Video: Savagery and Moral Depravity

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Gates of Vienna 28 March 2011

Melanie Phillips is a well-known British anti-jihad author and a columnist for The Spectator. On March 13th, concerning the Itamar massacre, she wrote the following in her column:



Today the massacred Fogel family was buried in Jerusalem. And as anticipated, the moral depravity of the Arabs is finding a grotesque echo in the moral bankruptcy and worse of the British and American ‘liberal’ media…
So to the New York Times, it’s not the Arab massacre of a Jewish family which has jeopardised ‘peace prospects’ — because the Israelis will quite rightly never trust any agreement with such savages — but instead Israeli policy on building more homes, on land to which it is legally and morally entitled, which is responsible instead for making peace elusive. Twisted, and sick.
The progressive intelligentsia and their Muslim friends immediately went into apoplexy over Ms. Phillips’ words. To say such things about our friends the Arabs — how racist! How Islamophobic!
In Modern Multicultural Britain, one doesn’t just get angry at Islamophobia — one files an official complaint with the appropriate law enforcement authorities. And sure enough, that’s what happened shortly after the column was published. On March 18th the Grauniad reported:
A Melanie Phillips blogpost on the Spectator website which referred to the "moral depravity” of Arab "savages” is being investigated by the Press Complaints Commission.
The online comment piece, headlined "Armchair barbarism”, focused on media coverage of the murder of five members of a Jewish family in the West Bank settlement of Itamar by Palestinian militants earlier this month.
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The column, which also referred to coverage of the murders by CNN, the BBC and the Guardian – part of the group that publishes MediaGuardian.co.uk – prompted two complaints to the press watchdog, one of them from Engage, a group promoting Muslim engagement in British society.
Inayat Bunglawala, chair of Muslims4UK, said: "Her words went far beyond just denouncing the killings. It was a far more generalised racist outburst against Arabs as a whole…”
Bunglawala said he had also complained to the police about the column.
In the video below from an Israeli news program, Ms. Phillips defends her use of the phrases "moral depravity” and "such savages”. She also discusses the dereliction of the British press in its refusal to air the whole truth when reporting on Israel.
Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for YouTubing this video:In a post datelined tomorrow morning, The Independent expresses its disappointment that the police have been so busy with anarchist riots that they have not yet managed to act on the complaint against Ms. Phillips.

Muslims File Complaints over Melanie Phillips Column

Arutz Sheva 29 March 2011
By Gil Ronen

A scathing column by British pundit Melanie Phillips on Western silence regarding the murder of Jews has caused British Muslim groups to file complaints with the police. In the column, which appeared in The Spectator after the massacre of the Fogel family at Itamar, Phillips wrote that "as anticipated, the moral depravity of the Arabs is finding a grotesque echo in the moral bankruptcy and worse of the British and American ‘liberal’ media – a sickening form of armchair barbarism."
Phillips lambasted the New York Times for a piece that blamed Israel for throwing "already shaky peace efforts into a new tailspin" when it decided to build 500 housing units in Judea and Samaria after the Itamar massacre. (...)

 

Posted March 29th, 2011 by pk