open minded prejudice

Perpetuity Research, a unit of the University of Leicester, has recently undertaken a survey into school safety from the teacher’s perspective and the results are truly shocking.

• 20% of teachers reported that they avoided certain parts of the school through fears for their safety.
• Attacks and threatening behaviour to teachers is the biggest reason for pupil exclusion
• 2/3 of teachers reported being assaulted or verbally abused by pupils in the last 12 months, with 20% reporting being bitten or punched.
• 1/3 said they were considering leaving school due to fear over their own safety

Martin Gill the head of the research project stated that “Teachers avoid certain areas as they do not feel safe. They told us that playgrounds, corridors and collection points were avoided at certain parts of the day”.

Even though I work in education I find these results shocking, profoundly depressing and a horrible testament to 10 years of “education, education, education”.

As anyone who peruses these boards will know our literate but fundamentalist neighbourhood Islamist Steph thinks that Iran is a model democracy and far more democratic than the UK and America.

I thus it might be interesting for those who are somewhat sceptical about these claims to throw a little spotlight on Iran and what is happening in the paradise kingdom where everything is sweetness and light.

There are ongoing disturbances due to the snap decision to ration fuel to 100 litres a month for private motorists. This was imposed with no notice and led to huge riots and the bombing of many petrol stations. The reasons for this are:
• the insane pricing policy that means that fuel is sold at 8p a litre which is well below production costs
• The fact that Iran has to import 40% of its petrol because it has not invested in refining capacity. This is despite the fact that it has the second biggest oil reserves in the world (could not organise a piss up in a brewery comes to mind)
The rioters are of course called ‘Imperialist stooges egged on by the West’. The problem with this assumption is that the West knew no more about the sudden imposition of rationing than did the put upon people of Iran.

The inflation rate is 30% and living standards have fallen like a stone, leading to an exodus of the intelligentsia and skilled professionals to the West (mainly to the Great Satan as it happens).

Just over a 1/4 of University lecturers have either not had their contracts renewed or have been sacked in the past 2 years. The authorities have also introduced a strike system whereby any student who participates in political activity not deemed as acceptable by the authorities has 2 warnings and is then dismissed for a repeat offence (better than Saudi Arabia where they would end up in jail I guess).

The morality police are still continuing their ‘Campaign’ to prevent poor moral practices. This mainly means they are arresting, beating and harassing women whose dress is not seen as ‘Haram’ (Islamic enough) or, as seems to be one of the deadly sins in male Islamist eyes, showing any of their hair.

The Iranian television system is of course showing its usual fair and balanced reporting and its news report on the terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow stated that the main suspect is the British state itself, the state evidently did this in order to distract Muslims anger over the knighthood for Salman Rushdie (I do not jest). This is probably believed by the 25% of UK Muslims who believe that the tube and bus bombings in London were carried out by the Government and various flat earth Guardianistas who are always ready to believe every conspiracy theory involving the government.

If the Islamic paradise on earth Iran is such a shithole, why on earth do Islamists want a Muslim state in the UK?
Could anyone with more than 2 functioning brain cells tell me?

I thought this was an interesting article and relevant to current happenings..

PS to those who do not realise it

1) Lockabie was a CIA explosion
2) All the bombs and plots in the UK are by the Govt to encourage anti Islam sentiment
3) Iran is a model democracy and any one opposses this view internally or externally is a US stooge/imperialist etc etc
4) Honour killings in Britain are nothing to do with Islam and indeed they are the UK police fault for not intervening. All honout kilings are due to the Wests Foreign policy.

Views of your friendly Islamist

According to the Pew survey, Turkey is currently the most anti-US country in the world.

Only 9% of the country favours the US, compared to 52% in 2000, putting Turkey below the Palestinian territories with 13% US approval, and Pakistan with 15%. In the United Kingdom, 51% approved of the US.

While 37% of Turks like American science and technology, according to the survey, 81% of Turks dislike American ideas about democracy, and 83% dislike American trade habits.

I wonder if anyone would have the guts to ask the UK population what we thought about Islam and UK Muslims who support/justify/agree with bombings in the UK ??? nope what a surprise

(Abul Kasem’s note: A reader from Afghanistan sent me this account of Talibans)

Overview
As a school kid, I vividly remembered the nights and days of Talibans in Afghanistan. The words most befitting to describe them are: barbaric, cruel, and inhuman. Today, I am a grown up adult. But even now, remembering those frightening days of real Islam fills my mind with terror, agony, frustration, and trepidation. I endured those Islamic terror filled days, and somehow, completed my high school under the Islamic movement of Taliban. I have a lot to say, a lot to remember, and a lot to be sad for, believe me. What the world has known about the brutalities and barbarism of the Taliban regime (read real Islam) is nothing in comparison to what we, the common people of Afghanistan have endured with extreme pain. What you will read here is the actual, first hand account of those dreadful nights and days of Talibans.

To be honest, Talibans were the embodiment of real Islam. They were inured to mete out in full all the inhuman and barbaric Islamic principles on which the entire edifice of Islam is founded. Following the true Islamic laws, they used to behead and execute men and women in public. Public whipping was a very ordinary practice—almost a daily affair, to say it mildly. If a “Mahram”, a legal male had not accompanied a woman, she would definitely face beatings and whippings in full view of others. I guess this was certainly the manner in which Islamic retribution was meted out to women during the golden days of Muhammad’s Islam.

For a thief, the Islamic punishment was that his /her hand would be cut off in public. Punishment for adultery committed by single male and female was whipping one hundred times, which eventually caused them to die. For the married male and female, the punishment was stoning to death, an unacceptable, inhuman, undemocratic and barbaric punishment system. Talibans banned watching Television, going to school, and learning modern sciences. Even learning of history, geography, and mathematics were totally banned. In the religious schools (Madrasa) the only activities were the recitation and the memorisation of the Qu’ran. Women had to cover themselves in Burga (a kind of clothing which covers all parts of a woman’s body). All men had to wear turbans, in the fashion of Islamic days of the seventh century. One could never dare to talk about humanity, democracy, respect for other faiths and religions. This is largely true in today’s Afghanistan even when the Talibans are no longer in power. I guess this suppression of basic human rights is endemic in all Islamic communities. They call non Muslims infidels, or pagans. The Talibans strongly believed that the non Muslims must face murder—the infidels should be killed! During Taliban days prayers were obligatory. Talibans used to shave the heads of young males. They believed that having hair on head would cause sexual temptation and more seduction in the community.

As a 23-year-old man, living in Afghanistan, I have witnessed with my own eyes and experienced with my own person all these mind boggling events. I always remember those Taliban days. Memories of those days always make me sad, emotional, and dejected. I vividly remember how I had been beaten, humiliated, and nearly killed when I spoke in favour of tolerance, democracy, and religious freedom. More to my experience with the Talibans, I witnessed innocent people killed, women beaten up in public. During those frightful Islamic days, I soul searched about Islam—is what Taliban doing real Islam? I had questions in my mind, very penetrating questions—I wanted to analyse and find the compatibility between Islam and Taliban. Is what Islam said, was exercised by Taliban? Can we call Taliban truly Islamic? Are men really superior to women in Islam? Does Islam justify public beating of women by the Talibans? Are executions, beheadings, and stoning to death Islamic? Do these barbaric punishments conform to the standard of modern civilised world?

To find answers to the above questions I searched and searched. What I discovered was really very disturbing. I found that the long history of Islam is truly the history of intolerance, barbarism, cruelty, war, and total apartheid treatment of women. I do not believe it was only Talibans in Afghanistan, who practiced those uncivilised conducts. We can find the same story in Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and in most of Islamic countries.

Here is one of the 25% of UK Muslims who think it is all a govt plot. Follow the logic and weep for your own country folks cos these nuts have the power of the Guardianistas behind them.

The day Gordon brown takes over,they had to find a way to make sure he follows tony Blair's track.
Scare tactics always work.Make people scared and they will do what you want them to do,and they will believe whatever you say.
All they have to do is to find a bearded man who was either born in Pakistan or was there during the last few years.Then find his cctv footage in a super store buying bleach or washing powder.Then a footage of him or some one looking like him lurking around on a public place,such as bus station or train station.
Then his cctv footage meeting some friends,and some more footage of him walking around something big,such as a big white bag of something,or a big box.
Evidence complete,early morning raid,and Britain on 'critical' alert level.

And yes,i have a few of these qualities,i was born in Pakistan,and i have been there in the last few years,and i have a goaty

Am i scared? I keep a small notebook with me and note down the location and time,whenever i pass in front of a CCTV.I have been keeping a 90% accurate record since i arrived in Britain.I have thousands of entries in my small notebooks.So i can prove where and when i have been in this country during the last few years,without the police scrolling through thousands of hours of CCTV footage.That is if ever it will be needed,but who knows,who's door will be broken in an early morning raid,arrested and taken away.I don't know.

Here is one of the 25% of UK Msulims who think it is all a govt plot. Follow the logic and weep for your own country folks cos these nuts have the power of the Guardianistas behind them.

The day Gordon brown takes over,they had to find a way to make sure he follows tony Blair's track.
Scare tactics always work.Make people scared and they will do what you want them to do,and they will believe whatever you say.
All they have to do is to find a bearded man who was either born in Pakistan or was there during the last few years.Then find his cctv footage in a super store buying bleach or washing powder.Then a footage of him or some one looking like him lurking around on a public place,such as bus station or train station.
Then his cctv footage meeting some friends,and some more footage of him walking around something big,such as a big white bag of something,or a big box.
Evidence complete,early morning raid,and Britain on 'critical' alert level.

And yes,i have a few of these qualities,i was born in Pakistan,and i have been there in the last few years,and i have a goaty

Am i scared? I keep a small notebook with me and note down the location and time,whenever i pass in front of a CCTV.I have been keeping a 90% accurate record since i arrived in Britain.I have thousands of entries in my small notebooks.So i can prove where and when i have been in this country during the last few years,without the police scrolling through thousands of hours of CCTV footage.That is if ever it will be needed,but who knows,who's door will be broken in an early morning raid,arrested and taken away.I don't know.

srael the Boycot

Israel has definitely done many things wrong and has brutalised both itself and the Palestinians of the occupied territories. HOWEVER it is the only country in the Middle East with a free press and its citizens (both Arab & Israeli) have more political and civic freedom than in any of the Arab states. Jordan slaughtered thousands of Palestinians during the Black September pogrom, Syria, Iran & Iraq have murdered untold thousands of their own citizens (especially Kurds) and have minimal civil rights (plus terribly oppress women). This is why I find the demand from the UCU (academics trade union) to boycott Israel to be so hypocritical.

You expect the far right to be Anti Semitic, you expect the UK Muslims to be Anti Semitic (although Arabs are themselves Semites) but what I find disturbing, given European history, is the blatant anti Semitism of the liberal Guardianistas and the left. This is leading to a very unholy alliance of neo fascists, Islamofascists, liberals and the left who seemingly have nothing in common apart from their hatred of Jews.

Ken Livingstone has displayed his bias many times; for example calling for two Jewish property developers of Iranian descent to be sent back to Iran to learn a lesson, for daring to argue with him over land for his Olympic project. He has invited speakers to City Hall who advocate suicide bombing in Israel and the murder of Gays for ‘abomination’, he likening a Jewish reporter to a Nazi guard even after he had been told the reporter was Jewish and objected to his comments (would he have made a similar jibe to a Muslim reporter about Camp X ray or likening him to one of the Government sponsored ethnic cleansers in Sudan?). His left wing cronies similarly see Israel as the new South Africa and lose no opportunity to criticise the ‘Jewish State’ however they never criticise the treatment of Kurds or other minorities in Arab countries, the treatment of women in Muslim states or the 400,000 black Africans that have been slaughtered by Muslim Arabs in Sudan. Nor do they criticise the treatment of Christian or Hindu minorities in Pakistan, Indonesia etc. They are also dumb on the brutal treatment of women in Muslim communities in the UK, preparing to see every fault in Israel but are blind to any Muslim action.

The Guardianistas are the same; they scream about British illiberalism but ignore Muslim actions. To them every Muslim death in the Middle East is caused by ‘The West’ and they ignore the fact that 99%+ of the current deaths in Iraq are from either Sunni or Shia actions and that Muslim & Arab states have happily been killing their own citizens and denying them rights long before the Iraq debacle (ask the Armenians or the Marsh Arabs). To Guardianistas, Iraq was a Nirvana before the invasion, with a liberal Saddam overseeing a garden of paradise. To Guardianistas every Muslim radical in the UK is really a Guardian reader who wants multi culturalism and believes in free speech and gender equality. On the other hand every policeman is really a BNP supporter who is a closet racist and potential murderer. They never comment on Darfur or the actions of the Taliban in slaughtering thousands of their own citizens and taking the country back to the stone age in a new Pol Pot regime where even Kite Flying is ‘Un Islamic’ and a capital offence. Where women can have their toes chopped of for going out of the house without a man to accompany her or even worse for showing any hair (what weird psychological problem do Muslim men have with women’s hair?). The Guardianistas have a wonderful way of calling for gender and sexual equality (which I believe in totally) and yet absolving Muslims from the need to treat others as equal. They call for free speech but agree with the Islamofascists that a prominent British Author should not get a knighthood because it is an insult to ‘Islam’. They however do not object to the leader of the un elected ‘Muslim Council’ calling for the death of a British Citizen or when Muslims burn the English flag in Regents Park (presumably that does not cause offence to the 97% of British people who are not Muslim).

However academics I thought were a little more rational. Let’s look at this particular case, the logic behind it and the implications.

• Firstly academics are very poorly paid and have lousy working conditions, most are on temporary contracts, do not have security of tenure and many are hourly paid and part time. You would have thought that maybe the union would have been spending its time fighting for their own member’ interests rather than political posturing.
• The academic union bases its boycott on Israeli violence to the Palestinians but no condemnation or boycott is proposed for China or Russia, or for the many African or Arab countries (not to mention Cuba or Venezuela) which persecute their own citizens and deny them academic freedom. Is violence only wrong if it is by Jews?? (or by non Muslims to Guardianistas)
• They want to deny dialogue with Israel and of course deny BNP speakers on campus BUT support Muslim extremists rights to speak e.g. Hizb ut Tahrir who call for suicide bombings against Jewish and Western targets, send people to terrorist training camps abroad, want to introduce Sharia law to the UK, do not want Muslims to vote or participate in Western democracy and advocate separation of Muslims from ‘Infidels’, as well as believing in the inferiority of women and non Muslims (Kuffars).
• The call for the boycott has engendered huge negative publicity abroad and will affect academic links with the US. Please note that most research is collaborative and the US undertakes by far the most academic research in the world and the income for Harvard alone is more than the entire UK university sector earns. The UK university sector would be devastated by a drop in US links. A number of prominent US academics have called for US academics to register with Israeli Universities which means they would be subject to a boycott and will then in return call for an academic boycott of UK universities.
• The NUS (hardly a reactionary body) have called it Anti Semitic and are opposing it. They know the rise of anti Semitism on campus and the rising attacks on Jewish students on campus.

Given the irrationality and Anti Semitic nature of the left and the Guardianistas; and the sheer hatred of the Islamists in the UK to everyone who is not ‘Of their kind’ I presume the boycott will be passed and the UK will continue its downward drift towards Muslim enclaves living totally separate lives from the majority community. If they get their Sharia paradise, we may even see areas for public stoning and specific places for book burning and destruction of musical instruments. Female fashion shops will sell only Burkas in Ford Black. Schools will only run Koranic studies (for men) and women will be forced to stay at home and be ‘stupidified’ and beaten to put up with the nonsense. The Morality police will wonder the streets with canes to beat any men who do not have a beard or women unaccompanied by a male relative or in ‘UnIslamic Dress’. Welcome to Islamistan coming to your neighbourhood soon courtesy of the Guardianistas.

I accept the right of the Islamist fifth column who live in the UK to criticise Israel, America and the ‘West’ (although they never want to return to live in Muslim countries for some reason). However I would ask them to try harder to be logical and to use common sense. A good example of their ability to avoid logic can be seen in a channel 4 survey which found that 24% of Muslims in the UK “Believe the four men identified as the July 7th suicide bombers were not responsible for the attacks. The same proportion thinks the government was involved in the bombing”. The problem is of course that any terrorists can only operate if there is a sea of support to swim in. This support can be passive e.g. propaganda and verbal encouragement, or active e.g. safe houses, money, false passports, supplies etc. Given that we have at least 3m Muslims in the UK that means 750,000 of them believe that all the bomb plots are the work of the police and government and police then that is a huge sea to swim in. These fanatics are of course supported by the Guardianista brigade, who scream about their human rights without the slightest concern with the human rights of the 59+ million who do not believe in a flat earth.

Presumably the same ‘Reality challenged’ lunatics also think the tooth fairy exists and that British people really want to live under an Islamofascist dictatorship (but we haven’t realised it yet) and that all non Muslim women really want to cover up in black Burkas and have their future decided by their male relatives. The chat rooms are currently full of apologists and conspiracy nuts i.e. the bombs in London and Glasgow are the work of the Government because it happened just when Gordon Brown became leader (the Islamists of course would never have thought about the timing themselves would they?). Their logic being it gives the government an excuse to persecute Muslims and conduct Islamaphobia. The police and public who captured the nuts in Glasgow are of course part of the conspiracy, as is the traffic warden who ticketed the car in London and the drunk who saw the smoke, and the bouncers and passers by etc etc. Ken Livingstone in his speech on the London bombs is very careful not to blame any UK Muslims of course, he presumably believes it is a Zionist US sponsored plot and the BNP are the end culprits.

If you want the 97% (minority?) of the UK population who are not Muslim to avoid being ‘Islamaphobic’, then please do not burn our flag, please do not call for the death of British citizens for fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan, or even worse writing a book you do not approve of and please observe basic standards of behaviour in terms of gender and other equalities. You cannot cry ‘Islamaphobia’ and scream about your rights, if you want to deny civil rights to others (including the 51% of the population who are women) and see non Muslims as ‘Kuffar’ scum. The fact that to call someone a Paki (short for Pakistan) is seen as racist but to call someone Kuffar which translates as unclean, infidel and without worth is not, sums up PC Guardianista Britain.

Whilst I cannot speak for the 97% minority (unlike unelected Muslim leaders who claim to speak for all UK Muslims) I assume the vast majority of us do not like forced marriages, object to ‘Honour Killings’, believe in gender and sexual orientation equality, support the right of authors to write books without fear of being killed for offending thin skinned fanatics and generally want minorities to make some effort to adapt to and live within the majority culture, rules and norms.

Most of us also view religion with a degree of scepticism, whether of the moral majority US Christian model or the Islamic medieval mode and do not want religious people to have more rights than the rest of us, simply because they follow a particular cult and because certain things were written (or added) to a holy book thousands of years ago.

If UK Muslims find the above objectionable, may I humbly suggest they look for their Sharia paradise someplace else and leave us ‘Kuffar Scum’ to our fate in hell.

Israel has definitely done many things wrong and has brutalised both itself and the Palestinians of the occupied territories. HOWEVER it is the only country in the Middle East with a free press and its citizens (both Arab & Israeli) have more political and civic freedom than in any of the Arab states. Jordan slaughtered thousands of Palestinians during the Black September pogrom, Syria, Iran & Iraq have murdered untold thousands of their own citizens (especially Kurds) and have minimal civil rights (plus terribly oppress women). This is why I find the demand from the UCU (academics trade union) to boycott Israel to be so hypocritical.

You expect the far right to be Anti Semitic, you expect the UK Muslims to be Anti Semitic (although Arabs are themselves Semites) but what I find disturbing, given European history, is the blatant anti Semitism of the liberal Guardianistas and the left. This is leading to a very unholy alliance of neo fascists, Islamofascists, liberals and the left who seemingly have nothing in common apart from their hatred of Jews.

Ken Livingstone has displayed his bias many times; for example calling for two Jewish property developers of Iranian descent to be sent back to Iran to learn a lesson, for daring to argue with him over land for his Olympic project. He has invited speakers to City Hall who advocate suicide bombing in Israel and the murder of Gays for ‘abomination’, he likening a Jewish reporter to a Nazi guard even after he had been told the reporter was Jewish and objected to his comments (would he have made a similar jibe to a Muslim reporter about Camp X ray or likening him to one of the Government sponsored ethnic cleansers in Sudan?). His left wing cronies similarly see Israel as the new South Africa and lose no opportunity to criticise the ‘Jewish State’ however they never criticise the treatment of Kurds or other minorities in Arab countries, the treatment of women in Muslim states or the 400,000 black Africans that have been slaughtered by Muslim Arabs in Sudan. Nor do they criticise the treatment of Christian or Hindu minorities in Pakistan, Indonesia etc. They are also dumb on the brutal treatment of women in Muslim communities in the UK, preparing to see every fault in Israel but are blind to any Muslim action.

The Guardianistas are the same; they scream about British illiberalism but ignore Muslim actions. To them every Muslim death in the Middle East is caused by ‘The West’ and they ignore the fact that 99%+ of the current deaths in Iraq are from either Sunni or Shia actions and that Muslim & Arab states have happily been killing their own citizens and denying them rights long before the Iraq debacle (ask the Armenians or the Marsh Arabs). To Guardianistas, Iraq was a Nirvana before the invasion, with a liberal Saddam overseeing a garden of paradise. To Guardianistas every Muslim radical in the UK is really a Guardian reader who wants multi culturalism and believes in free speech and gender equality. On the other hand every policeman is really a BNP supporter who is a closet racist and potential murderer. They never comment on Darfur or the actions of the Taliban in slaughtering thousands of their own citizens and taking the country back to the stone age in a new Pol Pot regime where even Kite Flying is ‘Un Islamic’ and a capital offence. Where women can have their toes chopped of for going out of the house without a man to accompany her or even worse for showing any hair (what weird psychological problem do Muslim men have with women’s hair?). The Guardianistas have a wonderful way of calling for gender and sexual equality (which I believe in totally) and yet absolving Muslims from the need to treat others as equal. They call for free speech but agree with the Islamofascists that a prominent British Author should not get a knighthood because it is an insult to ‘Islam’. They however do not object to the leader of the un elected ‘Muslim Council’ calling for the death of a British Citizen or when Muslims burn the English flag in Regents Park (presumably that does not cause offence to the 97% of British people who are not Muslim).

However academics I thought were a little more rational. Let’s look at this particular case, the logic behind it and the implications.

• Firstly academics are very poorly paid and have lousy working conditions, most are on temporary contracts, do not have security of tenure and many are hourly paid and part time. You would have thought that maybe the union would have been spending its time fighting for their own member’ interests rather than political posturing.
• The academic union bases its boycott on Israeli violence to the Palestinians but no condemnation or boycott is proposed for China or Russia, or for the many African or Arab countries (not to mention Cuba or Venezuela) which persecute their own citizens and deny them academic freedom. Is violence only wrong if it is by Jews?? (or by non Muslims to Guardianistas)
• They want to deny dialogue with Israel and of course deny BNP speakers on campus BUT support Muslim extremists rights to speak e.g. Hizb ut Tahrir who call for suicide bombings against Jewish and Western targets, send people to terrorist training camps abroad, want to introduce Sharia law to the UK, do not want Muslims to vote or participate in Western democracy and advocate separation of Muslims from ‘Infidels’, as well as believing in the inferiority of women and non Muslims (Kuffars).
• The call for the boycott has engendered huge negative publicity abroad and will affect academic links with the US. Please note that most research is collaborative and the US undertakes by far the most academic research in the world and the income for Harvard alone is more than the entire UK university sector earns. The UK university sector would be devastated by a drop in US links. A number of prominent US academics have called for US academics to register with Israeli Universities which means they would be subject to a boycott and will then in return call for an academic boycott of UK universities.
• The NUS (hardly a reactionary body) have called it Anti Semitic and are opposing it. They know the rise of anti Semitism on campus and the rising attacks on Jewish students on campus.

Given the irrationality and Anti Semitic nature of the left and the Guardianistas; and the sheer hatred of the Islamists in the UK to everyone who is not ‘Of their kind’ I presume the boycott will be passed and the UK will continue its downward drift towards Muslim enclaves living totally separate lives from the majority community. If they get their Sharia paradise, we may even see areas for public stoning and specific places for book burning and destruction of musical instruments. Female fashion shops will sell only Burkas in Ford Black. Schools will only run Koranic studies (for men) and women will be forced to stay at home and be ‘stupidified’ and beaten to put up with the nonsense. The Morality police will wonder the streets with canes to beat any men who do not have a beard or women unaccompanied by a male relative or in ‘UnIslamic Dress’. Welcome to Islamistan coming to your neighbourhood soon courtesy of the Guardianistas.