Homage To Catatonia

As a footnote to my recent pieces on the evil of Izlam I just note that people who are quick to anger as muslims clearly are, are surely contravening a principle that most religions teach as a fundamental,namely the exertion of self control.It is observable that Christians do not react to provocation when their faith is being routinely assaulted by all and sundry.They keep a dignified counsel and the idea that they would threaten the ridiculers of their faith with violence let alone death would be unthinkable.And yet these violent hysterical juvenile paroxysms of rage in response to every slight - real or imagined - against their prophet convey the distinct impression that muslims doubt their own beliefs and are not confident in the verity of their professed religion.(Small wonder!)Dignity and grace are surely the lodestars of any religion worthy of respect and yet in this basic fundamental and rudimentary precondition of faith Izlam is singularly and starkly lacking.

These are my beliefs and if you don't respect them I will kill you is hardly the response of a civilised man and yet this is the default position of Izlam to any criticism and that being so it is the reason I do not believe Izlam has any place in the civilized world and should be banished to the outer reaches of the earth.

What lapse of journalistic judgement it was for the BBC radio 4 to invite an Izlamist on to the Today programme who refused outright to condemn the imposition of death threats directed towards any purveyors of anti Izlamic sentiment in the media despite all the legendary persistence of John Humphries to extract it from him.He should have been ejected from the building,interview over as soon as he crossed that line but of course being the BBC he was treated with the same respect as any other normal interviewee on the programme.As Lenin once observed of his liberal supporters, these useful idiots would sell us the rope to hang them with.