However, i bet there are dozens of(mostly Asian) councillors up and down the land who will try and deny that honour killings are a serious problem (just as there are people who claim that the holocaust never happened).

Unfortunately however, whilst “holocaust deniers” are generally regarded as being “nuts”, comments by “honour killing deniers” are often not challenged/ridiculed aggressively enough.

i’m not interested in getting your ip address – i was asking the moderators to confirm something. i simply wanted to know why it was that suddenly a bunch of people who wrote like you, punctuated like you and shared your opinions popped up to support you. since i asked the question, i note none of them have returned. i draw my own conclusions – there is no need for me to “police” anything.

the number of jews i have met – and i know a *lot* of people – that thought and wrote like you i could count on the fingers of one hand, although they are commonplace in extreme groups like “jews for justice for palestinians” and notably absent in groups like “alif-aleph”. on the other hand, your opinions are entirely consistent with those of the sort of person that pretends to be jewish online because they think that that way they will be allowed to make criticism of jews and israel that they wouldn’t be allowed to if they weren’t jewish. which, of course, is only another version of the unjustified complaint that “jews get special treatment”, heard most often from the sort of groups that think they ought to get special treatment. either way, the criticism should be judged on its own merits, not the origins of the poster. i should say that i am not 100% sure that this is what is going on here, but i’m clearly not the only one who thinks so. the whole thing smacks of the assumption that jews are going to scream “anti-semitism!” and attempt to restrict debate and that gets right up my nose, as as far as i am aware, i do neither.

all you’re doing right now, though, is hijacking the thread, so stop it. i am not your employer, nor is it my business how you spend your time. this “policeman” thing is almost as boring and irrelevant as the “poster girl” thing and i think you’re taking our “relationship” a little too seriously here. it’s only a blog, for feck’s sake.

b’shalom

bananabrain

Naw. The whole bloody lot of them should be getting on with their jobs and not surfing the internet. If someone needs to access sites, like Shuggy up thread, then they should be given access, I’ve no problem with that. But otherwise, it’s just cheating on your employer, whether it’s religious, atheist or Satanist sites. It would support an arguement that Local Government is a tad over resourced, would it not?

So us atheists are no better than sexual deviants and Satanists according to Birmingham City Council?!

What makes you – as atheists – better than “sexual deviants” and “Satanists”? The real question is what makes believers better than atheists. It is outrageous that such censorship still exists.

Need you ask ? lol

I agree with you that it appears bigoted.

Though the discrimination here is obviously wrong, it is not clear that the answer is to widen access

I’m not arguing it should be widened just that it shouldn’t be bigoted like it appears to be.

Its time we stopped being ‘employees’ which appears to be still synonymous with ‘slaves’.

I see but its ok for you to question people’s Jewishness? It is ok for you to ask for ip addresses.

Practise what you preach mate!

t’was ever thus.

b’shalom

bananabrain

Councils employ folk to do work. Not to surf the internet at taxpayers expense, except when it is work related. Though the discrimination here is obviously wrong, it is not clear that the answer is to widen access, it is rather to narrow it even further.

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