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STEED
08-14-06, 01:32 PM
And some of you wonder why I am angry, yep PC Madness strikes again.


Passport photo of girl, 5, banned 'in case it offends Muslims'

14:55pm 14th August 2006

A five-year-old girl's passport application was rejected because it shows her bare shoulders and might offend Muslims.


Hannah Edwards's mother Jane, a Sheffield GP, was told that her daughter's exposed skin may be considered offensive in a Muslim country.
The photograph was taken in a booth at a local post office for a family trip to the south of France.
However, when the family presented it at the post office with the completed form, they were told it would not be accepted by the Passport Office.
Mrs Edwards said she was furious when a woman behind the counter said she was aware of at least two other applications that had been rejected because a person's shoulders were not covered.
Mrs Edwards said: "I was incensed. I went back home and checked the form. Nowhere did it say anything about covering up shoulders. If it had, I would have done so, but it all seems so unnecessary.
"It is a total over-reaction. How can the shoulders of a five-year-old girl offend anyone? It's not as if anything else was showing, the dress she wore was sleeveless, but it has a high neck," she told the Daily Telegraph.
As a result, Mrs Edwards spent two hours taking Hannah for new pictures, filling in a new form and finding the necessary "responsible citizens" to endorse the photos.
"The people who had signed the original application were not available," Mrs Edwards said.
"I had to chase around and eventually found a neighbour who was a teacher to sign the pictures.
"The passport office should set this sort of thing out in its forms if it is going to be so pedantic."
A spokesman for the Identity and Passport Service said it was not its policy to reject applications with bare shoulders.
"Our offices have a Passport Office template which says which says what the photograph should and shouldn't be. Bare shoulders don't come into that at all. "It is the first time we have heard of such a rejection and we will take it up with that particular office."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=400528&in_page_id=1770


They were going to the south of France not Iran.

SUBMAN1
08-14-06, 01:35 PM
I think you guys should start saying that this offends you to show the flip side of the coin. It is the only way to stop this madness.

-S

STEED
08-14-06, 01:41 PM
I think you guys should start saying that this offends you to show the flip side of the coin. It is the only way to stop this madness.

-S

SUBMAN, people have and they have been branded racist and spreading hatred, not forgetting getting arrested for standing up to this crap.

August
08-14-06, 02:13 PM
SUBMAN, people have and they have been branded racist and spreading hatred, not forgetting getting arrested for standing up to this crap.

Dump a bunch of tea in the harbor. It worked for us :yep:

Godalmighty83
08-14-06, 02:31 PM
according to the bottom of the article its not an issue and is going to be sorted.

STEED
08-14-06, 02:36 PM
according to the bottom of the article its not an issue and is going to be sorted.

9 times out of 10 always in favour of the liberals,muslims,PC nutters. :nope:

Camaero
08-14-06, 02:50 PM
What ever will we do? We can not dare show a shoulder and offend muslims!:damn:

I guess I should say that isn't a bash against muslims but a bash against politically correctness! To hell with it.

TteFAboB
08-14-06, 03:44 PM
Since when is the south of France considered a Muslim country!? Since when British bureaucracy should be concerned with how Muslim custom officials would react considering the family didn't even intended to go to a Muslim country!? But if they went to Yemen and the custom official felt offended, then he could reject the mother and the little girl and send them back home, or just outright behead the two of them and finish with such profanation. I guess this British official was afraid of such a thing happening?

It would be a hypocrisy anyway. Because in many of these Muslim countries women are treated like objects, punished with leather whips and forced into covering their entire bodies from head to toe as if they were nuns, but they didn't had any choice.

I've been to a Syrian sports club a few days ago. Had a hard time finding a proper Muslim (none), but I suppose this custom official would have a heart attack if he had seen the women in the pool. We should close this club down because the sheer bare-shoulder madness offends the bastion of human rights and liberty back in the south of France...I mean...Syria!

CB..
08-14-06, 04:04 PM
guess we have replaced the ideals of being
polite and well educated
with being
politicaly correct and media savvy...
sadly most seem to feel they are the same thing...not that it matters a damn..can't pick your nose without the thought police crashing through the ceiling in true "Brazil" fashion..i blame women...just for the sake of it...LOL:damn: :hmm: :lol:

Skybird
08-14-06, 04:59 PM
Warning,

the following illustration I mean to be intentionally highly offending and could cause jihad brake out all over the world, and could cause deeply offended Muhammedans to grew hot in despair!! and anger !!!!!, hysteric Muslim women !! could brake down in public and shedding rivers of tears, and eventually you will be nerved by hearing Muslim heads getting red and finally exploding in anger all over the place you happen to be.

But honestly, by showing this grim and shameless illustration I indeed hope to make as many Muslims popping their heads as possible!!! Do not support a sick and pervert maniac like me by allowing yourself to walk the sinful and provocative path I am leading you to. So watch at your own responsebility. I will not take any responsebility for you loosing your mind or hurting yourself when braking down !!! and hitting the deck. Make sure the ground has some thick carpet or some layers of soft material. I do not want your heads in general getting injured in the process, only Muslim heads. Also make sure you do not fall down with your back pointing at the direction of Mekka and Medina, this could drastically increase the offense of the following shameless illustration, bringing us another jihad!!!

Muslims who are adamant in their belief that they are right should not watch this grim scene.
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http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/8083/infoxa9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Skybird
08-14-06, 05:39 PM
P.S. Ayatollah Khomenei once has ruled that it is okay for an adult man to enjoy the pleasure of sexual interaction with small children, evemn with babies, as long as no penetration occurs. I wonder why this comes to my mind in this context.

Frenssen
08-14-06, 05:45 PM
The whole farce is laughable. It`s a good thing more and more people in W. Europe see what is going on.

STEED
08-14-06, 06:21 PM
PC Madness is one of the reasons why half a million British people have now left England, if I had the money so would I.

Other reasons are high tax, weak government's, red tape, and so on.

Yahoshua
08-14-06, 06:35 PM
If money is your primary convern, how much are you willing to sell off your rights for?


And btw Skybird, for a moment there I thought two things:

One you were going to post a caricature of Muhammed, or

Two, a luscious lady in the pool.

Looks like I was dissapointed, yet offended by such a photo.....:lol:

Skybird
08-14-06, 06:55 PM
Stop making fun of it, Yahoshua. It is a serious issue of violating mutual tolerance, undermining multicultural coexistence and not wishing to realize the similiarities of standards of reason and intelligence in their religion, and the religions of those over two thirds of mankind that believe in anything but Muhammad. We really should put more trust in Muhammad's wellmeaning. Trust is a primary human virtue, so it surely couldn't hurt, could it? ;) If you only would trust Muhammad, then you could see the offense in a picture of a five-year-old girl's shoulder very easily - then you would be offended yourself - isn't this convincing enough for how superior that moral codex is?

kiwi_2005
08-14-06, 07:24 PM
Warning,

the following illustration I mean to be intentionally highly offending and could cause jihad brake out all over the world, and could cause deeply offended Muhammedans to grew hot in despair!! and anger !!!!!, hysteric Muslim women !! could brake down in public and shedding rivers of tears, and eventually you will be nerved by hearing Muslim heads getting red and finally exploding in anger all over the place you happen to be.

But honestly, by showing this grim and shameless illustration I indeed hope to make as many Muslims popping their heads as possible!!! Do not support a sick and pervert maniac like me by allowing yourself to walk the sinful and provocative path I am leading you to. So watch at your own responsebility. I will not take any responsebility for you loosing your mind or hurting yourself when braking down !!! and hitting the deck. Make sure the ground has some thick carpet or some layers of soft material. I do not want your heads in general getting injured in the process, only Muslim heads. Also make sure you do not fall down with your back pointing at the direction of Mekka and Medina, this could drastically increase the offense of the following shameless illustration, bringing us another jihad!!!

Muslims who are adamant in their belief that they are right should not watch this grim scene.
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http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/8083/infoxa9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


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Torplexed
08-14-06, 07:35 PM
Okay! That's it. I'm gonna find an isolated cabin in the Alaskan wilderness and hide out. No Muslims. Just the occasional loose moose. :damn:

North to the Future!

Yahoshua
08-14-06, 09:23 PM
We'll just avoid the problem for as long as we can......just like the french did......:gulp:

But in all seriousness, this is like being on the Titanic when you already know what's going to happen but the crew and captain are all clowns and refuse to listen to you.

:lost:

STEED
08-15-06, 04:14 AM
PC madness in the U.K. is mostly done by white middle class people who got nothing else better to do with there sad lives, they just can not get it in there heads that this is causing harm and unrest to this country. I want to see these people locked up for what they are doing, I am sick of there stupid view points and why are they so much in favour of muslims?

Skybird
08-15-06, 05:03 AM
<p> I am sick of there stupid view points and why are they so much in favour of muslims?</p>

The political left knows that Muslims accept to vote for the left parties by 75-90%, depending on the European country you are in. The deal is "we give you money, more rights, and helpt you to get more of your people in, you give us your vote."

The political right wants cheap labour, and avoid to admit that we lived beyond what we could afford. By that they hope to keep the economy running and the European national tax and social systems untouched. Since it is a capitalistic (materialistic) economy system, it has no interest in questions about ethics, moral values and non-material culture.

The value-free anarchists of the socalled liberal factions, Eurocrats and the like, want to prove how superior the idea of unlimited tolerance and unlimited multi-culti is, giving that idea up would mean to admit one's own thinking errors of the past. They want to prove it's superiority even if it does not work. In that latter case it's failure is ignored, and it's superiority is clothed in wonderful hopes, promises and expectations of what a bright future we all will enjoy if we only turn multi-culti by heart and mind.

The 24/7-cowards and the ordinary people just do not spend the time to think about where it all is leading to, and admit to surrender if it only helps to avoid violant conflict at all costs. Even if they are too high.

All these sub-groups live by one and the same wrong assumption: that they could tame and control Islam. And that is simply wrong.

STEED
08-15-06, 10:39 AM
Voter turn out in the U.K. is very bad. And now here's another bit of news and this one is to do with the muslims.


Muslims call for special bank holidays

By JAMES CHAPMAN 10:27am 15th August 2006

Muslim leaders summoned to talks with the Government on tackling extremism in their midst called for public holidays to mark their religious festivals.


The Whitehall meeting was set up in response to last week's airline bomb plot discovery.
Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly had prepared an uncompromising message on the need to tackle dangerous radicalism.
But, in what she admitted were 'sharp' exchanges, some senior Muslim figures turned the tables yesterday and made a series of demands which also included the introduction of Sharia law for family matters.
Dr Syed Aziz Pasha, secretary general of the Union of Muslim Organisations of the UK and Ireland, said: 'We told her if you give us religious rights, we will be in a better position to convince young people that they are being treated equally along with other citizens.'
Dr Pasha said Miss Kelly had agreed to look at the proposals, though her spokesman insisted later that she did not favour any legal change which would give 'special treatment' for the Muslim community.
Some of the 30 moderate Muslim leaders at the meeting told Miss Kelly that important days in their two main religious festivals - Ramadan and Eid-ul-Adha - should be made public holidays for followers of the faith.
Sharia law, which is practised in large parts of the Middle East, should also be introduced in Britain, they argued. While it specifies stonings and amputations as routine punishments for crimes, Dr Pasha said he wanted it only for family affairs.
Under the law, a husband pays his wife a dowry on marriage, and money and assets are shared out between family members in specified amounts after someone dies.
'We are willing to co-operate but there should be a partnership,' Dr Pasha said.
'They should understand our problems then we will understand their problems.'
A recent poll suggested that a third of British Muslims would rather live under Sharia law, while a similar number said they also hope Britain will one day become an Islamic state. But Dr Pasha claimed the legal changes he proposed would help convince young Muslims to integrate better into British society.
The Union of Muslim Organisations of the UK and Ireland claims to be a widely representative umbrella group. However, it does not include more influential and high-profile bodies such as the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB). Inayat Bunglawala, spokesman for the MCB, also attended the meeting but distanced his group from the calls for Sharia law.
He said: 'We believe one legal code should apply for all citizens of the UK. There is no place for multiple legal systems for people of different religious or ethnic backgrounds.
'If people object to a certain law they should campaign peacefully and democratically for a change - but only so that it applies to all people, not just Muslims.' The Government has accused Muslim leaders of a 'dreadful misjudgment' for claiming its foreign policy has fuelled the threat of extremism. An open letter, signed by three Muslim MPs, three peers and 38 community groups, said the 'debacle' of Iraq, combined with the recent failure to do more to bring about an immediate end to the Middle East conflict, had encouraged extremists who threaten Britain.
Three hours of talks
After more than three hours of talks with the senior Muslims, Miss Kelly insisted foreign policy in Iraq and the Middle East was not the 'root cause' of fundamentalism.
But she acknowledged there were 'different views' over aspects of Government policy and there had been a series of 'sharp and challenging exchanges'.
'There is a battle of hearts and minds to be won within the Muslim community, working with the Muslim community to take on the terrorist and extremist elements that are sometimes found within it, not just in the Muslim community, but elsewhere as well.'
Muslims must feel that if there was frustration on particular issue, there were ' democratic channels for that to be vented', she added. 'What I do accept is that there is a lot of anger and frustration out there in the community that needs to be properly expressed and vented through the democratic process.'
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott and Communities Minister Meg Munn also attended the meeting. Moves being discussed include 'de-radicalisation forums' to help young Muslims engage with Government policy, improved spiritual guidance for Muslim university students and support for training of imams. Haras Rafiq, of the Sufi Muslim Council, said: 'The first thing that we need to do as a community is admit there is a problem.
'It is like being an alcoholic - we need to stand up and say these things and have an open and honest debate.'
Kharshid Ahmed, chairman of the British Muslim Forum, said: 'We believe that the threat is still external - it is people coming from outside and leading the radicalisation.
'We need to deal with that before people inside our communities are leading the radicalisation.'
There are currently eight permanent bank and public holidays in Britain. Three fall on religious days - Christmas Day, Good Friday and Easter Monday. The latter two are common law holidays - not specified by law as bank holidays as they were traditionally days of rest and to go to Church. The other bank holidays were made law in 1871, to give their workers time off - causing other businesses dependent on the banks to follow suit.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=400605&in_page_id=1770&ct=5

Skybird
08-15-06, 11:16 AM
The only battle for hearts and minds is waged by Islam, by use of deception, intimidation, venomous promises, and sweet lies. And different to Western powers using that term, Islam currently is winning it with flying colours. That is becasue Islam has a clear definition of what it wants, and what itself is, while the West has lost both it's identity and knowledge of historical gains in it's values. The West does not defend against Islam, because it has no identity left that needs to be defended.

Non potest gratis, constare libertas. Our liberty needs to come at a price. If it is for free, and is taken for granted, no one will be on watch, and it dies. Freedom and liberty for free is lethal for a society, for no one is willing to remain on guard.

SkvyWvr
08-15-06, 11:24 AM
PC Madness is one of the reasons why half a million British people have now left England, if I had the money so would I.

Other reasons are high tax, weak government's, red tape, and so on.

PC is an American export. We call it the wuzzification of the American male. We are being castrated. Sorry it's made it across the pond.:nope:

SkvyWvr
08-15-06, 11:30 AM
PC madness in the U.K. is mostly done by white middle class people who got nothing else better to do with there sad lives, they just can not get it in there heads that this is causing harm and unrest to this country. I want to see these people locked up for what they are doing, I am sick of there stupid view points and why are they so much in favour of muslims?

They have been trained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). This group has become a cancer in our society.:damn: If you figure out how to lock yours up, let us know. It would be a great service to the world.

STEED
08-15-06, 01:18 PM
PC madness in the U.K. is mostly done by white middle class people who got nothing else better to do with there sad lives, they just can not get it in there heads that this is causing harm and unrest to this country. I want to see these people locked up for what they are doing, I am sick of there stupid view points and why are they so much in favour of muslims?

They have been trained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). This group has become a cancer in our society.:damn: If you figure out how to lock yours up, let us know. It would be a great service to the world.

No chance, unless we have a revolution then may be. ;)

SkvyWvr
08-15-06, 01:58 PM
PC madness in the U.K. is mostly done by white middle class people who got nothing else better to do with there sad lives, they just can not get it in there heads that this is causing harm and unrest to this country. I want to see these people locked up for what they are doing, I am sick of there stupid view points and why are they so much in favour of muslims?

They have been trained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). This group has become a cancer in our society.:damn: If you figure out how to lock yours up, let us know. It would be a great service to the world.

No chance, unless we have a revolution then may be. ;)

Unfortunately what is going to happen is that we (UK/USA) will get hit again only alot harder. It's not a matter of if, but when. Then the PC gloves will come off and we will be able to restore some common sense.

CB..
08-16-06, 07:23 AM
this stuff is completely caught in a catch twenty two....if the government gives the so called muslim council of britain what it wants....specail bank holidays some elements of sharia law etc etc..it will be seen as a victory for fundamentalist terrorism...lets face it they wouldn't have gotten the concesions without the terrorism...(no one would have taken them seriuosly) if the government doesn't give the so called muslim council of britain the concessions..then it will be seen as adding more fuel to fire of the fundamentalist terrrorists cause..more reasons to "fight" as it were..

any body seen that old sci fi series called "V" ..it rings a bell.:hmm: .

the muslim council of great britain is a terrorist organisation....full stop...just like the current incarnation of the I.R.A. they have an acceptable public and political face and organistation that has only gained it's current high public and political profile and influence though acts of terrorism conducted by it's less well affiliated (and un acknowledged) members..ho hum...

if the Muslim council of Great Britain get all that they want me-thinks that the government of the time is going to have an entirely new form of terrorism to deal with...that of the british people saying "ENOUGH"....surely they know this ...we are not going to accept Sharia law......just an after thought...sooner or later some body some where is going to to start bombing the muslims...i can't see it panning out any other way given our history and intense adhereance to our own sense of justice...

now then if i'm thinking this stuff..and i wouldn't say boo to a goose....there's plenty out there who sooner or later may well decide to act on this sort of thinking.....

if for no other reason than the title "Muslim Council of Great Britain" sound perilously close to the "Muslim Country of Great Britain"
arghh

SkvyWvr
08-16-06, 07:34 AM
this stuff is completely caught in a catch twenty two....if the government gives the so called muslim council of britain what it wants....specail bank holidays some elements of sharia law etc etc..it will be seen as a victory for fundamentalist terrorism...lets face it they wouldn't have gotten the concesions without the terrorism...(no one would have taken them seriuosly) if the government doesn't give the so called muslim council of britain the concessions..then it will be seen as adding more fuel to fire of the fundamentalist terrrorists cause..more reasons to "fight" as it were..

any body seen that old sci fi series called "V" ..it rings a bell.:hmm: .

the muslim council of great britain is a terrorist organisation....full stop...just like the current incarnation of the I.R.A. they have an acceptable public and political face and organistation that has only gained it's current high public and political profile and influence though acts of terrorism conducted by it's less well affiliated (and un acknowledged) members..ho hum...

It seems that our nations have lost sight of a simple fact... "This our country and our laws. If you can't live with that, then leave". Why do we bend over backwards to appease these groups. There is however one thing that Britain does which the USA won't do, expulsion. It was refreashing to see your government expel suspected extreemist after 9-11 and the London bombings.:up:

XabbaRus
08-16-06, 07:39 AM
It's a Daily Hate, er sorry Mail article so I'm not surprised at the way it is written.

Thing is the call for Sharia law and their own public holidays is nothing new and not just Muslims who have called for them. Other faiths want their holidays too.

I do however think that is poppycock, if you do that for one group you have to do it for the rest them. As for Sharia law, it will never happen.

CB..
08-16-06, 08:11 AM
It's a Daily Hate, er sorry Mail article so I'm not surprised at the way it is written.

Thing is the call for Sharia law and their own public holidays is nothing new and not just Muslims who have called for them. Other faiths want their holidays too.

I do however think that is poppycock, if you do that for one group you have to do it for the rest them. As for Sharia law, it will never happen.
the readership of the daily mail is quite large i believe...for better or worse...perhaps there is a form of "radicalisation" the government has failed to take into account...of course the only way to prevent that would be to curtail the freedom of the press...(under the mantle of political correctness perhaps) and so it goes on..

Yahoshua
08-16-06, 08:47 AM
Looks like we have a bit of our own PC madness here in the states:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060816/od_nm/life_starbucks_dc

Welcome to the Lawsuit culture of America.

SkvyWvr
08-16-06, 08:49 AM
Looks like we have a bit of our own PC madness here in the states:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060816/od_nm/life_starbucks_dc

Welcome to the Lawsuit culture of America.

Ours is the only country where you can get paid alot of mony for being plain stupid.:nope: :nope: :nope:

STEED
08-16-06, 10:04 AM
Dr Syed Aziz Pasha, secretary general of the Union of Muslim Organisations of the UK and Ireland

There was a radio programme on this last night and all the muslims that rang up said the following.

Who is this person?

Who elected him?

Never heard of them

He dose not represent me

They don't represent me because of......


Not one of them knew who this person was or the organisation. :hmm:

jumpy
08-16-06, 10:35 AM
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2006/08/HANNAH_381x450.jpg

here's the girl in the passport debacle & linky (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=400528&in_page_id=1770)
So shocking and offensive, but then we all know how muslim men cannot keep their hands off women and young girls :nope: - I jest here, but there's many a truth spoken as such; it was my understanding that this was one of the reasons for muslim women to 'cover up' so the men would not have to be trusted with restraining themselves and their more pressing urges.
Though to be fair:
A spokesman for the Passport Service said it was not policy to reject applications with bare shoulders.
'The guidance set out on the application form doesn't include it, this picture should have been absolutely fine,' she added. 'The Post Office has its rules and we can't comment on that.'
A Post Office spokesman said: 'Our offices have a Passport Office template which says what the photograph should and shouldn't be.
'Bare shoulders don't come into that at all. We can't see any instruction to that effect so all we can do is apologise to Mrs Edwards. It was clearly a mistake made by the clerk.
'It is the first time we have heard of such a rejection and we will take it up with that particular office.
I know this article and its content do not really have anything to do with muslims per sey - it is not instigated by any demands from them, but the postoffice clerk who rejected the picture. All the same though I'm increasingly concerned by all of this bending over a barrel and spreading those collective cheeks wide for the benefit of all and sundry at the expense of 'our' liberty and freedoms, as obviously somebody elses 'right' is more right than my own.
Possibly more worrying is that some of our own are at the forefront of this abdication of values for the benefit of every niche oppinion and belief to be taken into consideration and given status above and beyond that of every other ordinary bugger that lives in this country. Meh.:down:

XabbaRus
08-16-06, 10:42 AM
As noted before the PC brigade is made of white liberal dogooders.

I knew one, summed up her creed was white majority wrong, non-white minority all right due to that fact. Needless to say she didn't appreciate our humour.

Nor did she like Ali G and Borat....

I consider myself to be a reasonable guy, I don't jump on the band wagon but I also don't like how people suddenly decide what I can and can't think.

SkvyWvr
08-16-06, 10:49 AM
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2006/08/HANNAH_381x450.jpg

here's the girl in the passport debacle & linky (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=400528&in_page_id=1770)
So shocking and offensive, but then we all know how muslim men cannot keep their hands off women and young girls :nope: - I jest here, but there's many a truth spoken as such; it was my understanding that this was one of the reasons for muslim women to 'cover up' so the men would not have to be trusted with restraining themselves and their more pressing urges.
Though to be fair:
A spokesman for the Passport Service said it was not policy to reject applications with bare shoulders.
'The guidance set out on the application form doesn't include it, this picture should have been absolutely fine,' she added. 'The Post Office has its rules and we can't comment on that.'
A Post Office spokesman said: 'Our offices have a Passport Office template which says what the photograph should and shouldn't be.
'Bare shoulders don't come into that at all. We can't see any instruction to that effect so all we can do is apologise to Mrs Edwards. It was clearly a mistake made by the clerk.
'It is the first time we have heard of such a rejection and we will take it up with that particular office.
I know this article and its content do not really have anything to do with muslims per sey - it is not instigated by any demands from them, but the postoffice clerk who rejected the picture. All the same though I'm increasingly concerned by all of this bending over a barrel and spreading those collective cheeks wide for the benefit of all and sundry at the expense of 'our' liberty and freedoms, as obviously somebody elses 'right' is more right than my own.
Possibly more worrying is that some of our own are at the forefront of this abdication of values for the benefit of every niche oppinion and belief to be taken into consideration and given status above and beyond that of every other ordinary bugger that lives in this country. Meh.:down:

Well put. I appears that we can make life inconvenient for the masses because of the opinion of a few. Take for instance our idiot who sued the Federal Government to remove the phrase "In God We Trust" from our dollar bill because he dosen't believe in God. I bet he never had a problem accepting our money or spending it. At what point do we say "Rediculous!!!":damn: :damn: :damn:

jumpy
08-16-06, 10:58 AM
Nor did she like Ali G and Borat....

haha Borat...
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/9814/boratthongvk6.jpg
Education: I have degree from Astana University in English and plague research. I make 3 new ones. One was release in Uzbekistan and kill over 50 thousands goat.
:rotfl:

Yahoshua
08-16-06, 05:24 PM
(Permanent scarring of the mind has resulted from the previous photo)

Is there something wrong with the girls' eyes or is it just the camera?