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Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.? We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).?

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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offsite link Net Zero Blamed for Blackouts Tue Apr 29, 2025 09:00 | Will Jones
A reliance on Net Zero energy ? solar and wind power ? left Spain and Portugal vulnerable to the mass blackouts engulfing the region, experts have said.
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offsite link Why Labour Might Be About to Lose the Runcorn By-Election: Because it Hates its Own Voters Tue Apr 29, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
Reform is favourite to win the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, overturning Labour's 14,700 majority. Why? It might have something to do with having the nation's third-highest number of asylum seekers, says Steven Tucker.
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offsite link News Round-Up Tue Apr 29, 2025 01:09 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Labour to Toughen Up Debanking Laws After Farage Row Mon Apr 28, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Labour is tightening the rules around debanking to protect customers in light of Nigel Farage?s high-profile row with NatWest, requiring banks to explain closure decisions in writing and allow them to be challenged.
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offsite link Glastonbury Urged to Ban Hamas-Supporting Band Kneecap Over ?Kill Your MP? Rant Mon Apr 28, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Glastonbury?festival organisers have been urged to cancel a performance by Hamas-supporting Northern Irish rap group Kneecap over a rant in which they urged fans to kill their local MP.
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Wearing The Veil Has Never Been A Matter Of Choice

category international | gender and sexuality | other press author Sunday October 08, 2006 22:04author by Houzan Mahmoud - Organisations of Women's Freedom in Iraq. Report this post to the editors

The veil is not merely a piece of "cloth", but a sign of the oppression of women, control over their sexuality, submissiveness to the will of God or a man. The veil is a banner of political Islam used, to segregate women born by historical accident in the so-called "Islamic World" from other women in the rest of the world.

Full story at the link.

I could never have imagined having anything in common with Jack Straw, but I find myself in agreement with him about how it feels talking to a woman covered up in hijab or the "niqab" that covers women fully.

However, I think he has discovered this rather late; in fact, the whole British government is late in drawing attention to this growing phenomenon. Women covering up their entire bodies, young boys becoming suicide bombers and the ever growing demands of religious organisations in the UK to implement Islamic sharia law when it comes to "Muslim family affairs".

Jack Straw's government has always been proud of its "multicultural society", in which all kinds of backward and anti-human cultures are respected and given space by the state. Women from an Islamic background will be among the most oppressed.

Celebrating "different cultures" the existence of mosques and religious schools is a place for brainwashing the young people with Islamic values which can only produce political Islamists.

A ghettoised lifestyle, isolated communities, lack of integration and institutionalised racism are all part and parcel of this growing number of brain-washed young generation of girls and boys defining themselves by their religious identity.

Related Link: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/houzan_mahmoud/2006/10/wearing_the_veil_has_never_bee.html

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Your right on the button     Dawkins Fan    Mon Oct 09, 2006 12:05 
   Veil is also protective     other side of the coin    Mon Oct 09, 2006 12:17 
   Now, Now Boys....     the other side of the coin    Mon Oct 09, 2006 12:38 
   the other side of the coin     pat c    Mon Oct 09, 2006 13:01 
   Pat C     t'other side of the coin    Mon Oct 09, 2006 13:49 
   by t'other side of the coin     pat c    Mon Oct 09, 2006 13:53 
   One should not have a 'temporary' meeting of minds     t'other side of the coin    Mon Oct 09, 2006 14:07 
   covering up     gerri    Mon Oct 09, 2006 23:21 
   No shoes, no shirt, no service     not long ago    Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:58 
 10   He aided the de-veiling and cultural rape of Iraq.     the other side of the coin.    Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:03 
 11   When is a veil not a veil ?     Flynn    Tue Oct 10, 2006 15:36 
 12   Cherie     D'other side of the coin    Tue Oct 10, 2006 15:59 
 13   Women and Islam     Cathy Young    Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:07 
 14   Clothes Aren't the Issue     Asra Q. Nomani    Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:15 
 15   unveiled     Burke A    Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:35 
 16   Please take off the veil, is it too much to ask?     Tune    Fri Oct 27, 2006 23:49 
 17   Italy government seeks veil ban     Gramsci    Wed Nov 08, 2006 12:22 
 18   Not just islam     Joe Black    Wed Nov 08, 2006 13:11 
 19   Joe Black     Gramsci    Wed Nov 08, 2006 14:12 
 20   Sadr Followers Target Assyrian School Girls in Baghdad     Makhno    Mon Dec 04, 2006 14:38 
 21   Iran police move into fashion business     Makhno    Wed Jan 03, 2007 13:12 
 22   Muslim women don't have to wear veils     Gramsci    Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:33 
 23   Agreed     Marlboro man    Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:56 
 24   Right To Choose     Pushkin    Tue Feb 13, 2007 13:30 
 25   Bombing for Feminism II     R. Isible    Tue Feb 13, 2007 13:51 
 26   Risible     Makhno    Tue Feb 13, 2007 14:16 
 27   Selective     R. Isible    Tue Feb 13, 2007 14:59 
 28   Risible     Makhno    Tue Feb 13, 2007 15:14 
 29   Risible: The Fashion Bit     Makhno    Tue Feb 13, 2007 15:22 
 30   Hijab     Emma    Tue Feb 13, 2007 17:17 
 31   Emma     Makhno    Tue Feb 13, 2007 17:39 
 32   Hijabs & crucifixs     Pushkin    Tue Feb 13, 2007 17:44 
 33   Makhno Pushkin     Emma    Wed Feb 14, 2007 14:15 
 34   Emma     Pushkin    Wed Feb 14, 2007 14:52 
 35   Emma     Pushkin    Wed Feb 14, 2007 17:26 
 36   Pushkin     Emma    Thu Feb 15, 2007 16:08 
 37   Clarification     WSM-bot    Thu Feb 15, 2007 16:13 
 38   WSM-Bot     Pushkin    Thu Feb 15, 2007 16:20 
 39   Emma     Pushkin    Thu Feb 15, 2007 16:39 
 40   De-religionisation of society     Pushkin    Thu Feb 15, 2007 17:56 
 41   Link     Pushkin    Thu Feb 15, 2007 17:59 
 42   Fashion crackdown     Gramsci    Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:41 
 43   Iran: 150,000 women detained for breaking dress code     Gramsci    Fri Apr 27, 2007 14:05 
 44   Nigerian Christians subject to Islamic law     Absalom    Fri May 11, 2007 13:23 
 45   Religion my arse.     European    Fri May 18, 2007 01:59 
 46   Hijab not oppressive, people oppressive     NicoleMaryam    Sun Oct 28, 2007 05:23 
 47   sharia     aristotle    Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:22 
 48   sharia     Aristotle    Mon Oct 29, 2007 09:58 
 49   Wearing of accepted clothing in the country you live in     M    Thu Jun 12, 2008 23:18 


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