Response of MPs and press to Fitna

Paul Weston writes from Britain:

I watched Fitna at the House of Lords yesterday. I attended as the British representative of the International Free Press Society.

As the British media fretted over the demise of free speech in Britain, the event that instigated it was attended by FIVE Lords and NOT ONE MP.

The press conference at the end of the day (all the press watched a re-run of Fitna) was characterised by uniformly hostile questioning, a lot of it along the lines of “the Bible condones violence” and “Wilders is a racist.” One so-called journalist was actually shaking with rage as he asked his question.

A day of shame indeed. The lack of interest on behalf of our elected representatives was the antithesis of public opinion, if the comment sections of online newspaper articles were anything to go by.

Labour MP Keith Vaz, the media’s pet slippery Muslim, was duly trundled out onto the BBC’s Newsnight program last night to damn Wilders, but shot himself in the foot when he made the extraordinary admission that he had not actually watched Fitna!

When the rulers and the ruled are so out of kilter, I suspect your statement that Britain needs a revolution is all too correct.

But [such a revolution is] inevitable, Thank God.

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Posted by Lawrence Auster at February 13, 2009 10:01 AM | Send