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...
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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...
Mel with Anita Anand on her supporters
A snippet from Anita Anand's conversation with Melanie Phillips (hat tip: Saracen; you can listen to it here until next Monday; it's 1hr 45mins in. Anita: This is another text that's come in just...
Mad Mel’s audience
Just checking for reviews of Melanie Phillips' new book, and came across this, on Amazon … the details of what people who bought Londonistan also bought. Bawer, Fallaci, Robert Spencer, Andrew Bostom, Bat Eeyore...
Mad Mel soundbite (and book hold-up)
Melanie Phillips has latched onto the Inayat Bunglawala / Little Green Footballs controversy in her usual way, with a reference to "the truly demented ‘Zionist conspiracy’ theory emanating from Londonistan (Charles isn’t even a...
Yellow star lie debunked
In case anyone came in having recently read Melanie Phillips' diary where the writer has still not bothered to delete or amend her most recent entry which repeats a false report from the Canadian...
Communists for freedom at Conway Hall
Yesterday evening there was a meeting held by the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association, at which Peter Tatchell (OutRage), Ali Hilli (OutRage’s Middle East spokesman) and Houzan Mahmoud of the so-called Organisation of Women’s Freedom of Iraq spoke.
Crocodile tears for Ayaan
With Ayaan Hirsi Magan’s resignation after the exposure of her asylum grounds as largely false and her Dutch citizenship now in serious doubt, the hypocritical crocodile tears are beginning to flow in large numbers. Robert Spencer calls it “persecution”, the immigration minister Rita Verdonk “lamentable” and the politicians involved “despicable, black-hearted Dutch dhimmis” who “evidently want to take the greatest stateman they have produced in this age and send her back to Somalia and certain death”. Melanie Phillips talks of the Dutch being “in the throes of a pathological moral convulsion” and her downfall “a development that shames the Dutch people and should strike a chill throughout the rest of dhimmi Europe”.
Ayaan Hirsi jumps before she’s pushed
Belfast Telegraph: MP may be deported over claims she lied to win asylum (also here) A Dutch TV documentary has alleged that Ayaan Hirsi Ali told a number of lies in order to gain...
The vast left-wing conspiracy
Something I'd been meaning to blog on as part of my "Melanie Phillips soundbite of the week" series, now that she's started blogging again, but Stuart Jeffries in today's Guardian has pretty much beaten...
On Phyllis Chesler and Jack ‘n’ Condi
This Tuesday I found [an interview](http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1746131,00.html) in the Guardian with the American “feminist” Phyllis Chesler, whose recent output – much of it on [Front Page Magazine](http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/authors.asp?ID=1947) – seems to consist of attacks on Muslims...
Shoddy Joe Kaufman cuts my work out for me
Last week Joe Kaufman posted to FrontPageMag.com an article regarding a resolution passed by the Student Government at the University of South Florida which supported the dismissal of Sami al-Arian, recently acquitted on terrorist...
Melanie Phillips soundbite of the week (3)
I was going to blog this clanger in Mad Mel's latest diary entry, but PhobeWatch and Saracen beat me to it. This is Mel excoriating "Britain's man of straw", the man MPACUK wanted to...
Another weekend, another rally
Yesterday there was another rally in London’s Trafalgar Square: this time at the end of a so-called “March for Free Expression” at which a gaggle of people assembled to hear speeches defending people’s right...
Melanie Phillips soundbite of the week (2)
In response to the civil union in the Netherlands involving a man and two women, Mad Mel wonders where all this liberalisation is leading us: [Charles] Krauthammer, however, sees all these developments merely as...
Neo-cons, Muslims and ‘last men’
Douglas Murray, author of the Social Affairs Unit’s Neoconservatism: Why We Need It, recently made a speech at the Pim Fortuyn Memorial Lecture on the topic “What Are We To Do About Islam?”. This...
Melanie Phillips soundbite of the week
In the style of the "Donald Rumsfeld soundbite of the week" the BBC's Broadcasting House programme used to have on a Sunday, in which the public was left to laugh at Dumbsfeld tripping over...
Telegraph clarifies “Ban Qur’an” call
The Sunday Telegraph today published a letter from Abdul-Haqq Bewley (eighth letter down, "Most Muslims in Britain have conservative values") regarding the remarks Patrick Sookhdeo made regarding his and his wife's translation of the...
Iranian dissidents force cancellation of meeting
Yesterday I came across an article at Harry's Place relating an incident in which a pro-Iranian London lecturer, Elaheh Rostami, addressed a Stop the War meeting along with Haifa Zangana (an Iraqi author whose...
Hockney, smoke and stupidity
There are three letters in today's Guardian attacking David Hockney, pop artist nowadays noted for his campaign against smoking bans in public places where people have to work. The letters are in response to...