September 03, 2008
Happy Ramadan From The Jawa Report
You know, Sunni Muslims began celebrating Ramadan yesterday and we did not even run an offensive post on The Jawa Report about it? Either that's a sign of progress or else we're slipping.
Later this month it's Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. It's one of the holiest days of the Jewish calendar, so I'd be obliged, please, if you'd all stay at home, turn off the TV and refrain from your usual activities. Ten days after that it's Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, when Jews fast and spend the day in synagogue. So I've also asked my Times colleagues not to work then. And I will be mightily offended if I learn afterwards that any of them have been eating.So Sharia is coming to Britian, enforced by the Brit's own authorites? Scary.You might not think I am being serious. But if I was Head of Democratic Services at Tower Hamlets Council in East London, I would be. Last week John Williams e-mailed each of the borough's 51 councillors with a similar instruction.
For the duration of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, they are, he told them - every one of them, Muslim, Catholic, Jew or atheist - to behave during council meetings as strict Muslims. They are not to eat or drink; they are to break for Muslim prayers; they are to do as they are ordered by the Muslim religion.
But the order did not go over that easy.
Via BBC:Ms Eaton felt the move was "inappropriate" and "divisive".Well, might I suggest that during the next council meeting those non Muslims show courtesy to the fasting Mulsims by eating.....She said: "I am quite happy to make accommodation in my working life for my Muslim colleagues but Tower Hamlets residents, and my colleagues, come from all different backgrounds and religions."
She added: "I am concerned that this gives the impression that the council is going to be Muslim-run and that Islam is given special status in the council."
...mmmmm, mmmmm!
Fatwa?
Hat Tip: Gabriel at Ace of Spades HQ (PBUH).
