NETANYAHU CONTINUES THE COWARDICE OF RELEASING TERRORISTS

The embarrassment of a prime minister is intent on continuing with his insult to justice and the victims of jihad, all the while using construction as a kind of moral equivalence:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not intend to abort the second phase of the prisoner release which he pledged within the framework of resuming direct peace talks with the Palestinians, but he also intends to accelerate certain building projects in Judea and Samaria.

Netanyahu was planning to divulge the identities of the 32 convicted terrorists comprising the second batch of Palestinian prisoners during the weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday. [...]

A senior political official said on Thursday that "Israel will stand behind all its obligations with the resumption of negotiations. At the same time a new construction initiative is expected to be announced." [...]

Meanwhile, dissension within the government has grown over the second phase of the prisoner release. Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett (Habayit Hayehudi) criticized the prime minister's willingness to release terrorists, despite Netanyahu's pledge to keep building in the settlements, the support center of Bennett's party.

"The attempt to combine construction with freeing murderers is cynical and morally wrong. It would be better for the prime minister not to free murderers and not to build," he said.

He's right. At worst, it's sick and can embarrass people who live in Judea/Samaria.

Habayit Hayehudi announced on Thursday it planned to propose a bill on Sunday that would prevent future prisoner releases.

The new bill "would stop the shameful release of terrorist prisoners in the future and we even expect Likud ministers to support [it]," said Habayit Heyehudi in a press release. The bill has also received signatures from MKs in Netanyahu's Likud party and United Torah Judaism.

They'd do a lot of good to support the bill, which is crucial for ensuring that violent criminals serve their full punishment, no matter their ethnic background.

SAUDI WOMEN DEFY DRIVING BAN

Saudi women are challenging the ban on driving in one of the worst sharia regimes on the globe:

Mai Alswayan's family spent an anxious few minutes on Saturday worrying about whether she would make it home.

Her crime was to leave their apartment without a male chaperone, get in the family car and drive to the small supermarket near their home. This could have landed her in prison, for Mrs Alswayan lives in Saudi Arabia - the only country in the world which forbids women from driving.

I'm not sure that's still so. In Syria, Islamofascists enforced a ban on women's driving, refuting the notion only Saudi Arabia is guilty of this.

About 60 women deliberately defied the law by getting behind the wheel and driving down the street in various cities across the kingdom. Aziza Youssef, the campaigner who organised the protest, said she had received 13 videos and another 50 phone messages from women claiming to have joined in.

If so, this would be the biggest breach of Saudi Arabia's ban on female driving. There were no reports of any arrests, suggesting that the authorities might have quietly decided to turn a blind eye.

Then that leaves at least two more bans to defy: the ones that say they cannot leave home without male escorts, and the one that says they cannot go around without wearing an abaya.

Michelle Obama's Gal Pal Joined CGI In May, 2010 - CGI Was Awarded The Contract in September, 2011

I had not seen the chain of events highlighted at any other blog, and I thought it was important to establish an answer to the question.

Michelle Obama's college friend, Toni Townes-Whitley, was hired by CGI in May 2010.

From the CGI website: 

Toni Townes-Whitley joined CGI in May 2010. She is a Senior Vice-President currently leading the Civilian Agency Programs (CAP) Business Unit for the Federal Group. CAP serves 22 Federal Civilian agencies with 1,850+ members geographically dispersed across the U.S. and 34 countries internationally. The CAP Unit offers a broad portfolio of solutions, including cloud, ERP, application and infrastructure outsourcing, and consulting services.

Toni Townes-Whitley joined the CGI Federal management team in May 2010, and has been responsible for the successful delivery of services to 22 Civilian Agencies within the U.S. Federal Government. As the Business Unit Manager for Civilian Agency Programs (CAP), Ms. Townes-Whitley is responsible for sales, client relationships, P&L and member management for CAP’s 1,850+ members across the U.S. and 34 countries internationally. CAP is the largest Federal Business Unit and has a broad portfolio of cloud, Momentum/ERP, consulting and outsourcing solutions. 

The contract was awarded to CGI, by CMS, which is an operating division within the Dept. of Health and Human Services, in September, 2011:

An HHS source told The Daily Caller that the agency received four proposals out of 16 pre-qualified bidders. 

The source would not say which companies were pre-qualified, nor which companies submitted proposals. 

Cheryl Campbell, senior vice president for CGI Federal, testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health in September that CMS chose CGI Federal in Sept. 2011. 

“On September 30, 2011, CMS conducted a competitive procurement and selected CGI Federal to design and develop the FFM,” said Campbell. 

The FFM, or Federally Facilitated Marketplace, is the technical term for the Obamacare exchange.

Furthermore, the CGI website states that Toni Townes-Whitley's position with CGI is Senior Vice President, but this interview with Ms. Townes-Whitley, makes the claim that she is "the head of CGI Federal" (you'll find the relevant portion of the interview at 46:25).

The CGI website explains her position thusly:

She is a Senior Vice-President currently leading the Civilian Agency Programs (CAP) Business Unit for the Federal Group. CAP serves 22 Federal Civilian agencies with 1,850+ members geographically dispersed across the U.S. and 34 countries internationally.  

The CAP Unit offers a broad portfolio of solutions, including cloud, ERP, application and infrastructure outsourcing, and consulting services. Toni Townes-Whitley joined the CGI Federal management team in May 2010, and has been responsible for the successful delivery of services to 22 Civilian Agencies within the U.S. Federal Government. 

As the Business Unit Manager for Civilian Agency Programs (CAP), Ms. Townes-Whitley is responsible for sales, client relationships, P&L and member management for CAP’s 1,850+ members across the U.S. and 34 countries internationally. 

CAP is the largest Federal Business Unit and has a broad portfolio of cloud, Momentum/ERP, consulting and outsourcing solutions.

In other words, Ms. Townes-Whitley was hired by CGI (which is a Canadian-based company) to head up the company's government-business division. She is in charge of sales and client relationships with government entities.

One would imagine there could be no more important relationship for Ms. Townes-Whitley than her relationship with the wife of the President of the United States of America.

MIND-BOGGLING IGNORANCE

According to this source:

The Answers College Students Gave When Asked About The Holocaust Are Truly Depressing

Rhonda Fink-Whitman visited several college campuses to conduct her interviews and found that even some students at the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania were completely clueless as to the world-changing events that took place just over sixty years ago.

Some students didn’t know where Normandy was, why the U.S. entered the war and who the president was at the time (Wilson, Eisenhower and even JFK were among the guesses).

One student reportedly thought that African Americans were the primary target in the Holocaust.

Fink-Whitman started her interviews with “What was the Holocaust?”

Here are some of the answers she received:

“Uh, I’m on the spot now.”

“It was a, uh, I don’t know how to say it like. It was something that happened in. Oh my God, I know the answer but I don’t know how to explain it.”

“I have no idea.”

“I have no idea … is it Europe? I don’t think so.”

She also asked which country Adolf Hitler had been the leader of:

“Amsterdam?”

“I forget.”

When she got to the University of Pennsylvania, Fink-Whitman asked students how many years ago the Holocaust occurred. One female student guessed around 1800 and then 300 years ago.Another UPenn student even thought that Winston Churchill was an American leader....

Video:


The words "dumbing down" don't even begin to describe the above travesty wrought by our educational system.

OBAMACARE WEBSITE BUILT BY MICHELLE'S COLLEGE GAL-PAL

Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is executive at company that built Obamacare website

First Lady Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is a top executive at the company that earned the contract to build the failed Obamacare website. 

Toni Townes-Whitley, Princeton class of ’85, is senior vice president at CGI Federal, which earned the no-bid contract to build the $678 million Obamacare enrollment website at Healthcare.gov. CGI Federal is the U.S. arm of a Canadian company.

THE OBAMA'S ARE CREATURE'S OF THE CORRUPT CHICAGO MACHINE AND ARE MORE CORRUPT THAN ANYONE WHO HAS EVER OCCUPIED THE WHITE HOUSE.

THEY SERVE THE MACHINE AS MUCH AS THEY SERVE THEIR DREAM OF MAKING THE USA JUST ANOTHER WEAK AND APPEASING, SOCIALIST "HAS BEEN" WESTERN NATION.

OREGON COURT THINKS PROSECUTOR SHOULDN'T HAVE ARGUED SEX OFFENDER WAS INFLUENCED BY SHARIA

The Portland Mercury wrote about a sexual abuse and drug case where an Iranian immigrant provided 2 high school girls with cocaine and later molested one of them. And they along with an appeals court think the prosecutor in Wash. County shouldn't have brought up sharia as the pervert's influence:

Shahin Farokhrany is Iranian, and in 2009 allegedly supplied cocaine to two high school girls before trying to have oral sex with one of them in his Washington County apartment.

The latter part got Farokhrany convicted on a bevy of felony charges. His nationality has earned him a new trial.

The Oregon Court of Appeals today ruled [pdf] a Washington County prosecutor in Farokhrany's case probably improperly influenced the jury by suggesting the man might have been influenced by Sharia—the religious law of Islam—in committing the crimes, and the trial judge should have corrected the matter.

No, I don't think he had to. Religions can come in many different forms and ideas, both good and bad, and if the prosecutor knew what Islam is like, he had every right to ask challenging queries. But the paper doesn't think so, and they're being very stupid to act as apologist, just every other MSM outlet that does the same.

Furthermore, if the man committed a violent felony, then they're being very dumb to let his nationality/religion "earn" him a retrial when he belongs in the pen. I hope the court reviewing this case now will choose wisely and keep him in prison till he's toothless.

EX-MOSSAD HEAD SAYS OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SPIES ON ISRAEL'S PHONES TOO

It's not just in Europe where US evesdropping on diplomats' phones has taken place. They've been doing it even with Israel's:

It is very likely that American spy agencies are listening in on Israeli leaders’ phone calls, as they are accused of having done in Germany and dozens of other countries, former Mossad head Danny Yatom told Maariv/nrg.

“It could very well be that it happened here, too, because when the Americans think they need to listen in on someone, that’s what they do,” he stated.

The White House is probably particularly interested in hearing what Israeli leaders say about regional issues that America is involved in, such as Israel’s talks with the Palestinian Authority, or the deal that Western powers are likely to reach with Iran’s leaders over the Iranian nuclear program, he said.

United States President Barack Obama and his staff want to know what Israeli leaders really think “so that they can counter the arguments Israel brings up regarding these topics,” he explained.

America has been listening in on the leaders of friendly states for years, he noted, and if Israeli phones were bugged, “it wasn’t necessarily only in Netanyahu’s time.”

Yatom took a critical view of the American approach. “The Americans – rightly – see themselves as a superpower, but they are wrong in thinking they can do whatever they want… Ultimately if [allegations of eavesdropping] are proved true, the Americans will have no choice but to apologize for what they did, but they’ll keep doing it,” he said.

Maybe if the issue were brought up more often, they'd have to quit doing it, if they are doing it. In any case, I congratulate Yatom for bringing it up.

BRUNEI'S SULTAN PLANS TO IMPOSE GORE-LADEN SHARIA

Radio Australia says that the sultan of the Islamic-dominated country of Brunei is planning to impose sharia of the most graphic kind upon the public:

The Sultan of Brunei plans to enforce the tough Islamic penal code in phases over the next six months.

Punishments under the Hudud code, which applies only to Muslims, can include stoning to death for adultery, severing of limbs for theft and flogging for violations ranging from abortion to alcohol consumption.

The director of the Islamic Renaissance Front, Dr Ahmad Farouk Musa, told Radio Australia's Asia Pacific program he believes the new laws will lead to the erosion of personal freedoms and women's rights.

"This what is going to happen to Brunei, and we have heard about the Saudi sharia law, about Hudud, about how this one lady, a maid, who was being beheaded because she thwarted an attempt by her employer to rape her and inadvertently killed her employer," he said.

The decision to change the law will make Brunei the only east Asian country to do so at a national level.

What if it gets worse, and the influence spreads to other countries, even affecting Thailand and the Phillipines, who've got their own problems with Islamofascism? This is an extremely horrible case, and the worst part is that most western governments won't say a word in protest.

MAKING THE ROUNDS: "OBAMACARE ENROLLMENT PACKET"

UNDERAGED BRIDE HONOR MURDERED FOR CONTACTING FIANCE

A 15-year-old Yemeni girl was murdered, all just for speaking with her fiance prenuptial (via The Examiner):

A Yemeni father has burned his 15-year-old daughter to death for keeping in touch with her fiance, police said, sparking further outrage in Yemen, where an eight-year girl died from internal bleeding on her wedding night a month ago.

Police said a 35-year-old man had been arrested after the teenager's death in a remote village in the central Taiz province.

"The father committed this heinous crime on the pretext that his daughter had been keeping contacts with her fiance," the police website said on Tuesday, giving no further details. [...]

Traditional tribal customs in parts of Yemen prohibit contacts between men and women before marriage. Poverty and concern about "family honour" prompts many Yemenis to marry off their daughters young, often below the age of 18, a practice that has been criticised by international rights groups.

Those Yemenis Muslims are such perverts. I wouldn't be surprised if the fionce was overage, in sharp contrast to the fiancee. But I seriously doubt any justice will ever be found for the 2 victims in such a hellhole.

FIASCOBAMACARE

NYTIMES: Health Law Fails to Keep Prices Low in Rural Areas

By REED ABELSON, KATIE THOMAS and JO CRAVEN McGINTY.

Only one or two insurance carriers are offering plans in more than half of the 2,500 counties with federally run exchanges, and rates are high.

IT WAS INEVITABLE.

THE ENEMY HATES LIFE AND LOVE

WHICH PROVES THEY ARE PURE EVIL.

JUST SAYING...

ARAB IMMIGRANT TO USA FACES CHARGES IN 1969 JERUSALEM TERROR ATTACK

A collaborator in an early jihadist attack in Israel is now facing criminal charges in America for lying about her conviction:

An Arab-American community activist from the Chicago suburbs was arrested Tuesday on immigration charges for allegedly lying about her conviction for a deadly bombing more than 40 years ago in Israel.

Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, 66, spent a decade in an Israeli prison for her involvement in a 1969 attack that involved bombs planted at a crowded Jerusalem supermarket and a British consulate, according to a federal indictment. Only one bomb — one of two placed at the supermarket — exploded, killing the two people and wounding several others. Israeli authorities have said the attacks were planned by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

An Israeli military court sentenced Odeh to life in prison in 1970, but she was released 10 years later in a prisoner exchange with the Popular Front. Israel released 76 prisoners in exchange for an Israeli soldier captured in Lebanon, according to Odeh’s indictment.

But US authorities accuse Odeh of failing to mention her conviction and time in prison on immigration papers when she came to the US from Jordan in 1995 and before she became a naturalized US citizen in 2004, the indictment says.

It sounds like she was an early example of terrorists being released for exchanges that are dangerous to perform, and at the time the Begin government was in charge. That was a most embarrassing act of stupidity, which only precipitates the mindset of jihadists who kidnap infidels for ransom. Odeh should be sent right back to prison where she belongs.

WHOA!

From Inova, which provides the majority of medical care here in Northern Virginia:

A note to our patients about Kaiser Permanente

As of October 1, 2013, Inova facilities and physicians do not have contracts with Kaiser Permanente to provide in-network services. That means that Kaiser members, including health insurance exchange plan members, will no longer be allowed non-emergency access to Inova facilities, physicians, or outpatient services. The only exceptions to this fact are: Kaiser members who require emergency care; any Kaiser member who is part of our lung transplant program; and any Kaiser member who was receiving inpatient care or recurring outpatient care at an Inova location before October 1, 2013.

With our five hospitals and 140 additional locations in northern Virginia, including urgent and emergency care centers, physician offices and physical therapy centers, Inova offers convenient access and choice to the communities we serve.

If you would like to rely on Inova for your health and medical needs and are able, please consider choosing a health plan that gives you access to Inova. We participate with many of the leading commercial insurance plans.

If you have any questions, please contact your benefits administrator, Kaiser member services, or your physician.

More details about the Inova system HERE.

 Fairfax Hospital is part of the Inova system:

Inova Fairfax Hospital is the largest hospital in Northern Virginia and the flagship hospital of Inova Health System. Located in Fairfax County, Virginia, Inova Fairfax Hospital is one of the largest employers in the County. The hospital campus includes the only heart institute in the region, the 156-bed Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, as well as the Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children. Northern Virginia’s only Children’s Hospital – largest Neonatal Intensive-Care Unit in the region, dedicated Pediatric intensive care, oncology unit, adolescent unit, cardiac surgery and pediatric surgery center.

The above change in accessing Inova will affect Fairfax County employees and retirees as well as innumerable others.

WHAT OVADIA YOSEF'S LEGACY WAS REALLY LIKE

As told through a Jerusalem Post correspondent:

Your appraisal of Ovadia Yosef (“Rabbi Yosef’s legacy,” Editorial, October 8) was unbalanced.

In democracies, the politicization of religion and establishment of narrow sectoral (and even sectarian parties) are retrogressive phenomena.

Yosef was guilty of both and of greatly strengthening them.

In the process he legitimized the divisive politics of race without any clear political aims. He led a movement that caused huge damage to his own people by denying generations of Sephardi children the blessings of modern, progressive education, and thus damaged Israel as a whole while Shas became a symbol of corruption.

The filthy language Yosef employed against opponents and enemies could never have emanated from the mouths of great scholars of the past, to whom he falsely has been compared. He had a photographic memory, but no true wisdom or humility.

Let us be balanced and realistic about his legacy.

Amen to that. And here's another one that everyone should ponder:

The late, great and revered former Sephardi chief rabbi Ovadia Yosef committed at least one monstrous gaffe in publicly proclaiming that the victims of the Holocaust were reincarnations of people who had sinned during their supposed previous lifetimes.

Such an attitude should not be tolerated or ignored in the Jewish State of Israel.

I would also add that his words were a horrific violation of the old biblical text that says, "life and death are in the hands of the tongue" (Proverbs 18:21). He violated those beliefs, just as even many of his own followers did, all the while acting as though being Haredi means never having to say they're sorry. That was a most abominable thing to say, and no matter how old he was at the time he'd blurted it out, he should have known better.

REMINDER: THE USSR AND RED CHINA DIDN'T FAIL DUE TO "GLITCHINESS"...

... THE USSR AND RED CHINA FAILED BECAUSE THE COLLECTIVIST APPROACH FAILS.

EVERYWHERE. EVERY TIME.

EVEN WHEN YOU HAVE THREE YEARS TO WORK THINGS OUT AND AN ADMINISTRATION TOPPED BY "THE SMARTEST PRESIDENT OF ALLLLLLLTIME!"

THE PROBLEM WITH OBAMACARE IS NOT GLITCHINESS - NOT THE EXECUTION OF THE PLAN; THE PROBLEM IS ITS INCEPTION AND VERY CONCEPTION.

THE SOLUTION TO OBAMACARE'S PROBLEMS IS REPEAL.

AND THE SOONER THE BETTER.

ISLAM - NOT NAZISM - WAS THE MOTIVATION OF THE MUFTI

Andrew Bostom's written some history of the Mufti Haj-Amin el-Husseini, who was a collaborator with the nazis during WW2, and makes a point about how his motivations stem from the Koran. One could say it was Islam that was one of - if not the only - influence of the nazis.

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Obama... and Obamacare

VIDEO: CBS NEWS: OBAMACARE TURNING OUT TO BE "ONE FALSE PROMISE AFTER ANOTHER"

ADL'S TOP 10 ANTI-ISRAEL MOVEMENTS

The ADL published a list of the 10 worst anti-Israel gangs on the globe:

The ADL listed ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), American Muslims for Palestine, CODEPINK, Friends of Sabeel-North America, If Americans Knew/Council for the National Interest, Jewish Voice for Peace, Muslim Public Affairs Council, Natorei Karta, Students for Justice in Palestine and the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation as the top ten anti-Israel groups.

Each of the selected groups, according to the ADL, is “fixated with delegitimizing Israel” and has demonstrated the ability to reach new segments of the American public with a hostile and misleading narrative about Israel.

[...] Natorei Karta, the ultra-Orthodox anti-Zionist group was new to this year's list.

A fringe ultra-Orthodox sect established in Jerusalem in 1938, Natorei Karta (Aramaic for “Guardians of the City”) believes Israel can be reestablished only after the coming of the Messiah. The group therefore rejects Zionism and opposes the existence of the state.

Members of the sect in Israel and the US are known to burn the Israeli flag and have sent representatives to attend conferences in Iran in the past.

Their vile beliefs are just what prevent the Messiah from coming. And when the Messiah does come, he'll have what to say and do about those awful fiends. Glad they thought to add them to their list of dangerous movements, because they are some of the most repellent freaks in the anti-Israel crowd.

FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBER ON BUS IN RUSSIA

A jihad attack took place on a public bus in south Russia:

A female suicide bomber struck a passenger bus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd on Monday, killing five people and injuring 32 others, officials said.

The explosion was the first on a bus in Russia since a female suicide bomber blew herself up in 2008 in the North Caucasus, a region in southern Russia where an Islamic insurgency is simmering. [...]

The suspected bomber was from Dagestan, one of the predominantly Muslim republics in the North Caucasus, said Vladimir Markin, the spokesman for the Investigative Committee, Russia’s main investigative agency. In a statement, he identified the woman as 30-year-old Naida Akhiyalova.

No one immediately claimed responsibility.

Markin said at least five people died and 32 were sent to hospital, including eight who were in serious condition. It was unclear whether the suicide bomber was listed among the dead.

This is horrible, and shows that suicide bombings are a danger in many other places where Muslims dwell, not just Israel.

EPIC FAIL: THE OBAMACARE WEB SITE

The ObamaCare web site now has been condemned by Consumer Reports:

The Obamacare program's flagship website is so error-prone and user-unfriendly that Consumer Reports magazine has thrown up its hands in disgust, advising readers to 'stay away from Healthcare.gov for at least another month if you can.'

[...]

Before October 1 [the launch date of the ObamaCare web site], the magazine was a major booster of President Obama's health insurance overhaul plan, devoting several pages in its latest issue to an optimistic ‘step-by-step guide.'...

The word is out now — and not only on conservative web sites and other outlets.

How much of Obama's Teflon coating has been ruined? Cult followers are obdurate and intransigent.

UNDER OBAMA. AMERICA IS NO LONGER A NATION UNDER THE RULE OF LAW

OBAMA RULES BY FIAT, ARBITRARILY ENFORCING THE LAWS HE LIKES AND IGNORING THE ONES HE DOESN'T.

UNDER OBAMA, THE IRS ATTACKED OBAMA'S POLITICAL OPPONENTS.

EITHER THE GOP RETAKES THE SENATE - AND WINS THE WHITE HOUSE IN 2016, OR THE USA WILL GO THE WAY OF VENEZUELA.

AND THAT IS DOWN THE ROAD TO SERFDOM.

WHAT A PITY.

IT NEEDN'T HAPPEN.

SIGH.

JUST WANT TO REMIND Y'ALL: THE LEFT IS TRYING TO DEMONIZE TED CRUZ THE WAY THEY TRIED TO DEMONIZE SCOTT WALKER...

IT'S WHAT THE LEFT DOES.

THE EVEN TRIED TO DEMONIZE MITT ROMNEY FOR PUTTING THE FAMILY DOG IN A CRATE ON THE CAR ROOF.

IT'S WHAT THE LEFT DOES.

WHEN YOU CAN'T RUN ON THE TRUTH, YOU RUN FROM IT - BY VICIOUSLY AND FALSELY ATTACKING YOUR COMPETITORS.

IT'S WHAT THE LEFT DOES.

ALL THE TIME.

DON'T FALL FOR IT.

CRUZ - LIKE WALKER BEFORE HIM AND REAGAN BEFORE HIM - IS A GREAT AND GOOD AND PRINCIPLED MAN TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING.

BRITAIN'S "MUSLIM NATION" IN PRISONS

You've heard of the "Aryan Nation" movement in American prisons, and now Britain's got something similar to offer in their dungeons:

British prisoners are increasingly being forced to convert to Islam by their fellow inmates, the prison officers’ union has warned.

Muslim gangs are growing in power and influence among prisoners, and there are concerns that they are targeting vulnerable new arrivals – making prisons a breeding ground for extremism.

“It is a concern, and there’s been clear evidence from a variety of different incidents. Young men are being targeted and then coerced into converting to Islam,” the association’s general secretary, Steve Gillan, told Sky News.

One woman, whose brother is being bullied by a gang trying to force him to convert, told the broadcaster: “He just looks like a broken man ... he's tearful on visits. I'm just really scared for him. He's been physically assaulted. He's had black eyes. In the showers, he got threatened with a knife. He's not going to back down. He's not going to convert for anyone.”

We have to hope. For now, this is definitely cause for concern, but little or no chance the UK government will do anything about it.

Update: speaking of government dhimmitude, the UK Spectator's spoken about Michael Gove's disastrous experiment in school funding, which resulted in the al-Madinah school in Derby with its hijab policies.