October 24, 2005

When Harriet met Hizb ... Islamofacism ridicules itself

With New Labours stupid the bill on Religious Hatred being pushed through parliment as a sop to the Islamofacists, you know the people rioting in Birmingham, it seems particually ironic that the Islamofascist party His Butt Tahrir crawls to Harriet Harman when they need help. A woman parlimentarian in a secular democratic parliment, as Nick Cohen of the Observer puts it
Yet here were totalitarians and misogynists going to a woman democratic politician and begging her to persuade Tony Blair not to take authoritarian measures against their authoritarian sect. The scene could have been bettered only if Harman had been a Jewish lesbian.
Their parting shot being
As they were leaving, she said, 'you're British citizens. Shouldn't you try to play a part in British society?'

'We're not a part of British society,' they told her. 'We stay here like guests in a hotel.'
If only. Guests in a hotel do not get to write the rules of a hotel. Guests in a hotel pay for their stay. And if guests in a hotel don't like the rules that are set out for that hotel they leave. So perhaps His Butt Tahrir should act a bit more like guests in a hotel.

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