Day: September 28, 2016

Following is a summary of this DailyMail article:  

[Note: March 13, 2020— The text of this article has been re-written.]

A mother of three children in Sunderland, Britain was drugged and raped by a gang of migrants on September 4, sparking violent demonstrations.

The 26 year old woman awoke in a strange house with cuts and bruises having been sexually assaulted, realizing her drink had been spiked the night before.  She managed to leave the house and get to a family member’s house at around 5am on Sunday morning.

The article reported that the police arrested six “Asian” men aged between 20 and 30, from Iraq, Syria, and Bahrain for the attack.  (The European media often refers to people of Middle Eastern decent as “Asian.”)  The men are out on bail until October 17.

The article also mentioned that “far-right” activists organized a protest for six days in the city after the attack where windows at the house where the attack took place were smashed, and the protesters clashed with counter protesters “led by the Asian community.”  Two “Asian” men were injured and five protesters were arrested for public fighting.

Following is information summarized from this Washington Post article:

Students at a Maryland high school have adopted a “gender-neutral” homecoming court, meaning it could potentially include two boys, two girls, transgender students, or a boy-girl duo.  Students in each grade will vote for two classmates from a ballot of finalists with the top vote-getters crowned during the school’s homecoming football game, regardless of gender.

Jacob Rains, president of the schoolwide Student Government Association said, “It provides an opportunity for all students to be involved in something that was exclusionary… It is really not our job, especially with a gender-neutral and transgender population at B-CC, to tell people that boys have to be kings and girls have to be queens.  Who are we to put people into those categories?”