Posted on 11/13/2010 11:58:07 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Mohammed has become the most popular name for newborn boys in Britain. What does that portend?
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No it isnt.
Havent you been reading the threads on it recently?. It has been debunked.
Debunk these.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1324194/Mohammed-popular-baby-boys-ahead-Jack-Harry.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/27/mohammed-britains-most-po_n_775145.html
By the same logic, me and scotsman should believe Barack Obama is wonderful because the New York Times says so.
Yes there will be lots of helicopters.
Mohammed is no 1 ONLY if you take every variant.
On its own, its number 16. And the same for the story last year.
As you asked, naturalman1975 did a superb job shedding the myth in previous threads. Here is what he said:
‘OK, let’s look at what they did here. To make their claim, they combined the numbers for every variant spelling of the name Mohammed they could find - and then compared it to single spellings of other names. They didn’t consider the possibility those other names might have variant spellings as well.
I have - I’ve got the data. If you total together all the variant spelling of Mohammed (example: Mahamed), you get a total of 7552 baby boys named that in England and Wales. No individual variant has more than 3300.
Now, let’s look at what happens if we count all the variants for some common English names (I just selected a few I thought would be common).
John - when I count up all the variants of John I can find (example, Jon), I get 11,598 baby boys with name in England and Wales.
Henry (example variant: Henri), total comes to 8,389.
James: 9689
William: 8589
I also did Charles - it comes in just behind Mohammed, at 7081.
I chose 5 common names and compared them properly with Mohammed - comparing like with like, counting variations - and 4 of them came out ahead of Mohammed.
Now, I’m not going to spend any more time on it, but Edward, Thomas - there’s a few others as well that would probably come out with high numbers.
So what’s the real story here?. Simple......it’s yet another example of how the media can manipulate facts to generate a sensational and not particularly honest story, if it chooses to.’
......of 708,000 live births in England and Wales in 2009........7600 were muslim baby boys named Mohammed.
So just over 1% of all births in England and Wales were Muslim boys called Mohammed.
I concede. Then you don’t have a Muslim problem. Great!
(Hoping that someone will photoshop some felines landing on an aircraft carrier.) So the Brits have never had anything other than harriers or helos on their carriers? And they don't know how to cat and trap? Who's going to train them?
LOL.
Oh, we have a problem. It just not remotely the dhimmi state a lot of people think it is and the hype makes it. We have a problem with a minority of extremists who are recruiting a minority of young Muslim men. Especially in certain British towns and cities: London, Leeds, Bradford, Birmingham.
So the Brits have never had anything other than harriers or helos on their carriers? And they don't know how to cat and trap? Who's going to train them?
The Brits pioneered several aspects of carrier operations. They invented the angled flight deck for landing, they developed the steam catapult for launching aircraft, they launched and recoverd the first jet aircraft, and they developed the stabilized glide slope indicator.
Until the 1978, the Brits operated F-4 Phantom IIs from catapult carriers.
They'll be fine.
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