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This story has, of course, already spread all over the blogosphere while I was pushing the wrong button, but I did want to get a couple of comments in here before it was too late. If time permits I will be posting a few other bits of day-old bread, for which I beg your indulgence.
From the Daily Mail, with thanks to all who sent this in:
A teenage schoolgirl was arrested by police for racism after refusing to sit with a group of Asian students because some of them did not speak English.Codie Stott's family claim she was forced to spend three-and-a-half hours in a police cell after she was reported by her teachers.
The 14-year-old - who was released without charge - said it had been a simple matter of commonsense and accused the school and police of an over-the-top reaction.
The incident happened in the same local education authority where a ten-year-old boy was prosecuted earlier this year for calling a schoolfriend racist names in the playground, a move branded by a judge "political correctness gone mad."
Codie was attending a GCSE science class at Harrop Fold High School in Worsley, Greater Manchester, when the incident happened.
The teenager had not been in school the day before due to a hospital appointment and had missed the start of a project, so the teacher allocated her a group to sit with.
"She said I had to sit there with five Asian pupils," said Codie yesterday.
"Only one could speak English, so she had to tell that one what to do so she could explain in their language. Then she sat me with them and said 'Discuss'."
According to Codie, the five - four boys and a girl - then began talking in a language she didn't understand, thought to be Urdu, so she went to speak to the teacher.
"I said 'I'm not being funny, but can I change groups because I can't understand them?' But she started shouting and screaming, saying 'It's racist, you're going to get done by the police'."
Codie said she went outside to calm down where another teacher found her and, after speaking to her class teacher, put her in isolation for the rest of the day.
A complaint was made to a police officer based full-time at the school, and more than a week after the incident on September 26 she was taken to Swinton police station and placed under arrest.
"They told me to take my laces out of my shoes and remove my jewellery, and I had my fingerprints and photograph taken," said Codie. "It was awful."
After questioning on suspicion of committing a section five racial public order offence, her mother Nicola says she was placed in a bare cell for three-and-a-half hours then released without charge.
She only returned to lessons this week and has been put in a different science class....
School insiders acknowledge that at least three of the students Codie refused to sit with had recently arrived in this country and spoke little English.
But they say her comments afterwards raised further concerns, for example allegedly referring to the students as "blacks" - something she denied yesterday.
The school is now investigating exactly what happened before deciding what action - if any - to take against Codie.
Headteacher Dr Antony Edkins said: "An allegation of a serious nature was made concerning a racially motivated remark by one student towards a group of Asian students new to the school and new to the country."
"We aim to ensure a caring and tolerant attitude towards people and pupils of all ethnic backgrounds and will not stand for racism in any form."...
Salford was at the centre of a storm last April after a ten-year-old boy was hauled before a court for allegedly calling an 11-year-old mixed race pupil a 'Paki' and 'Bin Laden' in a playground argument at a primary school in Irlam.
When the case came before District Judge Jonathan Finestein he said the decision to prosecute showed "how stupid the whole system is getting".
But was himself fiercely attacked by teaching union leaders for "feeding a pernicious agenda" that aided the BNP.
The prosecution was eventually dropped.
A few observations:
This story shows the suicidal madness of multiculturalism. That the U.K. has race laws at all, and that a teenage girl can be jailed for refusing the honor of "discussing" a school project with a group of people who can't speak English, are emblems of a society that has lost all sense of itself and is ripe for conquest. For if the conquerors are of a different race, how will the British possibly muster the will to resist? To do so would be "racism." The U.K. is finished. Finished. It will sooner become an Islamic Republic than it will lift a finger in any "racist" direction.
For "racism" has become the one unpardonable offense above all others, and educational standards, common sense, and common decency all must bow down at the altar of multicultural equality. We can be certain that if a Muslim student had asked to be put in a different group after being assigned to one with four Christian students, not only would the Muslim not have been jailed or punished in any way, but the Christians would have been reprimanded.
Meanwhile, Sharia proponents operate unhindered in the same country, aided and abetted by those race laws. With this sort of thing happening in Britain, the followers of Omar Bakri and Abu Hamza would do well not to put any more British converts to Islam like Abu Abdullah at the forefront -- if they do, they risk losing the wonderful cover that Britain's ridiculous anxiety over "racism" affords them.
Posted by Robert at October 14, 2006 5:35 PM
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there's worse
UK: Non-Muslim Girls Must Wear Hijab At School
http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003200.html
Can I at least hope that since this stuff is spread on the tabloids, more and more people will realize we are hostages?
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at October 14, 2006 5:58 PM
Robert, I don't think you have spoken so forcefully on any other topic. But I think this story shocked all of us, those who should be unshockable. It is the actual manifestation of what George Orwell warned us about. When the police come into a classroom to arrest a 14 year old girl, or anyone, for what is no more than a thought crime, you know that the term Big Brother is not just a glib phrase. It really now exists in Britain. Just as Orwell said it would.
I sent this story to Glenn Beck two days ago. I hope he picks it up. He is starting to come down hard on muslims on his program. He said on air that he is reading Bruce Bawer's While Europe Slept, so we know he is learning that islam is the problem, not just radicals and terrorists.
Posted by: August22
at October 14, 2006 6:12 PM
The political elite are sucking up to the muslim vote, and by doing so hope to remain in power. When these idiots realise that they have allianated the majority of the British electorate this crap will stop. Until then expect more of this idiocy. I can assure you, as a Brit, this sort of action frightens me, when an elected Government alienates,the majority of its electorate, by this sort of action, they have their head in the clouds , we are heading for civil war. I am ashamed and,want to weep.
Posted by: Holger Dansker at October 14, 2006 6:52 PM
The problem is that the Greater Manchester Police have been reduced to a state of abject terror when dealing with minorities in general and Muslims in particular. About four years ago an investigative reporter went undercover and joined the Force specifically to investigate racism in its ranks.
In the space of 18 months he used hidden cameras and microphones to record about a dozen police officers from Manchester and Northwest England forces admitting to deliberately targeting minorities, mostly Asians and mostly for traffic offences. There was a tremendous row and all the officers were dismissed while the Asians mentioned received their fines back together with a letters of apology. One might add even though they were guilty. Even the police training college in when he managed to trap officers from other forces was closed down although they said the documentary had nothing to do with it.
Since then the Greater Manchester force has gone out of its way to “out PC” every other force in Britain. JW watchers will remember that two months ago they brought a ten-year-old child to court on a charge of “Aggravated racial assault” on the basis of a playground row. You'll also remember that the Judge threw the case out and asked the police if they had nothing better to do considering the amount of really serious crime there was out on the streets. What was not so widely reported was that the judge was instructed to apologise to the police for his remarks.
One wonders if the reported cases are a fraction of the total. A friend was recently involved in a very minor traffic accident with an Asian which would not normally involve the police. Technically one of the drivers should be prosecuted for a traffic offence but in practice unless there is serious injury it is left for the insurers to sort out. He was very surprised to find not only was he being prosecuted, but also that the investigating officer virtually called him a liar. When the case came to court neither the other driver nor his solicitor appeared and having listened to the details the Magistrate threw the case out. He not only threw the case out, he asked my friend whether he wished to take action against the police and claim for lost wages or expenses as a result of the case. One last thing, as they were leaving the court the magistrate told the police to stay behind as the wished to have further words with them about the whole affair
My friend, an ordinary working man, is puzzled to this day by the whole affair and cannot understand what it was all about.
at October 14, 2006 7:04 PM
I disagree that Great Britain is finished. Look to the different States for models of how traditional ‘Western’ peoples react to integration.
Here in New England, where people of traditional European descent make up somewhere in the high 90% of the population, look at the Senators we elect. In Portland, Maine a citizen donated a statue of a dad taking his family to a baseball game, and the gift was originally rejected because there were already too many tributes to ‘White Europeans’. Executions here are unheard of.
Compare the New England with Texas, where non-Hispanic whites are in the minority. Cornyn and Hutchinson are pretty tough. The electric bill at Texas state prisons is high. Texas income taxes are zero compared with the nation’s highest in Maine. And these policy choices despite the fact that the new arrivals in Texas are by and large good people who seem to integrate fairly well in time, at least the ones I’ve met.
The new Muslim arrivals in England aren’t likely to be nearly as successful assimilating. And their numbers might be powerful in tipping elections to one candidate or another if they don’t overplay their hand and end up pissing off the general electorate, or having some nut-job blow up a plane. Who thinks that the English Muslims won't piss of the electorate or blow up a plane in the next ten years?
I bet we’ll see the pendulum swing in Great Britain.
at October 14, 2006 8:10 PM
I'm getting the feeling that either the "teacher" was leaning on the 14-year-old kid to help the new students with the work when she missed a day herself (and probably wasn't 100%, coming from a hospital appointment), or she was relying on these new kids to help her and bring her up to speed after the missed day, when there was a language barrier.
Trying to be fair and PC and instead, messing it up for everybody! Would we call this...DUH-mitude?
Posted by: GoldieLox at October 14, 2006 9:19 PM
The main cause for this incident is the widespread acceptance by the education establishment in this country that the most efficient way to teach English to pupils newly arrived in the country, is to place them in the normal classroom situation and let them pick it up. This flies in the face of common sense which would indicate that they should be given intensive lessons seperately from everyone else.
Apparently justified by research which took place in a French / English speaking Canadian context, it is a cause of frequent grumbling by individual teachers who waste half the lesson dealing with these pupils to the detriment of everyone else in the class. Unfortunately it is the PC, non-racist way of doing things and so dangerous to criticise openly, particularly in the presence of NUT activists.
at October 14, 2006 9:53 PM
Something is missing here. Did she even understand the assignment? Did she ask to move because she didn't know what she was supposed to be doing and they couldn't tell her either? If she just asked to be moved because she was hopelessly lost, there's no way she should be punished for that.
Posted by: GoldieLox at October 14, 2006 10:04 PM
Robert,
these are all good comments regarding what is wrong with the situation that developed. However, I have some extra comments to contribute, especially regarding the behaviour of the teacher in this saga.
There are a few things that are really bothering me about the way that Codie was treated by the teacher, the school, and then the police. First of all, we need to recognize that Codie should not have been placed with pupils who could not speak English and who overlooked her by speaking in their national language. That was bad manners.
Second, I think that this teacher should be disciplined over her undisciplined outburst in front of the other students. If Codie's version of what happened is correct, then the teacher behaved in a very undisciplined way, and she should be either dismissed or retrained on how to treat all of her students equally.
Third, one disturbing feature of this story is the fact that Codie gave her story to another teacher, who then went into the classroom to discuss the situation, returned and then led Codie into solitary confinement for the remainder of the day. Then on top of that, a week later she was arrested.
There was no crime committed. However, a lunatic teacher is given a lot of power over her pupils and she is doing more damage by claiming that the pupil was racist, than if she had stopped to realise that she made the error by placing the student with other pupils who were not going to discuss anything with her, especially when they acted in a racist manner and raised the language barrier.
Over the years I have known a lot of men and women from a variety of European and Asian backgrounds. When I was at school my Hungarian friends used to deliberately speak to each other in Hungarian so that others could not understand them, and that was 40 years ago. In those days the migrants had problems integrating too, but somehow the children of migrant parents did manage to integrate with our communities, and without this discriminatory legislation.
I believe that it is time for all of the Christians to start a peaceful protest over the discriminatory way in which they are being treated. There must be ways of protesting without violence. We need to be the shining light, including being in solidarity with the airline employee who was ordered to not wear a cross. If the Hindu and Muslims are allowed these things then Christians should be allowed to wear the symbol of their faith without interference. It is only fair to allow them this freedom.
Posted by: Maggie4Life at October 14, 2006 10:46 PM
Speechless...
Posted by: Monkeywho at October 14, 2006 11:13 PM
Maggie4Life
I agree with you that Codie should not have been placed with these children.
Also these children of immigrants who cannot speak the native language do not belong in that classroom. You mention Hungarian speaking people speaking in front of you knowing you could not understand them. I remember that before it was acceptable for Spanish speaking people to throw their language around that I would be near Puerto Rican people at work and they seemed to enjoy speaking in Spanish knowing other Americans would be annoyed for the simple reason that we would not know what they are saying. It is down right rude.
I've heard it said that language is the glue that helps keep the culture together. Speak another language in your home, that is fine but out in public we should all be one.
at October 14, 2006 11:17 PM
I'd be insulted to be put in a group where the people didnt speak the official language. Why do they allow people in who dont speak english? I would sue the school for failing in its duty to accomodate my daughter properly.
When does a 14 year old get arrested for something like this? Now it seems.
I am going to vote yes to the Australian republic next time.... we cant be taken down by Britain.,,
at October 14, 2006 11:26 PM
I am an American and English is my language. The mother tongue of my mother country. That's the story and I'm sticking to it!
Posted by: pigtails not veils at October 14, 2006 11:27 PM
Hi Everybody,
Am I missing something here? Even assuming that Codie is a 'racist' by calling another Asian(?) black...does this warrant a police time--for a 14yr old in school? Are these the standards in 'Great' Britain now? Do these same standards apply to others(you know who..) who call other communities/races names? If there is any semblance of spine in British community left, the parents of Codie and other sympathetic people around should vigourously pursue this in the courts to its logical end.
RT
Posted by: RT at October 14, 2006 11:41 PM
RT
I think Codie made a simple request that she needed to be put into another group, as this group did not speak English. No crime committed here. No "racist" comment made either just a simple situation of translation troubles. I'm not one for law suits but in this case I say bring it on.
at October 15, 2006 12:00 AM
To paraphrase Orwell, all students are equal, only some are more equal than others.
My heart aches for that poor girl. An adult in a university setting is one thing, but a child???
Posted by: Shakey_Premise at October 15, 2006 1:18 AM
1)The police have nothing better to do?
2)The courts have nothing better to do?
3)Islam is now a race as well as a religion?
4)Racism is now a crime punished by arrest?
Had Hitler won WW2 Britain wouldn't have been in any worse shape than it is now.
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at October 15, 2006 1:22 AM
What nationality is the teacher? To say to this young lady, "It's racist, you're going to get done by the police," is highly suspicious. Here in America, you can't even threaten a kid with police action in the schools even if they do something really nasty. You don't want to affect the poor dear's "id".
Codie's family needs to bring a BIG, BIG lawsuit against the school and there needs to be A LOT of publicity about it. And the teacher should be publicly lashed.
Posted by: Isabellathecrusader at October 15, 2006 1:52 AM
There is one sentence in Urdu that Codie Stott might care to memorize: "Aapko Angrezi nahi aata, to Pakistan may wapas jayiye: iyha Urdu nahi chalengey..."
Translation: if you cant speak English, go back to Pakistan: we won't speak Urdu here.
Posted by: Infidel Pride at October 15, 2006 2:13 AM
I think playing the 'racism' card whenever there is a simple dispute between people who happen to be of different ethnicities is utterly low and despicable. About the same level as women who wrongly accuse men of sexual assault for revenge purposes.
In this case, the pupils didn't even really get involved, it seems. The teacher (ethnicity unknown), played the 'racism' card for reasons of her own. Despicable ones, whatever they were.
Posted by: Lili at October 15, 2006 2:25 AM
Careful here. It would appear that this story is probably a compleat fabrication. No other journalist, apart from those on the Daily Mail - known to many in the the UK as the Daily Liar - can find or substantiate this story.
It is more than possible that we are all getting hot under the collar about another one of the Daily Liar's made up 'you've-just-got-to-take-offense-at-this-and-buy-our-paper type story. It would only be the latest in a very long line of such stories from this red-top.
Dominic.
Posted by: necessitasnonhabetlegem at October 15, 2006 2:56 AM
I'm sure Robert vets stuff before he posts it.
Posted by: payingattention at October 15, 2006 3:34 AM
Dominic:
It's been reported elsewhere too:
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1495#comment
Posted by: atheling at October 15, 2006 4:29 AM
necessitasnonhabetlegem (& Dominic?)
Even BBC radio 4 carried the story on Friday and you can find it in thisislondon - the online London Evening Standard.
Posted by: Fred at October 15, 2006 5:34 AM
http://community.channel4.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/503603557/m/6360094056
C4 is another reliable source.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6052394.stm
And theres "Lord" NAZIr Ahmeds take on our gracious dhimmitude is cases such as these.
Posted by: Uriel Septim at October 15, 2006 5:45 AM
Straighten up and fly right.
Posted by: mustang65 at October 15, 2006 6:41 AM
According to Dominic, not to worry about Britain. Britain is supposedly composed of unruly, violent mobs of Englishman who don't obey British law. (from another thread)
I don't know what century he is talking about, but he is not talking about 21st century Britain. You couldn't find a more dhimmified nation on earth.
But this is the same guy that said, for homosexuals like him, living with Christians is just as bad as living under islam. Islamics kill you, and Christians torture you.
Someone has an axe to grind. Like Nariz.
Posted by: August22
at October 15, 2006 7:13 AM
I don't know. If the Daily Mail was really known to everyone in the UK as the Daily Liar, then I guess we would also know it as the Daily Oops-we-landed-ourselves-in-court-again-on-another-libel-rap.
There is a bigger problem with the British MSM in that it is ALL lazy, idiotic and trained in the Leftist school of thought where the VICTIM IS BEST. There is never any worthwhile depth or objective analysis. Things that really need to be reported are not reported (all the things that Fitzgerald said about the NY Times applies to the British MSM).
Having said that, I am glad that the Mail reports this sort of thing - it needs to be brought to greater attention. Disappointingly, articles like this never do stir up any outrage because of the way it is received by a society continually badgered until submission by the "right-on" crowd. As you have seen here, what happens is that this sort of story is dismissed as just the usual stuff from the Daily Liar. Why just we don't come out and call the Daily Mail racist. That paper obviously cannot think along the same sophisticated lines that we do, so lets just get it to shut up.
This is just what is wrong with the UK, and nothing will change until the "right-on" Leftist Schizophrenic Liberal Elite get a clue.
Somthing else I have noticed. The homosexual community in Britain has always been quite vocal in the past. Often have we heard it on TV and Radio badgering us to be more tolerant and to accept that everyone should have the same rights. However, I have noticed that since 9/11, and since we have woken up to the true Jihadist face of Islam, that community seems to have just shut up. Am I wrong about this? If not, why have they shut up? Are they chief amongst the supplicants, hoping that Islam won't notice them if they just keep quiet? I'm sorry if I am factually wrong, but that is just the way it SEEMS to me. Knowing how vocal the viewpoint had been in the past, I would have expected (and hoped) gay activists to be leading the fight against the Islamification of the world (so as to avoid being cast down to their death from very tall towers in the future).
at October 15, 2006 10:14 AM
Good point Free Lee, all the left wing groups say squat about islam. The homosexuals, which should be on the forefront of our battle, are nowhere to be seen. The feminists, which should be at the point of the speer, are likewise completely absent. The multiculturalists, who have always maintained this idea of respect for ALL cultures, have not expressed one iota of concern for the intolerance inherent in islam. Even the blacks, who have been enslaved by islam for centuries, and are still being exterminated and enslaved by them in Africa, have not said one word against islam.
Indeed, the entire left wing spectrum of society is quiet on islam's conquest of our society.
And we all know why.
They, together, have one thing in common. And that one thing they have in common, is paramount to any of their own specific concerns. And that one common denominator is that they all, in their black hearts, resent the white, Christian west, and everything, they feel, it represents. So they have made an unholy ideological alliance with the Christian west's greatest foe - islam.
As such, I treat them all as traitors. Yes, some are here, but they are not indicative of their communities. Go to a gay rally, hold up an anti-islam sign, and they gays themselves will attack you. Go to a feminist march, hold up an anti-islam sign, and they will eat you for breakfast. Go to an NAACP meeting, hold up an anti-islam sign, and they will smash your face.
The Left is the enemy, for they have made friends with the enemy of western civilization. To paraphrase a famous axiom, A Friend of an Enemy, is an Enemy of Mine.
Posted by: August22 at October 15, 2006 1:36 PM
It is SHOCKING to hear you have eeslamick LORDS in England!!!
Back then you had Churchill.
Now ya got Galloway and Red Ken...
Can you at least bring back.. bring back..
Oh bring back our Maggie to you!?
I bet she wouldn't go for this horseshyte..
Posted by: germaninamerica at October 16, 2006 2:12 AM
FREE LEE & August22
Absolutly right!
They have been bending our ears for 30 years but the homosexuals and feminists have all run for cover.
What are the chances of a gay pride demo outside your local mosque and remember the feminist chant,
Whatever we wear, wherever we go, yes means yes and no means no!
In Sweden(?) one of their 1960's feminists told women "That in a multi-cultural society they had to understand they could not wear just anything" that is walk about showing it all.
Posted by: Fred at October 16, 2006 4:49 AM
Well, being locked up will teach that little racist hussy. I'm sure she will love those immigrants from now on.
Posted by: MP at October 16, 2006 1:59 PM
Comment to August22
I am a gay man and I want to tell you that MANY gay men are preparing to make a proper stand.
Now if you show us an anti-slam placard, we will buy you a pint.
About the gay community ... we are organising ourselves ... and that is ALL I will say about it.
Posted by: hendrik at October 17, 2006 10:53 PM
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