melanie phillips: my islamist scaremongering has nothing to do with the BNP's islamist scaremongering
Melanie Phillips does her level best to draw a line between her brand of reactionary hate and that of BNP's Nick Griffin:
Yesterday, [Griffin] showed his slipperiness in an interview on Sky News in which he unblinkingly claimed that he now had no problem with 'settled ethnic minorities' such as Afro-Caribbeans, Sikhs or Hindus, only with 'colonists who want to change our country into something completely different' - which is code for those who want to Islamise Britain and replace its values with Islamic Sharia law.It's a really rather important distinction for Phillips to create because she has herself been a regular proponent of the idea that radical Islamists are trying to turn Britain into an Islamic nation under Sharia law.
Such distinctions should fool no one. The BNP is hostile not merely to Islamic supremacists but to all Muslims, including those who threaten no one's way of life.
Furthermore, Phillips has proven rather careless in drawing a line between mainstream UK Muslims and the supposed radical plots of a minority - either blaming the mainstream for failing to respond to her personal conspiracy theories, or failing to mention the majority mainstream at all.
For previous episodes of Melanie Phillips' attempts to clear ground between her own opinions and the racist right, see the attempt to define the BNP as leftists and the whitewashing of her own eliminationist rhetoric.
2 comments:
Phillips has always implied there's a cigarette paper between ordinary Muslims and extremists, so it's a bit daft of her to now try and distance herself from the BNP saying the same thing. And this isn't the first time she's tried - last time the piece got swamped with pro-BNP comments.
Quite how might we see Melanie Phillips, Littlejohn, Platell and the other Mail rabble rousers? Are they Griffiths' useful idiots or BNP fellow travellers?
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