Here are the Blogs in the Esmerelda Weatherwax category.
Monday, 2 October 2006
British soldiers were killed in cold blood by Iraqi intelligence
From The Times These events took place 3 years ago but it is as well to remember how Staff Sergeant Cullingworth and Sapper Allsopp died.
Two soldiers who were dragged from their vehicle after being ambushed in a dangerous town in Iraq were unlawfully murdered by enemy military intelligence, a
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Posted on 10/02/2006 2:47 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Monday, 2 October 2006
India's African communities
Compared to the fate of Africans taken as slaves to the New World, the history of Africans in India is still largely unknown. There are small communities like Jambur scattered along India's west coast. They are the home to the descendants of Africans who were brought to the subcontinent as slaves.
Some
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Posted on 10/02/2006 11:29 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Monday, 2 October 2006
An exclusive interview in The Telegraph with Brigadier Ed Butler, commander of British Forces in Afghanistan
Brig Ed Butler said Taliban fire was so heavy and accurate at Musa Qala, a key forward base in northern Helmand, that Army helicopters faced a serious risk of being hit. We were not going to be beaten by the Taliban in Musa Qala," said Brig Butler, "but the threat to helicopters from very
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Posted on 10/02/2006 4:23 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Monday, 2 October 2006
Muslim accosts injured Para in hospital
From The Telegraph
A paratrooper wounded in Afghanistan was threatened by a Muslim visitor to the British hospital where he is recovering. Seriously wounded soldiers have complained that they are worried about their safety after being left on wards that are open to the public at Selly Oak Hospital,
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Posted on 10/02/2006 3:25 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Sunday, 1 October 2006
BBC 4 tomorrow night. Prostitution Behind the Veil: Storyville
This is for UK readers. BBC4 tomorrow 2 October 2006 at 10pm. Prostitution Behind the Veil. Described by Radio Times thus:-
Here's an engrossing portrait of two single mums in Iran. Minna and Fariba are friends and neighbours - they're both heroin addicts and both support their families through
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Posted on 10/01/2006 4:20 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Sunday, 1 October 2006
Fighting erupts in Gaza
Were it not so serious the phrase "Couldn't organise a booze up in a brewery" would come to mind. From Gulf News.
(Deaths and injuries....) fierce fighting between rival Palestinian security forces in Gaza over unpaid wages. Smoke from burning tyres blew across Gaza City
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Posted on 10/01/2006 8:47 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Sunday, 1 October 2006
Islamofascists: a dangerous label
Making an easy comparison with the Nazis confuses our responses to terror, says religious historian Michael Burleigh in The Sunday Times.
I do find it very useful to compare the current threat with the Nazis, because many of the politically correct people I have to deal with are shocked out
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Posted on 10/01/2006 2:31 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Saturday, 30 September 2006
Children on God and Jesus
According to a study, (reported in The Times) funded by the Jerusalem Trust, a Sainsbury family charity, Jesus has been turned into “a very nice secular humanist, a nice chap, who wanted everyone to be nice to each other”.
Researchers at the University of Exeter surveyed nearly 500 children.
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Posted on 09/30/2006 3:07 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Friday, 29 September 2006
ATTACKS ON IRAQI CHURCHES
This is today’s news from The Barnabas Fund.
The latest anti-Christian violence in Iraq saw a car bomb outside a cathedral in Baghdad which killed 2 and injured at least 17 others, and two attacks on a church in Mosul.
On the morning of Sunday 24th September a cathedral of the Ancient Church
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Posted on 09/29/2006 5:25 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Friday, 29 September 2006
Harif Events
Harif, the Association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa have announced their autumn programme. This term the programme, all at London venues, concentrates on Iraq.
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Posted on 09/29/2006 5:18 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Thursday, 28 September 2006
Wikipedia? Misleadia!
DW carries a post today on the inaccuracies of the on-line reference site Wikipedia, which links to this article by Seth Finkelstein of The Grauniad (twice in a week, for a paper I only allow in the house when my husband is job hunting, the times they are a-changing indeed).
Wikipedia describes itself
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Posted on 09/28/2006 10:41 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Wednesday, 27 September 2006
Hindu idols to be immersed in Thames
The Thames was a river of especial sacredness to ancient Britons. They sacrified bronze weapons and artifacts of great beauty to the water over 2000 years ago. When a cousin's ashes (a former naval man) were scattered by his sons from Tower Bridge it seemed a fitting continuation of tradition.
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Posted on 09/27/2006 4:05 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Wednesday, 27 September 2006
Ukraine remembers Jewish massacre
From the BBC. Ukraine is marking the 65th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre, when more than 30,000 Jews were shot by the Nazis in Kiev during Word War II.
Israeli President Moshe Katzav is among dignitaries from more than 40 nations attending the two-day commemorations.
The killings began 10
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Posted on 09/27/2006 3:43 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Tuesday, 26 September 2006
The very British gentleman helping to put southern Sudan back on its feet
From The Telegraph
The caricature of a senior United Nations officer is of some serious, politically correct Scandinavian called Nils or Bjorn, so James Ellery comes as a bit of a shock. But the former ADC to Lord Mountbatten and Commanding Officer of the Life Guards, who believes that the British
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Posted on 09/26/2006 3:34 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Tuesday, 26 September 2006
Violence must be opposed, Pope tells Muslim leaders
I don't often post from The Grauniad, but I like their assessment of the Islamic leader's audience (for such it was - make no mistake - he summoned them) with the Pope.
The Pope stuck to his guns at a meeting with Muslim diplomats and representatives yesterday aimed at launching talks between
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Posted on 09/26/2006 2:46 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Tuesday, 26 September 2006
British troops track and kill al-Qa'eda escaper who taunted Americans
A leading al-Qa'eda fugitive who had taunted America after escaping from detention in Afghanistan was tracked down and killed yesterday in a dawn raid by British forces in Iraq.
Omar al Faruq, who had been al-Qa'eda's chief operative in south-east Asia for almost a decade and was implicated in
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Posted on 09/26/2006 1:56 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Monday, 25 September 2006
The shadow cast by a mega-mosque
My own sentiments exactly from The Telegraph.
When Abu Izzadeen, the firebrand Islamist militant, berated John Reid last week for "daring" to visit a Muslim area, the Home Secretary bridled, as did many others, at his suggestion that part of London was off limits for a British minister
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Posted on 09/25/2006 3:16 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Sunday, 24 September 2006
Ramadan fast? Pulling a fast one more like.
From the BBC, Observing Ramadan - in Pictures. 9 Pictures, two of people at prayer, seven of people selling, buying, preparing or celebrating food. Lots of it. No 8oz collations, lentils or broiled fish here.
And on the subject of food, follow this link - if you dare . . . definitely not lenten fare.
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Posted on 09/24/2006 3:49 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Sunday, 24 September 2006
Short and to the point
Come, ye thankful people, come,raise the song of harvest-home:all is safely gathered in,ere the winter storms begin;God, our maker, doth providefor our wants to be supplied:come to God's own temple, come;raise the song of harvest-home.
It was Harvest Festival this morning. We didn’t actually
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Posted on 09/24/2006 11:05 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Sunday, 24 September 2006
Pakistani graduate raped to punish her low-caste family
When is this going to end? From The Times
A YOUNG Pakistani woman has been kidnapped, raped and beaten by a gang of high-caste villagers because her uncle eloped with one of their relatives. She was chosen for punishment because she had recently gained a degree and was the pride of her low-caste
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Posted on 09/24/2006 7:29 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Saturday, 23 September 2006
70 years on.
It will be the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street shortly. To mark the occasion The Daily Mirror has interviewed the historian Bill Fishman who was there in 1936 aged 15. My father and uncle were also there, aged 14 and 10 respectively. About which more later.
This was the legendary
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Posted on 09/23/2006 3:53 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Friday, 22 September 2006
Why does the Tate like a can of faeces better than our Beryl, ask painter's fans
From The Telegraph
Question: What is the difference between a painting by Beryl Cook and a can of human excrement?
Answer: One is an important work of art and the other is not — according to the complex thinking of the Tate galleries.
Four years ago the Tate paid £22,300 at Sotheby's
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Posted on 09/22/2006 3:33 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Friday, 22 September 2006
Muslims attack BBC for airing interview with extremist.
From The Times
The chief Muslim organisation in Britain has condemned the BBC for giving a well-known Islamic extremist who hijacked a speech by the Home Secretary a prime-time platform to air his views today. Read the transcript here. See Mary's comment on and link to the interview here.
The
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Posted on 09/22/2006 3:26 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Friday, 22 September 2006
Catholic leader voices doubt on Turkey in EU
From Ruth Gledhill the religious correspondent of The Times
THE Archbishop of Westminster entered the row over the Pope’s comments on Islam yesterday when he questioned whether Turkey should be admitted to the European Union. Cardinal Cormac Murphy- O’Connor, spiritual leader of the four
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Posted on 09/22/2006 1:52 AM by Esmerelda WEatherwax
Thursday, 21 September 2006
Straws in the western wind
I am much oblied to Waterdragon for pointing out this very interesting entry in Melanie Phillips diary.
It was good to hear him (John Reid) slap it (an intolerable assertion) down; such is the government’s usual craven approach to the problem of Islamic extremism in Britain, it was quite a shock
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Posted on 09/21/2006 10:51 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
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