Oh my God! This can’t be happening!
Horrific reports are coming in of yet another shocking incident in the strife-ridden province of Aceh. Despite the peace deal reached between the Achenese rebels and the Indonesian government, it seems that this region will never be free of the barbaric practices of the Indonesian military.
It may be difficult [...]
Entries from September 2005
It started with a kiss… I never thought it would come to this…
the_date() ?> 10:39 am Post your comment (1 Comment)
Tags: General · Islam & the Arab World · Parody & Humor
Jewish Delegate, 82, is thrown out after heckling Straw
the_date() ?> 4:16 pm Post your comment (No Comments)
THE Labour Party was forced to make a humiliating apology to an 82-year-old delegate last night after he was forcibly ejected from its conference for heckling Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary.
Walter Wolfgang, who has been a party member for 57 years, had shouted “nonsense” to Mr Straw as he defended the war in Iraq. [...]
Tags: General
Race group complains about Tory MP’s remarks
the_date() ?> 4:13 pm Post your comment (No Comments)
Cheshire Racial Equality Council has complained about “highly offensive” comments made by Ann Winterton, Tory MP for Congleton, in a local newspaper.
Mrs Winterton offered sympathy to the families of the victims of the London bomb attacks in July and added: “We live in times of tremendous change but the UK is still, thankfully, a predominantly [...]
Tags: Immigration
Racial tensions as students brawl
the_date() ?> 4:43 pm Post your comment (No Comments)
A MASSIVE street brawl erupted after a drink-fuelled night ended in chaos. Up to 100 students were seen fighting in residential streets.
It is believed the fracus had a racial element with fights kicking off between African and Asian students.
Residents said a man being restrained by police repeatedly shouted: “I’ll kill him next time”.
One resident said: [...]
Tags: Education · Multiculturalism
Time to leave Europe, cleric urges Muslims
the_date() ?> 2:17 pm Post your comment (No Comments)
[If someone else said that they would be branded racist-ed]
FIREBRAND Islamist cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed — banned from Britain since August — has urged Muslims to leave Europe.
Mr Bakri, a Lebanese national of Syrian origin who was living in Britain since 1986, was interviewed by France 3 television in Beirut.
He has been based there since [...]
Tags: Islam & the Arab World
Cabinet ‘racism’ claim
the_date() ?> 1:42 pm Post your comment (No Comments)
THE only Asian member of Birmingham’s Cabinet claimed today he had been sacked from his £40,000 a year job because of the colour of his skin.
“This is blatantly racist,” declared former Bond film ‘baddie’ Talib Hussain, the Sparkbrook Liberal Democrat councillor who has been in charge of the city’s local services portfolio for the [...]
Tags: Fraud and corruption
BNP extremists operate at Cambridge University
the_date() ?> 12:53 pm Post your comment (No Comments)
[I would hardly say they 'operate' at University more than likely just getting a education-ed]
BNP extremists are operating at Cambridge University.
A study due out next week found extremist and terror groups active at more than 30 education institutions across the country.
The revelations follow Education Secretary Ruth Kelly’s order for universities to clamp down on student [...]
Tags: Education
Flying England Flag illegal?
the_date() ?> 12:04 pm Post your comment (No Comments)
I have recently arrived home, in Leeds, from work to be confronted by two Police Officers, who according to neighbours have been calling back and forth most of the day and at one point sat outside my door for over an hour during which time a number of neighbours were quizzed as to my whereabouts [...]
Tags: General · Islam & the Arab World · Multiculturalism
Cooing at new-born babies banned
the_date() ?> 10:54 am Post your comment (No Comments)
A West Yorkshire hospital has banned visitors from cooing at new-born babies over fears their human rights are being breached and to reduce infection.
A statement from Calderdale Royal Hospital in Halifax said staff had held an advice session to highlight the need for respect and dignity for patients.
On one ward there is a [...]
Tags: General
Britain set to run out of fuel warns CBI boss
the_date() ?> 10:51 am Post your comment (No Comments)
[so much for the war in Iraq was for Oil-ed]
BUSINESSES could be forced to close down and lay off workers this winter because the country’s energy reserves are so low, the director-general of the CBI warned yesterday.
“If we have a cold winter, we are going to throw the switch, businesses will shut down, people [...]
Tags: General
Police probe poll fraud claims
the_date() ?> 8:36 pm Post your comment (No Comments)
Detectives are to investigate more than 250 cases of alleged electoral fraud in Bradford, it has been revealed.
Two men have already been arrested and questioned by West Yorkshire Police in connection with an inquiry into postal ballot irregularities in the city.
Bradford City Council said that 252 applications for postal votes had been passed to police [...]
Tags: Fraud and corruption
Burger King recalls ’sacrilegious’ desserts
the_date() ?> 6:03 pm Post your comment (No Comments)
THE fast-food chain, Burger King, is withdrawing its ice-cream cones after the lid of the dessert offended a Muslim.
The man claimed the design resembled the Arabic inscription for Allah, and branded it sacrilegious, threatening a “jihad”.
The chain is being forced to spend thousands of pounds redesigning the lid with backing from The Muslim [...]
Tags: Islam & the Arab World
Cancer diagnosis hits Asians hard
the_date() ?> 6:00 pm Post your comment (No Comments)
White patients cope better with the pressure of cancer than their British Asian counterparts, research suggests.
The University of Leicester looked at coping strategies among 200 white and British Asian patients.
The British Journal of Cancer study found the most common method of coping among Asian people was simply to deny they were ill.
White [...]
Tags: Multiculturalism
Britain needs a million new homes
the_date() ?> 5:39 pm Post your comment (No Comments)
[we are told population is falling so why do we need all these extra holmes?-ed]
BRITAIN is facing a housing crisis with a potential shortfall of 1.4 million homes, according to experts.
A comprehensive analysis projects an increase of 3.5 million households by 2021, or 175,000 extra households per year, The Times has learnt.
Housing experts [...]
Tags: Immigration
3,000 Junior Doctor’s fail to find work
the_date() ?> 5:31 pm Post your comment (1 Comment)
THREE thousand junior doctors - trained at a cost of £250,000 each - are unemployed, it was claimed yesterday.
A third of them have given up trying to find work in the NHS and have decided to go private or move abroad, said the British Medical Association.
To train as a doctor, a student spends a minimum [...]
Tags: General
LABOUR PARTY ‘TO BE EXTINCT BY 2010′
the_date() ?> 4:42 pm Post your comment (No Comments)
PLUMMETING membership numbers will wipe out the Labour Party by 2010, a shock report warns today.
Only 24 hours before the start of the Labour Conference in Brighton, a left-wing think tank said 200,000 people had left the party in the last five years.
With just over 200,000 members left, the Fabian Society fears the end is [...]
Tags: General
DNA proves spit attack on traffic warden
the_date() ?> 2:34 pm Post your comment (No Comments)
A motorist was convicted of spitting at a traffic warden after police used a DNA testing kit to identify his saliva.
Dennis Samms, 42, of Kingfisher Close, Manchester, spat in the warden’s face and drove at him after he tried to issue a fine, city magistrates heard.
NCP, which operates the city’s traffic wardens, [...]
Tags: General
One in four Londoners was born overseas
the_date() ?> 1:45 pm Post your comment (No Comments)
One in four Londoners was born overseas, migration study finds
By Alexandra Frean, Social Affairs Correspondent
LONDON’S immigrant population has soared in recent years with more than one in four of today’s inhabitants of the capital having been born abroad, research has shown.
In 1991, only one in 20 Londoners gave their birthplace as outside the United [...]
Tags: Immigration
Outrage greets suicide bomb claims
the_date() ?> 9:09 pm Post your comment (No Comments)
The suspected ringleader of the July 7 suicide bombers was yesterday angrily condemned by Muslim leaders, politicians and bereaved families for justifying the attacks in a chilling video.
Mohammed Sidique Khan, 30, from Dewsbury, blamed the British public for the bombings – in which 52 people died – by supporting Western governments that “continuously perpetuate atrocities” [...]
Tags: Islam & the Arab World
British Islamic centre drops attacks on West
the_date() ?> 9:07 pm Post your comment (No Comments)
A CONTROVERSIAL Islamic community centre has removed a series of anti-Western articles from its website after concerns about their content were raised by the Yorkshire Post.
The Islamic Tarbiyah Academy in Dewsbury said it was taking the articles down – one of which also included an anti-Semitic comment – “in order not to create any form [...]
Tags: Islam & the Arab World