Wonder what she means?
... I teach in a Muslim primary school where the children are taught, apart from the National Curriculum, the true teachings of Islam, from an early age. The children were horrified when they saw the news reports of the London bombings and could not understand why it was said that Muslims were responsible.
The reason it was said that Muslims were responsible is because they were. Or is that too obvious?
I hope the great British tradition of tolerance and openness will not be bartered away because of a disregard of the real reasons underlying our current world situation of violence and war.
Khadija Podd, Nottingham from todays Telegraph.
The real reasons? Whatever could she mean? I am guessing she is not referring the murdering hordes of Jihadi loons killing people in London, Sudan, Iraq, Bali, Isreal etc. Oh yes…she means the jews. Of course the worrying thing is this woman is a school teacher.
Comments are off for this postSack him now…
Dominic Grieve MP has made a truly idiotic statement that shows sycophancy to the terrorists. He mouths some of their excuses. This man is in the Shadow Cabinet. He should no be. Howard Flight MP was dumped from the party for not-saying what he was accused while Grieve has giving truck to terrorists. Who made a bigger error?
Maybe Grieve should have read this post soon after 7/7.
Wonder if he will be pleased to know Al Queda’s spokesman agrees with him on the reason for the bombings. Then again Ken is spouting the Al Queda line as well.
Update: Grieve defends himself or at least tries to do so.
Sir – I have noted your criticism of my comments that I found the existence of suicide bombers totally explicable in view of the corrosive consequences of the high level of anger, alienation and distorted perspectives that I have encountered among certain, particularly younger, Muslims in my role as diversity spokesman for the Conservative Party. You argue that such a statement gives the bombers legitimacy. I disagree.Read more Comments are off for this postUnless we examine the factors leading to the bombers’ loss of humanity, which makes them capable of perpetrating such evil, including the tolerance by some Muslims, who denounce suicide bombing, of a routine language of hatred and invective, we will be in no position to challenge their views or to get other Muslims to do so. One of my concerns at present is that visits between ministers and Muslim elders are not going to touch on these problems. Our country faces a serious challenge, both to the lives of individuals and to our way of life. Your leading article (Aug 3) denounces “political correctness” but then demands a different political correctness. I don’t think this is helpful to the debate.
Dominic Grieve MP , Shadow Attorney General, London SW1
Way to get cred…
Use a line used to justify genocide by Hitler and the Nazis:
The Jewish Talmud is not above a little genocide…look out the so-called Gentile (Which means “Nation”).
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/talmudtruth.html
And then linking to a holocaust revisionist site. Posted to a thread on genocide at As Maine Goes.
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The Western Standard commissioned a poll gauging the mood in the western provinces:
The poll sampled 1,448 adults in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.6 per cent, 19 times out of 20.Thirty-six per cent of respondents agreed with the statement, Western Canadians should begin to explore the idea of forming their own country. Forty-three per cent of Albertans agreed with the statement, with the greatest level of support coming from the youngest age group (18 to 29 year olds).
The cover story here (.html) or here (.pdf file).
Methodology here (WordPad document).
For some perspective on this, separatist sentiment in Alberta had historically percolated around 10-20%—the same level as in Quebec at the start of the “Quiet Revolution” in 1960. By 1976 that had risen to about 45%, at which point the first PQ government was elected.
I don’t think that this poll is an outlier. An Edmonton paper (I think it was the Sun published a poll a few years ago with similar results, though it was dismissed as analomous and too small in size. It’ll be interesting to see the reaction this one draws.
If that Alberta number is accurate then this country could be perilously close to breaking up. Alberta has a long tradition of cataclysmic political change. Only four parties have ruled her since she became a province, and once thrown out of office, none of them have returned to power:
Liberal Party (1905-1921), the United Farmers of Alberta (1921-1935), the Social Credit Party (1935-1971), and the Progressive Conservative Party (1971 to present).
The Progressive Conservatives are looking a bit long in the tooth, I’d say.
Another comparison between Alberta and Quebec is I think instructive, and maybe decisive. As I wrote in 2002 in the first entry in this blog:
Western separatism is a different creature than Quebec’s. The
Quebec variety is top-down: Intellectuals, media and
politicians. In the West, it’s grassroots: Farmers, small
business owners, and the guy who sleeps in his truck outside Ft.
McMurray while waiting to get a spot in Syncrude’s barracks.
The trigger is going to be Kyoto. If the Feds bungle it (as they’ve shown every sign of doing) then all bets are off.
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