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	<title>Gavin Orland &#187; Religion</title>
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		<title>Richard Dawkins&#8217; forums suspended</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/richard-dawkins-forums-suspended/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/richard-dawkins-forums-suspended/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Relations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hardly the biggest news in the world. Given some of the panic on the web one would think whole of the Internet was due to be shut down. Richard Dawkins&#8217; web forums have been suspended pending an overdue clean up. I&#8217;ve been commenting at length on this here.
My original article critical of his forums [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSS Secularist of the Year award</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/nss-secularist-of-the-year-award/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/nss-secularist-of-the-year-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Relations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m touching on an issue that is very taboo here: race. While criticism of religion is now fairly passé, if you dare to even remotely question anything to do with perceived wisdom on race you will instantly be branded racist. Oh well, that&#8217;s the point here, to challenge the dogmas of political correctness, so here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sadiq Khan MP replies on ritual animal slaughter</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/sadiq-khan-mp-replies-on-ritual-animal-slaughter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/sadiq-khan-mp-replies-on-ritual-animal-slaughter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have finally received a reply from Sadiq Khan, my local MP, to my report detailing government appeasement on ritual animal slaughter.
It took Mr Khan six months to reply. It seems he &#8220;overlooked&#8221; the report when it arrived, but my December letter has prompted him to finally respond. Maybe Pat Condell&#8217;s latest link, increasing its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to Malmø</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/welcome-to-malm%c3%b8/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/welcome-to-malm%c3%b8/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re having a lot of trouble from Islamisation in the UK, in France, in the Netherlands and in most European countries. But Sweden&#8217;s okay, isn&#8217;t it?











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		<title>Letter to the NSS</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/letter-to-the-nss-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/letter-to-the-nss-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Sir,
This week sees two notable British people proclaiming that the most important thing to them in their lives is their religion. The first is Rizwan Ditta, who has just finished serving a very short prison sentence for possessing material likely to be useful to terrorists. True to the Qur’an, he states &#8220;I believe that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Steyn writes&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/mark-steyn-writes-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/mark-steyn-writes-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Steyn has posted up some fascinating photos showing that more women wear the hijab in Cairo now than they did in the 1970s. Obviously the number has greatly increased in London too &#8211; to the point that I can hardly set foot outside my door without seeing anti-social face coverings and emblems or religious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pat Condell on Geert Wilders&#8217; trial</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/pat-condell-on-geert-wilders-trial/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/pat-condell-on-geert-wilders-trial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pat says it all, as usual, and very well indeed:











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		<title>Quick letter to NSS</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/quick-letter-to-nss/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/quick-letter-to-nss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Geert Wilders (currently on trial for telling the truth in the Netherlands) has again been invited by members of the House of Lords to come and show his short film Fitna there.
The Telegraph reports here that Lord Ahmed has again threatened to mobilise 10,000 Muslims to block Mr Wilders from entering the House of Lords. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letting the side down</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/letting-the-side-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/letting-the-side-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If people who are highly educated are going to turn anti-social behaviour into a kind of joke, and make of antisocial people heroes for the entire country, you can hardly be surprised when public behaviour deteriorates.&#8221;
- Theodore Dalrymple
Again I preface an article with a quotation from Theodore Dalrymple &#8211; because the man speaks such sense.
This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geert Wilders coming to London again</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/geert-wilders-coming-to-london-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/geert-wilders-coming-to-london-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Breaking news: Geert Wilders MP, currently being tried for speaking the truth in the Netherlands, has announced his intention to travel to the UK again to screen his short film Fitna.
Mr Wilders has again been invited by Lord Pearson and Baroness Cox and will travel to London to show the film in the House of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr Goebbels describes propaganda</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/dr-goebbels-describes-propaganda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/dr-goebbels-describes-propaganda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Goebbels understood propaganda. Here he describes propaganda methodology in a way that seems also to describe the policy of the government and the BBC here in the UK. For example, they are both devoted to the ideology of multiculturalism despite mounting evidence of its inherent problems, and both repeatedly tell us that Islam is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Douglas Murray: speaking truth</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/douglas-murray-speaking-truth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/douglas-murray-speaking-truth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Douglas Murray, Director of the Centre for Social Cohesion, has been turning out some great articles for The Telegraph recently. They&#8217;re remarkable because they are bereft of political correctness and instead full of truth. I just commented under this one as follows:
&#8220;Great article, Douglas. Please keep it up. Few in the media even dare to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geert Wilders&#8217; opening speech</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/geert-wilders-opening-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/geert-wilders-opening-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s is Geert Wilders&#8217; excellent opening speech at his disgraceful trial in the Netherlands:











I believe this is a win/win situation for Wilders and whatever the outcome he will win more support.
I have written to the National Secular Society as follows:
&#8220;This week, the principle of freedom of speech while not inciting violence has gone on trial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethnic profiling</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/ethnic-profiling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/ethnic-profiling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gavinorland.org/?p=2430</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s imagine there was a killer at large, who it was known resembled me. I don&#8217;t identify with any particular religious or ethnic group, but let&#8217;s say I did, and it was known that this killer also belonged to my group. He looks like me, he&#8217;s killing in the name of my group. He&#8217;s bringing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The vulgarity of Richard Dawkins&#8217; forums</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/the-vulgarity-of-richard-dawkins-forums/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/the-vulgarity-of-richard-dawkins-forums/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Moral values are easily reversed: what was formally thought good becomes evil, and vice-versa. This has certainly happened in my own country, Britain, and moreover it has happened as a mass phenomenon which I think, if you visited Britain, you would see on the streets every day.&#8221;
- Theodore Dalrymple
I am very disappointed to have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geert Wilders&#8217; trial goes unreported by BBC</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/geert-wilders-trial-goes-unreported-by-bbc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/geert-wilders-trial-goes-unreported-by-bbc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freedom of speech without inciting violence, is on trial in the Netherlands in a test case for Europe.
Geert Wilders&#8217; trial began yesterday with this fine speech, yet this important trial has gone completely unreported on the BBC.
Since Mr Wilders is critical of Islam, this is, of course, hardly unsurprising, but it is shameful. We will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restricting freedom of speech</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/restricting-freedom-of-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/restricting-freedom-of-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good many liberals in the UK have been getting very worked up recently about two decisions:

The banning of minaret building in Switzerland
The banning of Islamist group Islam4UK

There&#8217;s been talk about these decisions possibly restricting freedom of speech for Muslims and I will discuss them here.

Minarets, first of all, are a cultural and political symbol [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DEFRA brushes off public objections to ritual animal slaughter</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/defra-brushes-off-public-objections-to-ritual-animal-slaughter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/defra-brushes-off-public-objections-to-ritual-animal-slaughter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[People are writing in to DEFRA objecting to the exemptions allowed under UK law permitting ritual animal slaughter.
Here is the letter sent by one lady:
Dear Ms Grist,
Thank you for your message today.
I appreciate that there&#8217;s nothing Defra can do if the Government of the day doesn&#8217;t wish to change the law. Therefore, of course, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Multiculturalism and the Qur&#8217;an</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/multiculturalism-and-the-quran/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/multiculturalism-and-the-quran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberal lefties are usually very keen on the ideology of multiculturalism while missing that it necessarily entails the collision of opposing value systems.
What does the Qur&#8217;an have to say about multiculturalism? Does it have some encouraging words to help Muslims get along with non-Muslims? Here&#8217;s the kind of thing it says:
&#8220;O ye who believe! Take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geert Wilders receives summons</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/geert-wilders-receives-summons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/geert-wilders-receives-summons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Straight-talking Dutch MP Geert Wilders has received a summons from the Dutch Public Prosecution Service, the charge being:
&#8220;Group insult of Muslims, incitement to hatred and discrimination against Muslims due to their religion and incitement to hatred and discrimination against non-western immigrants and / or Moroccans due to their race.&#8221;
This, despite more than 36,000 people around [...]]]></description>
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