UK’s Labour Party Woos Muslims: Promises To Ban Islamophobia, Critics Flay Miliband
With Britain going to polls in a week’s time on May 7, parties are wooing influential social groups for support. Latest in that practice is Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, who has promised outlawing "Islamophobia" if he becomes the next prime minister.
The move has been dubbed by many critics as "utterly frightening" because it has implications on free speech in Britain. Political analysts see it as a renewed effort by Miliband to pander to Muslim voters in what is being described as "the tightest general election for a generation." British Muslims voted overwhelmingly for Labour in the 2010 general election and they have numbers that can tilt the outcome in many constituencies.
Miliband made this statement in an interview with The Muslim News, "We are going to make Islamophobia an aggravated crime. We are going to make sure it is marked on people's records with the police to make sure they root out Islamophobia as a hate crime. We are going to change the law on this so we make it absolutely clear of our abhorrence of hate crime and Islamophobia. It will be the first time that the police will record Islamophobic attacks right across the country,” Miliband said. Keep reading
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Appalling Lack of Concern for Persecuted Christians
"Why Doesn't the left Advocate for Persecuted Christians?" That is the question recently raised by Lucia Annunziata in the Italian edition of the Huffington Post (click here for the piece by Andrea Gagliarducci on her article).
Annunziata is a courageous woman — it takes guts for an atheist journalist to call out her friends on the left. She hammered them for their deadly silence on Christian persecution: "I ask myself where is the left, with a capital L?" She notes that its reticence is occurring "in front of the most terrible of crimes against the weakest — the massacres of Christians whose blood is shed in many parts of the world."
The Italian leftist doesn't mince words. "Why have I not received any petition to sign, though I receive many of varied kinds? Why has no one promoted, if not a public protest, a sit-in, or a meeting? I hear no slogans for persecuted Christians, nor do I get documents or petitions on the issue." Keep reading
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