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Sunday stays sort of special

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David Burrowes also opposed 'gay marriage'.
David Burrowes, who tabled the successful amendment against an extension to Sunday trading, also opposed ‘gay marriage’.

The House of Commons has rejected Government plans to relax the law on Sunday trading.

A motion to remove the measure was carried by 317 votes to 286.  Read the actual debate here and follow it through to see how your MP voted.  A vote for ‘Aye’ is for Sunday. A vote ‘No’ is for the Government.

Every opposition party in the House voted against proposals to allow local councils in England and Wales to decide whether to extend opening hours.

The shop workers’ union USDAW also opposed the change, which it said would not give shop workers adequate protection if they had an objection to working on Sunday.

Speaking on television, Dave Williams of USDAW said there was a working compromise at the moment which would ‘keep Sunday special’, although the day is not really that special since the current system was introduced in 1993.

The church sadly moved away from the principled position which defeated Mrs Thatcher’s earlier attempt to relax the law in the 1986 Shops Bill, her only defeat in the House. Christian Voice opposed any compromise, saying the Lord would not honour it. So it turned out.

Seven years later, the proposal from ‘Keep Sunday Special’ was defeated and the ‘Shopping Hours Reform Council’ saw its proposal to allow large shops to open for six hours on Sunday passed in a vote on 8th December 1993.

Sir Gerald Howarth was scathing in a speech opposing the changes
Sir Gerald Howarth was scathing in a speech opposing the changes

Ministers had sought to limit the current rebellion by promising to trial the changes in 12 areas but their late offer of concessions was described by Sir Gerald Howarth as “shambolic” and “delivered by lastminute.com”.

The Government said afterwards they would respect MPs’ views. It is the Conservative government’s second defeat in the House of Commons since it was elected last May. The earlier defeat was on 7th July 2015 on “English Votes on English Laws”.

Conservative MP David Burrowes, who tabled the successful rebel amendment, said the government had not made an economic case for such sweeping changes, which he said were opposed by businesses of all sizes, shop workers and faith groups.

Speaking after the vote, he told BBC News of his “relief”, adding: “The main thing out there is relief for shop workers, families and businesses who will really be pleased today.”

Labour said the government’s approach had been “tawdry” and the House of Commons had spoken clearly on the “contentious issue”.

The SNP also objected to the government plans, even though in Scotland shops have opened for longer on Sundays for many years. They said the measure would impact on wages north of the border.

Twenty-seven Conservative MPs rebelled against the government, objecting that the measure was not in the Party’s 2015 election manifesto:

Heidi Allen
Caroline Ansell
Bob Blackman
Peter Bone (teller)
Fiona Bruce
David Burrowes
Maria Caulfield
Christopher Chope
Nadine Dorries
Steve Double
James Gray
Chris Green
Gordon Henderson
Philip Hollobone (teller)
Gerald Howarth
Stewart Jackson
Ranil Jayawardena
David Jones
Jeremy Lefroy
Edward Leigh
Julian Lewis
Karl McCartney
Andrew Rosindell
Derek Thomas
Andrew Turner
Martin Vickers
William Wragg

Later the same night, the Government were twice defeated in the House of Lords.

Peers debating the Immigration Bill voted to allow asylum seekers the right to work if their claims have not been processed within six months.

They also voted to allow overseas domestic workers to change employers without risking immediate deportation.

Peers voted by 280 votes to 195 in favour of a Labour, Lib Dem and crossbench amendment to the Immigration Bill on the rights of asylum seekers to work.

Lord Alton of Liverpool, who proposed it, said it would end the “enforced workhouse destitution” currently experienced by asylum seekers.

Isaiah 58:13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: 14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. (KJV)

 

 

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Islamic Human Rights Commission

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A report published today claims Muslims in the UK live in ‘an environment of hate’ – and the government is to blame.

The so-called ‘Islamic Human Rights Commission’ in a press release about today’s launch of its report ‘Environment of Hate: The New Normal for Muslims in the UK’ describes the UK “as an ever developing ‘Stasi state’ rife with hatred for the ‘suspect’ Muslim community. The authors examine the construction of an environment where Muslims are feared and loathed.”

This claim by the absurdly named ‘Commission’ – it’s just a pressure group – that the UK is like East Germany in its treatment of Muslims and Islam is preposterous. Our broadcast media and institutions from politicians to the police fall over themselves to present Islam as a peaceful religion and its adherents as loyal, law- abiding citizens.

The Islamic Human Rights Commission have been developing what they call the ‘Domination Hate Model of Intercultural Relations’. This says “hate crimes do not occur in a vacuum. Perpetrators are themselves victim citizens who have been mobilised by structural forces; namely the government and the media.”

The only problem is, that is rubbish.

Apart from the profligate and pointless ‘Prevent’ programme and the Terrorism Act, which actually concerns many of us, the government have done nothing inimical to Muslims. Establishment politicians are constant in their praise of Islam, stressing how the terrorists have misinterpreted it. The broadcast media, with the possible exception of Channel 4 Dispatches and the occasional Panorama programme, is overwhelmingly supportive of Islam and Muslims.

It is only some sections of the press which are antipathetic. Even then, if Muslim teachers did not beat children learning the Quran, if local authorities did not celebrate Eid rather than Christmas, if school boards did not try to turn their schools into Islamic enclaves, if Muslims did not write graffiti in Jewish cemeteries, there would be nothing to report.

Negative images of Muslims and Islam come not from our government and the British broadcast media at all. The problem for Muslims is all the honest material about Islam all over the internet, mainly on YouTube and Facebook.
Videos made by Islamic State themselves of their agents beheading captives, of tearing down crosses outside churches, other videos of Muslims rioting in Croatia, spouting hatred against Jews on Al-Quds Day in London (ironically organised by IHRC on behalf of Stop the War), attacking soldiers returning from Afghanistan in East London, bombing and shooting people in Nairobi and Garissa, constant killing in Baghdad, the bombs in Istanbul and Beirut and now the atrocities in Paris, it just goes on and on.

There is no getting away from the fact that the overwhelming majority of terrorists in the world are Muslim. There is no hiding that gangs of Muslim young men were convicted of the rape of young, insecure non-Muslim girls in town after town in the UK. There is no escaping the reality that all the recent cases of electoral fraud here have involved Muslims. There is no gain-saying that in case after case of restaurant and take-away food hygiene, it is Muslim establishments that are being fined. The Muslim community in this land needs to clean up its own act. Literally, in some aspects.

Finally, in the wake of the carnage in Paris, the ‘Islamic Human Rights Commission’ blames not Muslim terrorists but ‘unethical western foreign policy in the Middle East’. I have been at the forefront of objecting to British incursions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria and to our Government’s support of the catastrophic ‘Arab Spring’. But when Muslims blame ‘the West’ for the actions of other Muslims, is it any wonder that the rest of us react with loathing for Islam and all it stands for?

Here is a word about the Islamic Human Rights Commission:

Isa 59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. 4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

And here is one for them:

Mark 1:15 The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

 

No to the West Ham mega mosque

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If built, the West Ham mega mosque would be the largest place of worship in Europe, accommodating between 10,000 and 40,000 worshipers, and the size of Battersea Power Station according to its architect.

The fundamentalist group behind it, Tablighi Jamaat, are associated with convicted and dead Islamic terrorists. So why did the Government not dismiss its appeal against a refusal to grant the scheme planning permission last month when they had the chance?

In this video, we expose the shocking reason why, and ask you to make the ‘mega mosque’ an election issue. If you have never seen the ‘mega mosque’ site, this is a good opportunity to take a look.

Come and join us for prayer at the site on Saturday 2nd May 2015 from 10.30am to 12.30pm. Nearest Station: Abbey Road DLR, SatNav E15 3ND. We meet where Canning Road crosses the Greenway.

Isaiah 42:8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. (KJV)

 

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Amira Abase father ‘was at hate rally’

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Hussen Abase blamed police over his daughter Amira's flight to ISIS-controlled Syria.
Moderate Islam: Hussen Abase clutches a teddy-bear as he appeals to his daughter Amira not to join ISIS.

A tabloid newspaper has alleged that the father of schoolgirl Amira Abase who joined IS in Syria chanted ‘Allahu Akbar’ at an Islamist rally.

In an exclusive, the Daily Mail claims Hussen Abase was caught on camera ‘at the head of an Islamist rally led by hate preacher Anjem Choudary and attended by Michael Adebolajo, the killer of soldier Lee Rigby’.

The paper is known for its sensationalist spin and sometimes inaccurate reporting, But Hussen Abase can be clearly seen in the footage of the rally in the paper’s report.

He is at the front of the rally behind a banner reading: ‘The followers of Mohammed will conquer America.’  He is waving and chanting as an American flag is burned.  At the rally, held in London in 2012, Anjem Choudary said Islam would take over the world.

Hussen Abase participated enthusiastically at a rally led by Anjem Choudary at which an American flag was burned.
Hussen Abase participated enthusiastically at a rally led by Anjem Choudary at which an American flag was burned.

Many of us, knowing the Islamic policy of Taqiya, or lying to advance Islam, have been sceptical when the families of young Muslims joining Islamic state protest that they had no idea why their son or daughter had done such a thing.

The BBC posted a video of Hussen Abase holding a teddy bear appealing for his daughter to return, saying he ‘suspected nothing’.  He led the appeals the three families made and blamed the police for not giving families a letter which might have prevented the girls from travelling to Syria.

He was also on ITV in a tearful appeal.

The Guardian reported Hussen Abase as saying: “The police neglected us, the school neglected us. It would have definitely alarmed me … 100% I would have stopped her. They did not warn us, they did not contact us at all.”

But he said nothing about his own involvement in fundamentalist Islam.

In a further report, the BBC carried extensive quotes from Mr Abase in February:

“We are depressed, and it’s very stressful,” he said while holding a teddy Amira had given her mother for Mother’s Day.

“The message we have for Amira is to get back home. We miss you. We cannot stop crying. Please think twice. Don’t go to Syria.”

He said his daughter had never spoken about an interest in the militant group with him.

“She doesn’t dare discuss something like this with us. She knows what the answer would be,” he said.

In a further direct appeal to his daughter, he said: “Remember how we love you. Your sister and brother cannot stop crying.”

Hussen Abase even hoodwinked the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee, which said, at paragraph 24 of its report ‘Counter-Terrorism: Foreign Fighters:

‘We commend all the families which have spoken to the Committee during the course of this inquiry, namely Sally and Micheal Evans, Hussen Abase, Fahmida Aziz, and Sahima Begum, for their courage in speaking up. Not enough support is given to families by the Home Office. Greater counselling and support services should be offered to them.’

Hussen Abase is pictured here leaving the committee.

If someone like Hussen Abase can appear so convincingly moderate, how much more Islamist jihadist sentiment is concealed just under the surface of Muslim families in the UK?

 

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Is Allah Almighty God?

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East London Mosque, Whitechapel, London E1 1JX
East London Mosque, Whitechapel, London E1 1JX

Islam is the fastest-growing religion in Britain. But who or what do Muslims worship? Is their “Allah”, an Arabic expression which means ‘the god’, the same being as the Lord God of the Bible?

Is Allah Almighty God?

Muslims certainly claim to worship the same god as Abraham did. They claim Allah’s continuity with the God of the Bible. And of course you will find politicians and multi-faith pundits also saying, ‘Christians and Muslims worship the same God!’ But is such a view tenable?

In around four minutes and by the grace of God we look at the scriptures in which the Father speaks of the Lord Jesus as his ’beloved son’ and where the Lord and his apostles confirmed his identity. We compare this evidence with that of the Quran, in which Allah denies having a son (a bit beneath his dignity, he says).

It is hard not to draw the obvious conclusion.  View the video for yourself.

This video was shot on location at the East London Mosque in Whitechapel.

 

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Still Time to Act on 3-Parent Babies

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3 parent babiesAlthough the UK Parliament has now officially approved the creation of 3-parent babies, concerned citizens can still work to block the new measures at the implementation stage.

It will be up to the fertility regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), to decide whether a treatment can go ahead on a case-by-case basis. Consequently, UK citizens opposed to the new measures can still make a difference by writing to their MPs. Our lawmakers can put pressure on the HFEA to think through a number of problems and ramifications before allowing the practice to become widespread. Some of the problems the HFEA needs to wrestle with before allowing widespread implementation have been helpfully summarized on the CitizenGo website and are quoted below:

 

  • None of the proposed techniques represents a cure for mitochondrial disease which will continue to appear randomly at birth. These techniques would only be applied to families already identified as being at risk of conceiving a baby with mitochondrial disease.
  • The current proposals represent in no way whatsoever attempts to cure the condition in existing babies, but rather involve the creation of a completely new kind of human embryo whose genetic composition would be determined by using material from two maternal progenitor sources.
  • The woman donating the healthy mitochondria would provide identifiable genetic material – no matter how minimal – to the embryo produced and the offspring would (at least in the case of one technique) have three biological parents.
  • The proposed techniques are unequivocally germline genetic modification (unlike post-natal therapies such as blood or organ donation) and as such, changes made would be passed on to future generations with completely unknown consequences.
  • At least one technique is in effect a cloning technique, thereby opening the door to full reproductive cloning, which is universally prohibited.
  • Serious safety issues associated with the mitochondrial transfer and modification of the mammalian egg have already been identified in published studies. The last time one of the techniques was tried in humans, it resulted in an abortion and two stillbirths.
  • Animal experiments in this field have shown decreased survival, inhibited growth and other horrifying abnormalities.
  • A further consideration is harm to the women used as egg donors, as the procedure requires aggressive ovarian stimulation, which can lead amongst other complications to ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome which can be fatal.
  • Modification of human eggs or early embryos for procreation using heritable interventions is widely prohibited in such international declarations and conventions as:
  • The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights which indicates in Article 24 that ‘germ-line interventions’ could be considered as practices which are ‘contrary to human dignity”.
  • The Council of Europe’s Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine which indicates in Article 13 that “an intervention seeking to modify the human genome may only be undertaken for preventive, diagnostic or therapeutic purposes and only if its aim is not to introduce any modification in the genome of any descendants”.
  • The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union which indicates in Article 3 that “In the fields of medicine and biology (…) the prohibition of eugenic practices, in particular those aiming at the selection of persons, must be respected”.

BACKGROUND

On 4th February, Christian Voice reported on the recent vote, in which 382 MPs voted in favour and 128 against the practice of creating 3-parent babies. Those voting against represented the views of the public, who are opposed. The amendment still has to go through the House of Lords, but it will most likely not face much opposition.

This law will become an amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 and will come into effect in October 2015. Human trials can then begin immediately and the first babies could be born next autumn.

Oocyte modification, commonly called ‘three-parent in vitro fertilization (IVF),’ is the process by which damaged mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from the woman’s egg are replaced with healthy mtDNA of a female donor, thus allowing a child to be born with healthy mitochondria. Because the procedure replaces an egg’s defective mitochondrial DNA with healthy mDNA from a female donor’s egg, it essentially creates a baby with DNA from three people: the male and two females.

Developed by British scientists, this currently illegal procedure is aimed to prevent debilitating health conditions such as liver and brain deterioration and muscular dystrophy.

As many as 2,500 British women could undergo this treatment, allowing them to have biological children who do not inherit their mitochondrial diseases. Despite these benefits, many doctors and lawmakers oppose this controversial procedure on both ethical and health grounds.

Jacob Rees, an MP who voted against the amendment, said: ‘You are not curing somebody of something; you are creating someone different. People have compared it to blood transfusions. That is simply wrong.’

The procedure can potentially prevent a child from being born with a mitochondrial disease, but it cannot cure children already born with a disease. Much of the time, mothers are not aware that they are passing on mitochondrial diseases until the first child is born.

While 1 in 200 with some form of a mitochondrial disorder, only 1 in 10,000 babies are severely affected by this. As a result, not many births would be involved with the procedure.

The potential of creating three-parent babies has received backlash from several churches.

Auxiliary Bishop John Sherrington of Westminster stated on behalf of the bishops that human life should not be used as ‘disposable material,’ but must be respected and protected. He said further that while the ‘Church recognises the suffering that mitochondrial diseases bring and hopes that alternative methods of treatment can be found, it remains opposed on principle to these procedures where the destruction of human embryos is part of the process.’

Sherrington added elsewhere that it is ‘extraordinary that a license should be sought for a radical new technique affecting future generations without first conducting a clinical trial.’

Rev. Dr. Brenden McCarthy, the Church of England’s national advisor on medical issues, contested that more research and debate was needed before the procedure moved forward.

‘The Archbishops Council, which monitors this issue, does not feel that there has been sufficient scientific study or informed consultation into the ethics, safety and efficacy of mitochondria transfer.’

Some scientists have also raised concerns. Stuart Newman, professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College said he was ‘very disappointed’ in the vote. He described the three-parent baby procedure as one that essentially creates a human being from ‘bits and pieces of cells from different people.’

‘Scientifically, it you try to put together an organism from fragments of cells, it’s going to mostly not work. Frequently it will look normal, but there will be things wrong with it. That has been shown experimentally.

‘It is going to lead to children with conditions which, in some cases, will probably be worse than the conditions they are trying to avoid.’

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Norse Temple for Iceland

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The pagan Norse religion is making a comeback in Iceland.
The pagan Norse religion is making a comeback in Iceland.

A New Age sect are building a ‘Norse Temple’ in Iceland according to Huffington Post.

Asatruarfelagid, a neopagan organization, plans to start construction next month on the country’s first Norse temple since Christianity arrived in the island nation roughly 1,000 years ago.

The Reykjavik City Council has donated land for the temple, but the group has to raise nearly $1 million for the building itself, which will be set into a hillside and topped with a dome to let in sunlight, the BBC reported.

Once completed, the temple will accommodate 250 worshippers. It will host weddings, funerals, naming rituals, initiation ceremonies and more for the group’s 2,488 members, which Reuters says is triple the number from just a decade ago.

The Asatruarfelagid, which began in 1972, says on its website that its values are “based on tolerance, honesty, honor and respect for the ancient cultural heritage and nature,” and follows the principal that “each person is responsible for themselves and their actions,” according to a Google translation..

 

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“Brexit” on the Horizon?

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Without EU reforms, a Brexit might well be imminent.
Without EU reforms, a Brexit might well be imminent.

A so-called “Brexit” might be on the horizon, according to Jacques Delors, former President of the European Commission.

On 13 January, Delors publicly acknowledged that Britain might be on its way out of the European Union.

Along with two other politicians, Pascal Lamy and Antonio Vitorino, Delors wrote in an article for Euractiv emphasizing the necessary changes the EU will have to make if Britain is to remain a member.

Delors, a founder of the modern EU, called for unity among European nations while affirming that no country should have to remain in the EU against its wishes.

“We must unite further in order to promote this common will, along with our interests and our values, in an increasingly less Eurocentric world through the adoption of more consistent trade and external aid policies, through the creation of a genuine energy union, and through the patient bolstering of our common foreign and defence policy, because strength lies in numbers.

“This Union naturally needs the United Kingdom—but only as long a majority of its citizens still wish to be a part of it, because the Union is by no means a prison.”

In response to this article, Matthew Elliott, Chief Executive of Eurosceptic campaign group Business for Britain, said: “It’s nice to see that even the modern architects of the EU now realise that the EU needs to change if the UK is to remain a member.

“But these EU grandees still fail to grasp why so many Europeans are deeply unhappy with the EU, by yet again arguing for more integrating, more Brussels and a greater focus on propping up the Euro.”

Mr Delors is not the only person who advocates a “Brexit” (shorthand for British exit).

David Davis, Conservative former Shadow Home Secretary, said earlier this week that David Cameron needed to persuade German Chancellor Angela Merkel that the UK leaving the EU is not just “sabre-rattling.”

Speaking in an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme Davis said:

What [David Cameron’s] got to do is to persuade [Merkel] that the prospect of us leaving is real. It’s not just sabre-rattling. Germans go in for sabre-rattling an awful lot at the moment. They’re virtually threatening Greece with exit from the euro. They don’t mean it, but they’re talking it up.

“There should be no mutual misunderstanding about this. Cameron doesn’t want us to leave … but [he] may well face the prospect where the people tell [him] to leave.

Davis McAllister, the German MEP for Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party, was interviewed at the same time as Davis. According to McAllister, the meeting was not primarily about British concerns with the EU. However, he indicated that Germany wanted the UK to remain in the EU while acknowledging that reform needed to happen.

“Germans are ready to talk to London about British demands in a fair and reasonable manner. But we’re very clear that we are the UK’s partner in Europe and we are interested that the United Kingdom stays in the European Union,” he said.

“No reasonable politician can ignore the fact that over the next five years we will have to find solutions for the political concerns of the United Kingdom. We have to because we want to keep the United Kingdom within the European Union.

“I, and many others, will work for a fair deal with Britain, but it must be a deal that accepts the specificities of the United Kingdom in the EU on the one hand, while allowing the member states of the EU to integrate further.”

Discussing the consequences of a “Brexit” for Ireland, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said Ireland will support changes in the EU if it means that Britain will remain a member.

Mr Kenny, speaking at a foreign affairs council in Dublin, said on 12 January that Britain and Ireland’s “shared EU membership has played an immensely important role in strengthening relations between our two islands, not least in creating the environment for business links to flourish and as a force for peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland.”

At the same time, Mr Kenny indicated that Ireland would be “candid if we are presented with proposals that we do not see as achievable or desirable.”

Kenny also raised concerns about the effects of a potential UK exit on Ireland:

“The Government’s position is clear and unequivocal: we want the UK to remain in the EU.

“This is clearly in our national interest, and in the wider European interest,” he said.

In another article, one UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesperson stated:

“There is a widespread—and growing—recognition that the EU can’t continue as it is. There are many voices around Europe saying that this requires treaty change.

“But we don’t need to wait: many of the reforms we seek on trade, on regulation and on deepening the single market, can be made right now.”

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Stanley Weiss on the Growth of Islam in Britain

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islam-uk-flagIn an article for The World Post, Stanley Weiss has revealed the extent of Great Britain’s Islamization.

Weiss’s concerns echo warnings issued by Christian Voice (which you can read about here and here and here and here and here), Weiss warns of the social and political effect of Western nations capitulating to radical Islam.

Weiss begins his article by comparing the crusades in the Middle Ages with the actions of Muslim extremists today. From 1096-1291 A.D., Christianity would most likely have been deemed a violent religion by the general public if people had the internet to publicize the deeds of Christians. But comparative violence is happening now as a result of radical Islam. Killings perpetrated by Muslims are plastered all over the internet, causing a sense of fear among people in Britain. This publicity makes it hard for Muslims to maintain that Islam is a peaceful religion.

Interestingly, Weiss believes that violence is not the most effective way that Islam is growing in Britain.

The experience of England shows that Islam’s most effective tools for establishing new footholds in Western cities might just be a passport and a marital bed. As improbable as it would have seemed 25 years ago — and as xenophobic and paranoid as it undoubtedly sounds to every Westerner who rolls their eyes at the phrase, “the Islamisation of Europe” — the fact is that migration patterns and high birthrates have combined to turn Islam into Europe’s fastest-growing religion.”

Why does this increase in Britain’s Muslim population have people worried, given that Britain officially prizes the principles of multiculturalism and diversity?

Weiss suggests three reasons:

  1. A wide cultural gap. Instead of becoming part of British culture, Muslims are creating their own subculture that is often in conflict with British law.
  2. Muslim extremism is hitting Britons where they are vulnerable, such as their schools (heard of the Trojan Horse Plot?) or population (citizens who openly support terrorist groups like ISIS).
  3. British law has allowed this anti-British subculture to flourish without offering an attractive alternative.

The author seems to downplay the general fear that Britain has of Muslims, but ends the article ominously asking what the next 25 years of jihad will look like.

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Osborne Reforms Could Increase Divorce Among Elderly

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silver splittersFamily law firms are preparing for a massive increase in divorce among pensioners following George Osborne’s Pension reforms.

Lawyers warn that the overhaul of pension regulation, which is set to come into effect in April, will add to the divorce boom the nation is already experiencing among couples who are near retirement age.

The reason for the concern lies in the fact that the changes introduced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer allow men to cash in their pension rather than be tied into an annuity.

The access to fresh cash could act as a catalyst to older women seeking new lives for themselves.  Women in a long-standing marriage could expect the couple’s entire wealth to be split 50/50.

Nicola Harries, a partner in family law Stevens & Bolton, was quoted in The Telegraph saying, “We are tending to see that the vast majority of divorces that are initiated in this age-group are started by the woman. The children have flown the nest and the husband is potentially retiring in the near future, I think very often there is a recognition that they have been living very different lives…. I think a lot of the ladies are thinking ‘I’m having much more fun going out with my other friends than I would be with my husband, is this is a situation I want to be stuck with?”

The trend in what is known as ‘silver splitters’ was documented by the International Longevity Centre in the United Kingdom (ILC-UK) earlier in the year. The Thinktank found that

“While divorce has been going down among the young and middle-aged, among the over-60s it has shot up by 85 per cent since 2000. It means that at the current rate, by 2037 one in ten of all divorced people will be over 60….The Office for National Statistics has said that the number of divorced older people has trebled in two decades. There are now more than 700,000 divorced over-65s, more than the number who have never married.”

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Video Reveals ISIS Plans To Take Over World

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This shocking video, put out by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), shows that the ambitions of ISIS go beyond simply establishing Sharia law in Iraq and Syria. The radical Muslim spokesmen in this video discuss their plans for taking over all of Europe and the entire world.

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Open Society behind Hong Kong protests?

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Leung Chung-Ying, Chief Executive of Hong Kong, has spoken of outside interefrence in the democracy protests.
Leung Chung-Ying, Chief Executive of Hong Kong, has spoken of outside interefrence in the democracy protests.
Leung Chung-Ying, Chief Executive of Hong Kong, has claimed ‘external forces’ are behind democracy protests.

What could lie behind the comments made by Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-Ying that “external forces” are involved in the territory’s pro-democracy protests?  Is he referring to George Soros and his Open Society Foundations?

The protesters want fully democratic elections, and oppose the Chinese government’s decision to vet candidates for the 2017 polls.  Police and protesters have scuffled amid tense stand-offs in recent days.  Talks between them are expected today (Tuesday 21st October 2014).

Speaking on local television, Mr Leung said that Occupy Central, one of the main groups involved in the protests, was “not entirely a domestic movement, as external forces are involved”,

Leung went on, “There is obviously participation by people, organizations from outside of Hong Kong.” The Chief Executive added that the foreign actors came from “different countries in different parts of the world,”  He declined to give details or name the countries or organisations he had in mind.

Mainland Chinese officials have frequently warned against “foreign interference” in Hong Kong, while Chinese state media have accused the West of “instigating” the protests.

Protesters and student leaders have denied any outside involvement, as one would expect.  But could ‘Open Society’ be operating in Hong Kong in its customary clandestine way?

We are already aware that the Open Society Foundations, created by billionaire financier George Soros, funded the so-called ‘Arab Srping’ in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt and, most devastatingly, in Syria.  (His Open Society Institute is more active in the USA).

According to its own website, ‘The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant societies whose governments are accountable and open to the participation of all people’.  Such an apparently worthy aim would spur an interest, at the very least, in the Hong Kong electoral process.

We also know that the Maidan Square movement in Ukraine was a creature of Soros and his Open Society Foundations.  Soros is responsible for huge loss of life and liberty around the globe, all, he would say, in the vaunted cause of ‘Democracy’.

Open Society has funded a photographic project in Hong Kong entitled ‘Hong Kong under China‘.  They have paid for a project called ‘Life on the margins of China’s economic boom”.  Another grantee produced ‘A Photographer’s Journey Through a Changing Hong Kong‘.

Yet another Open Society photographic project argues that ‘In Hong Kong, another attack on freedom is concealed by the explosion of neon lights and consumerism. Mark Leong, who has traveled regularly Hong Kong since 1989, fears that it’s becoming, “just another freedom-deficient Chinese city.” With the support of National Geographic, he has developed a series of garish compositions, cataloguing the glaring signs of growing inequality.’  Leong has produced an explanatory video, with Open Society funding, which is carried on the Open Society Youtube channel.

George Soros has said: “My foundations have long supported arts and culture–especially film–as a means to build and strengthen open societies around the world”.

Media is a big thing for Open Society and is, as we have seen, being used extensively to further the Open Society Foundation’s aims in Hong Kong.  There are also links with Academia.  Ying Chan, Director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong, sits on the Board of Directors of the Media Development Investment Fund with Aryeh Neier, President Emeritus of the Open Society Foundations.  The Fund invests ‘in media that provide the news, information and debate that people need to build free, thriving societies’.

The academic links go further. Open Society Foundations have been funding what they term ‘Civil Society Leadership Awards‘ which ‘offer master’s level support to individuals who demonstrate academic and professional excellence as well as a deep commitment to building open society in their home communities’.  One of the participating universities was the University of Hong Kong.

The Centre for Comparative and Public Law at the Faculty of Law in the University of Hong Kong has accepted grants from the Open Society to provide financial support for students in human rights.  The European Union has also provided funding.  Human rights, if they derive from an understanding that Almighty God is the author of them, are a good thing, and they do appear to be less than fully developed in China as a whole and in Hong Kong in particular.  The point here is that foreign money, particularly from George Soros, is enabling opposition to the Hong Kong authorities in this field.

Similarly, UNESCO is calling for a revision to  textbooks in China which portray homosexuality in a less than positive light.  That may or may not be a good thing, depending on one’s point of view, but it is undeniably Western interference in Chinese society.

So it would be entirely within the remit which Soros has assumed to be agitating in Hong Kong. Given his record in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and Ukraine, fostering unrest and funding dissenters in Hong Kong would be entirely plausible.  But is George Soros really tainting the calls for democracy in Hong Kong with OSF involvement?

An Open Society Foundations webpage listing its offices omits any mention of an office in Hong Kong.

And yet a young Chinese lady claims on LinkedIn to be working for Open Society Foundations in Hong Kong.

As with all things to do with George Soros and Open Society Foundations, it is hard to find actual fingerprints on particular events.  Even when the fingerprints are there, Western media are reluctant to report on them.

The Hong Kong and Chinese authorities are already exploiting alleged foreign interference in the protests. They should make public what they know.

If it should come out that Open Society has been providing funding and other support to the protestors in Hong Kong, legitimate protests will be devalued by having been high-jacked by Soros and his agitators.

 

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Human Rights Lawyer Murdered by Isis For Facebook Comments

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Sameera Salih Ali al-Nuaimy was murdered by her fellow Muslims for criticizing ISIS.

A prominent human rights lawyer has been tortured and murdered for criticizing ISIS on Facebook.

Sameera Salih Ali al-Nuaimy was seized by ISIS forces in Iraq after she wrote on Facebook that the bombing of Islamic mosques and shrines in Mosul, a northern Iraqi city, was “barbaric.”

Her death was announced yesterday by the head of the United Nations human rights office, who said that al-Nuaimy was tortured for several days before a public execution in front of a firing squad.

Her family was barred from giving her a funeral by the same kangeroo court that found her guilty of apostasy.

The fact that al-Nuaimy was a fellow Muslim made no difference to ISIS forces, who are quick to turn on members of their own religion in order to stamp out criticism of their atrocities.

al-Nuaimy murder continues a pattern of vicious ISIS assaults against educated professional women.

ISIS terrorists could also begin targeting people in the West who criticize their barbaric practices. ISIS spokesman Syrian-born Sheik Abu Mohammed al-Adnani has told his followers to kill civilians in Australia, the United States and Canada who are “disbelieving.” al-Adnani commented that

“If you can kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be.”

“Do not ask for anyone’s advice and do not seek anyone’s verdict. Kill the disbeliever whether he is civilian or military, for they have the same ruling.

“Both of them are disbelievers. Both of them are considered to be waging war.

Earlier this month Fox News reported that they had obtained a law enforcement bulletin warning that Islamic State fighters have increased calls for “lone wolf” attacks on U.S. soil against former American soldiers. One tweet obtained by the authorities urged jihadist fighters to find the address of service members online and then “show up and slaughter them.”

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The Folly of Obama’s ISIS Policiy

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Why would the U.S. rearm the Free Syrian Army, which sold the beheaded American journalists to ISIS?

In an article published in World Net Daily, Joseph Farah has shown the folly of Obama’s policy regarding ISIS.

In deciding to arm “moderate Muslims”, Obama is ignoring the reality that most of the deaths perpetrated by ISIS have been leveled against Christian populations.

Farah’s article, titled “Why arm Mideast Muslims, not Christians?“, points out that while details are hard to verify, “we do know for certain is that Mosul, Iraq’s largest Christian town of about 300,000, has been virtually emptied of its population. That alone suggests a Christian holocaust is well under way.” Farah continued:

 

The Christian population of Iraq had already been largely driven out by years of war, persecution and infighting as they were treated as an afterthought even by U.S. occupation forces. Most of them fled to Syria, and have since faced death, persecution and refugee status yet again at the hands of ISIS.

In Mosul, ISIS advertised its barbarity and ruthlessness by photographing their executions of Christian children. They herded the kids into parks, beheaded them and placed their heads on sticks. ISIS has made music videos of themselves murdering Christian civilians and captured Iraqi soldiers, mostly Shiites.

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ISIS targets Christian children.

“They are literally enjoying the act of killing and the fear and suffering experienced by others,” reports Catholic Online. “This sadism may be the purest manifestation of evil witnessed since the Rape of Nankin during World War II.”

Yet there was no mention of Christians in Obama’s “strategy” talk last week. Instead, Obama suggested the real victims of ISIS, which he insists is not Islamic, are mostly Muslims. This is an outrageous distortion of reality as the Christian community of the Middle East continues to face genocide at the hands of ISIS and al-Qaida.

Since the 1990s in Bosnia, the U.S. has systematically interceded to stop what it characterizes as ethnic and religious cleansing – only when the victims are Muslim. Not once has the U.S. lifted a hand to protect Christians. Muslim groups have been armed to defend themselves in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, often resulting in more bloodshed, not less. Not once has the U.S. even debated the idea of arming or rescuing Christians from the onslaught of fratricidal jihadists.

Once again, no one is rushing to aid Christians caught in the crossfire.

Why not?

Why does the U.S. continue to do the same thing over and over again expecting different results?

Why would the U.S. rearm the Free Syrian Army, which sold the beheaded American journalists to ISIS?

Why does the U.S. provide military and other aid to Islamic communities and armies all over the world but never to Christians who face far more gruesome persecution?

Why is there no effort even to rescue the Christians or provide them with a homeland of their own?
Obama cannot be trusted to bomb Syrian targets, either. Just a year ago, he was demanding Congress give him authority to bomb the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, who has been fighting ISIS and offering more protection to Christians than the U.S. has throughout its Iraq occupation. Now Obama says he wants to bomb the other side in this conflict. With such a history of poor judgment, should he really be trusted to pick the right targets?

Christians have been the forgotten victims in this war for too long.

It’s time to give peace a chance by arming them to defend themselves or evacuating them on a massive scale and providing a safe haven for them in the U.S.

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Britain Becomes Breeding Ground of Islamic Terrorism

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Islamic Terrorism In Britain(3)Britain is fast becoming a breeding ground of Islamic radicalism as British-born Muslims flock to the Middle East to join the growing jihad.

An average of seven Britons a week are travelling to Syria and Iraq along a wide stretch on the Turkish border which has come to be known as the ‘Gateway to Jihad.’ In total, 2,000 British Muslims have travelled this route to fight in the jihad, Khalid Mahmood, MP for Perry Barr, has warned.

Concern is increasing that when these British citizens return home they could unleash terror on UK streets.

Once in the Middle East, these British citizens have been joining the brutal terrorist group ISIS (also known as IS and ISIL), a successor group to Al-Qaeda with strong roots in the Muslim Brotherhood. Al-Qaeda has recently distanced itself from ISIS because of its unimaginable brutality, which the BBC reported includes atrocities such as “targeted killings, forced conversions, slavery, sexual abuse, and the besieging of entire communities.”

Below are only some of the high profile cases of jihadists with links to Britain:

  • A British student who decided to join the Jihad in Iraq has been calling on Muslims to join the Golden Era of Jihad.
  • Terrorists with British accents have been sending recorded threats to the West.
  • Khadijah Dare, a British girl from Lewisham, south London, has vowed to be the first woman to kill Westerners. The twenty-two year old was born a non-Muslim but was radicalised online before moving to Syria. Hours after the brutal beheading of American journalist James Foley, Dare gloated about the murder online. She has also posted pictures of her four-year-old son with an AK-47 rifle and has threatened to cut off heads.
  • One former Morrisons security guard travelled to Syria where he gave an interview with the BBC, boasting about fighting with ISIS. He has threatened to “bomb the UK” and laughed about the beheading of soldier during his interview.
  • It was reported that Sally Jones, a former female rock band member from Chatham, decided to join the Jihad. She has threatened to behead Christians by herself with a blunt knife. (“You Christians all need beheading with a nice blunt knife and stuck on the railings at raqqa … Come here I’ll do it for you!”)
  • British women who joined ISIS have been operating a Sharia police force to punish those deemed to be “unIslamic.”
  • Citizens of Britain have also been involved in funding the would-be Islamic state in Iraq and Syria.
  • Britain has offered as safe haven to Libya’s highest spiritual leader, the grand mufti Sheikh Sadik Al-Ghariani, who helped to orchestrate the Islamist takeover of Tripoli from his home in the UK.

 

THE METHODS AND GOALS OF ISIS

ISIS troops advance through the Middle East
ISIS troops advance through the Middle East

Once in Iraq and Syria, these British-born jihadists are trying to help ISIS achieve its goal, which is to eliminate all borders in the Middle East and establish a Caliphate under the monarchy of the terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a man wanted for $10 million by the Americans.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his thugs have exploited grievances felt by the Sunni community following their marginalization in the government America helped to establish under the Shia triumphalism of Nouri al-Maliki. After breaking off of Al-Qaeda, the group has gone on to control much of eastern and northern Syria and western and northern Iraq.

It is not simply the lawful governments of Iraq and Syria that have become the target of ISIS; they have also been exterminating the civilian populations on an unimaginable scale. Their regime of ethnic cleansing is slowly and systematically exterminating some of the world’s oldest Christian communities. ISIS has also been targeting Shia Muslims and all Middle East populations not associated with their particularly fanatical version of Islam.

When ISIS forces conquer an area they immediately impose Sharia law, including a ban on smoking, football and music. Women are forced to be completely veiled in black from head to toe and forbidden from leaving their house without a male guardian. ISIS thugs even routinely raid schools to punish girls who are not fully veiled in black. The less fortunate women are sold into sexual slavery.

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ISIS troops are raging through the Middle East terrorizing local populations as well as pillaging, torturing and raping all who do not subscribe to their fanatical version of Islam.

ISIS has issued ultimatums demanding that all Christians convert to Islam, pay the jizya tax required of non-Muslims, or die. Last month we reported on a typical case of what happened when a Christian father could not afford this tax: three ISIS soldiers barged into his house and proceeded to rape his wife and daughter in front of him. The husband and father was so distraught that he later killed himself.

More recently, there have been reports that the holocaust against Christians has included youths being crucified and beheaded and buried alive and numerous other atrocities for no reason other than the fact that these children are Christians.

ABC news reported that in towns controlled by the group, “Friday is the day for public beheadings and amputations for people who violate its strict Islamic rule, and whippings for women if their clothing offends ISIS’ sense of propriety.”

The UN reported that “Civilians, including children, are urged to watch. Bodies of those killed are placed on display for several days, terrorizing the local population”


BEHIND THE BRITISH JIHAD

It is hard to imagine why so many hundreds of British men and women are eager to travel to the Middle East to join in the barbarism and carnage perpetuated by ISIS. While the motivations behind the British wing of jihad are complex and multifaceted, there are a number of contributing factors we have identified over the years which helped to contextualize the growth of radical Islam in the UK.

One factor is that Britain’s native Muslim population has recently seen huge expansion due to high birth rate and conversions to Islam. While the growing population of British Muslims are mostly peace-loving, nevertheless this growth does increase the pool of people that can be potentially radicalized. We saw this with startling clarity in 2013 when radical Islam made huge inroads into all aspects of British life.

Another factor contributing to home-grown terrorism is that the British government and media have long been involved in a jihad against free speech, as they seek to suppress all discussion of the link between Islam and terrorism. This has included banning talk show host Michael Savage from entering the UK because of his anti-Muslim views, and more recently the Government’s decision to prohibit Robert Spencer from entering the UK (Robert Spencer is the author of Stealth Jihad.)

By denying any link between terrorism and the teachings found in Islamic texts, and then using strong-arm tactics to suppress scholars who might suggest otherwise, the authorities in Britain have left themselves unable to adequately address the challenges posed by home-grown radicalism.

“Why does it make any difference whether or not what the Islamic State is doing is in accord with Islamic texts and teachings?” Robert Spencer asked. “Among other reasons, because it will help determine how much support the new caliphate will ultimately get from Muslims worldwide, and will serve as an indicator of how much we can expect to see the actions of the Islamic State replicated by other Muslims elsewhere.” Such questions are being ignored by our officials, who have become convinced that the basic problem is that the terrorists are mistaken about their own religion. Accordingly, our incredibly naive officials believe that the solution is to simply better educate the terrorists so they will realize that their terrorism was actually based on ignorance concerning the real teaching of their religion.

This atmosphere of denial has been fueled by Britain’s multiculturalism, and the strange alliance multiculturalism has wrought between modern liberalism and Islamic fascism. This is not purely academic: earlier this year we reported on how multiculturalism caused the British Government to hide the truth about Muslim grooming gangs and perpetuate a “conspiracy of silence” that left countless girls abused and damaged for life. (See the report from yesterday “UK: Prosecutor ‘branded a racist’ for prosecuting Muslim rape gang”). The same conspiracy of silence has left the UK Government unable to fully address the jihad springing up in our midst.

 

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Iraq: Bishop’s call for action

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Dr Nicholas Baines, Bishop of Leeds
Dr Nicholas Baines, Bishop of Leeds

A Church of England bishop has called on the British Government to do more for Christians in Iraq.

The bishop of Leeds, Nicholas Baines, has written to David Cameron with the support of the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, according to The Observer.

The letter describes the government’s Middle East policy as incoherent, ill-thought-out and determined by “the loudest media voice at any particular time”.

The Observer says it describes the UK’s foreign policy as so muddled and reactive that it is “difficult to discern the strategic intentions” of the government’s approach to the region.

Mr Cameron is accused of turning his back on the suffering of Christians. The letter asks why the plight of religious minorities in Iraq, such as the Yazidis, seems to have taken precedence. It notes that, though the government responded promptly to reports of at least 30,000 Yazidis trapped on Mount Sinjar, the fate of tens of thousands of Iraqi Christians fleeing jihadists from Mosul, Iraq’s second city, and elsewhere appears to have “fallen from consciousness”.

Dr Baines also takes the Prime Minister to task for failing to develop an effective plan to tackle the spread of violent Islamist extremism in Nigeria, where the militant group Boko Haram has terrorised the north of the country. “We do not seem to have a coherent or comprehensive approach to Islamic extremism as it is developing across the globe,” the bishop writes.

Canon Andrew White
Canon Andrew White

Meanwhile, Canon Andrew White, the vicar of St George’s Church, Baghdad, the only Anglican church in Iraq, is calling for military intervention.  Canon White writes of a secret visit to Qaraqosh (also known as Bakhdida – see MAP) the largest Christian town in Iraq until it was over-run by ISIS two weeks ago, causing a mass evacuation of Christians to Irbil in the Kurdish sector.

Some 30,000 refugees are packed into the Kurdish capital, forming a new Christian suburb at Ankawa, near Irbil airport.

Canon White said, ‘I spoke to one woman who had survived the massacres in Qaraqosh. She had a bandaged left hand. When IS soldiers could not remove her gold wedding ring, they had simply hacked off her finger. She wept as she told me.’

Dr White has been at the forefront of practical action.  ‘These people need mattresses, clothes, blankets and food,’ he says. But he is also now calling for military intervention  ‘I now believe that military action of some sort is necessary, if only to reduce the movement of IS tanks, their soldiers, and their power and authority on the ground,’ he says.

There is some indication that the British Government may be moving in that direction.  David Cameron has spoken of the need for a “firm security response.”

Kurdish Peshmerga troops have at this time of writing retaken villages to the east of the Mosul Dam and are close to taking the dam itself.  They have achieved this military success with the help of American air cover.

But the Kurds and the Christian Qaraqosh Protection Committee now need to move closer to Mosul itself first retaking the area between Irbil and Mosul which includes Qaraqosh.  The people will only be able to return to Qaraqosh when the Tigris river, from where the town pipes its water supply, is retaken.  For this to happen, the US will need to take out as many ISIS military assets as possible, including the tanks and artillery it supplied to the Iraqi Northern Division, now in ISIS hands.

READ: Ex 15:1-3; Psalm 10:1-18, 44:22-26, 62:1-8, 116:15; Prov 24:11-12; Lam 1:12; Matt 10:23; Luke 21:12; Rev 12:11

PRAY: That God would protect the Christians throughout Iraq from violence. That there would be a halt to the progress of ISIS and cities would be freed from their law. That there would be enough resources to take care of the hundreds of thousands of refugees and that they might be able to return home soon. That the persecution of Christians would not be ignored by the West, but that effective action would be taken by those in power to protect our brothers and sisters.

WRITE: (Or Email) your MP at House of Commons, LONDON, SW1A 0AA. Ask him/her to urge Her Majesty’s Government to support efforts to retake Qaraqosh and Mosul and to protect Christians in Iraq. Ask what they are pressing the Iraqi government to do. Ask if they will be offering asylum to Iraqi Christians. Ask if they are still supporting the rebels in Syria or if they have at last decided it’s time to switch sides. Stress that it was Her Majesty’s Government who got Iraq into this mess and funded what has become ISIS in Syria.

WITNESS: Outside the Iraqi Embassy, 21, Queen’s Gate, London SW7 5JE, on Friday 22nd August from 2pm to 4pm. Nearest tube: Gloucester Road.

 

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Independent schools must promote sodomy

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The Government wants to compel all schools in England to ‘actively promote’ homosexual and transsexual rights, even in schools with a religious ethos.

The Proposed New Independent School Standards are a politically-correct response to the recent ‘Trojan Horse’ scandal.  Officials at the Department for Education have taken the opportunity provided by extremism in some Birmingham schools to insist that sodomy and transgender rights should be actively promoted.

As the Proposal says: ‘independent schools are subject to the Equality Act 2010, the only remedy directly provided by that Act is through the Courts; the new standards would allow the Department to take regulatory action against the school for failing to meet them.’

The consultation on The Proposed New Independent School Standards, which would apply to private schools, academies and free schools, closes on Monday 4th August.

For schools run by local education authorities the Government say they will change OFSTED inspection standards to reflect the same position.

The Proposal (at paragraph 1.1c, speaks of ‘fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs; and encourage students to respect other people, with particular regard to the protected characteristics set out in the Equality Act 2010;’

But of course the Equality Act 2010 includes ‘gender reassignment’ and ‘sexual orientation’ alongside age, sex, disability, race, religion or belief.  A better way of encouraging extremism than forcing Muslim schools to promote transsexuality, sodomy and lesbianism can hardly be imagined.

The Proposal states, at paragraph 3.2.2::

‘The proposed changes to Part 2 are aimed at making it clear to independent schools that the proprietor must actively promote the fundamental British values that are set out in section 1.1(c) above and that schools must actively promote the specified principles, including furthering tolerance and harmony between different cultural traditions and encouraging respect for democracy. A minimum approach, for example putting up posters on a notice board and organising an occasional visit to places of worship would fall short of ‘actively promoting’. Schools will be expected to focus on, and be able to show how their work with pupils is effective in embedding fundamental British values. ‘Actively promote’ also means challenging pupils, staff or parents expressing opinions contrary to fundamental British values.’

It goes on to say

‘The new requirement for schools to actively promote principles which encourage respect for persons with protected characteristics (as set out in the Equality Act 2010) is intended to allow the Secretary of State to take regulatory action in various situations: for example … failure to address homophobia…’

Schools will be obliged  to challenge the views of parents if they are against “British values” as defined to include the promotion of politically correct groups.

There are stringent new rules on religious tolerance which will mean Christian children being forced to visit mosques, Muslim children to visit Hindu temples, and so on.

Independent schools will have to show Stonewall propaganda videos.

The Proposed New Independent School Standards is an outrageous intrusion into a school’s ethos and family life.

 

Meriam Ibrahim Witness at Sudan Embassy

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Daniel & Meriam

Updated Monday 2nd June 2014:

There will be a witness for Meriam Ibrahim outside the Sudanese Embassy from 2pm to 4pm on Friday 6th June 2014.

This is despite false reports of Meriam’s imminent release (see below).

The address of the Sudanese Embassy is 3 Cleveland Row, St. James, London SW1A 1DD (Check the map by clicking on the postcode – it opens in a new window or link automatically).

The nearest tube is Green Park. Turn right out of the station and walk down St James’ St to Cleveland Row. Note that the Embassy is within the congestion charge zone, so best come by tube or bus.

Meriam Ibrahim is the Christian Sudanese doctor sentenced to death and to 100 lashes for apostasy, that is converting from Islam to Christianity, and for adultery, that is marrying a man who is not a Muslim. Despite Meriam being brought up by her mother as a Christian, she counts as Muslim according to Sudanese law because her father was Muslim.

The Sudanese Embassy in Cleveland Row
The Sudanese Embassy in Cleveland Row

Meriam has just given birth to a daughter in prison and has a 2-year-old son by her husband, Daniel Wani.  The Court says she must stay in prison for two years to nurse her baby and will then be executed.  It is not know when the flogging is scheduled.

The Sudan court decision has at last been condemned by all UK political leaders, but to our knowledge, no-one has yet taken a protest to the Embassy itself.  To spare a few hours on a Friday afternoon will be the least we can do.

A couple of hours after we posted our call to witness on Saturday 31st May, a Sudanese government foreign-office official was reported as saying that Meriam would be released ‘within days’.  This apparent swift answer to prayer was dashed within a day.  The official had no authority to make such a statement, her husband said he had heard nothing, and her lawyer says the judicial process must be gone through before any release.

Pastor James McConnell was recently reported for ‘hate speech’ for describing Islam as ‘heathen’ and ‘satanic’ and a doctrine ‘spawned in hell’.

Peter Robinson, Northern Ireland First Minister, sprang to Pastor O’Connell’s defence.

But Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers condemned Mr McConnell’s remarks.  She said: ‘It’s a matter for the first minister how he responds to these remarks – people obviously have different perspectives. For myself, I do condemn the remarks made by Pastor McConnell and don’t believe they are justified – Islam is a peaceful religion’.

So how are the Sudanese courts and rulers, and I am confident any survey would find the population of Sudan in support of them, exhibiting the peaceful aspects of this ‘peaceful religion’? Perhaps you could ask your MP to ask her that question.

It would be interesting to know how Muslims in the UK view the death sentence on Meriam Ibrahim.  It is hard to find any comment, let alone condemnation, about her treatment from the Muslim Council of Britain or any other British Muslim group.

The Sudanese Embassy website has an article opposing ‘Islamophobia’.  Acts such as the brutal sentence passed by Sudan on Meriam Ibrahim only fuel British people’s misgivings about Islam.

The Ambassador of the Republic of the Sudan to United Kingdom and Ireland is His Excellency Abdullahi H A El Azreg.

The UK indirectly gives aid to Sudan.  Your MP may be contacted via the Parliament Website.

 

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