Mehdi Hasan: a beacon for Islam

The idiotic Mehdi Hasan has just written a lengthy piece in The Guardian demanding that all Londoners vote for Ken Livingstone in the forthcoming mayoral election. After dismissing Livingstone’s tax avoidance in a few words (yeah, he probably shudda paid more tax), Hasan posits that people have to vote for Ken because if they’re not doing so they’re effectively voting for Boris. He dredges up once more Boris’s remarks about African ‘picaninnies’ with ‘water-melon smiles’, as if this contravention was in some way enough, by itself, to stop anyone voting for the current mayor.

Well, yet again, for the record, let me be absolutely clear about what Boris meant when he made those references: he was being rather bitterly ironic. His comments were directed to two UN workers as he was being driven around Africa witnessing their supposed good works, and the chillingly orchestrated support they were being given at every village. It was a clever, and funny comment, on what he later described as the UN’s ‘neo-colonialism’. It was a sharp comment, in other words, from the left. How do I know this? Because I was sitting with him, in the UN van, when he said it. As is so often the case, a liberal thug has twisted and distorted the very meaning of what Johnson had to say.

But then, reading what Hasan has had to say in the past, you can perhaps understand his contempt for the rest of us kufr scum:

‘The kaffar, the disbelievers, the atheists who remain deaf and stubborn to the teachings of Islam, the rational message of the Quran; they are described in the Quran as, quote, “a people of no intelligence”, Allah describes them as; not of no morality, not as people of no belief —people of “no intelligence” — because they’re incapable of the intellectual effort it requires to shake off those blind prejudices, to shake off those easy assumptions about this world, about the existence of God.