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Muslim bus and taxi drivers refuse to let guide dogs on board

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Blind passengers are being ordered off buses or refused taxi rides because Muslim drivers or passengers object to their ‘unclean’ guide dogs.

One pensioner said he had twice been confronted by drivers and asked to get off the bus because of his guide dog, and had also faced hostility at a hospital and in a supermarket over the animal.

The problem has become so widespread that the matter was raised in the House of Lords last week, prompting transport minister Norman Baker to warn that a religious objection was not a reason to eject a passenger with a well-behaved guide dog.

National Federation of the Blind spokesman Jill Allen-King said the problem was common, and ‘getting worse’.

The tension stems from a strand of Islamic teaching which considers a dog’s saliva to be impure.

George Herridge, 73, a retired hospital maintenance manager, said he was ‘stunned’ to be twice asked by bus drivers to leave their vehicles because of his guide dog, a black labrador.

Miss Allen-King said she had been repeatedly left on the kerb by Muslim taxi drivers who refused to take her dog.

How about if the dogs wore burkas?

Archbishop to host imams and clergy at Lambeth Palace

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From Christianity Today:

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is to host an event at Lambeth Palace which will bring together 50 imams and clergy from 25 local areas to encourage and strengthen local inter faith relationships.

Let’s hope Rowan sticks to encouraging inter faith relationships and doesn’t try to convert the imams to Christianity; we wouldn’t want that – very un-Anglican.

Calgary Muslim strangles daughter and serves no jail time

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From the Calgary Herald:

CALGARY – The Calgary mother who killed her teenage daughter by strangling her with a scarf more than three years ago will not have to spend a day in jail, a judge ruled on Thursday.

But, in suspending the sentence of Aset Magomadova and placing her on probation for three years, Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Sal LoVecchio said the penalty can still meet the ends of justice.

“At first blush (a suspended sentence) may sound like a get out of jail free card. It is not,” emphasized the judge.

Let’s be clear: even though the teenager in question was a “disgrace” to her Muslim family, this was not an honour killing. Perish the thought. The murderer – sorry, disciplinarian – in question was sponsored by an Anglican church who praised the “compassion” of the judge:

Marilyn Millions, one of Magomadova’s sponsors with St. James Anglican Church, said outside court she was relieved “at the compassion and mercy that has been shown” by the court.

In case there are any doubts, the CBC emphasises that this was definitely not an honour killing, merely a spot of parental frustration:

While Aset told a health worker that Aminat was a disgrace to their Muslim family, the Crown does not say this was an honour killing — something intended to restore the family’s reputation.

“I see this just as any other parent very frustrated with a very troubled teenager except it went too far,” said Vomberg.

In 1998 Joe Cleary from Ontario spent 2 days in jail for spanking his 5 year-old; presumably he could have avoided the 2 days in the clink if he had strangled his son instead:

DURHAM, ON, Nov 17 (LSN) Joe Cleary a father in Durham Ontario was jailed for two days and his family put through a gruelling court ordeal which lasted months and cost thousands of dollars all because he used spanking to discipline his five year old child. Last month Sun Media columnist Michael Coren reported that Cleary punished his son for having repeatedly kicked the family cat after being told not to.

Muslims in space

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From Fox:

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his “foremost” mission as the head of America’s space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.

Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA’s orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him. He said better interaction with the Muslim world would ultimately advance space travel.

Obama’s Cairo initiative didn’t seem to have much effect, so the obvious next step to make Muslims feel good about themselves is – Muslims on Mars. It makes sense: ObaMars Outreach.

The slippery slope to real bacon

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We all have our temptations: for some, today’s turkey titillation could become tomorrow’s bacon binging.

From the BBC:

A Coventry farmer has insisted he is reacting to demand from traders in trying to give Muslims a taste of pork by producing bacon-style rashers from halal-slaughtered turkeys.

Rod Adlington’s attempts to imitate the meat, which Muslims cannot eat because of their religion, has seen a Muslim scholar voice concerns that it could lead to people eating real bacon from pork.

Maulana Naveed Ashrafi, a Muslim scholar from Blackburn, said he was concerned as to where eating the turkey bacon rashers could lead to for other Muslims.

“It can ultimately lead to people who only eat halal food ending up eating the real bacon – bacon from pork,” he said.

Another kind of wardrobe malfunction

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Woman fined for erratic driving caused by niqab headscarf impairing her vision

A motorist has been fined for erratic driving caused by her Islamic headscarf, just weeks after a similar incident sparked a major political row.

Police in Vaucluse in southern France stopped the woman after she was spotted driving her vehicle carelessly on the road.

It was then officers noticed the driver was wearing a niqab, a veil that leaves only the eyes exposed, and that her sight was impaired, according to commanding officer Charles Bourillon.

‘[The headscarf] was bothering the driver in her manoeuvres … It was obvious she could not see a thing,’ he said.

The solution is obvious: drive one of these and leave your niqab at home:

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On Yahoo, Islam is a forbidden word

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Yahoo News allows the public to make comments on its news articles.

The funny thing is, @#$% is substituted for “Islam” in every comment. For example, in comment 19 here, I entered:

Why is Islam being changed into special characters and Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism  are not?

What was posted was:

Why is @#$% being changed into special characters and Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism are not?

Surely this could not be another example of a pusillanimous Western technology company, could it? It must be a variant of the infamous Google “bug”.

Rowan Williams the dhimmicrat

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What’s a dhimmicrat, you say? It’s not the same thing as a Democrat. A dhimmicrat is a person who, while not Muslim himself, nonetheless clears the path for shariah law to be adopted and incorporated into otherwise free nations.

One prime example of this would be the Right Rev. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury. Normally, you would think this top Anglican cleric, who lives in a palace in London, would appreciate Britain’s history as the world’s leader in the Rule of Law. As a minister of the Gospel, Mr. Williams might see his country as a Christian country. Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, an immigrant from Pakistan, has tried heroically to awaken Britons to their peril. Bishop Nazir-Ali says English law and the Christian religion are the two things that make Britain great. And every day, dhimmicrats like Rowan Williams are trading away their birthright for a mess of pottage. Rowan Williams said Britain must accommodate herself to shariah law in large swaths of her urban neighborhoods.

Much as I appreciate American Thinker, the author of this article, Ken Blackwell, obviously has no appreciation for the intelligence, learning and subtly nuanced thinking of the figurehead of the august and hallowed Anglican Communion.

Rowan has pointed out quite clearly (for him) that we have to “face up to the fact” [that] some citizens did not relate to the UK legal system. And he’s right: Britain has thousands of potential Islamist terrorists who have the greatest difficulty relating to the British legal system; to deprive them of the option of being tried by the ideology whose main means of persuasion is to blow people up would be, well, un-Anglican.

There used to be an app for that

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iSlam Muhammad is an iPhone application that makes fun of the Muslim tendency to persuade opponents by beheading them. Apple executives removed the application, kept their heads and invented the iDhimmi.

A description of the $.99 app encourages users to “enjoy violent and hateful passages from The Qur’an that support and encourage Muslims to attack and behead anyone who does not agree with them. See how Allah directs his followers to treat men and women.”

The app revolves around parchment images featuring controversial images from the holy text. The app was in the store for a day before it was pulled. Below is audio from the developer’s conversation with Apple, which among other things, points out that a similar app targeting Christians called BibleThumper still exists in the store.