Monday 29 January 2007

should homosexuality adopt children?







It has been nearly one century since homosexuality has become acceptable in western society. However, many religions and cultural practices deem homosexuality as a crime and sin. Deciding who should adopt children is a matter of choosing couples with the capability, responsibility, needed for a stable, nurturing upbringing of children. Homosexual couples of being able to adopt children is a very controversial issue and has become an important area of the les-gay rights debate in many countries like the United States, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland. However, many people claim that this is the issue of equality and there is the equality act due to come into force in UK in April, outlaws discrimination in the provision of goods, facilities and services on the basis of sexual orientation but there are several adoption agencies in UK run by catholic stating that they will not consider application from homosexual couples because its against church. However, individual in every society should be equally treated despite their beliefs and personally I’m not against the homosexuality. In addition, homosexual couples want if they want to adopt children this is their personal choice , I think that as long as they are capable of providing support for children both financially and emotionally specially, those children who are orphan he or she is really well taken care of.

Sunday 21 January 2007

What have I said?



Recently there has been a huge debate about racism in a big brother and most people claimed that this is not acceptable in our society. So I would personally like to express my view toward this situation.
Racism has existed throughout human history and has been present in many forms, but what exactly is racism? It can be defined as the hatred of one person by another or the belief that another person is less than human because of skin colour, language, customs, and nationality or any personal characteristic of an individual. This is mostly happens when people from different cultural backgrounds have disagreements with each other or make no effort to understand difference. This is exactly what occurred in big brother hose between Jade Goody and Shilpa Shetty. Jade made ‘racists’ comments saying that Shilpa should 'Go back to the slums', referring to India as a slum. In addition Shilpa herself was subjected to insults and at one point called ‘Poppadom’.
I think this is one of the form of racisms which is due to frustration because Shilpa is talented and classy person and what ever task jade is carrying whether is TV show or not she should not behave in way that harts people feelings, special where she presented herself in TV show like big brother and what jade say may offend people as well as damaging her career, Although Jade apparently didn’t mean what she said, it cannot be undone. It just remains to see if there has been any long lasting damaged caused by this incident but hopefully it will have demonstrated the need to show respect and other cultures but education ourselves.

Monday 15 January 2007

Why peace and democracy can not be developed in some countries?




Achieving peace and democracy can be difficult in many counties such as Palestinian
and Israel . This is mainly due to culture and religious . All humans are equally cultured, but at the same time we are all equally cultured in different aspects, which displays itself through cultural variety. There are many features according to the theory of anthropology that makes us different from each other. However, in case of Palestinian and Israel states both have been involved in religious and political conflicts. Although many people claim that the current conflict in Middle East is rooted to 20th century, and is infact related to the land which has been occupied by Israel over many years this is not a case the reason is that Religion and politics it suggested that should never mix. Religion is a personal choice and should never be used in regards to decision making for the whole population. If politics and religion mix the problems arise of what religions and what issues. The Jewish may want a ban on abortions. The Islamic community may want headscarves worn by all women in public. A religious person might be happy to have their religious issues as part of the state law, but this is may not work for other religions. This is exactly what America is trying to do in Palestinian and Israel. In addition to this , there are rules forced by a government which are not acceptable in religious practice such as a gay marriage this the central problem in these countries as to why the development of democratic and peace may never be established.



Monday 8 January 2007

Did he really deserve the death penalty?

As many of you would have read in the newspapers this week, Saddam Hussein, the former leader of Iraq for more than two decades, had his death sentence carried by hanging on the 30th December 2006.
The execution provoked a mixed response throughout the world, particularly in the Arab world, with Hezbolah renouncing the act and states such as Israel expressing their support.
I would personally like to express my delight that Saddam has finally received a just punishment for his crimes against humanity. Although execution and the death penalty is, perhaps, one of the ugliest aspects in any society, it is a long standing penalty for the most severe of crimes in many Islamic countries.
Saddam was a ruthless dictator who caused immense suffering to thousands of people. His crimes were so grave and numerous that no other sentence would be fitting. Perhaps he may have escaped execution, if he had shown remorse or had offered an apology to the families of those who he himself given the death penalty to.
As it stands I find it hard to argue for any lesser punishment, however, I am opposed to the way in which his sentence was carried out. I do not believe it was appropriate for his death to be filmed. Whether he was a dictator or not, no human should face be treated with such disrespect. In addition to this, the released footage has meant that the ending of his life has not put and end to his impact on the people of Iraq. His controversial statement will live on and continue to destabilise Iraq.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6243747.stm



8 January 2007



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1099005.stm


30 December 2006