Last night, Channel 4 bravely defied the West Midlands Police and showed a followup to Undercover Mosque, cunningly titled Undercover Mosque: The Return (forum)

If you are in the UK, for the next couple of weeks you can download the full high quality programme from 4OD.

If not, here is a youtube playlist showing the full programme in 5 chunks

But that’s not all that some representatives from the religion of peace have been up to:

From: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2580350/Teenage-boys-forced-to-whip-themselves-during-Muslim-ceremony.html

Syed Mustafa Zaidi, a devout Muslim, forced two teenage boys to whip themselves with a Zanjeer Zani - a wooden-handled implement fitted with five chains, each of them bearing a curved knife - during a religious ceremony.

In it Zaidi is seen repeatedly flailing at his own body with the multi-bladed instrument. His back is soon reduced to a mass of cuts, with blood running down onto his jeans.

At one point he is taken out of the throng because of concerns about the injuries he had inflicted upon himself.

Minutes later, his back now covered by a white T shirt, he is apparently seen to approach the younger of his alleged victims.

The child joins men in the centre of the room and begins to ritually beat himself with the Zanjeer.

Elsewhere in the video men - and some boys - are seen beating their chests so violently with their hands that they inflict bright red marks.

At set times in the ceremony some of the men break into a chant before swinging their individual Zanjeers in order to gouge wounds into their backs.

They occasionally withdraw to have dressings applied to the cuts. At other points helpers spray the devotees with antiseptic.

By the time the ceremony is over one man, his back bloodied, is slumped against a black drape. Others are weeping and wailing as the fervour of the ceremony rises to a crescendo.

The court heard that once the ceremony was under way Zaidi struck himself so forcefully with the Zanjeer that other devotees “feared for his safety to such an extent that they sought to calm him down”.

The older of the two alleged victims was among those who approached him. Zaidi is said to have responded by washing his Zanjeer and handing it to the boy so he could use it.

According to the prosecution, the child “felt he had no choice but to do so”. He was pulled away after inflicting a number of lacerations to his back. Zaidi then allegedly turned to the other boy, took off his top and put the Zanjeer in his hand.

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According to the BBC:

Britain’s involvement in the slave trade is to be studied by all secondary pupils in England from September.

Children will study the development of the trade, colonisation and how slavery was linked to the British empire and the industrial revolution.
Um, haven’t all schools always taught that anyway?! Isn’t that just part of history? I guess not.

I have a concern. I remember listening to a programme on R4 about the anniversary of the abolition last year, and I heard a couple of bits of astounding ignorance, both from teachers who basically chose not to (or were unaware of) African chiefs and Saudi Arabian involvement in slavery.

And then there are sites like this…I see NO mention of of the fact that Britain was one of the FIRST to abolish slavery, that Britain only accounted for 5% of the slave trade.
Most of the trading happened in Arabian countries, which didn’t abolish slavery until 1962.

But then, this site’s title informs us that
“Britain abolished the slave trade on 25 March 2007“. Doesn’t sound like Marika Sherwood is very clued up!

You know, listening to people talking about British involvement in slavery, you’d think we were going to Africa with nets and rounding them up!

I’m all for history being taught, but in full. But I wonder if they’ll include the inconvenient truths?

By the way, I think slavery was a horrendous and despicable part of history that we should learn from. But let’s get some perspective - I’ve no reason to feel guilt. My forefathers weren’t sugar traders or land owners.

Let’s have history as it was, and less “guilty white man” crap like this

Hmmm, I’ve just had a thought - imagine a world where between 65% and 80% of everthing you worked for was taken from you. And if you didn’t give it, you were threatened with violence and imprisonment.
Oh, wait. That’ll be tax in the UK.

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We’ve been here before with Capita and Group 4 and all the others…

• Nov 2007: 25m people’s child benefit details, held on two discs
• Dec 2007: 7,685 Northern Ireland drivers’ details
• Jan 2008: 600,000 people’s details lost on Navy officer’s stolen laptop
• June 2008: Six laptops holding 20,000 patients’ details stolen from hospital
• July 2008: MoD reveals 658 laptops stolen in four years

And now yet more data has been lost - unencrypted - on a memory stick!

The memory stick contained un-encrypted details about 10,000 prolific offenders as well as names, dates of births and some release date of all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales - and 33,000 records from the police national computer.

Just stop outsourcing to crap, usually foreign companies! I mean - who doesn’t encrypt everything they put on a memory stick? Most sticks these days come with automatic encryption and decryption anyway.

The government has buggered up our childrens’ education, lost millions on an abandoned Ancestry project and now lost data - who had been sacked? Anyone? Take some responsibility, you shameless fools.

Oh, and interesting that PA Consulting don’t seem to have got round to mentioning any of this in their PA In the news website…

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BBC NEWS | Politics | Labour will win election - Brown

Gordon Brown has left London for the Olympics declaring Labour will “go on and win” the next general election.

It comes as an Ipsos/Mori opinion poll gave the Tories a record 24-point lead over Labour, with 48% of those polled saying they would vote Conservative.

The 24% poll gap between Labour and the Conservatives is believed to be the biggest gap recorded since Ipsos/Mori’s records began in 1977.

The poll also found that more than three quarters - 76% - of those surveyed are unhappy with the way the government is running the country and 58% now believe Mr Cameron’s party is ready for office.

When asked about Labour’s election prospects, he said: “We are going to go on and win.”

They really have no clue do they? They say they are listening, but we are shouting REALLY loudly, and they’re just not hearing the message. Go, and go now before you do any more damage, you bumbling incompetent twat. Call an election and put the country out of its misery.

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Did you know….

According to The Times of India:

WASHINGTON: India, with the world’s largest population of poor people living on less than a dollar a day, also paradoxically created millionaires at the fastest pace in the world in 2007 even though the world grew such “high net worth individuals (HNWIs)” at the slowest pace in four years.

Growing them at a blistering pace of 22.7 per cent, India added another 23,000 more millionaires in 2007 to its 2006 tally of 100,000 millionaires measured in dollars, according to an annual Merrill Lynch Cap Gemini report that weighs such financial information for its wealth and asset management purposes

According to OneIndia:

With the explosion of India’s wealthy middle class and air travel growth, there has been a three fold increase in the number of Indian tourists holidaying in Britain over the past ten years.

And the venues, which are responsible for the large turnout, are the Hindu temple in Neasden, Selfridges in Oxford Street and the confectionery section of Fortnum & Mason.

Such is the influx that tourist chiefs now view India as the most important developing market over the next decade ‘ and a strong reason to redefine the shape of British tourism.

Elliott Frisby, a spokesman for VisitBritain, said that the number of Indian visitors had grown by about 170 per cent between 1993 and 2007. ‘In ten years’ time, if the growth rates stay the same, this could be one of our biggest markets,’ Times Online quoted Frisby, as saying.

They’re even so rich that…

India’s taxman is bringing the country’s super-rich down to earth – by seizing their private jets. At least ten luxury aircraft have been impounded by Indian customs officers in the past fortnight and hundreds more are being scrutinised.

Mukesh Ambani, the mogul behind Reliance Industries, India’s largest private company, was among the first to suffer the ignominy of having his wings clipped when officials impounded two of his executive jets.

The brace of seized aircraft included a £30 million Airbus A-319, allegedly bought by Mr Ambani as a birthday present for his wife. Customs officials claim that the jet was imported into India under a scheme that offers tax breaks for aircraft used to ferry ticket-bearing passengers and that Mr Ambani owes import duties of £12 million because it was used exclusively for private trips.

Not forgetting that India gained 19 dollar billionaires last year. It now has 54 – more than Japan for the first time. It has 123,000 dollar millionaires and their ranks are growing faster than anywhere else in the world.

Well, isn’t that great. When you call a helpline, it’s in India. When you buy something, if it hasn’t come from China, it’s probably from India. I’m really happy for them.

Back home, we have crumbling hospitals and economy, sexually transmitted diseases growing at the fastest rate ever; herpes, syphilis, AIDS, chlamydia - it’s all going up, with overworked clinics and no budget for an education campaign. We are taxed to death - and then after death too.

Funding for cancer comes from charitable donations, as do many things.

So where’s the tax going? Well, apart from Iraq and Afghanistan, doesn’t it make you feel all warm and fuzzy to know that…

Gordon Brown has announced a new package of development aid for India, worth £825m over the next three years.

Oh well, at least it won’t be squandered. Yeah, right.

BurningOurMoney has more on this regarding the corrupt CDC:

DfID’s dubious investment quango CDC will be familiar to BOM readers, and now it’s been probed by BBC R4’s File On Four.

Their Aid to Africa post reminds us that

The UK currently spends £1.25bn ANNUALLY in direct aid to Africa, and at least the same again in debt write-offs

And let’s not forget:

very large chunks of the £5bn pa we taxpayers now spend on aid is totally wasted, going mainly to support the international aid industry.

Now, doesn’t that make you feel better next time Gordon starts grubbing around your pocket again?

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