Mark Alexander
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
BRUSSELS JOURNAL: London is the leading Islamic banking center in the West. Islamist clerics with terrorist connections and a mission to Islamize Europe are infiltrating the United Kingdom through its banking system, and British officials are encouraging them. HSBC, Lloyds TSB, and Citigroup have opened Islamic banking units and branches throughout England. In 2005 the first stand-alone British Islamic bank, Islamic Bank of Britain, opened its doors. Middle Eastern Islamic banks have also set up shop in the UK. Islamic banking in Britain by Helena Christofi
Mark Alexander
I came across the following video on Robert Spencer's website, Jihad Watch, this morning. I would like to share it with you all:
Mark Alexander
Monday, February 19, 2007
US contingency plans for air strikes on Iran extend beyond nuclear sites and include most of the country's military infrastructure, the BBC has learned.
It is understood that any such attack - if ordered - would target Iranian air bases, naval bases, missile facilities and command-and-control centres.
The US insists it is not planning to attack, and is trying to persuade Tehran to stop uranium enrichment.
The UN has urged Iran to stop the programme or face economic sanctions.
But diplomatic sources have told the BBC that as a fallback plan, senior officials at Central Command in Florida have already selected their target sets inside Iran. US ‘Iran attack plans’ revealed
Iran defiant on nuclear programme
Tehran alarm over US tough talk
Mark Alexander
The proposals have been agreed by senior bishops of both churches.
In a 42-page statement prepared by an international commission of both churches, Anglicans and Roman Catholics are urged to explore how they might reunite under the Pope.
The statement, leaked to The Times, is being considered by the Vatican, where Catholic bishops are preparing a formal response. Churches back plan to unite under Pope
Mark Alexander
Most people believe common ground exists between the West and the Islamic world despite current global tensions, a BBC World Service poll suggests.
In a survey of people in 27 countries, an average of 56% said they saw positive links between the cultures.
Yet 28% of respondents told questioners that violent conflict was inevitable.
Asked twice about the existing causes of friction, 52% said they were a result of political disputes and 58% said minority groups stoked tensions.
Only in one country, Nigeria, where Christian and Muslim groups often clash violently, did a majority of those polled (56%) cite religious and cultural differences between communities as the root cause of conflict. Poll sees hope in West-Islam ties
Liberals have no stomach to face hard facts
Mark Alexander
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Ever since this NuLabour government came to power, the United Kingdom has started resembling, more and more, a police state.
Everywhere one goes these days, one is under surveillance, be it in the supermarket, in the Underground, on a railway platform, or on the roads. Nay, especially on the roads! Our motorways are simply plastered with speed cameras. Speed cameras are dotted here, there, and everywhere, just waiting for the motorist to fall foul of the speed restrictions. In fact, speeding fines have become a big revenue-earner for this government.
NuLabour has done its level best to make people ‘wards of the state’. About one in three households are now depend on the welfare state for a large part of their income. This, of course, empowers the politicians, since it takes away people’s independence. The more dependent people are on the state, the more likely they are to elect the current régime back into office. After all, they cannot afford to bite the hand that feeds them!
But this is not all. Tony Blair’s government has systematically taken people’s freedoms away from them. No other government has passed so many new laws in so short a time, and just about all of them banning something or other. Fox-hunting has been banned. Parents’ rights have been taken away. After July 1, nobody will be able to smoke in any public building, be it an office, a restaurant, a public house, a school, a hospital, or wherever. We are told that private homes have been spared. Mercifully! I dare say that they will devise a way of banning smoking in the home, too, given time. And note this: thousands are being trained to police the smoking ban with on-the-spot fines. Even Hitler didn’t try to ban smoking in all public places, even though it is said that he loathed the habit.
We are being treated like recalcitrant schoolchildren! Whilst smoking is not a good habit, indeed, many would argue that it is a dirty habit, it should remain the prerogative of the adult to make up his own mind whether he wishes to smoke or not, despite the health risks involved.
Arguing about second-hand smoke is a red herring. Nothing has been conclusively proven that second-hand smoke, especially to the extent that most people are subjected to it, causes cancer. In any case, even if it does, people should have the freedom to choose whether they smoke or not. This is, after all is said and done, the mark of adulthood. It is what distinguishes adulthood from childhood. In childhood, we have to do what our parents or authority figures tell us; in adulthood, we are supposed to be able to make up our own minds.
But whether one can smoke in a public place or not is hardly the issue. The main issue is this: Too much is being banned. Indeed, NuLabour have raised the practice of passing laws to ban activities into an art form! The EU is doing just about the same. Last week, it was announced that the EU wishes to make it a criminal offence to pick wild flowers! Punishable, of course, by a gaol term!
One can argue about the merits and demerits of fox-hunting, smoking, and picking wild flowers until one is blue in the face. The activities are hardly the point now. It has gone past that. What is the point is this: How many more freedoms are going to be eroded by a government determined to control the people and their every move?
Personally, I preferred the world as it was, for all its shortcomings. There was a place for all people. Smokers and non-smokers alike, fox-hunters and non-foxhunters alike, and all the rest in between.
If all these activities are so abhorrent, then this is hardly a reason for banning them. It might well be a reason for educating people to lead healthier lives, and this is precisely what has been done over the years with regard to smoking. Today, a far smaller percentage of people smoke than before. But this situation has not come about by banning tobacco products; rather, it has come about by a process of information and education.
In today’s Britain, it is difficult to see where it is all going to end. It isn’t much different in the USA, either, especially on the east coast and in California. The health freaks have taken over the place. The interesting thing is this: they target only those who smoke cigarettes and cigars. The druggies are left alone. How logical is that?
We have entered a period of intolerance and disdain for the rights and freedoms of others. The journey to bondage has only just begun. Far worse is surely on its way.
Ronald Reagan and Mrs Thatcher came to power to free up the people. Tony Blair, by contrast, has come to power to put them everywhere in shackles. In Blair’s Britain, the power of the state is everything; the rights of the individual count for nothing. Zilch! Zippo!
Surely it is high time for this nonentity to spend more time with his family, for we, the people, have truly had enough of him. When a country starts meddling in the affairs of the family and prying into the private lives of each and every individual, then that political system is veering away from the democratic and is sailing close to the wind of totalitarianism. Beware of that wolf in sheep’s clothing, that leader, who sweet talks the electorate whilst at the same time enslaves them! Such a man is not to be trusted. You can also bet your bottom dollar that he is passing petty laws because he is inadequate to deal with the main, important issues of the day. Radical Muslims are determined to bring down the system; yet all Blair and his cronies can do is worry about second-hand smoke! Welcome to that new dark age!
Thousands trained to police smoking ban with on-the-spot fines
Where you will be able to smoke?
Put that fag out!
©Mark Alexander
THE TIMES: Newly discovered letters reveal the increasingly desperate efforts by Anne Frank’s father to get his family out of Nazi-occupied Amsterdam before they were forced into hiding in the attic where the teenage girl wrote her famous diary.
Otto Frank sought the help of a rich friend from the family that founded Macy’s department store in New York in an attempt to obtain a US visa.
“I am forced to look out for emigration and as far as I can see USA is the only country we could go to,” he wrote to his friend Nathan Straus Jr in New York on April 30, 1941.
“Perhaps you remember that we have two girls. It is for the sake of the children mainly that we have to care for. Our own fate is of less importance,” he added. Anne Frank’s doomed American dream by James Bone in New York
Mark Alexander
DAILY MAIL: German politicians are pushing the European Union to consider criminalising the denial of genocides such as the Holocaust across all member states.
The new rules could mean up to a three year prison sentence for anyone denying the Holocaust or the Rwanda massacre in the nineties.
German Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, wants to get a deal by June.
EU nations have been at pains to find agreement on common rules as a way of combatting racism and xenophobia amid heightened ethnic and cultural tensions across Europe. Germans want Holocaust denial to be a crime across Europe
Mark Alexander
Be warned! The following nine audios are controversial. They are not for the politically correct.
Whilst I agree with MUCH of what Craig Winn says, please DO NOT conclude that I necessarily agree with EVERYTHING stated here. These audios are placed here because they are very interesting, and further, they are VERY thought-provoking. They are very long, but they are well worth your time. ‘Enjoy’ them!
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PROPHET OF DOOM
Mark Alexander
THE TIMES: India, China and Russia account for 40 per cent of the world’s population, a fifth of its economy and more than half of its nuclear warheads. Now they appear to be forming a partnership to challenge the US-dominated world order that has prevailed since the end of the Cold War.
Foreign ministers from the three emerging giants met in Delhi yesterday to discuss ways to build a more democratic “multipolar world”.
It was the second such meeting in the past two years and came after an unprecedented meeting between their respective leaders, Manmohan Singh, Hu Jintao and Vladimir Putin, during the G8 summit in St Petersburg in July.
It also came only four days after Mr Putin stunned Western officials by railing against American foreign policy at a security conference in Munich. Giants meet to counter US power by Jeremy Page
Mark Alexander
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
The Turkish novelist and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk is living in exile in the United States and is believed to be in fear for his life.Photo courtesy of The Telegraph
Amid a climate of intimidation that has seen the prosecution and even murder of dissident intellectuals throwing into doubt Turkey's aspiration to the join the European Union, Mr Pamuk, 54, who is living in New York, is said to have told friends he has set no deadline for his return. Instead, according to the prominent Istanbul columnist Fatih Altayli, the writer has quietly gone into exile.
Turkish novelist flees to US 'in fear for life' by Damien McElroy
Mark Alexander
Sunday, February 11, 2007
So will the 43rd Munich Security Conference be remembered as the start of a new Cold War?
That is probably the single most important question to emerge from this long weekend of speeches and private chats among the world's most powerful.
Certainly Russian President Vladimir Putin's strident speech stands out from the crowd.
In it, to recap, he strongly criticised the US and its European allies, with his harshest criticism reserved for Washington.
The US had, he said, overstepped its borders in every way, seeking to impose its will on the world. US deflates Putin 'unipolar' speech by Rob Watson
US hits back after Putin tirade
What the Russians think of Vladimir Putin
Mark Alexander
PATIENTS who are overweight or smoke should be denied operations until they are fitter, the health secretary has declared.
Patricia Hewitt says it is right for doctors to order individuals to lose weight or give up cigarettes before they are treated.
In an interview with The Sunday Times she described the move as “best practice” because operations are less likely to succeed on people who are very fat or smoke heavily.
It is the first time the health secretary has explicitly endorsed the policy, which has been adopted by some health trusts. Hewitt: smokers should stop before they’re treated by Isabel Oakeshott
Mark Alexander
Friday, February 09, 2007
ZEENEWS: Muslims are converting to Christianity in their thousands in France but face exclusion from their families and even death threats.
Most Muslims hide their conversion and Protestant ministers do their utmost to protect new converts. It is estimated that every year in the world some six million Muslims convert to Christianity.
The Muezzin call to prayer. But here in France it is no longer reaching all Muslim ears. Muslims converts face ostracism in France
Mark Alexander
The following video is proof, if proof were needed, that Islam is indeed taking the world into that New Dark Age
It is bad enough that the nonsense of Jews being apes and Christians being swine destined for Hellfire is being taught in the backward Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, but now it is also being taught to our children in the United Kingdom!
Why do we allow this rubbish to be taught to our children in the West? Why do we allow our children to be brainwashed? Why do we allow our civilization to be undermined? The answer, of course, is clear: Western politicians are intimidated by Islam, and everything is allowed because of our thirst for oil and the West’s almost total dependence on it. This is NOT good enough. If this is the real price of oil, then something needs to be done about this dependence NOW.
Any school teaching such backward nonsense in any school should be shut down forthwith. And such schools should never be allowed to re-open, regardless of who is behind them. Please watch the following video. It’s a snippet from Newsnight, the prestigious BBC news analysis programme.
BBC: "King Fahad Academy in London":
Here is Melanie Phillips’ excellent article on this subject:
"So now we know — schools in Britain can be teaching children from textbooks which follow a curriculum laid down by the Saudi Ministry of Education, and which contain passages comparing Christians and Jews to monkeys and pigs, and yet still be given a clean bill of health by the schools inspectorate OFSTED which pronounces their standard of education ‘satisfactory’.
This much has been brought to light by the chain of events at the King Fahad school in west London, which a teacher claimed at an industrial tribunal had taught pupils that religions such as Christianity and Judaism were ‘worthless’ and described Jews as apes and Christians as pigs." Read it all here!
Probe into Islamic school ordered
Mark Alexander
THE TIMES: The Giraffe Heroes Project is an American organisation that celebrates the lives of ordinary people who stick their necks out for the common good. As its president, Anne Medlock, writes: “In stories back to the dawn of time, the healing of the wasteland has come only when someone refuses to be passive and summons up the courage to ignore all the naysayers, go forth, and slay whatever dragon has scared everybody else into terrified passivity. We need those brave blazers of trails, those people who are true heroes.”
So let me nominate a new Giraffe Hero: Gina Khan. The dragon that has scared everybody else into terrified passivity is Muslim extremism. But Ms Khan, an ordinary Birmingham-born mother of two, has dared to speak out about the radicalism that has permeated her community. She refuses to be passive; she has summoned up the moral courage, at great risk to herself, to face down the jihadists who are giving Muslims a bad name.
You can read my interview with Ms Khan in today’s times2. With great frankness and fearlessness, she laments the capture of her area of Birmingham by jihadist radicals. She describes how mosques and madrassas have sprung up like mushrooms on almost every street corner, dedicated not to helping the community but to spreading the message of jihad; how preachers are indoctrinating the young to hate Christians and Jews; how her community is in denial about the radicals in its ranks; and how the mullahs collude in sanctioning forced marriages and polygamy.
“Open your eyes” is her message to nonMuslim Britain. “It’s all happening on your doorstep and Britain is still blind to the real threat that is embedded here now.” A courageous voice against the Muslim bullyboys by Mary Ann Sieghart
Mark Alexander
Thursday, February 08, 2007
"This is an attack on Muslims. It is as if the Prophet taught terrorism to Muslims, and so all Muslims are terrorists." - UOIF President Lhaj Thami Breze told the court according to Reuters.
BBC: French interior minister and presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has defended a weekly sued for printing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Two French Muslim groups are suing Charlie Hebdo magazine for defamation over the cartoons, printed a year ago.
Mr Sarkozy's letter of support was read out in the Paris court hearing the case and prompted France's top Muslim body to call an urgent meeting in response.
Editor Philippe Val told the court the cartoons critiqued "ideas, not men".
The newspaper Liberation republished the cartoons on Wednesday in solidarity with the magazine.
The two-day trial is being seen as a test of the boundaries of free speech and religious sensitivities in France. Sarkozy defends Muhammad cartoons
Allahs Prophet im französischen Wahlkampf
Mark Alexander
Drohung mit weltweiten Terrorschlägen gegen die USA bei Angriff auf Iran
NZZ: Der oberste geistliche Führer in Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, hat die USA vor einem Angriff auf sein Land gewarnt. Eine Invasion würde eine «umfassende Reaktion gegenüber den Angreifern und seinen Interessen in der ganzen Welt» nach sich ziehen, sagte Khamenei am Donnerstag in einer Rede im staatlichen Fernsehen. Säbelrasseln der Mullahs
BBC: Iran will strike against US interests worldwide if it is attacked, the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned.
"The enemies know well that any aggression will lead to a reaction from all sides," he said.
Washington accuses Tehran of secretly trying to develop a nuclear weapon, and has not ruled out using military force. Tehran warns US against attacks
Mark Alexander
YNET NEWS: The fact that Iran stands today able to challenge or even defy the United States in every sphere of American influence in the Middle East attests to the dismal failure of the Bush administration’s policy toward it during the last six years. Feeling emboldened and unrestrained, Tehran may, however, miscalculate the consequences of its own actions, which could precipitate a catastrophic regional war. The Bush administration has less than a year to rein in Iran’s reckless behavior if it hopes to prevent such an ominous outcome and achieve, at least, a modicum of regional stability.
By all assessments, Iran has reaped the greatest benefits from the Iraq war. The war’s consequences and the American preoccupation with it have provided Iran with an historic opportunity to establish Shiite dominance in the region while aggressively pursuing a nuclear weapons program to deter any challenge to its strategy. Tehran is fully cognizant that the successful pursuit of its regional hegemony has now become intertwined with the clout that a nuclear program bestows. Therefore, it is most unlikely that Iran will give up its nuclear ambitions at this juncture, unless it concludes that the price will be too high to bear. That is, whereas before the Iraq war Washington could deal with Iran’s nuclear program by itself, now the Bush administration must also disabuse Iran of the belief that it can achieve its regional objectives with impunity.
Thus, while the administration attempts to stem the Sunni-Shiite violence in Iraq to prevent it from engulfing other states in the region, Washington must also take a clear stand in Lebanon. Under no circumstances should Iranian-backed Hizbullah be allowed to topple the secular Lebanese government. If this were to occur, it would trigger not only a devastating civil war in Lebanon but a wider Sunni-Shiite bloody conflict. The Arab Sunni states, and especially Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan are terrified of this possible outcome. For them Lebanon may well provide the litmus test of the administration’s resolve to inhibit Tehran’s adventurism but they must be prepared to directly support US efforts.
In this regard, the Bush administration must wean Syria from Iran. This move is of paramount importance because not only could Syria end its political and logistical support for Hizbullah, but it could return Syria, which is predominantly Sunni, to the Arab-Sunni fold. Mr. Bush must realize that Damascus’s strategic interests are not compatible with Tehran’s and that the Assad regime knows only too well its future political stability and economic prosperity depends on peace with Israel and normal relations with the United States.
President Assad may talk tough and embrace militancy as a policy tool, yet he is the same president who called, more than once, for unconditional resumption of peace negotiations with Israel and was rebuffed. The stakes for the United States and its allies in the region are too high to preclude testing Syria’s real intentions, which can be ascertained only through direct talks. It is high time for the Administration to reassess its policy toward Syria and begin by abandoning its schemes of regime change in Damascus. Syria simply matters; the Administration must end its efforts to marginalize a country that can play such a pivotal role in changing the political dynamics for the better throughout the region. Ending Iran’s Defiance by Alon Ben-Meir
Mark Alexander
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
The principal of an Islamic school has admitted that it uses textbooks which describe Jews as 'apes' and Christians as 'pigs' and has refused to withdraw them.
Dr Sumaya Alyusuf confirmed that the offending books exist after former teacher Colin Cook, 57, alleged that children as young as five are taught from racist materials at the King Fahd Academy in Acton.
In an interview on BBC2's Newsnight, Dr Alyusuf was asked by Jeremy Paxman whether she recognised the books.
She said: "Yes, I do recognise these books, of course. We have these books in our school.
"These books have good chapters that can be used by the teachers. It depends on the objectives the teacher wants to achieve."
In another exchange, Dr Alyusuf insisted the books should not be scrapped, saying that allegedly racist sections had been 'misinterpreted'.
The school is owned, funded and run by the government of Saudi Arabia. We do use books that call Jews 'apes' admits head of Islamic school
Mark Alexander
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Dr Mark Gabriel, Former Muslim Imam's Journey to Christ - Part 1:
Dr Mark Gabriel, Former Muslim Imam's Journey to Christ - Part 2:
Mark Alexander
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Mark Alexander
Monday, January 29, 2007
A bleak picture of a generation of young British Muslims radicalised by anti-Western views and misplaced multicultural policies is shown in a survey published today.Mark Alexander
The study found disturbing evidence of young Muslims adopting more fundamentalist beliefs on key social and political issues than their parents or grandparents.
Forty per cent of Muslims between the ages of 16 and 24 said they would prefer to live under sharia law in Britain, a legal system based on the teachings of the Koran. The figure among over-55s, in contrast, was only 17 per cent.
In some countries, people found guilty under sharia law face penalties such as beheading, stoning, the severing of a hand or being lashed.
The study, by the Right-wing think-tank Policy Exchange, also found a significant minority who expressed backing for Islamic terrorism. Young, British Muslims 'getting more radical' by Graeme Wilson in The Telegraph
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Gordon Brown today signalled that his first task as Prime Minister would be to get Muslims to rally around a "Churchillian" pride in Britain.Illusions, illusions, illusions! All will be an illusion!
Finally admitting that he expected to take over from Tony Blair this year, the Chancellor said that he wanted to promote a "modern patriotism" as an alternative to Islamic extremism. Mr Brown said: "I believe we can do more to separate some Muslims from the dark forces that they can be susceptible to." With thanks to the Daily Mail
It is as ridiculous as it is depressing to think that the probable next prime minister of Great Britain believes that he is going to be in a position to make the Muslim population of the country desirous and willing to take a “Churchillian” pride in their adopted country. The United Kingdom, in the Muslim worldview, is an infidel country. It belongs to the Dar ul Harb, the ‘House of War’, that part of the world that is in a state of Jahiliyyah, otherwise known as 'a state of pre-Islamic chaos'. To think that it will be possible to make Muslims proud of being British is downright absurd.
Doesn’t this man realize that Muslims are intent on Islamizing not only Great Britain but also the rest of the non-Muslim world, i.e. the rest of the Dar ul Harb? Doesn’t Gordon Brown realize that Islam is a supremacist political system clothed as a religion? Doesn’t this man realize that each and every country that Islam has ever entered and has been allowed to put down roots, it has eventually taken over? There is only one exception to this, Al Andalus, or Moorish Spain. And they took over that country for centuries. It is worth remembering that it took centuries to win the country back to Christendom, its having been achieved after much bloodshed, fighting, and sacrifice.
Yet Gordon thinks he is going to be able to buck the trend. Forget it, Gordon! Leopards never change their spots. Islam is what it is: Islam – a religio-political system determined to get the infidel, or kafir, to feel himself subdued or convert to the “only true faith”. ”And whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted of him, and in the Hereafter he will be one of the losers.” - Qur’an , S. 3:83-85
I surely cannot be the only one who finds all this empty talk depressing. Is the West incapable of kicking up a leader who understands what is at stake here? Where have all the Churchillian figures gone? Where are the Harry Trumans of this world?
Current leaders are willing and eager to accept the power and the glory and the salaries and perks that accompany such political positions, but none of them has the insight, the understanding, or the courage to take on the challenge that is Islam – the greatest challenge to Judeo-Christian culture and therefore the greatest challenge to Western civilization since the challenge of communism.
Dear Gordon, the Islamic threat is no illusion, and therefore no sleights of hand or political tricks or illusions will suffice to keep the people free of the darkness of Islam. This is a fight to the death: the death of the force of Islam in the West, or the death of the West itself. Go read your history books, Gordon! Go learn about the true nature of Islam! Learn about its goals and objectives, and then, if you really do become our leader, remember this: Your mission will be to keep the people of the UK free and safe from tyranny, and that includes the tyranny of Islam. To do this will require courage and determination and strength. Politics is no longer an arena for wimps. This is a battle of civilizations. Let no-one try and kid you that it is anything else.
The day you will get Muslims to take a “Churchillian” pride in the United Kingdom will be the day when Islam rules this "Sceptered Isle”. Remember Churchill’s words on Islam. They are poignant:
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.Mark Alexander©
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytising faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.” - Sir Winston Churchill [The River War (1899)]
Friday, January 12, 2007
The NHS should provide more faith-based care for Muslims, an expert says.Mark Alexander
Muslims are about twice as likely to report poor health and disability than the general population, says Edinburgh University's Professor Aziz Sheikh.
Writing in the British Medical Journal, he called for male circumcision on the NHS and more details over alcohol derived drugs. Call for faith-based NHS services
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Mark Alexander
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006
YAHOO NEWS: Nearly three-quarters of British firms are banning Christmas decorations in the workplace for fear of being sued, research has shown. A new survey found most bosses are scared to put up festive tinsel and Christmas trees because they might offend non-Christian workers. Law firm Peninsula said the workplace was becoming caught up in the "wave" of political correctness.Mark Alexander
"Christmas trees and decorations may well be a thing of the past in many workplaces this Christmas as political correctness culture has spread to the workplace," managing director Peter Done said. Xmas Ban! Firms Scared Of Tinsel
Firms 'ban festive decorations'
BBC backtracks on festive baubles
Jack Straw speaks on behalf of the Angel Gabriel!
Christmas: crucified by do-gooders by Jeff Randall
Sentamu attacks 'move to throw away crib' by Jonathan Petre and George Jones
THE TIMES: Britain’s broader commercial relationship with Saudi Arabia as well as co-operation in the War on Terror are being threatened by the escalating row over a long-running fraud investigation, according to senior Saudi sources.Mark Alexander
The House of Saud’s embarrassment and frustration over the inquiry is said to threaten not only a £10 billion contract to buy Eurofighter combat aircraft from BAE Systems, but other lucrative deals with British defence and industrial companies.
A prominent Saudi businessman told The Times yesterday that it was a huge mistake for Britain to alienate the Royal Family, which controls all government contracts in a country flush with the proceeds of record oil prices.
“Saudi Arabia does not make commercial or defence decisions based on what shareholders or voters think,” he said. “It is run like a family business. If you upset members of the family, they will simply choose another supplier.” Saudi fury at slush fund claim threatens thousands of UK jobs by Richard Beeston
BBC: The EU's Enlargement Commissioner, Olli Rehn, has urged Germany and France not to step up the pressure on Turkey over its membership bid.Mark Alexander
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has suggested an 18-month deadline for Turkey to open its ports to traffic from Cyprus to keep its bid alive.
She and French President Jacques Chirac are expected to discuss it on Tuesday.
But Mr Rehn protested, telling Reuters news agency that "strict deadlines do not produce results". EU attacks Turkey deadline plan
Monday, December 04, 2006
Arab viewers get frank advice on sex from Egyptian sexologist who happens to be conservative Muslim womanMark Alexander
YNET NEWS: Heba Kotb is a conservative Muslim, wears an Islamic head scarf, and goes on television once a week to talk - frankly and in great detail - about sex.
On her show, "Big Talk," Kotb answers questions from Muslims all over the Middle East about the most intimate bedroom issues with an openness that is shocking and revolutionary in a society where discussing the subject is taboo.
"How do I talk about these issues? Very seriously," the Egyptian sexologist says. "I put on a mask-like face and make sure I speak in the right tone of voice."
She also does it by talking about sex in an Islamic light, arguing that the faith is in favor of pleasure for both men and women, with one important caveat - that it be only in the context of marriage. Sex talks on Muslim TV?
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