We're Going To Miss Westminster Abbey - Teachers And Students Forced To Be Sexist, Dress Like "Asians" To Celebrate Muslim Holiday (Plus: British Mosques Filled With Hate Literature)

We kind of think it behooves everyone to to be minimally aware of the other side's caricatures of them and avoid embodying those caricatures. So for instance, if we were enamored with excusing the excesses of misogynist Islam by hiding behind insipid multiculturalism, we wouldn't use the phrase "diversity project:"
Kids at the 257-pupil primary have also been told to don ethnic garb even though most are Christians. The morning assembly will be open to all parents – but dads are barred from a women-only party in the afternoon because Muslim husbands object to wives mixing with other men.... Yesterday a relative of one of the 39 others said: “Staff have got to go along with it - or let’s face it, they would be branded racist... The day aims to belatedly mark Eid, the end of Ramadan... Sally Bloomer, head of Rufford primary school, [said] “It’s all part of a diversity project to promote multi-culturalism.”
We wonder if the dress code included forcing little girls to walk around in burkas. You know, to add to the authenticity of the whole thing.
With such brave stances against the excesses of fundamentalist Islam, it's almost tough to believe that British mosques have slipped into openly promoting the most vicious kind of bigotry:
Books calling for the beheading of lapsed Muslims, ordering women to remain indoors and forbidding interfaith marriage are being sold inside some of Britain’s leading mosques... Extremist literature, including passages supporting the stoning of adulterers and waging violent jihad, was also found on sale at many other mosques regarded as mainstream institutions.
Before rolling your eyes at the "mainstream institutions" description, consider that they actually might represent the centrist Islamic position in modern day Britain. Which is a pity, because we've never gotten to see the Beatles statue in Liverpool (h/t for the mosques article: Paul)
References:
* Teachers' Muslim dress order [The Sun]
* Lessons in hate found at leading mosques [Times Online]
Previously:
* Britain Letting Distaste For Jewish State Get In the Way Of Not Having A Nuclear War In the Middle East
* If Britain Won't Stop Radical Islam, Why Should Radical Islam Stop Being Radical?
* We're Going To Miss Westminster Abbey - Sharia Courts Established In Britain





