More on UK Professor Shalom Lappin who cancelled a scheduled talk at Hamas U.
This relates to UK Professor Shalom Lappin who cancelled his talk at York U. over the administrations response to the attack on Jewish students.
From Harry's Place - Commenter Sea Kitten sums up the Canada that refuses to fight back against against Jew-Baiting Leftists and Islamists:
What a mess is Canada. Thanks to the long domination of the liberal left there, journalists are hauled up before kangaroo courts for accurately quoting European Muslims, the indigenous live in squalid zoo-like reservations sniffing petrol, and now we see near-pogroms on university campuses organized by executive officers of student unions. Recently the American Political Science Association announced it was reconsidering Toronto as a venue for its annual conference because of the threat to academic freedom in the country. And of course all this exists side-by-side with the notorious and insufferable conceit of Canadian mainstream opinion which regards itself as probably the most enlightened country in the world.
It’s important to realise that the ugly turn Canada has taken is entirely a consequence of the influence of the “soft” left-wing politics similar to the kind that HP espouses, and not the work of a handful of extremists preying on an otherwise healthy body-politic. If you want to fight fascism, fight the liberal left, which by undermining traditional values facilitates the extremists. If you want a society fit for human beings where Jews and other minorities of ethnicity or intellectual viewpoint are safe, promote conservatism.
Sorry BCF - think I said wouldn't post until my BP went down?
Sadly, events have only made it worse as fears for my Canada.
This from the EU and where Canada is heading:
"Laws banning female teachers from wearing the Islamic headscarf in parts of Germany violate the rights of Muslim women, according to a report published Thursday by Human Rights Watch (HRW).
The ban, in force in half of the 16 German states, "discriminates against Muslim women, excluding them from teaching and other public sector employment on the basis of their faith," the report said.
HRW said countries that forbid the wearing of the headscarf, or hijab, violate women's rights just as much as nations that force women to wear it.
"The measures effectively force women to choose between their employment and the manifestation of their religious beliefs, violating their right to freedom of religion and equal treatment," the New York-based HRW said.
The Islamic headscarf has been the subject of heated political debate in Germany, home to three million Muslims and the biggest Turkish community outside Turkey.
Following a series of court cases, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled it was up to Germany's states to decide their policy, prompting an even split among the 16 regions.
"The regulations are not abstract concerns,” said HRW. “The restrictions have a profound effect on women's lives.”
Female teachers refusing to remove their headscarf have been reprimanded and in some cases dismissed, the report said, citing testimony from dozens affected by the ban.
"To renounce the headscarf is very difficult,” said one woman identified in the report as Rabia. “On the first day I 'disguised' myself in the school toilet. When a colleague spoke to me, I broke down in tears. My son asked me, 'what is more important, Allah or work?' I answered him that it is complicated."
HRW recommended that the eight states where a ban is in force should repeal the laws.
"State governments should ... ensure that their legislation and procedures are compatible with Germany's international human rights obligations, guaranteeing in particular that these do not discriminate on grounds of gender or religion," the group said.
AFP/Expatica
Sorry BCF - think I said wouldn't post until my BP went down?
Sadly, events have only made it worse as fears for my Canada.
This from the EU and where Canada is heading:
"Laws banning female teachers from wearing the Islamic headscarf in parts of Germany violate the rights of Muslim women, according to a report published Thursday by Human Rights Watch (HRW).
The ban, in force in half of the 16 German states, "discriminates against Muslim women, excluding them from teaching and other public sector employment on the basis of their faith," the report said.
HRW said countries that forbid the wearing of the headscarf, or hijab, violate women's rights just as much as nations that force women to wear it.
"The measures effectively force women to choose between their employment and the manifestation of their religious beliefs, violating their right to freedom of religion and equal treatment," the New York-based HRW said.
The Islamic headscarf has been the subject of heated political debate in Germany, home to three million Muslims and the biggest Turkish community outside Turkey.
Following a series of court cases, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled it was up to Germany's states to decide their policy, prompting an even split among the 16 regions.
"The regulations are not abstract concerns,” said HRW. “The restrictions have a profound effect on women's lives.”
Female teachers refusing to remove their headscarf have been reprimanded and in some cases dismissed, the report said, citing testimony from dozens affected by the ban.
"To renounce the headscarf is very difficult,” said one woman identified in the report as Rabia. “On the first day I 'disguised' myself in the school toilet. When a colleague spoke to me, I broke down in tears. My son asked me, 'what is more important, Allah or work?' I answered him that it is complicated."
HRW recommended that the eight states where a ban is in force should repeal the laws.
"State governments should ... ensure that their legislation and procedures are compatible with Germany's international human rights obligations, guaranteeing in particular that these do not discriminate on grounds of gender or religion," the group said.
AFP/Expatica
Sorry BCF - think I said wouldn't post until my BP went down?
Sadly, events have only made it worse as fears for my Canada.
This from the EU and where Canada is heading:
"Laws banning female teachers from wearing the Islamic headscarf in parts of Germany violate the rights of Muslim women, according to a report published Thursday by Human Rights Watch (HRW).
The ban, in force in half of the 16 German states, "discriminates against Muslim women, excluding them from teaching and other public sector employment on the basis of their faith," the report said.
HRW said countries that forbid the wearing of the headscarf, or hijab, violate women's rights just as much as nations that force women to wear it.
"The measures effectively force women to choose between their employment and the manifestation of their religious beliefs, violating their right to freedom of religion and equal treatment," the New York-based HRW said.
The Islamic headscarf has been the subject of heated political debate in Germany, home to three million Muslims and the biggest Turkish community outside Turkey.
Following a series of court cases, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled it was up to Germany's states to decide their policy, prompting an even split among the 16 regions.
"The regulations are not abstract concerns,” said HRW. “The restrictions have a profound effect on women's lives.”
Female teachers refusing to remove their headscarf have been reprimanded and in some cases dismissed, the report said, citing testimony from dozens affected by the ban.
"To renounce the headscarf is very difficult,” said one woman identified in the report as Rabia. “On the first day I 'disguised' myself in the school toilet. When a colleague spoke to me, I broke down in tears. My son asked me, 'what is more important, Allah or work?' I answered him that it is complicated."
HRW recommended that the eight states where a ban is in force should repeal the laws.
"State governments should ... ensure that their legislation and procedures are compatible with Germany's international human rights obligations, guaranteeing in particular that these do not discriminate on grounds of gender or religion," the group said.
AFP/Expatica
The academic left and the media are only interested in those human-rights causes that are fashionable. Before asking themselves "is this right or wrong" they ask "will this improve my stature in the sight of my peers?" Without a functioning moral compass, they flounder around in the fickle seas of public opinion.
I'm not a Kathy Shaidle fan (to say the least), but I do grant her one thing - she is no slave to fashionable opinion.
And more from SA/Hamas U - be scared:
Link to Bourque:
"Sheikh advises ethanol bio fuel use prohibited by Islam
Saudi scholar warns alcohol in bio fuel is a sin
Muslims may be sinning if they fill their cars with bio fuel like that from this Sao Paulo ethanol pump (Courtesy of Mario Roberto Duran Ortiz).jpg
DUBAI (AlArabiya.net)
A prominent Saudi scholar warned youths studying abroad of using ethanol or other fuel that contains alcohol in their cars since they could be committing a sin, local press reported Thursday.
Sheikh Mohamed Al-Najimi, member of the Saudi Islamic Jurisprudence Academy, based his statement on a saying by the prophet that prohibited all kinds of dealings with alcohol including buying, selling, carrying, serving, drinking, and manufacturing, the Saudi newspaper Shams reported Thursday.
Saudi and Muslim youth studying abroad would violate the prohibition if they used bio fuel, he said, since it “is basically made up of alcohol.”
Majimi stressed that his statement should not be considered an official fatwa, but is rather a personal opinion. He noted that this is an important issue that needs to be studied by the relevant religious bodies.
Mohamed al-Najimi said since ethanol is alcohol is it prohibited for Muslims to use in their cars
Bio fuel is becoming increasingly popular in the West for its relatively low price and as an environmentally-friendly source of energy..
In the past few years, millions of organic-fuel cars have been manufactured in Europe, the United States, Brazil, China, and India.
Bio fuel is derived from recently dead biological material. Bio fuel is manufactured by growing plants that are high in sugar, like sugar cane or sugar beet, or high in starch, like maize. The sugar or starch is then converted into cellular energy by using yeast fermentation to produce ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, which is also found in alcoholic beverages."
LS sips his wine, grins and sips another :)
Sorry BCF - think I said wouldn't post until my BP went down?
Sadly, events have only made it worse as fears for my Canada.
This from the EU and where Canada is heading:
"Laws banning female teachers from wearing the Islamic headscarf in parts of Germany violate the rights of Muslim women, according to a report published Thursday by Human Rights Watch (HRW).
The ban, in force in half of the 16 German states, "discriminates against Muslim women, excluding them from teaching and other public sector employment on the basis of their faith," the report said.
HRW said countries that forbid the wearing of the headscarf, or hijab, violate women's rights just as much as nations that force women to wear it.
"The measures effectively force women to choose between their employment and the manifestation of their religious beliefs, violating their right to freedom of religion and equal treatment," the New York-based HRW said.
The Islamic headscarf has been the subject of heated political debate in Germany, home to three million Muslims and the biggest Turkish community outside Turkey.
Following a series of court cases, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled it was up to Germany's states to decide their policy, prompting an even split among the 16 regions.
"The regulations are not abstract concerns,” said HRW. “The restrictions have a profound effect on women's lives.”
Female teachers refusing to remove their headscarf have been reprimanded and in some cases dismissed, the report said, citing testimony from dozens affected by the ban.
"To renounce the headscarf is very difficult,” said one woman identified in the report as Rabia. “On the first day I 'disguised' myself in the school toilet. When a colleague spoke to me, I broke down in tears. My son asked me, 'what is more important, Allah or work?' I answered him that it is complicated."
HRW recommended that the eight states where a ban is in force should repeal the laws.
"State governments should ... ensure that their legislation and procedures are compatible with Germany's international human rights obligations, guaranteeing in particular that these do not discriminate on grounds of gender or religion," the group said.
AFP/Expatica
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