Comments on: Mad Mel’s audience

By: FGFM

FGFM — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:35:00 +0000

I posted a little clip of Mel ranting about British women supposedly throwing themselves at Muslim men. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmnopQWgCyg

By: Bilal Patel

Bilal Patel — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:08:15 +0000

I find it ironic that she goes on about British identity, when she herself has an Israeli passport and is a mouthpiece for the zionist state. If she is so worried about British identity, then she should berate herself and those British Jews like herself who hold two passports and treat Britain as a resource to be used to fight for their ideological racism in the Middle East.

By: Saracen

Saracen — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:40:11 +0000

She made an appearance on Anita Anand's show last night on Radio Five Live. You can listen here (till next Monday): http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/fivelive_aod.shtml?fivelive/anita_mon Fast forward to 1hr 45mins. Same old rubbish really.

By: George Carty

George Carty — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:33:55 +0000

You may be interested in this criticism of Bat Ye'or...

By: Bikhair aka Taqiyyah

Bikhair aka Taqiyyah — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:23:02 +0000

Yusf,

BTW brother if you want to know about the name change, and I havent told you already, I can. I think you know my outrageous antics by now.

By: Bikhair aka Taqiyyah

Bikhair aka Taqiyyah — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:21:45 +0000

Dr. M

“…late Maronite terrorist Gemayal..”

Not to mention an admirer of Hitler and Nazism. Hajj Amin Hussein wasnt the only one visiting you know who in Berlin. Dont tell anyone though.

By: DrM

DrM — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:25:57 +0000

Celal, I believe the late Edward Said did a refutation of Bat Yeor aka Giselle Littman back in the early 90s, but I cant remember where. Historians dont take her seriously because they know her background and political affiliation. You hear one jewish fanatic, you’ve heard them all. She claims that the late Maronite terrorist Gemayal came up with that silly word “dhimmitude.”

By: Celal

Celal — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:08:11 +0000

“Bat Eeyore”

Nice one. I like it.

While it is difficult to refute (haven’t seen anyone attempt it) the examples she lifts from the historical record, her book only offers a heavily one-sided picture of the treatment of Jews and Christians in Islamic culture and, therefore, to that extent it is an untrue picture.

By: George Carty

George Carty — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:50:10 +0000

I wonder if there is some co-ordinated campaign by the American conservative movement to buy up huge quantities of right wing books in order to boost their chart ratings.

I think the reason why the English people lack a national identity is that they have been too successful. The British Empire (and its former possession, the United States) have been so hegemonically successful that in many cases items of English culture (eg the collar and tie for work, the English language) have become items of global culture, no longer connected explicitly with England.

Another factor is that many countries base their national identity on unity against foreign oppressors. However, no part of the Anglosphere (except the Southern United States) has ever been conquered and occupied at any time since the Unification of the Crowns. The United States has solved the problem by becoming an ideological state, while the legacy of Empire provides a basis for Australian/Canadian/New Zealand national identity. However, the imperial legacy has become increasingly denigrated in Britain itself.

By: Shamil

Shamil — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:19:05 +0000

On the same note is anyone else getting sick of hearing Haleh Afsar representing muslim issues.

She comes across as barely literate and knowing very little about the subject matter.