So, the government has dropped the test for hate-preaching imams. Afraid? Be very afraid:
‘The Home Office said it hoped that a tougher English language test for foreign-born religious leaders would automatically mean they had a knowledge of British life.
An official said: “If someone has to take a test showing showing they are a confident user of English, both written and spoken, they will have inevitably learnt about life in Britain. They will have read newspapers and listened to the BBC.”’ (emphasis added)
They will have read newspapers and listened to the BBC.
No, it’s the other way around. The BBC listens to them.
Is it me or is that Home Office statement nonsense. If you can’t understand English how can you listen to English BBC broadcasts and read English language newspapers?
If I lived in Spain, being a non Spanish speaker, I wouldn’t spend my money listening to Spanish radio or buying Spanish language newspapers, I’d buy English. I would have thought those who understood Arabic would read it (like in the Koran) and watch Arabic News such as Al-Jeerza, in order to get a balanced world view.
I mean even Mein Kamp has been translated into Arabic.although I hear that,’Euro think’ goes like this; “Mein Kamp written in German
is anti-Semitism, but Mein Kamp written in Arabic is political.”