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Poppy-wearing right-wingers are always ENRAGED by this debate, because it proves the mainstream media bias against minority groups.
Carole Malone exposed her own bias and even Jeremy Vine realised it in the end!
#ArmisticeDay
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The “inflammatory” comments referred to here were in fact a dua (supplication) made during a Friday sermon. It was a standardised Islamic prayer, known as ‘Qunoot’, in which the Imam called upon God to intervene against those committing genocide against the Palestinian people, and to dismantle and bring an end to the actions of those responsible for such crimes.
According to the Commission, this supplication was inflammatory. The Commission appears to attach particular significance to the fact that the prayer was made in October 2023, which was close in time to the 7 October attacks. Yet in doing so, it entirely disregards the context in which the supplication was made.
By this time, the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza had already exceeded the number of people killed in the 7 October attacks. The UN was reporting approximately 3,700 Palestinian deaths, with more than 1,000 people believed to remain buried beneath the rubble at the date in question.
Equally, the Commission fails to acknowledge the wider context of the numerous genocidal and dehumanising statements made by Israeli officials, statements which were put into action by the devastating destruction and killing in Gaza. It is difficult to escape the impression that the Commission expects the Muslim community to subordinate its expression of grief, outrage, solidarity and religious conviction to the sensitivities of the Israeli state and its military, while remaining silent or temper its anger as Palestinians are killed. If you are unable to raise your hand to God, what else is left for you to do?
This raises fundamental questions about the Commission's role, its understanding of religious freedom and the limits of its authority. Does the Commission consider itself entitled to encroach upon the Muslim community and dictate the prayers its members may offer? Does it believe it has the authority to determine when such prayers may be said, or which circumstances justify them?
Most importantly, does the Commission operate according to a hierarchy of sensitivities, in which the perceived sensitivities of the Israeli state are afforded greater weight and protection than the lives, suffering and dignity of Palestinians?
A prayer calling upon God to intervene against those responsible for mass killing should not be divorced from the circumstances that gave rise to it, and then characterised as inflammatory simply because of the date on which it was offered. To do so risks turning the protection of sensitivities into a mechanism for policing religious expression and silencing legitimate expressions of solidarity with an oppressed and suffering population contrary to the principles of Arts 9 and 10 of the ECHR.
#CharityCommission
#Palestine #LIC #LewishamIslamicCentre
We’ve issued an official warning to Lewisham Islamic Centre for “inflammatory” comments, requiring the charity to improve it's handling of speakers and events hosted at its premises.
Read more: gov.uk/government/news/offic…
ALT Official warning notice issued to Lewisham Islamic Centre by the Charity Commission for England and Wales on a dark blue background.
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Not just academic. ISPs (and now @Ofcom) have a long history of banning websites providing support for victims of child sexual abuse, exploitation and domestic violence — not to mention content ‘promoting’ LGBT issues
Really find it extraordinary that the party responsible for overturning Section 28 has now implemented a law that makes Margaret Thatcher look positively enlightened on these issues
“Privacy is Bad” – @lisanandy; you’d think someone who cares so much about VAWG would not want to stop vulnerable people freely accessing secure communication
alecmuffett.com/article/1689…
#AgeVerification #vawg
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Second Liverpool show added, Manchester sold out, Europe upgraded, you can’t get me down ✊🥰
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What is the benefit to Irish people to have private companies building data centres across Europe?
It's data centre construction that the Irish government is pushing, at the expense of housing.
All while data centres gobble up our water and electricity, and drive up our bills.
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The response to this song tells me how uncultured some of you are. The beat comes from Ghazal, an Indian poetry/music genre. Adding Palestinian instruments & folklore lyrics about gazelles creates this double entendre. It's a masterpiece in cultural fusion y'all just dont get it
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No that IS the job of MPs. Which is why Hansard can be pulled to understand the will of Parliament.
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i realize half are bots but the remaining half of my followers are high-standing members of the community - gooners, hypnosluts, BBC lovers
i pray i can show you all the way of tbe bimbo going forward 🙏
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In light of the 'Zionism is not Racism' motion being brought by Conservative Councillor Hannah Galley @HRGalley & Labour Councillor David Boothroyd @220_d_92_20 to the upcoming meeting of Westminster City Council on 11th November, I have submitted an urgent legal query to the council's legal department.
There are serious legal deficiencies regarding the Notice of Motion 12(a), "Zionism is not Racism," scheduled for debate on 11 November 2026.
Local authorities do possess broad powers of debate, but they must exercise their functions in strict compliance with the Equality Act 2010.
Adopting this motion as currently drafted risks placing Westminster City Council in breach of its statutory duties under Section 149 of the Equality Act 2010 (the Public Sector Equality Duty), specifically regarding its adverse impacts on Palestinian, British-Palestinian, Arab, anti-Zionist Jews, and associated Muslim residents who hold protected characteristics of race, nationality, and belief.
There is also a complete failure to Conduct an Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) on this matter.
The motion creates a hostile environment that, for many Palestinian residents of Westminster, erases the historical and ongoing manifestation of Zionism and the directly associated displacement, statelessness, and systemic inequality experienced by Palestinians as a result of Zionism in practice.
For a local authority to officially declare that this ideology is entirely absolved of discriminatory character effectively marginalises and silences the lived experiences of Palestinian and British-Palestinian constituents. This risks creating an exclusionary public sphere, potentially amounting to unlawful harassment under Section 26 of the Equality Act.
By wading into a deeply polarising geopolitical debate to adopt a singular perspective, the Council actively inflames community tensions. Rather than promoting understanding, this motion pits the protected characteristics of one local demographic against another, directly undermining Section 149(1)(c).
The proposed motion erroneously treats the Jewish community as a political monolith by conflating Jewish identity inherently with Zionism. In doing so, the Council fails to consider the severe adverse impacts of this motion on anti-Zionist Jewish residents within the borough.
Additionally, the motions use and reliance upon the IHRA definition to pre-emptively declare that specific political viewpoints regarding Zionism cannot be scrutinised or categorised as discriminatory by members of the public or political parties suppresses legitimate political discourse and free speech. This triggers further compliance issues under Article 10 (Freedom of Expression) of the Human Rights Act 1998.
It is incumbent upon @CityWestminster's legal department and the councillors proposing this motion to immediately withdrawal or defer Motion 12(a) until a rigorous, independent Equality Impact Assessment can be carried out.
K Borg retweeted
It failed to meet normal international standards on every measure. It was designed and managed to produce the final result. By contrast, look at the conditions applied to the referendums in Gibraltar and the Malvinas where the U.K., confident of its settler populations, went above and beyond the standard applied even in its own elections in order to silence any suggestion of improper conduct and silence the critics in the international community. The govt was determined to show it had met every standard for a fair and impartial vote.
Not so in Scotland where it failed every one.
Please note, even all this still did not satisfy the C-24 or C4 and both remain listed as NSGT’s. (Btw, we use the word colony to make the point. The word colony is rarely used in modern law, but the reality people mean is still here: states administering territories beyond their *own* mainland.) A referendum cannot automatically resolve the unlawful annexation of a territory especially, as in Scotland’s case, when it ignores the principal requirement that a state must not interfere in the exercise of that expression of public will. A referendum conducted on the basis that a component part of a state is seeking secession is not the same as a referendum conducted by (not on behalf of), a still sovereign, annexed nation deciding, not whether to secede, but whether to accept its status on the annexing state’s terms, a status that is absent an operative treaty and absent any rights and obligations whatever under that treaty. This is *not* accepted in international law and the UK state knows this. That’s why it’s that state, not Liberation Scotland, which first raised the question - in 1954 - of whether Scotland was a dependency, colony, in order to publicly deny it. It’s time our self appointed pro-indy spokespersons understood this also.
The cosmetic exercise of ‘the referendum’ was organised to produce exactly Robin’s belief that whatever our status before it, after the referendum this became a voluntary union. That, as you can see, I hope, is not true.
The flagrant manipulation of the process aside, if Scotland was annexed prior to the referendum then a poll managed by the occupying state, (including control of the postal ballot), and which allowed that state to break the terms of the Edinburgh agreement but not the Scottish ‘side’, and which was non binding, is not a legitimate expression of self determination. That unmediated and free, fair process is yet to take place.
P.S No matter who agreed to it, a franchise which includes 2nd home owners, temporary residents (students, military, temporary workers) and recent arrivals disqualifies the referendum as a test of the will of the Scottish people.
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it's cute you think playground level taunts of "oh you watch PORN lmao???" is going to stop anyone from calling out draconian free speech infringement
regulating what consenting adults can do in their own bedrooms? I know what you are 👀
K Borg retweeted
It’s gross. I’m gross. We’re gross here.
Get with it or find a vanilla creator to support 💋
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Police arrested a young man in a wheelchair under terrorism laws while he was outside the Supreme Court, after making a public statement in support of Palestine Action, coinciding with a legal appeal hearing held inside the court.
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The last thing to add on this today.
If @UKLabour wish to tackle extreme sex (judged by their biases) & violence towards women - perhaps better sex education & teaching young men about respect and boundaries would be a start.
Treat the cause. Not the symptom.