Joining the hypocrites

It is that time of year again. The time for peace and goodwill to all men. Mind you, goodwill towards all men is getting harder by the minute, what with those psychopathic murderers in the Sudan and in Zimbabwe. When I look back and remember the rubbish that was written by phoneys like Christopher Hitchens against the great Ian Smith, it is hard to have Christian thoughts. Some might say it served poor Smithy right. He fought for a country which then turned against him and did its utmost to squeeze the life out of his regime. Today’s Zimbabwe is the result, and those who howled abuse against Rhodesia are still around blathering and boring our pants off.

A couple of Speccies ago, I read Rod Liddle’s take on the Oxford debate and David Irving. I agreed with what he wrote — that Oxford was right to hold the debate — but I thought he laid on the abuse about how repulsive Irving is a bit too much. After all, has Irving murdered anyone? Has he incited people to kill? His crime was to have been a passive recorder of history, however mistaken he may have been in his interpretation of it. His denial of the Holocaust, which he denies, has cost him dearly — he has no income, no money and no home. And he has spent more than a year in jail for something he said ten years ago. The Queen, on the other hand, under orders of course, recently gave a state dinner for a Saudi kleptocrat who finances jihadists to murder infidels, us, and that particular kleptocrat also finances mosques in which imams teach the young to go out and kill us. So I ask you, dear readers, now that it’s Christmas-time, who has done us more harm, Irving, or those who invited Abdullah over here and give permission for giant mosques to be built? All one has to do is to read the interview by Mary Wakefield (soon to become the third Mrs Taki) with Ayaan Hirsi Ali in the same issue to see what the Islamists have in store for us.