BHANGEELAAR! exposing the failure of the "East London Advertiser" to tell the truth... which was vitally told by a Jewish writer on the Times!

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10 October 2010
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That “ban” was allegedly imposed on non-Muslim councillors on Tower Hamlets Council by MUSLIM COUNCILLORS on the same Council.
This is how the “news” spread across the globe in 2008.
The sanctity of the month of Ramadan was spoiled for most thinking people over the “scandal”.
At first it had only a few words about it. Then it gathered more. Until it became a hail storm hitting any Muslim awake anywhere who found themselves blasted right, left and centre with the charge that he or she had instantly become an oppressor
of the kind that could only be found in a near-Hitlerite regime!
Yet it was all based on a lie. As big as the lies that are recorded by anti-Nazi historians who found the Jews people in many centuries being subjected to so many smears in the past.
Yet so many anti-Nazis in the East End of London and elsewhere in Britain stayed silent as the false allegation against “Muslim councillors” on Tower Hamlets Council was circulated, recirculated across the world.
So what did the “local” “East London Advertiser” do to correct the lethal rumours about “the Muslim Councillors”?
It did not do what it should have done. It did not investigate. And it did not publish the truth.
And the truth was that the “Muslim councillors” had NOT ORDERED anybody to impose any ban on anybody during the month of Ramadan.
Who says that that was what happened?
Step forward STEPHEN POLLARD, then a columnist on the Times and the Spectator and since then the Editor of the …er… JEWISH CHRONICLE.

It was Pollard who wrote this piece which appeared on Times online.

In the piece, Stephen Pollard names John Williams, the ‘head of’ Tower Hamlets Council’s ‘Democratic Services’ as the “caricature liberal-left non-Muslim idiot” who had sent out that idiotic memo to “51” councilliors.

[To be continued]

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From The Times
September 1, 2008
Compulsory fasting for all
Tower Hamlets has asked non-Muslims to observe aspects of Ramadan
Stephen Pollard
Later this month it's Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. It's one of the holiest days of the Jewish calendar, so I'd be obliged, please, if you'd all stay at home, turn off the TV and refrain from your usual activities. Ten days after that it's Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, when Jews fast and spend the day in synagogue. So I've also asked my Times colleagues not to work then. And I will be mightily offended if I learn afterwards that any of them have been eating.
You might not think I am being serious. But if I was Head of Democratic Services at Tower Hamlets Council in East London, I would be. Last week John Williams e-mailed each of the borough's 51 councillors with a similar instruction.
For the duration of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, they are, he told them - every one of them, Muslim, Catholic, Jew or atheist - to behave during council meetings as strict Muslims. They are not to eat or drink; they are to break for Muslim prayers; they are to do as they are ordered by the Muslim religion.
Strict Muslims do not eat or drink between sunrise or sunset during Ramadan. Because sunset will fall during the meetings, there will be 45-minute adjournments so that councillors can break their fast and pray. And to make things easier, there will only be seven council meetings during the month.
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This is, let me remind you, happening not on Karachi borough council but in Tower Hamlets in London. As far as I am aware, the United Kingdom has not yet been absorbed into the Caliphate. The last time I checked, we allow citizens to practise all religions and none. If I wish to stuff my face with chocolate during the fasting hours of Ramadan, I will. And if you wish to go out for a slap-up lunch on Yom Kippur, you can feel free.
Yet Mr Williams - he's the man with the “democratic services” label, a title so Orwellian that his existence simply had to involve promoting the opposite of democracy and service - appears to have concluded that Islamic practices must take precedence over any other practices. Instead of individual councillors being allowed to decide for themselves how they wish to behave during Ramadan, he is deciding for them.
It should come as no surprise that it is not the borough's Muslim councillors who are demanding that their non-Muslim colleagues obey Islam. As almost always, it is a caricature liberal-left non-Muslim idiot who thinks he is being racially aware who does the real harm to race relations. Respect for religious practice can only be given voluntarily. Mr Williams's prescription leads only to anger.