Friday, July 31, 2020

BLM Claims About The UK Destroyed By Statistician.

Let’s take a step back for a moment – and ask a simple question that nobody seems to bother asking: if a society is institutionally racist, what does that look like?
 
Think of it this way: if a society is institutionally racist, then the statistics will all point in the same direction. If you toss the same coin twenty times and the coin comes up Heads every single time, you start to ask questions about the coin. Yes, there might be a 1 in 1,048,576 chance of that happening at random – but you’d take a moment to check whether you were actually tossing a double-headed coin. If that happens, without cherry-picking the data, then we suspect racism.
 
All societies contain (pseudo-)random variation. You’ll never find every statistic being identical between any two different groups, let alone when there are diverse cultures within all communities, but in a non-racist society the statistics will point both ways: the coin lands Heads sometimes; Tails others.
 
In a racist society, black people would (like in the USA) be more likely to be stopped and searched. They would (as in the USA) be more likely, if searched, for the search to be negative – in other words, for the search to be unfair. They would be more likely (as in the USA) to be arrested, to be killed by law enforcement or die in custody (as in the USA). They would be more likely (as in the USA) to be found guilty in court, receive a longer sentence if convicted (as in the USA) and – in a society with the death penalty – more likely to be executed (as in the USA). If those differences stand up to scrutiny, and can’t be explained by lurking variables, then we could conclude that the country is institutionally racist.
 
But, I hear you ask, what about the UK? Well here, the story is…different. Black people here are also more likely to be stopped and searched. However, the proportion of ‘unfair’ stops and searches (i.e. the search proves fruitless) is higher amongst white people. British police are highly professional: in 2019 British police killed three suspects, compared with over a thousand in the USA. Black people are marginally less likely to die in custody. White people are more likely to be found guilty in court; black people receive longer average sentences. Some Heads, some Tails, and sometimes the coin seems to have stuck in the carpet and landed on its edge.
 
The picture in the United Kingdom just doesn’t look like the USA. The evidence doesn’t point to an overall pattern of racism - at worst, the UK is a generally equal society containing a significant number of racists. Sadly, with recent protests, the conditions have been created for future racism to thrive.
 
A class divide is measurable: 37% of all people [YouGov, 16/7/20] support footballers ‘taking the knee’, but this drops to 27% amongst C2DE (loosely, ‘working class’) socio-economic groups. Whilst 13% of all people support protestors tearing down statues, it’s just 8% of the working class. 21% of all people thought the Black Lives Matter protests were right to go ahead during Covid, it was just 17% amongst the working-class (i.e. the communities most at risk from Covid). Yet media coverage is often one-sided and flying in the face of majority public opinion. Control for ethnicity, which isn’t possible from the publicly-available data tables, and the divide would likely become even more stark.
 
What’s riling people in white working-class communities can’t be explained in just a few words: riots during a Covid lockdown, injuring dozens of police – yet seeing the BBC report it as ‘largely peaceful’; a perception that ‘taking the knee’ (which comes from protesting the national anthem in American Football NOT Game of Thrones, Dominic Raab) is incendiary; a feeling that people and institutions are being falsely accused of racism, and a sense that anti-white rhetoric is condoned. The latter causes a reaction. That reaction must inevitably lead to a spike in white supremacism.
 
We’re shutting down comment: just 23% of working-class people feel freely able to express their views on politics and current affairs on their social media. They feel (by 46% to 20%) that people are now less free to say what they think. Debate and discussion are being stifled: the consequence is that today, for the first time in my life, I fear racism is truly on the rise in the United Kingdom. I’ve watched in horror as I see people I’ve known for years develop a frustration – and seen them lash out: language that would have been unthinkable six months ago is now commonplace. “Race relations”, one put it bluntly, “have been set back twenty years by recent scenes”. I hope they’re wrong, but I fear they’re right.
Published in the Northern Journal 30/7/20. Written by former MEP, Jonathan Arnott - this Blog's featured writer.

BLM - Little Public Support.

71 Per Cent of Britons Oppose Protesters Pulling Down Statues, Just 13 Per Cent Support

A statue of Britain's Queen Victoria stands defaced in Woodhouse Moor Park in Leeds, northern England on June 10, 2020. (Photo by PAUL ELLIS / AFP) (Photo by PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images)PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images
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YouGov has found Black Lives Matter stunts such as protesting despite lockdown, removing statues, and taking the knee command little public support.
In a wide-ranging survey commissioned by The Sun on Sunday, pollsters found that just 13 per cent of respondents supported “protesters physically damaging or pulling down statues of historical figures with links to slavery” — actions which arguably received the tacit support of police leaders in Bristol — compared to 71 per cent opposed.
Moreover, the survey found that “the removal of all statues of historical figures with links to slavery from British towns and cities” more generally, including by lawful means, was supported by only 27 per cent of respondents — far behind the 49 per cent opposed, including 71 per cent of Conservative supporters and 69 per cent of Leave voters.
Looking at the Conservative supporters and Leave supprters who have formed the core of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s support, YouGov also found that 47 per cent of respondents from both contingents opposed the Black Lives Matter protests more generally, compared to just 18 per cent and 22 per cent who supported them, respectively.
With regard to the specific timing of the protests — during the anti-coronavirus lockdown and not lawful, although the authorities have expended little or no effort to enforce the law against BLM activists — only 21 per cent of all respondents said they should have gone ahead, including a mere 6 per cent of Conservative supporters and 7 per cent of Leave supporters.
61 per cent of both Conservatives and Leavers said the protests “Should not have gone ahead at all”.

Judge Should Be Sacked!

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Greater and Lesser?


Why Not Let Us Warmly Welcome These Good British Souls Home!

British ISIS members say they were jailers of Christian aid worker Kayla Mueller

Staff writer   24 July 2020 | 2:38 PM
Kayla Mueller, a Christian aid worker, died while being held by ISISReuters
More light has been shed on the horrific ordeal of a young Christian woman who was raped and tortured by ISIS militants before being killed.
In a video obtained by US news channel NCB, British ISIS members Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh shared details about the imprisonment of 26-year-old American, Kayla Mueller, who was an aid worker when she was taken hostage.  She died in 2015. 
Kotey, 36, and Elsheikh, 31, are being held by the US military at a base in Iraq. 
They were part of a group of militants nicknamed the Beatles because of their English accents.  The group took prisoners for ransom money but many were killed when their demands were not met.
Describing Mueller's captivity, Kotey said: "She was in a room by herself that no one would go in." 
Elsheikh told of how he "took an email from her myself" - understood to mean that he extracted an email address from Mueller to send a ransom demand to. 
He also described her as being kept in a room by herself.
"She was in a large room, it was dark, and she was alone, and . . . she was very scared," he said.
Mueller was kidnapped in Syria after visiting a Doctors Without Borders hospital and held for 18 months, during which time she was repeatedly raped by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.  
In 2016, former fellow hostages said that Mueller had stood up for her Christian faith during her captivity. 
"One of the Beatles started to say, 'Oh, this is Kayla, and she has been held all by herself. And she is much stronger than you guys. And she's much smarter. She converted to Islam.' And then she was like, 'No, I didn't,'" said Dutch photographer Ray Ottosen, who was held alongside her. 
Speaking in an interview for the 20/20 The Girl Left Behind programme, he added: "I would not have had the guts to say that. I don't think so."
Her father Carl told the Daily Mail it's been hard to hear the details of her ordeal. 
"It's not easy to go through this, it's been five years since Kayla has been gone, a year and a half before that she was captured, it's hard, very hard," he said. CT.

Butterfly.


Covid Persecutions: South-East Asia and Sudan.

Christians told to renounce Jesus or be refused coronavirus aid - 'Let your God take care of your family.'

Nate Flannagan   23 July 2020 | 4:52 PM

Were Are The Police In Pakistan? What Are They Doing?

Christian girl abducted and forced into Islamic marriage is now pregnant, says family's lawyer

Staff writer   23 July 2020 | 10:34 AM
 Huma Younus, the girl at the centre of the forced conversion case(Credit: Aid to the Church in Need)
A Christian teenage girl abducted and forced to marry a Muslim man in Pakistan is now pregnant and confined to a single room, the family's lawyer has said. 
Huma Younus, 15, was kidnapped last October and forced to convert to Islam before being forced to marry Abdul Jabbar. 
She told her family by phone that she has become pregnant after being repeatedly raped by her abductor, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) reports.
Tabassum Yousaf, the family's lawyer, told ACN: "Asked by her father if she could leave her abductor's house and return to her parents' home, she told him that she is not allowed to leave the house and that her life has become still more difficult.
"[S]he is now imprisoned within the walls of one room."
Younus was 14 at the time of her abduction.  Her parents have been fighting for her freedom and attempted to contest the marriage in court, arguing that it was invalid under the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act because Huma is a minor. 
But in an astonishing ruling in February, the Sindh High Court in Karachi sided with the abductor by ruling that men can marry underage girls as long as they have had their first period.
Yousaf said Huma's parents have received death threats from Jabbar's brother, Mukhtiar, a member of the Pakistani security forces' Rangers division. 
"This same man, Mukhtiar, has added in audio messages that even if all the Christians should band together to bring Huma back, he would kill both her parents and anyone who tried to help them," Yousaf said. 
The family are appealing the Sindh High Court's decision but a hearing has already been delayed due to coronavirus. 
Yousaf fears that Huma's case will be subjected to repeated delays until she turns 18, after which time it is unlikely to be heard. 
He said this was a common problem with cases involving religious minorities.
"Justice delayed is justice denied, hence every delay in reaching judgement on the defense of the rights of religious minorities represents a denial of these rights," Yousaf said.
"The court has delayed and continues to delay justice on behalf of Huma, solely because she is an underage Christian girl." YT.

Thursday, July 30, 2020

Don't Care To Wear A Mask?

'It's easier to wear a mask than a ventilator' - TD Jakes

Sheffield Cathedral Closing Down Choir. This Blogger Cannot Proffer An Opinion But Is Profoundly Suspicious.

 The entire Sheffield Cathedral Choir is to be replaced by a new music team(Photo: Facebook/Sheffield Cathedral)
Sheffield Cathedral has been widely criticised on social media after announcing the closure of its choir over concerns that it is not diverse enough. 
Dean, the Very Rev Peter Bradley, said the conclusion had been reached that "there needs to be significant change" in the music offered at the cathedral. 
Following a review of the Music Department last year, the existing choir is to be disbanded and replaced with a new music team that will develop "a fresh vision of our worship", to be "ready for the exciting future of the mixed urban community in which we live and work". 
In addition to replacing the choir, the cathedral is in the process of appointing a new Canon Precentor to "bring increased creativity and stability". 
The Dean said the changes would offer the cathedral a "completely fresh start". 
"As a result, Chapter concluded this is the right time to close the current Cathedral Choir," he said in a statement. CT.

Redeeming Love.

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Teaser trailer released for movie adaptation of 'Redeeming Love'

Stephanie VelezThu 23 Jul 2020 11:33 BST
The movie is based on the bestselling Christian novel by Francine Rivers and is due out in 2021. CT.

Butterfly.

I Want To Spit!

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Backlash against Paris Jackson's female Jesus in 'Habit' movie is 'out of proportion', producer claims

Stephanie Velez  | Mon 6 Jul 2020 10:02 BST
Hundreds of thousands of people have signed petitions demanding that the movie be withdrawn from release. CT.

So - Whose Lives Do Not Matter - And WHY So?



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Triumph Beckons.

Disappointingly Simplistic - Naive, Even.

https://www.premierchristianity.com/Blog/From-the-editor-Why-we-re-saying-black-lives-matter

Philistines - Both Literally and Archaeologically.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1315856/archaeology-news-discovery-human-remains-bible-mystery-christianity-spt

To Demonstrate The Inherent Fairness of This Blog, I Publish ...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1287411708374454273.html

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Sean Feucht on Censorship of Christian Worship and Comment.

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Worship leader hits out at social media censorship of Bible verses and praise videos

Staff writer  | Mon 29 Jun 2020 11:20 BST
Worship leader Sean Feucht has criticised the "crazy" censorship of Christian posts on Instagram and Twitter. CT.

The Undemocratic Part of UK Democracy.

Scrapping the Lords wouldn't make British democracy work any better

The Upper House contains scores of peers with far greater expertise and wisdom than the Commons

Blogger: The UK needs to keep the unelected expertise to which Mr Johnston refers but such appointments need to be largely apolitical. No appointments to the Lords, with only very rare exceptions, should be to party apparatchiks.
There needs to be a significant representation of people across the structures of the nation rather than those of a particular philosophical bent. Indeed, special interest groups should be kept to a minimum.
I would like to see 'local heroes' granted seats alongside a number of members elected by proportional representation.

Birdie.


Yes, Please!

Attorney General urged to order mistrial over 'jury tampering' after killers of PC Andrew Harper cleared of murder.

Ex-Justice Minister Mike Penning has written to the Attorney General urging her to call in the 'tainted acquittal' of PC Harper's killers

Lissie Harper, widow of PC Andrew Harper, outside the court after her husband's killers were cleared of murder. She said she was 'shocked and appalled' at the verdict

The Attorney General was yesterday urged to intervene and order a mistrial after the three killers of PC Andrew Harper were cleared of his murder amid allegations of jury tampering....

Godly Affirmations.

https://www.christiantoday.com/article/the.power.of.godly.affirmations/135201.htm

The Whole Armour of God.


50 MPH Speed Limits On Clear Pieces of Road Are An Abomination.

Speed limits on motorway roadworks will be raised to 60mph, Highways England announces.

The Government-owned company hopes the move will cut journey times and ease drivers' frustrations. DT.

CSW Update.

https://mail.aol.com/webmail-std/en-gb/DisplayMessage?ws_popup=true&ws_suite=true

‘Demagogues and Racists’

Douglas Murray Slams BLM Activists in Breitbart Viral Video as ‘Demagogues and Racists’

BLM Oxford Leader Sasha Johnson
Douglas Murray, author of The Madness of Crowds and The Strange Death of Europe, described the Black Lives Matter protest captured in a Breitbart News viral video as “tawdry and pathetic”, saying Britain should not bow down to the “demagogues and racists” in the BLM movement. Breitbart.

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

England Win Final Test; Win The Series; RegainThe Wisden Trophy.

Number 500.
10 for 69 were the remarkable bowling figures from MOTM, Stuart Broad, at Old Trafford. In this same match, Stuart became only the second Englishman to pass the phenomenal total of FIVE HUNDRED test wickets.
269 runs the margin of a huge victory. Sweet!

Birdie.


Hero of Faith.

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Why William Wilberforce is a hero of the faith

J JohnTue 21 Jul 2020 11:14 BST
Although William Wilberforce is remembered mainly for leading the battle against slavery, he did an enormous amount of good in many other areas. CT.

The Excellent Michael Nazir-Ali.

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It's not wrong to say 'Islamist terrorism' - Michael Nazir-Ali

Staff writerFri 24 Jul 2020 11:27 BST
The former Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali, has defended the use of the term 'Islamist terrorism' following reports that it may be dropped by the police. CT.

Social Cohesion.

Staff writer  | Wed 22 Jul 2020 9:56 BST
The role of faith groups in social cohesion is undervalued, says a new joint report from the Theos think tank.

Watering Down The Holocaust?

https://www.melaniephillips.com/betraying-jewish-history-watering-down-holocaust/

Anti-Both' Hate Campaign.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8559993/DAN-HODGES-makes-rabid-Remainers-hate-Lord-Botham-Hes-w
inner.html

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