Muslim groups in Britain have branded the Government “duplicitous” for awarding Salman Rushdie a Knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

In a joint letter to The Guardian newspaper today, groups representing British Muslims including The Muslim Council of Britain, Islamic Human Rights, and the British Muslim Initiative, call the honour a “deliberate provocation and insult to the 1.5 billion Muslims around the world”.

The statement comes after widespread anger and demonstrations in Pakistan and Iran at the decision to honour the author of the “Satanic Verses”. The government of Pakistan called on Britain to repeal the honour and hardliners in the country burnt effigies of the author and the Queen in protest.

The joint statement accuses the British Government of hypocrisy and deliberately offending Muslim sensibilities “The ‘honouring’ of Rushdie at a time when the British government claims to be trying to build bridges with the Muslim community can only be seen as duplicitous” the letter reads. “We regard this as a conscious effort not only to offend Muslim sensibilities but also to sow seeds of division.”


The comments echo those made by Lord Ahmed following the announcement of the notorious author’s knighthood. Britain’s first Muslim peer said at the time: "It's hypocrisy by Tony Blair, who two weeks ago was talking about building bridges to mainstream Muslims, and then he's honouring a man who has insulted the British public and been divisive in community relations."

There is no other group in the UK, Europe or elsewhere that continually makes such outrageous demands and insulting accusations as the Muslims. Bad enough that they inflict their pre-medieval culture into our daily lives now they have decided that they should dictate who the UK government & HRH honours.

Muslims need to recall that a cartoon can be enough to cause them to devolve into psychopathic behaviours. Weekly if not daily there are throngs of people, in some country, pouring into the streets in protest of something that some group of Muslims deems to be insulting.  Makes you wonder when any of them find time to work --between the praying fests and protests.

Unfortunately the British government is all to wobbly to put the mouthy Muslims in their place. This Muslim pandering has also been condoned and is rampant in British schools.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=463887&in_page_id=1770

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Now schools are told to let Muslim girls wear head-to-toe 'burkinis' for swimming lessons

By DANIEL BOFFEY - Last updated at 14:31pm on 24th June 2007

Schools have been told they should allow Muslim girls taking swimming lessons to cover themselves from head to toe in special outfits dubbed burkinis.

An increasing number of pupils are insisting that conventional swimming costumes are "immodest" and, citing religious grounds, have been refusing to wear them.

Now councillors in Ealing, West London, are encouraging local pools to stock the £29 Lycra "burkinis" and instructing local schools to let girls wear them.

Teachers have even been given details of an online swimwear company that will deliver the two-piece burka-like outfits, which cover every bit of skin from the ankle to the neck and come with a head covering to conceal the hair.

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Official approval: A model shows off her burkini

The burkini is recommended in a document from Ealing council's Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education, which says it wants to encourage "success through diversity".

One of the authors of the report, Nora Leonard, said: "The guidance suggests that the pools allow these burkinis and I have spoken to the firm which runs our pools and they are all in favour of it."

About a quarter of pupils in the area are Muslim and the burkini idea was approved to prevent girls trying to cover their bodies with other, unsuitable clothing during swimming lessons.

"Schools are being encouraged to allow burkinis because of that," Ms Leonard said.

The burkini was designed by an Australian after a group of lifeguards began a drive to recruit more Islamic lifeguards, particularly women, following violent clashes in 2005 between Lebanese Muslim teenagers and white Australians on Sydney's Cronulla beach.

Ealing has also put forward a string of other proposals to help schools meet the needs of Muslim pupils, including setting aside designated "quiet" areas for prayer and honouring "a parent's written request to take their child to the mosque for part of the afternoon".

Schools are also told that it is "good practice" to "reassure parents that their children would not be asked to join in with songs that contradict Islamic belief (eg Christmas carols or hymns) or perform music that could be considered to promote lust, seduction, unrestricted mixing and consumption of drugs, alcohol or other intoxicants".

The report adds: "As a general rule, forms of dance such as ballet, jazz, tango and disco are unacceptable if performed in a mixed environment."

There have been controversial demands from the Muslim Council of Britain for Islamic schoolchildren to be given separate changing rooms for sports and swimming, single-sex classes for sex education, prayer rooms, new rights to Islamic worship and different uniform rules.

The National Association of Head Teachers has dismissed the demands as "completely undo-able".

The suggestions come at a time when the Government is trying to eliminate segregation and encourage "British" values to tackle extremism. 

To quote Albert Einstein:

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

As our spineless government and schools continue to dilute the British culture and country to appease Muslims what is clear is that the backbending and kowtowing will NEVER be enough for the Muslims so it is totally insane to continue to do so. 

And it is high time that the British people make their own demands.