In an expression of solidarity with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) Chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, British parliamentarian of Kashmiri origin Lord Nazir Ahmed has announced a reward for the captor[sic] of US President Barack Obama and his predecessor George W Bush. Via Harry's Place, where they want him booted from Labour, but don't think it's going to happen.
#1
Nice. If he's an MP, he's part of the government. If the government doesn't do anything to him, they're complicit in his announcement.
Over to you, Mr. Cameron.
(Maybe the UK gummint should rethink selling lordships to moslems from other countries....)
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Barbara,
He is the House of Lords and part of the Labour party.
MP's are members of parliament whether Conservative Labour or Lib Dems.
If this guy thinks Saeed is a hero we have no chance in making muslims see sense as already OBL,Saeed and Mullah Omar are seen as heroes in the British Pakistani community.
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MEMRI has the original report. Lord High Mucketymuck (PTUI) might want to argue with them.
During a recent visit to Pakistan, Lord Nazir Ahmed, a member of the British House of Lords who originally hails from Pakistani Kashmir, announced he was putting up a bounty of £10 million for the capture of U.S. President Barack Obama and his predecessor, George W. Bush. The announcement, made at a conference held in the Pakistani town of Haripur, came in response to a recent U.S. announcement offering a $10 million reward to anyone providing information leading to the capture of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, founder of the Pakistani jihadi organization Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), and emir of LeT's charity arm, Jamaatud Dawa.
...Following are excerpts from a report on the announcement that appeared in the Pakistani daily The Express Tribune:[2]
...[2] The Express Tribune (Pakistan), April 15, 2012. The original English has been lightly edited for clarity.
Christians are being "persecuted" by courts and "driven underground" in the same way that homosexuals once were, a former Archbishop of Canterbury has warned.
Lord Carey says worshippers are being "vilified" by the state, treated as "bigots" and sacked simply for expressing their beliefs.
The attack is part of a direct appeal to the European Court of Human Rights before a landmark case on religious freedom. In a written submission seen by The Daily Telegraph, the former leader of more than 70 million Anglicans warns that the outward expression of traditional conservative Christian values has effectively been "banned" in Britannia under a new "secular conformity of belief and conduct".
His comments represent one of the strongest attacks on the impartiality of Britannia's judiciary from a religious leader.
He says Christians will face a "religious bar" to employment if rulings against wearing crosses and expressing their beliefs are not reversed.
The hearing, due to start in Strasbourg on Sept 4, will deal with the case of two workers forced out of their jobs over the wearing of crosses as a visible manifestation of their faith. It will also take in the cases of Gary McFarlane, a counsellor sacked for saying that he may not be comfortable in giving sex therapy to homosexual couples, and a Christian registrar, who wishes not to conduct civil partnership ceremonies.
Lord Carey, who was archbishop from 1991 to 2002, warns of a "drive to remove Judaeo-Christian values from the public square". Courts in Britannia have "consistently applied equality law to discriminate against Christians".
They show a "crude" misunderstanding of the faith by treating some believers as "bigots". He writes: "In a country where Christians can be sacked for manifesting their faith, are vilified by State bodies, are in fear of reprisal or even arrest for expressing their views on sexual ethics, something is very wrong.
"It affects the moral and ethical compass of the United Kingdom. Christians are excluded from many sectors of employment simply because of their beliefs; beliefs which are not contrary to the public good."
He outlines a string of cases in which he argues that British judges have used a strict reading of equality law to strip the legally established right to freedom of religion of "any substantive effect".
"It is now Christians who are persecuted; often sought out and framed by homosexual activists," he says. "Christians are driven underground. There appears to be a clear animus to the Christian faith and to Judaeo-Christian values. Clearly the courts of the United Kingdom require guidance."
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Keith Porteous-Wood, executive director of the National Secular Society, said: "The idea that there is any kind of suppression of religion in Britannia is ridiculous.
"Even in the European Convention on Human Rights, the right to religious freedom is not absolute -- it is not a licence to trample on the rights of others. That seems to be what Lord Carey wants to do."
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A MUSLIM taxi driver has been sacked after refusing to let a family take an unopened bottle of wine into his car because it went against his religion.
Adrian Cartwright, 46, booked the cab to take his wife and young daughter on a five-minute journey to an Indian restaurant for an early evening meal.
But he was left fuming when the private hire driver booted them out of the taxi after he spotted they had an unopened bottle of white wine.
Mr Cartwright later wrote about the incident in detail on Facebook -- prompting the driver's Asian-run taxi firm to sack him.
He said: "We all got inside the car and the driver said: 'Is that alcohol?' When I said 'yes' he replied: 'I am sorry but I can't allow it in my cab -- it's against my religion'.
"I knew it wasn't worth arguing so we had to get out."
He added: "The meal I had that evening was a Halal meal, whose methods I don't agree with, but tolerate out of respect.
"I expect anyone offering a public service to do the same, and will be contacting the licensing department to suggest that the driver is politely asked to do so, or hand his badge back."
Mr Cartwright complained to Borough Cars in Royton, near Oldham, Greater Manchester, and the self-employed cabbie was fired 30 minutes later.
The firm, a co-operative of 70 predominantly Moslem drivers, apologised and sent another driver two minutes later.
In an emergency meeting of its chairman and four directors, the firm then decided to dismiss the unnamed driver, thought to be in his 20s, who had only been working for the company for 10 weeks.
The company's former chairman Fazal Rahim, who has also been a driver with the firm for 24 years, said the decision to axe the man was unanimous. Mr Rahim, 51, told the Daily Express: "I am a practicing Moslem, like a lot of the drivers. This was not a decision based on race or religion, however, but about being a professional taxi driver.
"As taxi drivers, we cannot be moral coppers. If I picked a customer up from a pub, should I ask him if he has been drinking? Of course not.
"We need to provide a great service to our customers and as a company we have prided ourselves on that for many years. I don't know the lad in question but I can only put this down to youthful ignorance.
"We take people wherever they need to go, whether to a pub, church, mosque or synagogue."
The cab was booked at 6pm on Easter Sunday.
The Cartwrights had the bottle of wine because the restaurant they were heading to is unlicensed but allows customers to bring their own alcohol.
In a statement, Borough Cars added: "We would like to apologise to Mr Cartwright and his family for any upset or offence caused."
Mr Cartwright preferred not to add to the comments he made on Facebook.
But a family friend said last night: "Adrian has friends of all faiths and the last thing he wants to do is for this to be about race or religion -- he just complained because of poor customer service."
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