The true meaning of nobility.
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The true meaning of nobility.
H/t Ray
That Telegraph article mentioned a “Sharia Law event at the Law Society’s headquarters on Chancery Lane, central London on June 24” and provided a link but the link is a dud. However I found a link that works, and thus the event.
Developing services for Muslim clients – An introduction to Islamic Shari’a law for small firms
It’s not law. It’s not law. It’s not law. Stop calling it law. It’s not law.
Does your sole practice or small firm have a Muslim client base and practice in the following areas of law?
• Wills and inheritance.
• Family and children.
• Corporate and commercial (non-listed firms).Do you want to better understand and serve the needs of your Muslim clients and build your business?
Designed as a forerunner to a planned future seminar series on Islamic law, this event will set you thinking on an important area of client service as our expert and authoritative speakers highlight some basic concepts and requirements of the Islamic Shari’a applicable to these practice areas.
That’s actually alarming. If they’re serious, and they really think “basic concepts and requirements of the Islamic Shari’a” are applicable to laws relating to for instance family and children – then they’re a fucking menace.
The event is fully booked.
The Telegraph reported a few days ago that the Law Society will be giving a training course in sharia this summer.
Wtf?
A new training course being run by the Law Society this summer is described as an “introduction to Islamic Sharia law for small firms”.
What the hell. Sharia is not law in the UK. Period. In the UK, law is what is enacted by Parliament, it’s not any old thing that’s called “law” by one group or another. Sharia is a religious thing, not a legal thing. It’s not something the Law Society should be giving “training” in. [Read more…]
At the protest yesterday. Via Chris Moos.
In London yesterday. Via Chris Moos.
In El Salvador, a nightmare I can’t even read about without quaking with fury.
Cristina Quintanilla was 18 years old in October 2004 when, seven months pregnant with her second child, she collapsed in pain on the floor of her family home. “I felt like I was choking, like I couldn’t breathe,” she says, shaking at the memory.
Quintanilla, who lives in San Miguel, El Salvador, fell unconscious and, bleeding heavily, was taken to hospital by her mother. When she woke up, dizzy from blood loss and anaesthetic, and having lost her child, she says she was startled to find a police officer, not a doctor, by her bed. [Read more…]
Hahahahahahahaha this is the funniest headline I’ve seen in awhile – it’s in the Independent –
You must admit.
Ok so what’s the problem? What rights are they neglecting? Prisoners’? Children’s? Foreigners’? Asylum seekers’? Those of the disabled?
No, none of those. It’s the rights of Mohammed and Islam that Norway has been neglecting. [Read more…]
New news from Nigeria – Monica Mark reports in the Guardian:
For two weeks, retired teacher Samson Dawah prayed for news of his niece Saratu, who was among more than 230 schoolgirls snatched by Boko Haram militants in the north-eastern Nigerian village of Chibok. Then on Monday the agonising silence was broken.
When Dawah called together his extended family members to give an update, he asked that the most elderly not attend, fearing they would not be able to cope with what he had to say. “We have heard from members of the forest community where they took the girls. They said there had been mass marriages and the girls are being shared out as wives among the Boko Haram militants,” Dawah told his relatives. [Read more…]
A piece by channel4 news on April 25th:
Amid mounting public fury and an international outcry over the fate of 230 kidnapped Nigerian teenaged girls – now missing for nearly two weeks – the mother of one of the girls has warned that unless they are rescued urgently, she and other parents would likely be collecting their children’s dead bodies.
Speaking by telephone from Chibok, the town in north-eastern Borno state where the girls were kidnapped from their school in the middle of the night, a distressed Mrs Rahila Bitrus told Channel 4 News of her family’s anguish and accused the Nigeriangovernment of failing to act fast enough.
“They’d assured us they would rescue our children but today, it’s 11 days since the abductions and we still haven’t seen our daughters,” she said. “We are going through the very worst moment of our lives. [Read more…]