24 January 2011

What kind of dinner parties do you go to, Baroness? [-]

.... Most of us just think anyone who wears a burka in Britain is barking mad and wonder why someone who so utterly rejects our society and our liberal values would want to live here. Surely they would be much happier in Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan.

It’s instructive that in all the TV footage of the unrest in devoutly Muslim Tunisia, there hasn’t been a burka in sight.

Sayeeda even has a pop at the media, accusing us of dividing ­Muslims into ‘moderates’ and ‘extremists’. In a sense, she’s right. It is impossible to write about Islamic terrorism without including prominently a caveat about ‘the vast majority of peace-loving Muslims’.

Newspapers bend over backwards to distance the headbangers from mainstream British Muslims. It’s good manners, as well as good business. [21 Jan. MailOnline] Read more