http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/multiculturalism/ en-us Thu, 2 Jul 2009 01:31:23 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283769/posts CoE school bans girl from wearing crucifix - but allows Sikh pupils to wear bangles A school told a child to remove a Christian cross she was wearing even though it lets Sikh children wear bangles as part of their religion. Lauren Grimshaw-Brown was told to take off a necklace with a cross on it because of health and safety fears. But the eight-year-old's furious mother has accused the school of double standards because they allow children following other faiths to wear jewellery on religious grounds. The mother-of-two says Lauren and brother Callan, five, have always worn crosses at St... Daily Mail (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283769/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 01:31:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2279985/posts John at Powerline is absolutely right, the proposed Obamacare legislation is more dangerous than the proposed Cap and Trade legislation. Once the American public gets “Free” healthcare, you can never take it away, but they will be more than happy to repeal legislation that increases taxes. HBD Books http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2279985/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:50:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279401/posts A recent thread on the Al-Falluja jihadist forum discussed the case of whether a Muslim who has nothing else to eat may kill an infidel in order to eat him. The discussion was prompted by a recently published book by Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi, one of the most influential jihadist sheikhs active today"Is It Permitted To Eat The Flesh of American Soldiers?" On June 13, 2009, a member of the Al-Falluja forum who uses the moniker "Al-Maqdisi's Student" wrote a post based on this passage [in full report] titled "Is it permitted to eat the flesh of American soldiers? A quote... MEMRI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279401/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:37:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271698/posts Two of Queens' largest parks are hotbeds for animal sacrifices, according to park rangers and advocates. Longtime Parks Department ranger Joe Puleo told The Post that killing animals for ritualistic reasons in the city is widespread, but that Forest Park and Highland Park are the most common locations. Perpetrators of the outlawed act are rarely busted because they perform their bloody rituals in the dead of night, and the two parks no longer have 24-hour patrols due to budget cuts. "They are never caught, because they are careful, and they never do it during the day. They do it at... New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271698/posts#comment Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:29:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264685/posts In a recent interview President Obama, I think, was logically trying to say that practical hurdles and costs in the real world mean that we cannot simply force other countries to chose a wiser form of consensual government than their own. Instead, he suggested that, "The message I hope to deliver is that democracy, rule of law, freedom of speech, freedom of religion — those are not simply principles of the west to be hoisted on these countries. But, rather what I believe to be universal principles that they can embrace and affirm as part of their national identity, the danger,... NRO Corner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264685/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jun 2009 15:57:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263988/posts Al Qaeda beheads British tourist kidnapped at African music festival A Briton kidnapped in North Africa has been murdered, reportedly by beheading, by Al Qaeda terrorists after demands for the release of fundamentalist cleric Abu Qatada... The 60-year-old Briton is said to have been killed on Sunday...by Al Qaeda ahead of Obama's speech in... Cairo today. Murdered: Edwin Dyer as seen in a video released by his kidnappers in February The statement...said they 'killed Dyer on May 31, finding that Britain...does not... care for its citizens'. It added: 'The British captive was killed so that he, and...the British state, may... DailyMail.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263988/posts#comment Wed, 3 Jun 2009 18:53:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262348/posts Ronald Takaki, who made it his life’s work to rewrite American history to include Asian-Americans and other ethnic groups excluded from traditional accounts and who helped start the first doctoral program in ethnic studies in the United States, died Tuesday in his home in Berkeley, Calif. He was 70. The cause was suicide, said his son Troy. He battled multiple sclerosis for years. “He struggled, and then he gave up,” his son said. Mr. Takaki, whose Japanese grandfather immigrated to Hawaii in the 19th century and worked on a sugarcane plantation, became a leading scholar of ethnicity and multiculturalism in... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262348/posts#comment Mon, 1 Jun 2009 19:26:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250569/posts Born and raised in Mozambique and now a naturalized U.S. citizen, Serodio, 45, has filed a lawsuit against a New Jersey medical school, claiming he was harassed and ultimately suspended for identifying himself during a class cultural exercise as a "white African-American." ABCNEWS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250569/posts#comment Thu, 14 May 2009 04:42:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249219/posts Several juveniles and adults face charges following a melee ...that began when police stopped and arrested a shoplifting suspect and an unruly crowd gathered. Police responded to a report that a man had stolen two bottles of vodka ... Workers at the store provided a description of the suspect and the car he left in, and police pulled the car over at Franklin Arterial and Fox Street a couple of minutes later. As police were arresting Jimmy Odong, 19, of Portland and recovering the stolen merchandise, a group of about 15 to 30 people gathered, with about 10 of them... The Portland Press Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249219/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 14:07:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249213/posts The private-jet industry may have finally found its savior. During a speech to Duke University’s graduating class, Oprah talked about the secrets and joys of success. Among them: owning a mansion and a jet. “It’s great to have a nice home. It’s great to have nice homes! It’s great to have a nice home that just escaped the fire in Santa Barbara,” she told the students. “It’s great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn’t great is lying to you.” She went on to explain that “you haven’t completed the circle... wsj http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249213/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 13:54:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237876/posts For decades following WWII, any discussion regarding Germany was bound to deteriorate into a discussion of Nazism and Hitler. If I post something here on this great site about, say, the Swedish National Ice Hockey Team, that thread will sooner or later end up in a discussion about Malmö and how the Muzzies have taken over large parts of Sweden as well as other places in Europe. As a Swede/European, I don't mind. Eurabia is reality and I'm convinced Americans who accuse us Europeans of being naive do so not out of malice or hatred towards Europe, but out of... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237876/posts#comment Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:39:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2230776/posts With a voice as smooth as a newborn’s bottom, the storyteller captivated his audience with little-known tales about Abraham Lincoln. His energy began to build as Lincoln’s train picks up speed, and when it entered the station and the air breaks flared, “Pssssshhhh,” Jim Woodard brought down the energy, but kept the interest level high. “Worldwide Folktales & Legends” was just one of the 55 lectures, performances, discussions and demonstrations available to students as a part of Multicultural Day on April 15 at Moorpark College. “This is one of my favorite venues to come to,” said Woodard. “The audience was... Student Voice (Ventura, Oxnard and Moorpark colleges) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2230776/posts#comment Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:43:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231218/posts Alarmed that a professional golf association proposed to exclude competitors who don’t speak English, the state Senate acted today to prohibit businesses in California from discriminating against customers, including refusing them service, based on the language they use. The Ladies Professional Golf Assn. last year backed down from a policy that would have suspended golfers who do not speak adequate English on the premise that language fluency in speeches and media interviews was critical to the sport's promotion efforts. The golfers were considered "patrons" of the LPGA, not employees. State Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) said the policy raised an... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231218/posts#comment Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:11:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2218666/posts Pop into the firestation and the chances are there'd be a group of reassuringly burly men in there waiting for the call out, with uniforms and firefighting suits tailored for their use alone. The one or two women among them would have to make do with ill-fitting adaptations of the men's outfits while the handful of Muslim women in the service would be wearing their own head scarfs. But, with the fire service anxious to attract recruits of all sexes and backgrounds, it was decided that something had to be done. So yesterday the results were uneveiled, including full-length skirts,... dailymail.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2218666/posts#comment Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:30:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2222517/posts I don’t know about you, but I’ve gone from frustrated to plain-out bored with multiculturalism. The whole thing has become such a mainstream cliché that I now avoid most things that are “mainstream.” www.politicalcastaway.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2222517/posts#comment Sun, 5 Apr 2009 00:59:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207816/posts The NHS is offering to reverse female circumcision amid concerns that there are 500 victims a year with no prosecutions The NHS is to advertise free operations to reverse female circumcisions, with experts warning that each year more than 500 British girls have their genitals mutilated. Despite having been outlawed in 1985, female circumcision is still practised in British African communities, in some cases on girls as young as 5. Police have been unable to bring a single prosecution even though they suspect that community elders are being flown from the Horn of Africa to carry out the procedures. Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207816/posts#comment Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:57:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207396/posts WATERBURY, Conn. - From a garage near an abandoned factory in the south end of town, the sound was unmistakable: roosters - lots of them - squawking in the night. It's an odd noise to hear in the middle of this city, the former brass capital of the world. But police in Waterbury, about 30 miles southwest of Hartford, knew exactly what they were dealing with recently when they gathered outside the squawking garage. It was another cockfight. Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207396/posts#comment Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:36:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2194007/posts GRAPHIC footage of a youth's brutal bashing at a train station shows three attackers taking turns to kick him in the head. Detectives investigating the vicious assault say they are appalled by the level of violence, which left the 23-year-old man from Sunshine in Melbourne's west with serious head injuries. The man was beaten even after he handed over the backpack that appeared to be the motive behind the gang-attack. com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2194007/posts#comment Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:03:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2191122/posts Barack Obama ran for office as a unifier, but it was all a hustle. His brand of politics needs enemies. Like southern slave owners of old, today's conservative Republicans represent the enemy to be vanquished by enlightened progressives from the north.  This is an old storyline that provides unlimited nourishment to America's liberal elites.  Many of us, especially those of us who work in education, have long seen this coming.  In the early stages of the diversity movement for example it didn't take long to realize who was and was not included on the ubiquitous rainbow flag.  "Diversity" was simply... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2191122/posts#comment Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:48:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175058/posts There’s growing evidence that America may be meeting its educational Waterloo and that our educational system is being captured by radical Islamists. As Robert Spencer put it so well in his classic book, The Stealth Jihad, radical Islam is subverting America without guns or bombs. The radical Islamists have scored dramatic victories in determining what students are taught in America about Islam, and we don’t even seem to know what is happening. The radical Islamists have managed a massive penetration of our educational system that teaches everyone from the youngest students all the way up to students at our colleges... The Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175058/posts#comment Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:03:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2171611/posts [This article from City journal appears essentially the same in Dalrymple's new book] Multiculturalism rests on the supposition - or rather the dubious premise - that all cultures are equal and that no fundamental conflict can arise between the customs, mores, and philosophical outlooks of two different cultures. Reality though, has a way of revenging itself upon the frivolous, and September 11 has concentrated minds a little. Some signs indicate that in Britain the pieties of multiculturalism, for years an official orthodoxy, are being challenged. The sillines, for example, of the government language practices that multiculturalism has spawned. One can... Not With a Bang But a Whimper - The Politics and Culture of Decline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2171611/posts#comment Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:57:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2162059/posts In Toronto, anti-Israel demonstrators yell “You are the brothers of pigs!”, and a protestor complains to his interviewer that “Hitler didn’t do a good job.” In Fort Lauderdale, Palestinian supporters sneer at Jews, “You need a big oven, that’s what you need!” In Amsterdam, the crowd shouts, “Hamas, Hamas! Jews to the gas!” In Paris, the state-owned TV network France-2 broadcasts film of dozens of dead Palestinians killed in an Israeli air raid on New Year’s Day. The channel subsequently admits that, in fact, the footage is not from January 1st 2009 but from 2005, and, while the corpses are... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2162059/posts#comment Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:52:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160538/posts Fears that the conflict in Gaza could spark violence between Jews and Muslims in France have been heightened as three teenagers were arrested today for an alleged anti-Semitic attack on a 15-year-old girl. An inquiry was launched after the victim said she was insulted, knocked to the ground, kicked and punched by a gang of 10 youths as she left Leon Blum school in Villiers-le-Bel north of Paris. Three of her alleged attackers - aged between 13 and 15 and all from her own school - were arrested on suspicion of ’aggravated violence and anti-Semitic insults’, according to a police... timesonline.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160538/posts#comment Wed, 7 Jan 2009 22:51:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158840/posts <p>A judge in New York has ruled against a Liberian woman who cited religious reasons for smuggling meat from an endangered species of monkey into the United States.</p> <p>Raymond J Dearie, a federal US district judge, said that Mamie Manneh was wrong when she claimed that her faith - a sect of Christianity - meant that she did not need to apply for permits to import exotic food stuffs.</p> The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158840/posts#comment Mon, 5 Jan 2009 08:48:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2158327/posts A Liberian woman from the West Brighton section of Staten Island, charged with smuggling monkey meat, has failed to persuade a judge that she needed the butchered carcasses for religious reasons. Mamie Manneh was arrested three years ago after customs agents seized a shipment of primate parts as it passed through Kennedy Airport on the way to her Bement Avenue home. silive.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2158327/posts#comment Sun, 4 Jan 2009 02:23:08 GMT