...Channel Four.....and....Catholic Secondary Schools in Southwark Archdiocese.
Good old conservative Channel Four is to feature the Muslim call to prayer throughout the fasting period of Ramadhan this year.
You know Ramadhan? It's the time when devout Muslims fast from before dawn till sundown (a long period in British Summertime) and, at either end, stuff themselves with as much grub as is humanly possible.
Fast and feast.
In this process they operate lathes and commercial guillotines, drive buses, trains and lorries as well as conduct brain surgery, all without the benefit of energy generating food.
At all of the Colleges that I have worked in, we would bar Muslim students from using any dangerous machinery during Ramadhan; the capacity for seriously injuring themselves, and others is immense.
But following closely on the heels of Channel Four is the Archdiocese of Southwark.
Archbishop Peter Smith has conducted an investigation into the diversion of hard pressed resources into the provision of Muslim Prayer Rooms in no less than ten (yes, ten) of his schools.
And, to cut a long story short, he is cool about it.
In fact, he sees it as his bounden duty to make such provision.
He didn't actually say: "We're all members of the same club" but he might just as well have done so.
Bully.
63 good Catholics and true, signed the letter querying this most dubious of practices but ++ Smith has waved two episcopal fingers at all just to tell us to keep our noses out of Southwarkmadrassas practices and to let him get on with what he started so successfully in Cardiff.
And Archbishop Mennini, whom we have kept in the loop, has stated that he has no jurisdiction in such matters..but....but....but....
....he has hinted that he will have a word in someone's ear (my words, not his).
He was bit more forthright, good man that he is.
Now, I hope that I am not reading too much into that phrase but isn't the sentence:
"Have a word in his ear" Cosa Nostra speak for "I'm sending some of da boys round as we speak" - meaning: "He will never walk in a straight line again"
The more I see of our Nuncio, the more impressed I am.
He is a true Godfather in every sense of the word.
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| Southwark or Saudi Arabia - hard to tell |
Good old conservative Channel Four is to feature the Muslim call to prayer throughout the fasting period of Ramadhan this year.
You know Ramadhan? It's the time when devout Muslims fast from before dawn till sundown (a long period in British Summertime) and, at either end, stuff themselves with as much grub as is humanly possible.
Fast and feast.
In this process they operate lathes and commercial guillotines, drive buses, trains and lorries as well as conduct brain surgery, all without the benefit of energy generating food.
At all of the Colleges that I have worked in, we would bar Muslim students from using any dangerous machinery during Ramadhan; the capacity for seriously injuring themselves, and others is immense.
But following closely on the heels of Channel Four is the Archdiocese of Southwark.
Archbishop Peter Smith has conducted an investigation into the diversion of hard pressed resources into the provision of Muslim Prayer Rooms in no less than ten (yes, ten) of his schools.
And, to cut a long story short, he is cool about it.
In fact, he sees it as his bounden duty to make such provision.
He didn't actually say: "We're all members of the same club" but he might just as well have done so.
Bully.
63 good Catholics and true, signed the letter querying this most dubious of practices but ++ Smith has waved two episcopal fingers at all just to tell us to keep our noses out of Southwark
And Archbishop Mennini, whom we have kept in the loop, has stated that he has no jurisdiction in such matters..but....but....but....
....he has hinted that he will have a word in someone's ear (my words, not his).
He was bit more forthright, good man that he is.
Now, I hope that I am not reading too much into that phrase but isn't the sentence:
"Have a word in his ear" Cosa Nostra speak for "I'm sending some of da boys round as we speak" - meaning: "He will never walk in a straight line again"
The more I see of our Nuncio, the more impressed I am.
He is a true Godfather in every sense of the word.
