{"id":1592,"date":"2008-05-16T22:45:37","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T21:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2008-05-17T16:22:38","modified_gmt":"2008-05-17T15:22:38","slug":"the-things-that-telegraph-readers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1592","title":{"rendered":"The things that Telegraph readers say"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<p>Perhaps by coincidence, Damian Thompson was very quiet for a couple of months after I wrote about him reproducing <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/ukcorrespondents\/holysmoke\/jan08\/muslimslaysiegetoaustralianhospital.htm\">a neo-nazi propaganda story<\/a> on his <em>Daily Telegraph <\/em>blog, though he did ring up to say he would never speak to me again. But recently he has resumed his usual mixture of hating Catholic bishops because they are liberal and hating Muslims because they are not.<em>Telegraph <\/em>readers just lap it up. In the excerpts below  from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/ukcorrespondents\/holysmoke\/may2008\/islamic-rabble-rouser.htm\">the latest comments thread <\/a>I particularly like the call for Muslims to be &#8220;<em>interred <\/em>without trial&#8221;. I hope it was a misprint, but one can never be certain.<\/p>\n\n\t<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<blockquote><br \/>\n<ul><\/p>\n\t<p><li>even as a foregner here I would vote <span class=\"caps\">UKIP<\/span> or <span class=\"caps\">BNP<\/span> in European Parliament.  Multi culti Labours and Conservatives alike are utterly incapable to distinguish  between cultures and they put evrything on the same level. You want help, work?  Good. You want destroy our culture, good as well. Every culture is equal. Like  Soviet Union once upon a time. Only <span class=\"caps\">BNP<\/span> and <span class=\"caps\">UKIP<\/span> do not bear signs of post  marxism.<\/li><br \/>\n<li>The time will come, soon I believe, when the whole might of the British state  will have to confront Islam in the UK and some of the Muslim inhabitants  here.<br \/>\nThat will be when the US and Israel attack Iran and, therefore,  Islamic power.<br \/>\nThen, I believe there will have to be internment of many  Islamic people in the UK, and this will involve terrible  confrontation.<br \/>\nNo need to have that now over some verbal  events.<br \/>\nHave it later when the 2,000 or more <span class=\"caps\">UK <\/span>Islamis being followed up  by <span class=\"caps\">MI5<\/span> at the present time need to be interred without trial for the safety of  the rest of us.<\/li><br \/>\n<li>Since the 1960s, when the white people of Finsbury Park, Newham, all rose up  in protest at the mass immigration happening in their communities, and were  denounced as racists by the namby pamby element.<br \/>\nEasy to see why any  decent white families would get out of such areas isn&#8217;t it. Which is why they  belong to these muslim filth today.<br \/>\nEnoch Powell is having the last  laugh.<\/li><br \/>\n<li>the only time we might do somehing is when the moslems are cutting your  childrens throats, and then you would hesitate as it would be against <del>the race  relations act<\/del> not politically correct. it is already too late . what can you do  to control two million lunatics determind to rule you .<\/li><br \/>\n<\/ul><\/p>\n\t<p><\/blockquote><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">These comments are all, I believe, moderated<\/span>. [They are not, Damian says in the comments] They are certainly allowed to stand. That, it seems to me, makes them part of what the paper&#8217;s latest press release boasted was its &#8220;integrated religious affairs coverage&#8221;. This raises one interesting question: what kind of things are too gross for the <em>Telegraph <\/em>to integrate into its coverage of religious affairs?<\/p>\n\n\t<p>Ironists may also enjoy his self-description at the head of the blog: &#8220;Damian Thompson is a leader writer for the <em>Daily Telegraph<\/em> and  editor-in-chief of a major Catholic newspaper. He is the author of  <em>Counterknowledge: How we surrendered to conspiracy theories, quack medicine,  bogus science and fake history.<\/em><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\t<p>Perhaps by coincidence, Damian Thompson was very quiet for a couple of months after I wrote about him reproducing a neo-nazi propaganda story on his Daily Telegraph blog, though he did ring up to say he would never speak to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1592\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}