Conservative Culture

It was on then off again. Concerns about problems. Perhaps they don’t want to add fuel to the Jihad fire to prove they aren’t completely decadent.

JERUSALEM (AP) - Gay leaders on Thursday canceled a parade in Jerusalem amid security concerns and pressure from fundamentalist religious leaders who called such a public display in the holy city offensive.

The Gay Pride parade scheduled for Friday drew opposition from Jews, Christians and Muslims, while hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews vented their disapproval by clashing with police and burning trash bins in the streets several nights over the past week.

Police had planned to post 9,000 officers to protect marchers, but authorities asked organizers to scale back the gathering amid reprisal threats after errant Israeli artillery shells killed 18 Palestinian civilians in Gaza on Wednesday.

Organizers agreed Thursday to turn the public parade into a rally, held inside a closed stadium.

The parade dispute has become a flashpoint in the battle for gay rights in Israel, drawing conflicting stances from secular society members and influential religious conservatives.

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If you are deaf mute you may not get a fair “hearing” in India. The town elders did what they were able to do. Just a few slaps but they hope for public shame. That concept seems to be gone in America. Is it even present in India? For some perhaps.

A man in northern Indian will receive 51 slaps in public after village elders found him guilty of raping a neighbor who is deaf and dumb, a village chief said on Friday.

The elders stepped in to review the case because local police failed to arrest the accused after a complaint was filed by the victim’s husband, village head Badr-ul Hasan said.

“Police told us that since the woman is deaf and dumb, she is not able to narrate the incident,” Hasan said.

A village court, comprising five elders, heard from both sides on Wednesday. It found the man guilty, fined him 5,000 rupees (US$110, euro90), and ordered he be publicly slapped with an open hand 51 times, he said.

“We can’t do more than that. The village court doesn’t have powers to arrest any one,” said Hasan. “By public slapping, the court wants to put (him) to shame.”

The village court generally settles land and other such disputes among the residents, not criminal offenses.

I just hope the pervert in question doesn’t enjoy the slaps.

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It is downright chilling. It also reminds me of why don’t nations remove people who are among them who are poised to destroy the nation?

The head of MI5 has given a chilling assessment of the scale of the terror threat in the UK, warning it will last “a generation”.

Eliza Manningham-Buller said that the Security Service was dealing with up to 30 alleged “mass casualty” terror plots against British targets in the UK and abroad, according to BBC reports, with 200 terror cell networks under surveillance.

Some of them involved plans for suicide attacks and some were being directed by al-Qaida.

Ms Manningham-Buller said MI5 and the British police were tackling 200 groups or networks totalling more than 1,600 identified individuals in the UK who were “actively engaged in plotting or facilitating terrorist acts“.

It was reported that Ms Manningham-Buller says terror groups are recruiting young Muslims from schools.

Sound the alarms. Perhaps someone yet will listen. What would the figures be in the United States if someone told us the truth about the real danger we face each day?

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The 48th “Carnival of Ohio Politics” is now posted at Newshound.

NOTE: With this post-election edition now up, the Carnival of Ohio Politics will take a short siesta for the upcoming week. We’ll get rolling again Wednesday, Nov. 22, so plan on sending posts by 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 21. Thanks again for the tremendous participation from across the political spectrum!

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