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Journalists at British tabloid the Daily Star allow themselves to be censored by scary Muslims:
The Daily Star last night pulled a page that mocked Muslim law by turning the tabloid into the “Daily Fatwa” following a newsroom revolt.
Management acted after the Daily Star’s National Union of Journalists’ chapel held a stop work meeting that produced a resolution condemning the page.
The page included a “Page 3 burqa babes special” showing a woman in a niqab, as part of a feature billed as “How your favourite paper would look under Muslim law”.
The page also contained a blank editorial stamped with the words “censored” and “Allah is great” while across the top of the page were the words “no news no goss no fun”.
A competition told readers to “Burn a flag and win a Corsa”, while a picture of the US president, George Bush, was accompanied by a caption “death to infidels”.
At a hastily arranged stop work NUJ chapel meeting, staff voiced fears of violent reprisals and carried a motion that condemned the feature.
“This National Union of Journalists chapel expresses its deep concern at the content of page 6 in tomorrow’s Daily Star which we consider to be deliberately offensive to Muslims,” the motion read.
“The chapel fears that this editorial content poses a very serious risk of violent and dangerous reprisals from religious fanatics who may take offence at these articles. This may place the staff in great jeopardy. This chapel urges the management to remove the content immediately.”
Question to Daily Star staff: who’s your daddy?
UPDATE. Just a guess, but I’d pick Daily Star journalists to be among those evolving into the lesser of two future human categories, if they’re not already there.
It’s a lovely country you kuffr have got here… it’d be such a shame it something was to happen to it.
Islam, Mafia, who can tell the difference anymore?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 10 18 at 12:23 PM • permalink“This National Union of Journalists chapel expresses its deep concern at the content of page 6 in tomorrow’s Daily Star which we consider to be deliberately offensive to Muslims,” the motion read.
Question 1: What news article, column, or editorial that contains any information or opinion unfavorable to or critical of Muslims could not be described as “deliberately offensive to Muslims”?
Question 2: Are you people in the news industry or aren’t you?
Posted by wronwright on 2006 10 18 at 12:30 PM • permalinkLiberal Press wussiness at its finest. What a spineless, nutless, cowering, whipped-dog, jelly-spined, quivering, blubbering bunch of flaccid weenies. I am actually embarrassed for them. A 3-year old boy facing the toilet for the first time shows more courage. Stop the presses, sell the newspaper and open a flower shop… in Berkley. Baaaaah!
Pathetic bloody wimps. Compare them to the Afghans and Iraqis voting despite a real possibility of death, as was mentioned on a thread a few days ago. Or compare them to their fathers and grandfathers and what they faced to preserve the civilisation that these cowards are betraying.
Can we get a list of their names so that we can deny them visas when they try to flee a disintegrating Britain?
I have it on excellent authority that next week’s page six will be a full color 3-D holographic image of Piss Christ suitable for framing…with Scratch and Sniff.
Chapel? Anyone? Anyone?
Que Brave Sir Robin.
Such brave little journalists. What the hell kind of tabloid is this paper, anyway? I’m unfamiliar with it. Is it the type that reports about 200 lb. alien babies born to 150 year old grandmothers, and actors cheating on their catch of the day with 200 lb. alien homosexuals? Safe subjects like that? I mean, aliens might retaliate, but who’s worried about 200 lb. babies, grandmothers, or <snicker> actors. One thing they won’t be reporting in the future is blackmail. Or vigilantes.
Look on the bright side. Now the Brits can’t bore us with that “There will always be an England” any more.
Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2006 10 18 at 01:42 PM • permalink#6 Burbank. You have offended all wimps. retract and grovel or we will burn your house down.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 10 18 at 02:05 PM • permalinkThe next lot of boat people to come to Oz will be the Poms by the looks of things
Even their tabloids are running scared!
Yet on Friday night when we watch Midsomer Murders on the ABC there isn’t a hijab, burqa, or funny hat and flowing man dress in sight
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2006 10 18 at 02:05 PM • permalink#18 Was it the Midsomer Murders story about a murder being committed using poisonous mushrooms, aussiemagpie? Because that was the one aired this week on the other side of the world in Ontario. (Just wondering.)
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 10 18 at 03:04 PM • permalinkSpinelessness aside, I’m amazed that they had balls enough to use this phrase from religious fanatics . Like isn’t that an insult? That leads to the Islamist, (give me a free pass, I’m the victim, we must kill the infidels, collect $200 bucks, the Jews make great Reubens, but we still hate them) humiliation?
I think the Midsommer Murder episodes were filmed a few years ago. Still, I was in London in 1981 and it was covered in Arabic graffitti and full of crowds of Arab men. My mother and I got some nice shish-kebab at a cafe on our first night there.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 10 18 at 05:12 PM • permalinkFrom Tim’s update link: The descendants of the genetic upper class would be tall, slim, healthy, attractive, intelligent, and creative and a far cry from the “underclass” humans who would have evolved into dim-witted, ugly, squat goblin-like creatures.
In most lefties’/progressives’ minds we’re already there.
Think Red State-Blue State.
Homo Servus?
Sci Fi is ahead of you, once again:
S.M. Stirling
Drakon (1996)
Reviewed: 2002-12-09More than four centuries after the Final War, the Draka rule the Solar System. Speciation is complete, Homo sapiens has been replaced by Homo drakensis and Homo servus. When a wormhole experiment goes wrong, Gwendolyn Ingolfsson, a prime specimen of the Draka master race, is dropped into another universe with a different timeline. Our timeline. Our present time. After gaining her bearing, the Draka strives to create an interdimensional beacon that will allow her kind to break through and bring this world under the Domination. But if all else fails, she will also settle for personally ruling the planet. On her heels are an NYPD cop who follows the trail of dead bodies Ingolfsson leaves behind, and Kenneth Lafarge, an operative of the Alpha Centauri-based surviving human civilization from the Draka’s universe.
What is evil?
Is there even such a thing as evil? I doubt that the mad villain who expounds his own wickedness exists outside movies and novels. Do you consider yourself an evil person? Nobody does. Pol Pot was a nice elderly man who wanted the best for his people. But it is quite possible that there are other folks who will call you evil, maybe in some limited context. When it happened to me it was a real eye opener. The term evil is applied reflexively to people who follow goals contrary to our own. Of course the latter is purely subjective. Calling somebody evil tries to elevate a basic us-versus-them opposition to moral objectiveness. The opponent is unfair, ruthless, cruel, vicious, immoral. For our own actions on the other hand, the end justifies the means. I mean we are the good guys after all, right?
The Draka want to subjugate all of Homo sapiens and transform us into the servus species of serfs. From our perspective, they are a loathsome and terrifying enemy, pure evil. The view from the Draka perspective is very different. These are no insanely giggling villains. There is no hate, and generally the Draka are no sadists. They are quite fond and even protective of their serfs, the same way we are of pets and cattle. The Draka are cooly rational. Feral humans are wild animals, dangerous and challenging, that need to be domesticated. The Draka are one of the most impressive inventions of the genre and they should give you cause to think.
If you like strong female characters, Gwendolyn Ingolfsson is enough to give even the most macho male the creeps. A drakensis among plain sapiens, she is like a leopard among a flock of sheep.
http://sites.inka.de/mips/reviews/Drakon.htmlMeanwhile, the timid Labor politicians every so politely stick their little toes into the roiling water by questioning the meaning of women fully covered by black tents, indiscriminate bombings, calls for beheadings, and open allegiance to Britain’s enemies on the part of its citizens. When will this madness end?
That prediction regarding the division of humanity into sub-species, with a slew of specific characteristics attributed to each, sounds like B-grade sci-fi pulp to me.
If you’ve already read Heinlein and Asimov and hanker for a more interesting, if somewhat hypothetical, take on future societies, try one of the Peter Hamilton books (I’d start with either “Pandora’s Star” or “The Reality Dysfunction”. Great stuff.
Do my eyes deceive me? The BBC was promulgating a story that allowed for the survival of humans to the year 3000? And those humans would be fit, healthy, and long-lived?
Whew. That means humans solved the global warmenisation puzzle. Guess we can all relax and stop worrying - it’ll be solved by future humans with fancy technology.
the “underclass” humans who would have evolved into dim-witted, ugly, squat goblin-like creatures.......
This is supposed to happen in the future?
The writer obviously hasn’t looked at too many Labor Party/Greens/Democrats caucus meetings, stop work meetings, anti-war protests or outer suburban shopping centres.
Between bogans, the lumpen proletariat untermensch and fervent lefties, there’s not a lot of quality genetic material out there to produce a super race- we nordic gods of the Right had better get at it like rabbits.
#18 Aussiemagpie - Judging by the amount of soap dodging, white Reebok wearing, English mangling, pink cheeked Poms we now have in Perth, I would say the great white flight from Britain is well underway.
Have a chat to any of them about why they moved here and after they’ve said “for the fookin’ wevver, geez” you’ll eventually find out that it’s for other more nuanced reasons.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 10 18 at 10:26 PM • permalink“The descendants of the genetic upper class would be tall, slim, healthy, attractive, intelligent, and creative and a far cry from the ‘underclass’ humans who would have evolved into dim-witted, ugly, squat goblin-like creatures.”
Sounds like the Eloi and the Morlocks from H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine. Except that they left out one key detail: the Eloi were the Morlocks’ prey.
Posted by Urbs in Horto on 2006 10 18 at 10:52 PM • permalinkInfidel Tiger, you’ve just pointed out one pleasant side effect of having the Euroweenies hate our guts: they don’t come here.
Posted by Urbs in Horto on 2006 10 18 at 10:54 PM • permalink#37 It’s not all bad. When boatloads of European women of a child baring age start appearing on our horizon, I’m prepared to welcome them with the Australian version of the Hawaiian Lei. It’s pronounced the same and should blow the cobwebs away after a long trek.
On the other hand, European man is an oxy-moron.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 10 18 at 11:33 PM • permalink#18 It’s ready started.
Two years ago Nick and I were at a party and met a twentysomething Londoner who said he was so happy when he emigrated and he had counted down the days until he could become an Australian citizen.
He told us that he felt no longer welcome in the country of his birth.
He was a Christian.
Another couple of business migrants from the UK I spoke to also had the demeanor of refugees who had done the hard yards to get here. It’s in their body language and some of the phrases they use.
Another example: My sister-in-law on a visit from the UK two years ago. After several days of cautiously hedging around inoffensive language, she admitted of England, “I don’t feel it’s our country anymore.”
We would love to see Nick’s brother and wife move here, but the chances of meeting of the migration criteria is slim because of their age - 50s.
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 10 19 at 12:19 AM • permalinkQuite frankly, the poor old Brits made a terrible mistake some 200 odd years ago. They should have left the convicts at home and moved the rest of the place down here. They showed a fair amount of pluck holding out as long as they did, but eventually the effete and emasculating nature of continental Europe rubs off on you.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 10 19 at 12:54 AM • permalinkPemberthy and the Tele would never have chickened out.
Posted by Apparatchik on 2006 10 19 at 03:02 AM • permalink
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That’s beyond self-parody. By their actions, they’re showing the deep truth of the parody they are attempting to kill.