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Dec. 17th, 2007 09:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
First some great news from the AP: Saudi king pardons rape victim: Abdullah reportedly spares woman in sex-assault case from jail and lashes. (But what about the man, who was also raped, and whose sentence was also increased? The article doesn't tell us.)
Still a long way to go for Saudi Arabia, with alleged rape victims denied forensic exams and the flogging and imprisonment of gays.
Mum saved me a charming clipping from local paper The Hills Shire Times, about a Christmas carols night hosted by a Muslim centre, an event organised by the Hills Interfaith Dialogue Group. Participants traded info on Advent and on the importance of Jesus and Mary in the Koran.

Right, well admittedly the timing on this is a bit weird, but here we are: Huge rise in Scots with racist prejudices (and they were surveyed before the nightmare at Glasgow Aiport). Scottish Muslim Osama Saeed comments at his blog, and was also interviewed by The Scotsman: "There is this idea in many people's minds that Muslims in this country sympathise with regimes like Saudi Arabia or Libya, when in fact many people are here because they fled those regimes and are here because of the freedoms we enjoy."
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drhoz: Comic Book Characters Grouped by Religious Affiliation. Pineapple Man!
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As I'm not firing on all cylinders, I'm going to take a break this week from blogging on these issues (unless there's some major news or I think of some fascinating point to make).
Still a long way to go for Saudi Arabia, with alleged rape victims denied forensic exams and the flogging and imprisonment of gays.
Mum saved me a charming clipping from local paper The Hills Shire Times, about a Christmas carols night hosted by a Muslim centre, an event organised by the Hills Interfaith Dialogue Group. Participants traded info on Advent and on the importance of Jesus and Mary in the Koran.

Right, well admittedly the timing on this is a bit weird, but here we are: Huge rise in Scots with racist prejudices (and they were surveyed before the nightmare at Glasgow Aiport). Scottish Muslim Osama Saeed comments at his blog, and was also interviewed by The Scotsman: "There is this idea in many people's minds that Muslims in this country sympathise with regimes like Saudi Arabia or Libya, when in fact many people are here because they fled those regimes and are here because of the freedoms we enjoy."
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As I'm not firing on all cylinders, I'm going to take a break this week from blogging on these issues (unless there's some major news or I think of some fascinating point to make).
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Date: 2007-12-17 11:38 am (UTC)I'm rather alarmed that the views of 1500 people are being used as a yardstick for a country with a population of 6 million, but then again I think the nature of all surveys are representative of the people interviewed rather than the socio-demographic group they're supposed to represent.