Gender, White Racism, CRT
Katharine Birbalsingh’s school has every right to remain secular.
In a landmark decision, the UK’s High Court ruled yesterday that the Michaela Community School’s ‘prayer ban’ is lawful.
The ruling has shot down accusations that the Michaela school in north London had curtailed its pupils’ religious freedom. The case was brought to the court by a Muslim pupil, who argued that the school discriminated against her under the Equality Act 2010 by refusing to allow prayer rituals during school hours. The law, however, disagrees. Following a two-day hearing in January, the judge has now decided that Michaela’s headmistress, Katharine Birbalsingh, has every right to ban prayer at her school.
We should all welcome the High Court’s decision. Far from proving that the UK is hostile to faith, it actually shows real religious tolerance in action.
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Read MoreFor a large portion of my adult life, I was a regular, even devout, listener to America’s National Public Radio. Funded by taxpayers and donors large and small, NPR has been a cornerstone of US liberal culture since it was founded in 1970. The NPR tote bag, given out to listeners who make a donation, has long been a staple in every bien pensant neighbourhood from Boston to Brooklyn to Berkeley.
Sadly, NPR’s transformation from broadcaster for the broadminded, quirky and intellectually curious – hallmarks of the American liberalism of yore – into purveyor of state propaganda is now beyond doubt. In this, it reflects the views of its audience. Today, the American liberal is little more than a faithful Democratic Party hack – closed-minded, dogmatic and terrified of any truth that challenges their worldview.
Last week, veteran NPR editor Uri Berliner published an essay in the Free Press confirming from the inside what had long been blindingly obvious to any outsider. ‘An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR’, Berliner writes. Its journalism has become ‘knee-jerk, activist and scolding’. ‘And now, predictably, we don’t have an audience that reflects America.’
The newsroom itself certainly does not reflect America, as Berliner notes. He surveyed the voter registration of his colleagues in Washington, DC: ‘I found 87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans. None.’
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Read MoreAnother Ontario school board ignores the Minister’s direction to go “back to basics”
“After the horrifying events on Oct. 7, I made my expectations clear to all school boards that there is no room for influence of personal opinions or personal world views in Ontario classrooms.
“At a time when so many Canadians are divided, it is critical that schools bring people together, not further divide our society and students. The Peel District School Board should reverse their decision and leave politics outside of the classroom.” – Stephen Lecce, Ontario Minister of Education
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Read MoreHalal Mortgages
Canada is home to a vibrant and growing market of alternative financing products, including halal mortgages, that enable Muslim Canadians, and other diverse communities, to further participate in the housing market.
Budget 2024 announces that the government is exploring new measures to expand access to alternative financing products, like halal mortgages. This could include changes in the tax treatment of these products or a new regulatory sandbox for financial service providers, while ensuring adequate consumer protections are in place.
In March 2024, the government began consulting financial services providers and diverse communities to understand how federal policies can better support the needs of all Canadians seeking to become homeowners. The government will provide an update in the 2024 Fall Economic Statement.
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Read MoreA government-sponsored agency is censoring journalism
“Our team re-reviewed the domain, the rating will not change as it continues to have anti-LGBTQI+ narratives… The site authors have been called out for being anti-trans. Kathleen Stock is acknowledged as a ‘prominent gender-critical’ feminist.”
This was part of an email sent to UnHerd at the start of January from an organisation called the Global Disinformation Index. It was their justification, handed down after a series of requests, for placing UnHerd on a so-called “dynamic exclusion list” of publications that supposedly promote “disinformation” and should therefore be boycotted by all advertisers.
They provided examples of the offending content: Kathleen Stock, whose columns are up for a National Press Award this week, Julie Bindel, a lifelong campaigner against violence against women, and Debbie Hayton, who is transgender. Apparently the GDI equates “gender-critical” beliefs, or maintaining that biological sex differences exist, with “disinformation” — despite the fact that those beliefs are specifically protected in British law and held by the majority of the population.
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Read MoreTikToker ‘lesbiansnowwhite’ told her viewers how they should address someone who goes by pearl/pearls pronouns.
In the video, she acted out a scenario where the person who goes by the pearl pronoun felt guilty about telling the waiter they had received the wrong order.
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Read MoreA Canadian paediatrician is taking a stance against a recent CBC article suggesting that the medical field largely supports gender-affirming care and giving kids hormones or puberty blockers.
Dr. J. Edward Les said the doctors quoted in the article do not speak for the majority in Canada.
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Read MoreLeft-wing billionaire Jeff Skoll’s woke film studio Participant is reportedly shutting down operations and eliminating most of its staff — the latest victim of Hollywood’s sharp downturn that has seen a bloodbath of layoffs and budget cuts.
Participant, founded in 2004, often financed projects with social justice and globalist themes, including former Vice President Al Gore’s climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth and its sequel. Other titles include the Obama’s Netflix documentary American Factory and the Ruth Bader Ginsburg doc RBG.
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Read MoreLast month, the Disney Grooming Syndicate told stockholders the company has “generated a 2.9 times return on the purchase of Lucasfilm.” According to Forbes, that’s a big, fat lie.
The idea behind releasing that lie was to prop up Disney CEO Bob Iger, who was facing a stockholder rebellion he eventually won, thanks to lies like this one:
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Read MoreScotland’s first minister has said transgender women will be protected under any new misogyny laws.
Humza Yousaf insisted that “anyone affected” by misogyny would be covered, whatever their biological sex.
He also insisted the Scottish government would not spend an “inordinate” amount of time deciding whether to follow the recommendations of the recent Cass Review into gender care.
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