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Labour’s Islamophobia ban spells the death of English liberty

Labour’s Islamophobia ban spells the death of English liberty

The bigots who hounded the Batley Grammar teacher into hiding have been rewarded with a blasphemy law.

There is a schoolteacher in England whose name I cannot tell you, because he was forced to change it. In March 2021, he showed his year nine class at West Yorkshire’s Batley Grammar School a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad – a reproduction of the infamous Charlie Hebdo cartoon from 2015 – as part of a lesson on blasphemy. It was five months after Samuel Paty, a French teacher who had conducted a similar lesson, was beheaded by a jihadist in a suburb of Paris. One might have expected, in the aftermath of a colleague’s decapitation, some institutional solidarity. One would have been naive.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Blasphemy, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Sharia, UK

Trump’s respect for King Charles possibly quashed desire to annex Canada, says royal commentator

Trump’s respect for King Charles possibly quashed desire to annex Canada, says royal commentator

An upcoming book authored by a prominent royal commentator says U.S. President Donald Trump was primarily interested in annexing Canadian territory just above the U.S.-Canada border — and his respect for King Charles may have quashed that goal.

The book, titled Elizabeth II: In Private. In Public. The Inside Story, is written by British journalist Robert Hardman and is being serialized in the Daily Mail. It’s a profile of the late former Queen, who Trump speaks glowingly about, and touches upon King Charles’s reign.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, UK, USA

What happened to the Batley blasphemy row teacher fanatics threatened to kill for showing cartoon of Mohammed in free speech lesson?

What happened to the Batley blasphemy row teacher fanatics threatened to kill for showing cartoon of Mohammed in free speech lesson?

On the official GoFundMe page where his supporters have raised more than £116,000, the young father is known simply as ‘The Teacher’. Perhaps a better title might be ‘The Forgotten Teacher’.

Last week marked the fifth anniversary of an extraordinary – and shameful – episode in modern British history that saw this man, then a respected member of staff at Batley Grammar School in West Yorkshire, forced into hiding, fearing for his own life and for those of his children.

There, shockingly, he remains. Today he is living under a new identity, having fled not just the classroom, but his home, his town, his rugby club, his entire previous life.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

Britain’s top private schools in Middle East teaching pupils to beat their wives

Britain’s top private schools in Middle East teaching pupils to beat their wives

Harrow School has many centuries-old traditions that make it a jewel in the crown of British education: straw hats, black tailcoats and its own form of archaic slang, where “beaks” means teachers and “the ducker” is the swimming pool.

Soon it will need to grapple with some new customs. Sir Winston Churchill’s alma mater is opening two schools in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) this summer, where Muslim pupils recite the Koran and learn about beating their wives.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK, WTF?

Scourge of the female Fagins

Scourge of the female Fagins

After furious M&S chief demands that Labour get to grips with Britain’s High St raiders, IAN GALLAGHER exposes the gangs cynically using little girls to fleece designer stores

The little girl was probably no more than seven but already canny enough to know the value of the pink Chanel handbag taking centre stage in a boutique in Surrey.

Security footage captures her eyeing the ‘pre-loved’ £6,000 bag like a coveted toy, then alerting a woman wearing a flowery headscarf who is feigning interest in dresses.

Neither can believe their luck. Unlike the other handbags, this bag is unencumbered by a security tag and cable.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity Crime", "Immigration from incompatible cultures", UK

Britons cool on America and the ‘special relationship’

Britons cool on America and the ‘special relationship’

More than two in five voters think Britain is too close to the United States and should distance itself from the “special relationship”, polling for The Times has found.

The YouGov survey found that the number of people who thought the UK was too close to the US had risen by nine percentage points to 43 per cent since April last year, the last time the question was asked.

Only 18 per cent believed that the UK should get closer to the US and 29 per cent said the relationship now was about right. Ten per cent said they did not know.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War", UK, USA

US jibes at Royal Navy are uncomfortable because they have substance

While Pete Hegseth has mocked the ‘big, bad Royal Navy’, the First Sea Lord has sounded the alarm about its readiness

The US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, had his tongue firmly in his cheek when he singled out the “big, bad Royal Navy” in a recent press update on the US-Israeli war against Iran.

Hegseth’s sarcastic comment was the latest in a long line of jibes against the capabilities and readiness of the British Royal Navy.

However, less political figures have also warned of the perilous state of the UK’s naval warfare force, including the First Sea Lord, the highest-ranking naval officer on active duty.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK

Britain Will Not Be Ruling the Waves Again Under This Political Class

It was a painful wake-up call for Britain. When, last month, the United States and Israel launched an air assault against Iran, it wasn’t long before French President Emmanuel Macron announced he would be sending a powerful armada to the Eastern Mediterranean. The justification for the impressive deployment, which involves about half of France’s entire surface fleet and the country’s sole aircraft carrier, the magnificent Charles de Gaulle, was a series of Iranian drone attacks against EU member state Cyprus. Yet it wasn’t really Cyprus itself that was attacked, but the sovereign British territory of RAF Akrotiri. Nevertheless, even as Paris dispatched a potent naval force, Starmer’s Britain announced only the deployment of HMS Dragon, a Type 45 class destroyer — to add insult to injury, the British vessel malfunctioned en route to Cyprus. What is happening with the once-feared Royal Navy?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK

London on alert for teen mob chaos: Met deploys more police over fears of fresh Easter holiday ‘linkups’

Scotland Yard has deployed more police amid fears teen mobs will once again descend on town centres in a repeat of last night’s chaos in Clapham.

Today, senior Conservatives demanded ‘mass arrests’ after hundreds of teenagers flooded into the plush south-west London neighbourhood as part of an Easter holiday ‘linkup’ promoted on social media.

More than 300 teenagers gathered on the Clapham Common baseball courts before swarming the High Street to steal from shops, attack police and fight amongst themselves – as terrified families barricaded themselves inside supermarkets.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK, WTF?

King Charles’s state visit to US will be ‘humiliation’ amid Iran war

King Charles will go ahead with a state visit to the US in April, Buckingham Palace has confirmed, despite some politicians saying the trip will be a “humiliation” while Donald Trump’s war with Iran is ongoing.

MPs have privately expressed concerns there is potential to embarrass the king if the US president continues his criticisms of the UK’s armed forces before or during the trip.

The chair of the foreign affairs select committee, Emily Thornberry, is among those who have said there should be a delay while the war continues, although the Foreign Office has said it is intended to mark the 250th anniversary of US independence.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK, USA

Britain Adopts a ‘Back-Door’ Blasphemy Law

There’s nothing like a good old-fashioned blasphemy debate to get the blood pumping and temperature rising.

After all, you got the incendiary mix of religion, politics, and free speech all rolled into one messy debate. In Great Britain, the debate revolves around whether the nation can be made safe for “Mohammedans,” as Winston Churchill charmingly referred to Muslims. (Referring to Muslims as “Mohammedans” is not a slur. It’s an adjective. And if I can’t use an adjective as a “charming” descriptor for Muslims, I will turn myself in for violating America’s blasphemy laws. Just as soon as Congress passes one.)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK, WTF?

The betrayal of white working-class boys

Five years on from the publication of the landmark report from the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, the lead author, Tony Sewell, is still angry. Successive governments have ignored his warnings that England’s schools are failing white working-class boys. This week, Lord Sewell will tell Keir Starmer that ‘boys from the poorest homes are still stuck at the bottom of the class’ and are outperformed by every other group.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Anti-White Racism", UK

‘Sympathy is always for the migrant – never for the people paying for them’

All across the West, immigration is consistently named as one of the most pressing concerns of our time. Mass migration has transformed societies. Illegal migration has made a mockery of national citizenship. A populist backlash is upending our politics. And yet, artists and intellectuals have shied away from an honest reckoning with this. Migration is only ever portrayed positively, and the growing public discontent against it is framed as a nativist, racist or even fascist peril. Lionel Shriver’s new novel, A Better Life, dares to ask the forbidden question: what happens when migration isn’t entirely positive for the people on the receiving end?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, UK

Unseen by Orwell, ‘everlasting’ England on her deathbed

GEORGE Orwell’s 1941 essay England Your England, written at the height of the Blitz and at a moment in English history when it was not unreasonable to think that the nation and its distinctive culture might not survive, contains the following sentence:

‘The Stock Exchange will be pulled down, the horse plough will give way to the tractor, the country houses will be turned into children’s holiday camps, the Eton and Harrow match will be forgotten, but England will still be England, an everlasting animal stretching into the future and the past and, like all living things, having the power to change out of recognition and yet remain the same.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGeorge Orwell, UK