Only a moron will see this as a victory for prostitutes.
""We were the first religion to give power to women." REALLY???
Community outraged over book that tells Muslim men how to beat their wives
6:15 pm, March 24th, 2012
ISLAMIC BOOKS AND SOUVENIRS, LOCATED GERRARD ST. E. WEST OF COXWELL AVE., IS WHERE TORONTONIAN ERIC BRAZAU BOUGHT A GIFT FOR MUSLIM COUPLE, A MARRIAGE GUIDE THAT INCLUDES ADVICE ON HOW TO CONTROL AND ‘PROPERLY’ BEAT A WIFE.
Credits: Terry Davidson/Toronto Sun
KEVIN CONNOR | QMI AGENCY
TORONTO — Farzana Baig says she is angry a book has surfaced in Toronto that advises Muslim men how to make their wives submissive through violence.The book called A Gift for Muslim Couple — which was being sold at Islamic Books and Souvenirs on Gerrard St. E. — advises men on “punishing women and the manner to discipline them” by restraints, scoldings and beatings.
“It is not like that in our community. This is upsetting. A wrong thing against our community. My husband doesn’t beat me. I haven’t heard of this. If it happens it is rare,” Baig said.
Her husband, a vice-president with Sunni mosque Jame Masjid Mississauga, had not heard of the book but plans to investigate on Monday.
“This is totally wrong. It should not be and I don’t know what to say. This doesn’t represent our community and I will look into it. This isn’t proper reading and it shouldn’t be out there. It makes the whole community look wrong,” he said.
Wasim Vania, president of the Islamic Society of Toronto, also condemns the book.
“We were the first religion to give power to women. It is sad that someone would write this. We don’t have hatred in our hearts and we don’t teach this. That book should have never entered Canada,” Vania said.
“It is a sad day to find such a book in Canada. As humans we can’t control everything but we should be able to control what goes on a book shelf. We as Canadian Muslims have respect for women. No gender is higher than the other. It is sad to find material like this and it should be pulled.”
The book is an insult to the Muslim community said Mohammed with the Muslim Welfare Centre, who asked his last name not be used.
“I have never heard of something like this. I’m surprised it was published and I am angry to be portrayed in this light,” he said.
School ≠ Education
When the Industrial Revolution is Applied to Education
California union to parents: Stop volunteering!
POSTED AT 3:05 PM ON MARCH 21, 2012 BY TINA KORBE
In Culver City, Calif., a local union wants to force unionization of — get this — parentvolunteers at the local public schools. At several schools in the city, parents have banded together to form non-profit booster clubs to fundraise for and hire part-time teacher’s helpers, who also mostly come from the ranks of the parents themselves.
The local union — the Culver City Association of Classified Employees — is not OK with that kind of initiative. The union wants the parents to continue to fundraise, but to send the funds directly to the school district so the district can then hire union employees to fill the part-time positions. As the union’s scheme makes clear, the school district presently doesn’t have the money to hire anyone to fill the roles parents have voluntarily filled. The parent volunteers aren’t stealing existing jobs from union employees.
The union has taken its request to the labor-friendly Public Employment Relations Board (PERB), a “quasi-judicial administrative agency that is charged with upholding and administering collective bargaining statutes that cover employees working in California schools.”
If the union has its way, parents will have to raise even more funds to cover the additional costs of union dues, administrative overhead and higher union wages — but they’ll have no say over hiring, control, supervision or decision-making. What’s to incentivize the fundraising in that scenario? As likely as not, parents will just stop putting forth the effort to raise funds in the first place — and students will lose the benefit of the added help in the classroom.
According to UnionWatch.org, this one local union’s war against volunteers isn’t an isolated example. From the website:
There are so many facets to the problem of public sector unions that one of their most outrageous abuses, their war on volunteerism, is barely covered by the media. But it happens all the time, especially in public education. If any volunteer does work that could be done by a unionized worker, even if no funds exist to hire that worker, the union is likely to use all their power to stop that volunteer from providing their services.
Last year, it was the unionization of babysitting. This year, it’s the unionization of volunteering. What’s next?
In case anyone’s forgotten, public employee unions are fundamentally different than their private-sector counterparts. In many states, efforts to curb public employee unions are essential to ensuring taxpayers receive services as efficiently and affordably as possible. UnionWatch.org explains:
Whether or not you agree with unions in the private sector, the justification for unionizing government workers rests on very different, and far more debatable assumptions. The purpose of government is to provide services to citizens as efficiently and equitably as possible. The purpose of unions is to extract as much money and benefits to their members as possible, as well as to acquire more members. These two purposes are intrinsically in opposition. In the private sector, unions oppose management, and union demands are mitigated by the fact that private companies must compete for customers and must therefore operate efficiently. In the public sector, unions are essentially opposing taxpayers, and the efficiency and the expense of government is not checked by market forces because the government is a monopoly with the power to force citizens to pay taxes.
It’s compassion and concern for all taxpayers that motivates efforts to limit the power of public employee unions.