In this mailing:
- Soeren Kern: A Month of Islam
and Multiculturalism in Britain: February 2018
- Ruthie Blum: World Soccer
Organization FIFA Turns Its Back on Iranian Women
by Soeren Kern • March 12, 2018
at 5:00 am
- "I'd like to
know whose bright idea this was. It is ridiculous and not the
business of a Government department. I can't see the Foreign
Office promoting Christianity or the handing out of
crosses." — Tory MP Andrew Bridgen in response to a decision
by Foreign Office officials to give away taxpayer-funded
Islamic headscarves, claiming they symbolized
"liberation, respect and security."
- A review chaired by
Professor Mona Siddiqui, a professor of Islam, proposed
legislative changes that would require Muslim couples to
undergo a civil marriage before or at the same time as their
Islamic ceremony, to provide women with legal protection under
British law. Nearly all those using Sharia councils were
females seeking an Islamic divorce.
- "We, the United
Kingdom, produced Jihadi John. Something in our cities and
towns... have produced the most infamous terrorists. We need
to start asking: what is it in our culture, in our cities, in
our towns that is producing these sorts of monsters." —
Maajid Nawaz, British counter-extremism activist
- Islamic charities
vulnerable to extremists receive £6 million a year from
taxpayers in gift aid, according to a new report. The report
accused charities of supporting "the spread of harmful
non-violent extremist views that are not illegal; by providing
platforms, credibility and support to a network of extremists
operating in the UK."
Archbishop
of Canterbury Justin Welby said in a new book, Reimagining
Britain, that Sharia law should never become part of the
British legal system. He said the Islamic rules are incompatible
with Britain's laws, which have developed over 500 years on the
principles of a different culture. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty
Images)
February 1. Foreign Office officials invited 1,800
female staff members to wear Islamic headscarves to mark World
Hijab Day. The department gave away taxpayer-funded headscarves,
claiming they symbolized "liberation, respect and
security." Critics, citing the compulsory veiling of women in
Islamic countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia, said the garment
is a symbol of male oppression. Tory MP Andrew Bridgen said,
"I'd like to know whose bright idea this was. It is
ridiculous, a complete waste of taxpayers' money and not the
business of a government department. I can't see the Foreign Office
promoting Christianity or the handing out of crosses."
by Ruthie Blum • March 12, 2018
at 4:00 am
- Gianni Infantino is
the second FIFA president to visit the Islamic Republic, but
neither of them "pushed for letting women inside the
stadiums. Iran is the only country in the World Cup that bans
women from their stadiums and any attempt to watch the games
means risk of getting arrested." -- OpenStadiums, Iranian
women's organization.
- Infantino has both
the power and the duty to hold Tehran accountable in this
literal and figurative arena. That he exercised neither,
preferring instead to appease Iranian President Hassan
Rouhani, is outrageous. In spite of his being touted falsely
in the West as a "moderate," Rouhani is a key part
of the problem in Iran, not a solution to it.
- Infantino deserves a
swift penalty kick out of his job.
Azadi
Stadium in Tehran, Iran, October 26, 2017. (Image source:
Tasnim/Wikimedia Commons)
A week before International Women's Day on March 8,
thirty-five women and girls dressed as men were arrested in Iran
while attempting to sneak into a popular annual soccer match. The
women, the youngest of whom was 13, were forcibly removed from the
premises of the Tehran Derby and "transferred to a proper
place."
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