Many of you will be aware of the scandal created by a Labour counsellor in [MENTION=46929]shaz619[/MENTION] 's beloved Birmingham.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...gamy-claims-against-equality-boss-decade.html
To cut a long story short, he was the council's "Equalities Commissioner" and in that official role he took to task a Catholic pre-school for not allowing a 4 year old to wear a headscarf.
Apart from the rather obvious issue of "why would you send your child to a Catholic school if you want her to wear Islamic dress?", a number of other issues then emerged, as follows:
1. He was the girl's uncle.
2. He had married his first cousin in Pakistan several years ago (legal in the UK, but it turns most people's stomachs and is not conducive to getting elected).
3. He obtained a backstreet Sharia divorce (having previously condemned them) with no legal standing in the UK.
4. He then got married again, so the British press is openly calling him a bigamist.
5. The Labour Party had previously received a written warning from an activist group that he was not a "fit and proper person" to represent the party, but had ignored it.
Is this man a man proudly fighting for a community to be able to practise its beliefs? Or is he an embarrassment to the Pakistani community in England?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...gamy-claims-against-equality-boss-decade.html
To cut a long story short, he was the council's "Equalities Commissioner" and in that official role he took to task a Catholic pre-school for not allowing a 4 year old to wear a headscarf.
Apart from the rather obvious issue of "why would you send your child to a Catholic school if you want her to wear Islamic dress?", a number of other issues then emerged, as follows:
1. He was the girl's uncle.
2. He had married his first cousin in Pakistan several years ago (legal in the UK, but it turns most people's stomachs and is not conducive to getting elected).
3. He obtained a backstreet Sharia divorce (having previously condemned them) with no legal standing in the UK.
4. He then got married again, so the British press is openly calling him a bigamist.
5. The Labour Party had previously received a written warning from an activist group that he was not a "fit and proper person" to represent the party, but had ignored it.
Is this man a man proudly fighting for a community to be able to practise its beliefs? Or is he an embarrassment to the Pakistani community in England?
