After the brutal killing of Drummer Lee Rigby of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in Woolwich by two misguided people, attacks have been made on mosques and muslims in the UK.
Why?
Why are people so focussed on Islam?
Why are there so many Muslims so angry against everything?
I cannot see what difference there is between a Muslim extremist of today or an IRA activist from the 1970's. Yet, when the IRA set off a bomb in Canary Wharf in 1996 killing two, and injuring 39 others, no-one went to Westminster Cathedral and smashed a window. No one thumped an Irish person for being born in the wrong place at the wrong time.
What is wrong with the world?
The Taliban and Al-Qaeda are responsible for the damage done to the reputation of the Islamic people. They are the ones that have infiltrated the mosques to incite the hatred of some young people to such an incendiary level. It's not a political thing. It's not a religious thing. It's something that has no explanation as it occurs only in the heads of people that are so unbalanced that they are looking at the world from some strange viewpoint that no sane person can understand.
I can't quote from the Q'uran, but I am sure that in that holy book, somewhere, it says that to take the life of another human being is wrong.
I can quote from the Old Testament and I know it says "You shall not kill!"
Just remember, do as you would be done by. Love one another. Give Peace a Chance!
Thursday 23 May 2013
Sunday 19 May 2013
Funky Mango's Musings: The Impossible Girl (spoilers) #DoctorWho #Spoonie...
Reblogged from: Funky Mango's Musings: The Impossible Girl (spoilers) #DoctorWho #Spoonie...:
Last night was the season finale of Doctor Who. I thought it was one of
the best episodes for quite some time, certainly the best of the
season. But it also got me to thinking. A major theme was losing and
gaining control - both for the Doctor and his current companion, Clara.
And that's also a huge issue for spoonies, people with long-term illnesses that cause crippling fatigue.
The baddies in this episode were the Whispermen, who kidnap the Doctor's friends Clara, Vastra, Jenny and Strax to lure him to the one place he must never go: his grave, on the planet Trenzalore.
When we become ill, it's as if we've been kidnapped and taken to a
different planet. We are snatched away from our everyday lives, held
hostage by the limitations of our conditions.
There is no body in the Doctor's tomb. Instead there is a time tunnel, made of scar tissue from all the Doctor's travels through time and space. The villain of the piece, the Great Intelligence (hammed up wonderfully by Richard E. Grant) enters the time tunnel, aiming to split itself into fragments scattered throughout the Doctor's timeline and corrupt it absolutely, undoing all the good he's done.
Clara follows it into the time tunnel in an attempt to reverse the damage. Things take place around her. Previous incarnations of the Doctor run by. At first she feels out of control. She has no idea what's going on.
Gradually she works out her purpose. The Doctor is always there, though
not always in the same form. She can recognise the best thing for the
Doctor to do: she saves his life.
It's the same for us. At first, everything is confusion and feeling out
of control. Fatigue, pain, brain fog. But gradually, a pattern emerges.
We work out what to do. How to live our lives in the best possible way
for ourselves and those around us. Maybe we're not saving the Doctor (or
maybe you are?) but in our own way we're time lords, pacing and resting
so we can do the things we really want to do.
We're the impossible girls and boys. We learn our purpose. We regain control over our lives.
We're spoonies.
The baddies in this episode were the Whispermen, who kidnap the Doctor's friends Clara, Vastra, Jenny and Strax to lure him to the one place he must never go: his grave, on the planet Trenzalore.
There is no body in the Doctor's tomb. Instead there is a time tunnel, made of scar tissue from all the Doctor's travels through time and space. The villain of the piece, the Great Intelligence (hammed up wonderfully by Richard E. Grant) enters the time tunnel, aiming to split itself into fragments scattered throughout the Doctor's timeline and corrupt it absolutely, undoing all the good he's done.
Clara follows it into the time tunnel in an attempt to reverse the damage. Things take place around her. Previous incarnations of the Doctor run by. At first she feels out of control. She has no idea what's going on.
We're the impossible girls and boys. We learn our purpose. We regain control over our lives.
We're spoonies.
Tuesday 7 May 2013
False Imprisonment and the Government
Take a walk through this semi-hypothetical situation with me and ask yourself if you agree with me that there is a law being broken.
Joe Bloggs has arthritis, he can walk about 130 metres, however this distance is split up by repeated stops because of pain. His nearest bus stop is 450 metres away from his home so there is very little chance he can get there. He has a car, which thanks to "Passport" benefits, he can tax and because of the Higher Rate Mobility component of Disability Living Allowance he can use a Blue Badge to allow parking closer to buildings that he has to visit.
Now thanks to the changes in the regulations in PIP, if Ms Esther McVey, the minister for Disabled People has her way, the requirement for the Blue Badge and car tax will be drastically reduced, so much so that Joe will lose all the Passported Benefits that allow him to use his car. As he is not able to reach the bus stop, he cannot go anywhere to do all the things he does. His shopping will have to be done online and delivered; his visit to the Department of Work and Pensions or the Jobcentre Plus will have to be by friends giving him lifts or at the worst, he will have to forgo food so that he can use a taxi.
He will be detained within the four walls of his home.
He will be detained against his wishes.
He will be denied the freedom to move freely through the world.
The law states that False Imprisonment is The illegal confinement of one individual against his or her will by another individual in such a manner as to violate the confined individual's right to be free from restraint of movement.
So, does that mean Joe and all the others that will have their mobility stripped from them by the changes in the regulations, simply so the government can save some money without taxing their friends the high earners, or the bankers with their ridiculous bonuses paid for simply doing their job?
Does the change in the regulations which will affect 600,000 (according to Esther McVey) be tantamount to False Imprisonment?
If so, are we entitled to compensation for this being done to us?
There are so many different ways these Welfare Reforms are wrong, they are poorly thought out, they harm those who cannot fight back, they harm those the government promised to protect, and they are being carried out in a virtual media blackout.
There has been no Cumulative Impact Assessment of Welfare Reform there needs to be one, if you haven't already signed the "WOW Petition" started by the disabled comic Francesca Martinez. please do so now at http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/43154 and let all your friends know about it, this blog and all the harm that is being done to the elderly, the frail, the vulnerable, the poorest in our society.
Thank you, and remember, every time you see a person on crutches, with a walking stick, in a wheelchair, there, but for the grace of God, goes you.
Joe Bloggs has arthritis, he can walk about 130 metres, however this distance is split up by repeated stops because of pain. His nearest bus stop is 450 metres away from his home so there is very little chance he can get there. He has a car, which thanks to "Passport" benefits, he can tax and because of the Higher Rate Mobility component of Disability Living Allowance he can use a Blue Badge to allow parking closer to buildings that he has to visit.
Now thanks to the changes in the regulations in PIP, if Ms Esther McVey, the minister for Disabled People has her way, the requirement for the Blue Badge and car tax will be drastically reduced, so much so that Joe will lose all the Passported Benefits that allow him to use his car. As he is not able to reach the bus stop, he cannot go anywhere to do all the things he does. His shopping will have to be done online and delivered; his visit to the Department of Work and Pensions or the Jobcentre Plus will have to be by friends giving him lifts or at the worst, he will have to forgo food so that he can use a taxi.
He will be detained within the four walls of his home.
He will be detained against his wishes.
He will be denied the freedom to move freely through the world.
The law states that False Imprisonment is The illegal confinement of one individual against his or her will by another individual in such a manner as to violate the confined individual's right to be free from restraint of movement.
So, does that mean Joe and all the others that will have their mobility stripped from them by the changes in the regulations, simply so the government can save some money without taxing their friends the high earners, or the bankers with their ridiculous bonuses paid for simply doing their job?
Does the change in the regulations which will affect 600,000 (according to Esther McVey) be tantamount to False Imprisonment?
If so, are we entitled to compensation for this being done to us?
There are so many different ways these Welfare Reforms are wrong, they are poorly thought out, they harm those who cannot fight back, they harm those the government promised to protect, and they are being carried out in a virtual media blackout.
There has been no Cumulative Impact Assessment of Welfare Reform there needs to be one, if you haven't already signed the "WOW Petition" started by the disabled comic Francesca Martinez. please do so now at http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/43154 and let all your friends know about it, this blog and all the harm that is being done to the elderly, the frail, the vulnerable, the poorest in our society.
Thank you, and remember, every time you see a person on crutches, with a walking stick, in a wheelchair, there, but for the grace of God, goes you.
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