Thanks RFM for doing my dirty work. Julia, what is terrorism? I think RFM is telling you in no uncertain terms.

But I am hinting at something even bigger than the US's rampant street crime. How about investigating what is happening to the USA's water supply? Who is poisoning it? I bet you don't know who is poisoning the water supply! And yes it is happening. Tell you later!

Stuart: It's hotting up here and is it any wonder now the sums are getting more difficult? Julia is wetting her knickers at the takeaways.

Mcquade, even by New Statesman standards that is really pathetic... you could have compared me to the several monstrous and bigoted Joshua's prevalent in the Jewish faith, but no, playground insults seem to be the height of your intellectual imagination.

It seems those attacking me are not attacking my argument, or the use of the word Kaffir, but merely for associating myself with a talented and eloquent journalist whose refusal to compromise with the relativist dogmatism of modern leftism makes her a board for the poisoned darts of socialists

RFM

Excellent commentary. Thank you.

Alas, Julia will never desist with her extremist views no matter what facts are put before her.

@Julia
Before you copy and paste, do you research the information you are posting and establish that the information is factual and correct? Or is the word of a convicted felon's website enough verification for you?

Chussodovsky is a total loon, although he probably counts many Pilger fans amongst his readers.

Apartheid is over even though Pilger is crushed that there hasn't been a year zero style communist revolution.

Ultra left white cranks like Pilger are racists when they sneeringly refer to Obama as a 'glossy Uncle Tom'.

Have a nice day.

@ Response "As an Arabic teacher -"

Of what? Lies? I've seen the video of Mehdi it's obvious he was being abusive towards and expressing his hate and contempt of non-believers.

Best Regards

Maybe RFM, it's you, maybe you are an overbearing buffon who enjoys picking on women. Maybe you are omniscient or perhaps a bully, who really gives a monkey!

"You mispelt your own name. It's TOSH."

Oi mcquade, Bed! Now! and don't forget your milk.

Mad Mel has been recognised as a hysterical loose cannon for many years. Somewhat like a teenage girl who has suddenly discovered sex, she feels obliged to bend eardrums with received propaganda from the Israeli embassy in London - propaganda that she fails to recognise as such because she revels in the 'voice of British Jewry' - only she's only the voice of Melanie Philips shouting in the dark. Sad.

Mr Divine, are you the same guy who predicting the end of the world? I mean do you walk around with a sandwich board saying we are all doomed etc?

They way you talk sounds like a load of psycho babble bull shit in which case it probably is...too much acid??

Oh dear. Hideous bigot leaves right-wing rag.

There will be someone along to replace her.

Oops. Josh appears to have accidentally clicked on the wrong site. Littlejohn might be more up your street, my friend.

In response to Josh, you are talking a load of tosh. Nothing in any of the writing of Philips can be deemed honourable, impartial or fair minded. Much of the discourse emanating from Phillips is steeped in right wing polemics , tinged with venemous insult. Like Jon Ganunt and James Whale who got their comeuppance, MP is no different. That she was ousted by one of her own shows how hopelessly and dangerously out of touch MP is. At least the Spectator has the sense to get rid of her; I just wish the Daily Mail would do the same. There is also something deeply distateful about MP's unqualified and unconditional for Israel. The menacing views held by MP belong to a bygone age. MP's appearance on Question Time and abscence of support from the audience for any of her views says it all. Why she is even being invited on QT beggars belief!!

In response to Julia, I fail to see what Al Jazeera has got to do with this debate. As for kicking Ass, clearly MP has deservedly got her come uppance. Name me one debate where her contribution has been informative or objective. MP's articles are generaaly steeped in right wing polemics of the nasty kind. What sort of person/monster would applaud Israel's actions in the Gaza war. If the truth be told, MP has a massive chip on her shoulder. The less we hear of her, the better.

Nasty leftists working themselves up into a frenzy. Mel hasnt gone away, she has her own blog and website which those, like me, who follow her brilliant writing have bookmarked.

Mehdi is the other side of the coin of Melanie Phillips.

Mr Divine

Who are all these quarrelsome interlopers on here a bloke can't take a few days off now!

It's quite warm here as well since you ask, glad I missed out on the Womens Final at Wimbledon now the Williams sisters are out, I suppose it will be the grunter from Russia now, must dash have some maths to do

Those masters of intrigue - from Machiavelli to Burleschoni { the Italian politico } - knew what they were talking about. "Dessert is a dish best eaten cold!" You see, it's worth waiting for.
And now Melanie knows how Mrs Thatcher felt like when The PM was thrown aside like a rag doll once her usefulness was over. Kenny 'the Enforcer' Clarke and Frankie 'the Finger' Maude kept to the rule book a la Mac the Knife!
In any case, in Melanie's surbuban domestic world, 'it's the woman that takes the blame!'

Mums Nettled

Mr D, of course I'm not making anything up, don't be silly.

RFM - your dull and boring and yes you are Idiot.

Last week came new confirmation that mosques in the U.S. aren’t quite holding potluck suppers and teaching civic pieties. A new study has demonstrated that 80% of mosques right in this country are teaching jihad warfare and Islamic supremacism.

Researchers Mordechai Kedar and David Yerushalmi reported in the Summer 2011 issue of Middle East Quarterly about a new survey that found that “51% of mosques had texts that either advocated the use of violence in the pursuit of a Sharia-based political order or advocated violent jihad as a duty that should be of paramount importance to a Muslim.” Another 30% of mosques in the United States “had only texts that were moderately supportive of violence,” while only “19% had no violent texts at all.”

This yet again contradicts the universally held assumption that U.S. mosques are completely benign institutions, in all respects equivalent to churches and synagogues. As long ago as 1998, Sheikh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, a Sufi leader, visited 114 mosques in the United States. Then he gave testimony before a State Department open forum in January 1999 declaring that Islamic supremacists controlled most mosques in America .

“The most dangerous thing that is going on now in these mosques,” Kabbani said, “that has been sent upon these mosques around the United States—like churches they were established by different organizations and that is okay—but the problem with our communities is the extremist ideology. Because they are very active, they took over the mosques, and we can say that they took over more than 80% of the mosques that have been established in the U.S. And there are more than 3,000 mosques in the U.S. So it means that the methodology or ideology of extremists has been spread to 80% of the Muslim population, but not all of them agree with it.”

Is it a Jewish source? Do you think it might be a touch biased?

God Stuart, I thought you had gone the way of Etch Tee who is now unable to post because he can't do the sums in the comment box. Who are you getting to help you?

PS: I don't even know who Melanie Phillips is! Really, she doesn't come on the radar down under.
what is 8 plus 2? I bet you've no idea!

Julia you are an idiot and i notice you disregard the fact that thousands of civilian men women and children have been murdered by British and US troops in an illegal war that has made Iraq a more dangerous place to live. I imagine many iraqis would crawl across broken glass to have Saddam back. But never mind, you keep on sucking up all the lies and propaganda crap in the right wing press.

And lets not even get started on Israel and the number of UN laws it breaks. Shelling kids on a beach blowing up schools when the children are attending. I have more respect for suicide bombers frankly and i can assure you I have no love for Islam.

Fraziel - Freedom is worth fighting for...we fought the Nazi's we fought the communists and we'll fight the Islamist's...

I wonder how Saddam would be treating his own people in this Arab uprising thing...

Israel is a beacon of hope, a liberal democracy where 'all' people and minorities are free to live in peace, unlike anywhere in the middle east...
Israeli arab's have a great life, the best of any of the region...stick that up your arse sideways...

Melanie Phillips? Awww. Our very own Ann Coulter! And you thought that Americans were stupid.

When is the NS getting rid of their own resident racist crank, John Pilger?

What a prick you are mr Danger tit-
fuck off