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Being rude to a meter maid results in a $160 ticket in Essex, UK as ticket writers given hidden microphones.
The Castle Point Borough Council in Essex, UK announced Monday that it had equipped its meter maids with hidden recording devices. Microphones will preserve every conversation with motorists for the purpose of issuing £8.
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/23/2341.asp0 (US $160) tickets to any that might use "abusive language" toward a meter maidBeing rude to a meter maid results in a $160 ticket in Essex, UK as ticket writers... more
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If you're looking for a microcosm of European Muslim society, one that exemplifies all the challenges and opportunities faced by immigrants from Muslim countries, The Netherlands may not immediately come to mind. Often overshadowed by the larger Muslim populations in Germany, Britain or France, The Netherlands has been the home of a number of personalities hostile to Islam and Muslims, including right wing politician Geert Wilders, activist and former MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali, murdered filmmaker Theo Van Gogh - all of whom have stirred up emotions of Muslims far from Europe. At the same time, Muslims in The Netherlands (who are primarily of Turkish origin) have quietly learned from their experiences and have broken barriers in political and social life - often well before counterparts elsewhere in Europe and other Muslim minority countries.
http://www.altmuslim.com/a/a/n/2939/If you're looking for a microcosm of European Muslim society, one that... more
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While engagement is not the only way forward (personal spirituality and character development is far more important), it is a necessary and important step in order to make our lives better in this world, and yes, even the next.
‘Faith and Globalization’
http://www.altmuslim.com/a/a/a/2931/While engagement is not the only way forward (personal spirituality and character... more
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This statement, "Let not the hatred of a people toward you move you to commit injustice," is perhaps one of the most profound statements in the Qur'an.
I am constantly reminded by Muslims about all the sins committed by the "West" toward the Muslim World for the past 200 years. The "West," they tell me, has colonized Muslim land, stolen Muslim resources, divided Muslim societies, and despite having physically left the land, continues to control the Muslims through its support of brutal, puppet dictatorships. Yes, individual Western governments - called the "West" by my Muslim detractors - have committed terrible crimes on Muslim soil. This cannot be denied. It also cannot be denied, however, that individual Muslims have also committed terrible crimes on Western soil.
"Believers, stand out firmly for God, as witnesses to fair dealing, and let not the hatred of others toward you make you swerve to wrong and depart from justice. Be just: that is next to piety: and fear God. For God is well-acquainted with all that you do." (Qur'an 5:8)
"...let not the hatred of some people in (once) shutting you out of the Sacred Mosque lead you to transgression (and hostility on your part). Help ye one another in righteousness and piety, but help ye not one another in sin and rancour: fear God, for God is strict in punishment." (Qur'an 5:2)
This statement, "Let not the hatred of a people toward you move you to commit injustice," is perhaps one of the most - if not the most - profound statement in the Qur'an. No matter what has been done to you, God says, you are not allowed to commit injustice.
http://www.altmuslim.com/a/a/a/2207/This statement, "Let not the hatred of a people toward you move you to commit... more
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Restricting language is only possible in a totalitarian atmosphere. It was possible in Germany, in Bulgaria, in Cuba. It is possible where only one mode of communication dominates. So, no, you can’t sing an off-color song in Bulgaria. But even without such songs, they have drunkenness, adultery and suicide – but not on the radio.
Apparently the Jamaican Broadcast Commission wants a world that is uncomplicated, without pain for their children, not obscene, not profane. But it is a great mistake to blame songwriters, musical performers and broadcasters for the coarsening of the culture which is occurring worldwide.
John Updike writes that “popular” composers, from generation to generation, “if they do not teach us how to love, do lend our romances a certain accent and give our courting rites and their milieu … a background of communal experience.”
It should never be left to government to decide what is “worthy” or meritorious, even one as wise and prescient as the one presided over by Prime Minister Golding who, after only one year, seems so well begun in the hearts of his countrymen and in the eyes of the world. Nor should it be the province of a regulatory authority to decide what isnot.
Let the people of Jamaica exercise the only permissible form of censorship – by tuning out offensive material.
Jamaica should get out of the business of censorship and stick to the vital business of hospitality and tourism for which it is so justly renown.
http://www.jamaicans.com/news/announcements/censorship.shtmlRestricting language is only possible in a totalitarian atmosphere. It was possible... more
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The drug war is nothing more than a political war backed by corrupt multinational coorporations.
ideaology about Hemp as Americas cash crop changed and the USDA announced Hemp as a noxious weed. This was all in part by the Cotton Growers Union and big Tabacco quite openly (it was alowed back then) to bank roll foney statistics showing Hemp inferior to cotton, then the pharmacutical companies got on the band wagon and have had politicians on their payroll since.
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/485/medical_marijuana_bill_killed_illinoisThe drug war is nothing more than a political war backed by corrupt multinational... more
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