[lbo-talk] Mark Ames uncorks

James Heartfield Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Tue Jan 25 16:18:28 PST 2011



> Question for American liberal Pollyanna Europhiles

Here's Melanie Phillips, 'Just Whose Side is Baroness Warsi on?' [a response to a speech by Britain's only Muslim in the House of Lords] http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/6633889/just-whose-side-is-baroness-warsi-on.thtml

"The fact is that, while a very high proportion of Muslims are neither extreme nor violent, the evidence suggests that a terrifying number are - either supporters of Islamic terrorism (some 2000-plus according to the security service) or those who want to live under sharia law in Britain and/or Islamise the country and its institutions (some 40 per cent-plus, according to various polls).

"In such circumstances, it's remarkable how little prejudice there is against Muslims. And it's the denial that there is any problem with any Muslims or with Islam, the refusal to halt the process of Islamising Britain and the attempts to censor and stifle discussion that really inflame people to boiling point. ...

"And that tells us everything we need to know about Baroness Warsi.

"Instead of using her unique platform to defuse extremism by telling a few home truths to the British Muslim community about its inflated and perverse sense of its own victimisation, Warsi has merely poured fuel onto the flames.

"Warsi has now outed herself as at best a stupid mouthpiece of those who are bamboozling Britain into Islamisation, and at worst a supporter of that process."



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