The BBC ignoring one source of opposition to gay marriage

The BBC report here that there is opposition to gay marriage from 'Several Cabinet ministers' & '34 current and former local (Conservative) party chairmen'. This report details the debate in the Church of Scotland and appears as a headline article on the BBC news website.
Meanwhile this BBC page tells about views of gay marriage amongst:

someone in a civil partnership
Reverend Malcolm Brown, director of mission and public affairs for Archbishops' Council, Church of England
Paul Parker, Recording Clerk for Quakers in Britain
Ed Costelloe, former chairman of Somerton and Frome Conservative Association
Anthony Wells, YouGov associate director
Dr Sharon James, Coalition For Marriage campaign group
  

The BBC do not make space for any reaction to gay marriage from a group that they are normally very keen to listen to. Reading today's Telegraph I think I can see why.

'SIR – We have serious misgivings about the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, which seeks to legalise gay marriage.

As imams and Muslim leaders we have a responsibility to fulfil our sacred trust to God and present our view on these proposals on behalf of the Muslim communities we serve.

Marriage is a sacred contract between a man and a woman that cannot be redefined. We believe that marriage between a man and a woman is the cornerstone of family life and the only institution within which to raise children.

We are concerned that this radical change to the institution of marriage will impact on what is taught in schools. Muslim teachers will be forced into the contradictory position of holding private beliefs, while teaching a new legal definition of marriage. Muslim parents will be robbed of their right to raise their children according to their beliefs, as gay relationships are taught as something normal to their primary-aged children.

We support the numerous calls from other faith leaders and communities who have stood firmly against gay marriage and instead support marriage as it should be, between a man and a woman.'

Here are the signatories to that letter, it's rather long, but not long enough for the BBC to pay any attention:

Shaykh Suliman Gani
Imam, Tooting Mosque, London

Maulana Sarfraz Madni
Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board (MINAB)

Imam Abdul Qayum
East London Mosque, London

Imam Mohammed Shahid Akhtar
Central Jamia Mosque Ghamkol Sharif, Birmingham

Dr Ahmad Al-Dubayan
Director General, London Central Mosque

Mufti Muhammd ibn Adam al-Kawthari
Director, Darul Iftaa, Leicester

Shaykh Dr Haitham al-Haddad
Chairman, MRDF

Mufti Shah Sadruddin
Chairman of Jamiat Ulama Europe

Shaykh Abdul Hakim Murad

Shaykh HM Abu Sayeed
President, Da’watul Islam UK & Eire

Shaykh Ahmed Ali
Founder and Head of Al Mahad Islami, Bradford

Imam Qasim Ahmed
Iqra TV/Alkhair Foundation

Imam Mujahid Ali
Poplar Mosque, London

Mufti Mohammed Zubair Butt
Chair, Al-Qalam Shariah Panel

Imam Mohammad Talha Bukhari
Birmingham Central Mosque

Maulana Imam Shahid Raza
Head Imam, Leicester Central Mosque

Imam Wasim Kempson
Al Muntada Al-Islami, London

Syed Gulamus Syedain
General Secretary, Imams and Mosques Council, London

Hafez Mohammed Ali
Imam of Noor Ul Islam, Leyton

Shaykh Haytham Tamim
Chairman, Utrujj foundation

Imam Shaqur Rehman
Redbridge Islamic Centre, Ilford

Mohammed Kozbar
Director, Finsbury Park Masjid

Imam Azizul Hoque
Edmonton Islamic Centre, London

Maulana Imam Suleman Bodiyat
Mount Pleasant Mosque, Batley

Moulana Hashim Sacha
Chair, Rabetah Al Ulama Al-Islamiyah, Batley

Imam Shukri Majouli
Finsbury Park Mosque, London

Imam Junaid
Masjid-e-Ghousia, Lea Bridge Rd, Leyton, London

Mufti Zubair Dudha
Islamic Tarbiyah Academy, Dewsbury

Mufti Yusuf Danka
Croydon Mosque and Islamic Centre, London

Shaykh Abdur-Rahman ibn Yusuf
Imam, Masjid-Quba, Stamford Hill, London

Shaykh Shams Adduha Muhammad
Director, Ebrahim College, London

Shaikh Dr Khaled Fekry
Educational Secretary, Wembley Mosque, London

Dr Sheikh Hojjat Ramzy
Imam and Islamic Adviser (Oxford Islamic Information Centre)

Shaykh Abu Eesa Niamatullah
Director, Prophetic Guidance

Shaykh Imam Hasan Ali
London Islamic Cultural Society (LICS)

ImamAbdullah Hasan
Neelu Mosque, Rochdale

Imam Mirza M Z Akbar
Kingsway Masjid, Luton

Imam Dr Muhammad Shabir Usmani
Senior Hadith Researcher, Maidstone Islamic Centre

Moulana Muhammad Umar Nazir
Masjid Noor Luton

Moulana Qari Khadim Hussain
Head Imam, Nagina Masjid, Oldham

Moulana Khalid Qadri
Head Imam, Usmani Masjid, Leicester..

Moulana Shakir Patel
Head Teacher, The Islamic Centre, Leicester

Imam Mustapha Sefiane
Islamic Centre, St Albans

Imam Shahid Ahmed
UKIM Madina Masjid, Luton

Imam Abu Talha
Al-Ansar Islamic Centre, Ilford

Imam Muhammad Latif
Masjid al-Furqan, Birmingham

Imam Muhammad Abdus Salam
Redbridge Islamic Centre, Ilford

Imam Shoaib Nurgat
Masjid-e-Umer, Walthamstow

Imam Raja Gulfraz Khan
Edmonton Islamic Centre

Imam Huzaifa Kolia
Masjid Abu Bakr, Walthamstow

Abdul Ahad Miah
Trustee, Al-Imdaad Foundation UK

Dr Mohammed Fahim
Quranic Murkuz Trust, Woodford

Imam Yousuf Patel
Head Imam, Noor Ul Islam Mosque, Leyton, London

Yusuf Hansa
Chairman of Noor Ul Islam, Leyton, London

Imam Abdul Qadeer Baksh
Luton Islamic Centre, Luton

Imam Muhammad Tayyab
Forest Gate Masjid, London

Imam Muhammad Iqbal Awan
UKIM Madina Masjid, Luton

Shaikh Mufti Md Sadek
Chairman Baitul Abraar Jami Masjid, Luton

Cllr Salim Mulla
Chairman, Lancashire Council of Mosques

Moulana Abdul Mateen
Headteacher, Quwwatul Islam Society, Upton Lane, London

Maulana Khalil ibn Ilyas Laher
Headteacher, Weekend Madrassa, Masjid Upton Lane, London

Sabir Hussain
Solihull Muslim Community Association, Sollihull

Moulana Safee Ahmad Razvi
Head Imam, Noor-ul- Uloom, Birmingham

Imam Bilal Toorawa
Imam, Masjid-e-Anwaar, Blackburn

Daud Juneja
Chair of Trustees, Alnoor Cultural & Educational Trust, London

Imam Khalid Mahmud
Chairman, Jamia’t Us Salam Educational Centre, Birmingham

Imam Shukri Majouli
Finsbury Park Mosque

Imam Abdul Salam Rashdi
Paigham-e-Islam Birmingham

Imam Zaka'ullah Saleem
Green Lane Masjid, Birmingham

Imam Muhammad Abdullah Shakir
Greenwich Islamic Centre, London

Moulana Imran Hanslod
Imam at Church Rd Mosque, Manor Park, London

Haji Gaus Uddin
Jami Masjid and Islamic Centre, Small Heath, Birmingham

Imam Moulana Akhtar Ali
Tower Hamlets

Abdullah Kola
Newcastle Upon Tyne

Imam Aziz Ibraheem
Masjid imaan, St Helens, Merseyside

Moulana Farooq Raja
Al Hashim Academy, Dewsbury, Yorkshire

Mufti Moosa Badat
Senior Imam of Masjid e Mahmoodiya Batley

Moulana Mohammed Bhula
Senior Imam of Masjid e Umar Darlaston, Walsall

Moulana Ilyas Dalal
Head teacher, Ilaahi Masjid, Dewsbury

Moulana Imam Abdul Gafoor Salloo
Stoke on Trent

Moulana Imam Salim Patel
Thornhill Lees Central Mosque (Darul Ilm) Dewsbury

Moulana Imam Abdullah Kola
Madina Masjid Newcastle

Moulana Imam Ismail Kathrada
Makki Masjid Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire

Moulana Imam Afzal Vali Mulla
Makki Masjid Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire

Mufti Imam Hasan Mota
Masjid-e-Mahmoodiya, Batley

Moulana Imam Azhar Patel
Dawatal Islam Mosque, Batley

Qari Imam Ibrahim Mayet
Dawatal Islam Batley

Moulana Imam Mohammad Shoaib
Makki Masjid, Stoke on Trent

Moulana Abubakr Diwan
Assistant Secretary, Rabetah Al Ulama Al Islamiyyah

Moulana Yusuf Sufi
Vice chair, Rabetah Al Ulama Al Islamiyyah

Mufti Javid Pathan
Head Teacher, Preston Muslim Girls School

Moulana Imam Imtiyaz Kamal
Masjid-e-Saliheen, Preston

Moulana Imam Qari Jamil Ahmed
Masjid-e-Uthman, Huddersfield

Moulana Imam Naseebur Rahman
Masjid-e-Umar Huddersfield

Moulana Imam Qari Akram
Masjid-e-Bilal Huddersfield

Mufti Zubair Dudha
Islamic Tarbiyah Academy, Dewsbury

Imam Habil Makda
Former Imam, Snowdon Masjid, Batley

Moulana Hashim Sacha
Chair, Rabetah Al Ulama Al-Islamiyah, Batley

Mufti Yusuf Sacha
Board member of Al Qalam

Moulana Mohammed Amin Pandor
Secretary Rabetah Al Ulama Al-Islamiyah- Batley

Imam Imran Pijvi
Thornton Heath Islamic Centre

Mufti Sajid Patel
Wifaqululamah

Shaykul Hadith Maulana Ayoob Surti
Senior lecturer, Darul Uloom Leicester

Aziz Raje
Trustee, Finsbury Park Masjid, London

Maulana Imam Suleman Bodiyat
Mount Pleasant Mosque, Batley

Yusuf Raja
Lecturer in Dewsbury Markaz

Imam Mohammad
Musjid Khazra, Nottingham

Imam Mohammed ibn Saeed
Masjid Abu Hurairah, Leicester

Moulana Mehabub Shervani
Teacher, Masjid-e-Boot

Mufti Imam Salim
Selwyn Rd Masjid, Plaistow

Moulana Imam Abrar
Masjid al-Hidayah, Dewsbury

Imam Munawar Surti
Balham Mosque, London

Imam Hafiyyullah Bhayat
Zakariyya Masjid, Preston

Mufti Imam A Samad
Masjid al-Bukhari, Leicester

Imam Inamul Haq Malik
Croydon Mosque and Islamic Centre

Mufti Yusuf Danka
Croydon Mosque and Islamic Centre

Imam Ismail Pijvi
Norbury Islamic Academy

Imam Nagib Khan
Quran Academy

Imam Tehsin Abo Barirah
Bait ut-Tawheed, Ravensthorpe, Dewsbury

Faiz Ahmed
Masjid Hazrat Aisha

Molana Imam Sameer
Majlis e Dawatul Haq

Kassim Essak
Central Jamia Mosque, Southall

Imam Mus’ab Panjwani
Rawdhah Academy, Chesham, Buckinghamshire

Shuaib Palejwala
Madrasah Islamiyyah, Leicester

Imam M A Rahim
Masjid Aisha, Leicester

Arif Malek
Masjid Abu Hurayrah, Leicester

Imam Sabahul Haque
Brentwood Cultural & Youth Society

Imam Ijaz Ahmad Shaami
Hazrat Sultan Bahu Trust

Imam Obaydullah Suleman
Northfields Education Centre, Leicester

Imam Sohaib Peerbhai
Craven Arms Islamic Centre, Shropshire

Imam Abdul Razzak
Epsom Islamic Centre

Imam Arshad Qasmi
Mitcham Masjid, London

Imam Ahmed Bismillah
Central Jami Masjid, Southall

Siraaj Sidat
Masjid Abu Hurayrah, Leicester

Imam Ahmed Peerbhai
Masjid Noor, Nottingham

Imam Waqas Rashid
Muslim Education Centre, High Wycombe

Imam Khubaib Raja
Muslim Education Centre, High Wycombe

Imam Ashfaq Patel
Central Mosque, Blackpool

Suleman Sidat
Teacher, Islamic Da'wah Academy – IDA, Leicester

M F Kazi
Al-Ansaar Welfare & Education, Preston

Umar Teladia
Madressa Falah-e-Darain, Birmingham

Imam Imran Patel
Leytonstone Masjid, London

Imaam Mohammad Asif
Wernet Jamia Masjid, Oldham

Nizam Hussein
Principal, Leicester International School

Syed Arshad Nadeeem
Chairman, West London Islamic Centre & Greenford Masjid

Imam Mohamed Anas Shaikh
Assalam Centre, Manchester

Molana Aboobakar Kolia
Al-Ansaar Welfare & Education, Preston

Basma Elshayyal
Head of RE, Islamia Girls' High Schoo

Yusuf Haffejee
Head Teacher, Academy for Excellence in the Holy Qur’an

Nurul Alam
President, Islamic Association of North London, Finchley

Sameer Ismail
Teacher, Majlis-e-Da’watul Haq

Imam Faik Khamkar
Masjid Aisha, Leicester

Mohammed Lockhat
Chairman, As-Salaam Trust, Thurnby Lodge, Leicester

Moulana Hamid
London

Moulana Hanif Dudhwala
Blackburn

Moulana Haroon Patel
Leicester

Moulana Hasan
Bolton

Moulana Hasan Bodhanwi
Walsall

Moulana Hashim Limbada
Blackburn

Moulana Huzaifah
Croydon, Surrey

Moulana Ibrahim Danka
Manchester

Moulana Ibrahim Patel
Leicester

Moulana Ibrahim Tarapuri
Leicester

Moulana Idris
Oldham

Moulana Idris Patel
Walthamstow, London

Moulana Iftikhar Hussain
Birmingham

Moulana Ilyas
Dewsbury

Moulana Inamul Haq
Croydon, Surrey

Moulana Iqbal Rangooni
Manchester

Moulana Irshaad Qasmi
Mitcham, London

Moulana Ishaq Aswat
Forest Gate, London

Moulana Ishaq Kachholvi
Bradford

Moulana Ismail
Wolverhampton

Moulana Nazir
Blackburn

Moulana Imam Fakhruddin Sadhiq
Al-Falaah Learning Centre, Birmingham

Abdul-Basir Sidiq

Suleiman Kibuka
Islam Channel

Shaikh Abu Eesa Niamatullah
Director, Prophetic Guidance

Imam Nurul Amin
Hitchin Jaami Masjid, Hertfordshire

Moulana Uthman
Peterborough

Mufti Ismail Kachholvi
Bradford

Mufti Javaid
Preston

Mufti Khurshid
Dewsbury

Mufti Mohammed Ash'had
Walsall

Mufti Mohammed Ghaibee
Birmingham

Mufti Sajid Patel
Goodmayes, Essex

Mufti Salim
Manchester

Qari Zubair Surti
Birmingham

Shamim Chowdhury
Darul Ummah Mosque, London

Imam Abesamad Abdellaoui
Kingston Muslim Association

Imam Tahir Fayyaz
Abu Bakr Mosque, Southall

Imam Inayatullah
UKIM, Ealing

Imam Qari Amin
Jamia Masjid Islamic Centre, Southall

Imam Ahmed Ilmi
Darussalam Mosque, Southall, London

Shah Yahya Ahmed
Teacher, Al-Falah Primary School, Clapton

Shah Safwan Ahmed
Teacher, Al-Ashraaf Secondary School, Hackney

Shah Talha Ahmed
Teacher, Al-Ashraaf Secondary School, Hackney

Shah Shahan
Headteacher, Al-Ashraaf Secondary School, Hackney

Moulana Muhammad Ashraf Hansrot
Thornton Heath Islamic Centre, London

Moulana Farook Raja
Al Hashim Academy, Dewsbury

Imam Abdur Rahman
Bismillah Afghan Centre

Imam Adil Amjad
South Norwood Mosque

Ustadh Saleem Chagtai
London

Imam Mumin Faruki
MCA Centre, Docklands, London

Imam Abdus Samad
Norbury Islamic Academy

Imam Abdur Rahman
Bismillah Cultural Centre, Norbury, London

Imam Suhail Bawa
Khatme Nabuwwat Centre, east London

Ustadha Rifna Akhtar
Qur’an Teacher, east London

Maulana Haroon Sidat
Lecturer/Scholar, Darul-Uloom, Blackburn

Imam Aurangzeb Qazi
Al-Quraan Islamic Academic Centre, Birmingham

Ustadha Loatifa Khan
Instructor, Imam Zakariya Academy, London

Imam Khalid Mahmood Rahimee
Madani Masjid, Luton

Hafiz Mohammed Arshad
Ibrahim Masjid, Burnley

Arif Mateen
UKIM, Boston

Imam Rahmat Aziz Salik
Senior Imam, UKIM Hull

Imam Mohammed Hafeez Ullah Khan
Witton Islamic Centre, Birmingham

Imam Faruk Said
Al-Huda Mosque, Bethnal Green

Imam Zubair Baiyat
Masjid Dawatul Islam, Ilford

Mufti Imam Mohammad Ali Falahi
Masjid e Anisul Islam, Blackburn

Asim Wadiwala
Bolton Darul Uloom

Moulana Safdar Khan

Imam Abuzar
Masjid Abu Bakr, Burnley

Imam Mohammed Abbas Khan
Lewsey Farm Masjid, Luton

Moulana Yusuf Mama
Retired Imam, Batley

Moulana Imam Khalil Ahmed Kazi
Madina Academy, Dewsbury

Moulana Muhammad Asad
Scholar/Teacher, London

Moulana Imam Mohammad Kola
Darul Ilm, Dewsbury

Moulana Mubrak Aiyub Natha
Scholar/Teacher, Bolton

Moulana Imam Mohammed Mota
Jame Masjid Batley

Moulana Arshad Bhula
Scholar/Teacher, Darlaston, Walsall

Moulana Farhan Miyanji
Scholar, London

Moulana Ihsan Meer
Scholar, Dewsbury

Moulana Maqbool
Secretary of Darul Ilm Dewsbury

Moulana Ubaidul Haq
Scholar/Teacher, Dewsbury

Moulana Idris Bulbulia
Scholar/Teacher, Dewsbury

Moulana Riyaz Sayed
Scholar/Teacher, Dewsbury

Moulana Shezad Hussain
Scholar/Teacher, Dewsbury

Moulana Ibrahim Kara
Scholar/Teacher, Dewsbury

Moulana Mohammed Zakaria Shah
Scholar/Teacher, Batley

Moulana Abdullah Nana
Scholar/Teacher, Batley

Moulana Hafiullah Kholwadia
Scholar/Teacher, Batley

Moulana Farook Dawood
Scholar/Teacher, Dewsbury

Moulana Siddiq Hikmatulla
Scholar/Teacher, London

Mufti Muhammad Motara
Islamic Tarbiyah Academy

Moulana Asad Dhorat
Islamic Tarbiyah Academy

Moulana Tanweer Akhtar
Islamic Tarbiyah Academy

Moulana Shoaib Mulla
Islamic Tarbiyah Academy

Moulana Yusuf Bismillah
Islamic Tarbiyah Academy

Moulana Aftab Kothdiwala
Islamic Tarbiyah Academy

Hafiz Ashraf Dadipatel
Islamic Tarbiyah Academy

Moulana Zakariyah Chotia
Islamic Tarbiyah Academy

Hafiz Kamran Hussain
Islamic Tarbiyah Academy

Mufti A Karolia
Islamic Tarbiyah Academy

Moulana Abdul Mumin
Madrassah Islamia, Dewsbury

Moulana Adam Yusuf
UWT

Moulana Imam Farooq Rekhad
Zakariya Masjid, Dewsbury

Moulana Imam Ilyas Mullah
Masjid Umar, Dewsbury

Moulana Khabbab Raja
Al Hashim Academy, Dewsbury

Moulana Khalil Kazi
Madina Academy

Moulana Musa Jasat
Madrassah Taleemud Deen, Dewsbury

Moulana Imam Noman
Masjid Umar, Dewsbury

Moulana Imam Yunus Siqander
Masjid Bilal, Dewsbury

Moulana Abid Hussain
Madrassah Islamia, Dewsbury

Moulana Imam Saleem
Darul Ilm, Dewsbury

Moulana Imam Yusuf Munshi
Masjid Heera, Dewsbury

Moulana Shabir Munshi
Masjid Heera, Dewsbury

Moulana Mubasher Iqbal
Islamic Tarbiyah Academy

Moulana Imam Zakariyah Muqeet
Masjid Umar, Dewsbury

Moulana Masihullah Bulbulai
Masjid Umar, Dewsbury

Moulana Yusuf Dadipatel
Masjid Umar, Dewsbury

Moulana Imam Ismail Bulbulia
Masjid Umar

Moulana Sadiq Patel
Madrassah Taleemud Deen, Dewsbury

Moulana Muzafer Iqbal
Islamic Tarbiyah Academy, Dewsbury

Hafiz Malik Dad
Masjid Uthman, Dewsbury

Hafiz Suliman
Masjid Umar, Dewsbury

Mufti Salahudeen
Masjid Bilal, Dewsbury

Moulana Ilyas Patel
Dawatul Islam Masjid, Dewsbury

Moulana Abu Bakr Mayat
Masjid Noor

Moulana Ebrahim Lachpuri
Masjid Bilal

Moulana Zubair Raja
Masjid Hidayah

Moulana Muhammad Kola
Masjid Bilal

Moulana Idris Patel
Masjid Umar

Hafiz Musa Sacha
Masjid Umar

Hafiz Ahmad Mia
Masjid Umar

Hafiz Suliman Mulla
Masjid Umar

Qari Ismaeel Lunat
Norbury Mosque

Maulana Hudaifa
Crawley, London

Maulana Mooazam Vorah
Croydon Mosque

Maulana Aslam Asghar
Croydon Mosque

Qari Abdur Raheem
Croydon Mosque
Maulana Huzaifa Surti
Alkhair Mosque

Maulana Ubaid ur Rahman
Streatham Mosque

Maulana Arshad
Mitchem Mosque

Maulana Atta Ulllah
Madina Massjid, Oxford

Maulana Mohammad Sindhi
Masjid Umar, Leicester

Maulana Abdur Rasheed
Zakaria Masjid , Bolton

Maulana Imran Lunat
Jamiah Masjid, Leicester

Maulana Habib Ulllah
Masjid Ayesha, Leicester

Maulana Abdur Raheem
Masjid Ayesha, Leicester

Maulana Maudood
Streatham Masjid, London

Maulana Huzaifa
Seven King Masjid, London

Maulana Amir Aziz
High Wycombe Masjid

Maulana Musaat
High Wycombe Masjid

Maulana Hamza
Masjid Noor, Manchester

Maulana Sameer
Masjid Noor, Manchester

Maulana Zakariya
Falah Masjid, Leicester

Maulana Imran
Dawat ul Haq Masjid, Leicester

Maulana Muhammad Lunat
Jamiah Masjid, Leicester

Maulana Muhammad Kadwa
Usman Masjid, Leicester

Moulana Muhammad Tariq
Masjid Umar

Moulana Abu Bakr Mulla
Masjid Umar

Amman Abdurrauf
Teacher, Jame masjid, Leicester

Imam Yahya Musa
Islamic Centre, Upton Park, London

Abubaker Hikmatullah
Madina Masjid, Clapton, London

Imam Sajid Barber
Masjid Zakariya, Wakefield

Imam Atikur Rehman
Islamic Association of Lincoln

Imam A R Azher ul-Quadri
Raza Islamic Mission, London

Imam Shaikh Tahir Shahab Din
Hillingdon and UMO

Imam Sajid Irshad
Masjid Farooqe Azam, Burnley

Imam Nasir Akhtar
Abrahamic Foundation, Birmingham

Imam Muhammad Asif Bilimoria
Ashford and Staines Community Centre

Imam Shuaib Sufi
Masjid Uthman, Dewsbury

Imam M Z Vania
Green Academy Trust, Nottingham

Imam Ashraf Ali Lorgat
Jamia Masjid, Bristol

Imam Shafi Chowdhury
Masjid al-Huda, Leicester

Imam Sayyed Ali
Masjid Salahuddeen, Leicester

Imam Ismail Nurgat
Leicester Royal Infirmary

Zubair Kola
Headteacher, Al-Islamia

Imam Imran Sayed
Majlis Dawatul Haq, Leicester

Omar Ibrahim
Jame Masjid, Leicester

Imam Zuber Vawda
Leicester

Imam Abdul-Rahim
Founder, Radio Seerah

Imam S Khadim
Masjid Salaahuddeen, Leicester

Shaykh Ismail Dhorat
Baytul Ilm, Leicester

Moulana Ismail Karmadi
Leicester

Moulana Ismail Limbada
Leicester

Moulana Ismail Pijwi
Norbury, London

Moulana Issa Mansuri
Whitechapel, London

Moulana Masud Aalam Qazi
East Ham, London

Moulana Mohammed Anas
Manchester

Moulana Mohammed Patel
Walthamstow, London

Moulana Mohammed Saeed Mulla
Walthamstow, London

Moulana Mohammed Thawa
Forest Gate, London

Moulana Mohammed Yunus
Leicester

Moulana Muaz
Birmingham

Moulana Munawwer Surti
Balham, London

Moulana Muzammil Kara
Tooting, London

Moulana Qari Annis
Birmingham

Moulana Qari Irshad
Dewsbury

Moulana Qassim
Croydon, Surrey

Moulana Saeed Pathan
Leytonstone, London

Moulana Salim Makda
London

Moulana Salim
Walthamstow, London

Moulana Yakub Kawi Qasmi
Dewsbury

Moulana Yaqub
Blackburn

Moulana Yunus
Oldham

Moulana Yusuf Ali
Bradford

Moulana Zuber Adia
Tooting, London

Mufti Salim Taylor
London

Mufti Zakaria Akudi
Batley

Mufti Zubair Butt
Birmingham

Qari Mohammed Saeed Ravat
Walthamstow, London

Imam Tahir Awan
Hayes Muslim Centre, London

Imam Arqam
Hayes Muslim Centre, London

Hafiz Ahmed Bismillah
Central Jami Masjid, west London

Imam Abdullah
Abu Bakr Mosque, Southall, London

Imam Abdul Khalil Awan
Hayes Muslim Centre, London

Moulana Ayub Patel
Plashet Grove Masjid, East Ham, London

Moulana Zubair Mangera
Principal, Tuyoorul Jannah Madrasa, Blackburm

Imam Zubair Makda
Jame Masjid, Batley

Imam Hafiz Nageen
Jamia Masjid, St Albans

Imaam Jahangir Ahmed
Al Jalal Masjid, Luton

Imam Fakhrul Islam
Hockwell Ring Masjid, Luton

Ustadh Ahmed Bux
Jamea Masjid, Preston

Mufti Gul Rehman
The Islamic Centre, Birmingham

Imam Mohammad Arif
Al-Hijrah Mosque, Birmingham

Mufti Ibrahim Maulavi
Imam of Leytonstone Mosque

Quresh Ali
Al Hikmah Learning Centre, Bradford

Shaykh Suhel Ishaq
Jamia Hanafia Mosque, Derby

Muhammad Atiqur Rahman
Islamic Forum Europe

Yusuf Patel
Founder, SREIslamic

Imam Saeed Pathan
Ashville Masjid, Leytonstone

Fazlul Karim Chowdhury JP
Magistrate City of London Court

Zainul Kazi
President, Birmingham Jame Mosque

Imam Iftikhar ul-Haq
UKIM Southend Mosque

Dr Abdul Majid Katme
Islamic Medical Assocation UK

Mufti Asad Waqas
Masjid Usman Ghani, Lancs

Moulana Ali Asad
Madina Masjid, Newcastle

Mufti Saleem

Imam Mufti Ziyaul Haq Patel
Masjid Muadh ibn Jabal, Leicester

Imam Azad Miah
Masji al-Bilal, Luton

Imam Md Ilyas
MCA Centre, Docklands, London

Moulana Ejaz
Sharia Council, Dewsbury

Moulana Abubaker Barber
Scholar/Teacher, Batley

Moulana Shoeb Patel
Scholar/Teacher, Batley

Moulana Samiullah Kholwadia
Scholar/Teacher, Batley

Moulana Wasif Sacha
Scholar/Teacher, Batley

Moulana Umair Kola
Scholar/Teacher, Dewsbury

Moulana Suleman Makda
Scholar/Teacher, Batley

Moulana Sulaiman Sacha
Scholar/Teacher, Batley

Moulana Haroon Hans
Scholar, Dewsbury

Moulana Mustaq Bilakhdi
Scholar, Batley

Moulana Imran Esa
Scholar/Teacher, Dewsbury

Moulana Shahid Hussain
Scholar/Teacher, Dewsbury

Moulana Tariq Hussain
Scholar/Teacher, Dewsbury

Moulana Haroon Kara
Scholar/Teacher, Dewsbury

Moulana Hasan Musa
Scholar/Teacher, Dewsbury

Moulana Elyas Aswat
Scholar/Teacher, Batley

Moulana Moosa Ali
Scholar/Teacher, Nuneaton

Moulana Mohammed Atif
Scholar/Teacher, Huddersfield

Moulana Ilyas Patel
Scholar/Teacher, Bolton

Moulana Imran Hussain
Scholar/Teacher, Huddersfield

Qari Abdul Aziz Shaikh
Islamic Tarbiyah Academy

Hafiz Sajid Ravat
Islamic Tarbiyah Academy

Moulana Muhammad Delair
Islamic Tarbiyah Academy

Hafiz Hussain Abid
Islamic Tarbiyah Academy

Hafiz Abdullah Kadia
Islamic Tarbiyah Academy

Moulana Haroon
Islamic Tarbiyah Academy

Hafiz Habib Khatib
Islamic Tarbiyah Academy

Moulana Abu Bakr Diwan
Islamic Tarbiyah Academy

Moulana Shakeel Bashir
Islamic Tarbiyah Academy

Moulana Imam Abibakr Dadipatel
Masjid Umar, Dewsbury

Moulana Imam Ejaz Bashir
Masjid Heera, Dewsbury

Moulana Imam Muhammad Qasim
Zakariya Masjid, Dewsbury

Moulana Imam Rashid Kola
Masjid Heera, Dewsbury

Moulana Yusuf Patel
Madrassah Taleemud Deen, Dewsbury

Moulana Imam Abrar Khalaqan
Masjid Hidayah, Dewsbury

Moulana Imam Amin
Masjid Hidayah, Dewsbury

Moulana Imam Yusuf Siqander
Darul Ilm, Dewsbury

Moulana Imam Abdul Hakim
Darul Ilm, Dewsbury

Moulana Imam Muhammad Marghoob
Masjid Bilal, Dewsbury

Moulana Imam Maqbool
Darul Ilm, Dewsbury

Hafiz Umer Kola
Islamic Tarbiyah Academy

Moulana Imam Haroon Ismail
Zakariya Masjid, Dewsbury

Moulana Suhail Desai
Masjid Umar, Dewsbury

Moulana Muhammad Desai
Masjid Umar, Dewsbury

Moulana Ghulam Desai
Masjid Umar, Dewsbury

Moulana Ismail Dadipatel
Masjid Umar, Dewsbury

Hafiz Ghulam Mustafa
Masjid Bilal

Hafiz Farhan Adam
Masjid Umar, Dewsbury

Mufti Khursheed Alam
Masjid Bilal, Dewsbury

Hafiz Yaqub Mayat
Masjid Umar, Dewsbury

Moulana Bilal Aswat
Al Furqaan Prep School, Dewsbury

Moulana Yaseen Badat
Islamic Tarbiyah Academy

Moulana Shiraz Khan
Madrassah Hira, Dewsbury

Qari Irshad
Ilahi Masjid, Dewsbury

Moulana Maseehullah Patel
Masjid Hidayah

Moulana Suheb Shaykh
Masjid Umar

Moulana Yusuf Sacha
Madrassah Taleemudeen

Shaykh Muhammad Farooq
Masjid Umar

Moulana Hasan Bhula
Masjid Umar

Hafiz Imtiaz Mullah
Masjid Um ar

Hafiz Abdus Salam Sacha
Masjid Umar

Hafiz Afzal Adam
Masjid Umar

Moulana Abul Qasim
Masjid Umar

Moulana Muhammad Nana
Masjid Umar

Imam Khalid Patel
Masjid Uthman, Leicester

Imam Minar Ali
East End Islamic Centre, Plaistow

Zakariyya Mohomed
Masjid al-Imam Bukhari

Rayan Mahmud
Iqra TV

Syed Neaz Ahmad
Anchor, NTV Europe

Imam Asjad
Abu Bakr Mosque Southampton

Imam Shokat
Abu Bakr Mosque Southampton

Imam Zahoor
Abu Bakr Mosque Southampton

Imam Junaid
Abu Bakr Mosque Southampton

Umar Kika
Masjid ul Madni, Aston, Birmingham

Imam Sufiyan Bora
Rugby Mosque

Moulana Riyaz Atcha
Al-Huda Education Academy, Preston

Moulana Zakir Atcha
Al-Huda Education Academy, Preston

Moulana Yusuf Atcha
Al-Huda Education Academy, Preston

Moulana Yasin Atcha
Al-Huda Education Academy, Preston

Allama Khalid Mahmood
Director, Islamic Academy of Manchester UK

Hafiz Ibrahim Kapodrawi
Forest Gate, London

Moulana Imam Aamir Aziz
Muslim Education Centre, High Wycombe

Moulana Imam Abdul Awwal
Imam of Masjid Al Farouq, Walsall

Moulana Abdul Kader Suleman
Balham, London

Moulana Abdur Rahim Mir
Bradford

Moulana Abdur Rahman Ahmed
Forest Gate, London

Moulana Abdus Salam Kokni
Birmingham

Moulana Abdus Samad
Norbury, London

Moulana Ahmed Sarkar
Leicester

Moulana Ajaz
Dewsbury

Moulana Arif Polli
Preston

Moulana Ashraf
Croydon, Surrey

Moulana Ayub Bande Elahi
Leicester

Moulana Ayub Shah
Leicester

Moulana Dilawer
Whitechapel, London

Moulana Farid Patel
Forest Gate, London

Moulana Farook Kazi
Preston

Moulana Habibullah Munshi
Preston

Moulana Habil
Batley

Moulana Najib Khan
Bristol

Moulana Shamsuddin
Oldham

Moulana Shamsuddin Ibn Bodra Alom
Bethnal Green, London

Moulana Sohail Bawa
Forest Gate, London

Moulana Sulaiman Wadi
Bristol

Moulana Tariq
Dewsbury

Moulana Thameerudin Qasmi
Manchester

Mufti Abdul Muntaqim
Bow, London

Mufti Arif Ravat
Stamford Hill, London

Mufti Ashfaq Surti
Bradford

Mufti Faizul Rahman
Manchester

Mufti Ibrahim Musa
Leicester

Mufti Umer Farooq Desai
Clapton, London

Mufti Yusuf Akudi
Dewsbury

Qari Mustaq
Bolton

Qari Tayyab Jhangwi
Birmingham

Moulana Ismail Badat
Jame'ah Uloomul Qur'an, Leicester

Shaikh Ali Amjad
Ebrahim College, London

Imam Qasim
Central Jami Masjid, west London

Imam Arqam Momaya
Hayes Muslim Centre, London

Imam Muhammad Saddiq
Acton Mosque

Shah Mohammed Shuib
Teacher, Imam Zakariya Academy, London

Nadeem Mohammed
Masjid Bilal, Blackburn

Imran Patel
Quwwatul Islam, Upton Lane, London

Umar Faruk Patel
Masjid-e-Sajideen, Blackburn

Imam Mohammed Imran Pivji
Thornton Heath Islamic Centre

Imam Arshad Bismillah
Chapel Walk Mosque, Rotherham

Anas Mullah
Madrassah Islamiyyah, Dewsbury

Mufti Imam Muhammad Nazir
Masjid-e-Noor, Blackburn

Imam Mumtaz Malik
South London Islamic Centre

Imam Idris Pijwi
Penge

Hanid Dudhwala
Muslim Welfare Institute, Blackburn

Dr Abeer Pharaon
Community Activist, Manchester

Moulana Imam Anis Patel
Epsom

Rafiq Ismail Patel
Muslim Youth Centre, Blackburn

Imam Mufti Mohammad Ali
Falahi Masjid, Blackburn

Imam Afzal Valimulla
Makki Masjid, Hecmondwike

Dr Abdel Salam Mraish
Grand Mufti, Religions 4 Peace

Imam Abdul Majid Iltaf
Al-Hidayah Academy, Crawley

Imam Muhammad Arshad
Mitcham Islamic Centre

Imam Adil Amjad
South Norwood Mosque

Imam Abdul Qadir
Balham Mosque, London

Shah Jafar Abdullah
Al-Ashraaf Secondary School, Hackney

Imam Bilal Patel
Jameah Islameah, East Sussex

Imam Moosa Limbada
Battersea Mosque

Imam Mahmood Hassan
Khatme Nabuwwat Centre, Stockwell

Imam Mufti Nazir
Masjid Noor, Blackburn

Ustadha Tahira Akram
Qur’an Teacher, Walthamstow

More on the Palestinian links to Nazis in World War 2 and now

The truth hurts and that's why Islamists, their supporters and apologists try to hide the truth and prevent others from learning the truth. This is true in the Middle East, the rest of the Muslim world and much of the West.

'Among the facts Ms. Ebéné didn't want the visitors of her center to learn is that the Palestinian wartime leader "was one of the worst and fanatical fascists and anti-Semites," as Mr. Rössel put it to me.
...
The mufti orchestrated the 1920/1921 anti-Jewish riots in Palestine and the 1929 Arab pogroms that destroyed the ancient Jewish community of Hebron. An early admirer of Hitler, Husseini received Nazi funding-as did Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood-for his 1936-1939 Palestinian revolt, during which his thugs killed hundreds of British soldiers, Jews and also Arabs who rejected his Islamo-Nazi agenda.
After participating in a failed fascist coup in Iraq, he fled to Berlin in 1941 as Hitler's personal guest. In the service of the Third Reich, the mufti recruited thousands of Muslims to the Waffen SS. He intervened with the Nazis to prevent the escape to Palestine of thousands of European Jews, who were sent instead to the death camps. He also conspired with the Nazis to bring the Holocaust to Palestine. Rommel's defeat in El Alamein spoiled these plans.
...
... it is often claimed that the mufti's Hitler alliance later discredited him in the region. Nothing could be further from the truth. In the Mideast, Nazis were not only popular during but also after the war-scores of them found refuge in the Arab world, including Eichman's deputy, Alois Brunner, who escaped to Damascus. The German war criminals became trusted military and security advisers in the region, particularly of Nazi sympathizer Gamal Nasser, then Egypt's president. The mufti himself escaped to Egypt in 1946. Far from being shunned for his Nazi past, he was elected president of the National Palestinian Council. The mufti was at the forefront of pushing the Arabs to reject the 1948 United Nations partition plan and to wage a "war of destruction" against the fledgling Jewish state. His great admirer, Yasser Arafat, would later succeed him as Palestinian leader.
...
The mufti "invented a new form of Jew-hatred by recasting it in an Islamic mold," according to German scholar Matthias Küntzel. The mufti's fusion of European anti-Semtism-particularly the genocidal variety-with Koranic views of Jewish wickedness has become the hallmark of Islamists world-wide, from al Qaeda to Hamas and Hezbollah. During his time in Berlin, the mufti ran the Nazis' Arab-language propaganda radio program, which incited Muslims in the Mideast to "kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history and religion." Among the many listeners was also the man later known as Ayatollah Khomeini, who used to tune in to Radio Berlin every evening, according to Amir Taheri's biography of the Iranian leader. Khomeini's disciple Mahmoud Ahmadinejad still spews the same venom pioneered by the mufti as do Islamic hate preachers around the world '

More here http://www.ejpress.org/article/3942

Spread the word about the links between the Palestinians and the Nazis. Maybe this picture could help illustrate the link, this is of Hezbollah (more accurately hizb' Allah) terrorists saluting in a familiar manner in 2008

Or this one from the West Bank just this weekend, flying right near the mosque in the Palestinian town of Beit Omar

Oddly no Palestinians were offended enough to remove the flag. Strange that...

Major 30% reduction in modelers estimates of Climate Sensitivity (Skeptics were right) « JoNova

'Effectively the power of CO2 to warm just got 30% less, according to a team of researchers, many of whom have in the past have published more alarming papers.  Remember "there is no debate" and "global warming is a fact" a lot "like gravity". (And that gravitational constant g could be revised by a third soon, right?)'

Read the whole article here at Jo Nova http://joannenova.com.au/2013/05/major-30-reduction-in-modelers-estimates-of-climate-sensitivity-skeptics-were-right/

Don't expect any reporting of this on the warmist BBC.

Football quiz time

Only 5 Premiership players played every minute of every Premiership game this 2012/2013 season... Who are they?

True the Vote Founder: DOJ Scrutinized Us After IRS Filing

This is what happens if you dare to oppose the Obamamessiah on USA. Do you believe couldn't happen in UK? What proportion of HMRC, police etc. are Labour supporters? Activists?

More here http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/14/True-the-Vote-Founder-DOJ-Also-Investigated-Us-After-IRS-Filing

India to Israel thanks to Islamist terrorists Elder of Ziyon: These religious Jewish girls can kick some serious a**

'Sarah wasn’t available for an interview, but she also has quite an amazing story. Born into a Hindu family in Mumbai, India, her father was a friend of Rabbi Gavriel and his wife Rivka, who were both murdered when terrorists attacked the Chabad House (Jewish community centre) in Mumbai in November 2008. Out of solidarity with the Jewish people, Sarah’s entire family converted to Judaism and migrated to Israel in 2009. Sarah took up Muay Thai while studying in a religious school.'

More here

Twitter or...

It's our choice!

It's just your dirty mind...

You should be ashamed of yourself!

Thanks to VixxyLix / Victoria for the image.

It’s official: thanks to Stephen Hawking’s Israel boycott, anti-Semitism is no more – Howard Jacobson | Engage - the anti-racist campaign against antisemitism

' Why is Israel alone of all offending countries to be boycotted? Perhaps because it's that offending country which also just happens to be Jewish?'

More here http://engageonline.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/its-official-thanks-to-stephen-hawkings-israel-boycott-anti-semitism-is-no-more-howard-jacobson/

Some Friday evening Penny from Big Bang Theory

I'm still behind with my Big Bang Theory watching but here's an image from the recent episode, 'The Tenure Turbulence', that I haven't seen but looks well worth watching... Penny's gravity defying bosom.

Now that's gravity defying and rather impressive.

Fatah's Drive Against "Normalization" :: Gatestone Institute

'... how can there ever be a peace process when any Palestinian who meets with an Israeli is immediately denounced as a traitor? It is worth noting that most of these denunciations are coming from the "moderate" Fatah, and not from Hamas.'

File under PA hypocrisy.

More here http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3719/fatah-israel-normalization

The one hundred and fifty first weekly "No shit Sherlock" award

This week's award arises from a report in papers that using a mobile phone raises blood pressure...
"No shit Sherlock"

What is 'The Special One' planning?

Nicely done but what does Arsene Wenger sound so much like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Time for some Joy Division

I love this track from the first Joy Division album 'Unknown Pleasures'.

For a real insight into Ian Cutis, you must watch the film 'Control', it's seriously moving.

An interesting insight into Jordanian views on how serious shooting unarmed schoolgirls is. They were Jewish so that might colour their opinion.

'Last month, 110 Jordanian parliament members signed a petition calling for the release of Ahmad Daqamseh, a Jordanian soldier who gunned down a group of Israeli schoolgirls on a field trip to the "Isle of Peace" border area of Naharayim in 1997, killing seven.'

Context here http://www.timesofisrael.com/jordan-mulling-diplomatic-and-legal-measures-against-israel/

Patriotism and the English 'intellectual'

"England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during 'God save the King' than of stealing from a poor box. All through the critical years many left-wingers were chipping away at English morale, trying to spread an outlook that was sometimes squashily pacifist, sometimes violently pro-Russian, but always anti-British."

George Orwell, 1941.

BBC institutionally pro Labour?

Following the appointment of Labour's James Purnell, BBC are now to appoint Ian Katz deputy editor of The Guardian as editor of Newsnight.

Don't the BBC bosses care about looking biased? Or is it that they know they can't be stopped?

It seems that the Newsnight line on Israel and the Palestinians won't be changing either; read this from 2001 if you can stomach it.

Dambusters: Flypast To Mark Raid Anniversary

Real heroes commemorated today.
http://news.sky.com/story/1091537/dambusters-flypast-to-mark-raid-anniversary

Tweet from Harriet Sherwood (@harrietsherwood)

Harriet Sherwood (@harrietsherwood) tweeted at 6:24 AM on Thu, May 16, 2013:
Brilliant story + pic - how not-so-fast food (KFC!) reaches Gaza from Egypt via tunnels in four-hour delivery service http://t.co/xHi1U58Drh
(https://twitter.com/harrietsherwood/status/334902129586237440)

I wonder if it has struck Ms Sherwood that Egypt is blockading Gaza? I wonder if Ms Sherwood thinks that Egypt's blockade is illegal? Maybe Ms Sherwood blames Israel for this as well.

Maybe Harriet Sherwood prefers not to think about Middle East matters, it's easier for her that way.

What is the tattoo on Penny's right buttock?

Sheldon said he saw the Chinese character for 'soup' on Penny's right buttock, Penny said it was the character for 'courage', who's correct?

So which is on Penny's right buttock?

Remember Sheldon's made mistakes with Chinese languages before, he went into the Chinese restaurant to complain about the food. "Oxen are in my bed! Many, many oxen!"

Come on Penny/Kaley Cuoco put us out of our misery...


If you don't watch Big Bang Theory then this probably makes no sense.

UNWRA proud to support the aim of destroying Israel

From Palestinian Media Watch:

At the official launch of two German-funded UNRWA projects in southern Lebanon, Director of UNRWA Affairs in Lebanon, Ann Dismorr, posed with a map that erases the State of Israel and presents all of it as "Palestine."

The map includes both the Palestinian Authority areas as well as all of Israel. Above the map is the Palestinian flag and the inscription "Arab Palestine." The text at the bottom of the map also says "Palestine." The neighboring countries Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are all named on the map as is the Mediterranean Sea. Israel is not mentioned or designated anywhere. Several places and cities, both in Israel and from the Palestinian Authority, are included on the map of "Palestine": The Negev desert, Be'er Sheva, Rafah (Gaza), Hebron, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa, Acre, Tiberias and the Dead Sea.

The map was presented at the launch of an UNRWA project to improve the water supply network and rehabilitate shelters in the Rashidieh Camp, and was a gift from the "Palestinian Women's Union," the Palestinian news site pn-news.net reported.

There's more including an explanation of the significance of the pattern on that bag at Elder of Ziyon

Ed Miliband political and economic genius

On 24 July 2012 the BBC reported approvingly:

'Labour leader Ed Miliband has declared the political "tide is turning" against the economics of austerity, after a meeting in Paris with French President Francois Hollande.

He said he and Mr Hollande agreed that Europe needed a "different way forward" to deal with the debt crisis.

...


Mr Miliband held a half-hour meeting with the French president, a fellow centre-left leader, at the Elysee Palace, saying afterwards: "The points of agreement we have were around the fact that the tide is turning against an austerity approach, that there needs to be a different way forward found.

"What President Hollande is seeking to do in France and what he is seeking to do in leading the debate in Europe is find that different way forward.

"We are in agreement in seeking that new way that needs to be found and I think can be found."'

Today the BBC report somewhat less cheerfully that:

'Official figures show France has entered its second recession in four years after the economy shrank by 0.2% in the first quarter of the year.

Its economy shrank by the same amount in the last quarter of 2012. A recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth.

France has record unemployment and low business and consumer confidence.

...

France entered its worst recession since World War II in 2009. Although it was thought to have been in recession in 2012, these figures have now been revised to show only one quarter of negative growth.

The news comes on the first anniversary of Francois Hollande being sworn in as president.

Earlier this month, the European Commission warned that France would enter recession this year and said the eurozone's economy would shrink by 0.4%.

...

In France, the rate of unemployment is running at 10.6% and is forecast to rise further next year.

Its deficit is also expected to rise sharply, the commission says, to 3.9% of GDP - well above the EU deficit target of 3%.

But French unemployment is below the eurozone average, which was 11.4% in 2012 and is expected to hit an average of 12.2% this year. In both Greece and Spain, it is expected to peak at 27%.

The German growth figure was far weaker than expected. Economists had expected to see growth of 0.3%'

So in 2012 Ed Miliband supported Mr Hollande's policies as a way out of the economic crisis and as being better than George Osborne's so called austerity plan. How about now that France has gone back into recession whilst the UK has not? Perhaps the BBC could ask Ed Miliband or the unusually shy Ed Balls that question, perhaps not!

The one hundred and fiftieth weekly "No shit, Sherlock" award

This week's award is presented to the Electoral Commission for their conclusion as reported by the Docklands and East London Advertiser that:

'In its latest research, it found “strongly held views” that electoral fraud is more likely to be committed by, or in support of, candidates standing in areas with significant South Asian communities, specifically those with roots in parts of Pakistan or Bangladesh. Tower Hamlets has a large Bangladeshi population.'

No shit, Sherlocks.

No Jewish event can be commemorated without comparing Israel's treatment of the Palestinians with the Nazis' treatment of the Jews - well not by Lynne Jones (@lynnejones_exMP)

Tomorrow is the 70th anniversary of the end of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, the largest revolt against the Nazis extermination of the Jews during the Second World War. The revolt was put down but not before 13,000 Jews were killed in the ghetto during the uprising of which around 6,000 were burnt alive or died from smoke inhalation. Once the revolt was ended the remaining 50,000 residents were mostly shipped to concentration and extermination camps, in particular Treblinka.

Jürgen Stroop's internal SS daily report for written on 16 May 1943, stated:

"180 Jews, bandits and sub-humans, were destroyed. The former Jewish quarter of Warsaw is no longer in existence. The large-scale action was terminated at 20:15 hours by blowing up the Warsaw Synagogue. ... Total number of Jews dealt with 56,065, including both Jews caught and Jews whose extermination can be proved. ... Apart from 8 buildings (police barracks, hospital, and accommodations for housing working-parties) the former Ghetto is completely destroyed. Only the dividing walls are left standing where no explosions were carried out."

Why do I bring this matter up today? First because it's an important anniversary but second because Lynne Jones used this anniversary for one of her customary anti-Israel Tweets:

Subtlety is not really her string point is it, mind you neither is understanding of the reality of the Israel / Palestinian conflict.

As a matter of interest, 18 days after I posted this to show Lynne Jones that Hamas did indeed regularly 
speak hatred against Jews, Lynne Jones has not yet managed to provide a response. Why?

Howard Bloom on The Boston Bombing - Was the cause poverty or oppression?

Again and again sensible, logical people point out the truth but the majority of the west's governments and media are too blind or deaf to listen. They prefer to believe that Islam is 'the religion of peace' and that the West is always to blame.

The Palestinians view of Israel per Pew's latest market research

So we are told that the Palestinians want to live in peace alongside Israel but Pew's market research shows that only 14% of those in the Palestinian Territories think that there is a way for Israel and the Palestinian Territories to coexist peacefully and that 45% support armed struggle as the best way to achieve statehood with another 22% supporting armed struggle along with non-violent and negotiations.

It's strange that the BBC and many western politicians keep telling us that the Palestinians want peace and that Israel's actions are the main obstacles to peace, when the Palestinians have been saying the opposite to pollsters for years. In a 2007 poll, 77% Palestinian respondents said “the rights and needs of the Palestinian people cannot be taken care of as long as the state of Israel exists.” In a 2011 poll, 61% of Palestinians said they saw a two-state solution only as a stepping-stone to Israel’s ultimate eradication.

To give the Palestinians their due, they don't hide their aspirations, it's idiot Western journalists and politicians who should know better, unless their real aim is also the destruction of Israel.

Peter Mandelson and immigration

Lord Mandelson said:

‘In 2004 when as a Labour government, we were not only welcoming people to come into this country to work, we were sending out search parties for people and encouraging them, in some cases, to take up work in this country.’

Remember that between 1997 and 2010, net migration to Britain totalled more than 2.2 million, that's more than twice the population of Birmingham.
Also remember that the annual net immigration figure quadrupled under Labour from 48,000 people in 1997 to 198,000 by 2009.

It was Andrew Neather who let the cat out of the bag when he revealed why the Labour government deliberately opened "up the UK to mass migration" - It was at least in part due to a politically motivated attempt by ministers to radically change the country and "rub the Right's nose in diversity".

Remember that in this piece I reported the very senior civil servant who said ‘When I was at the Treasury, I argued for the most open door possible to immigration [because] I saw it as my job to maximise global welfare not national welfare.’

Also remember this about the effect of immigration on jobs.

'The myth peddled by Blair's acolytes – that high levels of immigration generated significant economic benefits for the existing UK population – was demolished in 2008 by a House of Lords select committee. It concluded: "We do not support the general claims that net immigration is indispensable to fill labour and skills shortages. Such claims are analytically weak and provide insufficient reason for promoting net immigration." Reinforcing this point, the government's Migration Advisory Committee recently confirmed that immigrants do "displace" some British workers – ie, take their jobs, most likely those at the bottom end of the pay ladder.' 

Nobody should let any Labour  spokesman get away with any comments on immigration, when in power they deliberately engineered a massive rise in immigration, a rise they didn't control because they didn't want to control it. Now as British cities are increasingly split into mono-cultural ghettos and inter-race tensions rise, we are simply reaping the fruits of Labour's policies.


As an aside here's a brief summary of the numbers of people who immigrated to the UK through history:
Hugenots - 40,000-50,000 in 17th century
Indians - 80,000 pre First World War
Africans - Around 15,000 pre First World War
Germans - Around 50,000 pre First World War
East European Jews - 120,000 pre First World War and maybe another 25,000 pre Second World War
Others fleeing Nazi Europe - 50,0000

Let's compare that with immigration post 1997.
Total net migration to the UK rose sharply from 1998 onwards, with levels being above 150,000 in all but one year since 1999. That's 150,000 a year but that's net of Brits leaving the UK.  So an average of 150,000 net is equivalent to half of the immigration to this country across 300 years. Remember that the next time you're told that we've always had immigration into the UK. Also remember that when you hear David Cameron hailing as a success cutting net immigration to under 100,000 a year.

Well done Danny Baker

The Sony radio awards were presented last night and I am pleased to report that Danny Baker won gold in the Best Entertainment Programme section for his 5Live show:

The Danny Baker Show

WINNER: GOLD

Danny Baker - Presenter
Lynsey Hipgrave - Co-presenter
Clare Davison - Producer

Campbell Davison Media for BBC Radio 5 live

What the Judges Said

"Danny expertly sews the whole program together with the flair and palpable enthusiasm of someone who oozes with a love and desire to be on the radio." 

I wonder if the 'pinheaded weasels' who sacked Danny Baker from BBC Radio London, and thus caused so many people to have less cheerful and intelligent afternoons, regret their decision.

The same Danny Baker show also picked up a Bronze in the Speech Radio Broadcaster of the Year section:

Danny Baker

WINNER: BRONZE

Danny Baker - Presenter
Lynsey Hipgrave - Co-presenter
Clare Davison - Producer

Campbell Davison Media for BBC Radio 5 live

What the Judges Said

"This broadcaster inspires absolute devotion from listeners for good reason, and the judges admired his ability to transform everyday situations into gloriously surreal radio – always taking the audience with him. Unique. Original. Inventive. Constantly surprising. This entry was a joy to listen to."

Media links to the Barack Obama administration - "It's a family matter" (part 2)

Does this graphic make it easier to understand why the US media is so soft on investigating Barack Obama especially re Benghazi?

No family links with the BBC, that I know of, so we'll have to put the BBC's unwavering support down to love.

Media links to the Barack Obama administration - "It's a family matter"

Thanks to mrctv for the video.

BBC News - I do... for now. UK Muslims revive temporary marriages

The BBC report approvingly of sharia compliant for Shia Muslims anyway, temporary marriages.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22354201

Not so popular amongst Sunni Muslims...

A Premiership team to take on the PFA team of the year

This is the PFA team of the year.
David de Gea (Manchester United)
Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City)
Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham)
Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United)
Leighton Baines (Everton)
Michael Carrick (Manchester United)
Juan Mata (Chelsea)
Gareth Bale (Tottenham)
Eden Hazard (Chelsea)
Luis Suárez (Liverpool)
Robin van Persie (Manchester United)

That team is a nice 4-4-2, with the option to play 4-1-3-2

Here's a team that I think could give them a decent match:
Pter Cech (Chelsea)
Patrice Evra (Manchester United)
Matija Nastasic (Manchester City)
Per Mertersacker (Arsenal)
Branislav Ivanovic (Chelsea)

Frank Lampard (Chelsea)
Steven Gerrard (Liverpool)
Santi Cazorla (Arsenal)
Theo Walcott (Arsenal)
Maraoune Fellaini (Everton)
Daniel Sturidge (Liverpool)

My problem was up front where the number of in-form strikers during this season has been small, it was a toss up between Benteke and Sturridge and I went with Sturridge as I feel he would fit the rest of the team better in a 4-5-1 system.


What do you think? Could my team be competitive?

Do you see how it works now?

Even the BBC report that:

'The US Internal Revenue Service has apologised for improperly subjecting conservative political groups to extra scrutiny, a tax official said.

In the 2012 campaign season, groups applying for tax-exempt status with the words "Tea Party" or "patriot" in their names were singled out, the IRS said.

The agency asked some for donor lists, in violation of its own policy.

...

The words "Tea Party" and "patriot" were added to a list of red flags without the approval of senior management.

That's how the left operate, outside of the rules and line manager approval, anything to destroy the right.

'

The Benghazi hearings

What happened in Benghazi is becoming more clear every day and it reflects terribly upon Barack Obama's administration. For this reason the BBC are desperately trying to minimise their coverage of this story., When was the last time you heard a detailed report on the BBC News? The BBC's US & Canada news page currently looks like this

Do you see the report hiding as the seventh most important story?

And when you read that report what do you learn?

'Official talking points about an attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya, were edited by the state department to remove references to terrorism, a US television network has reported.

The revelation by ABC News contradicts earlier White House comments that the memo was mostly developed by the CIA.

...

The controversy stems in large part from an appearance on Sunday chat shows soon after the attacks by Susan Rice, the US Ambassador to the UN, who said the attack had grown out of an anti-US protest.

Other officials have said they knew at the time it was an organised, armed assault, possibly by an Islamist militant group.

According to ABC News, as the dust settled in Libya the state department offered input on the talking points memo to be distributed to Congress and to Ms Rice.

The state department wanted to remove a reference to earlier CIA warnings about terror threats in Benghazi and excise the mention of Ansar al-Sharia, a group linked to al-Qaeda, ABC News reported.

State department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in an email to intelligence and White House officials obtained by the ABC that the reference should be dropped because it "could be abused by members [of Congress] to beat up the state department for not paying attention to warnings", the network reports.

In November, White House press secretary Jay Carney said the information given to the public in the wake of the attack had been supplied by the intelligence community.

He said at the time: "The White House and the state department have made clear that the single adjustment that was made to those talking points by either of those two institutions were changing the word 'consulate' to 'diplomatic facility' because 'consulate' was inaccurate."

On Wednesday, a US diplomat in Libya during the attacks gave the first public account of the incident, in a Congressional hearing.

Gregory Hicks, deputy chief of mission in Tripoli, expressed frustration with the lack of military response to the incident, telling lawmakers he believed a second attack would have been deterred by a swift reaction.

The Pentagon has said it could not have done anything to assist the besieged Americans.

And Mr Hicks criticised an official review of the attack, saying it focused too much on low-ranking officials.

That probe, led by former Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Pickering and Adm Mike Mullen, singled out the diplomatic security and near eastern affairs bureaus for criticism.
It said "systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies at senior levels" in those teams led to a "security posture that was inadequate for Benghazi and grossly inadequate to deal with the attack that took place".

In congressional hearings in January, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took responsibility for the security failures at the compound.

Some analysts say that Mrs Clinton, who has been cited as a possible Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, could be haunted by the incident if she chooses to run.'

That last line helps to explain why the BBC are minimising coverage of this story, they want to protect Hillary Clinton from too much negative publicity. Just as they minimised negative coverage at the tome of the Benghazi attack in order to reduce damage to Barack Obama's re-election campaign.

Be under no illusion that the BBC is an unbiased news organisation it is a campaigning body.


Meanwhile elsewhere in the media, here's Judge Jeanine Pirro letting rip at Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and letting everybody know what really happened.

Elsewhere HotAir report what David Petraeus had to say at the time of the attacks. He was then the Director of the CIA but was forced to resign in a personal scandal shortly thereafter.


This is a major news story but the BBC will continue to minimise coverage of it as they consider supporting Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and the US Democratic Party more important than reporting the truth.

Iran’s Ahmadinejad could face 74 lashes over election ‘violation’ - Alarabiya.net English | Front Page

'Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may face punishment if charged with breaking electoral rules, the country's electoral watchdog said.' 

More here http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/2013/05/13/Iran-s-Ahmadinejad-could-face-74-lashes-over-election-violation-.html

It's hard not to laugh...

Extremist Islamist leaders preaching to UK students, says study - Telegraph

'Extremist Islamist leaders preached to crowds of students at almost 200 official events at universities including Cambridge in the past year, a study has revealed.

A total of 180 events promoted by union-affiliated societies had talks given by people who had "a history of extreme or intolerant views", according to a study of external speakers at 21 universities, which also included University College London and Birmingham.

More than a quarter of those public talks held by Islamic societies in the year until March are thought to have had segregated seating for male and female students.'

More here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10052872/Extremist-Islamist-leaders-preaching-to-UK-students-says-study.html


And you wonder why so many students at British universities are so brainwashed against Israel?

The lies we tell ourselves about moderate Islam - 'religion of peace?

'On April 30, the Pew Research Center issued the results of a wide-ranging survey, "The World's Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society," which entailed more than 38,000 face-to-face interviews conducted in over 80 languages with Muslims on four continents.
Among the more chilling findings – and there are plenty – relate to the question of support for suicide bombings. It turns out that 40 percent of Palestinians, 29% of Egyptians and 15% of Jordanians say they believe suicide bombings and other attacks targeting civilians are justified to defend Islam.
...
... out of Egypt's population of 82.5 million, a whopping 24 million think it is OK to strap explosives to one's chest and detonate them in a crowd of innocent people. If even 1% of these Egyptians are willing to actually carry out such an attack, it would mean there are a potential 240,000 suicide bombers in the Nile state alone.

And the problem is not confined to the Middle East.

According to Pew, nearly 1 in 5 Malaysians, 1 in 4 Bangladeshis and 1 in 7 Pakistanis also endorse suicide attacks. That translates into 5 million Malaysians, 37 million Bangladeshis and 23 million Pakistanis who see nothing wrong with suicide bombings.'

More here http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/the-lies-we-tell-ourselves-about-moderate-islam/

Don't confuse lamb and goat

The Sunday Times reports that 'goat has been found in place of lamb in processed food'.

My view: getting goat instead of lamb, how lucky can you be...

The PFA Team of the Year

In case you, like me, missed the team of the year announcement:
David de Gea (Manchester United)
Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City)
Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham)
Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United)
Leighton Baines (Everton)
Michael Carrick (Manchester United)
Juan Mata (Chelsea)
Gareth Bale (Tottenham)
Eden Hazard (Chelsea)
Luis Suárez (Liverpool)
Robin van Persie (Manchester United)

Hard to disagree with many of these apart from De Gea as goalkeeper, what about Reina?

It'd be hard to come up with a better Premiership team or even one that could be competitive, have a go and I'll post my suggested team tomorrow.

Welcome to London

Isn't it disgusting how Israel dominates the Middle East

The map that the BBC won't show.

Ed Miliband says an EU referendum is 'wrong' - Telegraph

"Our national interest lies in staying in the European Union and working for the changes that will make it work better for Britain" 

Ed Miliband just doesn't understand what the EU is for and what its aims are. Odd because they are clearly stated.

More here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ed-miliband/10050367/Ed-Miliband-says-an-EU-referendum-is-wrong.html

What really happened in Benghazi and do the State Department memos hold the answers?

If you rely upon the BBC for your news then this sory will mean next to nothing as the Obama-loving BBC just don't cover this story.

So read this from Fox News and then this link to some MSNBC coverage. When even MSNBC are asking questions of the Obamamessiah's administration's story then you know something's up.

A Friday Night Rule 5 Music Video - Definitely NSFW

This video by Robin Thicke ft. T.I., Pharrell for 'Blurred Lines' has been receiving quite a lot of admiring looks, and you can see why.



So how about a look at the alternative uncensored (for which you can read topless) version?

OK but only because you've been very good this week...


Aren't I good to you?

Ken Livingstone, do you still think that Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi is "one of the most authoritative Muslim scholars in the world today" who "has done most to combat socially regressive interpretations of Islam on issues like women's rights and relations with other religions"?

I see that Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the man who Ken Livingstone defended and described as "one of the most authoritative Muslim scholars in the world today" who "has done most to combat socially regressive interpretations of Islam on issues like women's rights and relations with other religions"? has been at it again.

This time the delightful Qaradawi opined whilst in Gaza that "This land has never once been a Jewish land. Palestine is for the Arab Islamic nation,"

Factually incorrect but what do you expect from a man who has previously called for the death penalty for apostates


and describes homosexuality as 'a crime' for which people should be punished?

Sheikh al-Qaradawi also said the following in a speech by aired on Al-Jazeera on 30 January 2009.

"Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the [Jews] people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by Hitler. By means of all the things he did to them – even though they exaggerated this issue – he managed to put them in their place. This was divine punishment for them. Allah willing, the next time will be at the hand of the believers."

What do you have to say about your 'progressive' Islamist now Ken?

Do you still stand by this defence of Sheikh al-Qaradawi?



Seriously Ken Livingstone sickens me and I rejoice every day that he is no longer Mayor of London.

You can read more about Sheikh al-Qaradawi here. Maybe Ken Livingstone should look up the word of Taqqiya.

The moderate Palestinian Authority and the BBC's refusal to report their genocidal wishes

Palestinian Media Watch reported on Wednesday that Senior PA official Jibril Rajoub had said that: "I swear that if we had a nuke, we'd have used it this very morning"
Something worth reporting by the BBC? Would the BBC have reported an Israeli MK for saying similar?

Here's the context of the above quote:

'The following is the translation of senior PA official Jibril Rajoub's interview, in which he swears that the PA would use nuclear weapons against Israel, if it possessed them:

Lebanese TV host: "The American [John Kerry] came to the PA. They are talking about reviving negotiations, about getting back to the table with the Israelis... Will you go back to the negotiations game?"

Jibril Rajoub: "There is no going back to negotiations unless the source of authority is the international resolutions, with a time frame and with the freezing of all unilateral Israeli steps: Jerusalem, the fence, settlements and prisoners."

Host: "You've heard Israel's refusal."

Jibril Rajoub: "That doesn't matter. Listen. We as yet don't have a nuke, but I swear that if we had a nuke, we'd have used it this very morning." 

[Al-Mayadeen TV (Lebanon), April 30, 2013]

I've taken the BBC to task previously over its eagerness to report any less than pleasant comments made by obscure Israeli rabbis whilst ignoring the regular genocidal threats made by senior Palestinian religious and political leaders.

Freedom of speech under Islam

'A Nepali teacher who taught chemistry at Qatar Academy  has been jailed in Doha on felony charges for insulting Islam.'

Do read the whole article here http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/09/qatar-jails-a-nepali-teacher-on-charges-of-insulting-islam/

The reality of Palestinian peace proposals - Partners in Peace?

'The Israeli side, which included representatives from right and left, tried to understand the Palestinians' vision of the end of the strife– "Let's talk business." The Israelis delved to understand how we can end the age-old, painful conflict. What red lines are they willing to be flexible on? What resolution will satisfy their aspirations? Where do they envision the future borders of the Palestinian State which they so crave?

We were shocked to discover that not a single one of them spoke of a Palestinian State, or to be more precise, of a two-state solution.

They spoke of one state – their state. They spoke of ruling Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Akko, Haifa,and the pain of the Nakba [lit. the tragedy – the establishment of the State of Israel]. There was no future for them. Only the past."There is no legitimacy for Jews to live next to us" – this was their main message. "First, let them pay for what they perpetrated."

In the course of a dialogue which escalated to shouts, the Palestinians asked us not to refer to suicide bombers as "terrorists" because they don't consider them so. "So how do you call someone who dons a vest and blows himself up in a Tel Aviv shopping mall with the stated purpose of killing innocent civilians," I asked one of the participants.

"I have a 4-year-old at home," answered Samach from Abu Dis (near Jerusalem). "If God forbid something should happen to him, I will go and burn an entire Israeli city, if I can." All the other Palestinian participants nodded their heads in agreement to his harsh words.

"Three weeks ago, we gave birth to a son," answered Amichai, a religious, Jewish student from Jerusalem.
"If God forbid something should happen to him, I would find no comfort whatsoever in deaths of more people."'

More here http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/must-read-israeli-peacenik-meets.html

Arab and Muslim anti-semitism

'The Arab goal isn't human rights. They want to destroy the Jewish state and have Jews revert to the second-class status (at best) that they held in the Middle East for the past 1400 years. The idea that Jews aren't meekly submissive to their more numerous cousins is what causes this pure hate, not land disputes or "settlements."'

More here http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/why-are-human-rights-organizations.html

The BBC just can't help themselves

This morning there's an article on the BBC website entitled 'Cleveland abductions: Do white victims get more attention?'. Here's an extract:

'Charlton McIlwain, a professor at New York University and the author of Race Appeal: How Candidates Invoke Race in US Political Campaigns, defines the syndrome: "White women occupy a privileged role as violent crime victims in news media reporting."

In other words, the victim is white and middle class. Ideally, she is saved - by a white guy.

"Our victims are colour-coded," says McIlwain. A proper victim is one who looks like a journalist, he says.

"Research shows that in terms of crime victims, they are people who we view as being like us - like those who are covering the events or reading about them," he says.

"Our national ideal of who is vulnerable - and who holds victim status - are those who are white and female."'

Oddly the same theory does not hold when it comes to racialist murders in London. Compare the BBC's coverage of the murders of Stephen Lawrence and Kriss Donald. Stephen Lawrence was a black 19 year-old youth who was murdered by two white youths in 1993, Kriss Donald was a white 15 year-old boy who was murdered by a gang  of men of Pakistani descent in 2004.

Searching for Stephen Lawrence on the BBC news website reveals the following articles:
All Results (1,532) News (1,359) TV & Radio Programmes (93) Sport (32) TV & Radio Sites (16) Blogs (14) About the BBC (7) Local (archive) (4) Learning (2) Music (1) Elsewhere on the web (4)

Searching for Kriss Donald reveals this somewhat smaller list:
All Results (121) News (119) Blogs (1) TV & Radio Sites (1)

Stephen Lawrence received over twelve times the coverage as Kriss Donald.

I believe that a study of the prominence given to each report would show an even larger discrepancy, as whilst Stephen Lawrence's murder and the subsequent trials of those accused of his murder were headline news and Stephen Lawrence's family have been regular BBC heroic figures, I barely remember the BBC's coverage of the Kriss Donald murder.

So on the BBC do black victims of racially related murder get more attention than white victims?

The one hundred and forty ninth weekly "No shit, Sherlock" award

This week's award is awarded in the full knowledge that the recipient knew that the answer was obvious before they undertook the research. So the award is less about the recipient than publicising the report.

The Commentator reveals for the second year running that:

'the BBC has been shown to have an inherent Left-leaning bias through its newspaper procurement policy which has again displayed a tilt towards The Guardian newspaper.'

The BBC biased towards the left and full of Guardian readers - "No shit, Sherlock"


Here's some more:

'The news comes despite the continuing decline of the Guardian newspaper circulation amongst the general public. The paper, which openly declares its Left-wing editorial line, is one of the least read outlets in the United Kingdom, chalking up around 215,000 sales per day in 2012, compared with the Daily Telegraph's 518,000. 
Despite these statistics, the BBC continues to purchase more copies of The Guardian (68,307 copies) than both the Telegraph (57,763) and The Times (59,490) and manages to pick up 50,398 copies of The Independent over the course of a year, a paper which registered an average of just 75,802 sales per day so far this year, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations.'

The World's End

The third part of the ice cream and beer themed trilogy is coming... Following Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, comes The World's end - complete with obligatory Simon Pegg fence jumping gag!

Today is V.E. Day

Today is V.E. Day, the day we celebrate the victory of the Allied powers over Nazi Germany which ended the Second World War. The history of the end of the Second World War: the fight for Berlin, the last days in Hitler's bunker and the subsequent chaos make for interesting study but the real sentiment should be relief that the war ended and sorrow for the millions of people (Jews and others) murdered by the German National Socialist Party lead Germany and for the other civilians and armed forces that died to free Europe from Nazi tyranny.

Unfortunately the end of the Second World War did not end tyranny. Instead it ushered in a period of Communist tyrannical rule in Eastern Europe that would last until 1989, some would argue longer. It must be remembered that not only did the Russian Communist rulers kill many more civilians than Nazi Germany, but also that the Russian Communists were willing allies of Nazi Germany right up until Germany invaded Russia. National Socialism in Germany and Communism in Russia started as bedfellows and might have remained so had Hitler not made a grievous error.

Why are these people so cross with Nigel Lawson? – Telegraph Blogs

It's important to know what's behind some of the attacks on Lord Lawson's call for the UK to leave the EU.
This Telegraph piece makes some good points, but don't forget the EU pensions and requirements... See previous blogposts.

Remember that EU pensions are paid on the understanding that the EU can remove this pension, if in the view of the Commission or the Luxembourg Court, they "fail to uphold the interests of the European Communities".

Also remember that (per Guido):

'The European Court of Justice has ruled that retired Eurocrats including the yacht-loving Lord Mandelson will be allowed to dodge tax on a huge scale. Brussels pensions are exempt from national taxes, meaning that the likes of Mandelson and Neil Kinnock only have to cough up 8% on their five-figure taxpayer-funded EU income. Am guessing the Euro-Judges will benefit from their ruling too. The decision to permit an official tax avoidance scheme for former EU officials comes as Brussels cracks down on tax dodging across the continent.'

Remind me which is the 'apartheid state'?

Israel

or Saudi Arabia

And which one the screaming idiots of the left complain about and which they don't.

From the BBC :

'Eight people - four Saudi nationals and four Tanzanians - have been arrested in connection with the bombing of a new Roman Catholic church in the northern Tanzanian city of Arusha on Sunday.'

More Islamist terrorism against Christians and the culprits include more Saudi Arabian nationals, does anybody not realise what's going on in the world?

Now a Palestinian rock thrower has been killed by a thrown rock, will BBC & other anti Israel bodies stop reporting rock throwers as if a joke?

'A Palestinian Authority Arab who stoned cars in Samaria was killed by one of his own rocks, police have concluded. A Jewish man held in connection with the death has been released.

The Arab teenager hurled heavy stones at Israeli-owned vehicles along a Samaria highway last Tuesday evening. He managed to hit one car, which was driven by a resident of the nearby town of Emmanuel.

...

A final forensic report, released over the weekend, showed that the attacker was killed when a stone he threw hit the car driven by the man from Emmanuel. The stone hit the car's tire and bounced back at high speed, hitting the attacker and leaving him with a fatal head injury.'

The full story is here.

Elder of Ziyon: Outrageous BBC headline - and article - on Syria airstrikes

BBC mouthpiece for anti Israel sentiment AGAIN
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/outrageous-bbc-headline-and-article-on.html

Be very careful at Paddington Station

Seems a dangerous set of toilets to use...


Many thanks to Alex Masterley for the spot.

Fun football facts for Sunday

A big Premiership Sunday with Liverpool vs Everton and Manchester United vs Chelsea. It's a big betting day as well as of critical importance to the teams and managers.

Here's some fun facts that might help or surprise you.

Liverpool v Everton has seen more red cards than any other fixture in Barclays Premier League history - 20 of them.

Liverpool have scored nine goals in the two Premier League games Luis Suarez has missed this season - One man team?

The last six Manchester United vs Chelsea mstches in all competitions have produced 29 goals at an average of 4.8 goals per game - Not likely to be nil nil draw.

Manchester United have won just two of their last five league games - Still won the Premiership.

Manchester United are the only team not to concede a penalty in the Premier League this season and the only team not to receive a red card - Referee favourites?

Chelsea have scored 15 headed goals in the league this season, more than any other Premiership team - Team of short skillful players?

Interruptions, interruptions

Beeb Bias Craig  is back with a stonking piece of analysis of BBC bias. Take a read, it's well worth it.

Jenn from Rules of Engagement topless

You know Rules of Engagement, it's repeated on E4 seemingly endlessly during the daytime. The only reason to watch this programme would be to see Jenn scantily dressed. If you don't know the show then here's Jen

That's Bianca Kajlich aka Jennifer.

This is Bianca Kajlich showing somewhat more of her body in the film 30 Minutes or Less.

Bianca Kajlich - 30 Minutes or Less by thisjeenius

Religious Freedom

The Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent advisory body created by the International Religious Freedom Act to monitor religious freedom abuses internationally, released its 2013 report, which idenitifes “governments that are the most egregious violators.”

The 15 countries are Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Uzbekistan, Egypt, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Vietnam, all of which severely restrict independent religious activity and harass individuals and groups for religious activity or beliefs. These nations are classified as Tier 1 “countries of particular concern” (CPCs) in the report.

Burma -  Military government of a particularly nasty type
China - Single party Communist state
Eritrea - Single party state split 62.5% Christian, 36.5% Muslim
Iran - Islamic republic under Shariah Law
North Korea - One party authoritarian regime, based on Communism (shh)
Saudi Arabia - Islamic republic under Shariah Law
Sudan - Single party Islamic state
Uzbekistan - Former part of Communist Soviet Union
Egypt - Islamic state, now under partial control of Muslim Brotherhood
Iraq - Islamic state with troubled past and future
Nigeria - Troubled African country, approx 50% Muslim and 50% Christian
Pakistan - Islamic state
Tajikistan - Former part of Communist Soviet Union
Turkmenistan - Former part of Communist Soviet Union
Vietnam - Communist state

So of the 15 above countries:
Islamic - 6
Large part Islamic -2
Communist or ex Communist - 6
Military government - 1

Makes you think...

Corrections and clarifications | From the Guardian | The Guardian

' In two articles (Ukip stands by candidate despite links with BNP, 25 April, page 6, early editions;Ukip candidates may have BNP or criminal past, Farage admits , 26 April, page 21), we stated that Caven Vines, a candidate for Ukip in Rotherham, had close links to the British National party. This was incorrect. We apologise to Mr Vines for the error.' 

From The Guardian here http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2013/may/02/corrections-and-clarifications

Too little, too late? Job done?

Nazis ‘shipped arms to Palestinians’ - Israel News, Ynetnews

If anyone is surprised by this then they really haven't been paying much attention...
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3248081,00.html

BBC News - Gatwick Airport: Controlled explosions carried out

Testing security systems? Trying to disrupt Gatwick without actually planting any explosives?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-22374309

Hey Hamas supporters, do you support this?

National Post reports this rather nasty news. News that the usual Hamas supporters and apologists that I debate with would rather wasn't made public as it rather queers their claim that Hamas are misunderstood and really rather cuddly, not Islamist terrorists.

'It is three weeks since his arrest, but Ismail Halou still has streaks of purple bruising on the soles of his feet.
The 22-year-old was filling cars at his family’s petrol station in Gaza City at 5 p.m. on April 4 when a black jeep pulled into the forecourt and police stepped out to order him into the car. He was blindfolded and driven to the nearest police station.

“I could hear the screams of people being beaten in the rooms next to me,” he recalled. “Two men held my legs down and tied them together on a wooden board then they beat the soles of my feet with a plastic rod.

They beat me for at least five minutes. I was crying and screaming with agony. It was the worst pain I’ve ever felt.”

After the beating, officers set to work shaving off the one-inch fin of gelled hair that was the cause of his arrest.

“At no point did they tell me why they had arrested me,” Mr Halou said. “I found out from neighbours when I got home it was my haircut.” He could not walk for three days after his release.

Police in Gaza, the Palestinian coastal enclave run by the Islamist faction Hamas since 2007, have arrested at least 41 men on charges of immodesty this month, some because their haircuts were deemed culturally inappropriate, others because their trousers were either too low-slung or too fitted. Most were beaten, all of them had their heads forcibly shaven.
 

...

 

Hamas security forces routinely use brutal tactics against political opponents in Gaza, but a violently enforced public modesty campaign is new. It has shocked a community hardened to conflict and poverty. Some Gazans are terrified that Hamas is driving them towards unapologetic, militant, Islamic fundamentalism.
 

In March, the United Nations issued a statement cancelling their annual Gaza marathon because Hamas had forbidden women, both local and foreign, from running alongside men, a practice it had allowed for the previous five years. This month a new law was introduced forbidding girls and boys over the age of nine from being educated alongside, or taught by anyone of, the opposite sex.
“There is no question that Gaza is more ’Islamicised’ now that it has been at any point since Hamas took power and it is getting worse,” said Samar Zakout, the deputy director of Al Mezan human rights organisation in Gaza.

“To the international community, the Hamas leadership say they respect human rights. But at home they are struggling to convince their members they are protectors of traditional values.”'

So come on all you screamers of "We are all Hamas now!", what say you now about your cuddly friends?