.... But then I turned to the Daily Mail and, specifically, to Melanie Phillips. The headline?
"While Muslim sexual predators have been jailed, it is white Britain's hypocritical values that are to blame".
My first response? Can you imagine a headline that said, "While Jewish murderers have been jailed . . ." or "While Hindu bank robbers have been jailed . . ."? When was it that we first started classifying crimes and criminals by religious affiliation?
Phillips, of course, has long suffered from a sort of Muslims Tourette's syndrome -- she refers to Muslims 18 times in her column today. [New Statesman] Read more
