Supporters of an “anti-sharia” bill that’s been sitting in Michigan’s State House Judiciary Committee for over a year are pushing state lawmakers to put the measure to a vote.
If adopted, the bill he introduced would “limit the application and enforcement by a court, arbitrator, or administrative body of foreign laws that would impair constitutional rights.”
Hamed Aleaziz poses the question.
Think Progress, 26 November 2012
See also “Peter King’s greatest hits as Homeland Security chairman”, TPM, 27 November 2012
Earlier this month Keighley’s Tory MP Kris Hopkins disgraced himself with a speech in the House of Commons in which he stated that “gangs of Muslim men are going round and raping white kids”.
David Cameron has been under fire for dismissing the UK Independence Party (Ukip) as a party of “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists”, in a now-notorious radio interview in 2006.
However, he may have won support from an unusual quarter – the founder and former leader of Ukip, Professor Alan Sked, says the party he launched in 1993 has become “extraordinarily right-wing” and is now devoted to “creating a fuss, via Islam and immigrants. They’ve got nothing to say on mainstream issues.”
Anti-Islam crusader Daniel Nalliah and his evangelical Christian church are set to fight a plan to build a mosque in the same street.
Mr Nalliah, a pastor at Catch the Fire Ministries, said his church was weeks away from building a $2 million base at 25 Green Street, Doveton.
He recently learnt of a planning application by an Afghan community group to build the Omar Farooq Mosque next door. The church, along with more than 100 petitioners including adjoining residents, will formally object to Casey Council over the mosque proposal.
David Cameron’s controversial new campaign chief, Lynton Crosby, was in a fresh row last night after a leading Tory peer said his foul-mouthed rant against Muslims could be seen as “racist”.
Former Conservative deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft told friends that outspoken Australian Mr Crosby’s remark about “f****** Muslims” was a major error of judgment.
“The danger is that other people will see it as racist,” Lord Ashcroft was heard to comment at the Spectator magazine parliamentary awards lunch at The Savoy in London. “Some people may assume he means effing Muslims, effing blacks and all effing immigrants and will not appreciate that Muslim is a religion not a race.”
Mail on Sunday, 25 November 2012
ENGAGE has posted a detailed reponse to yesterday’s appalling media coverage of the Office of the Children’s Commissioner’s interim report on “child sexual exploitation in gangs and groups”. The Daily Mail, for example, featured the headline “Anger as sex abuse report ‘turns blind eye to Asian gangs'”.
For comments by Sue Berelowitz, deputy children’s commissioner for England and co-author of the report, see her article in the Guardian. And “Children’s commissioner defends child sex abuse report“, also in the Guardian.
See also Yakoub Islam’s response to Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s articlein the Mail.
A brash, Muslim-baiting right-winger described as “Sarkozy Light” was last night elected leader of France’s conservative opposition.
Jean-Francois Cope’s victory sets him up to be President of France in 2017, when he is likely to go head-to-head with Francois Hollande, the current Socialist head of state.
Trevor Kavanagh had a comment piece in yesterday’s Sun, titled “Muslim leaders must re-brand religion for 21st Century Britain”, in which he responded to two recent press reports concerning the British Muslim community.
“The real Islamist threat to Britain comes from mass immigration and multiculturalism. Having encouraged large numbers of Muslims to come and live here, we now also officially urge them to stay separate from the rest of society, and apologise to them for our Christian traditions. In the end, I fear this will lead to great trouble.”
Peter Hitchens returns to the familar theme that deporting individual Islamists is a diversion and it’s the entire Muslim community that represents a threat to western civilisation.
Via ENGAGE