Labour hold gender segregated meeting yet again in Oldham

I wonder which side Corbyn would sit on

http://order-order.com/2015/11/30/labour-hold-another-segregated-rally/

Is it acceptable for Labour to treat women as 2nd class citizens and should we be telling muslims to integrate with UK society where women are treated equally with men

Revolting. I'd sit on the "wrong" side if such a stupid idea was carried out at something I attended.

In Mosques men and women are separate, it was respectful to Islam and to Muslims to address the meeting in this manner. Imagine the fury and outrage from the Muslim community if Labour had insisted on not allowing them to sit this way. Instead we have a bunch of people screaming fowl for actually respecting other religions and cultures. It's almost as if we don't live in a multicultural society during a time of heightened Islamophobia due to the actions of a loud minority, with Islamic Fundamentalist groups being an extremely tiny minority of Islam, less than 0.01% (with that being a very conservative figure)

In Mosques men and women are separate, it was respectful to Islam and to Muslims to address the meeting in this manner. Imagine the fury and outrage from the Muslim community if Labour had insisted on not allowing them to sit this way. Instead we have a bunch of people screaming fowl for actually respecting other religions and cultures. It's almost as if we don't live in a multicultural society during a time of heightened Islamophobia due to the actions of a loud minority, with Islamic Fundamentalist groups being an extremely tiny minority of Islam, less than 0.01% (with that being a very conservative figure)

Maybe people sit where they wanted? In which case it's voluntary rather than forced segregation?



Yeah, me too!

In Mosques men and women are separate, it was respectful to Islam and to Muslims to address the meeting in this manner. Imagine the fury and outrage from the Muslim community if Labour had insisted on not allowing them to sit this way. Instead we have a bunch of people screaming fowl for actually respecting other religions and cultures. It's almost as if we don't live in a multicultural society during a time of heightened Islamophobia due to the actions of a loud minority, with Islamic Fundamentalist groups being an extremely tiny minority of Islam, less than 0.01% (with that being a very conservative figure)

Haha it's so easy to wind up British people.

They weren't in a mosque, there is no call to respect 'religious diversity' - it was a political event. Why are you supporting religious conservatism? Nay, you are appeasing conservatism. Women are equal. Appeasing this is genuine, actual misogyny.

I suppose that you would also have supported them if they had prevented homosexuals from attending the rally, in order to "respect other religions and cultures".

The Left used to fight religious backwardness.

1. Backwards religions and cultures like that should not to be tolerated. This supine acceptance of medieval practices in order to not offend anyone is revolting.
2. Multiculturalism assumes all cultures are of equal worth. They are not, and backwards practices like this have no place in an enlightened culture
3. Islamophobia is a nonsense term. There is nothing bigoted or objectionable about criticising or mocking Islam. No ideology is sacrosanct
4. The number of terrorists may be small, but the percentage of Muslims who hold anti-semitic views, who hold blasphemy above freedom of speech and who condone the punishment of apostates is disturbingly high.


It never ceases to amaze me how people on the left continue to defend Islam, a belief system which is the antithesis of progressivism and tolerance. Cognitive dissonance at its finest

To exclude lgbt people would be contradictory to the Equality Act 2010, passed by a Labour Government. I would of course fight against any and all discrimination of all kinds, but their religion is their religion, and I can't make them change that, and we can't outlaw Islam as that'd make us as bad as them, if not worse.

However I do support the movements led by people such as Asra Nomani who fight to say that the Qu'ran actually doesn't support gender segregation, and it is only by supporting Islamic movements that we'll ever see any change. 'The Left' can't impose their will on a global Religion which numbers in the billions.

I had been told by others earlier it was in a mosque, I found it hard to tell otherwise by the article, so apologies on that, although I do believe it was a discussion to an all Muslim group, which would make it both religious and political. It is their religious practice to sit separate as I understand, and as I said originally, if the Labour candidate had then refused to talk to them there would have been outrage in the Muslim community about Labour being Islamophobic, and refusing to respect their practices.

And if one wanted to be cynical about this, then that is hardly the reaction you want when you know the 20% of constituents who are ethnic minorities are traditionally Labour voting, and it would be bad to piss them off days before the by-election.