Nick Cohen is one of those writers whose name I would get in a fist fight to defend. He’s the originator of the Euston Manifesto and a militant for the west and for true progess. He’ll be on Shire Network News’ podcast for the next 2 weeks.
Here he is on the Rushdie Knighthood:
Rushdie’s knighthood was a sign of the changing mood. Labour politicians might have tried to impose a veto a few years ago; instead, they said: ‘Are we going to allow British policy to be decided by dictatorial bigots, who want to inflame religious passion to divert attention from their own corruption?’
There is only one possible answer to that question and it remains astonishing how many people who profess liberal sympathies refuse to grasp it. Watch the discussion about Rushdie on last week’s Question Time on the BBC website. You will see Shirley Williams, the representative of the Lib Dems and member of the great and the good, fail to offer a word of protest against men who would murder authors. All she does is condemn the government for honouring a novelist, until Peter Hitchens, a Mail on Sunday columnist who is usually dismissed as a spittle-flecked loon, reminds her that she needs to clear her throat with a few words of criticism for his would-be assassins, if only for form’s sake.
The rest of the article is here
The video to which he refers is below:
Filed under: Euston Manifesto, Hitchens, Human Rights, Multiculturalism, Politics, Salman Rushdie, Secularism, War on terror, free speech, islam
Nice post
Its about time these Islamists learned that acting like spoiled brats gets them nowhere.
I was bad enough when they all ran around like children having a tantrum in a supermarket over the cartoons.
Brian
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