Here are the Blogs in the Esmerelda Weatherwax category.
Saturday, 14 October 2006
The Barnabas Fund - Russian edition Фонд Barnabas на русском языке язык
This is a link to the Russian Language version of the Barnabas Fund website.
Фонд Варнава существует, чтобы помочь
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Posted on 10/14/2006 4:49 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Saturday, 14 October 2006
Australian SAS in hunt for Asia's terrorists
AN elite Australian Special Air Service team of about 20 soldiers has been involved in a joint military operation in the southern Philippines to hunt down Asia's most wanted terrorists, including two of the 2002 Bali bombers.
Sources told The Weekend Australian it involved about 100 US special forces,
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Posted on 10/14/2006 2:16 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Saturday, 14 October 2006
Christian BA employee suspended for wearing cross necklace
From the website of the London Evening Standard
A Christian woman has been banned by British Airways for wearing a small cross necklace to work. Heathrow check-in worker Nadia Eweida was sent home after refusing to remove the crucifix which breached BA's dress code. Her treatment by BA - which
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Posted on 10/14/2006 1:55 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Friday, 13 October 2006
The value of teapots and other odd conundrums for Oxbridge
As sixth-formers prepare to submit their applications to Oxford and Cambridge universities before Sunday’s deadline, a study of 1,200 students has revealed some of the quirkier lines of inquiry from tutors who interview candidates.
Last year’s applicants to study politics, philosophy and
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Posted on 10/13/2006 4:29 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Friday, 13 October 2006
Muslim teaching assistant suspended for wearing veil
This was a Daily Mirror exclusive which got taken up by the BBC and The Times later.
A Muslim woman has been suspended by a school in West Yorkshire after she insisted on wearing a veil in lessons.
Bilingual support worker Aishah Azmi, 24, was asked to remove the veil after pupils found
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Posted on 10/13/2006 2:48 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Friday, 13 October 2006
Why is the white working class so roundly despised?
I am not sure when I became middle class, indeed I am not completely sure that I really have joined, as I feel no different to when I was quite obviously the daughter of what George Orwell described as “upper working class” skilled workers. Was it when I graduated with a degree, the
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Posted on 10/13/2006 2:46 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Thursday, 12 October 2006
Landmark decision for 'free speech'
A judgment in Britain's highest court has been hailed as a "landmark decision on free speech" and a major boost for investigative journalism in this country. Five judges in the House of Lords overturned two judgments in lower courts requiring the Wall Street Journal Europe to pay £40,000
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Posted on 10/12/2006 4:28 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Thursday, 12 October 2006
Man admits UK-US terror bomb plot
Breaking news from the BBC
A man has pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder people in terrorist campaigns in Britain and the US. Dhiren Barot, of north London, planned to use a radioactive "dirty bomb" in one of a series of attacks in the UK, Woolwich Crown Court has heard. He intended
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Posted on 10/12/2006 9:20 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Thursday, 12 October 2006
The last tattooed lady
An old woman from the Chin ethnic group in Myanmar, (Burma) which borders India and Thailand, shows off the tattoos she was given as a young girl to ward off attacks - particularly by neighbouring princes, who would kidnap girls to be concubines. She was one of the last to get the markings, in
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Posted on 10/12/2006 4:22 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Thursday, 12 October 2006
Glad to be home, but Paras mourn 16 lost in action
THE Paras are back after one of the most traumatic series of battles in recent times, fighting for six months with the Taleban in southern Afghanistan. As the soldiers returned to their home base in Colchester, their experience in Helmand province could be best summed up by the amount of ammunition
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Posted on 10/12/2006 2:30 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Thursday, 12 October 2006
Mosques penalised for failure to tackle terror
From The Times
THE Government withdrew its support from Britain’s largest Muslim organisation yesterday after accusing it of failing to lead the fight against religious extremism. Ruth Kelly, the Communities Secretary, attacked the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) for boycotting Holocaust Memorial
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Posted on 10/12/2006 2:08 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Wednesday, 11 October 2006
Preacher of hate in �250k buy-to-let scandal
From the London Evening Standard
Race hate preacher Abu Hamza secretly bought a house for £220,000 cash while in prison.
At the same time the Islamist extremist was running up a legal aid bill which cost the taxpayer £250,000.
An Evening Standard investigation reveals that the four-bedroom
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Posted on 10/11/2006 9:42 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Wednesday, 11 October 2006
Airport drops program for Muslim cabbies
Following the fines imposed by London magistrates on minicab drivers who refused to accept guide dogs in their cars comes this story from ASSOCIATED PRESS via the Seattle Post Intelligencer
MINNEAPOLIS -- Airport officials on Tuesday dropped a proposal to accommodate Muslim cabbies who refused
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Posted on 10/11/2006 4:01 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Wednesday, 11 October 2006
Flag decision 'polarising' community
From The Australian and ABC.
AN RSL (Returned & Services League of Australia) plan to have a flag-burning teenager march with an Australian flag on Anzac Day is polarising public opinion, Acting New South Wales Premier John Watkins said today.
But Mr Watkins said the Government would support the
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Posted on 10/11/2006 2:31 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Tuesday, 10 October 2006
Korea
Israel worried North Korea may help Iran
From ASSOCIATED PRESS via the Seattle Post Intelligencer
JERUSALEM -- Israeli officials said Tuesday they were concerned that North Korea's reported nuclear test would set a dangerous precedent and encourage Iran to press ahead with its nuclear program.
Israel
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Posted on 10/10/2006 4:08 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Tuesday, 10 October 2006
Terrorist funding charities and bureau de change beware.
From the London Evening Standard
There will be "no hiding place" for people who fund terrorism, Chancellor Gordon Brown declared as he unveiled new measures to tackle the extremist threat. Secret intelligence will be used for the first time to freeze suspect assets, target "dubious"
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Posted on 10/10/2006 4:03 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Tuesday, 10 October 2006
Call for jihad as Ethiopian troops go into Somalia
This item follows from Hugh’s post yesterday on the same subject. I think it is significant for the reference to the concept jihad, not by the Somali Muslims, but by a British newspaper. That The Telegraph will use it, confident that its readership will know exactly what is meant.
Radical
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Posted on 10/10/2006 2:08 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Tuesday, 10 October 2006
Turkey's EU plans threatened by genocide dispute with the French
From The Telegraph
Turkey's painful progress towards European Union membership has been plunged into crisis by a dispute with the French over the massacre of Armenians during and after the 1914-18 war.
A Socialist-backed proposal, which could pass the National Assembly on Thursday, would make it illegal
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Posted on 10/10/2006 1:55 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Monday, 9 October 2006
Sunnis learn Shia customs to bluff Baghdad death squads
From The Telegraph correspondents in Baghdad
Sunnis in Iraq are studying Shia religious history and customs to enable them to bluff their way through illegal checkpoints set up by Shia death squads. . . Such knowledge can be a matter of life and death as Shia militias stop cars in the capital and
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Posted on 10/09/2006 4:27 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Monday, 9 October 2006
My dream of the perfect British pub.
As Mary is away, sipping a dry Chateau Zenda in a pavement café on the banks of the Tarlenheim River It falls to me to direct you to this article from Caitlin Moran in The Times
I’m sure we all muse, on occasion, what it is to be British. After all, we all spend enough time queuing in
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Posted on 10/09/2006 4:16 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Monday, 9 October 2006
Suspect in terror hunt used veil to evade arrest
A MALE suspect in a major anti-terrorist investigation in Britain escaped capture by allegedly disguising himself as a Muslim woman dressed in a burka, The Times can reveal.
The man, who was wanted in connection with serious terrorist offences, evaded arrest for several days as police searched
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Posted on 10/09/2006 2:34 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Sunday, 8 October 2006
July 7 bombers may have planned to kill cricket teams
From The Sunday Times
THE London bombers were initially ordered by Al-Qaeda to assassinate the England and Australia cricket teams during the 2005 Ashes, a friend of one of the terrorists has claimed.
The claims have been made by a family friend of Hasib Hussain, the bus bomber who killed 13 people.
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Posted on 10/08/2006 2:55 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Sunday, 8 October 2006
Drive for multi-faith Britain deepens rifts, says Church
I have been out all day which is why I am late posting this, and it has been mentioned elsewhere but oh, it does please me. From The Sunday Telegraph
The Church of England has launched an astonishing attack on the Government's drive to turn Britain into a multi-faith society.
In a wide-ranging condemnation
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Posted on 10/08/2006 2:37 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Saturday, 7 October 2006
Australian Jihad
From today's Australian (possibly yesterday's Australian by now) an edited extract from Australian Jihad by Martin Chulov (Macmillan Australia, $32.95). Chulov is The Australian's Middle East correspondent.
It was the beginning of a revolution in Australian law enforcement and government, and in the
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Posted on 10/07/2006 2:38 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Saturday, 7 October 2006
Prophet not perfect, says Islamic scholar
I found this on The Australian; it's a few days old but interesting.
A LEADING adviser on Islam, Ameer Ali, has attacked Muslims who "blindly" follow their faith and fail to question the veracity of the Koran, saying that even Mohammed had "flaws".
The chairman of John Howard's
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Posted on 10/07/2006 12:55 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
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