Former Lib Dem MP Hornsey & Wood Green, Minister in coalition, originator and architect of same sex marriage law. Peer. Book: Equal Ever After.

United Kingdom
Joined March 2008
Lynne Featherstone retweeted
Since 1948, the population of Jews in Muslim countries has gone from approximately 1,000,000 to around 30,000. Since 1948, the population of Muslims in Jewish countries has gone from about 156,000 to around 2,000,000. Who’s guilty of apartheid and ethnic cleansing?
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Lynne Featherstone retweeted
We Muslims need to be honest with ourselves. Right now, a lot of the world sees us as a problem. And our attitude isn't helping. We demand respect, but we don't give any. We get offended by everything, from a song to a Christmas tree. We move to other people's countries, then complain they don't live like us. We lose an argument, and we start cursing. Then we cry that the world hates Muslims. The world doesn't hate Islam. It's tired of us.
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Lynne Featherstone retweeted
I rarely do this… But @Shearings you are a disgrace. My in-laws, in their 70s, spend their pension on a holiday with you in St Ives …and this is where you sent them?! My father-in-law has Parkinson’s too - so well done for stressing him out. And my mother-in-law cried on the phone to you asking for a full refund And YOU REFUSED?!
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Lynne Featherstone retweeted
BBC report adds more horrendous detail to the fall of el-Fasher with all the hallmarks of a genocide. There is still no sign of resolution for the Sudanese people. The UK is penholder for Sudan on the UN Security Council; I will continue to urge Ministers that there must be a Sudan-wide arms embargo and to call out state actors who are arming the belligerents in this deadly conflict. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c54g…
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Lynne Featherstone retweeted
An 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old brother were flying down a snowy hill on an inflatable sled when they lost control and shot straight onto an icy pond. Their parents could only watch and scream as the sled broke through the ice and both children ended up in the freezing water. The kids were terrified, shaking and unable to get themselves back to shore. That’s when five teenage boys nearby heard the commotion and ran toward the pond. 14-year-old Kieran Foley went into the water first while his friends linked together behind him, forming a human chain so the children could be passed safely back toward shore. The mud was so thick it sucked Kieran’s boots off, but he kept going barefoot through the freezing water. He reached 4-year-old RJ first, passed him back through the line, then turned around and went back for his 8-year-old sister Olivia. Together, the boys got both children safely back to their parents. These teenagers were only 14 and 15 years old, but when two little kids went through the ice, they didn’t hesitate. They formed a human chain and went in after them. Those are the types of teenagers the internet should be talking about.
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Lynne Featherstone retweeted
This morning, Islamist gunmen entered a church and slaughtered over a half dozen Christians in Jordan. MTG? Silent. Carrie Prejean? Silent. Tucker Carlson? Silent.
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Lynne Featherstone retweeted
Muslims, let's stop lying to ourselves. Most Muslim countries are not tolerant of other religions. In Saudi Arabia, a Christian can't build a single church. In Pakistan, mobs burned more than 20 churches in one day in Jaranwala over a blasphemy rumour. In Iran, Baha'is are barred from university just for what they believe. Meanwhile the UK has nearly 2,000 mosques, and nobody is burning them down. We demand tolerance everywhere we're the minority. Then refuse to give it everywhere we're the majority. That's not faith. That's hypocrisy.
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Lynne Featherstone retweeted
BREAKING: New footage shows the moment Islamists entered a church in Jordan and began slaughtering worshippers. Six have been confirmed dead, with dozens more injured.
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Lynne Featherstone retweeted
Report: Israeli intelligence shared with the US that terror group Hamas has no plans to disarm, has rebuilt its tunnel system, restored its pre-October 7, 2023, force levels of 30,000 to 40,000 terrorists, and has reimposed full governance over Gaza. And now Hamas has made its intentions explicit. Last week, Hamas officials met with the UN humanitarian coordinator in Gaza - and used the meeting to deliver a direct threat to Israel: they are prepared to carry out another October 7, 2023-style attack, inside Israel, in the West Bank/Judea and Samaria, and abroad, wherever an opportunity arises. Israeli officials described the warning as “unusually explicit and severe.” While the world pressures Israel to make concessions - Hamas is rebuilding, rearming, and promising to do it again.
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Replying to @HaveATruBlood
When Islamists start a war, they call it Jihad. When they start losing the war, they call it genocide. 🤣🤣🤣
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Lynne Featherstone retweeted
Une famille juive nommée Karnofsky, qui a émigré de Lituanie aux États-Unis, a eu pitié d'un garçon de 7 ans et l'a accueilli chez elle. Là, il séjourna et passa la nuit dans cette maison familiale juive, où, pour la première fois de sa vie, il fut traité avec gentillesse et tendresse. Lorsqu'il se couchait, Mme Karnovski lui chantait des berceuses russes, qu'il chantait avec elle. Plus tard, il apprit à chanter et à jouer diverses chansons russes et juives. Au fil du temps, ce garçon est devenu le fils adoptif de cette famille. M. Karnofsky lui a donné de l'argent pour acheter son premier instrument de musique, comme c'était la coutume dans les familles juives. Plus tard, lorsqu'il devint musicien et compositeur professionnel, il utilisa ces mélodies juives dans des compositions telles que St. James's Hospital et Go Down Moses. Le garçon a grandi et a écrit un livre sur cette famille juive qui l’a adopté en 1907. Et il parlait couramment le yiddish avec fierté. En mémoire de cette famille et jusqu'à la fin de sa vie, il a porté l'étoile de David et a déclaré que dans cette famille il avait appris « à vivre une vraie vie et avec détermination ». Le nom de ce petit garçon était Louis Armstrong. Ce petit garçon s'appelait Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong. Louis Armstrong parlait fièrement couramment le yiddish et « Satchmo » signifie en yiddish « grosses joues », un surnom que certains disent que Mme Karnofsky lui a donné !
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Lynne Featherstone retweeted
The world is looking away from a modern-day slaughter, and the silence is deafening. ​While the cameras capture headlines elsewhere, thousands of innocent believers are being systematically hunted, slaughtered, and erased. In Nigeria, entire villages are reduced to ashes overnight. Children and families are dragged into the shadows, held hostage, their cries swallowed by an indifferent world. ​Where is the outrage? Where are the trending tags for them? ​Reverend Ezekiel Dachomo stood in the public square, raised his voice against the slaughter of his people, and days later walked back into the graveyard to bury his own church members and family. That is the reality of the persecuted church right now: preach on Sunday, bury your flock by Tuesday. ​They have faced the blade, but they will not surrender their faith. Do not let their blood be spilled in total obscurity. ​Break the silence. Share this. Stand in the gap and intercede with God for Reverend Ezekiel Dachomo and the broken, unyielding church of Nigeria. 🙏💔🕊️ ​#PersecutedChurch #PrayForNigeria #NigeriaMassacre #StandWithBelievers #RevEzekielDachomo #SilentGenocide #FaithUnderFire
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Lynne Featherstone retweeted
Why the hell is no one talking about the slaughter of Christians in Nigeria? More than 3,000 members of one pastor’s congregation have been brutally murdered. Where’s the media coverage?
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Lynne Featherstone retweeted
Lebanon was Christian. Syria was Christian. Iraq was Christian. Jordan was Christian. Turkey was Christian. Egypt was Christian. Libya was Christian. Tunisia was Christian. Algeria was Christian. Something must have happened to change all that🤔
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Lynne Featherstone retweeted
Replying to @KenRoth
One more time
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Myriam was a 7-year-old French Jewish girl. She witnessed a terrorist break into her school and kill two of her classmates. She tried to run but tripped while grabbing her schoolbag, causing her ballet slippers to fall out. She stopped to pick them up. He chased her and grabbed her by the hair, shooting her in the head at point-blank range. The man was Mohamed Merah, and a rap song honoring him and other Muslim terrorists has become the unofficial anthem of the ‘student protests’ in France.
🚨 ALERTE - Des élèves ONT BLOQUÉ le lycée François Villon, à Beaugency (45), en écoutant MRH, un titre faisant référence à des TERRORISTES ISLAMISTES. « À la Mohamed Merah, v-esqui' les caméras. Bataclan, je l'ai shooter à l'œil, chasse à l'homme, Salah Abdeslam » « J’ai pas peur, j’ai pas peur de l’enfer, le pacte est intact, à part Allah qui peut m’arrêter. Bataclan, faisaient les morts, allongez-vous, je vais en shooter à l’œil ».
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Lynne Featherstone retweeted
To share this clip of @mehdirhasan is Islamophobic.
Mehdi Hasan calls all non-Muslims animals and cattle. It would be a shame if this went viral.
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Lynne Featherstone retweeted
Below is a video of Sam Beckman who spat at and showed the finger to a statue of the murdered MP Sir David Amess. The pro-Palestinian lives in Westcliff-On-Sea in Essex, let's make him famous.
The pro-Palestinian scumbag who spat on Sir David Amess’s statue is Sam Beckman from Westcliff-on-Sea. He changed his account name the first time he was exposed. "The best of humanity,” according to many politicians, including Labour MPs.
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Lynne Featherstone retweeted
Responding to a terrorist attack, is not “genocide”. Hunting and butchering people at a music festival, is. Warning civilians of a pending attack, giving them time to evacuate, is not “genocide”. Planning to send 6,000 rockets aimed at civilians, is. Targeting hospitals and schools that combatants are using for military purposes, such as storage/firing of weapons, and hideouts for terrorists, is not “genocide”. Targeting fields where children are playing football/soccer, is. Protecting your citizens from attacks, and doing everything possible to rescue hostages when they’re taken by terrorists, is not “genocide”. Setting up rocket launchers inside of schools and hospitals, in order to draw fire from your enemy at innocent civilians to make your enemy look bad, is. In an effort to make Israel look bad, the word “genocide” has been tossed around a lot since Oct 7 – even before Israel responded to the massacre. When you look at the actions of the two sides, only one side’s actions can be construed to be genocidal. And it’s not Israel.
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This should be front page news in Ireland said no Irish journalist ever. @HMcEntee @MichealMartinTD ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Hamas threatens another Oct. 7-style attack on Israel in unprecedented warning Hamas warned Israel through a UN envoy that it is prepared to launch another Oct. 7-style attack, targeting Israel, Judea and Samaria and abroad; The un... ynetnews.com/article/rjfvohi…
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