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turgid [soylentnews.org] writes:

The Guardian reports [theguardian.com] that Britain's most senior Muslim policeman, Mak Chisty, has called for police to be given powers to move into peoples' "private space" under the auspices of preventing and curtailing Islamic radicalisation. He gives several examples of indoctrination being forced upon children as young as five (Christmas being "haram") and teenagers being groomed to join ISIS and thinks that this should give police the right to interfere with people "walking down the road, looking at a mobile, to someone in a bedroom surfing the net, to someone in a shisha cafe talking about things.”

As an athiest who enthusiastically celebrates Christmas, eats chocolate eggs at Easter and carves turnips or pumpkins at Halloween, I find it very strange that people of many religions often artificially exclude themselves from harmless and enjoyable local traditional customs. I find it very sad that we have young people brought up in a strictly-controlled environment cut off from the ideas and views of the rest of the world. I also find it abhorrent that the Establishment now finds itself publically calling for the complete abandonment one of the core values of individual liberty.

Maybe the rest of us shouldn't worry because we're not Muslim? Where have I heard this before?

Meanwhile, our government is attempting to tear up [theguardian.com] the Human Rights Act [liberty-human-rights.org.uk]. It's easier to control when the proles have no rights.

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