One of the teachers at the school Tony Blair visited last week has been suspended for protesting:
The school management suspended Robin Sivapalan, a Unison union activist and teaching assistant at the school, after the demonstration. Unison is defending Robin.
He told Socialist Worker, “The demonstration was brilliant. It gave a chance for disenfranchised Muslim students, and others, to make their voices heard.
“It was a disgrace to invite Tony Blair to a school which has refugees from Iraq and Lebanon."
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Why exactly are Muslim students "disenfranchised"? It's patronising talk. Would young white kids also protesting against Blair be referred to as disenfranchised?
Posted by: Sunny | 13 September 2006 at 05:35 PM
White students's thoughts are always voiced by the racist media. When was the last time we heard of Muslim students being asked for their opinions on national TV?
The fascist president in Washington and his poodle in Whitehall think they can get away with their war crimes.
Posted by: Sadat | 13 September 2006 at 08:21 PM
"Why exactly are Muslim students "disenfranchised"?"
Islamophobia, discrimination, guilt of suffering of their fellow Brothers, Sisters, Mothers, Fathers.
Sorry you wouldn't know as you don't feel the pain as the Prophet (SAW) said, that the Ummah is like a body if one part hurts the rest of the body should feel it.
Posted by: utbah | 13 September 2006 at 08:51 PM
You're so right Utbah! Let's hold hands and close our eyes so I can feeeeeeeeel your PAIN!!!!
If the patronising presumptions in that article are not apparent then it's a waste of space even debating about it.
Posted by: Sunny | 14 September 2006 at 12:01 AM
Usually, the targets of Blair's attentions are abroad, because if he carried on that way at home here in the UK, he'd be in jail - he'd be holding hands with the likes of Ian Huntley, although Huntley's crimes aren't in the same league as the Butcher of Baghdad and Beruit, ex-Prime Minister Blair.
What white kids have been enfranchised protesting Blair, I haven't come across any?
I have came across a lot of kids so disenfranchised by Blair that they're dead because of him - they're in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Occupied Palestine - mass murdered because of Blair - and you can't get any more disenfranchised than that now can you?
How right sunny is - I feel sunny's pain -
- discussion can only proceed after recognising and acknowledging the patronising presumptions in the article -
- they are so apparant it would be a waste of space even debating about 'it' - 'it' being the patronising presumptions I presume -
So what is there to discuss that isn't going to be a waste of time, I don't wonder ?
- put us out of our pain and misery, oracular one!
Posted by: joe90 | 14 September 2006 at 01:24 AM
"You're so right Utbah! Let's hold hands and close our eyes so I can feeeeeeeeel your PAIN!!!!
If the patronising presumptions in that article are not apparent then it's a waste of space even debating about it." Yeah and your so damn clever Sunny, who makes outlandish claims that Muslims prefer Asian Channels. I Still have not seen any of your Questionaire regarding that report itself. What a classic Presumption.
Sunny, you todd along and hold hands with your Zionist friends and condemn the Muslims when they are offended by being offended.
I'm sure Murdoch will get you a position in his empire.
Posted by: utbah | 14 September 2006 at 01:34 PM
As long as name-calling and slanging each other are perpetuated in the "adult playground", how in God's name, are we ever going to.... Just a thought.
Posted by: ainelivia | 14 September 2006 at 02:24 PM
Just to add to my comment, I would like to the statistical proof for your statement Sunny.
Talk about people talking from their backsides.
Posted by: Utbah | 14 September 2006 at 03:32 PM