Peter Risdon

“We are not above the law.”
That’s Safdar Zia, general secretary of the Jaffria Islamic Centre, speaking in response to this:
A Shia Muslim was convicted of child cruelty yesterday after he forced two boys to flog themselves during a religious ritual.

In Arabic, Al Wahsh means the beast or the monster. Nabih Al Wahsh, an Egyptian lawyer and activist, said this during an interview in 2005:
Nabih Al-Wahsh: No, there hasn’t been a single modest and devout woman who follows her traditions and religion that was raped.
Host: It does happen. She was raped because the rapist was [...]

“The team agreed the wording was poorly worded and could cause offence. We took the decision to obscure part of it rather than spend tax payers’ money on a replacement.”
Those are the words of a spokesman for Northampton Borough Council, explaining why a sign next to a display in Abington Park Museum was censored. The [...]

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I missed this first time round, but David Thompson spotted it:
It is no disadvantage for those who thrill at enmity also to profess a universal brotherhood. There are many men who do not profess any such idea, or who do not do so with the demanded zeal, and who therefore make a most fitting object [...]

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The roots of sexual assault, from the website of DNC Disruption 08:
Sexual assault is rooted in broader systems of oppression- such as patriarchy, white supremacy, capitalism, homophobia, and colonialism- and is not separable from them in how and why it is perpetrated, experienced, and dealt with.

This is the front page article on the free copy of the Ely Standard that just dropped through my door:
A WHITE witch is about to cast a bad weather spell on Ely’s Oliver Cromwell celebrations due to take place next month. And perhaps even more controversially, the witch has told the Ely Standard that he [...]

There’s a transactional view of crime that holds a certain punishment to balance out a given crime, after which the felon has paid his or her debt to society. “If you don’t want the time, don’t do the crime,” shouted Michael Howard, when Home Secretary, to a Conservative Party conference back in the 1990s.
There are [...]

Or so suggests the Spy Blog:
We wonder if any of the Trades Union leaders realise that by accepting ” the government’s proposals for ID cards”, they have effectively agreed to a “no strike” and “no work to rule” arrangement, for any of their members who happen to work with, or to simply use, the forthcoming [...]