What's happened to my blog roll?

Hot Ginger Fan

"I think there are no more perceptive writers on the battle to save liberty from Islamism than Melanie.." Gosh, if that really were true then we would be up the creek without a paddle...

Effing and Blinding

Stephen, have a look at this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6270020.stm Scroll down and you will not see a more telling quote on the attitude of the left to the conflict currently underway. “He said he had few conversations with his captors, but that in one, a leader of the Islamist group "described me as a prisoner in the war between Muslims and non-Muslims, a phrase which saddened me really". "I guess I'm a non-Muslim but I'm really not at war with anybody." Umm, yes you are matey – that bloke just said you are. You might not have started that war but you are in it up to your eyeballs. And like it or not, 114 days in captivity should tell you clearly they don't view you as on their side.

Chris Goodman

When I read that Frank Gardner, the BBC correspondent who is now paralysed after being shot six times at close range in Saudi Arabia (three days earlier 22 non-Muslim had their throats cut and the British expatriate Michael Hamilton was shot and his body tied to a car and dragged around the town) thinking to himself in what he believed were his final moments "For the past few years I had tried hard to explain...the thinking behind the Al-Qaeda phenomenon to Western and International audiences. And this was my reward?" and when I hear the father of the BBC hostage Alan Johnson arguing (when it looked likely that he was going to be decapitated) that his kidnappers ought to release him because "he is on your side" I cannot help concluding that there is a fine line between seeking to empathise with your enemies and becoming their apologists. If only BBC journalists could be as supportive of those who believe that Western civilization is not only superior but something worth fighting for; but that would be too much to ask.

Christopher

Everything was so much better with the old site.

Paul Linford

You promised me a blogroll link about 18 months ago, Stephen...;-)

Jonathan

"I think there are no more perceptive writers on the battle to save liberty from Islamism than Melanie.." Gosh, if that really were true then we would be up the creek without a paddle... - That's where Mad Mel thinks we are already! We're doomed, doomed! And it's all the fault of the BBC and the Guardian, of course.

Chris Goodman

As far as I understand it - I rarely read Melanie Philips - her argument is that the BBC appeases evil not that its employees actually go out and plant bombs.