Douglas Murray is amazing.
So smart, so articulate and quite fearless!
Read this piece on "Debating" beheadings.
It is incredible.
"Some years ago, around the time Western hostages were being beheaded
in Iraq, I ended up doing a number of telephone interviews for a radio
station from somewhere in Africa. It was called "Radio Islam" or the
like. Anyhow – the striking thing was that they were always scrupulously
polite. They even kept trying to give me a doctorate I didn't have –
"so, Doctor Murray," and so on. But my relationship with them ended when
they called one day to ask if I would debate beheading. I think it was
after the American hostage in Iraq, Nick Berg, had just been beheaded in
an al-Qaeda snuff-movie."
"I said that although I was happy to come on – as ever – what did they
mean when they said "debate"? They surely didn't mean that they had
someone who was "for" beheading?"
"The fixer responded in the most
meticulously polite tone, "You must understand, Dr. Murray, there are
very many people who are for this policy." There was something about
"policy" that particularly chilled the blood."
"It is that same chill that occurs in the aftermath of Woolwich."
And an amazing interview with Michael Coren here.
A pleasure to watch. And wow-what a line:
'People who have been poking at empty hornets nests their whole lives, are terrified when they encounter a real, live hornet's nest.'
(Hello, liberal Jews-I'm looking at YOU.)
