This is the response of the Board of Deputies of British Jews to the careful new report by the internationally renowned and respected human rights organisation @hrw calling out the apartheid of the Israeli regime
ICYMI: Desmond Tutu (whose Nobel Peace Prize was for his efforts ending apartheid) called on the US Presbyterian Church to boycott Israel and condemn it as an apartheid state
Why have some already chosen Tuesday as 1st Ramadan?
Option 1: Assume birth of the moon (on Monday night) is sufficient, even if is not visible in your locality / anywhere in the world
Option 2: Rely on sightability of the moon on Monday night in e.g. Hawaii/S America
See the colours in the moonsighting graphs -> the more to the left you go, the more likely the moon is to be seen in those areas on Monday night; note the latitudinal difference too
ICYMI: Quilliam Foundation - co-founded by Maajid Nawaz - prepared a secret list for a top British security official accusing peaceful Muslim groups, politicians, a television channel and a Scotland Yard unit of sharing the ideology of terrorists.
ICYMI: The Quilliam Foundation report on grooming gangs was one of its biggest claims to fame, where it claimed 84% of “grooming gang offenders” were Asian. This has been widely debunked by experts & a Home Office report
Banning the hijab (& other ostentatious religious signs) in domestic sport in France is *another* example of Islamophobia being driven by state institutions under the guise of laïcité (& CT)
It is difficult to conclude anything other than the French state is targeting Muslims
ICYMI: Here is the French interior minister stopping funding for an NGO because it defended the rights of Muslim women to wear a Burkini in the pool/sea.
Bari Weiss proclaims she is proud to share a stage & show admiration to Ayaan Hirsi Ali - whose hatred for & enmity against the faith of Islam is so deep that she believes Muslims must be crushed militarily & in all forms
It's difficult to believe Weiss is unaware of Hirsi Ali's longstanding and public hate for mainstream (not "radical") Islam & advocacy for racism targeting Muslims
Shawcross said: “..Islam is one of the greatest, most terrifying problems of our future. I think all European countries have vastly, very quickly growing Islamic populations"
He supported torture & the worst breaches of law in the "War on Terror"
For those who want to see more about Shawcross and what he thinks, see this thread & it may make sense why there are few worse or more frightening people to have this role