UK: 15 year old girl arrested for burning a Koran

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From here:

A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of inciting religious hatred after allegedly burning an English language version of the Koran.

The 15-year-old, who lives in the West Midlands, allegedly posted the video, filmed two weeks ago on her school premises, on Facebook.

The video was reported to the school and subsequently removed, police said.

A 14-year-old boy was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of making threats. Both have been released on police bail.

It is thought the girl, who lives in the Sandwell Council area, was allegedly filmed setting the booklet alight while other pupils watched.

Two Facebook profiles have also been removed from the site, police added.

It is understood that the group who published that version of the Koran have since been to the school to talk to pupils.

This is politically correct idiocy in so many ways.

While burning a Koran may be hazardous to the health of the person doing the burning – just as playing chicken with an oncoming locomotive is – it is an act that will cause offense, not incite “religious hatred”. In fact, if religious hatred is anywhere in evidence in this situation, it is not because it’s been conjured out of nothing by a spot of thoughtless inciting.  The predictable – and routine at this point – reaction to a Koran burning is an existing hatred exposed, not incited.

So the teenager was arrested for offending people. Had she offended Christians by defacing a Bible, she would not have been arrested; no one would have cared. She was arrested because she offended Muslims.

Perhaps she should be applauded for performing a public service: the extremist Muslims in the UK whose hatred she manages to focus so adroitly will be rumbled and could be arrested for real, tangible, dangerous and unencited religious hatred.

The last word on airport security

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It is possible that full body scanners could be dangerous, particularly for frequent flyers; they may not even be particularly effective in detecting explosives. And no-body wants to be groped by airport security staff in a pat-down.

There is one exception, though: Canadian Liberal Leader, Michael Ignatieff, has declared, in a statement that, had George Bush said it, would be a headline in every tabloid in the Western World:

“If you’re in my business, you live in an airport. So I have people touching my private parts all day long”

Mr. Ignatieff has not yet clarified whether he lives in airports just for this particular experience, or whether he has a less important reason.

Nobody loves the Anglican Covenant

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Although a vote passed in the Church of England synod saying “[t]hat the draft Act of Synod adopting the Anglican Communion Covenant be considered”, the homosexualist lobby, having decided that there is no Anglican crisis, has already rejected it and now the GAFCON Primates, having decided that the crisis has already broken the Communion beyond repair, have also rejected it:

For the sake of Christ and of His Gospel we can no longer maintain the illusion of normalcy and so we join with other Primates from the Global South in declaring that we will not be present at the next Primates’ meeting to be held in Ireland. And while we acknowledge that the efforts to heal our brokenness through the introduction of an Anglican Covenant were well intentioned we have come to the conclusion the current text is fatally flawed and so support for this initiative is no longer appropriate.

Rowan Williams’ strategy all along has been to find a middle ground in all this. He has been forced to do that himself since he is personally sympathetic to homosexual marriage and homosexual bishops but leads millions of Anglicans who are not. The Covenant, to some extent, represents the middle ground that he seems to be comfortable with; it is not something he will be able to sell to the rest of the Communion, though.  That is probably because for those with a less convoluted thought process than Rowan, it is obvious that to pretend that two irreconcilable opposites can comfortably coexist is blatant  hypocrisy.

Diocese of Niagara: Jesus was only a caricature of God

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From here: (page 3)

Jesus certainly had the character of God; his relationship with God was so close that his contemporaries called him the Son of God; but, without being irreverent, he was only a caricature of God. The author of the letter to the Hebrews chose his words most carefully to distinguish between God and Jesus Christ.

Michael Burslem, the author of this article in the Niagara Anglican, has laboured tirelessly over the years to diminish Christ’s divinity. He probably wouldn’t claim to speak for the whole diocese, but his articles are repeatedly published in the diocesan paper: I suspect he does.

He goes on to venture the following insight:

But is this to mean He is God of God or Light of light? Was God really born of Mary? Before we speak to anyone else about Jesus, I think we ourselves need to do some rethinking.

I’ve done my rethinking and left the diocese.

Anglican Church of Canada to spend $360,000 on fund raising campaign

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From here:

1. That the Philanthropy department be authorized to initiate and facilitate a nation-wide diocesan-centred fundraising initiative to benefit parishes, dioceses and General Synod.

2. That dioceses not involved in a similar campaign be encouraged to engage in this initiative, with the understanding that the “case for support” will include aspects of the case for [support of] General Synod.

3. That a feasibility study for this initiative be conducted in up to 10 dioceses. The results will be shared with the participating dioceses and the CoGS.

4. That the Council of General Synod approve $200,000 to invest in the nationwide fundraising initiative being undertaken by the Philanthropy department.

With CoGS approval of the additional $200,000 for the initiative, its budget for the year is $360,000.

As the article goes on to observe: “there are pools of generosity in the life of our church that have not yet been fully tapped.” I expect the average Anglican parishioner will be excited to be thought of as a pool of generosity ripe for tapping.

In between dinner-time phone calls peddling windows and duct cleaning, brace yourself for a new one from the Anglican Church of Canada trying to raise money to pay for its litigation lawyers.

Sharia Law being taught in British Schools

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British children are being taught brutal Sharia Law in weekend schools across the country.

Text books ask pupils to list the “reprehensible” qualities of Jews, and teach how to chop off the hands and feet of thieves.

Around 5,000 Muslim children, aged six to 18, attend more than 40 weekend schools which teach the Saudi national curriculum.

As Rowan Williams noted in 2008, Sharia law in the UK is “unavoidable” and “would help maintain social cohesion”. At least he got the first part right.

Bishop John Chapman wants to revolt

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He managed to revolt me, at least.

Here is the gospel of global warming according to the ecclesiastical commissariat for hot air.

From here:

Bishop John Chapman of the Anglican diocese of Ottawa, spoke from
 a faith perspective to the over 50 people who attended the workshop,
 entitled, Science and Faith: Climate Change as a Moral Issue.
 “Through the cross, Christ redeemed the world, not just humanity, he said.
 “All has been redeemed.”

It is the theology of the cross that “embraces 
covenant rather than domination,” and one that requires a change in the way
 many Christians think, said Bishop Chapman. 

“Truly, we have been called to a revolution–and I’m thinking of the
 word in terms of how we react to
 one another, how we interact with the established norms that we have
 inherited generation after generation,” he said. “That’s revolutionary and there’s sacrifice when one engages in a revolution.”

Rowan Williams replaced by an alien pod

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According to Gene Robinson, at least.Add an Image

From here:

The Archbishop of Canterbury has been accused of  being ‘abducted by aliens’  over the issue of homosexual clergy.

Controversial American Anglican bishop Gene Robinson condemned Dr Rowan Williams for failing to stop internal rows over the ordination of women and gay priests.

The Bishop of New Hampshire said: ‘I pray for him every day.

‘I have clergy friends who literally studied at  Archbishop Williams’  feet and who have said to me it is almost as if aliens have come and taken Rowan away from us.

‘They have left something that looks like him but we don’t recognise him any more.

This can’t be true: if aliens had abducted Rowan, they would have replaced him with someone whose looks would allow him to pass for a normal human specimen.