{"id":135,"date":"2008-02-24T21:06:42","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T20:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2008\/02\/24\/put_up_or_shut_up_nazir-ali"},"modified":"2008-02-24T21:06:42","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T20:06:42","slug":"put_up_or_shut_up_nazir-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2008\/02\/24\/put_up_or_shut_up_nazir-ali","title":{"rendered":"Put up or shut up, Nazir-Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Nazir-Ali (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2008\/01\/06\/why_rochester_is_not_a_nogo_ar\">[1]<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2008\/02\/02\/nazirali_complains_of_death_th\">[2]<\/a>) has been lent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2008\/02\/24\/nchurch124.xml\">yet another adulatory interview<\/a> by the Sunday Torygraph, with the same claims about death threats and one about his claim of no-go areas being &#8220;based on evidence&#8221;, but it appears that his interviewer did not press him on what that evidence was and he has still not offered any, other than the incident where Omar Brookes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/09\/21\/one_interview_two_extremists\">heckled the former Home Secretary<\/a> during a visit to Leyton in 2007, and then they only printed one part of Brooks&#8217;s sentence.<\/p>\n<p>I submitted a comment which made the point that Nazir-Ali had not addressed the complaints about his claim, namely that it&#8217;s false and that he had not bothered to offer any evidence, but free speech is not much in vogue on the Torygraph&#8217;s moderated comment box, whose editors prefer only to let readers cheer Nazir-Ali on and claim he&#8217;s the only one with the &#8220;courage&#8221; to speak the &#8220;truth&#8221; (well, except for Richard Desmond&#8217;s <em>Daily Spew<\/em>!).  And it is not as if I insulted his religion or insinuated that his mother is also his half-sister.<\/p>\n<p>Give us one single example, Nazir-Ali!  Put up or shut up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Nazir-Ali ([1], [2]) has been lent yet another adulatory interview by the Sunday Torygraph, with the same claims about death threats and one about his claim of no-go areas being &#8220;based on evidence&#8221;,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windbags"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-2b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}