Wicc'InTh'ead 🟥🇭🇺🇵🇸
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My name comes from an old Derbyshire maxim, 'Derbyshire lad, born and bred, strong in th'arm and wicc in th'head' . 'Wicc' possibly from the OE to be crafty.
"Quakers don't think people should walk into a shop and take whatever they want. But we do support peaceful, nonviolent direct action, including symbolic acts that draw attention to injustice, which is increasingly under threat as successive governments restrict our right to protest," says Oliver Robertson, head of witness and worship for @BritishQuakers . Last week, the Westminster Quaker Meeting House was raided and 15 people were arrested during a nonviolence training session. In response, Quakers held a meeting for worship outside New Scotland Yard on Tuesday, a peaceful act of witness against the growing restrictions on the right to protest. Read more at Real Media: realmedia.press/quaker-NSY-pro…
Too many are too polite to say this. But mass ritual prayer in public places is an act of domination. The adhan - which declares there is no god but allah and Muhammad is his messenger - is, when called in a public place, a declaration of domination. Perform these rituals in mosques if you wish. But they are not welcome in our public places and shared institutions. And given their explicit repudiation of Christianity they certainly do not belong in our churches and cathedrals. I am not suggesting everybody at Trafalgar Square last night is an Islamist. But the domination of public places is straight from the Islamist playbook. Trafalgar Square belongs to all of us. It is a national memorial to our independence and our salvation. Last night was not like a televised football match or a St Patrick’s Day celebration. It was an act of domination and therefore division. It shouldn’t happen again.
US bombers leaving UK en route to Iran avoid European airspace
