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That's an apt description of the political and media reaction to the July bombings. Instead of directing the heat at politicians whose neo-colonial and Islamophobic motives led Britain into a quagmire in Iraq, the chattering classes have been digging the nation into an ever bigger hole by pointing the finger at its Muslim minority. Notwithstanding fitful spurts of interest in foreign policy, "the problem with Islam" has become the dominant narrative. Whether it's Salman Rushdie arguing for an Islamic reformation or the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair asking the community to get on side in the war against terrorism, a determined effort is afoot to keep Muslims and their faith in the blame frame, and our politicians out.
So far, the wave of Islamophobia has taken in Muslim schools, multiculturalism and dodgy mosques. As influential Muslim opinion formers, outspoken imams, dubbed "hate preachers", were among the first culprits to be fingered.
Alleged to be the intellectual stimulus for potential suicide bombers, they have been earmarked for removal. Isolate the leadership and the disciples will follow reads one of Tony Blair's "changing" rules of the game.
The policy appears to have been taken up with a vengeance by the makers of BBC's Panorama programme, the latest instalment of which sought to expose the Muslim Council of Britain as a wolf in sheep's clothing. It accused the umbrella group of speaking with a forked tongue, saying it was opposed to terrorism while its affiliates encouraged it from the pulpits and in their publications.
The evidence for Panorama's disturbing conclusion rested on the shocking discovery that the MCB's affiliates believed in the supremacy of Islam over other faiths, the subordination of politics to religion, and martyrdom.
While we might chuckle at Panorama's revelatory finding that Muslims, like Christians, Jews and Hindus, consider their religion to be superior to its rivals, Muslims will detect a more ulterior motive, namely an attempt to force a cornerstone of secular liberalism - moral relativism - on the community.
The inference most Muslims will have drawn from a programme savaging orthodox Islamic positions is that it is not so much the MCB but Islam itself that is being put on trial (when did we ever see a documentary grilling rabbis on some of the vile beliefs some rabbis have historically held about gentiles?).
Subjecting Islamic beliefs to critical scrutiny is not at issue here. Sunday's programme was a hatchet job cum propaganda piece, based on demolishing decontextualised beliefs, and demonising those who hold them in the court of secular liberalism. The programme makers had decided the standard they wanted Islam to meet and anybody who didn't was an extremist.
The strongest example came when the head of the MCB, Iqbal Sacranie, was challenged about his organisation's "extremist" refusal to attend the national Holocaust remembrance service earlier this year. The MCB's stated reason for declining was the exclusivist nature of the ceremony, focusing as it did on simply Jewish victims - it had argued for the event to mark all genocidal campaigns and victims of occupation, especially those in the Muslim world.
Leaving aside the exploitation of the Holocaust by Israel and its supporters to perpetuate Palestinian suffering, the MCB's more inclusive position is one that is held by Muslims and non-Muslims alike. What then, one wondered, was the object of this interrogation, which also took in Sacranie's decision to attend a memorial service for Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the founder of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas?
The MCB believes that it is the victim of a concerted political campaign to blackball it for its opposition to Israeli oppression. "It seems that to qualify as so-called 'moderates', Muslims are required to remain silent about Israeli crimes in Palestine, otherwise they are automatically labelled as 'extremists'," it wrote in a recent press release.
They would not be the first to fall foul of a cynical alliance of secular liberals and hard-line Zionists seeking to draw political advantage from 7/7. After 7/7, the question of where Muslims fit into British society is being reduced to two criteria: their willingness to downscale the importance they attach to their religious values, and the extent to which they support the Palestinians in their unequal struggle against the Israeli state.
In as far as Muslims refuse to do either, they will continue to find themselves on the receiving end of a modern-day Inquisition.
Faisal Bodi is the news editor of the Islam Channel
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Welcome back to our series Rembert Explains the '80s. Every so often, we'll e-mail 25-year-old Rembert Browne a video from the 1980s that he hasn't seen. Rembert will write down his thoughts as he's watching it, then we'll post those thoughts here. This week's installment was selected by Hollywood Prospectus editor Mark Lisanti: Ricky Stratton and Alfonso Ribeiro break-dancing on Silver Spoons. If you have an idea for a future episode of Rembert Explains the '80s, e-mail us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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0:04 The only thing I know about Silver Spoons is that the characters Ricky Stratton and Alfonso Ribeiro play are named "Ricky" and "Alfonso." So that's a thing.
0:12 Why hasn't Carlton moonwalked yet? (If you haven't put it together that Alfonso grew up and turned into Carlton, then (1) check yourself and (2) look below.
That's him, all right. Here he is again:
If Tito and Jermaine aren't in this episode, I'm going to punch something.
0:16 The shag he has on the back of his neck is ridiculous.
0:18 Just realized this is a serious scene. Apparently, Ricky and Carlton were beefing and not talking. Please say the gift of dance brings them together.
0:31 Yep, they just turned on music. Carlton and Ricky are about to break it down.
0:37 Oh, they're killing it. Best part so far: The white socks are slightly poking out from below their pants. Very Jackson-esque.
0:39 OK, there's a living, breathing skill gap. No disrespect to Ricky, because Carlton is a child prodigy, but wow, it's hard to look at the left side of the screen.
0:45 And now they're doing solo moves. First non-Carlton, and then Carlton. This is beautiful.
0:53 The studio audience just went crazy. I, too, just went crazy.
0:55 Just noticed that non-Carlton is wearing a fanny pack. That's amazing.
1:01 Carlton is breaking. On the surface, that's impressive, but coupled with the fact that he's wearing a jean jacket and khakis, my hat is forever tipped. Just fantastic.
1:05 The boys are done with their solos and now it's Carlton's guardian's (Dad? Uncle? T-ball coach?) time to dance. My guess: He starts off super-corny then gets shockingly good.
1:12 Was very wrong. Never got shockingly good. Stayed bad. Very bad.
1:14 This clip is incredible. Now our last two characters (Non-Carlton's parents? Siblings? I have no idea who any of these people are, I'm just matching the blacks with the blacks and the whites with the whites because I'm in the mood to unapologetically make educated generalizations) are doing their own Michael Jackson moves. You know, the "Billie Jean" heels-out-stay-on-toes side shuffle. They're killing it.
1:19 Carlton just slid across the floor. I can't. Why isn't this 40 hours long?
1:20 Non-Carlton just did a sick move. Approve or disapprove, Carlton?
1:22 You sure?
Yeah, I know. He's great.
1:28 These two boys are on their knees, spinning around. I take back what I said earlier, the skill gap isn't terribly wide. No longer will I call him "Non-Carlton" — he's back to being "Ricky." He's earned his name back. Sincerest apologies.
1:36 It's hard to believe that these two beautiful souls were just beefing. They're so happy now. So am I. Everything is happy.
1:44 Did this win an Emmy? Was there a category in the '80s for "Best Family Living Room Dance Routine"? If so, this had to have taken home the title, unless it was the same year as this:
Oh, and this.
1:47 Alfonso, Ricky, and Rembert. Best Friends Forever.
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Is Jennifer Aniston the 'Other Woman' Now?
Aniston recently began romancing Justin Theroux, but according to the tall dark and handsome actor's ex-girlfriend, Heidi Bivens, their 14-year relationship had to end for Theroux to start a new one with the 'Friends' star.
"Heidi is heartbroken," a source told the New York Post. "She was completely blindsided. She and Justin had been together for years, they had a home. Then he met Jennifer and everything changed. At first he claimed he and Jen were just friends."
Bivens, a Tinseltown costume designer, was living with Theroux until she reportedly moved out of their home just last weekend. The pair met when Bivens was 20 years old and Theroux was 24 -- when the actor was just beginning his Hollywood career.
"Heidi and Justin have been together for 14 years," Bivens' rep told Page Six. "Yes, she just moved of their home last weekend."
Theroux, 39, and Aniston, 42, first met on the set of their film, 'Wanderlust' in October but in the past few weeks have developed more than just a professional friendship, before finally going public with their romantic relationship earlier this month.
Sound familiar? Years after Aniston and Pitt called it quits, Jolie admitted that it was while she was filming 2005's 'Mr & Mrs. Smith' with Pitt that their acting relationship was becoming something more -- Aniston and Pitt were still married during the filming of the action comedy. Similarly, just as Aniston and Theroux's relationship was blossoming, the actor's relationship with Bivens was floundering.
Should Aniston know better than to come between a man and his longtime love or does she deserve to do whatever it takes to find her own happy ending?
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- Tuesday 14 JuneBy rker321
What surprises me the most is that she always gets involved with younger men than herself and not her equal star or business status as she is. It seems to me that she has a problem with men.
- Wednesday 15 JuneBy kim
you would think Jen could find her own man but it looks like she cant she's beginning to look desperate jumping from one man to another im smelling desperation
- Tuesday 14 JuneBy L
She is a pig, and I never liked her so just figures, my instincts were correct.
- Tuesday 14 JuneBy MikeLowest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Justin's a hot piece! I'd hit it! Go, Jen!
- Tuesday 14 JuneBy sickoLow Ranked Vote downVote upReport this
i take it you like men's genitalia?
- Tuesday 14 JuneBy BeckyLowest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Really its her fault??? What about his responsibility to the relationship?? If ya didnt put a ring on it,,,,, it's fair game
- Tuesday 14 JuneBy shirl
- Tuesday 14 JuneBy Bubbles
Shame on Jennifer. She knows the pain but still chooses to inflict it on someone else. She also chose another loser who would do this to a woman of a 14 year relationship he had. This one will be over for Jennifer fast too. I think Jennifer Aniston will never find happiness. I question her intelligence at this point and her scruples. Maybe that is the problem with her keeping a man.
- Tuesday 14 JuneBy JaneX
Jen is one of the phoniest people on the planet, the term actress doesnt apply, but other woman is a good fit!, sad, lonely old orange hasbeen, that actually will end up known as Brad Pitts first wife. Money cant buy you happiness loser
- Tuesday 14 June
Well, as of this moment, Brad Pitt's ONLY wife. He didn't put a ring on Jolie, so despite the half-dozen or so brats, that makes him fair game, too, no?
- Wednesday 15 JuneBy Marla
frenchblue367: you're so angry with Pitt and Jolie that you would call their kids brats. You're too angry. They're sweet, innocent children who have nothing to do with Jen's heart being broken. And the answer is, no, if there are kids involved he isn't fair game.
- Tuesday 14 JuneBy KS.
Will Aniston ever find true love? THAT is the question.The soga will go on FOR ever.If not longer,lol!!
- Tuesday 14 June
Regardless of marriage or no marriage . . . Jennifer went through this herself and you would think she'd be more sensitive and resist hurting someone else the way she was hurt (although I can't blame Brad one bit - talentless, ordinary Jennifer or uber-talented, beautiful, giving philanthropist, Angelina - no contest). Jennifer hops from man to man, with no long term success. What does that tell you about her?! Plus, she's dying at the box office . . . also she was recently denied a part to a younger actor . . . gotta hurt. Face it, Jen, you're no prize!!
- Tuesday 14 June
How you get a man...is how you lose a man
- Tuesday 14 JuneBy Fern
Can't wait til he dumps her wrinkly, Jay Leno chined arse and takes half her money.
- Tuesday 14 JuneBy molly
How do any of us know that there weren't cracks in Bivens and Theroux's relationship prior to him stepping out with Aniston? You can't date/live with someone for 14 years and not know them well enough to at least suspect something.
Just because Bivens "just" now moved out doesn't mean she wasn't aware they had problems. Afterall before this couple went public there were rumors out for at least a month about a relationship and it was supposedly him that pushed Aniston to go public. Maybe he had told Bivens they were through and she just wouldn't accept it so he felt going public was the only way.
The final straw is dating is a lot different than marriage. Marriage means you care enough about the other person to make all the world know. Callous as it may sound, if Justin wanted to marry Heidi he had 14 years to do it and when they parted ways the couple was no closer to that piece of paper than they were when they started.
- Tuesday 14 June
I am with you on that one Molly. I totally agree and could not have said it better myself.
- Thursday 16 June
Cheating is Cheating whether it's a girlfriend or wife. I'm sure whether you are a wife or girlfriend, you wouldn't like it done to you!
- Wednesday 15 JuneBy Debbe
You have a right to BREAK UP with your girlfriend and move on. Different from if you were in a marriage where you made a promise to be together forever. And, who said anything about cheating? He broke up FIRST looks like. Jen would not go for cheating after what she went through. Everything was done sensibly and everyone on here making it look bad.
- Tuesday 14 JuneBy josie
Jen is like an old mattress in a showroom, lots of men have tried it out, but they leave the store and end up buying a new one.
as for her being america's sweetheart, excuse me, besides being a part of a large cast on Friends, she has yet to hit it big in Hollywood, her claim to fame was being Mrs. Brad Pitt. And she is getting long in the tooth to play the young girls part in movies.
Give this guy a month or so, and she'll be all alone again. So many men, this woman must be really damaged. She can't seem to hold on to anyone more than a couple of months.
You can not take a man away from another woman, married or not, if that man was happy in the relationship. She surely was not able to keep he man happy. Angelina didn't hold a gun to Brad's head, he went willingly. and oh, he's still with Angelina, I guess she has what it takes to hold on to a man.
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In the quarter that ended Dec. 31, the world-renowned pediatric center booked a $45.7 million non-operating gain, roughly 50 percent more than it generated from its care-related operations in the same period. The non-operating performance was led by a 48 percent surge in the value of Children's alternative-investment portfolio and helped propel the care provider's net assets — essentially its bottom line — to $76 million for the quarter, up 25 percent on a year-over-year basis.
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Valve's very popular Portal and Portal 2 interactive puzzle video games are now natively available on Linux!
Beginning this evening, if you fire up your Steam Linux client, Valve's Portal and Portal 2 games should now be present for Linux gamers. Portal was released in 2007 while Portal 2 came in 2011. The Portal series is a very popular first-person puzzle-platform games out of Valve with a large emphasis on teleporting and dealing with various objects.
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WASHINGTON, D.C., JULY 13, 2006 (Zenit) - Internet friendships, despite their inherent limitations, can be a real way to foster deeper personal relationships, says a Catholic sociologist.
G. Alexander Ross, who is a professor and dean of students at the Institute for the Psychological Sciences, in Arlington, Virginia, shared his views with us on the possibilities and dangers of using cyber communities to build relationships with others.
Ross' areas of interest include the sociology of the family and the integration of the social sciences with a Catholic understanding of the human person.
Q: What are some reasons for the growing attraction of young people to online cyber communities?
Ross: At a most basic level, the attraction you ask about is merely one instance of our natural desire to associate with others.
Aristotle called man a "political animal." What he meant by this was not that we all have a desire to run for office, but that each of us is drawn to form groups and associations with others in order to realize himself.
That is, it is the very nature of man to associate with others. As the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, No. 149, teaches, man "can only grow and realize his vocation in relation with others."
The young are often skilled at using Internet technology. They appear to view these cyber communities simply as other opportunities to pursue social relationships.
Q: Among the various means of communication, is there a significant difference in Internet relationships?
Ross: Of course, internet relationships are not identical to other forms of social interaction.
Something the Internet shares with earlier technologies such as the telegraph or the telephone is that the social cues transmitted to the other person are more limited than in face-to-face communication.
This limitation in the richness of communication has obvious disadvantages, yet research suggests some interesting compensations.
Social psychological research shows that physical attractiveness often has a more powerful influence on relationship formation than the deeper, more significant personal factors that we would prefer to influence friendship formation.
Although members of some of the cyber communities will share personal photos and other media as well as messages of text, the physical characteristics of the individual are not normally visible to the communicators. This can allow the deeper personal characteristics of the individual to be more salient in the interaction that occurs.
One interesting laboratory experiment found that subjects who met for the first time on the Internet liked each other more than those who first met each other face-to-face.
Furthermore, the lack of information on physical characteristics, by hiding racial differences, may make attitudes of racial prejudice less likely to impede relationship formation.
Not being tied to face-to-face interaction also opens many possibilities for reaching people who share particular interests. Esoteric interests are, by definition, shared by only a few. But because the Internet lets a person search the entire world to contact others who share unusual interests, he may find many with whom to correspond.
For example, some cyber communities are formed by people who share a rare medical condition. With that common bond, the members are able to offer empathy or advice that is not provided by their available face-to-face contacts.
Other special-interest cyber communities form around what sociologists call stigmatized identities. An important part of the self-identity of members of these groups is a trait or practice that sets them apart from conventional society. They seek each others' company for mutual support and defense, a natural and beneficial tendency found in some measure in most social groups.
It has been common in history that groups are stigmatized unjustly for a trait or practice that is in fact good. Often stigmatized and persecuted, Christians provide an example of this.
However, the characteristic that sets apart a stigmatized group is sometimes objectively harmful. In such cases, the cyber communities may serve to resist a change that would actually be to the benefit of the members.
Q: Is it possible to develop authentic friendships online, with people you may never see in "real life"? What would these relationships look like?
Ross: The limitations of the medium will certainly restrict the depth of the relationship that forms. But the specific social context is very important here.
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Considering OPEC is not expected to try to drive prices back up.
Complete and open transparency - I have no link to support the illustration but it generally fits what I've seen from other sources.
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|20 March 2013
|Global budget: 156.8 million euro
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