He had just told us in strong terms about the failures of religion and its detrimental effect on our culture, and now he was explaining to us how the solution in the Middle East was to simply kill everyone who disagreed with you.
Then of course there’s that Amis line about how you, too, must surely have felt that the best way to get the Muslims to toe the line is to treat the lot of them as terror suspects until they get their youth under control, I’m not saying it’s right mind you but that’s just how I feel…
This lot will be in their element when the first anti-Muslim Kristallnacht rolls around. Well, of course we don’t approve of these loutish excesses, but you have to admit there’s a justified resentment against this aggressively atavistic religious element that just refuses to assimilate, and anyway it’s not as if any of them actually got suicide-bombed…