From NYC:
"City Commissioner for Human Rights Omar Mohammedi has written to Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, calling it insensitive to have held elementary-school tests on a Muslim holiday. Tests were given in January on Eid al-Adha, the feast of sacrifice. Mohammedi wrote: "Mandating these children to take state testing during this important holiday is at a minimum insensitive if not discriminatory."
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What about all the Hindu holidays and Jewish holidays? Is everything to shut down on those days too? If not there seems to be a heap of "insensitivity" going around.
There are a lot of Australians in NYC. Some died on 9/11/2001. So what about setting aside Australia's No. 1 memorial day -- Anzac day? How many Arabs have died fighting alongside American troops? Plenty of Australians have.
And what if some of the British in NYC want to celebrate their holidays -- such as the Queen's birthday? Seems fair! And I am sure the Poles have got some pretty important Saint's Days that they would like to celebrate. We can't be discriminatory can we? It can't just be Muslims that we cater too. That would be "discrimination"!
This Bigot has no Place in the Lecture Hall
Freedom of speech should be cherished and defended, but there is no excuse for tolerating racial lies masquerading as academic truths
The heading and subheading above are copied from an article by Mary Riddell in "The Guardian", chief organ of the British Left. The article concerned goes on to call for the sacking of a university teacher, Frank Ellis, who has publically expressed unpopular but research-based views about the low average IQ of Africans.
Note that we have ONCE AGAIN the familiar Leftist defence-mechanism of "denial". The author denies that she is attacking free speech and then makes a case for doing exactly that.
So how well-founded are the arguments of this enemy of free speech? As usual, we find that abuse and attack is being used to cover up a weak argument. Let me give just one example of her intellectual feebleness and ignorance: She says of Ellis: "He also blames Africans for getting AIDS". Who does SHE think is to blame? Does she think there is a huge worldwide army of whites holding blacks down and forcibly injecting them with AIDS? I will say without fear of reasonable contradiction that Africans who get AIDS are indeed themselves responsible for getting AIDS. They get it as a result of their own behaviour, not anyone else's -- just as I would be responsible for getting it if indeed I did have it (which I don't). So if Ellis blames Africans for getting AIDS, so do I.
Note that there have been large academic books and hosts of academic articles written on both sides of the racial IQ argument. To characterize one side as "lies" is then just the usual Leftist attempt to substitute abuse for a willingness to look at and discuss complex facts.
For those who really are interested in the facts, the latest (2006) book on the subject has just been reviewed in Personality & Individual Differences, a major British academic journal. You can find a copy of the review here
An Anti-Christian Cartoon in Canada
We read:
"A newspaper cartoon targeting religion has once again sprung into the spotlight -- this time in a two-frame jab at Christianity in the University of Saskatchewan student newspaper, the Sheaf. The newspaper is issuing a mea culpa after a cartoon depicting Jesus performing a sex act on a capitalist pig was published in Thursday's edition of the Sheaf."
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In my view they would have been able to defend themselves if they had printed the Mohammed cartoons but they had already refused to do that. The arrant hypocrisy got a reaction this time. All involved with publishing the offending cartoon now seem to to have been forced to resign.
