Dr. Denis MacEoin is an internationally recognized expert on Islam. But for some reason the Guardian's
Comment is Free
would not publish these views.
He has therefore asked me to post them here.
' As many of you will know, the Guardian today gave over a Comment is Free slot to the boastings of Khaled Mishal. As you may also know, I was recently told by Georgina Henry of CiF that she would not consider having me as a regular blogger for them. Today I submitted the following comment on the Mishal piece. Several hours later, it has not appeared. Can anyone tell me what was offensive about it?
Denis
I am utterly fed up with statements like this '[Hamas is] a duly elected and constituted government'. Just where did this murderous little man study politics? Can he explain which British, American, Canadian, French or other political party is actually an armed group, or which has progressed from an election with weapons in the background to all-out war on the opposition, or which has genocide, totalitarian religious rule, and a commitment to war written into its manifesto, por which uses the Nazi salute? As others have pointed out, Hamas (like many other Islamist groups) has two faces, one to the gullible Western public, and one to its supporters. In reality, of course, it doesn't take much to see what abysmal, anti-democratic, anti-Semitic, and anti-Western swine they are: read their charter, then watch a spool of films showing the violence they have committed over the years. If you still support them, nobody with an ounce of decency will want to know you.
What exactly does the Guardian think it is doing, running so many articles by terrorists (for which read 'murderers'). It seems that, so long as it's pro-Palestinian it's fit to print. As though in some strange way the Palestinians have rights no other people on earth possess, and Israelis have no rights at all. The Guardian doesn't say 'because they're Jews', but if you read the Hamas charter, you'll see that's exactly what they mean. And if you read Islamist literature in general, you'll know that's what they mean. This has reached a point so far beyond balance that it is surely time to haul the Guardian before some sort of tribunal. We are fighting a war on terrorism here: Hamas, with its links to the Muslim Brotherhood, Iran (and Hezbollah), and al-Qaeda is part of the enemy we all face. For the Guardian to be so eager to publish the ravings of one after another of these thugs puts us all at risk, because it strengthens the hand of the terrorists, whose dupes march on our streets waving banners that proclaim 'we are all Hezbollah now'. Idiots like these, who know next to nothing about the subject, are only emboldened when a major British newspaper shows it is one hundred percent behind one side in a very complex conflict. It would be pitiful if it weren't, ultimately, dangerous.'
Denis MacEoin
maceoin@btinternet.com
http://mid-eastplus.blogspot.com/
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