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Britain: Muslim 'Cultural Sensitivity' Runs Amok. By Soeren Kern
23.04.2012 - The largest university in London plans to impose a
ban on the sale of alcohol on campus to accommodate the “cultural
sensitivity” of its Muslim students.
London Metropolitan
University's Vice Chancellor, Malcolm Gillies, says
it would be unwise to “cling” to a “nostalgic” view where the vast majority
wants alcohol to be available. Instead, he says that he believes the university
should take account of diverging views, namely those of Muslims, who now
comprise 20% of the university's 30,000 students.
“Many of our students do come from backgrounds where they actually
look on drinking as a negative. We therefore need to rethink how we cater for
that 21st-century balance,” Gillies declared in an interview.
“What we don't want is the tyranny of a majority view,” he added.
Gillies' proposals to re-engineer social life on campus have, not
surprisingly, generated a mostly negative response from students, many of whom
say a ban on alcohol smacks of politically correct pandering run amok.
Muslims, too, are unhappy with Gillies. Far from thanking him for
his multicultural activism, Muslims say they are “offended” by his “generalizing
about their beliefs.”
To be sure, London Metropolitan University
is not the first institution in Britain
to bend over backwards to avoid “offending” Muslims. In fact, hardly a day goes
by in which Britons are not surrendering some aspect of their culture and
traditions -- not to mention their rights of free speech and free expression --
in order to make Britain safe for Islam.
British schools increasingly are dropping the Jewish Holocaust
from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, according to a report
entitled Teaching
Emotive and Controversial History, which was commissioned by the Department
for Education and Skills. British teachers are also reluctant to discuss the
medieval Crusades – in which Christians fought Muslim armies for control of Jerusalem -- because
lessons often contradict what is taught in local mosques.
British social welfare offices have banned
novelty pig calendars and toys lest they offend Muslims. Workers in the
benefits department at Dudley Council, West Midlands,
for example, were told to remove or cover up all pig-related items, including
toys, porcelain figures, calendars and even a tissue box featuring Winnie the
Pooh and Piglet.
In West Yorkshire, the Park Road
Junior Infant and Nursery School in Batley has banned stories featuring pigs,
including “The
Three Little Pigs,” in case they offend Muslim children.
In Nottingham, the Greenwood
Primary School cancelled a Christmas nativity play because it interfered
with the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. In Scarborough,
the Yorkshire
Coast College removed the words Christmas and Easter from their calendar
not to offend Muslims. In Scotland,
the Tayside
Police Department apologized for featuring a German shepherd puppy as part
of a campaign to publicize its new non-emergency telephone number. The
postcards are potentially offensive to the city's 3,000-strong Muslim
community: Islamic legal tradition says that dogs are impure.
The British Girl
Scout Association has designed new uniforms especially for Muslims
students, who had “issues” with the existing range of clothing.
In Sheffield, a five-year-old
girl had her passport form rejected when an official said the bare
shoulders on her photograph could offend Muslims.
Muslim doctors and nurses in Britain are now allowed to opt out
of strict hygiene rules introduced by the National
Health Service to restrict the spread of hospital superbugs. The
change was made after female Muslims objected to being required to expose their
arm below the elbow under guidance introduced to reduce the number of patients
who were falling ill, and even dying, from bacteria.
Meanwhile, in South Yorkshire, an
elderly woman in a nursing
home died after she suffered a fall and was left lying on the floor
bleeding because the Muslim nurse, Abdul Bhutto, said he had to finish his
prayers before he could help the woman.
In Oldham, a breastfeeding mother
was evicted from a waiting room in city hall (aka a “multicultural”
building) to avoid offending Muslims. British law allows nursing mothers to
breastfeed in public.
In Glasgow,
a Christian
radio show host was fired after a debate between a Muslim and a
Christian on whether Jesus is “the way, the truth and the life.” In Birmingham, two
Christians were told by police “you can't preach here, this is a Muslim
area.” In Cheshire, two students at the Alsager
High School were punished by their teacher for refusing to pray to
Allah as part of their religious education class. Also in Cheshire, a 14-year-old Roman Catholic girl
who attends Ellesmere
Port Catholic High School was branded a truant by teachers for
refusing to dress like a Muslim and visit a mosque.
In Liverpool, a
Christian couple was forced to sell their hotel after a female Muslim
guest accused the pair of insulting her during a debate about Islam. In London, Rory
Bremner, a political comedian, said that every time he writes a sketch
about Islam, he fears that he is signing his own death warrant. Also in London, Scotland Yard
says that Muslims who launch a shoe at another person are not committing a
crime because the practice is Islamic symbolism.
In Kent,
police have been banned from asking for a person's “Christian” name, in case
this request offends Muslims. The Kent
Police Department's 62-page 'Faith and Culture Resource' guide tells
officers to use “personal and family name” instead of “Christian” name.
In East London, all elected
members of Tower
Hamlets town council were told not to eat during daylight hours in
town hall meetings during the Muslim month of Ramadan. Special arrangements
were also made to disrupt council meetings to allow for Muslim prayer.
Meanwhile, the council renamed a staff Christmas party as a “festive meal.”
In Leicester, a gang
of Somali Muslim women who assaulted and nearly killed a non-Muslim
passer-by in the city center walked free after a politically correct judge
decided that as Muslims, the women were “not used to being drunk.”
Elsewhere in Britain,
a foster
mother was struck off the social services register for allowing a
Muslim girl in her care to convert to Christianity. Officials insist the woman,
who has looked after more than 80 children in the past ten years, failed in her
duty to preserve the girl's religion and should have tried to stop the baptism.
They ruled that the girl, 17, should stay away from church for six months.
In London,
the Harrow
Council provoked a storm of protest after announcing plans to offer
Islamic halal-only menus in the borough's 52 state primary schools. Parents are
outraged that meat prepared according to Islamic Sharia law is being pushed on
non-Muslim children. Meanwhile, most of the in-flight meals on British
Airways could soon be halal. The airline also says Muslim
staff may wear veils, but Christian employees may not wear crosses.
In West
Yorkshire, an electrician working for a housing association in Wakefield was told he
would be fired for placing a small palm cross on the dashboard of his van. His
employer said the cross could be offensive to Muslims: “Wakefield and District Housing has a stance
of neutrality. We now have different faiths, new emerging cultures. We have to
be respectful of all views and beliefs.”
In London, a Christian employee
at Heathrow
Airport was fired for exposing a campaign of systematic harassment by
fundamentalist Muslims.
In Leicester, furious Muslims
demanded that Walkers,
a British snack food manufacturer owned by PepsiCo, demanded that the company
change its packaging labels after it emerged that certain varieties of its
potato chips contain small amounts of trace alcohol to extract certain flavors.
Across Britain, Muslim
bus and taxi drivers are telling blind passengers that they cannot bring
their “unclean” dogs on board. The problem of prohibiting guide dogs on
religious grounds has become so widespread that the matter was recently raised
in the House of Lords.
In Reading,
one pensioner, a cancer sufferer, was repeatedly confronted by drivers and
asked to get off the bus because of his guide dog. He also faced hostility at a
hospital and in a supermarket over the animal. In Nottingham,
a Muslim taxi driver refused to carry a blind man because he was accompanied by
his guide dog. The taxi driver was later fined £300 ($470).
In Stafford,
a Muslim taxi driver refused to carry an elderly blind couple from a grocery
store because they were accompanied by their seeing-eye dog. In Tunbridge
Wells, Kent, a blind man
was turned away from an Indian restaurant because the owner said it was against
his Muslim beliefs to allow dogs into his establishment.
In London,
a bus driver prevented a woman from boarding a bus with her dog because there
was a Muslim lady on the bus who “might be upset by the dog.” As the woman
attempted to complain, the doors closed and the bus drove away. When a second
bus arrived, she again tried to embark, but was stopped again, this time
because the driver said he was Muslim.
In Britain, police sniffer dogs trained
to spot terrorists at train stations may no longer come into contact with
Muslim passengers, following complaints that it was offensive to their
religion. Sniffer dogs used by police to search mosques and Muslim homes are
now being fitted
with leather bootees to cover their paws so they do not cause offense.
In British
prisons, radical Muslim gangs are imposing Sharia law on non-Muslim
inmates, who have been forced to stop playing Western music, take down pictures
of women from their cells and stop eating sausage. The gangs are also targeting
non-Muslim inmates for forced conversions to Islam.
In Leeds, more than 200 Muslim
inmates at a high security prison are set to launch a multi-million pound claim
for compensation after they were offered ham sandwiches during the month of
Ramadan. They say their human rights were breached when they were offered the
meat, which is forbidden by Islam. At the same time, Muslim
sex offenders serving time in British prisons are asking to be exempt
from a prison treatment program because the idea that “criminals should not
have to talk about their offenses” is a “legitimate Islamic position.”
Meanwhile, Muslim
prisoners in Britain
are being given fresh clothes and bedding after sniffer dogs search their
cells. The inmates say their bedclothes and prison uniforms must be changed
according to Islamic law if they have come anywhere near dog saliva. Government
rules mean prison wardens must hand out replacement sets after random drug
searches to avoid religious discrimination claims. The dogs have also been
banned from touching copies of the Islamic holy book the Koran and other
religious items. Prisoners now receive special bags to protect the articles.
At the same time, the British government has spent thousands of
pounds of taxpayer money to rebuild
prison toilets so that Muslim inmates do not have to use them while
facing Mecca.
Islam prohibits Muslims from facing or turning their backs on the Kiblah -- the
direction of prayer -- when they visit the lavatory. After pressure from
Muslim, who claimed they had to sit sideways on prison WCs, the Home Office
agreed to turn the existing toilets 90 degrees.
Muslims attending the 2012 Olympic Games in London
will be relieved to learn that toilet facilities at London's
Olympic Park are being built so they will not have to face Mecca while sitting on
the loo.
Nevertheless, the 2012 London Olympics have been plunged into
controversy by the discovery that the Games
will clash with Ramadan. In 2012, Ramadan will take place from July 21 to
August 20, while the Olympics run from July 27 to August 12. Muslims have asked
for the games to be rescheduled.
Soeren Kern is Senior Fellow for
European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos /
Strategic Studies Group. Follow him on Facebook.
Source: http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3024/britain-muslim-cultural-sensitivity
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