However, the ferocious attacks on Melanie Phillips and some of the blogs appended thereto, which you have highlighted, is absolutely appalling. Do the British people live in cloud cuckoo land? Do they not realize even after so many uncovered terrorist plots, which mercifully did not reach fruition, that the UK as a modern Western liberal democratic society is a target for Islamic extremists?

Down here in Sleepy Hollow, educating the public is an important but difficult task. A friend of mine who writes on terrorism considers that the great Australian public will not be roused from their stupor until we experience a 9/11 or a 7/7. There have been to several major terrorist trials and half the judiciary appears to believe that putative terrorists are somehow victims. Melanie Phillips does her best to expose these people for what they are and we are the richer for her comment. The sad fact of the matter is that multiculturalism is doomed to failure when you permit a hostile counterculture to exist in your midst, whose sworn aim is nothing less than the destruction of all the freedoms fought for over centuries, such as parliamentary democracy (however bad that may be) freedom of speech, freedom of worship and so on. We share the Judeo-Christian ethic and as such, Al Qaeda and allied organizations have declared war on us: not just the US but every Western country that regards itself as democratic.

Melanie Phillips does not need me to rise in her defence but as the saying goes, the only necessary thing for the triumph of tyranny is that good men remain silent. In my own way, I’m certainly not silent and I appreciate your efforts in trying to roll back what appears to be a horrible tsunami to be visited on our populations.

Someone I know – an ethical journalist – said that if anyone wanted to break al-Grauniad then the best way to do it is to find enough money to buy Auto Trader, which bankrolls it.

If the Guardian was sued by Jews and lost, then said Jews could undermine the stereotype you refer to by donating what they had been awarded to charity.

The Guardian as an institution is a short term problem anyway. It’s going bust.

For the Guardian, fiction is preferable if it promotes tolerance – at least for Muslims. Ironically, fiction is also preferable if it promotes hatred for the Jewish state (AIPAC, carpet bombing, etc.).

To the Guardian, the fact that 50% of the conflicts involve Muslims just shows how pervasively the west has meddled into the affairs of the third world. Its not their fault.

Well, how’s this:

I feel like being as paranoid as Whitaker and, as part of the joke I propose my own “hidden hand” conspiracy with al-Grauniad and CiF at its centre. Just as Whitaker actually believes that those who run this site are paid agents of the Israeli government, I feel entitled believe that Whitaker is a plant from Hizb-ut-Tahrir and that he, Henry and Seaton are affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood as are most if not all of the moderators, including Bella M.

Only this can explain the increasingly anti-Jewish/anti-Israel and pro-Muslim bent of CiF. And sometimes the truth is stranger than we think…… :~)))

Any comment along these lines will get you banned:

According to the NSA, 50% of the world’s known terrorist groups are Islamic, no other religion comes close.

Mohammed assassinated his political opponents and allowed his followers to lie to achieve this.

Mohammed had 600 Jews beheaded at Medina market.

Mohammed annihilated the 3 Jewish tribes of Arabia.

The Koran has a unique theological idea called abrogation, where the earlier more peaceful verses, written in Mecca, are superceded by the more violent verses written in Medina.

All of these are easily checkable facts, but they don’t fit the narrative of Muslims are innocent, so they are banned. Guardian writers don’t seem to read any books criticising Islam, or even the Koran for that matter.

Well, you can see the attitude of some of the anti Israel posters who consider the rocket attacks against Israeli citizens as little more than large firecrackers. Additionally, no terrorist organization deserves a blank check on terrorist activities because they’re technologically disadvantaged, thus Cast Lead was inevitable (and right). I also pull for the underdog – in sports, not killing.

Thanks.

Now however the use of the deceitful “(belligerent) occupation” is so predominant that I think you’d have to produce the history every time you used “territories”.

No attack: interesting comment.

A right-wing blogger you might not like says that if you refer to the “West Bank” rather than “Judea and Samaria” then you should refer to Jerusalem as “al-Quds” since you are promoting the Arab imperialist nomenclature.

Please don’t shoot the messenger!