(Mad) Melanie Phillips has fused herself with an agenda of stupidity

Deranged lunatic, Mad Mel, has pieces from her book Londonistan serialised in some newspapers this week. Here's an extract from today's Times:

Minority rights doctrine has produced a moral inversion, in which those doing wrong are excused if they belong to a “victim” group, while those at the receiving end of their behaviour are blamed simply because they belong to the “oppressive” majority.

Stupidity used to have limits. Now it sells books called Londonistan. What is 'minority rights doctrine'? This remains undefined in the extract and appears to have no function other than to conflate different issues: a Muslim schoolgirl (for we know who Mad Mel is talking about) goes to court over her 'right' to wear a form of dress and this means Osama bin Laden will be the next khalifah of the Islamic Sultanate of Britaniyya. And here I was thinking we championed the ability of people to make representations in case of greivances in a court of law that is free of undue political interference.

Perhaps Mad Mel could explain why the number of non-white inmates in Britain's prisons has increased substantially under this Neo-Labour government, and why Muslims comprise a significant chunk (~10%) of the prison population, if "doing wrong" can be excused should one "belong to a "victim" group".

She talks about the 'values of the majority' being trumpeted by 'minority values'. I don't see burqas and beards everywhere when I walk down my High Street (okay, my own local High Street may not be such a good example...). Here's an anectode I'll relate to you: when I was a student, a friend of mine used to have a job in A|n*n% S~u>m<me\r.s (yes that A|n*n% S~u>m<me\r.s). He told me that the people who bought items were rarely white or dressed in skirts, or spoke English or had European accents. They were, instead, brown, dressed in long, flowing, black garments that might seem more familiar if you visit the Gulf, and spoke only badly constructed English half-sentences. Mad Mel knows nothing about Muslims in Britain, other than the (s)creedal demands of her own ideology.

Whilst there is no mistaking her more salient point that Muslim extremists fantasise about committing atrocities in London or Paris (and should any be caught, they should be shown the iron fist), or have equally fantastical delusions about liquidating their opponents (which actually includes large swathes of Muslims), screeds like this one from Mad Mel don't help anyone. In fact, Mad Mel's delusions are themselves part of a wider fantasy; one of Europe being overcome by Muslims, who also happen to be jobless, under-educated, poor, unhealthy and living in some of the worst areas of European cities. This whole narrative that forms part of the "Eurabian" fantasies that so many "commentators" and "critics" indulge in. These are same "critics", incidentally, who see themselves as champions and Defenders of Western Reason and Civilisation. Perhaps Mad Mel, whose writings seem to show us her mental state more than anything, has not considered that all the political, economic and military advantage sits with Europe and the United States and not with their opponents. Consider that the Muslims who do indulge themselves in a cult of death and mayhem are not even close to the centres of power in any state, and when they were in such a position it was of a Third, nay Fourth, world country. If the most powerful military machine in human history can't control a country with Third World status, how in the name of anything Good, are a bunch of ragtag zealots going to "Islamicise the West". They're unable to "Islamicise" the Muslims they mingle with, let alone the "militant gays" and "feminists" she froths about. But people like her are not interested in helping "moderate Muslims" (funny for someone so given to attacking "PC liberalism", this extract in the Times ends with a limp message of hope to "moderate Muslims"). They simply push their own narrow political agendas (in the case of Mad Mel it's to equate any criticism of Israel with antisemitism).

She continues frothing:

So any attempt by the West to defend itself against terror becomes a recruiting sergeant for that terror. The more atrocities committed against the West, the more the West tries to defend itself; and the more it does so, the more hysteria among Muslims rises that they are under attack, and the more they are thus incited to hatred and to terrorism.

Is she saying that people (Muslims in this case) have no right to express their anger and frustration at what are obvious failings of foreign policy? That they have no right to lend moral support (and more if needs be) to people they feel are indeed under oppression (no need for the invidious speech marks)? How is the Iraq adventure an "attempt by the West to defend itself against terror"? Name us the Ba'athsist terror gang that bombed London or Madrid. Only the mad rantings of a mad person could lead us to such a mad conclusion.

On she rants:

After the London bombings, this gave rise to the widely expressed view that the major problem was not Islamic terrorism but Islamophobia.

What is this "widely expressed view"? Where can we find it? How wide is it? Is it as wide as her mouth? No, in fact, if you looked closely you'd have seen a number of different views: some blaming the Muslim communities; others attributing them to foreign policy; some attributing the attacks to the emergence of jihadist cults who leech off genuine anger amongst Muslims. From the snippets (1, 2) we've been able to read of her book the charges of of "hysteria" appear to be nothing more than a case of pots and kettles calling each other black.

Comments

[haroon]

I disagree with you. So there!

Okay, seriously. I think Muslims are going to take over Europe. They have the skills, the money, and even famous white people like Oriana Fallacio has predicted this.

[Dr. Riccardo Privitera]

You know what is worse than a Muslim fanatic? A left wing bleeding heart like you! Reading this criticism of Melanie Phillips reinforces my belief that instead of doing expensive medical exams on mothers to find out whether or not a child is male or female, we should develop a technology allow us to determine whether or not that child, irrespective of sex, will grow up with left wing, socialist or communist tendencies, and abort them before they grow up and become politicians, journalists or authors. It is people like you who allow the destructions of entire civilizations. It may shock you friend but millions agree with Melanie.