Friday, April 27, 2012

Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/27/2012

Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/27/2012A federal judge has ruled that an Ohio prison did not violate its inmates’ constitutional rights by serving halal food to all prisoners. Since everyone was being treated equally in this regard, the judge determined that the prison’s actions did not constitute a state establishment of religion.

In other news, Francois Hollande, the socialist candidate in the upcoming presidential election who is ahead of the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in the latest polls, attempted to appeal to right-wing voters by promising to keep the burka ban, and also to crack down on immigration.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Regarding the story on Ohio’s prison system ordering all inmates to eat halal.

Inmates in all prisons should have the same choices I did as a kid. The two choices I had were:

Choice one: take it or
Choice two: leave it.

SarahSue

Anonymous said...

Iraqi government intends to start schools in Scandinavia
- Starting with Sweden

Hussain Al-Ameri, Ambassador to Sweden, says Arabic should be the school language.

Sooner or later, many of the Iraqis in Sweden will return to Iraq, so the education must work in Iraq, and the pupils must know Arabic.

- Language is the key to success, he says to the Swedish paper Sydsvenskan.