers, demanding their phones and money — a practice known as steaming.

The attacks were fast, lasting no more than 90 seconds to ensure they were completed before the train drew into a station.

Those who stood up for themselves were punched, kicked or threatened with weapons, often knives. If they continued to resist, they were “juked” — stabbed in the leg for showing disrespect.

... As the attacks multiplied, the gang grew increasingly confident of being able to operate without being caught. By the end of last year, it was out of control, having targeted 90 people in two months.

“They were easily one of the nastiest steaming gangs we’ve ever come across,” said a police source. “They were becoming more and more violent, acting like a pack of wolves. No one was safe. They attacked both men and women — anyone who had something they could take.”

From today’s Daily Telegraph, reporting on the pair of “teenagers” found guilty yesterday of the murder of London solictor Tom ap Rhys Pryce.  They were handed down sentences of 21 and 17 years.

Trevor Phillips is also seeking a life sentence for the English middle-class.

According to the recently released Department of Justice annual hate crimes report, about 60% of all hate crimes were perpetrated by the racial category of “white”.  You can see for yourself here.  Neither Latinos nor Hispanics are mentioned, but it is well known that somewhere between 88% and 91% of all Latinos are classified as “white” by race in the USA.

However, when we look at the statistics about victims of hate crimes, we see that Latinos/Hispanics are well represented with their own ethnic category.  Look here.

This is profoundly dishonest.  MR readers may want to try their statistical skills to tease out additional problems or information.  Merging “white” and most “Latinos” in a single category of hate crime perpetrator and assigning them all the racial label “white” has been the practise since national statistics of hate crimes were first recorded.  Of course, when it comes to victim status all “Latinos” are bunched together.  Thus, the “white” perpetrator class is pumped up, and the “white” victim class is comparatively reduced.

By the way, this approach also applies in other areas.  When you look at statistics on unmarried mothers, for example, you will find that “Latinos” are scattered within the races as part of “white,” “black,” and “Asian” and serve to seriously expand the “white” racial category of unmarried mothers.

This is also the origin of the “non-Hispanic white” label although you will never see “non-Hispanic Asian” (yes, they are a real category) and “non-Hispanic black” (another big category).

Bo Sears
ResistingDefamation.org

Slowly the British political Establishment is coming to terms with what it means when you replace a people for the sake of cheap labour and equality.  From The Times:-

Spread of race ghettos fuels gang warfare

AN east London teenager who became a drug dealer and a knife-wielding member of a street gang lays the blame on the transformation of his neighbourhood into an ethnic minority “ghetto” where turf warfare flourishes.

“I fell in with the wrong crowd,” said Syed Miah, 19, who regrets his life of crime. “Before, it was mixed and you would get to know other people, but now no one meets anyone. You grow up with this mentality that ‘we’re Bangladeshis, whites are whites and blacks are blacks’.”

... There are ethnic gang fights in Manchester and Birmingham and last week they spread to Windsor, where rioting erupted around an Asian-owned dairy and nearby prayer centre.

... Nowhere is the ethnic basis of gangs more evident than in London, where the cultural patchwork is the most complicated in Britain. According to new figures, in the borough of Brent there is an 85% chance that any two people chosen at random would belong to different ethnic groups.

Bangladeshis, Somalis, Pakistanis, Afro–Caribbeans and Turks have all formed their own gangs who are as likely to fight each other as they are to attack or be attacked by white thugs.

Last year Lee Jasper, a policing adviser to Ken Livingstone, the London mayor, warned that one south London gang, the Muslim Boys, was the “most serious criminal threat” the black community had ever faced. It was accused of shooting a man, execution-style, after he refused to convert to Islam, and has been implicated in dozens of other muggings and attempted murders.

... Many peaceable residents, however, are being pushed out of the area. Carly, 25, a white telephone receptionist, said that every day during her 15-minute walk to and from work she tries to “make myself invisible”.

Last month 30 gang members had an armed brawl in the area. In August Carly saw a gang pull a knife on a passer-by. When the police were called, said Carly, they stopped briefly at the end of the road and drove on. “I’m planning to move out now,” she said.

And the Establishment’s answer to this: more supposed integration.  More la-la land.  They haven’t noticed yet that the game is lost.  They may never notice.

Here follows a diverse selection of quotes from news pieces great and small in today’s British national press.  A feast of shockingly inconvenient truths lurk in each story.  However, our beloved news folk, ever optimistic about the free, vibrant future of Babylon, avoid all that - and feed us this stuff instead:-

Jack Straw, stoking up his leadership bid: With all the caveats, I would prefer women not to wear the veil.

… Communities are bound together partly by informal chance relations between strangers - people being able to acknowledge each other in the street or being able pass the time of day.  That’s made more difficult if people are wearing a veil.

David Davis, the alleged right-wing Conservative Shadow Home Secretary, commenting on John Reid’s sudden interest in how immigration overtakes the infrastructure: At long last the Home Secretary looks like he is coming round to our way of thinking. We have consistently been saying that immigration can be of benefit to the country but only if it is properly controlled.

Dr Jamil Sherif, optimistic secretary of the research committee of the Muslim Council of Britain, swallowing some government spin: The ONS report highlights the ethnic and religious diversity in Brent and Harrow. Both local authority districts have good community relations and cohesion - which shows multiculturalism works.

Windsor Council leader Mary-Rose Gliksten, fiddling away furiously while the on-going dairy riots between English and Asian youths in the town get as far as petrol bombs by the roadside: We have got a long and proud history of our community relations in Windsor and we regret incidents that have happened this week. We will be doing everything to calm the situation.

A BBC News source commenting on newsreader Fiona Bruce’s dhimmitudinous removal of her cross necklace: It was argued that BBC staff on screen should not wear anything which hints or directly points to a political or religious leaning and that the cross contravened this and should not be allowed.

A “friend” of Premiership footballer, Lua Lua, after the Congolese “star’s” arrest for allegedly beating up his fiancée at 2am in a hotel room: Natalie is his long-term girlfriend but he does put himself around.  None of his children are hers.

Natalie lives with him but when he’s clubbing it’s with his male friends, not her.  Girls swoon over him because he’s a star.

The mother of murdered black teenager Anthony Walker, on the pathetic inadequate who posted offensive rubbish on Anthony’s tribute site, and got 2 years and 8 months: Hitler started with an idea, slavery started with an idea, so it is good that this was stopped in time.

And just one little note of truth, but not coming out of real life events ... just an opinion piece from the most censorious Multicult-lover in the game …

Ugandan Asian journo Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, lambasting us as usual in The Independent: There is another island nation which fears the stranger, wants high walls to keep out the multiracial wash, is pitiless in its rejection of non Anglo-Saxon peoples and their ways - curries notwithstanding. (Remember 87 per cent of Britain is white and 75 per cent Christian.).  Here things are getting appallingly hostile.  The anti-Muslim riots in Windsor, the whites who voted for the BNP in Barking, blatant and shameless middle-class racism makes me wonder if there is a future for the Britain I praise.  Muslim separatist fanatics feed the prejudiced.  In small pockets there is a ghetto mentality if not quite the reality.  White no-go localities are becoming lethal places for outsiders.

… Inter-ethnic and inter-religious rancour increases among the young and most-educated too.  State policies have heightened tribal consciousness; unemployment rates among British-born ethnic groups are twice that of whites …

In The Times this morning we read that:-

THE Home Office is privately warning that 45,000 “undesirable” migrants from Romania and Bulgaria could legally be allowed to live in Britain when the two countries join the European Union next year.

It has drawn up a confidential “warnings index” of people from the two states, most of whom are suspected of having criminal associations or posing a security risk.

According to a paper circulated in Whitehall last week, ministers fear they may be unable to stop these people settling in Britain and claiming state benefits when Romania and Bulgaria join the EU.

The paper reveals that the government privately estimates between 60,000 and 140,000 Romanians and Bulgarians will arrive in Britain in the first year after accession.

Not to be outdone this morning’s Telegraph carries this:-

John Reid has embarked on a major transformation of the Home Office, but one of the causes of its failure has been ignored. In 1999 it was set a target to ensure that 25 per cent of its work force in London was from ethnic minorities by 2009. It exceeded the target by the halfway stage in 2004 and ethnic minorities now make up more than 38 per cent of head office. However, the Home Office “milestone report” also drew attention to an unwelcome side-effect.

Members of ethnic minorities have not performed as well as white staff in Civil Service examinations. Civil servants who hope for promotion attend “assessment centres”, where they take written tests, carry out exercises and are interviewed. In 2004, the results for higher executive officer and Grade 7 assessments were “again disappointing”. The pass rate for minority ethnic staff was “lower than for white staff”.

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