Vocal Voices

There was a bit of a problem there the other week 9not that you would know about this if you only read the local press).
In short a pupil brought a copy of the Koran to school and dropped it. The book was scuffed and one page slightly torn.

Cue multiple outrage. One local muslim councillor tweeted about the "Holy book being desecrated", the police looked grave, the fourteen year old boy in question received death threats (nice), etc etc. The boy's mother had to go to a local mosque to apologise.

Now it turns out that the Imam who hosted the "community meeting" where the mum apologised has been caught out saying some naughty things. namely that his worshippers not to take part in Christmas festivities "if you conform to them you are becoming part of them", described music as being "toxic", the "rise of homosexuality" as "barbaric", and made sectarian remarks about more liberal followers of Islam.

And what action can we expect the authorities to take about all that?
A rhetorical question if ever there was one.

Precisely!

I have lived and worked in "Moslem" lands, so this is not news to me.

We were allowed western newspapers but they were always censored. At Christmas and Easter all references to Christian Festivities were struck out with a black marker pen, even down to adverts for turkeys, crackers and creme eggs.

It is part of what drives me to be intolerant of Islamic intolerance.