Articles from the UK that Blackleaf doesn't post.

[Sassylassie]

Hows this for shameful: I'm off to find more?

Muslim accosts injured Para in hospital


By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent

(Filed: 02/10/2006)





A paratrooper wounded in Afghanistan was threatened by a Muslim visitor to the British hospital where he is recovering.
Seriously wounded soldiers have complained that they are worried about their safety after being left on wards that are open to the public at Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham.
On one occasion a member of the Parachute Regiment, still dressed in his combat uniform after being evacuated from Afghanistan, was accosted by a Muslim over the British involvement in the country.
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"You have been killing my Muslim brothers in Afghanistan," the man said during a tirade.
Because the soldier was badly injured and could not defend himself, he was very worried for his safety, sources told The Daily Telegraph.
A relative of the Para said the man had twice walked on to the ward where two other soldiers and four civilians were being treated without once being challenged by staff.
"It's not the best way to treat our returning men," he said. "They are nervous that these guys might attack them and, despite being paratroopers, they cannot defend themselves because of their injuries."
The Ministry of Defence, which said that it had no record of threatening incidents, indicated that there was a military security presence at the hospital and it co-operated closely with local police.
A MoD spokesman said there was "appropriate security" at Selly Oak for the 11 servicemen currently being treated.
But Liam Fox, the shadow defence secretary, called the treatment of wounded troops "an absolute disgrace".
"They should be in completely separate wings even if this means shutting down entire NHS wards. It is a betrayal of our troops having them treated in mixed and open wards. Those who have been injured on operations must be with those who understand their predicament in a secure environment.
"The Defence Secretary should be having urgent talks with the Health Secretary to do this otherwise this Government's commitment to our Armed Forces is nothing but talk."
There is also resentment among serving troops unhappy about being treated in a NHS hospital that they believe is unsuitable for military patients.
Soldiers on operations say they would rather receive a more serious injury and go to the top American military hospital in Ramstein, Germany, than end up in a NHS hospital.
They now half jokingly refer to getting "a Boche rather than a Blighty" in reference to the wounds that would send them home. Ramstein has an outstanding unit for brain surgery, and neurological intensive care beds in Britain are in short supply. "The blokes see it that if you are unlucky you get wounded and go to the UK at the mercy of the NHS, but if you get a head wound you get sent to Ramstein in Germany where the US has an outstanding medical facility," said an officer serving in Afghanistan.
"It also does not do morale much good knowing that within 18 hours of being wounded you could wake up in a NHS hospital with a mental health patient on one side and an incontinent geriatric on the other."
The latest figures show that 86 troops have been injured in Afghanistan during the past six months of fighting. More than 600 soldiers have been flown back to Britain after being injured on operations abroad since 2003 with most treated at Selly Oak, which is also the headquarters of the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine.
In the past decade the seven military hospitals in Britain, Germany and Cyprus have been closed. The remaining military hospital at Haslar, Portsmouth, is expected to be sold to developers next year.

 

[Sassylassie]

How's this article for political correctness and British incompetance? Christians say good bye to Christmas and get on your mat face the south and Praise Allah.

A hardline Muslim teacher who caused a furore by denouncing pupils for celebrating Christmas has been made a Government schools inspector.
Israr Khan's Ofsted appointment was described by a former colleague as 'absolutely astonishing'.
Mr Khan, now headmaster of an Islamic school, launched into his tirade during a concert rehearsal at Washwood Heath Secondary School in Birmingham in 1996 after the choir including around 40 Muslim youngsters, had sung a number of popular Christmas songs, including carols.
He leapt from his seat, yelling: "Who is your God? Why are you saying Jesus and Jesus Christ? God is not your God - it is Allah."
As children in the audience began booing and clapping, a number of choir members - both white and Asian - walked out, some in tears.
Mr Khan, a maths teacher, was asked to work from home pending an investigation but there was no disciplinary action.
It has been claimed that Washwood Heath school was then a 'hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism'. Rashid Rauf - the airline terror bomb suspect whose extradition is currently being sought from Pakistan - was a pupil there at that time.
Mr Khan left Washwood Heath a year later to found the independent Islamic Hamd House Preparatory School in Small Heath, Birmingham, where he is headmaster.
Earlier this year, he was appointed as a governor of Anderton Park Primary School, in Sparkbrook, Birmingham.
A former Washwood Heath colleague laughed openly when told of Mr Khan's role as an Ofsted inspector where he has the responsibility for passing or failing schools.
He said: "Given the man's history, it's absolutely astonishing. It's just the cheek of the man that he's been able to reach that position. He always was an extremely clever man.
"He gave me many insights into the Islamic cause and their hatred of the US and the Western World. He had a big support base among some of the Muslim parents.
"But there were some very influential, radical elements at Washwood Heath at that time and Israr Khan was very close to all that."
Earlier this year, Anderton Park, where 99.5 per cent of the pupils are Asian, received a dismal Ofsted report which branded its teaching and its achievements as inadequate.
One Muslim father, who asked to be known only as Mohammed, said: "As a governor, Mr Khan will be able to exert a great deal of influence over the school and its policies.
"By his previous actions, he seems to represent what I would call a hardcore attitude to Islam."
Mr Khan declined to comment about his appointment, waving questions away at his large home in Moseley, Birmingham.
An Ofsted spokesman said: "Israr Khan was appointed as an additional inspector via a highly competitive recruitment and selection process. He has undergone all the relevant security checks."

 

[hermanntrude]

simmer sassy, simmer

 

[Blackleaf]

How's this article for political correctness

We can blame Americans and Canadians for political correctness. After all, it was you people who invented it.

 

[DurkaDurka]

We can blame Americans and Canadians for political correctness. After all, it was you people who invented it.

Always blaming someone aren't you Blackleaf?

Are you paid to be a pro-britain news bot? You seem to post the same articles to a few different sites.

 

[tamarin]

Granted, there have been lots of Canadians on the Political Correctness bandwagon. And we're ashamed of them. Many of Canada's leading human rights workers and feminists are PC disciples and usually are aghast when confronted with their duplicity. Well let them dribble. Blackleaf, I apologize for all the jelly fish we've spawned north of the 49. Don't worry, we're giving them a helluva whackin' when we can!

 

[I think not]

We can blame Americans and Canadians for political correctness. After all, it was you people who invented it.

And you were dumb enough to import it?

 

[Sassylassie]

Wow a English man on the Run in a Dress oops I mean Burka. Blackie have the English no shame, what happened to the old "Stiff Upper Lip".

Article:


The TimesOctober 09, 2006
Suspect in terror hunt used veil to evade arrest

By Sean O’Neill and Anthony Browne

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A MALE suspect in a major anti-terrorist investigation in Britain escaped capture by allegedly disguising himself as a Muslim woman dressed in a burka, The Times can reveal.
The man, who was wanted in connection with serious terrorist offences, evaded arrest for several days as police searched for him across the country.
The fact that a fugitive remained at large after disguising himself in an Islamic dress which covered his face will further fuel the debate sparked by Jack Straw, Leader of the House of Commons, about the wearing of the veil.
Details of the man’s true identity were circulated to ports and airports to try to prevent him leaving the country.
He was eventually caught and is now one of more than 90 suspects in British prisons awaiting trial on terror charges.
The suspect’s name and the detail of the offences he is accused of cannot be revealed because of the danger of prejudicing his forthcoming trial.
It is the first time that a male suspect has allegedly disguised himself as a Muslim woman in Britain. However, the tactic has been used frequently by Islamist fighters — including suicide bombers — in Iraq and Afghanistan. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the former leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, often dressed in a burka to evade American forces hunting him.
Counter-terrorist agencies in Britain and Europe have long been concerned about the readiness of male Islamist terrorists to wear female clothing.
The issue of people hiding their faces under the burka, which covers the whole face, or behind the niqab, which exposes only the eyes, has also posed difficulties for banks, immigration authorities and benefit offices. But questions of security have tended to be overruled by the need to maintain good community relations.
Shahid Malik, Labour MP for Dewsbury, expressed concern that the issue could create unnecessary tension. “If this is true, then it is the first case of its kind in Britain and an isolated incident. We must not get hysterical about it. There have been many hundreds of cases where robberies have been committed by men wearing women’s stockings on their heads — but no one is talking about banning stockings.
“The important thing is that the police and the security services should feel comfortable and confident about stopping anyone who they have suspicions about, whatever they are wearing.”
Speaking on the BBC, John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, said: “I fear sometimes people might use it in a more prejudiced way and I am concerned it may damage relations rather than improve them.”
He added that he would not follow Mr Straw’s practice of asking Muslim women in constituency meetings to uncover their faces.
Patricia Hewitt, the Health Secretary, also disagreed with Mr Straw’s stance. She said that in the past she had regarded the veil as a symbol of women’s oppression, but changed her mind after a meeting with a Muslim woman in her constituency. “She’d made the decision — not her parents or anybody else — that she wanted, as part of her statement of her faith, to wear the veil.”
However, Mr Straw was backed by Phil Woolas, the minister responsible for community cohesion, race and faith, whose Oldham constituency contains a large Muslim population. Writing in the Sunday Mirror, he said: “Most British-born Muslims who wear it do so as an assertion of their identity and religion. This can create fear and resentment among non-Muslims and lead to discrimination. Muslims then become even more determined to assert their identity, and so it becomes a vicious circle where the only beneficiaries are racists like the BNP.” Anila Baig, a columnist on The Sun newspaper, reported that at Leeds-Bradford airport no member of security had asked her to remove her niqab to check her identity against her passport picture. Muslim organisations have complained about receiving hate mail since Mr Straw referred to the veil as “a visible statement of separation” in his local newspaper. A spokesman for The Muslim Safety Forum said that there had been an increase in attacks against Muslims, and added: “We are concerned that Jack Straw’s comments will be picked up by certain elements of the community who want to spread Islamophobia.”

 

[Sassylassie]

Lord, lordy ya gotta love the Generous Brits. I have the urge to sing I'm not 40 I'm $39.95.

Article:

Race hate preacher Abu Hamza secretly bought a house for £220,000 cash while in prison.
At the same time the Islamist extremist was running up a legal aid bill which cost the taxpayer £250,000.
An Evening Standard investigation reveals that the four-bedroom semi in Greenford was until last week rented out to Polish labourers.
Take a guided tour of Abu Hamza's house here

• U.S bid to extradite Abu Hamza adjourned


Hamza, 48, who preached at the Finsbury-Park mosque, was sentenced to seven years in February for soliciting murder. The house was bought while he was on remand in Belmarsh highsecurity prison.
But his assets are supposed to have been frozen by the Treasury under anti-terrorism sanctions which should have prevented him buying and selling property.
Hamza's family live at the taxpayer's expense in a £600,000, five-bedroom council house in Shepherd's Bush. His wife Najat Chaffe and up to eight children claim a reported £680 a week in benefits.
Hamza's new house in Hicks Avenue was bought, according to Land Registry documents obtained by the Evening Standard, in October 2004.
The purchase of the house was uncovered by investigators working for the Legal Services Commission (LSC), the government body in charge of Britain's £2billion legal aid budget.
The discovery of the house may now enable authorities to claw back at least some of the money spent on Hamza's defence.
The house, built in the 1930s, is now subject to a legal order preventing it being sold without permission of the court. A special hearing was held at the Old Bailey in the summer at which Lord Justice Hughes, who presided over Hamza's trial, ruled the house could not be sold "without the leave of the court".
The order names three people - including Hamza's wife - who "are restrained from dealing with the propertyî until the court determines just how much of the legal defence costs Hamza should have to pay.
The house is registered in the name of Ola Kamel Mostafa, a woman believed to be a relative of Hamza who is understood to live in Egypt where the cleric was born. Hamza's real name is Mostafa Kamel Mostafa.
It was bought a month after the sale in September 2004 of a flat owned by Hamza and registered in his name in Adie Road in Hammersmith, which fetched £228,000.
Hamza made a profit of about £130,000 on the flat which he bought off the council under right-to-buy for £100,000 in 1999.
Ola Kamel Mostafa is named in the court order along with Ms Chaffe, Hamza's second wife and the mother of six of his children, and Mohammed Kamel Mostafa, also thought to be a relative and also thought to be living in Egypt.
The ruling states: "It is ordered that Ola Kamel Mostafa, Najat Chaffe and Mohammed Kamel Mostafa are restrained from dealing with property situated at Hicks Avenue, Greenford, Middlesex, without the leave of the court."
The Land Registry also now carries a warning on the property in Greenford. It states: "Restriction: Under an order of the Central Criminal Court made on 29 June 2006 no disposition by the proprietor of the registered estate is to be registered except under a further order of the court."
The LSC's Special Investigations Unit believes it has uncovered a money trail linking the sale of Hamza's flat in Adie Road to the purchase of the house in Greenford.
Hamza has claimed the flat was owned by one of his sons and that he had no assets.
Neighbours in Hicks Avenue were unaware of the Hamza connection. One said a man named Abdul had introduced himself to residents as the landlord of the property.
He would collect rent once a month from Polish tenants. Neighbours suggested as many as 20 Poles were living in the property at any one time.
They complained of loud music until late at night and a lot of noise coming from the property.
About 10 days ago, the numerous tenants left and the house has remained empty since then.
It is now back on the market with an estate agents based in Shepherd's Bush. It is advertised on the internet as a four bedroom property for £270 a week, either furnished or unfurnished. The Standard posed as prospective tenants for a tour of the property, which has had little sign of investment from its new owner.
The interior is shabby in places, the cramped kitchen is dank and unchanged in decades.
Rubbish is scattered about the front and back gardens. But despite its decorative state, the house remains an extremely shrewd investment and is now worth as much as £260,000.
The estate agent said it would be "easy" to rent out to immigrant workers - even in its current state. The agent said: "There are people who are desperate for somewhere cheap to live in London. There is so much demand for housing in this city.
"I told the owner I could let this in a week, but it is taking a bit longer because people want it redecorated after the last tenants. They left it in a bad way, but a £300 redecoration would sort it.
"I've told the owner that, but they do not want to spend any money. Most landlords are greedy - they buy a place, spend as little as possible doing it up, rent it out for five years before selling it for a profit.
"This owner does not want to pay a management fee - I am just here to find a tenant."
When asked who owned the property, the agent accused the undercover reporter of carrying out "some kind of investigation about the landlord".
He refused to give any details about the owner and ended the tour of the house.
A spokesman for the LSC said investigations into Hamza's finances were ongoing.
A costs hearing will not now take place until Hamza's appeal against his conviction is heard in October. Should he win the appeal, all Hamza's costs will be paid out of the public purse. Should his conviction be upheld, however, Hamza may then be liable for at least part of his defence.

 

[DurkaDurka]

Political correctness in the UK.....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/6040196.stm

Firm bans 'ageist' birthday cards

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Greetings cards passed around the office and signed for a colleague's birthday have been banned by a company in Bournemouth. Alan and Thomas Ltd said they stopped the card signings, as jokes or comments about someone's age could be offensive under new age discrimination laws.
The firm's boss, Julian Boughton, said they had taken legal advice.
Directors of the Bournemouth-based insurance brokers will instead send a card on behalf of all staff.

But speaking to BBC News, one former member of staff who did not wish to be named, said the move was "extreme".
They told BBC News: "I think it's a bit draconian really, over the top and quite ridiculous.
"I don't see how a jokey birthday card can be seen as discrimination or harassment. And I wonder if they actually asked the staff what they think."
Buying cakes
The company said legal advice was sought after the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 came into force this month.
Mr Boughton, managing director, said: "Having considered the potential exposures for our employees and our business, we have taken the decision to change the practice of issuing a generically signed card for any given individual's birthday.
"Instead we have decided that the company will send a card to each staff member on their birthday, signed by the directors."
But not all birthday traditions have been banned.
Mr Boughton added: "We certainly still encourage the practice of buying cakes!"

 

[Sassylassie]

Good grief old chap, talk about PCing ones self into a corner. Cherrio.