Indigo Jo on August 27th, 2010

France’s ban on the Islamic veil has little to do with female emancipation | Law | guardian.co.uk Joan Wallach Scott, the author of The Politics of the Veil, on the real motivation behind the move to ban the niqaab in France: The national assembly’s action came on July 13, as the country prepared to celebrate […]

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Indigo Jo on December 6th, 2009

BBC News - Romanian workers reveal true cost of beauty This is a story about Romanian workers who were tricked into coming to the UK to sell cosmetics on a “commission-only”, “self-employed” basis. This involved selling the products in a department store and being paid only for what they sold, not for the time they […]

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Indigo Jo on December 4th, 2009

It seems that offence has been taken at my reference to two bloggers in my last entry who reacted to the vote against minarets in Switzerland last Sunday to the effect of “I won’t be going there then”. I’ve Googled the first name of the person who took the offence and I can’t find any […]

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Indigo Jo on November 30th, 2009

I’ve been asked to offer my opinion on the result of yesterday’s referendum on minarets in Switzerland, perhaps inevitably. I had expected such a law to be passed, contrary to the opinion polls which suggested that it wouldn’t, because a country where a major party can use such openly racist imagery as the “black sheep” […]

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Indigo Jo on February 12th, 2009
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Indigo Jo on September 22nd, 2008
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Indigo Jo on August 6th, 2008
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Indigo Jo on August 4th, 2008
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Indigo Jo on July 13th, 2008
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Indigo Jo on June 24th, 2008
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Indigo Jo on January 25th, 2008
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Indigo Jo on May 8th, 2007
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Indigo Jo on November 28th, 2006
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Indigo Jo on October 24th, 2006

Islamophobia Watch this weekend drew attention to the Sunday Times’ article on Nyamko Sabuni, Sweden’s answer to Ayaan Hirsi Ali who scarpered to the USA once doubt had been cast on her grounds for any status in the Netherlands. She is the “integration and equality” minister in the recently elected conservative government, and advocates such policies as adolescent girls being checked for evidence of having undergone genital mutilation, the criminalisation of arranged marriages, no state funding for religious organisations, and that “immigrants should learn Swedish and find a job”.

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Indigo Jo on May 27th, 2006
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Indigo Jo on May 16th, 2006
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