Dhimmi Britain
melaniephillips.com
Great piece by Mark Steyn nailing the terrifying drift in Britain towards dhimmification*, as evidenced by the Kilroy-Silk affair:
'Let me see if I understand the BBC Rules of Engagement correctly: if you're Robert Kilroy-Silk and you make some robust statements about the Arab penchant for suicide bombing, amputations, repression of women and a generally celebratory attitude to September 11 – none of which is factually in dispute – the BBC will yank you off the air and the Commission for Racial Equality will file a complaint to the police which could result in your serving seven years in gaol. Message: this behaviour is unacceptable in multicultural Britain. But, if you're Tom Paulin and you incite murder, in a part of the world where folks need little incitement to murder, as part of a non-factual emotive rant about how "Brooklyn-born" Jewish settlers on the West Bank "should be shot dead" because "they are Nazis" and "I feel nothing but hatred for them", the BBC will keep you on the air, kibitzing (as the Zionists would say) with the crème de la crème of London's cultural arbiters each week. Message: this behaviour is completely acceptable.'
But Steyn observes something even more chilling -- although to us long-time observers of institutional BBC prejudice, not surprising:
'So, while the BBC is "investigating" Kilroy, its only statement on Mr Paulin was an oblique but curiously worded allusion to the non-controversy on the Corporation website: "His polemical, knockabout style has ruffled feathers in the US, where the Jewish question is notoriously sensitive." "The Jewish question"? "Notoriously sensitive"? Is this really how they talk at the BBC?'
Yup, it sure is - but usually in private. To the Beeb's illiberals, any Jewish protests at incitment to murder Jews are indeed 'notoriously sensitive', as indeed are any Jewish protests against current antisemitism. And of course, Israel is still 'the Jewish question' which for them remains unanswered -- and no doubt still awaiting a final solution.
*'Dhimmi' is the status of infidels under Islam who are permitted to live in Muslim jurusdictions but only with restrictions as second-class citizens. |
