Some time ago, right-wing hack Mad Mel wrote a review of Ed Husain’s The Islamist. Husain had upset some Muslims with his book and positive reviews from the likes of anti-Muslim bigots like Mad Mel didn’t help.
But now that Ed Husain and the Quilliam Foundation (of which Husain is a prominent member) have criticised Israel’s policies of disproportionate bombing and starving Gaza, Mad Mel is furious.
The government has spent (or pledged to spend) significant sums to ensure the banking sector does not collapse. We’ve been paying subsidies to wealthy landowners for years. We prop up the arms trade through from our taxation. Corporate tax avoidance costs the country ‘billions’.
Yet, the current economic and financial climate inspires David Cameron to take a great big dump on… the less well off and those in need.
Such is politics in these (those) Isles.
(Via Liberal Conspiracy.)
More news from Silvio Berlusconi’s superior civilisation: Two senior, right-wing, politicians have ‘expressed sympathy for Mussolini’s rule’.
(Although to be fair to Italians, this is also happening in Italy: “Senior cleric berates attitudes to immigrants and poor”.)
This is Silvio Berlusconi’s superior civilisation: A Northern League politician is to attend an “anti-Islam congress”. The Northern League is part of the current right-wing government in Italy. The Searchlight report adds that the politician in question, Mario Borghezio, once shouted at a public meeting: “no to immigrant shits, no to Muslims who are f***ing up our schools” and that the attendence of the politician is “probably intended as a slap in the face to the European Commission for Human Rights, which in a recent memorandum (CommDH 2008-18) accused the Italian government of virtual collusion in the xenophobic and racist trend that has taken a turn for the worse with the continuing attacks against immigrants and Roma people”.
Politicians from the anti immigrant Northern League (part of Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right government) want to ban Muslims from a proposed multifaith prayer centre based in a palace founded by Crusaders.
Listen from the BBC World Service.
Booman Tribune notes The Daily Telegraph’s role in pushing pro-war propaganda during the Bush years.
This should not be surprising. Even Martin Newland, a former editor of the paper, noted back in 2004:
Barbara Amiel is the wife of the disgraced former owner of the Telegraph Conrad Black. More important to Booman’s observations of the Telegraph’s role as a conduit for propoganda is Dean Godson — his activities have been detailed by Spinwatch.
Update: More from Septic Isle.
A controversial mosque in the Italian city of Milan is to be shut down, the country’s right-wing government says.
Alison Ruoff, who has previously called for a halt to mosque building in Britain, says homosexuality and women bishops are minor problems compared with the threat to the church and the nation from Islam. She added that:
“The church is sleepwalking into an Islamic state. Hopefully we can unite against it.”
The Archbishop of Sydney, Peter Jensen, noted that:
“All around the world, the sleeping giant of orthodox Anglicanism has been awoken.”
Ronald Dworkin, in his new boook The Supreme Court Phalanx, argues that Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas are “guided not by political ideology or conservative judicial principle but rather by “partisan, cultural, and perhaps religious allegiance,” and disdain tradition, precedent, even careful legal reasoning.”
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