Monday, April 30, 2012
Britain: Muslim 'Cultural Sensitivity' Runs Amok :: Gatestone Institute
"the tyranny of a majority view"!
Holy cow! Did I read that right? Apparently so.
Just wait until you read all that the Brits are doing.
I've often found that what happens in the U.K. travels to America.
Take this as a warning...
Holy cow! Did I read that right? Apparently so.
Just wait until you read all that the Brits are doing.
I've often found that what happens in the U.K. travels to America.
Take this as a warning...
Soeren Kern reports this disconcerting idea on the GatesstoneInstitute website:
"The largest university in London plans to impose a ban on the sale of alcohol on campus to accommodate the "cultural sensitivity" of its Muslim students.
London Metropolitan University's Vice Chancellor, Malcolm Gillies, says it would be unwise to "cling" to a "nostalgic" view where the vast majority wants alcohol to be available. Instead, he says that he believes the university should take account of diverging views, namely those of Muslims, who now comprise 20% of the university's 30,000 students.
'Many of our students do come from backgrounds where they actually look on drinking as a negative. We therefore need to rethink how we cater for that 21st-century balance,' Gillies declared in an interview. 'What we don't want is the tyranny of a majority view,' he added."