Round-up

1. Peru cafe closed, fined after racism complaints

2. Part of the cosmetics giant L'Oréal was yesterday found guilty of racial discrimination after it sought to exclude non-white women from promoting its shampoo.

I can see why L'Oreal might do this. It's all about aesthetics and wanting a particular image for your product. There is nothing bad in itself with wanting white-only women to promote their products on the basis of the image of the company. But as we've seen here it can go too far, to the point of what does seem genuine racism ("damn Arabs"). When you have to go to such lengths as deception in order to turn down non-white applicants, that's gone too far.

3. Patients at an Australian hospital have refused to be treated by Indian doctors after a couple of them were arrested in connection with the recent terrorist plots.

This is just stupid. The problem itself is not "Indian doctors" in the first place - it is Muslim doctors. Of course, that does not mean that patients should discriminate against all Muslim doctors either, but at least if they were discriminating under those pretexts I would be able to understand their suspicion.