Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

One of the rewards of old age.

You seem to have arrived at the station a little earlier than some!

Strange, while female genital mutilation is condemned and prosecuted in this country!

The cartoon was described as 'deeply offensive'

The cartoon, which was published in Norway’s Dagbladet newspaper on Tuesday, shows a Rabbi with a devil’s pitchfork stabbing a baby in the head. A woman is cutting off the child’s toe, while blood spurts over a religious book. In the caption the woman tells a policeman: “Mistreating? No, this is tradition, an important part of our belief!” The officer retorts: “Belief? Oh yes, then it is all right.”


In response, Dr Moshe Kantor, the President of the EJC, said: “This cartoon has crossed all lines of decency and is dripping with hate and anti-Semitism. We are now studying the possibility that this legally constitutes incitement to hatred and even a hate crime and will require legal action if this proves to be the case.”

That's a pretty nasty "cartoon"

I wonder if Dagbladet would be quite so pointed with the mufti's?

Max,

So is FGM.

Do you ban the cartoon.

It draws attention to an unnecessary operation (generally) or "mutilation" of an infant based on "belief".

Is a cartoon only of amusement, or is it to draw to attention to the "pain" behind the "observation"?

ummmmh!

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Anybody heard of Hara-Kiri...the french satire mag....you should see some of their ideas...

Fred, just in case you missed it. they are not talking about FGM


"Norway’s Dagbladet newspaper on Tuesday, shows a Rabbi with a devil’s pitchfork stabbing a baby in the head. A woman is cutting off the child’s toe"


They are lampooning things that the jews don't do.

Humour?

Conservatives lead at 2

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 20th January -

Con 32%, Lab 30%, LD 8%, UKIP 15%, GRN 10%

Humour?

Greens rising at the expense of Labour

http://order-order.com/2015/01/21/two-graphs-which-show-how-greens-are-splitting-the-left/

Picture the scene. You have just filmed a hard-hitting party political broadcast with a 91 year old war hero. It’s strong stuff, and you think it will get people interested in your party. So, at the end of the PPB, you put your party’s website up on the screen. Except, instead of the correct URL (www.labour.org.uk/harry), you send them to www.labour.org/harry, a parked domain that belongs to someone else and used to for  job recruitment. “But we don’t need millions for this election, as we’re going to win the internetz.”

The vote by the last Bank of England Monetary Pilicy Committee was 9-0 in favour of keeping interest rates the same.

Worth a read I thought

http://www.ukcolumn.org/forum/childrens-issues/charities-savile-nspccchildlinenypic-etc?page=2#comment-31317

Miliband comprehensively humbled by Cameron in PMQs today. Miliband looked like a whipped dog hanging his head.

It looks like we are heading for a Labour landfill at the GE.

back home for a week .my friend as told me I am not allowed to post about it

and who invited you to saudi and where and why?

will be in EGYPT next Wednesday not for a holiday