From today's Telegraph*:
The preachers, both ministers in Birmingham, were handing out leaflets on Alum Rock Road in February when they started talking to four Asian youths. A police community support officer (PCSO) interrupted the conversation and began questioning the ministers about their beliefs.... "He said we were in a Muslim area and were not allowed to spread our Christian message. He said we were committing a hate crime by telling the youths to leave Islam and said that he was going to take us to the police station." ... The ministers claim he also advised them not to return to the area. As he walked away, the PCSO said: "You have been warned. If you come back here and get beaten up, well you have been warned".
And you wonder why people vote BNP?
* Via Christina Speight
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The only bit of humour I can wring from this is the fact that the URL of the article says "Muslin" and not "Muslim".
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As an aside, I (and the Remittance Man) am sick and tired of the bansturbators putting out statistics saying that X increases the chance of Y happening by Z per cent, where X is usually something enjoyable like drinking, smoking, or, Heaven forbid, smoking cannabis; Y is something nasty like cancer or mental illness and Z is a made up figure.
The missing figure is always "What is the chance of Y happening if I don't do X?" It is usually very, very small. For example, if you are an English woman married to an English husband, the likelihood that he will murder you in the next year is, let's say, one-in-a-million (do twenty English women get murdered by their husbands each year? Even fewer than that?).
However, the papers regularly report stories about Asian - and especially Muslim - women being murdered by their husbands, despite Asians are in fact a small minority in this country. Thus, if I could be bothered to track down the statistics, I could probably claim "Pakistani men are ten times more likely to murder their wives than English men". Would I get into trouble for saying so? Probably.
Sunday 1 June 2008
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Would anyone like to guess at the religion of the toy policeman involved here? I think I'll name that tune in one...
The Daily (Hate)mail confirms your suspicions ...
When are people going to get it through their thick skulls that religions are just collections of ideas: ideas about morality, about duty, about society, about our origins. Ban their spread and you ban free speech and free thought.
If we started recognising religions were ideologies, we might be more sensible in our approach to them rather than treating them as some unique and special thing and creating a whole mess o' trouble.
The BCS is based on interviews and by definition excludes murders entirely.
And further, when there's a white domestic murder, it's just as often wife killing hubbie as the other way round (as opposed to other violence, where it's usually hubbie hitting wife). When was the last time you heard of an Asian man being topped by wife?
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