Don't They Have Google In Canada..?

Ms White, who originates from Canada but has lived in east London for the past ten years added: 'I'm Jewish and the swastika is racist and anti-Semitic. I don't understand why the hotel have got it there and their explanation is offensive.'

 Unfortunately for you, snowflake, it's also completely accurate: 

After contacting the hotel on her behalf, she was told by Booking.com that the swastika in the Plough Inn bathroom is the one associated with Indian culture and not Nazism.

Despite its links with Hitler's regime, the swastika is originally a sacred symbol in Hinduism and a common sight in homes and temples around India.

Good job you never took a Tube out to Upminster, you'd be too horrified to get off!

But Ms White insisted: 'I appreciate the cultural significance of the swastika but regardless of this, we are not in India. This is in a hotel in Norfolk where it has completely different connotations.

'The hotel's reasons for having a swastika are just nonsense. They can't claim ignorance-everybody knows what it stands for. It should be removed immediately but they are so unapologetic about it. For me, this is active racism.'

But they aren't claiming ignorance at all. You, however, are showing plenty of it.

Should've Gone To SpecSavers Hooters!

A self-proclaimed preacher who attacked a takeaway boss and left him with severe brain damage after complaining about an ‘inappropriately dressed’ female member of staff has today been jailed for more than eight years.

Blimey, the Church of England is getting a bit feisty, isn't it? 

Oh, wait...

Hamdi Braiek was offended that a woman working at Mukhtar Hussain’s business Mix Grill 91 in Maidstone, Kent, ‘had her boobs hanging out in his face’ and told her she should cover-up.

Just a few hours earlier he had punched another woman in a shopping mall in an unrelated transphobic attack, a court heard.

Lovely! 

Braiek, an Uber Eats delivery driver who did national service in Tunisia and has no previous convictions, will have to serve two-thirds of his jail term before he can be considered for parole.

When can he be considered for deportation? Or is the answer, 'never'..? 

The court heard Braiek was on police bail at the time of the offences on May 30 having been charged in respect of punching his landlord in the street just two days earlier. That matter is yet to be dealt with by magistrates.

Don't bother. Put him on the next flight to Rwanda. 

These Places Are Exactly Where Intelligence Gathering Is Needed...

A mosque attended by Manchester Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi and his family says it has suffered 'smearing and demonisation' after claims it turned a 'blind eye' to extremism.

That hardly makes it unique... 

Earlier this month lawyers for the families of the bereaved said it was accepted the mosque was in no way linked to the bombing or the radicalisation of Salman Abedi, who carried out the deadly bomb attack after an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017. But it was claimed the mosque had hosted extreme Islamist sermons, failed to condemn violence and 'buried its head in the sand' over radicals in its congregation.

Gosh, how, err, unusual. But no doubt this will be dismissed as the ravings of 'Islamophobes', right? 

Well, it's going to be difficult... 

An Imam at the mosque, Mohammed El-Saeiti, who delivered a sermon condemning terror groups, told the inquiry trustees believed speaking up against terrorists would 'provoke' its sympathisers and supporters. The mosque then failed to support him when he faced a petition for his removal signed by, among others, Ramadan Abedi, father of the bomber. He said after the bombing the mosque's solicitor, a Mr Hafezi, pressured him to not mention the Abedis' links to the mosque.

Heh! 

The statement said it had tried to keep politics out of the mosque, adding: 'Mosques are places of worship and should not become places where intelligence gathering on people's lives and politics should take place.'

Sounds like these places are exactly where it should take place to me... 

"I Didn't Know My Own Mind..."

"...so neither do you, and you must be prevented from doing what I did for your own good."

The current proposals to allow adults to give “informed consent” would not have protected me, nor indeed the thousands of others like me who willingly undertook conversion therapy because we believed it was the right thing to do. Indeed, everyone we knew believed it was the right thing to do.

...

I am a relatively strong person, and it nearly broke me – sadly many others are not so lucky, and tragically come to a point of believing that the only way out is to take their lives. That’s why conversion practices need to be banned outright, with no exceptions.

Does that include the sort of 'conversions' practiced by the transgender clinics as well, I wonder? I bet it doesn't! 

The government needs to think again. First, it must learn from the experiences of survivors and prioritise their concerns, for we are the true experts. We know better than anyone what needs to be banned, and how best to do this.

There's a reason we don't let victims determine the punishment for an offender for any other crime. So why should we let them determine policy?

Second, the government needs to listen to the senior human rights lawyers who have set out in the Cooper report why religious freedoms can and must be limited when significant harm is being caused.

Does anyone else suspect that all religious freedoms is really what is meant by this? Or only certain religions? 

I Wonder What Else Has Increased Along With It?

The number of “honour-based” abuse (HBA) offences recorded by English police forces has soared over the past five years, figures suggest.

Hmm, what else has 'soared' over the past five years in tandem? 

While some of the increase in HBA offences could be down to more victims coming forward and improved identification of offences by police...

That 'could be' is doing a lot of work, eh? 

...Imran Khodabocus, a senior associate at the Family Law Company who represents families in such cases, said the rise was alarming.

He said: “It’s essential education around what honour-based abuse is and how it impacts families is improved across the country.”

Education for whom, Mr Khodabocus? 

It Should Cost Them, Not Us...

A council has publicly apologised after it was fined for 'breaching human rights' by...

Oh boy! *gets popcorn* 

...removing bus adverts for an evangelical Christian event.

Of course! It'd never be done for a Muslim Eid gathering, would it? But Christians are fair game, right?

Wrong, as it turned out. But what was so objectionable?

Ahead of an event at the town's Winter Gardens, the council removed advertisements that read 'Lancashire Festival of Hope with Franklin Graham - Time for Hope'.

'Hope'..? Hope is objectionable? To whom?

They had initially them (sic) but changed their position after a social media campaign against Mr Graham's 'offensive' opposition to same-sex marriage.

Ah! The usual suspects. And no doubt the council thought that they'd been played a winning hand in Victimhood Poker, until the courts slapped down a Royal Flush... 

'We accept the findings of the Court that we discriminated against Lancashire Festival of Hope because of the religious beliefs of Franklin Graham and in doing so interfered with Lancashire Festival of Hope's right to freedom of speech,' the council said in a statement.

'We sincerely apologise to the organisers of the event for the upset and inconvenience caused.'

What about an apology to all the ratepayers who will actually be paying for your miscalculation? 

Just What Is It You Think 'The Wider Electorate' Cares About, Mustafa?

Mustafa Al-Dabbagh, a spokesperson for the Muslim Association of Britain, said: “We’re speaking to British Muslims on a daily basis and they feel alienated. Muslims feel like they are not being taken seriously by the leadership on the Labour party. There seems to be an attitude that Muslims have always voted Labour, so they’re always going to.”

He said the party needed to take a stronger stance on tackling Islamophobia as well as on foreign policy issues. “The Conservatives have left Labour with an open goal to come and engage with Muslim constituents and it’s not doing so. You have a government that ignores foreign policy issues like Palestine and Kashmir, and you have an opposition that equivocates,” he added.

Because I can tell you - it's not what happens in other countries, it's what happens in the UK... 

“When you’ve got Labour party officials briefing frankly Islamophobic statements and making Muslims feel like they’re not part of the wider electorate then I’m sorry, what do you expect from us?” he said.

If your concerns are purely for foreign policy, then you're not part of the wider electorate, are you? 

Steering The Ship Away From The Rocks...

The alleged murderer of eight people, six of whom were Asian American women, reportedly said that he was trying to “eliminate temptation”. It’s as if he thought others were responsible for his inner life, as though the horrific act of taking others’ lives rather than learning some form of self-control was appropriate. This aspect of a crime that was also horrifically racist reflects a culture in which men and the society at large blame women for men’s behavior and the things men do to women.

Oh oh! I see where this could be going... 

The idea of women as temptresses goes back to the Old Testament and is heavily stressed in white evangelical Christianity...

Whew! Avoided disaster in the nick of time!