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One Law for All events in London, UK
January 12, 2011 — xanthippaJust got this info from the ‘One Law for All’ folks:
HOLD THESE DATES
‘Enemies not Allies’ Seminar, 26 January 2011, 18.30 – 20.00 (Registration begins at 18.00), Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL (Holborn Tube)
Bigots and neo-Nazis feigning to campaign for rights… ‘anti-racist’ groups promoting fascism… ‘anti-war’ rallies run by supporters of terrorism and dictatorship… Enough!The One Law for All campaign is holding a seminar to expose how important debates including on Sharia law have been hijacked by the far-Right to promote their racist agenda, and by anti-racist and anti-war groups to defend Islamism, both at the expense of people’s rights and lives. The seminar will focus on: The British National Party, the English Defence League, Stop Islamisation of Europe (also Stop Islamization of America), the Stop the War Coalition, the Respect Party, and Unite Against Fascism.Speakers at the seminar are Adam Barnett (One Law for All), Rahila Gupta (Women’s Rights Campaigner), Marieme Helie Lucas (Secularism is a Women’s Issue), Ghaffar Hussain (Quilliam Foundation), Douglas Murray (Centre for Social Cohesion), Maryam Namazie (One Law for All), and Shiraz Maher (International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation), with John Adams (Emeritus Professor at the University of Hertfordshire) to chair.Entry fee: £5 individuals; £10 voluntary and statutory organisations. For booking form and speaker bios visit http://www.onelawforall.org.uk/26-january-2010-seminar-london/.International Conference on Women’s Rights, Sharia Law and Secularism, 12 March 2011, 10.00-19.00 hours, University of London Union, The Venue, Malet Street, London WC1E (Russell Square)
The one day conference to mark International Women’s Day will discuss the adverse impact of religious laws on the status of women.Speakers include: Mina Ahadi (International Committee against Stoning), Karima Bennoune (Law Professor), Helle Merete Brix (Journalist), Nadia Geerts (Writer), Hammeda Hossain (South Asians for Human Rights), Monica Lanfranco (Journalist), Anne-marie Lizin (Honorary Speaker of Belgian Senate), Maryam Namazie (One Law for All and Iran Solidarity), Taslima Nasreen (Writer), Yasmin Rehman (Women’s Rights Activist), Nina Sankari (European Feminist Initiative Poland), Sohaila Sharifi (Equal Rights Now), Bahram Soroush (Civil Rights Activist), Daniel Salvatore Schiffer (Philosopher), Annie Sugier (la ligue du Droit International des Femmes), Anne Marie Waters (One Law for All), Linda Weil-Curiel (Lawyer), and Stasa Zajovic (Belgrade Women in Black).Entry fee: £10 individuals; £3 unwaged and students. For booking form and speaker bios visit http://www.onelawforall.org.uk/12-march-2010-international-conference-on-women%e2%80%99s-rights-sharia-law-and-secularism-london/. The event is sponsored by the International Committee against Stoning, Iran Solidarity, Equal Rights Now and One Law for All.Event against Stoning, 9 July 2011, 14.00-17.30 hours, University of London Union, The Venue, Malet Street, London WC1E (Russell Square)
The Event against Stoning marks International Day against Stoning and will include a film screening of The Stoning of Soraya M followed by a panel discussion including with film director Cyrus Nowrasteh and campaigners Mina Ahadi and Maryam Namazie. The event will be dedicated to Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani.Entry fee: £10 individuals; £3 unwaged and students. For more information visit: http://www.onelawforall.org.uk/9-july-2011-event-against-stoning-london/. The event is sponsored by the International Committee against Stoning, Iran Solidarity, Equal Rights Now and One Law for All.Save your place now
To register for the above events, send a completed booking form along with a cheque made payable to One Law for All to BM Box 2387, London WC1N 3XX, UK or pay via Paypal at: http://www.onelawforall.org.uk/donate/. Donations are also welcome.For more information, contact:Maryam NamazieSpokespersonOne Law for AllBM Box 2387London WC1N 3XX
Pat Condell: ‘American Islamophobia’
January 11, 2011 — xanthippaIn case you don’t know what Pat Condell means when he says that our fear of Islamists in NOT irrational, please, listen to the following video:
If only the guy in the second video were the only lunatic who advocates violence in the name of Islam, if only he were not the only one advocating to replace secular law and order with Sharia, then, perhaps, fearing his message could potentially be called a phobia.
Unfortunately, he is not!
And there are Muslims who fear lunatics like this – with good reason. Religious extremists always attack the moderates within their own movement first, to better cow the rest and assure their own control over their co-religionists.
And, since the Islamists think that the only consequences of their actions will be rewards in heaven, they are not easy to dismiss.
So, exactly how many ‘hate-crimes’ against Muslims are occurring in the US, to require CAIR to fight this wave of Islamophobia?
Well, in the State of New York, in 2008 there were 8. In 2009, there were 11.
Which makes for about 1.6 % of the incidents.
Now, don’t get me wrong – there is no excuse for violent crime, whatever its motivation may be.
But those 11 incidents of attacks on Muslims for their Muslimness seems fewer than the number of attacks by Muslims on others for their non-Muslimness…
About
H/T: Gates of Vienna
Debbie Schlussel – 1, CAIR – 0
January 11, 2011 — xanthippaThe ‘Ham-asses’ at CAIR Action Network – that would be the Council on American-Islamic Relations – have taken up the hobby of SLAPP suits to silence their critics.
They probably did not realize the mistake they made when they picked on Debbie Schussel.
Following the first round in court, the score stands at Debbie Schlussel – 1, CAIR – 0.
Read the story in her own words.
Sounds like she was pumped full of adrenaline when she wrote it – a pleasant read.
H/T: BCF
Blog-off contest
January 11, 2011 — xanthippaAussie Dave is hosting a blog-off: a contest for posts supportive of Israel.
It is open to all bloggers and the grand prize is an iPad.
Check out the rules at Israellycool!
Pat Condell: ‘Godless Christmas’
January 7, 2011 — xanthippaOK – I am a little late posting this, but it is still the Coptic Christmas day today, so perhaps I can be excused…
Secret societies – conspiracy theories
January 6, 2011 — xanthippaI just love conspiracy theories – especially if they have secret societies and mysterious influential people….and if there is a hint of the supernatural, even better!
Yesterday, in Ottawa, during a ‘routine traffic stop’, cops found 2 pipe bombs in the trunk of a car.
Now, I have not been stopped in many ‘routine traffice stops’, but the times I was, nobody ever searched the trunk of my car!
I smell ‘a conspiracy’ here!!!
So, where did they find this bomb?
In ”The Glebe’.
Which is a part of town riddled with trendy cafes, overpriced boutiques, little art galleries and other ‘hot spots’ which appeal to the aging yuppies and retiring civil servant boomers who have taken this honest, working class neighbourhood and turned it into pretentious snobville.
It is also the part of town where a bank was firebombed last year.
By an aging yuppie boomer, a retired civil servant.
Probably too young to have taken part in the ‘wild 60’s protests’, but young enough to idolize them….and too stoked up to know better.
I can’t wait to hear what the story with this newest arrest is going to be!
Is the Human Rights Tribunal oppressing its own employees?
January 5, 2011 — xanthippaI sound like a broken record when I start writing about the Human Rights racket in Canada: from tribunals to commissions, from the federal mama-bureaucracy to the provincial daughter-bureaucracies.
As far as I can see, they have completely and uterly failed to achieve the purpose for which they were created – and instead of making the situation better and working towards an equal treatment of all the citizens of our wonderful country, they have worked to striate the society and declare which ‘groups’ were ‘more equal’ than the rest of us. And even though the mainstream media (msm) has begun to wake up to what is going on, most of its members are still too cowardly to actually say so (much less do some serious investigative journalism on the topic).
Perhaps I should not be judging them so harshly: the political indoctrination most acredited journalists got at our ‘places of higher learning’ is hard to break through….and then there is the fear that if they say what they see, they will be out of a job. But, I’m a bit of an idealist who thinks that if one has to lie to keep one’s job, and one does not quit that job but chooses to lie, they are, well, the sort of stuff you scrape off the bottom of your shoe with a stick…
So, I did a double take when I went to the local corner store for some milk (my kids will not drink the ‘supermarket’ milk) and I caught a sight of this headline in the Ottawa Citizen:
Human Rights Tribunal in turmoil: union
Employees describe work environment that has deteriorated ‘to point of toxicity’
Front page, above the fold!
I was impressed!
Coming home, I googled the article and eagerly read on.
More than half of the 25-member staff, including middle and senior level managers, have left, taken sick leave or retired over the past year. At least three have filed formal harassment complaints.
Unions representing workers confirmed they received numerous complaints of abuse of authority, intimidation and personal harassment. They say employees describe a work environment that has deteriorated “to the point of toxicity.”
Well, well, well!
Three out of twenty five – that is a full 12%!!!
There aren’t many work places where fully 12% of the employees have filed FORMAL complaints!!!
So the haughty attitude that we, the citizens, perceive as emanating from this place is not just our imagination: sounds like the poor slobs who have to work for these arrogant elitists perceive them that way, too! And, it also sounds like they (the arrogant elitists, not the poor suckers who have to work for them) don’t understand that one should not pee in one’s own swimingpool….or that they are honestly unaware of their own incontinence.
But, let’s get back to the worker-bees.
If they are persecuted in their workplace on one of the ‘protected grounds’, and their workplace also is the Human Rights Tribunal, whom can they get to adjudicate their human rights complaint?
Enquiring minds want to know!
UPDATE: ‘ The Lynch Mob’ re-published this post here.
Kaffir Kanuck’s Koffee Klub
January 5, 2011 — xanthippaOK, OK, so it should read ‘Kaffir Kanuck’s Coffee Club’ – I just could not resist!
Last fall, the ‘blogosphere’ filled Kafir Kanuck’s ‘buy-a-soldier-a-coffee card’ with 760 dollars – and kept our guys and gal in Afghanistan well supplied with ‘Timmies’ coffee. Thanks to all who contributed!
Now, the card needs topping up.
Head on over to Moose and Squirrel before January 17th for the details – and the pay-pal button through which to donate!
A new supernova!
January 4, 2011 — xanthippaNot bad for a 10-year-old!!!
She is now acknowledged by the International Astronomical Union to be the youngest person to make such a discovery.
Perhaps more than one supernova has been discovered on New Year’s Eve!
Xanthippa's Chamberpot 