Great Britain and minorities

  • When the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) judgement on the claim of breach of human rights against a Muslim woman in France, affected by the government ban on the wearing of the Niqab, was released, I felt bewildered.  Somehow the court managed to abrogate her claims of human rights violations and argued instead, that

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  • Großbritannien verschärft die Kontrolle zur Beschneidung von Frauen.  Doch einige der angeblich Betroffenen wehren sich vor, was sie als Bevormundung westlicher Frauenrechtsbewegungen verstehen:  “Wir beschneiden schon lange nicht mehr!” Great Britain is tightening the control regarding circumcision of women.  But some women from targeted communities resist  what they call the stigmatization of Western women rights

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  • DER GANZE BERICHT: In diesem Bericht bringe ich die Aufstände in London von 1985, bei denen ein Polizist brutal ermordet wurde mit dem Stephen Lawrence Fall, und den Tottenham Aufständen von 2011 zusammen. Es geht um institutionellen Rassismus und Korruption der Polizei, und einen einen ungelösten Mord. Leider hat die Taz schwere Restriktionen bezüglich der…

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  • Hey Jude was an article published in Winter 1998 in the Jewish Socialist. It spoke about the strange rites of multiculturalism, as well as notions of Englishness and Britishness. Amongst others it stated that one of the things lacking in Britain were language classes in Urdu for non Bengoli English people in local populations that had

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