There has been much controversy this week surrounding Pastor Terry Jones in Florida and his plans to burn Qur’ans on Saturday September 11th. He claims that it is a protest against radical Islam. But I ask you, what is the difference between the two photos? The answer is: there is no difference. Both say [...]
Archive of posts tagged Injustice
French Veil Ban
France’s lower house has passed a bill that will see the niqab and burka banned from public life. Both are garments worn by some Muslim women and cover the face. The niqab leaves only the eyes visible while the burka covers the whole face with only a mesh panel through which to see. As someone [...]
Ethnic Conflicts
What is a country? Is it a collection of people with the same culture, heritage or goals? What about the factions of people within a country: the Basques, Northern Ireland, Bavaria, Somalia, the Sudan, the former Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Croatia, Israel, Palestine, etc. On the most basic level national borders are simply imaginary lines visible only [...]
No one likes change
Amongst today’s headlines including the continuing BP oil spill fiasco, the changes to the Bank of England by Chancellor Osborne, further Bloody Sunday Inquiry reaction and the vindication of the Shannon Matthews social workers I discovered this interesting piece in the Telegraph. The title caught my eye: “Expenses: MPs being ‘thrown to the dogs’”. For [...]
Bloody Sunday Inquiry: the report and conclusions
Today saw the landmark publication of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry report as discussed on here last week. In the end, the report officially denounced the killings as “unjustified and unjustifiable” and vindicated all victims from any questions of attacks on soldiers. The soldiers opened fire on unarmed civilians with no provocation. They were under the [...]
New immigration requirement
I have struggled to find anything to write about today. I don’t know enough about economics to comment on the adjusted predicted growth forecast or whether cutting public spending will, potentially, lead to a ‘double-dip’ recession. I haven’t made up my mind about Obama’s allegedly ‘anti-British’ rhetoric. There are plenty of news stories about on [...]
Bloody Sunday Inquiry
Big news today out of Northern Ireland. I would think that most people would have heard of the Bloody Sunday massacre by now but, let me summarise briefly. Protestors convened for a civil rights march on 30 January 1972 and were diverted away from their intended route by army barricades. Thirteen unarmed protestors were shot [...]