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STATEMENT FROM MUSLIM FAMILIES LIVING ON
COTON PARK, RUGBY WARWICKSHIRE.
We live on a new housing development called Coton Park. It lies on the outskirts
of Rugby & is very close to both the Town Centre & the Motorways of M1 M6 &
A14. The area is very nice & well kept.
This proposed site of this Pet food Factory is close to this large new residential
area. Numerous offices, shops and a hotel are also close by. We know that there
are many others close by who also share our devout Muslim Faith & there will be
many people who are both family & friends visiting us who are also of the same
faith.
The owners of the proposed factory (Butcher's Pet Care) do not dispute the claim
that meat extracts of pork will be pumped into the atmosphere via a 100ft
chimney. They have said that there will not be any chemical treatment proposed
to treat the meat extracts prior to leaving the factory.
It is very likely that under certain weather conditions this meat material will not
be properly dispelled and will instead settle and in effect "rain down" on the
surrounding area. A significant proportion of meats used in the pet foods process
are pig meat.
As you will be aware our Religion expressly forbids us to consume pig meat in
any form. The Qur’an states in no less than 4 different places that pork shall not
be consumed. However, because of the way in which this meat material will leave
the factory & given that the area can be "rained upon" we will be consuming pork
e.g. via inhalation of this "rain". Not only that but our clothes also be
contaminated by pork.
"Forbidden to you (for food) are: dead meat, blood, the flesh of swine, and that
on which hath been invoked the name of other than Allah."
[Al-Qur’an 5:3]
Islam means "submission to the will and command of God" and a person who
embraces this religion is called "Muslim" which means "one who accepts and
submits himself to the will of God". A Muslim is obliged to be clean spiritually,
mentally and physically. Abstention from eating flesh of swine is one of the
obligations a Muslim must observe to attain purity of the soul and of the human
nature. Believers in Islam sincerely believe in the Holy Qur'an as the Word of
God, revealed to Prophet Muhammad.
Therefore we believe that not only will we be contaminated but also our Faith by
the owners of this proposed pet food plant. In this country we are allowed the
right to follow our religion & religious beliefs & others have recognised this right
of expression. By allowing this plan to go ahead our Religious rights are being
swept to one side for what appears to be economic greed. We feel sure that there
are other areas where this factory could be built that would not impact on us or
others like us.
Dated 29
th July 2007.Dear Son, Let me tell you what immigration has done to this country (estratto da Time to Emigrate? Letters From A Father di George Walden, The Daily Mail, 17 agosto 2007):
Dear Son,
It's getting on for ten months now since you and Catherine left for a new life
in Canada. And we didn't get the impression, when we came to see you, that
you've regretted your decision for a moment.
Still, I'd better avoid saying anything excessively encouraging about the state
of the nation you've left behind. Not difficult, as it happens.
In fact, it looks as though you got out just in time. Driving close to your old
place in West London the other day, I saw a police notice asking for information
about a young man who'd brandished a gun at an officer.
The people who bought your house at a ludicrously high price are unlikely to be
thrilled. I don't suppose there's another city in the world where people have to
pay that kind of money for the privilege of living in an area where hoodlums go
round flashing guns.
There is an atmosphere of suppressed - or outright - violence and disorder that
makes me worry for the next generation.
Often, it's the little incidents that are telling. Yesterday, your mother was on
a bus when three girls aged between 16 and 18 tried to board in Ladbroke Grove.
They were Brazilians, she thinks, but so completely anglicised that they'd got
themselves roaring - or rather squealing - drunk.
Toting bottles of vodka and plastic cups, they pressed on to the platform, but
the Bangladeshi driver stalwartly refused to allow them to board. The bus was
held up for 20 minutes while the girls blocked the doors, laughing and screaming
obscenities in their newly-acquired Essex accents.
The point is that during all this little drama, not a single one of the weary
rush-hour passengers said a word. The great British public held hostage by a
trio of sozzled teenage girls!
Toronto sounds safer, though it seems a hell of a way to go for a little peace
of mind.
Back from our visit to you, we did a sort of audit of your new life. We loved
your old brick house with wooden trimmings in the Riverdale area of Toronto -
bigger than your London one and, at £220,000, less than half the cost.
Not to speak of your country place at Muskoka: a simple cottage but with the
swimming, boating and fishing on all those lakes, a cut above Ruislip Lido.
And it's good to hear that the children look set to get into the nearest state
secondary. A citycentre school with no problem of drugs or knives and one that
teaches Latin!
We were relieved that you picked up an academic job so quickly, paying rather
more than you got in the UK. With taxes and the cost of living lower, you should
feel more relaxed financially.
The very fact that Canada has half our population (30 million) in a land many
times bigger is good for the spirit - not to speak of car-parking.
The ethnic population, I see, is higher than here, but then Canada is much more
selective. The points system they operate seems pretty rigorous, and it was only
your impressive chemistry qualifications, I suspect, that got you in so smartly.
Also, the ethnic pattern is different, with the Chinese the largest element,
followed by Indians, and fewer ghettos. As Catherine said, a strong secondary
state education system is a key to integration.
Here, the country is not so much disintegrating as disaggregating. The
Balkanisation of our lives is happening on a national scale.
Scotland's falling off the top, self-sealing ethnic communities are
proliferating in the Midlands, and London's got its own thing going at the
bottom.
We boast of our prosperity, but it's fragile and concentrated in the South East
- an island within our island. Perhaps we'll have to get used to thinking of
London and its environs as a kind of Hong Kong or an Italian city state.
Here, the most obvious disconnection is between the rich and the rest. An old
story, but the difference today is that the fate of those at the top is divorced
from those lower down.
When the housing ramp collapses, most of the falling masonry will hit the little
guys in the middle and at the bottom. The top London prices helped drive up the
entire market, but are less likely to fall when it all comes down. There's no
feeling that we're all in this together.
The divisions run from earliest youth to grim old age. More boys at Eton get
five good GCSEs, I hear, than in the entire borough of Hackney.
And now there's another divide growing up: between those who have a decent
pension to look forward to and those for whom longevity has become more a threat
than a promise.
Then there's the widening gap between the married and unmarried, or rather those
with children and those without.
Large areas of our towns are now such havens of hedonism for the money-flashing
singles that they're pretty much out of bounds for the poor bloody infantry who
keep procreation going and cannot afford such leisures.
Everything's geared to the needs of the drinker and consumer, and little to the
couple with the buggy. On top of all this is the growing disconnection between
politics and the people.
And the more fractured we become, the greater our pretence of togetherness to
cover it up. That's why the Government bangs on about 'community' and has tried
so hard to ignore the problems caused by immigration.
Imagine my astonishment when the Minister responsible, Liam Byrne, actually
admitted recently that large-scale immigration has profoundly unsettled the
country - and that it's the poorest communities that have suffered the most. The
influx was overwhelming public services, schools, the NHS and housing, he said.
If Labour failed to address public concern, he concluded, it could lose the next
election.
I couldn't have put what Byrne was plucky enough to say better myself. But what
is extraordinary is the lack of reaction to his words. Where are the columns and
editorials and BBC programmes saying that the Government has gone racist?
On the principle that a sinner who repenteth deserves the greatest praise, Byrne
is something of a saint. He'll certainly have the majority of immigrants on his
side.
According to a speech by the former chairman of the race relations commission,
Trevor Phillips, 54 per cent of them think there's been enough immigration.
Hardly surprising, since they and their children are among those who stand to
suffer most from overcrowding, poor schooling, racial tensions and
discrimination.
To complete this outburst of honesty, Byrne should have acknowledged that it's
the rich who stand to gain from the profits of low-paid labour. But it would
have raised the cry: "So why in God's name have you done it - and why are you
letting more in?"
The evidence that the whole country benefits has shrunk to vanishing point.
The Governor of the Bank of England recently told MPs it was getting
increasingly hard to manage the economy without knowing how many people were in
the country. But everyone seems to have missed the implications of this: if the
Bank doesn't know the true population, neither can the Treasury.
And now local councils are up in arms, saying the Office of National Statistics
(ONS) does not have a clue about the number of people - for whom local services
are required - who are entering the country.
How can anyone assess the profit and cost of migration, and claim that the
balance is positive, if nobody knows the figures?
Meanwhile, the Government continues to pour billions into the NHS. That's
supposed to be another success story, but nobody can really explain where all
the money's going, let alone why it's so hard to keep our hospitals clean.
Let me tell you what happened to me recently. As you know, for years I've
suffered from that irritating condition Dupuytren's contracture (named after a
Frenchman) - or claw-hand in its less distinguished appellation, because the
fingers contract until they look like one.
There's no pain - it's just a bloody nuisance, not least because after you've
had an operation for one finger, the next one starts to contract.
I've had two fingers treated, one on the NHS and the other private - because I
didn't fancy going into hospital for a minor operation, catching MRSA and coming
out dead, as thousands are now doing.
Anyway, another damned finger began curling last year, so I went to my NHS
doctor and - after a wait - saw a consultant who told me to come back in six
months to see how it was progressing.
Meanwhile, I read that the French had developed a cure. So thanks to them and
none at all to the NHS, 30 years of aggravation was fixed while we were in Paris
in a single afternoon by injection, for the sum of about £60 - with no pain, no
anaesthetic, no hospital operation and no maddening sling.
It's a strange society we're building. You can't avoid the conclusion that the
way to avoid all the inequities and social fractiousness is simple: be rich.
Then you can flash those beneath you a benign, ingratiating smile - and have as
little as possible to do with them.
There's a new brand of social selfishness about, a kind of "Sod you Jack, I'm
all right" attitude.
For those doing well out of New Britain PLC, I don't see how things can change.
The problem is that for those lower down - the middleclass majority - I don't
see how they can change either.
I can't report much joy on the security front, though: the mood is still one of
evasion.
In the case of Islamic terrorism, we're so afraid of antagonising the Muslim
community that we turn our anger on our defenders rather than the killers. If
the security services slip up - as occasionally they're bound to - they're
branded as criminally incompetent on Newsnight.
The most likely reason is that they're overwhelmed. Yet if MI5 were expanded as
much as it should be, its operations beefed up and surveillance increased, watch
out for Newsnight programmes proclaiming the beginning of the end of our human
rights and warning that picking on Muslims will alienate the community further.
It's all part of our loss of any sense of balance. We may not go in for
revolutions, but Britain has become a society of extremes.
Look at public policies. It's lunacy to go on promising free medical treatment
for all- comers, but we do. It's against every tenet of common sense to have
mixed-ability classes, but in the delirium of our classconsciousness, we
persist.
Doing away with most of our manufacturing base is reckless economic behaviour,
but the moderate British have done that, too. The income gap, house prices and
mass immigration - they're all examples of national excess.
Wherever you look, crazy systems have replaced our old prudent-minded approach.
Look at families. Instead of beginning with the self-evident proposition that
two parents are better than one, we start at the other end.
The result is that we insist on individual rights to the exclusion of everyone
else's interests, including the child's. As a result, we have more single
parents, more teenage pregnancies, more adolescent misfits and more destitute
families than anyone in Europe.
Not bad for the country of balance and moderation.
Meanwhile, debt is at a dangerous high and millions of us are living beyond our
means. Actually, the more I look at the economic outlook, the wiser your
decision to take a break from Britain begins to seem.
Everything seems to be unreal - whether it's the bonuses in the City, the
purchasing power of the pound on shopping trips to America, or the money you
sold your house for before emigrating.
If the economy falters - and the signs are beginning to show - the social
consequences of unemployment don't bear thinking about. And, this time, people
who are laid off won't be able to retire early because Gordon Brown has blocked
that avenue of escape by b*****ing up their pensions.
Even now, with the economy still riding high, a record number of people are
leaving the country to start again elsewhere. Think what will happen to
emigration figures if the economic bubble is pricked.
Whether it is or not, we can certainly expect the splits and cracks in society
to grow. Which leaves people your age with three choices: resign themselves to a
life in a perilously fragmented community, get rich or do as you have done and
get out.
Politics or parenting, schools or Scotland, wherever you look, very little seems
to be holding things together. People live side by side yet separately, in
mental isolation, with their eyes fixed warily on one another.
When communities, races, classes and families become segregated to the degree
they have, feelings of social solidarity erode.
Society ends up like a shattered windscreen: holding together by the grace of
God, even though it's all cracked to hell, so no one can see ahead or have any
idea where they are going.
Love to all, Dad
A daughter’s last letter to father killed tackling gang of vandals (Lucy Bannerman, The Times, 14 agosto 2007):
A devastated young daughter has paid tribute to the father she lost after he was
beaten to death by a gang of youths.
The family of Garry Newlove, 47, released a letter from his daughter Amy, who is
believed to be 12, which was written as he was dying in hospital.
She wrote: “I can’t get across how much I will miss you and I don’t know what I
would do without you. You have always been there for me when I am down and you
always put a smile on my face (even if it is a rubbish joke).
“You mean the world to me and I wouldn’t change you for the world.”
Mr Newlove was attacked on Friday night after a gang of youths vandalised a
mechanical digger parked in a neighbour’s drive in Warrington, Cheshire, and his
car window was smashed. He suffered head injuries and died at Warrington
Hospital on Sunday afternoon.
Mr Newlove, a sales manager who had previously survived stomach cancer, had been
due to go to Lanzarote on holiday tomorrow with his wife, Helen, and their three
daughters, Zoe, believed to be 19, Danielle, 16, and Amy.
Mr Newlove had met police officers in May to discuss problems with youth
disorder in his area. Detective Chief Inspector Martin Cleworth, of Cheshire
Police, said: “Mr Newlove had gone outside when his car was vandalised. He did
what any of us would do in those circumstances. He was set upon and sustained
several injuries including an injury to his head, which is most likely the cause
of death.
“We do believe that the youths were drinking, although there is no evidence to
suggest drug use. We have identified members of the group, some of whom have had
previous dealings with police, and we are appealing for others to come forward.
“The officers involved are as sickened as anybody would be. Mr Newlove is a very
active, very much wellrespected member of the community.”
He added: “This is an absolutely tragic incident and I would appeal to any young
people who may have knowledge about what happened to think about this as if it
was their father or their brother. How would they feel?” Mike Roscoe, a work
colleague who has known Mr Newlove for 30 years, said: “They were your typical,
happy family. I spoke to Helen yesterday and she is distraught. There’s no other
word for it.”
Derek Lockie, local neighbourhood inspector for Cheshire Police, said that Mr
Newlove had proposed setting up a Neighbourhood Watch scheme and had sent out
letters to all his neighbours.
Inspector Lockie said: “There have been a dozen reported incidents of disorder
in Mr Newlove’s road this year. The area is a cut through to a shopping precinct
where you do get youths, and that is where most of the calls come from. There
has been an increase in the number of uniformed officers patrolling the area.”
There was a bunch of flowers outside Mr Newlove’s home yesterday. The card read:
“A true hero. Trying to take our street back. Standing up for what is right. God
bless.”
Next to the house is a railway bridge under which, neighbours said, the youths
would congregate.
Vera Flynn, 69, who has lived next to the bridge for 30 years, said: “The police
came and asked me about it but I never saw anything. I don’t leave my house
after dark because of the gangs.
“The kids are always under the bridge messing about and if you say anything you
get a mouthful. They are drinking, taking drugs, and I just don’t want to leave
my house because of it.”
Three teenagers were charged last night with the murder of Mr Newlove. Two
15-year-olds and a 16-year-old will appear before magistrates at Runcorn today.
La lettera di Amy al padre morente:
To Daddy
I am unable to see you right now as you are too ill but I know you can fight
this as you are a strong, loving man who I know loves me no matter what. I am
asking you to be strong and don’t give in as I love you too much to believe that
you won’t go without a fight.
I had a dream last night that you woke up and you were fine except you didn’t
know me at all. If that did happen and you didn’t know me I would still try to
help you remember. I will stick by you while you are in hospital and I will take
care of mummy.
I can’t get across to you how much I will miss you and I don’t know what I would
do without you. You have always been there for me when I am down and you always
put a smile on my face (even if it is a rubbish joke).
You mean the world to me and I wouldn’t change you for the world. When you get
out of here I will be there with a big smile on my face.
I hope you can hear me right now as I hope it will give you more strength and
determination as to wake up.I thought I saw nanna Newlove’s face in the TV last
night and I keep seeing her. I know she is here with you looking out for you and
is probably offering cornflakes or Thorntons toffee.
I love you with all my heart so please don’t give in. We are all taking care of
you and mummy. We will deeply miss you and I want you to know you are the best
dad anyone can ask for.
I love you so much and I do hope you can fight this. I love you!
From your darling daughter who loves you so much and from the whole family.
WE LOVE YOU!! AND DON’T GIVE IN!!
xxxxxoooooxxx
How the Government has declared war on white English people (Leo McKinstry, Sunday Express, 9 agosto 2007):
England is in the middle of a profoundly disturbing social experiment. For the first time in a mature democracy, a Government is waging a campaign of aggressive discrimination against its indigenous population.
In the name of cultural diversity, Labour attacks anything that smacks of Englishness. The mainstream public are treated with contempt, their rights ignored, their history trashed. In their own land, the English are being turned into second-class citizens.
This trend was highlighted this week by the case of Abigail Howarth, a bright teenager who applied for a training position with the Environment Agency in East Anglia but was turned down because she was too white and English. The post, which carries a £13,000 grant, was open only to ethnic minorities, including the Scots, Welsh and Irish.
Such social engineering was justified by the Agency on the grounds that minorities were under-represented in its workforce, the parrot cry used by bureaucrats throughout the public sector to justify bias against the English.
Though Abigail’s case rightly caused outrage, it was not unique. This kind of reverse discrimination is now rife across the state machine, underwritten by the very English taxpayers who are the targets of institutional prejudice.
Although it is technically illegal to restrict jobs to certain ethnic groups, the racially fixated commissars have found a way round that problem by developing training schemes open only to minorities. Under the 1976 Race Relations Act it is permissible to use racial considerations in recruitment to trainee positions such as the one to which Abigail applied.
Such practices are dressed up as “positive action” to widen diversity and, in the words of one Labour council, “to overcome past discrimination”. So HM Revenue and Customs offers work experience jobs, worth up to £15,900 a year pro-rata, to ethnic minority graduates, while the Museums Association has two-year ethnic minority apprenticeships.
Similarly, Birmingham City Council gives £16,000 a year to “black and minority ethnic individuals” in its “Positive Action Traineeship Scheme”, and a £10,000 allowance to clerical trainees from “the Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities”.
Discriminatory training schemes can also be found in ITV, the civil service and the NHS, which boasts “a management development programme specifically designed and tailored to the needs of black and minority ethnic midwives”.
It was revealed last year that Avon and Somerset Constab-ulary rejected 186 applications from white men on the grounds that they were already “over-represented” in the force. In the same way, London Mayor Ken Livingstone last month refused to endorse a series of nominations for the London Fire Authority because they were dominated by whites.
And whole towns are beginning to suffer state disapproval. Eighty administrative jobs in the Prison Service have recently been transferred from Corby in Northamptonshire to Leicester because, as the Home Office admitted, Corby’s population is predominantly “white British”, a terrible sin in our multicultural society.
It is a bitter irony that the Labour Government, which works itself into such a synthetic rage over racial prejudice, should practise overt discrimination on an epic scale. The remorseless focus on supporting minorities has led to a perverted ideology of anti-white racism.
Almost every interaction with any public service now leads to a detailed analysis of one’s ethnic status. A vast race equality industry has been built up, filled with overpaid paper shufflers, consultants and advisers with little to do except invent new grievances.
There is an air of the Maoist permanent revolution about their activities. Since immigration now runs at probably one million people a year, the make-up of society is changing dramatically. So, in this climate of endless demographic upheaval, the race relations brigade will always be able to invent more work for itself.
Yet anti-English discrimination undermines the central plank of the propaganda for mass immigration. We are constantly told we need vast influxes of foreigners to boost our economy and fill vacancies but unemployment levels in immigrant communities are so high and skills so lacking that we need to reserve parts of our economy for them.
So if we have to spend a fortune on training schemes, why are we inviting hundreds of thousands of arrivals from the Third World and Eastern Europe here every year?
Economics have little to do with the issue. The Left in Britain have seized on mass immigration and multiculturalism as a battering ram to destroy the society they despise. They once sought to change our country through economic revolution. That failed with the Winter of Discontent and the downfall of communism. But demographic change through migration has proved far more damaging.
George Orwell once wrote: “England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In Left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution.”
That is now precisely the mentality that predominates within the machinery of the British state. And our country is dying as a result.
Sick family of Europe (Benedict Brogan, The Daily Mail, 19 marzo 2007):
Social breakdown has turned Britain into the 'sick family of Europe' and
promises to be the major battleground for the next election, David Cameron
warned yesterday.
Creaking public services, irresponsible parents and rampant crime have stretched
society to breaking point, the Tory leader said
Evoking the memory of Margaret Thatcher's economic achievements, Mr Cameron
sought to set out the challenges facing his party.
And he attacked Gordon Brown for ignoring how family breakdown lies at the heart
of Britain's social problems.
Mr Cameron used a speech to the Conservative spring conference in Nottingham to
expose what he believes is a crisis lurking behind its economic success.
He claimed his mission was nothing short of bringing about 'Britain's social
revival'.
He said: 'The big argument in British politics today is not about the free
enterprise economy. It's about our society.
'Because it's not economic breakdown that Britain now faces, but social
breakdown. Not businesses that aren't delivering, but public services. Not
rampant inflation but rampant crime, disorder and anti-social behaviour. Not
irresponsible unions - it's irresponsible parents.'
Recalling the criticisms levelled at Britain in the 1970s before Lady Thatcher
took over, Mr Cameron said: 'It's not that Britain is the sick man of Europe.
We're becoming the sick family of Europe.
'The mission of the modern Conservative Party is to bring about Britain's social
revival.
'We must speak out for the people of Britain who are sick and tired of living in
a country that is economically rich but socially so poor.'
Mr Cameron pledged to restore the Tories as the party of the family, with tax
breaks and a comprehensive overhaul of the benefits system.
He said the Tory Party was interested not just in helping people get on, but
helping those left behind.
He said: 'Quality of life. That is the modern mission of the Conservative Party.
'Just as we helped clear up the economic mess Labour left in 1979, so the next
Conservative government will have to clear up the mess that these Labour
politicians have made of our society.'
His party would speak up for 'working people' by telling them it is just as fed
up about higher taxes, spin and 'this Government of dashed hopes and
disappointment'.
Mr Cameron attacked Gordon Brown, accusing him of 'ducking' the issue of family
breakdown 'at the heart' of social problems.
He said: 'Gordon Brown won't do anything about family breakdown. We've got a tax
system that doesn't recognise marriage. A benefits system that does recognise
marriage but penalises it.
'In fact it penalises any form of commitment between two people. What sort of
system is it that pays people to live apart? It's got to change.'
The Tory Party is already working on a package of measures aimed at targeting
the family. The social justice policy group, led by former leader Iain Duncan
Smith, is working with Shadow Chancellor George Osborne to channel state cash to
families.
Transferable tax allowances - axed by Labour in 1998 - are likely to be
re-introduced alongside changes to the benefit system that would end the
discrimination against parents on welfare who choose to stay together.
As he prepared to take on the Chancellor over the Budget on Wednesday, Mr
Cameron also delivered a coruscating attack on the failings of the NHS and said
he would be on the look out for 'spin' on Budget day.
He said: 'Do you think we've forgotten the stealth taxes and council tax rises
that are hammering every home in Britain?
'Gordon, you are not the answer to spin. You are spin, and we won't let people
forget it.'
He also defended his decision to consider 'green' taxes on flights, claiming it
was the kind of 'tough decision' voters demanded.
A survey for the Mail on Sunday showed 66 per cent of voters believe green air
taxes will have no effect on the numbers flying and would just raise the tax
burden.
But Mr Cameron said: 'You can't be serious about climate change unless you're
serious about aviation.