Melanie Phillips: Liar or Ignoramus?
Mad Mel's Diary: the "War Against the West" Mel comments on the King Fahad Academy controversy, in which a sacked former teacher accuses the school of teaching from a textbook which makes some unflattering...
Category: Windbags
Ayaan’s all over the place
Ayaan Hirsi Magan’s been all over the media like a rash this past week, with a series of adulatory articles and soft interviews. Nobody seems to be willing to take her up on her ludicrous claims that, for example, “the 74 per cent of Muslims under 24 who said in a survey that women should wear the veil and want Sharia law to be introduced have gone for the consistency that Bin Laden offers”, which appears in this Metro interview today.
Anti-Muslim bigot goes into the oil biz
The BBC reports that an outfit calling itself the "Terror Free Oil Initiative" has set up a filling station in Omaha, Nebraska, touting oil not imported from countries which "support terror" – meaning just...
Is Ken really the man for this job?
In a couple of weeks' time there will be a conference in London, "A World Civilisation or a Clash of Civilisations", featuring a long list of speakers including Ken Livingstone (the mayor of London),...
Zeyno Baran ‘fabricating exclusivity’
There's a letter in this week's Newsweek refuting the claim by Zeyno Baran in last week's edition that there is a 50-50 likelihood of a coup in Turkey in the coming year (see this...
Rats out, roaches in as Nazis try to butter up Jews
There is a letter in the current edition of the Jewish Chronicle, the "establishment" paper of the British Jewish community, from Alan Goodacre defending the British National Party from this article by Melanie Phillips...
Mad Mel repeats blood libel
Apparently unaware of the irony of perpetuating a racial libel when she routinely refers to attacks on Israeli military practices as "blood libels", Melanie Phillips reproduces this appalling smear against the British from one...
Aftab Malik on Schwartz’s defamations
Over at www.Mas'ud Khan's blog, Aftab Ahmad Malik (of Amal Press tears apart a recent article by the infamous Stephen Schwartz in which he once again airs his vendetta against Shaikh Hamza Yusuf, accusing...
Moral Maze fails to rebut Mel’s misrepresentations
This week the BBC's panel discussion programme The Moral Maze discussed the issue of religious symbols, in a week following not only the infamous niqab debate but also an incident where a flight attendant...
Woolas: “appease the far right!”
A junior minister, David Woolas, has offered his two-pennyworth on the niqab controversy in today's Sunday Mirror, not online, by suggesting that it could play into the hands of the far right: "It can...
Open season on Muslims
It seems to have been open season on Muslims in the media the last few days, with three inflammatory anti-Muslim stories becoming front page news in either the morning or the evening papers in as many days. First it was the Pc Bashar story, which turns out to have been exaggerated anyway, but nonetheless made the front pages of the tabloids and was the lead story on Vanessa Feltz’s phone-in, with the host branding it “pick-and-mix policing”. Then there was the “Jack Straw on veiling” controversy, and then the petty incident of the Muslim cab driver who refused to carry a blind woman with a guide dog.
Sookhdeo on terrorism and Islamic schools
This afternoon someone from the Evening Standard sent me a copy of an article the paper had printed by the infamous Patrick Sookhdeo, an apostate given to writing inflammatory and inaccurate articles about Islam...
Spectator refuse my “poem”
A week or so ago, in response to Stephen Schwartz's screed in the Spectator, I wrote the magazine a letter as well as the article I posted here. The editor decided to print two...
Britain’s “unique problem” according to Schwartz
While one Uncle Tom denounces us for not tolerating Qadianis in the New Statesman, another denounces much of the Islamic scholarly community in the Spectator, the main political magazine of the British right. Stephen...
Pipes makes terrorist out of drifter
Daniel Pipes, in a comment on the recent Seattle shootings in the New York Sun (on his web site), makes some really absurd leaps of the imagination in order to portray the incident as...
Liddle attacks Alton Muslim day
Rod Liddle has dedicated his “Liddle Britain” column this week in the Spectator (free registration required, but paywalled after a week) to slagging off the upcoming “Muslim day” at Alton Towers, the leisure park in the English Midlands, organised by Islamic Leisure. Liddle obviously thinks the reason this event is taking place is because Muslims don’t like rubbing shoulders with non-Muslims
New Statesman slanders Dr Quick, boosts Hargey
This week’s New Statesman (the first I’ve had through the door on a now ended subscription offer of £4.80 for three months) has on its front page a feature marking the anniversary of the 7th July bombings last year. There are two long articles, one by Shiv Malik (yep, him again) on the background of the bomber Shazad Tanweer and one by Ziauddin Sardar (yep, him again) on young British Muslims. Laughably Shiv’s feature is entitled The Suicide Bomber in his own words, which refers to the personal statement on his UCAS (university application) form that he’s managed to get hold of. Depressingly, as I noted last year when writing about political magazine coverage of the bombings, these two were the only voices within the community the NS could find, with Shiv concentrating on Hizbut-Tahreer, which had nothing to do with the bombings.
Spencer, the NDU scholars, the securocrat and his books
Robert Spencer today posted to his blog *Jihad Watch* [a memo](http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/011960.php) by one LTC Joseph C. Myers, Senior Army Advisor at Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, in reply to [an article](http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jun2006/20060622_5489.html) on...
Mad Mel in the Guardian
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Jackie Ashley meets Melanie Phillips I'm sure some of you are getting sick to death with this and wondering if I have an infatuation with Melanie Phillips, but...
Simon Heffer on “Londonistan” (with replies)
Simon Heffer has written what amounts to a puff piece for Melanie Phillips' book Londonistan in the Daily Telegraph, alleging among other things that Phillips had difficulty "exercising her freedom of speech" on account...