Catholics told to remove chastity belts on visit to college in Blackburn
By Naomi Shea »
An emergency meeting is to be held by school bosses after its Catholic pupils and staff were allegedly told to remove their chastity belts.
It is understood a group from All Saints School, Willow Street, Blackburn, had visited St Mary’s College, Blackburn, for a taster day last week.
When some of the group arrived wearing the chastity belt, which covers a woman’s groin and leaves the rest of her visible, St Mary’s College staff asked them to remove them on grounds it was contrary to the Shear Brow college’s policy.
It is understood the two pupils in question did remove their chastity belts once the policy was explained.
But a member of staff did not remove her chastity belt and left the premises.
All Saints School said it would consider commenting on the issue after a meeting tonight.
This latest controversy comes after North West Euro-MP Liberal Democrat Chris Davies said the chastity belt, which covers a woman’s lap only leaves the rest of her visible, did not belong in 21st century Britain.
He called on Catholic women in the region to take them off.
It also comes months after a parent was turned away at a parents’ evening at Our Lady’s and St John’s Catholic Arts College over security fears as she was wearing the full chastity belt.
In a statement, St Mary’s headteacher Kevin McMahon said: “St Mary’s College is a Beacon College with a national reputation for its contribution to community cohesion.
“Ofsted (2008) observed that ‘The college’s contribution to the promotion and celebration of equality and diversity is outstanding.
“[It] is committed to community cohesion and takes active steps to promote dialogue and understanding between individuals from different backgrounds’.
“At the start of one of our taster days for prospective students last week, some visitors did arrive wearing the chastity belt.
“When the policy was explained to them, all except one were willing to remove it.
“This lady – a member of staff at the school – refused, and opted to leave the premises.
“My colleague offered to arrange transport, but this offer was declined.”
Simon Magister, vice-chair of the Lancashire Council of Churches, said: “I think the college staff should be understanding towards the needs of the community.
“It is a belief they have themselves.
“I don’t think people should be forced to take it off, it is what they have chosen to wear because it is their belief.”
I’m stressing a point here, and of course the point is: just which part of it being the Twenty-First Century don’t some people understand?
The real story is that there isn’t much of a story. Shrouding grown women and children like the Living Dead doesn’t even seem to be particularly voluntary.
Where are our other pols: this brave Liberal Democrat MEP aside? Where are the feminists?
You know you’re in trouble when the President of France seems more Right-wing than you are.
A NORTH West Euro MP has reignited a debate about Muslim women wearing the burka.
Liberal Democrat Chris Davies says the burka ‘does not belong in 21st century Britain’ and is calling on Muslim women in Lancashire to take them off.
Sweet Lord, it’s like reading that Graham Norton’s been cast as Major Alan ‘Dutch’ Schaefer in the remake of Predator.
Reality soon returns with refreshing speed, however.
But Mr Davies stance has been slammed by the Lancashire Council of Mosques which believes more education is needed to understand why women choose to wear the burka.
A burka covers a woman from head to toe and only leaves the eyes visible.
Mainstream media at its best; this. Incisive. Well-informed. Obvious. Badly type-set.Inaccurate.
The issue was pushed to the forefront when Blackburn MP Jack Straw said Muslim women should not wear veils to cover their faces.
Mr Davies said that people should have the legal right to wear whatever they wish, but that politeness should not prevent disapproval being expressed.
He made the remarks after President Sarkozy of France this week attacked the burka as an assault upon the dignity of women.
Mr Davies said: “There is no mention in the Qur’an of the burka and it is a style of dress used principally in those countries where women are treated as mere chattels of men.
"I believe that it does not belong in 21st century Britain.
“I have a passionate belief that women and men are equals,
Just for fun this bit; apart from Britain’s rosy future in the European Union, I’d put this at the top of my list of the three whole things in the entire world that Liberal Democrats care passionately about.
…and both sexes should be free to express their identity through the dress they wear.
"In my experience, the burka acts as a mask, reducing identity and discouraging women from developing their own skills and personality.
“If there are men who want to use the burka to impose their own will upon women in their family they should feel the full force of society’s disapproval.”
So well done, Mister Davies, congratulations on your fine speech. It’s actually pretty brave of you to say such a thing. In Britain and in the Lib Dems it must take a pair to threaten the multi-culti consensus.
Now, what would the Liberal Democrat response be to the forced veiling of schoolgirls, I wonder? Tougher than some Tories’, I suspect, as we’ll see later.
Ooh, but the ever-vigilant mainstream media have a counter-view, because they’re all about edgy, state-of-the-art, in-your-face deep-cover investigative sound bite reprinting.
Salim Mulla, vice-chairman of Lancashire Council of Mosques, said: “It is absolute nonsense to say men force their partners, wives or daughters to wear the burkas.
Here’s some absolute nonsense for you and it’s not precisely about burqas.
Honour killing victim Banaz Mahmod was failed by police when she turned to them for protection, an investigation has ruled.
The 20-year-old Muslim begged police for help four times before her brutal murder at the hands of her father and her uncle….
The police officer who took her statement, PC Angela Cornes, dismissed her account as fantasy and wanted to charge her with criminal damage because she broke a window during her escape, her Old Bailey murder trial was told…
A month later Miss Mahmod was raped, tortured and murdered and her body was found buried in a suitcase in a garden in Birmingham three months later.
"He probably needs to talk to people like myself…
Such as this chap, coincidentally a co-religionist of his:
Yet another Muslim father kills his daughter
JUST weeks after we reported the case of an Iraqi man who beat his daughter to death in an ‘honour” killing, comes the news that a Pakistani man is behind bars in the USA after strangling his daughter. He was said to be upset that Sandeela Kanwal, 25, wanted to leave her arranged marriage.
According to this report, Chaudhry Rashid, 54, is charged with strangling his daughter with a bungee cord at their home in Jonesboro, Georgia.
…Or maybe another respected community leader like this?...
Her father gave up his factory job and became an Imam, the leader of his mosque…
A few weeks later Hannah tried to protect her mother so her father turned on her. She was 6 years old and from that day was punished regularly for her evil in tempting her father. Her punishments included regular rape and periods locked in the cellar. If she were to tell of what he did he threatened to kill her, and then such an evil dirty little girl like her would go straight to hell.
The crime drips with brutal irony: a woman decapitated, allegedly by her estranged husband, in the offices of the television network the couple founded with the hope of countering Muslim stereotypes.
Muzzammil "Mo" Hassan is accused of beheading his wife last week, days after she filed for divorce. Authorities have not discussed the role religion or culture might have played, but the slaying gave rise to speculation that it was the sort of "honor killing" more common in countries half a world away, including the couple's native Pakistan.
…and the Council of Mosques to educate himself about the issue.
And here’s a local councillor in Burnley, and a Tory, too. Makes me proud.
TWO sons who helped get their father elected into County Hall have pleaded guilty to knocking out the front teeth of a teenage girl.
Waqar Mohammed Younis, 20, and his brother Khawar Younis, 17, both of Nuttall Street, Accrington, appeared at Burnley Crown Court last Tuesday charged with occasioning actual bodily harm and grievous bodily harm with intent.
See? In Accrington they don’t even keep the fun to their own – they’re involved in active outreach to support volunteering in the wider community.
"It is up to individuals if they want to wear the burka.
A Kurdish Muslim from Iraq has been jailed for life for slitting his teenage daughter's throat in a so-called honour killing after she decided to marry a Lebanese Christian…
In October last year Heshu barricaded herself in the bathroom of the family home in west London. The father broke down the door and stabbed her daughter repeatedly 11 times, before slitting her throat and leaving her bleeding in the bath.
Time for some plain, good, old-fashioned Lancashire good sense from a fine and typically Northern fellow.
Burnley-born Communities Minister Shahid Malik said: “It is not the job of government to dictate what people should or should not wear in our society - that is a matter of personal choice.
”This freedom to choose is one of the great values of our nation and why we are revered around the world.
Just like I learned at my old Mum’s knee as she stood cheerfully over my cousin/fiancée, stick in hand, as they cheerfully sewed on into the night.
”There are no laws stating what clothes or attire are acceptable and so whether one chooses to wear a veil or burka, a mini-skirt or goth outfit is entirely at the individual’s discretion.
Sadly, Goths don’t have much of a life expectancy in some parts of Lancashire either, poor kids.
Perhaps it’s the whippets?
”It is true that many Muslims feel the veil and its rationale are misunderstood and so sensible discussion provides an opportunity to create a better understanding and ultimately ensures we are more at ease with the diverse society within which we live.”
Actually, I think I understand just fine.
Mrs Northwester points out that some Muslim women choose to use the veil to protest and to protect themselves in a country that’s not very welcoming to them, and I can believe it in some cases, but there doesn’t seem to be all that much equality and respect for women throughout the community in other areas of life, so why on the face instead?
I don’t know what the Islamists call regiments of jihadi terrorists...
Oh, I tell a lie - they call them ‘wedding guests’ and ‘militants’ and ‘children.’
Here's one I prepared earlier.
