Instalment number two of ‘The World’s Gone Mad’ is this example, again from the Telegraph.
Judith Woods has twice in the last week been refused access to a bus because she wanted to take a dog with her. As far as my experience goes, you’re always allowed to take dogs on buses, unless they’re particularly poorly behaved, or wet and dirty. Or indeed if the bus company itself has a non-dog policy.
In both of these instances, however, she was refused access on religious grounds.
On this first occasion, the driver didn’t allow her on the bus because there was a muslim woman on board who ‘might be upset by the dog’. I find this so incredible that words almost fail me. Should I be denied the right to use public transport if I’ve been to the shops and bought some bacon, in case there are Jews on the bus? As Judith says, she is a Catholic, so should she be allowed to insist that no divorced people are allowed to use public transport at the same time as her?
It’s ridiculous, and as she also says, she knows ‘that Muslims consider dogs to be unclean, but last time I looked this wasn’t a Muslim country and London Transport was a non-denominational organisation.’ It is. This country’s values are (or at least used to be) based on universal tolerance and a sense of laissez-faire. All liberal systems will only survive as long as they are not abused. It seems to me that this creeping Islamicisation and intolerance is causing a great deal of damage, and will continue to do so as it continues unchecked.
Personally I don’t care who you are or where you come from, and much as I hate to sound like a fully-paid-up member of the BNP, if you come here, you live by our rules. Unfortunately in the current political climate, our system is bending over backwards to keep people like this happy. Frankly I’m not sure why, because it’s not as if they reciprocate it. If she had somehow insisted on entering and remaining on the bus, she would probably have been arrested for a breach of the peace or incitement to religious hatred. Sadly there are so many people in our vast bureaucratic, legal and governmental systems who kowtow to this sort of behaviour, that I’m not sure where it will end.
With any luck the 25% who got ‘cut’ in the budget will be that 25% which propagates the idea that this is acceptable in a free and liberal society.
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It was a hot day yesterday and so I was wearing sleeveless dress with a fairly low neck (perfectly decent however and actually a long dress!)
Whilst waiting for a friend outside my local shopping centre I sat down on a bench. Two young Muslim men sat down quite near to me. One of them shot me the most filthy look imaginable as if to say “Dirty Infidel Woman”!
I did not say anything to them but felt extremely annoyed that they should presume to judge me. Sally Roberts(Quote)