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THE © MUHAMMAD HAQUE DAILY ETHICAL COMMENTARY EXPOSES THE SHALLOWNESS OF THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE “MAIN STREAM MEDIA’S” ALLEGED ATTACKS ON LUTFUR RAHMAN [2]

November 24, 2012 · by kheydaieelaar · Bookmark the permalink. · Edit

The © Muhammad Haque Daily Ethical Commentary exposes the shallowness of the vast majority of the “main stream media’s” alleged attacks on Lutfur Rahman [2]

How the so-called mainstream media and groups continue to appear to attack Lutfur Rahman on  a very short list of issues while leaving the entire community  in Tower hamlets out of the “discussion”. [2]

Who is fomenting “faiths”-linked hatred and intolerance in Tower Hamlets-[1]

Tower Hamlets Council gets new condemnation as Lutfur goes ahead with “faith group” funding. [1] 

1555 Hrs GMT London Saturday 24 November 2012.
By © Muhammad Haque.
Secular groups have mounted a new campaign aimed at Tower Hamlets Council over “executive mayor” Lutfur Rahman’s decision to go ahead with making grants of £2 million to “faith” groups in the Borough.
The Secular groups’ condemnation follows the SUNDAY EXPRESS-linked and Fleet Street-plugged “local East End blogger” Ted Jeory.

 

According to the “analysis” published by Jeory at the start of November, the “thinking” behind the aforesaid Lutfur Rahman’s “grant-making” decisions is located in the strategy for Lutfur Rahman to get re-elected to the post Lutfur Rahman now occupies. 

Tower Hamlets council approves £2 million funding to faith groups

Posted: 

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 09:38

 The mayor of one of Britain’s poorest boroughs is providing £2 million of funding to religious groups to help refurbish places of worship.

The mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman (right), has approved funding to offer assistance to faith communities to repair, adapt and improve buildings in which faith-based activities occur.

The option of offering grants exclusively to religious groups was preferred over an alternative option to make the fund available to all community buildings.

An equalities analysis justified the scheme under the Council’s aim to promote good relations between different faith groups and non-faith groups. The council says the delivery of the scheme will be discussed with the Interfaith Forum to ensure that it brings benefits to the wider and non-religious community. One East End political blogger has predicted that the bulk of the money will go to small mosques and community centres that occupy former shops across the borough.

Due to drastic cuts across the entire public sector, Tower Hamlets needs to find £75m of savings by 2014. The funding for the Community Faith Buildings Support Scheme has been identified by the Mayor “from reserves”.

Tower Hamlets is one of London’s most impoverished areas and has been identified as the worst area in the UK for child poverty. The area has a dire shortage of affordable housing with over 22,000 on the waiting list and considerable over-crowding issues. Tower Hamlets recently announced significant cuts to it’s community and advice services.

Earlier this month the mayor approved the sale of a Henry Moore sculpture in an attempt to claw back money lost in budget cuts. 

Mayor Lutfur Rahman said: “It is with considerable regret that I make this decision but I have a duty to ensure residents do not suffer the brunt of the horrendous cuts being imposed on us.” 

The artwork was originally sold to the council by Henry Moore at a below-market price in the 1960s with the understanding that it would be placed in east London.

Mr Rahman is no stranger to controversy. 

He is reported to have close links to the extremist Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE). 

Following his election as Mayor in 2010, The Telegraph journalist Andrew Gilligan quoted a senior Labour Party figure saying that Rahman’s personal control of the Tower Hamlets billion pound budget makes Tower Hamlets an “Islamic republic.”

One local resident angered by the Faith Buildings Support Scheme told the NSS: “I totally object to this. This money should be spent on schools and other essential services that benefit the whole community. 

This feels more like a redistribution of public money, ahead of an election, to a particular section of society, aimed at currying favour and securing votes.”

Stephen Evans, campaigns manager at the National Secular Society, said: 

“Government cuts are hitting the people of Tower Hamlets especially hard. In such an impoverished area that faces so many challenges, one has to wonder if Mr Rahman has got his priorities straight. If money is going spare it should be made available to all local community groups equally, but the local authority certainly should not be prioritising the funding of religious activities and practices in this way.”

http://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2012/11/tower-hamlets-council-approves-gbp2-million-funding-to-faith-groups

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MUHAMMAD HAQUE, ADVOCATING KHEYDAIEELAAR! ARGUES: “KEEP THE WORD ‘BANGLATOWN’ IN THE WARD!

MUHAMMAD HAQUE, ADVOCATING KHEYDAIEELAAR! ARGUES: 

“KEEP THE WORD ‘BANGLATOWN’ IN THE WARD!

November 24, 2012 · by kheydaieelaar · Bookmark the permalink. · Edit

KEEP “Banglatown” active in the community! Stop the racist bid to drop “Banglatown”!

Kheydaieelaar!

By © Muhammad Haque, Organiser, Khoodeelaar! now mobilising the arguments and the defence of the community against the LATEST ATTCK by Big Business agents on the community as exposed in the bid to get the word “banglatown” dropped from the electoral map of the  Brick Lane London E1 area. [7]

UPDATING the moral, the ethical, the democratic and the political and the social ANGER of the Community at the attack on Society that the Tory Councillors have mounted via Boundary Commission.

STOP the Tory councillor’s racist agenda against the East End  community he has compared with KANGAROOS! Defend the name Banglatown as part of the Tower Hamlets Council Ward symbolising centuries of struggle by the disenfranchise peoples for rights and justice. Back the call for Tory Councillor Peter Golds to be held legally and democratically accountable for his racist utterance. Sack Peter Golds as a Councillor on Tower Hamlets Council.

The following front page of the TOWER HAMLETS RECORDER reported the Khoodeelaar! campaign defending the community in the Brick Lane London E1 area in October 2004.

Until KHOODEELAAR! there was no local action in the East End of London that beat the attacks by Big Business AND the Big Business  stooges installed in the UK parliament and in the UK Government. The Khoodeelaar! campaign also created a world-wide awareness about the key role of the Brick Lane London E1 area in the life of the people both in the immediate East End of London and beyond. The KHOODEELAAR! Campaign Saying NO to Big Biz agenda Crossrail hole attack on the community in the East End of London has been proven to have had far reaching impact.  Well beyond the fact that as a community, the Brick Lane London E1 area stands. As contrasted with the devastation that would have been mounted on the local small traders, the homes and the environment had we not stopped the 6 year long attack of the Crossrail hole!  [To be continued]

PUBLISHED online an d in print by AADHIKAR Media Foundation London Saturday 24 November 2012

Clueless Councillors and MPs utter banalities over rising jobless numbers in Tower Hamlets [1]

Clueless Councillors and MPs utter banalities over rising jobless numbers in Tower Hamlets [1]

This [above] FLICKR picture of [Tower Hamlets, a London Borough] Tory Councillor Peter Golds, is being reproduced here to give contextual appearance to the Commentary [below] about the latest statistical evidence of the dire state of joblessness in Tower Hamlets
Golds, who is allowed regular publicity by the “mainstream news outlets and media” [backing his prejudices and anti-social agenda] has now added a new insult against the local community by deliberately uttering the word “Kangaroos” as an alleged “comparison” with the community defending the word “Banglatown” in the Brick Lane London E1 area.
Peter Golds uttered this insult as he spoke to an allegedly Bangladeshi-run satellite TV outlet which broadcast his insult on Thursday.
[To be continued]


0815 [0730] Hrs GMT London Saturday 24 November 2012:

The © Muhammad Haque Daily Ethical Commentary on the banality of the Olympics Hosting legacy and assorted utterances in Tower Hamlets [1]
With the UK Govt Official Statistics on Jobless showing that in Tower Hamlets the number of young people without jobs has risen for the fourth month in a row, there is some talk that this Official admission proves that hosting the Olympic Games has not benefited the Borough of Tower Hamlets!

That is indeed true
But saying that takes us where?
According to the web site of the former “East London Advertiser” [now re-titled “Dockhands and East London Advertiser”] the jobless youth figures have been accompanied by comments from “Labour” party MPs and “opposition Labour councillors” on Tower Hamlets Council [having] [“] warned of a “lost generation” if independent mayor Lutfur Rahman and his cabinet did not tackle the problem.[”]
My question is:
WHAT exactly are the “Labour” councillors and the “[Labour] MPs asking the “independent mayor Lutfur Rahman” to do?
But before I could take my objective question to its contextual logical conclusion, I come across a spiel allegedly made by one of Lutfur Rahman’s “cabinet” members called Cllr Shafiqul Haque [no relation] allegedly uttering as banal a statement about the achievements of Lutfur Rahman as is the alleged “recipe” attributed by the “Docklands and East London Advertiser” to one of the [two Labour Party] MPs quoted on the subject, Jim Fitzpatrick.
The MP Fitzpatrick is allegedly quoted as saying: “These unemployment figures will provide little comfort to young people in Tower Hamlets.
“Closer to home they’re seeing a tough job market and no helping hand from the government or council. We must do more to help young people who are out of work before they’re completely isolated and forgotten.”
So WHAT “job” is there in what Jim Fitzpatrick says?
There is no job there either. So between them, the “independent mayor’s cabinet member Shafiqul Haque and the Labour MP Jim Fitzpatrick have been quoted as saying words but their words are not referring to real jobs or real problems that underlie the latest rise in the jobless numbers among young people in Tower Hamlets.
the first problem is that BOTH sides are uttering untruths!
they are not telling the truth.
And the truth is that neither side wants to address the needs of the local community. Both sides, as is evident in the utterances that they are reported to have made here, want to let the public know that they are “on the case” without actually having a clue as to what the “answer is”. And the reason why the clueless “contestants in the arena of publicity intended for the public..” are prepared to issue such banalities is simple: they want the public to know that they are “active”!
Even though their “careerist mental faculties” are not engaged with the truth!
Not as far as these reported utterances show them to be!
[To be continued]