The LSE Atheists, Secularists and Humanists Facebook page has a new logo.
There’s more, but I’m not sure they want me quoting them; I’ve asked and I’m waiting to hear back. The logo however is publicly visible.
And in case we haven’t seen enough screaming bullies yet, let us change the scene to Jaipur.
And here is a much more extended version of The Visit of the Agitated Gentlemen With Elevated Voices.
They’re fascism, alive and kicking and right in your face. I’m dumb with admiration for Irshad and her colleague (the two of them were on the stage talking when the Elevated Voices started screaming hoarsely and puffing themselves out like angry cats) who stayed calm in the face of that. I’m dumb with admiration for the woman standing protectively in front of them along with others, looking matter of fact and immovable.
I hate the Agitated Gentlemen. I hate them all. They should join a gorilla troupe and try to become alpha males there. That would keep them busy and out of our hair.
The LSE student paper reports on the cartoons and free speech and “Islamophobia” and shut-uppery affair. It has details.
On 20th January, members of ASH Society met with Stanley Ellerby-English, Students’ Union Activities and Development Officer, who explained “the situation, the complaints that had been made and how the action of posting these cartoons was in breach of the Students’ Union policy on inclusion and the society’s constitution.” The society agreed to certain outcomes, though these have not been disclosed yet; however, the Students’ Union will “now be telling the society that they cannot continue these actions under the brand of the SU.” [Read more…]
Jesus and Mo are watching current events. (Well they would be, wouldn’t they.) (That is one good thing about all this; Streisand effect; lots of new fans of J and M.)
Oh for god’s sake.
I was looking at something (reluctantly) in the Daily Mail, and noticed another headline, so took a look at that…
Young girl has short hair shock-horror!!!1111!!!!!!!!!!!
I know the Mail specializes in being as stupid as possible, but honestly………….
Angelina Jolie’s little tomboy Shiloh unveils her very short haircut
Angelina Jolie has said daughter Shiloh prefers to ‘dress like a boy’ and ‘thinks she’s one of the brothers.’
And now the five-year-old has a new short back and sides like her older male siblings.
Shiloh dressed in utilitarian black for the fun day out with her mother and two of her brothers, Knox, three, and eight-year-old Pax, which exacerbated the effect.
Exacerbated the effect?? Made a bad thing even worse? Because a child of five has short hair? Jeezis, police gender roles much?
I feel like starting a Butch League or something.
I’ve done a lot of posts about all this shut-uppery at UCL and Queen Mary U and LSE. I thought it might be useful to collect them all in one place.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2012/01/when-certain-muslims-voiced-their-offense/
https://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2012/01/developments/
https://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2012/01/they-will-take-more-consideration/
https://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2012/01/1-shut-up-2-shut-up-3-shut-up/
https://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2012/01/just-a-kind-request/
https://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2012/01/behold-theocracy-in-action/
https://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2012/01/who-gave-these-kuffar-the-right-to-speak/
https://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2012/01/more-from-the-goombahs/
https://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2012/01/no-longer-a-safe-space/
https://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2012/01/emergency-everybody-to-get-from-street/
Great news! The LSE Students’ Union has another statement out. It’s another pip. It’s about an urgent EGM on Thursday – which I take to be an Emergency General Meeting (but perhaps it’s Electric, or Elegant, or Educational, or Elevated*). Emergency, emergency! Why I bet we can guess what that is…
In light of recent events there will be two anti-discrimination motions being discussed and debated at an EGM this week, these are: No to racism – no to Islamophobia! and Stop Anti-Semitism Now.
Guessed right. [Read more…]
The letter to the Guardian cited a survey.
“Muslims deserve a better press than they have been given in the past decade.” And according to a recent ComRes poll, one in three people in Britain today believe that the media is responsible for “whipping up a climate of fear of Islam in the UK”.
The letter calls it a ComRes poll, but that’s just a brand name. What it really is is an Ahmadiyya Muslim Association survey, and to be exact, it’s an Ahmadiyya Muslim Association UK Islamophobia Survey. It’s not an impartial bit of research, it’s an agenda-driven poll.
The poll was commissioned by one of the UK’s oldest Muslim groups, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, in order to inform its plans to counter the tide of prejudice against Islam and highlight strategies to promote better community relations. [Read more…]
