A poster advertising a high street clothes store’s bikini has had a burkha painted over the top of it.The model acquired the full-length veil in a poster displayed on the side of a bus stop in Normanton, Derbyshire.The advert, featuring a £3.99 bikini on sale at H&M, was vandalised with black graffiti, leaving only the eyes of the female model uncovered.The poster has been causing controversy across the country, with black spray paint being daubed over the scantily-clad model in Muslim areas of Birmingham and London. Similar adverts in Balsall Heath, Birmingham, and Tower Hamlets, London, have been blacked out – reportedly by outraged Muslims or feminists. [..]
Gulfraz Nawaz, from the Jamia Mosque, close to the defaced advert in Derby, said: ‘Some people of the Muslim community could find an advert like that offensive and react to it, which clearly someone has. ‘Firms behind advertising campaigns like that should be a little more sensitive about the location of posters.’ Censored! ‘Vandals’ paint full-length burkha over model in bikini advert.
I antikken var de mindre snerpede, men det var også inden en vis profet blev opfundet. Som vi fortalte, er bikinien et over 2000 gammelt påfund, se f.eks. disse fra Piazza Armerina på Sicilien.
Von Trier er ikke nazist, han er kommunist
Hvis han ikke i mellemtiden er blevet muslim. Det burde sikre en snarlig absolution fra parnasset. Ivørigt er han hverken morsom eller genial, ligesom han ikke er jøde, adelig eller katolik. Hvad han er, er ikke godt at vide, så det tænkeligste er, at vi forlader emnet her.
I sine film gør Lars von Trier en dyd ud af ikke at trave i nogens fodspor, men i sin karriere som menneske er han knap så kræsen. Hans mor var kommunist, og så langt tilbage han kan huske, har han også selv stemt kommunistisk……Lars von Trier er som antydet fuld af paradokser. Evigt åndeligt søgende, men også kommunist. Politiken 17 maj 2009, Trier præsenterede ”Idioterne” i Cannes med knyttet næve og til tonerne af ”Internationale”. – Andre end Søren Espersen gik i Triers gynge: Nazi-Esben: Det var modigt af von Trier.
Smag og behag nu også en sag for multikulturalismen
Historien her er ikke specielt interessant for det emne den omhandler, men i højere grad for dækningen af dette emne. Det er klart at i en polariseret verden hvor den ene side er besat af offertænkning og afsløring af racistiske rænker, vil der ske et skred henimod nidkærhed og inflation af krænkelsernes potentiale. Gemen frygt er formentlig drivkraften her: Når tidens største stigma er at blive kaldt racist, hvilket som bekendt ikke længere behøver at have noget med racer at gøre, bliver enhver tale om forskelle mellem racer på forhånd umuliggjort. Drister nogen sig alligevel til dette sidder vedkommende med en abe på skulderen, og skal f. eks. en journalist skrive om sagen må han for enhver pris sikre sig ikke at få denne abe på sig. Han må bruge pegepinde og staveplader for at distancere sig fra historiens objekt.
Dette er spekulativ motivfortolkning, men det er vanskeligt at forklare manglen på saglighed og de mange besværgelser der kommer i bevægelse på anden vis – hvorfor ikke bare holde sig nøgternt til emnet? Her er det gået helt galt for journalisterne, med komiske konsekvenser. Det er således en helt ureflekteret antagelse at mænds tiltrækning af kvinder er aldeles blind for ydre karakteristika som bl. a. dem der har med race at gøre.
[…] Dr Kanazawa, a lecturer at the London School of Economics, has published findings based on a survey of white, Asian, black and native American men and women who were asked to rate each other’s attractiveness based on photographs. Black women scored lowest, Asian highest.
The controversial Japanese academic, an evolutionary psychologist, concluded this is because African women have higher levels of testosterone than other races and therefore have more masculine features. […]
It is not the first time that Dr Kanazawa, 48, a lecturer within the department of management at the LSE, has been accused of peddling racist theories.
In 2006 he published a paper suggesting the poor health of some sub-Saharan Africans is the result of low IQ, not poverty.
Professor Paul Gilroy, a sociology lecturer at the LSE, said: ‘Kanazawa’s persistent provocations raise the issue of whether he can do his job effectively in a multi-ethnic, diverse and international institution.
‘If he announces that he thinks sub-Saharan Africans are less intelligent than other people, what happens when they arrive in his classroom?’ He added: ‘The LSE risks disrepute if it fails to take a view of these problems.’ […]
He once declared: ‘The only responsibility scientists have is to the truth. Scientists are not responsible for the potential or actual consequences of the knowledge they create.’ […]
The LSE said it had begun an investigation. A spokesman said: ‘The views expressed by this academic are his own and do not in any way represent those of LSE. […] ‘Black women are less attractive than others’: Controversial LSE psychologist sparks backlash with his ‘scientific’ findings
Her på Snaphanen kan vi helt tilslutte os Kanazawas ord om at “forskeres eneste ansvar er over for sandheden”. Man kunne faktisk sige at det mest “kontroversielle” her er kravet om at naturvidenskabens resultater skal tilpasses følelserne hos LSEs kunder. Vi er til ulidelighed bekendt med denne sandhedsrelativisering på de pludrende humaniorafag, men som man ser her er selv harmløs tale om race stadig fastfrosset af multikulturel dogmatik (LFPC).
Moldavien: Islam er en virus og alle muslimer er terrorister
Ingen slinger i valsen her, men de har nok heller ikke nogen statsadvokat, kun århundreders blodige erfaringer i regionen at basere deres synspunkter på. Måske man skulle modificere udsagnet til at denne “virus” er særligt smittefarlig for straffefanger, psykisk svage personer med behov for autoriteter, og desillusionerede sværmere? Frie mennesker falder ikke for denne totalitære ideologi (LFPC).
CHISINAU — Hundreds of Moldovans have taken to the streets in Chisinau to protest the government’s recognition of the country’s tiny Muslim minority, RFE/RL’s Moldovan Service reports. Some participants in the rally warned that the decision would open the door to terrorism and lead to mass conversions to Islam.
“We want to guard our borders and to defend our Orthodox faith…. The Muslims are like a virus. If you let in just a few they will multiply,” one female participant at the rally told RFE/RL, refusing to give her name.
Another woman in the crowd outside the government building said Muslims would introduce polygamy and “harems” to Moldova. And a priest named Gheorghe was quoted by local media as saying at the rally that the Muslims “are all instructed in terrorism.” Moldovans Rally To Protest Formal Recognition Of Islam
I kølvandet på fredagsbønnen opstod der prodemokratiske demonstrationer
Dagens Ritzau.
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