Sunday, August 20, 2006
KEEP ON MARCHING, SHARIA
The Britbollah caper about in their usual entertaining fashion. One-two-three-four ... do I look fat in this chador? Five-six-seven-eight ... let’s install a caliphate!
UPDATE. Islamic cleric Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal, jailed in Britain three years ago, will shortly be released:
Hundreds of Muslims attended his lectures in mosques across Britain, including Birmingham, London and Dewsbury in West Yorkshire.
His trial heard recordings of el-Faisal, Jamaican by birth but living in Stratford, east London, praising Osama bin Laden. ‘You have to learn how to shoot and fly planes and drive tanks,’ el-Faisal told those who attended his lectures. ‘Jews,’ el-Faisal said, ‘should be killed ... as by Hitler.’
UPDATE II. Gerry Rafferty released a sweetly melancholy little tune in 1980 called Garden of England. I think it was about the decline of the UK under Thatcher’s hated regime, but the lyrics now seem more appropriate to 2006:
They got us on the run, we can feel it in the air
UPDATE III. The Brits still don’t want David Hicks:
David Hicks was secretly made a British citizen inside his Guantanamo Bay cell last month, but spent only hours as an Englishman before his status was stripped from him ...
The following day - the first anniversary of the 2005 terrorist attacks on the London Underground - he was told that British Home Secretary John Reid had personally revoked the privilege.