There are certain sentences you only get to use once in a lifetime; if that often.
‘The fleet of Ferraris parked outside belongs to the Morris-dancers.’
‘Of course they’re very stylish darling, and you still have fewer pairs than Imelda Marcos.’
‘You’re welcome to turn the Cup Final off – it was only going to penalties anyway and I think there’s a Jane Austen marathon of BBC 4.’
Oh, and…
‘I’m impressed with a Liberal Democrat MEP.’
This from here:
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
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
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
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
“I have a passionate belief that women and men are equals,
Just for fun this bit; apart from
…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
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
"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
According to this report, Chaudhry Rashid, 54, is charged with strangling his daughter with a bungee cord at their home in
…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.
or this fine fellow?
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
…and the Council of Mosques to educate himself about the issue.
And here’s a local councillor in
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
See? In
"It is up to individuals if they want to wear the burka.
Here’s another individual:
A Kurdish Muslim from
In October last year Heshu barricaded herself in the bathroom of the family home in west
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.’
But I bet they don’t call them ‘Volunteers.’
