Author Archives: David Vance

ISLAM AND CIVILISATION

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I wonder what being Muslim in name only means?

The BBC has an item on Today asking if Islam is not compatible with modernity, can Islam ever comfortably conform to Western society? Ali Allawi, former cabinet minister in the Iraqi post-war governments, argues in his new book The Crisis of Islamic Civilisation that Muslim modernisers have been seduced by a certainty in scientific knowledge to the extent that they are now Muslim in name alone.

Not sure where this one goes. It seems to me that for some Islamics their interest in “scientific knowledge” does not extend much beyond wiring up an explosives belt or planting a road site bomb. Or maybe piloting a plane or two. To express such a view on the BBC, as I have done on a few occasions, is to invoke the wrath of the Beeboids. It strikes me that Muslim modernisers is an oxymoronic term, a bit like principled politician or balanced BBC. Why can we not challenge Islam, just as every other faith is challenged? Might it be that whilst all religions are equal, some are more equal than others?

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OVER REPRESENTED…

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Interesting to hear our old friend Abdal Hakim Murad, Muslim Chaplain at the University of Cambridge back on again Thought for the Day this morning. He’s never off and yet what % of the UK population is Muslim exactly? I have no problem with TFTD providing platforms for all faiths (and indeed for pathologies such as Islam) but it is the frequency with which the ROP gets to broadcast which is alarming in this nominally Christian country – and that’s BEFORE the recent promotion of a Muslim to head up Religious affairs. Allahu akhbar!

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THE THREE CARD TRICK

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Nice to see the BBC oblige poor beleaguered Mr Brown by allowing his attack dog John McFall to posture on Today that it was the bankers that caused our economic recession, sorry, I mean down-turn that’s now on the up-turn, any day soon.

It’s my view that the Labour spin machine is trying a three card trick routine on us by introducing the evil bankers as a useful distraction for public anger from the corrupt political establishment. The Treasury Committee seems obsessed by the behaviour of bankers and suggests that it was the bonus structures that encouraged reckless behaviour. In turn, this helped crash the econ0my; ergo blame the bankers. Brown’s political DNA is all over the economic disaster we live through but oddly enough McFall can’t seem to find any of it! Oliver Kamm does provide a counter-balance to McFall’s propagandising but the BBC headline for this story is that it was the bankers wot done for us. And a lot of people just take in the headline. Natch.

Look at the right hand, never mind what the left hand is doing….

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QUESTION TIME LIVE!!!

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Come along and watch Margaret a Beckett booed!!! Roll up, roll up…will someone in the audience have some ROPE handy….??

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BBC QUESTION TIME LIVEBLOG..

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Hope you will be able to come along this evening for fun and games as Question Time liveblog commences hereon Biased BBC. This is the panel of lovelies appearing tonight. We have NuLabour stunna Margaret A Beckett, Lib-Dem failed leader Sir Menzies Campbell. Conservative wet lettuce Theresa May (what shoes will she wear?) Benedict Brogan from the in-the-news Daily Telegraph (Bet they all attack him!) and Ronald McDonald aka Steve Easterbrook, CEO of the fast food chain in the UK. (Is he bringing the snacks?)

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GET CAMERON!

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Did anyone else catch Nick Robinson just after 8am this morning providing his oh-so-biased insight into the Profligate scandal? I was struck by the emphasis he put on Conservative abuse when in fact abuse by all the parties (Yes, including those awfully nice Lib-Dems) is the issue. I also don’t think selecting Ann Widdecombe did Cameron any favours. All in all, a nice little stitch up job?

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