Sharia law has no place in modern society
It is the greatest threat to womens' rights in Britain & is used as a tool of oppression, victimisation & abuse
Our hypocritical politicians embraced "#MeToo", preach about women's rights & lecture British men about "toxic masculinity"...
whilst at the same time wilfully turning a blind eye to the rampant misogyny, oppression, sexual assault, domestic & honour based violence that exists within parts of the Muslim community - and which is enabled by some Sharia councils.
Sharia councils (which are completely unregulated) have condoned wife beating, told wives to reconcile with abusive husbands and dismissed the idea of "marital rape".
We live in an age of great leaps forward for humanity: Artificial Intelligence, quantum computing, driverless cars, tourist trips to space etc. etc. It is preposterous that in such an advanced age, women's lives are still being ruled by medieval laws.
We are all equal under the law. One law for all. That principle must stand.
Why, then, is Britain the "Sharia capital" of the West? We have more Sharia councils than anyone else and British Muslims help set up Sharia councils in other Western countries.
60%-80% of Muslim marriages in the UK are Sharia only, with no civil registration (thus denying "wives" protection from English courts). This is the highest in the Western world.
Some morons will reply: "Sharia is voluntary and has no legal recognition or force in the UK".
Tell that to the Muslim women who are forced to go to Sharia councils and who are forced (by their religious leaders, their husbands, their families and their wider community) to accept the rulings - rulings made by ultra-conservative / extremist / Islamist men.
Many of these women aren't even aware that Sharia has no legal force or that English courts would come to a different ruling.
A party that does not pledge to tackle Sharia councils is a party that condones the oppression of women.
Me on @GBNews:
Mehdi Hasan has been screeching that the stabbing of Muslims in Edinburgh is being ignored.
But the only mention I could find from him of the Islamist terror attack on Manchester Arena that killed 22 and injured over a thousand is him plugging his documentary that tries to blame it on NATO.
Utterly incompatible.
👋 Hi @AndyBurnhamGM!
We know you’re busy preparing to be crowned Labour leader — and our next Prime Minister — but could you please reply to our letter?
FSU General Secretary Lord Young wrote to Andy Burnham in his capacity as Mayor of Greater Manchester after it emerged that senior chiefs at Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) sent an email to staff warning of firefighters who had supported or stood for Reform UK.
As Mayor of Greater Manchester, Mr Burnham has been responsible for the governance of GMFRS.
In his letter, Lord Young wrote: “Staff are further invited to report colleagues who support any groups that go against the service’s values, which effectively amounts to an instruction to inform on colleagues for their political beliefs.”
He added: “The practical effect is that a public fire and rescue service governed by you is treating the lawful political activity of your electoral opponents as a reputational risk to their employer.
“Regardless of whether this reflects your instruction, it reflects your governance; and a public office-holder who permits his institution to demonise or chill the speech and political activity of those who support his principal electoral rival cannot claim to be discharging that office with the impartiality it demands.”
So, Andy, when you have a spare moment, a response would be much appreciated.
Watch Lord Young below 👇
Everyone, meet Labour's mayoral candidate Bev Craig.
If you not already were, under the leadership of Greater Manchester, she has faced huge criticism of a heavily redacted material provided during the statutory grooming gang inquiry process.
Yes, that's right, victims and campaigners have questioned what was withheld and why?
Another Labour candidate heavily involved in the mass cover-up of the rapes and abuse of our children.
Labour the gift that keeps on giving.
Deze foto is de stalen wapening van de basis van een windmolen. Er zal nog tussen 600 en 800 M3 beton moeten worden toegevoegd dat is een gewicht van bijna 2000 ton!
Als de windmolen is ontmanteld, blijft deze basis voor altijd begraven in de grond.
Tijdens de exploitatie van de windturbine zal de mast door de wind op een zeer lage frequentie trillen en deze trillingen worden via de sokkel overgebracht in een straal van meer dan 100 meter rond de sokkel. Dierenleven wordt binnen deze zone hierdoor onmogelijk gemaakt.
De bladen van de turbine werken tegelijkertijd als gehaktmolen voor vogels.
Turkey OCCUPIED Gaza for 400 yrs. Never offered independence.
Turkey MASSACRED 1.5 million Armenian Christians. To this day, never acknowledged the genocide.
Turkey was NEUTRAL & PROFITED from war against greatest evil in human history—German Nazism.
Turkey has OCCUPIED 37% of #Cyprus since 1974.
Turkey has SUPPRESSED aspirations of tens of millions of #Kurds.
And we’re supposed to take morality lessons from @RTErdogan & company?
Give me a break!
The man in the picture is Peter Lynch. During the protests that took place after the events in Southport a few years ago, Peter was arrested and fast-tracked into prison for simply raising his voice at the police.
He was 61 years old and sentenced to nearly three years in prison. He ended up taking his own life.
This was on Starmer.
Don't tell me Starmer is a "decent" and "nice" man because he got a bit teary eyed while reading from a predictable, pathetic script about focusing on being a good husband and father.
Remember how she pushed Islamophobia Awareness Month like it was Christmas & birthday all rolled into one?
Yes, so do I
Do you think, as Mayor of Greater Manchester, she’d set aside so much as a day for the victims of Pakistani rape gangs in Rochdale & Oldham?
No, me neither