Would be like that bit in Four Lions where Barry wants to bomb the mosque and radicalise the moderates

Well done York Mosque www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/2 ... a-biscuits

Well done York Mosque www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/2 ... a-biscuits

A charity cannot engage in political activities. Having said that, I they seem to have interpretated that requirement in a way that allows them to politely distance themselves from the EDL.

I think you're reading your own meaning into this simple act of acting sensibly - there's no suggestion that the mosque will start preaching Christianity and handing out face-bleaching cream, more that they are happy to speak to people who don't understand them and explain that they mean no harm in a multi-cultural society and nor does their religion.

Quote: Homer "Well done York Mosque Meanwhile, in the same area: www.express.co.uk/news/uk/403128 ... Rigby-plea (Not so well done).

Quote: Homer "Well done York Mosque Meanwhile, in the same area: www.express.co.uk/news/uk/403128 ... Rigby-plea (Not so well done).

We should have ONE culture but as many religions as people want.

How about no religion and plenty of culture?
Sounds a lot better proposition to me.

What do you mean by "culture"? ... I suspect it isn't the same as the meaning to which I would subscribe, which is habits, beliefs and views of life differentiated by such things as religion (or absence thereof), morals, cuisine, language, music etc etc.

So the City of Culture thing every year would be pretty boring then ?

If you've ever studied Arabian, Indian, Chinese, Thai, Japanese decorative culture in fabrics, weaponary, wall hangings or artwork you'll quickly realise that all of those cultures were at least 1000 years ahead of the Europeans - they are a hard act to follow and we've been following them ever since.

I'm now looking out for a conspiracy theory which ties in Dally's secret service theory and the Bull St mosque to the other one.

In fact, I may spend the rest of the night working on it, just to see if I can get some circulation out of it.

To be fair, the Greeks were pretty nifty too, as were the Minoans before them. We are still discovering surprising things about the Beaker People and the Celts and Europe still hasn't shaken off the term "Barbarian" as coined by the Romans. Who incidentally said the same about the Persians and called their men effeminate and perfumed even though they couldn't conclusively beat them in battle.

Well indeed, if you look at anything east of, say, Italy you'll find a far more sophisticated ancient "culture", or even to the North African Muslim "Moors" who populated the northern coasts of the Med in the Middle Ages - far more advanced by means of design and decoration - a trip around the Far East section of the Royal Armouries to see the steel lined quilted silk armour and laquered weaponary that dates back long before we Anglo Saxons had been invaded by Normans (who in turn taught us about architecture) will show that.

More widely, a couple of interesting comment piecesIndy[/i on censoring 'hate preachers'.rl

And rlthis from the [iHuff Post Canada[/irl on the nature of jihad.

The Baroness really is a full on tit!