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Two thoughts on this Sunday Morning…
Posted by Duncan on July 6th, 2008
1st Thought: Isn’t it funny how progressives like to force religion on others…
Parents were outraged that the two boys from year seven (11 to 12-year-olds) were punished for not wanting to take part in the practical demonstration of how Allah is worshipped.
They said forcing their children to take part in the exercise at Alsager High School, near Stoke-on-Trent – which included wearing Muslim headgear – was a breach of their human rights.
I am somewhat reminded ’bout the biblical story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego being told to worship an idol by the Babylonian king, and refused to bow down because it was against their God to do so. Now I am not saying that we can expect those British school kids to be thrown into a furnace (yet), but they are being punished the same. But what else can we expect from our enlightened betters in the progressive/socialist/communist movement… The fact that this is even happening in England shows how far freedom has fallen there in the name of political correctness and “diversity”.
England… sorry to see ya go guys….
And Mike over at The Jawa Report has a great comment on this:
It appears that religious diversity education in Britain concentrates exclusively on having infidels learning to pray to Allah. There are no reports of Muslims being required to take Holy Communion.
Heh.
2nd Thought :
I had mentioned earlier ’bout Sen. Warner’s braindead attempt to revive the federal 55mph highway mandate. I missed this:
So the Feds are going to think ’bout forcing the states to reinstitute the 55 mph limit in order to save an enormous 167,000 barrels of oil a day… and this will have a major impact on oil prices, but we can’t drill in ANWR because it will only give us, by conservative (no pun intended) estimate, a measly 876,000 barrels a day. Anybody else see the cognitive disconnect here?
July 6th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
How about this for a cognitive disconnect.
The 876,000 barrels a day is an estimate for the peak of production…in 2025. In addition the “the crude could begin flowing by 2013.”
July 6th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Amlodhi, you didn’t provide a link, but the reports I’ve read discussions of by people who know the oil business sound like the report you are apparently quoting from, and those reports are highly flawed. Some of the critical flaws are the estimates of time-to-production. Much of the hold-up to production is the environmental and court process, not technical issues, which Congress could abbreviate, since the oil companies have long figured out how to minimize environmental impact in an area like ANWR.
While you’re correct that it will take some years to production, we’re talking more about 3-5 years to production, not 13-15. But if we don’t start moving to production at all, then it will always be another 5 years in the future.
July 6th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
CT,
I agree, had we started drilling in ANWR back in 1995, then it would already be producing for us. Is it the only answer, by no means. But until the alternatives become more economical, we have to continue to depend on oil production, and to stick our heads in the sand and deny it is simply not an option.
I had a 350.00 electric bill last month.
To put in a solar panel system 17-22,000 dollars. And that is only for 3000 watts. When your AC unit draws 3500 watts.. you realize quickly that it won’t run your entire house if the AC is running. And what happens when its cloudy outside.. or its night time…??
To put in a windmill system… 8500 bucks for 400KwH, or 20-30,000 grand for 2000kwh. And then the wind better be blowing…..
I am all for “free” and “renewable” energy… just to expensive at this time….
July 6th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Duncan, I saw this story yesterday. The most discouraging aspect, though was not the event itself (after all, stuff happens all the time) – rather it was the craven response of the school administrators.
Since when is forced worship and detention for noncompliance part of “education” or exhibiting “sensitivity”? Where was the administration when this was happening? Does the curriculum include Mass for the Catholic portion, Puja for the Hinduism portion, Meditation for the Buddhism portion, for instance?
I’d consider it highly likely that the curriculum doesn’t involve forced worship and that the administration knows it. What’s wrong with their affirming that forced worship isn’t part of any curriculum, while saying that they were investigating the specific situation.
(Or did the administration know that this was going on and got caught with their pants down because the teacher went too far. In that case, then their cover your ass response makes perfect sense.)
Fortunately, I do think that even the British public isn’t prepared yet to force children to perform Muslim worship, at least not in public schools, and that if the press continues to cover this, administrators elsewhere will take note. Nonetheless, given the other trends in Britain towards an increasing degree of instrusion of Islam practices, this is not good news.
July 6th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
CT,
The British have allowed themselves to be consumed with the siren calls of diversity and inclusiveness… and they’re losing what made them British in the meantime. Ofcourse, to many on the left… to stop being British wouldn’t be a bad thing in their eyes…
July 6th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
The quotes are directly from the article linked to in this post. That was kinda my point.
July 6th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
I saw this article on the kids being punished and I was pissed. My question is, when are the Muslims going to take cultural awareness classes?
July 6th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Oh, they don’t have to. They part of a grievanced minority group protected by the left…