Several emails today asking if I had really been posting the comments attributed to me on Harry's Place. No, I have not; I am actually banned from that site, I am very proud to say. But it did give me an excuse to take a look at what those Times hangers on and wannabes were writing in these dark days for them.
They are mostly adopting the Fox approach and not mentioning it. That may be the Straight Left line, but the plain old CPGB is in full cry on Newsnight in defence of Murdoch. His Empire has been the heart and soul of neoconservatism in Britain even more than it was in the United States, so one of the many things that might finally receive some massively overdue attention is the true roots and character of that phenomenon.
People also tell me that I should go back to reading Telegraph Blogs in order to watch a supposedly cutthroat commercial rival having a nervous breakdown at the fall of its hero and lodestar. So much for capitalism, and all that. I do not doubt it, but I can get all of that from the same stable on Coffee House, though in the clubbier atmosphere that is, I suppose, the difference between the Telegraph and the Spectator generally.
However, one post on Harry's Place did grab my attention. The odious and absurd Pastor John Hagee is apparently due to address a conference in Birmingham next month, and Harry's Place wants to make sure that he is welcomed with open arms. So it is instructing its readers to bombard MPs with emails ordering them to demand of the Home Secretary that she refuse any request for Hagee's exclusion. I can think of several reasons just as good to bracket Hagee with David Duke, Louis Farrakhan and Raed Salah. But I cannot think of any better.
Salah wants Jerusalem to be the centre of the caliphate, believes it will be in the End Times. Same goes, as you wrote in a comment yesterday, for Ibrahim Sarsur who has similar roots but is a serving MK. All in all, not unlike the perverse eschatology of John Hagee. And calls to mind 2 Thess 2:4.
ReplyDeletePerhaps Hagee would hold the Jerusalem Caliphate to be the Antichrist foretold by Saint Paul in that verse?
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I know that it is easier when they are atheists anyway, so that it is all nonsense to them, but how and why do Zionists put up with these people? Even their lunatic reading of Scripture is a five act play in which the Jews disappear at the end of Act IV.
Hagee wants all of the Jews to move to Jerusalem so that, being all in one place, they can all the more easily be destroyed, or at least all except 144,000 of them who convert to Christianity. Doesn't anyone in Israel feel just a little bit sullied, taking the financial and political clout of those who hold such views?
But then, the Israelis happily facilitate and bankroll Salah's therefore loyally Israeli fiefdom, while whatever oath MKs have to take obviously does not preclude the views of Sarsur.
Dear, sweet Harry's Place. Knowing the funny, baseless stories about you, Neil Clark and others is how the members of the cult recognise each other. It is also helps the rest of us avoid them. You are right, how the Times especially became the mouthpiece for one of the weirder sects of old Commies and Trots, and that's saying something, has long cried out for investigation and might now receive it.
ReplyDeleteWhat always used to tickle me was that their recitation of these demented fanatasies about Neil and me was always exactly the same, word for word. This lunacy was the Qur'an to them. Perhaps it still is.
ReplyDeleteThese people have dominated our country's foreign policy, both directly and through the dominant media interest.