A gilded statue of an Alabai dog has been unveiled in Turkmenistan by the country's leader Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov. He previously praised the Alabai as national heritage and has written an ode about them https://t.co/MFD6Xzol7s
“I could tell you about women whose lives are hemmed in by "cultural norms" every bit as restricting as Mandela's cell: instructed not to learn English, warned never to reveal their faces in public, pressured into marriages they don't want, often to cousins. I could tell you even more, except that the religious identity of perpetrators and victims of crime are not routinely collected so we don't fully grasp the scale of the problem. Most go unreported anyway.
Every now and again a brave woman steps forward to paint a picture of the misery behind these numbers. Like the woman who spoke to the Southall Black Sisters charity of being punched so hard by her husband that pieces of her teeth broke off but who was blamed rather than supported by the local cleric. Like the woman of Kurdistani heritage who told parliament that marital rape had been encouraged by community arbitrators who regard sexual obedience to husbands as an Islamic duty. Like the woman who revealed that female testimony in many sharia tribunals counts for only half that of males.
We don't call this apartheid. We don't
like the scale of anti-apartheid marches in the Eighties. We don't make banners or sing songs. But it is apartheid nonetheless. The Afrikaans word means
"apartness" or "separateness", a painfully apt description of the way too many British Muslim women live today, cut adrift by the patriarchs who control them and a society that celebrates the end of apartheid in South Africa while turning a blind eye to the same thing here.”
@matthewsyed@thetimes
Apartheid lives on in the UK: women told to cover their faces, testimony counting for only half in many Sharia courts, oppressed in communities held together by cousin marriage, victims of honour beatings. Why tolerate this intolerance?
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Bushra Shaikh posted about worrying about dropping her son off at a music festival.
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Bushra Shaikh posts this on October 7th 2023 after hundreds of Israelis are brutally murdered, raped and burnt alive at a music festival.
The descent of Westminster Bridge into a hotbed of brazen illegality and crime under the nose of Parliament and the Met's headquarters is a fitting tribute to the complete failure of the British state.
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Back in the ’90s, Stan Collymore took a picture with a fan that also captured a young academy player in the background who would go on to become the greatest English midfielder of all time. 🔴8️⃣
Foreign nationals are 71 per cent more likely than Brits to commit sex crimes.
Afghans are more than TWENTY times more likely.
Labour hold all the data on crime and nationality.
But they are covering it up. We want it released.
This violent racist thug screamed antisemitic abuse, threatened schoolchildren, attacked a Jewish man and was found guilty of guilty of racially aggravated assault but got off with just a suspended sentence.
Good job she didn’t do post it on Facebook.
Might have actually been locked up.
@CussenFerg18123@PaulEmbery@DAaronovitch "It's amazing how much leftist discourse is just them pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible."