"I think we should try to make them understand we mean them no harm. They are living creatures out there." - Pastor Dr. Matthew Collins, War of the Worlds - 1953
Posted on 08/30/2014 2:31:21 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
It was not so much the announcements that David Cameron made in his press conference about the terror threat to the UK that were significant, but what he looks like he’s going to have to announce on Monday. The Prime Minister confirmed that the threat level to the UK has been raised from ‘substantial’ to ‘severe’. But he also said that on Monday he will be unveiling new measures to address ‘gaps’ in the UK’s ‘armoury’:
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Those gaps won’t just cover passports, though. Labour is calling on the government to look again at its decision to scrap control orders. And so the Conservatives could be finally calling time on their civil libertarian stance: where once they said they would be sceptical of what the intelligence services demanded, now they are asking the intelligence services to set out what they want. And if what they want is what the Conservatives would previously have denied them, or have scrapped, then presumably the ‘generational struggle’ against Isis will require that the Tories say yes.
But it’s not just the Tories who get to say yes, is it? And that was presumably the point of this press conference: to soften up the Liberal Democrats ahead of what looks like a very busy weekend of coalition talks.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.spectator.co.uk ...
Will common sense prevail? Unlikely, based on their track record.
pugnaciopus -> pugnacious
That leaves Wilberforce's "reformation of manners" - on a scale he never contemplated, and with a self-segregating community extremely resistant to outside influence. Meanwhile, leaders such as David Cameron keep hoping that somehow all these excitable young men with their surplus energies will embrace "British values", without ever being able to say what these "British values" are, other than the stuff Yorkshire schools teach as the source of all the evils in the world - imperialism, racism, colonialism, etc. And even as we dither, in Rotherham and elsewhere, Islam is already reforming our manners. As I wrote the other day, slowly, remorselessly, we are becoming them."
Education
University of Florida to launch Islamic study center
Published September 01, 2014
Associated Press
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The University of Florida is launching a center for global Islamic studies.
The Gainesville Sun reports that the center has already been approved by university officials and will be announced when UF’s Board of Trustees meet this week.
Officials in the school’s Center for African Studies and the Department of Religion have been working to open the center for a year. They have brought together a cross-section of faculty from religion, science, history, anthropology, languages, literatures and cultures.
The center is set to launch Sept. 18-19 with a conference on “Global Islam and the Quest for Public Space.”
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