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by Douglas Murray
• December 16, 2014 at 5:00 am
Naturally,
no one would be responsible for their parents' choice of a name. Nor
would they all be likely to emulate the men after whom they were named.
But it would probably be reasonable to assume that the choice of names
might be telling you something about whom large numbers of people in your
country identify with. At least it would seem a question worth
discussing.
If we
were confident about most of the people involved going overwhelmingly the
proud to-be-British way, then we would discuss it. But we aren't, so we
don't.
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The most popular name given to boys in the UK in
2014 was Mohammed. "So what?" Nothing to see here, please
move on... (Image source: BBC)
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Last week the news arrived that the most popular name given to boys
in the UK in 2014 was "Mohammed." The reactions and
non-reactions to this story betrayed the deep unease and denial that are
now part of the debate around Islam in modern Britain.
We have of course been here before. For some years now, there have
been stories of "Mohammed" creeping up the list of most popular
names in the UK. And each time the reaction has been similar.
by Dexter Van Zile
• December 16, 2014 at 4:00 am
Muslim
and Arab hostility toward Israel and Jews was downplayed and ignored
while Jewish wrongdoing was highlighted. Palestinian violence was
depicted as an attempt to achieve sovereignty, and not as an attempt to
deny the Jews their right to sovereignty. Palestinians' actions were
explained; Israelis' actions were condemned.
When
presented with evidence of James M. Wall's factual errors, the
publication declined to correct them.
Eventually
some people in mainline churches started to realize that these overtures
were causing more damage to mainline Protestantism than they were to
Israel.
The
crimes of The Christian Century continue unabated.
Yahoo, the well-known search engine company, has apparently decided
that an antisemitic website, Veterans News Now [VNN], is a credible news
source. People who rely on Yahoo's news aggregator to view information
about the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict will now find in
their news feed links to articles published on this website, which
traffics in Holocaust denial and displays articles that blame Israel for
the attack against the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. This scandal was
exposed last week by Gilead Ini, a colleague at the Committee for
Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America [CAMERA].
Yahoo should not be mainstreaming a website that posts like this.
Moreover, it is not the only entity helping to make VNN look like a
respectable website.
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