” An erstwhile Communist State executed a British Muslim. No muslims complained to any degree about this death! ”

He wasn’t a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, so fringe groups of extremists couldn’t use him for propaganda purposes.

Strange days as the Doors said! An amazing event happened. An erstwhile Communist State executed a British Muslim. No muslims complained to any degree about this death! Stafford Smith cried! The most amazing thing is that lots of British Labour voters sided with the Chinese Government over their head of their own leaders pleas! This was news worthy if unpalatable stuff but easily ignored!

Seconded.

Actually the people doing much of the hand wringing in academia are now and never were more than businessmen charged with getting as many overseas students to sign up as humanly possible. Huge accommodation blocks are being whacked up close to my home to house chiefly overseas students at this northern city’s two universities.

I note one such glorified accommodation officer (‘Vice Chancellor for Lettings’) has come out today saying UCL (his concern) is not a centre of Islamic extremism, despite the Christmas Day event over Detroit which involved a former student and President of the UCL student Islamic society. I find this a bit rich. There is almost a beaten path between academia and jihad in the U.K. However, to insist this is all the result of those incredibly influential lefties is imaginative but unhelpful. The list of persons rolling up at the East London “mosque” jihadi recruitment centre to encourage the brethren is hardly a roll call of ‘lefties’ is it? Those pinning their hopes on ‘Call me Dave’ Cameron sorting this lot out are deceiving themselves. Dame Pauline Neville-Jones (“a former senior figure in U.K. government” [a.k.a Intelligence]) is ‘Dave’s’ appointee for such issues as ‘Moslem anger’ and has said (on Newsnight, BBC 2 TV) that “where appropriate British foreign policy will need to be looked at”. That translates to me as: ‘Keep bombing us. It will bring you results’. I wait to be corrected but I do not think you (Alcuin, virgil xenophon, et al) will find Dame Pauline is now or ever was a lefty.

It’s not a case that you couldn’t make him up. In fact, any half way competent fiction writer in his least inspired moments could make LJB up, and would be lambasted by critics for producing such a stock would-be Nazi fantasist character.

*”Ressentiment is a reassignment of the pain that accompanies a sense of one’s own inferiority/failure onto an external scapegoat.”

No, Benji.

You explain first who are the numerous Jewish “vocal advocates of the joys of Islam”. Until you can, I’ll treat Barnes’ ‘point’ as non-existent and his words just the usual nutty hate-filled rambling.

“vocal advocates of the joys of Islam”..and the rest of it?

It’s not simply a case of not liking Jews.

“It is the political Left – in our Universities, Newspapers, Film studios, Literary festivals and the virtual monopoly of the BBC – that has brought us to this pretty pass, by pretending that all cultures are equally “good””

Could you give us some examples of
1) the kind of things that are bothiring you actually happening
2) any examples of how this can be evidentially link to any rcognisable “political left”.

I’ll start with a counter-example. I think universal literacy and opportuinities to learn are good, and I think the previously dominant culture that blocked and denied these was bad.