This could also be headlined: Dumb teacher doesn't know where to draw the line.Stripper Spanks Teen In Surprise Blunder |Sky News|UK NewsA teenage schoolboy was pulled around his classroom on a lead and spanked by a stripper after a birthday surprise blunder.
'You've been a naughty boy'
'You've been a naughty boy'
The pupil's mum had ordered an agency to give her son a "surprise" on his 16th birthday - and the teacher had even agreed to film the prank.
But it all went wrong when the unnamed company sent a stripper dressed as a policewoman instead of a "gorillagram" - in what it called a booking error.
One witness told reporters: "She asked the lad to stand up, which he did, and told him he had been a very naughty boy because he hadn't been doing his homework.
"Then she put on some Britney Spears music and got out a collar and lead from her bag and told him to put them on."
After walking the boy round the classroom and spanking him with a whip - the action turned even more blue.
"She took off some clothes until she was down to her bra and pants, pulled out some cream, put it on her buttocks and told him to rub it in," the source said.
It was at that point the shocked teacher - who had not been told what the surprise was - called an end to the show.
A spokeswoman for the local education authority, Nottinghamshire County Council, said they were investigating how the incident happened.
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CANOE -- CNEWS - World: Survivors angered over rock concert at former Nazi concentration campSurvivors of a former Second World War Nazi death camp have long believed that the facility has been neglected, but the use to which it will be put on Saturday has prompted calls for government intervention.
That night, the site of where some 48,000 Jews, Serbs and Gypsies perished in the 1940s will be throbbing to the rhythms of rock music.
For Serbia's small Jewish community, the weekend concert at the Sajmiste camp near the center of Belgrade is the latest indignity to befall a site they say needs to be saved from decades of neglect and deterioration.
"It's like holding a wedding at a graveyard," said Aleksandar Mosic, a Jewish chairman of the camp's memorial center, ahead of Saturday's concert by British band Kosheen.
Nearly all of Belgrade's 8,000 Jews were killed at Sajmiste soon after it was set up in 1941 at the site of the Belgrade Fair exhibition ground, Mosic said. Thousands of leftists and Serb nationalists also were killed at the camp.
What made Sajmiste unique was its location in clear view of Belgrade's residents, on the western bank of the Sava River.
"It was the only death camp in Europe which was so visible," said Mosic, 88, who wants to build a proper memorial to the victims of what he describes as "the forgotten concentration camp."
"The intention was to intimidate the Serb population by letting them see what was going on inside the camp," he said. "For our small nation, the Sajmiste camp was as horrendous as Dachau or Sachenhosen in Germany."
Most of the inmates were murdered while being transported in "gassing trucks" - vans with their exhaust pipes attached to the sealed cabin - to mass graves on Belgrade's outskirts.
Belgrade authorities said they can do nothing about the rock concerts which are now held inside a circular hall topped with a brick tower that used to be the camp's hospital, because the building has been sold to a private entrepreneur.
"It is awful that such concerts are being held there, but the building was illegally sold" by the capital's previous authorities, said New Belgrade mayor Zeljko Ozegovic. "We have been appealing the legality of the purchase for years."
Poseydon, the company that bought the hall, says the concerts simply make business sense.
"The concerts are the most profitable events we can hold here, and this place has to live off something," said company spokesman Nenad Krsmanovic.
Rare Jewish survivors of the camp are outraged.
"Do those people know what really happened here?" said Mihailo Berberijan, 101.
Mosic said the surviving tower should be returned to the state's ownership, and converted into a Holocaust museum containing photographs and documents of the lost Serbian Jews.
A small cracked marble plaque dedicated to the Yugoslav victims is mounted on a wall surrounded by high weeds and empty beer cans. But it doesn't specifically mention the Jews.
"The only former camp in Europe which doesn't have a monument for the killed Jews," Mosic said. "It's our shame."
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A Little Falls man has been indicted by a state grand jury on charges he shouted racial slurs at a Hispanic Muslim woman while sitting in traffic.
David Liscio was arrested last spring after police said he drove his pickup truck on Main Street and began yelling derogatory names relating to the woman's gender and ethnicity. The woman was with her 3-year-old daughter taking laundry out of her car at the time.
The woman wrote down Liscio's license plate number as he continued to yell obscenities. She filed a complaint with the township the next day.
The indictment, handed up this week by a grand jury sitting in Paterson, charges Liscio with one count of bias intimidation and one count of terrorist threat.
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CFP: The new morality by Klaus Rohrich , 10/30/07All cultures require a set of moral principles in order to maintain a sense of self-worth. Our own culture is currently in the process of redefining our understanding of morality to better conform to the dominant social and political ethos. All that was once a moral imperative is now passe and a new sense of morality is appearing on the social and cultural landscape.
Issues such as premarital sex, cheating on exams, attending church, drug use, abortion and a long list of others have gradually eroded from the moral radar and have left a vacuum that is being filled by a new set of moral values.
Interestingly these values, while they assume a moral importance, have little to do with morality in the absolute sense and tend to be more political as well as relative in nature. The terminology that defines this new morality involves words such as “sexism”, “homophobia”, “racism” and my own personal favorite “denial of global warming”.
It’s pretty easy to be a moral person nowadays, given that nothing is really expected except that one talks the talk.
Belief in global warming has now assumed religious proportions with those who question the orthodox explanation for our changing climate being labeled “deniers”. In another age those who defied orthodoxy were deemed “heretics” and tortured or burned at the stake. There appears to be little difference in our current attitudes and the attitudes displayed during the Inquisition, except we no longer burn people at the stake.
We define fundamentalist Christians as “scary”, yet condemn those who express concern about radical Islam as being “Islamophobic”.
Few graduates from our universities possess the tools necessary to make a meaningful contribution to society, as throughout their educational career self esteem trumped achievement. Now we’re turning these unfortunates loose to fend for themselves with a less than adequate skill set. But they all seem to think very highly of themselves.
The morality that we are abandoning is the glue that has held our civilization together for centuries. The morality that we are adopting in its place will only speed up our decline, as it requires almost no meaningful commitment on the part of individuals. On the contrary, being moral is now easier than ever with no effort required.
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Family Security Matters The greater discussion on religion in Quebec began in March, when the Bouchard-Taylor Commission set out to tour the province. The Commission will host a series of town hall chats through November, and has planned a number of provincial consultation forums to determine once and for all the accommodations, minority traditions, and celestial mandates Quebeckers are prepared to accept.
Both this clamor and the Commission result from the ruckus that erupted in January, when André Drouin and a handful of counselors from the parish municipality of Hérouxville published a Code of Living Standards for newcomer residents.
They share thoughts expressed by Northwestern University sociology professor emeritus Bernard Beck, who remarked to the Chicago Tribune: “America has been trying to get along on the basis of a bargain, saying, ‘We’re all basically the same.’ But more recently, the message is, ‘We’re not all the same. Not all religions have the same message.’” The Hérouxville counselors agreed, and decided that equality between the sexes was as good a place as any to begin the discussion.
Quebec Prime Minister Jean Charest agrees that one should not barter off the rights of women in the name of “respect for traditions.” And he emerged from a caucus meeting on October 8th to announce: “There is an issue that concerns me greatly: equality between the sexes. The position paper drafted by the Quebec Council for the Status of Women makes an important recommendation, and we’d like to act on this promptly.”
The position paper (avis) in question, published September 27th, proposes that the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms be amended to guarantee, in no uncertain terms, that “the right to equality between the sexes… be respected in every instance, and [that] one… never infringe upon on this right, be it for reason of religious freedom.” Women’s Council president Christiane Pelchat later remarked that “the avis also seeks to prove that… boundaries to religious freedom must set, as a matter of course.”
“Islam” does not appear in either Drouin’s or the Women’s Council documents, but each has made clear that radical Islam is driving the agenda. Pelchat writes: “The niqab… sends a message of the submission of a woman.” “It is only women who are covered,” she continues, and asks: “Are there Muslim men who are covered up?”
Quebeckers largely agree: A survey conducted by Montreal’s La Presse and Le Soleil revealed that 92% of those surveyed oppose exceptions for “veiled voting,” endorsed by Elections Canada in September. (Quebec province ruled against the practice in March.) And two-thirds surveyed would disallow the headscarf from school grounds and sports fields.
Quebec will not soon convince one and all to “accommodate” the Women’s Council, or Mr. Drouin’s “Way of Life in Quebec.” But it is now clear that Quebeckers do not fear to impose “equality” on their own terms – and would just as soon trample conviction’s toes to get it.
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Older news, but still noteworthy.Debbie SchlusselSometimes--so many times--diversity is not what it's cracked up to be.
Just ask Joseph Applebaum. Well, you could ask him. But you won't get an answer. He's dead. And he's dead because he was a Jew, and his doctor is a Muslim and grad of "Ayman Al-Zawahiri" Medical School.
But Applebaum wasn't denied treatment for being a Jew in Egypt. Or elsewhere in the Muslim world. It happened right here on U.S. soil. In Chicago.
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Youths attack police in northeast FranceDozens of hooded youths battered two police vehicles with metal bars, set fire to more than a dozen parked cars and torched a community center in northeast France, officials said Friday.
The rampage in a tough neighborhood in Saint-Dizier, about 120 miles east of Paris, revived memories of a wave of car burnings, vandalism and clashes with police in 2005 fanned by feelings of alienation among French youths of Arab and African origin.
Riot police were called in and ordered to stay in Saint-Dizier through the weekend. Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie condemned the violence in a visit to the town.
In late 2005, anger over high unemployment and racial inequalities contributed to a three-week wave of rioting across France. Many of those involved were the French-born children of immigrants from former colonies.
(read: Arabs or Africans-1rt) Police have little or no control in some housing projects, where they face insults or attack. Firefighters have also been targeted and sometimes get police escorts.
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Beauty is in the eye of the withholder | Oddly Enough | ReutersThey say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but an Italian minister who tried to argue that paying taxes is "bellissima" has found himself in a minority of one.
Economy Minister Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa's comments that "taxes are a beautiful thing" and "civilized" met a flood of derision Monday, in a country where evasion is so widespread that an estimated 13 percent of workers pay no taxes whatsoever.
Opposition newspaper Il Giornale said "the minister has gone mad" while economist Francesco Giavazzi asked whether "poor families" and wage earners shared the minister's enthusiasm.
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I guess multiculturalism works best if you isolate yourself. No assimilation into Canadian culture here, please.Giving Peace a chance in Muslim suburbiaA speaker in the parking lot crackles and broadcasts the Arabic call to prayer. Suddenly, silent life fills the dark streets. Men dressed in the long white shalwar camise of their native Pakistan and women in head scarfs emerge from their brick homes.
Welcome to Peace Village, Canada's first Islamic subdivision, where all 260 homes belong to members the Ahmadiyya sect, who flooded to Canada in the 1980s after persecution in Pakistan. It looks ordinary, with basketball nets and minivans in the driveways, until you notice the street signs: Mahmood Crescent, Ahmadiyya Avenue and Noor-Ud-Din Court.
The Ahmadiyya say they don't mean to isolate themselves, and they send their children to public school. Still, the nation's "cultural mosaic" is fairly monochrome in this spot: Teston Road Public School, which opened last month next to the mosque, is about 80% Muslim, and the school provides its gym on Fridays at lunchtime so the kids can kick off their running shoes, bow low toward Mecca and pray.
In his Toyota Sequoia V8, Mr. Ahmad gives a tour of the place. We take Bashir Street (named for his father) and Abdus Salam Street, named for the first Muslim Nobel laureate, as he speaks of his big plans: an Islamic reference library and doubling the mosque's size, to 40,000 square feet.
"Over here is going to be a TV station," he says. (Already a special cable to each home feeds Muslim television from an audio-visual room at the base of the minaret). "Then over here we're going to have a big huge guest house."
In his office, Mr. Ahmad points to other projects: "This is my Brampton mosque. This is in Cornwall. I have architects and engineers working for me freelance. This is the Calgary mosque."
Accommodating Islam is second nature at the school. Some students are fasting during Ramadan, which ends with the feast of Eid'l Fitr on Oct. 12. "Some try to fast, they get weak and headaches, we let them rest on the health bed," the principal says. "We haven't had meet-the-teacher night and we're not going to have it until after Ramadan, out of respect for the parents."
"You ask, 'Why did you move?' they say, 'I wanted to be near the mosque.' It's good. Multiculturalism is amazing."
The Alonzis also miss Teston United Church, demolished as the region expands a nearby road and developers expand Peace Village. "I was standing there and crying," Mrs. Alonzi says. "I said, 'God, are you not listening?' But nobody listened, and they tore it down." Their son built them a wooden model of the church, to keep the memory alive. She also bought a knotted rag rug from the church at auction, for $75.
The appeal of faith-based suburbs is simple: People feel more comfortable among their own kind. Maqbool Bajwa immigrated to Toronto from Pakistan in 1987 with his four brothers, his mother and father. Immigration Canada let in his father under the business investor category. The family's first home was in Toronto's troubled Jane-Finch area. In 1997, Maqbool Bajwa bought a house in Brampton in Toronto's western suburbs. A year later he sold it and bought in Peace Village. Family bought adjoining houses.
"The mosque was nearby, the street names were all from our community," he says, sitting in an office at MB Computer Depot, a new store his brothers started in an Ahmadiyyaowned plaza near Peace Village. "I love it. When I see Ahmadiyya Avenue, it makes me proud, no question about it. Plus we've got the Vaughan Mills [a new mall], we've got the Wonderland and hopefully the subway coming. I can wear my shalwar camise and walk from home to the mosque without someone looking at me funny for what I'm wearing. It just gives me the absolute comfort of being home."
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Who's left for vital role of `wife'? - 10/03/2007 - MiamiHerald.comWorking women, whether married or single, find themselves yearning for someone dependable -- anyone! -- to get a soccer uniform washed, call the phone company about an incorrect charge or exchange a shirt for a bigger size. With two-income families now the norm and both men and women working long hours, the question has become how to accomplish what used to be a wife's full-time job.
Women also suffer because their work/life balancing act leaves little time for networking. Women often spend their lunch hours running errands instead of making the social contacts that are essential to managers who want to move up. ''Even carpooling is difficult for women because they do chores on the way home,'' says Suzanna Rose, director of the Women's Studies Center at Florida International University.
Working women have noticed, correctly, that their male colleagues often advance further at work with the support of their wives, regardless of whether those wives work or not. Women occupy 50.6 percent of managerial and professional positions, according to the research organization Catalyst, but they make up only 15.6 percent of Fortune 500 corporate officers.
Female politicians are affected, too. Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for the American Woman and Politics at Rutgers University's Eagleton Institute of Politics, says more women are determined to show they can raise a family while serving in office. But while plenty of male lawmakers have small children, the pressures and responsibilities don't seem to weigh on them the way they do on women. ``We hear very often from women who are running or elected that they wish they had a wife, someone to make sure the basics get done -- pick up the kids from school or make sure there's something edible in the refrigerator.''
Shapiro, a specialist in women's studies, thinks the guilt factor weighs heavily on women. ``We want huge jobs; we want to have clean homes. Women beat themselves up because they haven't taken anything off that plate. Women have to realize a bathroom cleaned by a husband is better than one not cleaned at all.''
One mother notices there's another factor working against employed women. With boomers more active, grandmothers are less available to fill in the gaps. ''A lot of women wish their mothers could help them more,'' says Lisa Shaw, a working mother of five. ``Instead, a lot of women in their 60s are doing things they never got to do, like going back to school or traveling.''
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