In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims.
The lengths we have gone to appease them are mind-boggling.
Very informative (but frightening) speech, I'm glad I didn't miss it. Thanks for posting it, Sidd.
Please watch out on youtube for a Channel 4 Dispatches episode on an undercover survey of Tower Hamlets London....
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of survey Alison? Do you have a link?
ReplyDeleteI haven't lived in London for a long time but I understand that Tower Hamlets is the area that used to be known as Spitalfields?
Spitalfields is where my paternal Jewish grandparents raised my father and his siblings after fleeing the European pogroms in the early 1900.
In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims.
ReplyDeleteThe lengths we have gone to appease them are mind-boggling.
Very informative (but frightening) speech, I'm glad I didn't miss it. Thanks for posting it, Sidd.