Well, hang on, just let me think about this a minute, I mean, it doesn't do to make hasty decisions . . . let me see . . . on the one hand . . . but then again, on the other . . . nah! don't think so. After all, if being terminally tedious and silly was a crime, well, we'd have to nick the Chief Constable of Birmingham who was silly enough to waste police time sending coppers round at vast expense to arrest some 'twitter' who jokingly suggested that the daft old bat from The Guardian should indeed by stoned to death. Apparently this 'twitter', who looks about 14 1/2 from his photo, is a Tory councillor and his local party have lost their nerve as well as their collective 7.3 brain cells and suspended him.
Is there anybody in the country who still has a sense of humour?
Ms Alibhai-Brown claims that if she, as a muslim woman, had made similar remarks about someone then she would have had the police at her door as well.
How wrong she is... these days when extremists muslims (living in the UK) make death threats to all non muslims in the UK then they are hardly ever prosecuted or even arrested by the police.
Maybe it is time that this country applies the same rules to muslims as it does to the rest of the country.
Posted by: Irritated | Thursday, 11 November 2010 at 17:16
Please, please, do not hold your breath, 'Irritated'!
(Incidentally, I have absolutely no intention of publishing your name, but just to satisfy my personal curiosity, having looked at your e-mail address, do we know each other?)
Posted by: David Duff | Thursday, 11 November 2010 at 17:25
Mrs Alibi Braun is a very foolish woman.
Posted by: dearieme | Friday, 12 November 2010 at 00:31
Was a fuss made when that idiot rock star turned muslim (cat something) encouraged others to kill Rushdie? And he was speaking to people who already had a reputation to carry out this type of murder. So someone tell YAB that if there is a double standard, it works in her favor.
Posted by: Dom | Saturday, 13 November 2010 at 21:52
Quite so, Dom, for example, several Muslims were photographed burning poppies on Remembrance Day whilst holding signs suggesting that Britsh soldiers should burn in hell. Where were the police when they were needed? In the canteen drinking tea, I suspect!
Posted by: David Duff | Saturday, 13 November 2010 at 22:33
Correction: Yaz may well be a daft old bat but she is a daft old bat who works for the Independent, not the Guardian.
Posted by: TDK | Sunday, 14 November 2010 at 16:12
Quite right, TDK, I knew it was one of the two but I simply couldn't be arsed to find out!
Posted by: David Duff | Sunday, 14 November 2010 at 17:03