Monday, November 12, 2007

Stoking the fires

Ah the good old Sunday Express if you can't get someone to make a headline worthy comment simply put words into their mouth. MUSLIM BRANDS BRITAIN ‘NAZI’ with for once quote marks appearing correctly as if you actually read the story you'll find he said

perceptions of Muslims were so negative there was a danger that people’s minds would be “poisoned as they were in the Thirties”.
and didn't use the N-word at all. Cue voxpops of people talking about fighting and defending this country against such things Good old Tory MP David Davies said
It is extraordinary that this man should be given a platform for his views
Damn straight, how dare he exercise any rights to free speech; we should set the police to monitoring him 24-hours a day, and then lock him up without charge for 28-days without charge. That'll teach him to compare our free thinking and democratic society to one that monitored its citizens and could just lock them up on the feeblest of excuses.

[Additional - I note it made it to an entire editorial in the Daily edition with pretty much the same headline and same comments]

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