Posted by David on July 13, 2007, 4:18 pm, in reply to "Theodore Dalrymple and Solomon' wisdom - email to LA Times and Irish Times" gkennedy@irish-times.ie, Theodore Dalrymple's piece in today's Irish Times (via The LA Times), 'Fanaticism has real consequences for relations with Muslims', really should have began with "I'm not racist, but..." His introduction explains that the lack of violence towards British Muslims following the recent terrorist attacks is a result of either Briton's (but not British Muslims, they are different) tolerance or 'inability, or unwillingness, to make the effort to defend' themselves. A morally reprehensible cul-de-sac you would not have thought he could find his way out of. But you'd be wrong. He continues - 'we have had Somali, Pakistani, Arab, Jamaican, Algerian and British Muslim terrorists', in an excellently crafted piece of work, that shrewdly omits unfortunate elements of the story which may have forced him to actually address the question of why Britain is a target. Such as the news that one of the latest terror suspects is an Iraqi doctor. Media Sceptic, a UK based media monitoring organisation, noted that "Only 0.2% of all "terrorism" in Europe (in 2006) was "Islamist", according to new figures from Europol." In other words, it seems that, to use Mr. Dalrymple's formula, the fundamental problem is that there is an asymmetry between reality and the Europe relayed in this article. Of course what Mr. Dalrymple could not have been aware of is that being demonised and tarred with the same brush as a violent minority is not something Irish people are unfamiliar with. Yours sincerely, David Manning http://www.mediasceptic.org/blog.htm
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Thanks for that Gabriele, it does come under the title 'hate pornography'. And unfortunately it comes with such 'liberal' credentials.
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Dear Ms. Kennedy,
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