Julie Burchill pulls no punches in her latest op-ed for Ha’aretz: Straight Talk / For what we are, not what we do. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

For fear of appearing racist, many Britons suspend their normal judgments when dealing with the behavior of ethnic minorities. Not only is this totally racist in itself - pre-supposing as it does that ethnics are like children, who know not what they do and must have special dispensation to behave badly - but it also ignores the fact that the other ethnic minorities, be they Jews, Chinese or Hindus, have somehow managed to both keep their culture and fit into their chosen adopted country, without feeling the need to parade around the streets like big overgrown babies, stamping their feet and ordering fatwas when things displease them.

In the same week as Hamza was sentenced, a former executive at the BBC accused them of pro-Islamic bias, for the reason that BBC Web sites report Islamic opinions as fact, but Christianity as mere “claims.” Meanwhile, Prime Minister Blair’s wife, the lawyer Cherie Booth, continues to “defend” the right of a 17-year-old Muslim girl, excluded from her school because of her outrageous demands, to wear a head-to-toe shroud - a case which has so far cost the British taxpayer 70,000 pounds sterling in legal aid, and will no doubt cost another 70,000 before a decision is arrived at. To make matters even stranger, the pressure group behind the ungrateful little idiot - if she wants to go about dressed like a ghost, what’s to stop her moving to one of dozens of Islamic theocracies where she’d have to do just that? - are Hizb ut-Tahrir, the ultra-Islamist weirdos widely thought to have been behind that racist hate-march. And who recently caused embarrassment for the oh-so-liberal British Guardian newspaper when they had to sack one of their hacks for belonging to it.

Anyway, from now on I think I’ll get just a few less accusations of racism when I point out that Muslims can be a bit, well, narrow-minded. Mind you, it’s a long hard struggle trying to make bleeding-heart liberals see sense. Especially when you live in a country where a sizable part of the print and broadcasting media are such guilt-ridden cretins when it comes to Islam that if they saw Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein sexually sharing their own grandmother, they’d swear the poor old lady asked for it.

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