After Paul Ryan Funds Visas for 300,000 Muslim Migrants, House Republicans Give Him Standing Ovation - Breitbart

After Paul Ryan Funds Visas for 300,000 Muslim Migrants, House Republicans Give Him Standing Ovation - Breitbart:

"Last month, House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)56%
successfully pushed through Congress his $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill that funds visas for nearly 300,000 temporary and permanent Muslim migrants over the next 12 months.

The omnibus bill also funded sanctuary cities, illegal alien tax credits, and changed federal law to allow for a massive increase in low-skilled H-2B workers– an immigration expansion opposed by more than nine in ten GOP voters. Yet at the first gathering of all House Republicans since the omnibus’s passage, Politico reports that GOP lawmakers gave Ryan a standing ovation at the close of this week’s Republican Congressional retreat."

Yep, women are signing up for firearms training and buying handguns in record numbers

Yep, women are signing up for firearms training and buying handguns in record numbers « Hot Air
While not as heavily reported in time past, women are becoming major players in the gun industry and ownership. 
Contrary to popular belief, women are not stalwarts of gun control politics–they want to protect themselves as any other American.
That’s why across the country record numbers of women are lining up to obtain their gun permits.
In fact, since 2007, there has been a 270 percent increase in women having concealed carry permits. 
So, the truth of the matter is that women have always been around guns; it was that no one was catering to their needs, especially when it comes to concealing their firearms.
CNN had a segment and story about this last February at the annual SHOT Show hosted by the National Shooting Sports Foundation:
Women are buying handguns in record numbers — especially weapons that are small enough to conceal.
But they are frustrated by the lack of firearm accessories catering to them. So some are starting companies of their own to tailor products to women.
“I thought to myself, ‘Where’s all the women’s stuff?'” said Lorelei Fay of Boise, Idaho.
Fay couldn’t find a suitable holster when she got her own concealed carry license. 
Her mother had taught her to sew, so she made her own: an elastic belly band with a holster for her Sig Sauer semiautomatic handgun. 
It also has pockets to hold two backup magazines.
When her friends laid eyes on it, they wanted one too. So she stitched up some of the corset-style holsters and starting selling them in 2014.
Fay called her company Miss Concealed..."

Why aren’t the Democrats discussing the campus sexual assault ‘epidemic’?

Instapundit » Blog Archive » ASHE SCHOW: Why aren’t the Democrats discussing the campus sexual assault ‘epidemic’? We’re told…:
ASHE SCHOW: Why aren’t the Democrats discussing the campus sexual assault ‘epidemic’?

We’re told campus sexual assault is a massive problem across the country. We’re told that 1 in 5 women will be sexually assaulted while they’re in college. And we’re told we need to enact draconian policies right now in order to stop the epidemic.

So why then, if our country is facing a rape epidemic on par with war-torn Congo, aren’t the presidential candidates being asked about how they would solve the problem?

The candidates are asked every single debate about the Islamic State and how the United States can best fight terrorism. They’re asked about gun control and mass shootings. They’re asked about illegal immigration. But the alleged mass rapes on college campuses? Crickets.

Could it be because every rational person has realized that campus sexual assault is not the epidemic being reported in the media and by politicians eager to prove they support women?

"Well, also the notion that campuses — which are core Left institutions — are hotbeds of rape is problematic past a certain point. 
It’s fine to use as a slogan on campus, but if voters in general start really thinking about campuses as high-cost rape factories, the consequences are likely to be unpleasant."

How ‘the public is priced out of public records’ by Michigan universities

How ‘the public is priced out of public records’ by Michigan universities - Columbia Journalism Review
"In Michigan, transparency comes at a cost—and a seemingly arbitrary one at that.
The Society of Professional Journalists chapter at Central Michigan University recently conducted a FOIA audit of the state’s 15 public universities.
It asked for a year’s worth of information on expenses from the university presidents and governing boards, and also police reports on campus sexual assaults.
The goal: to compare how universities respond to requests for public information, and how much they charge.
No university denied the requests.
But the price to fulfill all of them totaled more than $20,000.
That ranged from Eastern Michigan University and two other schools that offered records for free, to the University of Michigan, where it would cost $2,774 just for presidential spending records.

UM attributed that cost to its estimate that it would take 46.5 staff hours to search for records, and many more to review and duplicate documents.
In total, presidential expenses were the most costly records; it would take $10,750.93 to fulfill them all.
Arielle Hines, president of CMU-SPJ and a senior journalism major, questioned the hours it would take to fulfill the requests. 
“What archaic system are you using?” she said.
“You have to think they’d have some kind of auditing process for the president, and if not, that’s a bigger story.”
(Incidentally, this isn’t the first time that Hines, the editor of CMU Insider, has pushed for more and better transparency at public universities.)
...In the wake of the Flint water crisis, there has been a renewed push for open records reform in Michigan, a state with a notoriously poor reputation for transparency. 
The CMU-SPJ report raises a new point of needed change.
Not only is the plain cost of information eyebrow-raising, but so are the scattershot rates and response times—even for identical information requests..."

Lunch video-----Idiocracy: Bernie Sanders

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Clinton Ally Lanny Davis Admits He 'Wouldn't Be Surprised' If Hillary's Emails Were Hacked

Clinton Ally Lanny Davis Admits He 'Wouldn't Be Surprised' If Hillary's Emails Were Hacked:

"A well-known Clinton associate and supporter did the troubled front-runner no favors when he acknowledged during a recent radio interview that some entity — possibly a mischievous hacker or a malevolent foreign government — may well have breached the weak security of her personal server, potentially gaining access to classified national security information.

Lanny Davis told WMAL radio host Larry O’Connor that, while “there is no evidence” put forth that the server was hacked, he “wouldn’t be surprised” if it had been."

Cirque du Solei Cancels North Carolina Shows Over Public Facilities Act — Plans Shows In Dubai, Where Gays Are Put to Death

Cirque du Solei Cancels North Carolina Shows Over Public Facilities Act — Plans Shows In Dubai, Where Gays Are Put to Death - Breitbart:
"Canada-based circus and theater entertainment company Cirque du Soleil has canceled its upcoming shows in Greensboro, Charlotte, and Raleigh in North Carolina to protest the state’s Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act.
“Cirque du Soleil strongly believes in diversity and equality for every individual and is opposed to discrimination in any form,” the group announced Friday in a press release.
“The new HB2 legislation passed in North Carolina is an important regression to ensuring human rights for all.”
Cirque du Soleil’s North Carolina cancelation comes as a growing number of artists and entertainers abandon their respective performances in the state to protest of the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act.
The world-famous circus, however, has not canceled its upcoming performances in the United Arab Emirates of Dubai.
Indeed, Cirque du Solei has a planned production, Varekai, scheduled to run from September 16 to 24 at the Dubai World Trade Centre. 
The United Arab Emirates of Dubai has outlawed same-sex marriage, sex or gender reassignment surgery, adoption by same-sex couples, openly gay and lesbian military service, with the aforementioned being punishable by death, fines, or imprisonment.
In fact, Cirque du Solei has performed for years in the anti-LBGT United Arab Emirates, including Michael Jackson:
The Immortal Tour in 2014, Dralion in 2013, Alegria in 2009, and Quidam in 2006..."

U. of New Hampshire Students Actually Created a ‘Bias-Free Language Guide’

U. of New Hampshire Students Actually Created a ‘Bias-Free Language Guide’ | Intellectual Takeout
Over the weekend I stumbled on an article in The Harvard Crimson that referenced the University of New Hampshire’s “Bias-Free Language Guide.”

...The “Bias-Free Language Guide” is something George Orwell would not have dared to dream. 

It’s eight pages of mantra on how to speak inoffensively on the following: age, class, race, culture, immigration status, sexual orientation, ethnicity, sex, gender identity … and it just goes on.

The document comes complete with a Gender Pronoun Guide, definitions and examples of microaggressions versus macroaggressions, and most importantly an extensive glossary of acceptable terminology and unacceptable terminology. 

A few highlights:

Preferred: Gay, Lesbian, Same Gender Loving (SGL)    

Problematic: “Homosexual”

Preferred: White people, European-American individuals    

Problematic: Caucasian people

 Preferred: Undocumented immigrant or worker; person seeking asylum, refugee    

Problematic: Illegal alien

Preferred: Sexual Minorities, Queer, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ)    Problematic: People of an alternative “lifestyle”

Read on!

Exxon & Climate Change -- Left's Witch Hunt Won't Stop with Them

Exxon & Climate Change -- Left's Witch Hunt Won't Stop with Them
The case against Exxon and CEI will not stop with Exxon and CEI
We think in language, and we think in stories, a fact that is appreciated most keenly not by writers or literary critics but by censors.
In the course of writing about the ongoing fraud in which a cabal of left-wing lawyers with connections to the administrations of Barack Obama and Andrew Cuomo has attempted to extort many billions of dollars from Chevron, I had a memorable conversation with an executive at the energy giant.
“We are the least sympathetic defendant there is,” he said. 
“We’re an oil company. 
You can say almost anything about an oil company. 
There are no stories in which the oil company is the good guy.” 
There is one: The one where you go to the 7-Eleven and fill up your miraculous machine with a miraculous energy source that would, within the recent history of the human species, have been indistinguishable from magic.
But the point stands.
You can say anything you like, no matter how wild the claim, about an oil company or a financial firm, or, indeed, about any corporation, “corporation” now being the English word that means “a business that I hate.”
The demonization of the word “corporation” has proceeded alongside the demonization of the concept.
The American Left, which long ago abandoned its hereditary liberalism for totalitarianism, is very much interested in policing language. 
Writing this week in Time, which still exists, Katy Steinmetz complains about the use of the word “transgendered” to describe people who were until five minutes ago known as transsexuals, and five minutes before that weird guys in dresses.
(The argument, in case you are wondering, is that the implicitly passive form “transgendered” suggests that something was done to these people, as though we could not distinguish between a tossed salad and a spotted owl.)
She offers other sage advice: “If you meet a trans person — someone who identifies with a gender other than the sex they were assigned at birth — it’s generally a good idea to ask which pronouns (he or she, him or her) they prefer and to use whatever that is...” 
Read on and fear the war is already lost.

Obama’s Power Over Immigration Drives Supreme Court Dispute | TheBlaze.com

Obama’s Power Over Immigration Drives Supreme Court Dispute | TheBlaze.com:

"The states, joined by congressional Republicans, argue that Obama doesn’t have the power to effectively change immigration law. When he announced the measures 17 months ago, Obama said he was acting under his own authority because Congress had failed to overhaul the immigration system. The Senate had passed legislation on a bipartisan vote, but House Republicans refused to put the matter to a vote.

“Fundamentally, we don’t think the president has the statutory or constitutional authority to issue these executive actions,” said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

House Republicans told the court that Obama is claiming the power “to decree that millions of individuals may live, work and receive benefits in this country even though federal statutes plainly prohibit them from doing so.”"

This photo says it all. The Labour Council used Your Taxes to pay for this

(1) UK OPEN Political Debate:
"This photo says it all. The Labour Council used Your Taxes to pay for this
This photograph was taken recently outside Greenside in Gateshead, and demonstrates the stupidity and wastefulness at the heart of this Labour Council.
No cyclist in their right mind would take advantage of the little five metre cycle lane at the side of the road. "

AM Fruitcake

‪#‎Bravo‬!

History for April 18

History for April 18 - On-This-Day.com
Clarence Darrow 1857 - Attorney, famous for his part in the Scopes 'monkey trial', Hayley Mills 1946 - Actress ("The Parent Trap"), singer, James Woods 1947 - Actor ("The Onion Field", "Casino")


Rick Moranis 1954 - Actor ("Parenthood", "Ghostbuster" series, "Spaceballs"), Eric Roberts 1956 - Actor ("Doctor Who", "The Coca-Cola Kid"), brother of actress Julia Roberts, Conan O'Brien 1963 - Television personality ("Late Night with Conan O'Brien")


1775 - American revolutionaries Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott rode though the towns of Massachusetts giving the warning that the Regulars were coming out. Later, the phrase "the British are coming" was attributed to Revere even though it is unlikely he used that wording.


1906 - San Francisco, CA, was hit with an earthquake. The original death toll was cited at about 700. Later information indicated that the death toll may have been 3 to 4 times the original estimate.


1923 - Yankee Stadium opened in the Bronx, NY. The Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 4-1. John Phillip Sousa's band played the National Anthem.


1937 - Leon Trotsky called for the overthrow of Soviet leader Josef Stalin.


1938 - Superman made his debut when he appeared in the first issue of Action Comics. (Cover date June 1938)


1942 - James H. Doolittle and his squadron, from the USS Hornet, raided Tokyo and other Japanese cities.


1945 - American war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed by Japanese gunfire on the Pacific island of Ie Shima, off Okinawa. He was 44 years old.


1954 - Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser seized power in Egypt.

Bruce Springsteen Threatens to Boycott Michigan if Transgender Locker Room Bill Becomes Law - Breitbart

Bruce Springsteen Threatens to Boycott Michigan if Transgender Locker Room Bill Becomes Law - Breitbart:

"During a concert in Michigan on Thursday night, the E Street Band frontman said: “We hope the bill doesn’t pass, ’cause we love playing in Michigan.”

Springsteen was referring to a bill backed by Republicans in the Michigan legislature that would prohibit schools from allowing children to share a bathroom or locker room with their classmates of the opposite sex."

Heads-up Aberdeen, South Dakota! New resettlement site being proposed

Heads-up Aberdeen, South Dakota! New resettlement site being proposed « Refugee Resettlement Watch:
Update: State Department admits today that the Syrian Sunni surge to America is on, and readers that is why you will see many more stories like this one from South Dakota—they need to find places to put them!

People ask me all the time, how will I know if my town is next?  The only way you will know is by picking up little tidbits of information like this from South Dakota Public Radio.  Hat tip: Joanne

Aberdeen Mayor Mike Levsen: ““We need workers, and we certainly would be glad to have more friends and neighbors and more children in our schools and more cultures that we can learn from.” [And you get to pay for it all while big business gets cheap labor!]

There is no organized advanced planning for the secretive UN/US State Department resettlement sites.

There is no proper notice to communities. There will be no input from you, the taxpayer paying for all of this.  The process is one big free-for-all with federal contractors, like the Lutherans here, scrambling (especially now!) to find ‘welcoming’ communities with government subsidized housing as the Obama refugee surge has moved into high gear.

[Please see my previous post on the 100-mile radius, because as they move them out from the bulls-eye, they create ever-expanding target ranges for resettlement.—ed]

And, as you read and listen to the public radio story, I want you to think about this!

As infuriating as it is, it is one thing to sign the new refugees up for their “services” (aka welfare, food stamps, education, medical care), but now we see an expanding need to follow previously resettled refugees around the country as they move on their own to make sure they have a federal contractor to hold their hands to get their “services” wherever they move!

Do they ever stop being ‘clients’ of federal contractors?

And, notice that when “integration” is discussed (not ASSIMILATION) that integration seems to be linked somehow to their “services”— to their welfare?  What! no integration without a connection to the taxpayer teat?

Study: 1 in 4 College Freshmen Need Remedial Education

Study: 1 in 4 College Freshmen Need Remedial Education | Intellectual Takeout
In recent years, the expressed goal of the education system has been to ensure that every child is college- and career-ready. 
That goal has enjoyed a measure of success, particularly as college enrollment rates rose from 26% to 41% between 1980 and 2012.

But landing a spot in college doesn’t necessarily mean students are ready for college coursework, a fact highlighted by a new report from Education Reform Now. 
According to the report, a quarter of college freshmen need to enroll in remedial courses to catch up. The authors explain:

“Contrary to common belief, remedial education is a widespread phenomenon not at all confined to low-income students or community colleges. It affects a broad swath of students, including those from middle-, upper-middle, and high-income families, as well as a broad swath of colleges.”

Unfortunately for students, taking remedial courses in college is not only embarrassing and discouraging, it is also painful financially:

“With an average of two remedial classes taken per student, the half million recent high school graduates and their families overall paid an extra $3,000 for skills and content they should have learned in high school.”

Statistics from The Nation’s Report Card only underscore the truth of this statement:

• 62% of high school seniors aren’t proficient in reading.
• 73% of high school seniors aren’t proficient in writing.
• 74% of high school seniors aren’t proficient in math.
• 76% of high school seniors aren’t proficient in civics.
• 88% of high school seniors aren’t proficient in U.S. history.

With numbers like these, is it any wonder that students and families are having to waste extensive time and money trying to catch up to the college level?

Health Law Expert’s Dire Obamacare Warning: ‘Something Has to Give’ | TheBlaze.com

Health Law Expert’s Dire Obamacare Warning: ‘Something Has to Give’ | TheBlaze.com:

"Some insurers say that their companies are losing money at alarming rates through the plans instituted under the Affordable Care Act, according to The Hill. Others have begun discussing whether or not they should drop out of the marketplaces altogether.

“Something has to give,” said Larry Levitt, an expert on the health law at the Kaiser Family Foundation, according to The Hill. “Either insurers will drop out or insurers will raise premiums.”"

How US covered up Saudi role in 9/11

How US covered up Saudi role in 9/11 | New York Post:
"In its report on the still-censored “28 pages” implicating the Saudi government in 9/11, “60 Minutes” last weekend said the Saudi role in the attacks has been “soft-pedaled” to protect America’s delicate alliance with the oil-rich kingdom.
That’s quite an understatement.
Actually, the kingdom’s involvement was deliberately covered up at the highest levels of our government.
And the coverup goes beyond locking up 28 pages of the Saudi report in a vault in the US Capitol basement. Investigations were throttled.
Co-conspirators were let off the hook.
Case agents I’ve interviewed at the Joint Terrorism Task Forces in Washington and San Diego, the forward operating base for some of the Saudi hijackers, as well as detectives at the Fairfax County (Va.) Police Department who also investigated several 9/11 leads, say virtually every road led back to the Saudi Embassy in Washington, as well as the Saudi Consulate in Los Angeles.
Yet time and time again, they were called off from pursuing leads.
A common excuse was “diplomatic immunity...”"

Europe: Suicide by Jihad

Europe: Suicide by Jihad:

• In the last two decades, Belgium has become the hub of jihad in Europe. The district of Molenbeek in Brussels is now a foreign Islamist territory in the heart of Belgium. It is not, however, a lawless zone: sharia law has effectively replaced Belgian law.
• One of the organizers of the Paris bombings, Salah Abdeslam, was able to live peacefully in Molenbeek for four months until police decided to arrest him. Belgian police knew exactly where he was, but did nothing until French authorities asked them to. After his arrest, he was treated as a petty criminal. Police did not ask him anything about the jihadist networks with which he worked. Officers who interrogated him were ordered to be gentle. The people who hid him were not indicted.
• Europe's leaders disseminated the idea that the West was guilty of oppressing Muslims. They therefore sowed the seeds of anti-Western resentment among Muslims in Europe.
• Hoping to please followers of radical Islam and show them Europe could understand their "grievances," they placed pressure on Israel. When Europeans were attacked, they did not understand why. They had done their best to please the Muslims. They had not even harassed the jihadists.

Lunch video-----Plane Hits Reporter In The Head

Plane Hits Reporter In The Head - World War Wings:
"A Bit Too Close To The Action This Time.
Now we all love reporters who take their jobs seriously and try to get the story.
Be it an amazing rescue or a dangerous situation unfolding, the good ones are right there and getting the details.
The reporter in this clip however, got a bit more than he bargained for.
The white stuff you’ll see in the video is actually flour, as part of the “flour bombing”exhibition.
Meet Richard Wyatt who worked for HTV West in England back in the 70s.
Believe it or not he actually worked there for another few decades despite what you’re about to see in this video..."

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Alleged ‘Obamaphone’ Fraud Kept Silent Until After Vote to Expand Program, FCC Member Says | TheBlaze.com

Alleged ‘Obamaphone’ Fraud Kept Silent Until After Vote to Expand Program, FCC Member Says | TheBlaze.com:

"A Federal Communications Commission member said the agency told commissioners to stay mum on a fraud case regarding so called “Obamaphones” until after a vote to renew the program, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

The FCC alleged that Total Call Mobile committed fraud in the federal Lifeline program of $10 million and that the federal agency would seek $51 million in damages and penalties, the Free Beacon reported."

Sanders Lawyers Do Not Like These "Bernie Is My Comrade" T-Shirts One Bit

Sanders Lawyers Do Not Like These "Bernie Is My Comrade" T-Shirts One Bit - BuzzFeed News: "An online merchant has accused the Bernie Sanders campaign of “trademark bullying” after a Bernie 2016, Inc. attorney sent him a cease and desist letter regarding T-shirts, mugs, and sweatshirts depicting the candidate with historic communist leaders.
Claire Hawkins, a lawyer with Garvey, Schubert, Barer — which said it is “the official organization” of the campaign — sent the letter to Daniel McCall, demanding his company, Liberty Maniacs, stop selling the items.
The products show Sanders next Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin, and others with the tagline, “Bernie is my comrade.”
“I was surprised Bernie’s campaign would have done that,” McCall, who designed the image, told BuzzFeed News.
“He didn’t seem to be the type of candidate, the type of guy, who would do something like this...”"

Obama's "america"-----Man Dressed as Woman Arrested for Spying Into Mall Bathroom Stall, Police Say

Man Dressed as Woman Arrested for Spying Into Mall Bathroom Stall, Police Say | NBC4 Washington
A man dressed as a woman was arrested in Virginia on Monday after police say he was caught peeping into restroom stalls three times in the past year.
Richard Rodriguez, 30, filmed a woman in a bathroom stall at the Potomac Mills Mall, Prince William County Police said on Tuesday.
A 35-year-old woman was in the stall when she saw a bag moved toward her under the stall divider. Rodriguez apparently had been filming her, police said.
The victim rushed out of the stall to confront the man and saw him hurry to another stall, next to another woman.
The victim alerted the woman and then contacted mall security of the shopping center on 2700 block of Potomac Mills Circle in Woodbridge, Virginia.

Somalis arriving at the rate of 750 a month right now; will it ever end?

Somalis arriving at the rate of 750 a month right now; will it ever end? « Refugee Resettlement Watch:

"As of March 31, we were 6 months into the 2016 fiscal year which began on Oct. 1, 2015.

Since you all were interested in the Syrian numbers so far I thought I should update you on the Somali migration to America.  But, first check out my post of September 2008 where I chronicled over 30 years of Somali resettlement to America.   Notice that the highest resettlement years occurred in the Bush Administration.

I want to make the point again—once the UN and the US State Department get rolling on a specific ethnic group, the flow into America continues for decades!  A reporter asked me the other day: if we blow up a place, aren’t we responsible for the people? We didn’t blow up Somalia, so why are we responsible for their mass importation to America?

As of the end of 2015 we have admitted 127,337 Somalis through the Refugee Admissions Program. This figure does not include successful asylum seekers or those in the US illegally. Do we continue taking Somalis for decades to come?

This year FY2016 we are on target for 9,000!

Checking the State Department data, I see we admitted 4,521 Somalis in the first half of FY2016.  Here is where they went:

The end of civilization-----University students are struggling to read entire books

University students are struggling to read entire books | Education | News | The Independent: "Students have reacted to claims from university professors that they struggle to read books from cover to cover by admitting it is true - but insisting it's because universities don't give them enough time to finish them.
University academics caused a furore this week by claiming many students found the thought of reading books all the way to the end “daunting”, due to shorter attention spans and an inability to focus on complex philosophies.
Jenny Pickerill, a professor in environmental geography at the University of Sheffield, told Times Higher Education magazine: “Students struggle with set texts, saying the language or concepts are too hard”.
"I recently had a student suggest an alternative book for a module I am teaching which they found easier to engage with.
It was a good book, but it was not really academic enough and I am still unsure if that matters or whether I should be recommending more readable books.
There is currently a disjuncture between the types of reading we want students to engage with and the types students feel able or willing to do.”
Jo Brewis, professor of organisation and consumption at Leicester University, weighed in saying "graduates and postgraduate students seem mainly not to be avid readers”.
Recommending whole books would overwhelm them, she added, and she tended not to do so."

Microsoft Sues U.S. Gov’t Over Secret Demands for Customer Data | TheBlaze.com

Microsoft Sues U.S. Gov’t Over Secret Demands for Customer Data | TheBlaze.com: "SAN

FRANCISCO (AP) — In the latest clash over privacy rights in the digital age, Microsoft is suing the U.S. government over a federal law that allows authorities to examine customer emails or online files without the individual’s knowledge."

Shock Poll: 23% of British Muslims Want Sharia Rules in UK

Shock Poll: 23% of British Muslims Want Sharia Rules in UK
Shock Poll: 23% of British Muslims Want Sharia Rules in UK

The figures are part of a new poll released on April 13 in the TV documentary 'What British Muslims Really Think,' aired on Channel 4.

While 86% of Muslims feel a sense of belonging in the UK, pollsters warned of a "chasm" opening between Muslims and non-Muslims. Picture: Islamists at a protest in the UK (Photo: © Reuters)

“The integration of Muslims will probably be the hardest task” the UK has ever faced, according to the country's former Equality and Human Rights Commission chairman Trevor Phillips.
He made the comments about a new study conducted for Britain’s Channel 4 TV, analyzing What British Muslims Really Think.
The poll indicated that large numbers of Muslims, 86 percent, feel a strong sense of belonging towards Britain, while 88% think the UK is a good place for Muslims to live. On most things 78% say they would like to integrate.
However, there are key differences where sections of the Muslim community have very different and troubling views.
“On specific issues – families, sexuality, gender, attitudes towards Jews and on questions of violence and terrorism,” Phillips told BBC Radio 4’s Today Program, “the centre of gravity of British Muslim opinion is some distance away from the centre of gravity of everyone else’s opinion.”
Here are some of the more worrying find of the poll:

• 23% support the introduction of sharia into Muslim areas of Britain. 
• 39% agree “wives should always obey their husbands” (5% for the general population). 
• 52% think homosexuality should be illegal, compared with 5% of the country as a whole. Only 18% of Muslims agree it should be legal. 
• 47% believe it is unacceptable for a gay person to be a teacher (14% for the general population). 
• 35% say Jews have too much power in Britain (5% of the general population)..."

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