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Top tweets: #TraditionallySubmissive

David Cameron recently attacked Muslim women. He apparently said the "traditional submissiveness of Muslim women" is a cause of terrorism. His answer was English language training - which his government has cut the funding for. More detail on Cameron's latest racist efforts in our editorial.

Nabeela Zahir @NabeelaZahir

British Muslim women responding to Cameron's recent comments #TraditionallySubmissive (tweets are in English by the way)

Shelina [email protected]

My four-year-old girl asked me why @David_Cameron is closing libraries: "Doesn't he know books make you clever?" She's not #TraditionallySubmissive

Asmaa Malik @asmaam

My mom was so #TraditionallySubmissive she left home to go to med school in 1960s Pakistan. Thanks her, I'm a journalist and a professor

Karueein University, photo by @JamillaTweets (Twitter)   (Click to enlarge)

Jamilla @JamillaTweets

The University of Karueein (pic above), the oldest in the world. Founded by a Muslim woman. #TraditionallySubmissive

Sofia Ahmed @sofiaahmed1

My earliest memory as a child was watching my #TraditionallySubmissive mother protect us from getting beaten up by racists

In this issue

Socialist Party news and analysis

Housing: smash the Tory wrecking bill

Davos summit: a broken capitalist system

Google pays pittance for avoiding £2bn tax

Red doors and wristbands scandal

Steelworkers may face benefit cut-off for not seeking bar jobs

Oscars snub black artists: fight racism and austerity in the arts

Labour councillor smears TUSC policy as 'BNP'

Them & Us

Top tweets: #TraditionallySubmissive

Teachers under attack

Teaching: a perfect storm is brewing

Teachers need national strategy for a national struggle

A day in the life of a teacher and mother

International socialist news and analysis

New wave of protests in Tunisia

India: student death exposes caste oppression

What we think

Tories 'Prevent' civil liberties

Council cuts and the fight in Labour

Labour councillor suspended for fighting cuts

Dave Nellist's byelection appeal to Jeremy Corbyn: 'let's discuss how to fight the cuts'

Labour election post-mortem: nothing to report!

The dark arts of Labour's right

Councillors must fight to defend our services

'People's budgets' and local democracy

Lewisham: no backsliding in council cuts fight!

Workplace news and analysis

"I have left work many times in tears" - a council worker

Trade union bill will stretch resources and limit action

Birmingham teachers strike to resist academy attack

24-hour tube strike suspended

Care services under threat in Haringey

Workplace news in brief

Readers' comment

The end for deep coal mining jobs in Britain

Obituary: Dean Meehan 1962-2016

Letters

Socialist Party reports and campaigns

Protesting against closure of Huddersfield A&E

Coventry children's services closure protest

New Socialist Party branch fights against St Austell austerity

Socialist Party discusses the fight for socialism

Socialist Students bake-off

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Related links:

Muslim women:

Johnson's burqa outburst highlights racist Tory hypocrisy

France: Burkini ban fuels division

Letters

Tories 'Prevent' civil liberties

Muslim:

India: Modi victory underlines need for real socialist fightback

Sri Lanka: No to terrorist bombing

China: police state in Xinjiang under global spotlight

Newcastle anti-fascist demo

Women:

New law ignores economic barriers to escaping domestic abuse

The Socialist Inbox

Childcare in crisis: A socialist solution

Racist:

USA: cop killings and the anti-racist movement

Swansea BLM protest against racist police brutality

David Cameron:

Greensill scandal, Corruption ... Build a socialist alternative