Thursday 19 April 2012

Islamophobia in Wales, or ...

... might it be an undercurrent of xenophobia that runs throughout the psych of these green and pleasant lands.

The story is about a family that wish to build a mizaar (mizar) to mark the last resting place of his father Abdul who was buried 100 yards from the family home after permission was granted by the Registrar of Births and Deaths.

What is a mizar, originally "the small mountain" seems to have been mentioned in Psalm 42,Islam must have borrowed a little from Judaism here, it goes ...
6My soul is downcast within me;
 therefore I will remember you
 from the land of the Jordan,
 the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.  
... but now traditionally the Islamic rich list might build something like ....


The Alexander Chock ...




... and if reports are right, I am guessing the family of Abdul Ghaffar might like something along these lines, after all, history is a landscape littered with the idiosyncrasies of mankind ...

The Beacon at Staunton Country Park ...


... unfortunately for this family of Wales another family of Wales, joint 6th in the "100 richest Welsh people" list, is objecting, another from the locale wrote ...
"It won't fit into the local countryside. It will be an eyesore which people will be able to see for miles around. People are concerned it will affect the value of their property – some of the wealthiest people in Wales live nearby."
... by that token the monument would be OK if it was located in a sink estate, "where the poorest people in Wales live".


Going back to my original question ...
Islamophobia in Wales, or might it be an undercurrent of xenophobia that runs throughout the psych of these green and pleasant lands.
The answer is of course "No", but there are those who believe they should be treated with a certain deference by virtue of their wealth .............


... was it Honoré de Balzac who said "behind great wealth is a great crime", in this case the crime of "The Emperor's New Clothes", the vanity that wealth brings to a few of such little character they would object to a tomb !


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