30/09/2008 by Fly-on-the-wall.

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16/09/2008 by Fly-on-the-wall.

Mmmmmm ……. the letter ‘E’.

Whoops - have to go. Ted’s coming.

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08/07/2008 by Fly-on-the-wall.

Two seventh-grade boys were given detention and their classmates forced to miss their scheduled refreshment break when the pair refused to kneel and pray to Allah during a religious studies class.

Outraged parents called the punishment of the boys for not wanting to take part in the practical demonstration at Alsager High School near Stoke-on-Trent, UK, of how Muslims’ worship Allah a breach of their human rights.

“This isn’t right, it’s taking things too far,” parent Sharon Luinen told the London Daily Mail.

“I understand that they have to learn about other religions. I can live with that, but it is taking it a step too far to be punished because they wouldn’t join in Muslim prayer. Making them pray to Allah, who isn’t who they worship, is wrong and what got me is that they were told they were being disrespectful.

Last month, WND reported Principal Robin Lowe was reassigned after staging a mandatory lesson in Islamic religious beliefs for nearly 900 students at her Houston-area school.

The controversy erupted at Friendswood Junior High when students were diverted from a scheduled physical education class and taken to a special assembly.

In the 40-minute session, representatives of the Houston office of the controversial Council on American-Islamic Relations, an organization critics link to terrorist groups, presented a lesson in the religious beliefs and requirements of Islam.

The CAIR representatives instructed students that Adam, Noah and Jesus are prophets; announced “there is one god, his name is Allah”; taught the five pillars of Islam; told students how to pray five times a day; and gave instruction on Islamic religious requirements for dress.

The assembly had not been authorized by the district, officials confirmed.

In May, officials at a Minnesota charter school, housed in the same building as a mosque, attacked a television news crew investigating whether the publicly funded institution had complied with a state order to stop accommodating Islamic prayers and religious programs.

The investigation followed revelations by a substitute teacher who observed children being forced to participate in Islamic prayers.

In the Alsager School incident, the religion teacher, who was not named, made the class wear Muslim headgear and watch a short film. Afterward, she took prayer mats from her cupboard and said, “we are now going out to pray to Allah,” parents claimed.

“I am absolutely furious my daughter was made to take part in it and I don’t find it acceptable,” said parent Karen Williams.

“Not only was it forced upon them, my daughter was told off for not doing it right. They’d never done it before and they were supposed to do it in another language.”

“My child has been forced to pray to Allah in a school lesson,” the grandfather of one of the students said. “It’s absolutely disgusting, there’s no other way of putting it. My daughter and a lot of other mothers are furious about their children being made to kneel on the floor and pray to Islam. If they didn’t do it they were given detention.

“I am not racist, I’ve been friendly with an Indian for 30 years. I’ve also been to a Muslim wedding where it was explained to me that alcohol would not be served and I respected that. But if Muslims were asked to go to church on Sunday and take Holy Communion there would be war.”

Keith Plant, Alsager’s deputy headmaster, said with summer break, many of the staff was unavailable and he could not comment fully.

“I think that it is a shame that so many parents have got in touch with the press before coming to me. I have spoken to the teacher and she has articulately given me her version of events, but that is all I can give you at the moment.”

Cheshire County Council issued a statement telling parents “inquiries are being made into the circumstances as a matter of urgency.

“Educating children in the beliefs of different faith is part of the diversity curriculum on the basis that knowledge is essential to understanding. We accept that such teaching is to be conducted with some sense of sensitivity.”

Revelation of the incident follows this week’s pronouncement by the UK’s top judge, Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips, that Islamic sharia law should be used in the UK.

In a speech to an East London mosque, Phillips said, “Those entering into a contractual agreement can agree that the agreement shall be governed by a law other than English law.’

In February, WND reported Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, chief of the 70-million-strong worldwide Anglican Communion, advocated the establishment of Islamic law in Britain.

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21/06/2008 by Fly-on-the-wall.

Ted says no-one tells him any family news so he can’t pass anything on. 

He is out just now so I have sneaked a look at the figures. 

There have been 14,524 people reading the blog this year so far, 1053 in June. 

We have 39 registered contributors and contributions from 4 of them this year.

 Monthly contributions were:

January : 10 contributions from 4 people

February: 18 contributions from 3 people

March: 19 contributions from 2 people

April: 1 contribution from 1 person

May: 12 contributions from 4 people

June: 2 contributions from 2 people.

What’s the problem?

Whoops, here comes Ted.  Must post this quickly.

Fly on the wall.

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20/05/2008 by Fly-on-the-wall.

The Daily Mail 20 May 2008.

Millenia of moral, religious and scientific belief were defied last night by MPs who voted to allow the creation of human/animal embryos.

In a landmark move which isolates Britain in the western world, they backed Government proposals which herald the dawn of a new era of experimentation. Despite fierce objections, politicians placed the need for greater medical understanding above the dangers of tinkering with the essence of life  -  even though many leading scientists argue that hybrid embryos are unlikely to bring promised cures.

Opponents warned that the decision had made Britain a ‘rogue state’ and pointed to 21 other countries where such moves had been banned. Catholic Church leaders have condemned the use of hybrid embryos as ‘monstrous’ and say tinkering in such a way is immoral.

Even fertility expert Lord Winston  -  who supports the Government’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill  -  has said it would not greatly matter if scientists were not allowed to engineer human/animal embryos for medical experiments.

But Gordon Brown urged MPs to back the work, saying it is a ‘moral endeavour’ which could save thousands of lives by producing treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

And Gordon Brown knows better than the experts. Having already made the UK the laughing stock of the world by their handling of immigration and the like, and having already made us the abortion capital of Europe, this government now force through this dubious thing which 21 decent nations have already rejected to make us the horror capital of the world - even though UK public opinion - “we will listen to what the people want” - was emphatically against it.

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19/05/2008 by Fly-on-the-wall.

Daily Mail 3 February 2008 

Husbands living in a “harem” with multiple wives have been cleared to claim state benefits for all their different partners.

A Muslim man with four spouses - which is permitted under Islamic law - could receive £10,000 a year in income support alone. He could also be entitled to more generous housing and council tax benefit, to reflect the fact his household needs a bigger property.

Ministers have decided that, even though bigamy is a crime in Britain, polygamous marriages can be recognised formally by the state - provided they took place overseas, in countries where they are legal.

Daily Mail 26 September 2007

One of Britain’s most infamous Islamist extremists is seeking three more wives through the internet.Omar Brooks, who described the 7/7 suicide bombers as “completely praiseworthy” and heckled Home Secretary John Reid in a high-profile confrontation last week, has signed up to a Muslim marriage website.

Although already married with three children and reportedly living off £700 a month in state benefits, the 31-year-old is seeking more wives, with the intention of fathering more than nine children.

And still this so called government cannot understand why the whole electorate is absolutely sickened by what they are seeing happen in this country. It isn’t just about their 10p tax cockup - its about almost everything!

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19/05/2008 by Fly-on-the-wall.

Daily Mail, 16th March 2008 

More prisoners could be let out early under emergency measures to tackle the jail overcrowding crisis, Jack Straw admitted last night.The Justice Secretary said he could not rule out agreeing to more early release plans.

It comes after a prisoner told Mr Straw that life in his jail was “like a holiday camp”.

Mr Straw said: “Nobody in my position can rule out emergency measures but, by God, I’m working very, very hard to avoid that because this is all about maintaining the confidence to the public.”

Yesterday, during a visit to Highdown prison in Surrey, Mr Straw smiled as he recalled his meeting with the inmate who also told him that prisoners should be locked up without access to luxury items such as televisions.He also insisted that community work was better than jail.Community punishments, he argued, “can work better” and should be used in “appropriate circumstances”.

Better thing again Mr. Justice Secretary Jack “by God” Straw. The convicts aren’t going to like being sent home early from their “holiday camps”. You are almost certain to be sued in respect of this breach of their human rights if you try to do so - all at our expense, of course!

When I were a lad prisons used to be unpleasant places so that if a person was sent there the unpleasant experience made them think, “Dont want any more of that. I will go straight from now on thank you”.

Incidentally, our local newspaper reports that an open prison close to where I live is to be made into a mixed sex prison containing male convicts and female convicts and young offenders.   I bet he won’t dare try to send anyone home early from that holiday camp.

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16/05/2008 by Fly-on-the-wall.

From the Daily Mail.

Prison bosses have been instructed to let pagan inmates keep twigs in their cells…to use as wands.

Officers have been told to allow prisoners to collect and decorate the twigs which they need for their rituals.It is the latest in a series of rulings to protect convicts’ rights and ensure equality among different faiths.Followers of other faiths are allowed items such as a prayer mat to allow them to worship.

The policy regarding pagans was announced by Justice Reform Minister Maria Eagle in a parliamentary answer. She said: “Prison service policy is to enable prisoners of different faith traditions, including paganism, to practise their religion.“Religious artefacts are allowed for relevant faiths within the constraints of good order and discipline. The religious artefacts for pagan prisoners include a flexible twig for a wand.”

Tory prisons spokesman Edward Garnier said: “This sounds like an April Fool’s Day joke. But there’s genuine concern prisoners are taking the system for a ride.”

Conservative MP Andrew Turner, who uncovered the new ruling, added: “This strikes me as bizarre. A lot of people would be worried about equating paganism with Christianity.”

This is a cunning plot …….. the pagans will obviously wave their magic wands and turn all the prison officers into little green frogs and then escape? Think it through Justice Reform Minister - before it is too late!

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