Conservative Home today carries front-page photos and an article about the petition-launch outside the Whitechapel Ideas Store yesterday to get ‘hate-books’ out of the area’s libraries.
Councillor Phil Briscoe – who was among the Councillors who joined the Centre outside the library – writes on Conservative Home:
‘The debate about freedom of information and censorship is coming to a controversial head in Tower Hamlets. Following the publication of the ‘Hate on the State’ report by the Centre for Social Cohesion, all eyes have been focused on the lending catalogue of Tower Hamlets libraries, where the works of radical Islamists sit alongside the texts of convicted merchants of terror. These publications are not tempered with a balanced critique, but are provided in free format and in multiple copies.
‘Last week we, Conservative councillors in Tower Hamlets, tabled an emergency question at a full council meeting to demand an explanation and action on this issue. On the 6th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, every single Labour and Respect councillor in the chamber voted to exclude this question from the business of the meeting, and no further debate was held on the subject. This is a shameful response from those elected to the serve the borough, and the disgust of local people is evident by the letters and emails that have been provoked by this action.’
Read it all here.
Meanwhile, in its final report, the Commission for Racial Equality (soon to be subsumed into the new Equality and Human Rights Commission) has discovered that after three decades of failed multiculturalism Britain now risks ‘fracturing’ and break-up. The story can be read here. The sadness is that is has taken the CRE until its final days to realise that putting people into groups divided along religious and ethnic lines is not the way to create a cohesive society, and that encouraging ethnic and religious separation has actively created ethnic and religious separation.
