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Kilroy does it again

Many of you already know Robert Kilroy-Silk, the morning chat show host on BBC1 and the man with a history of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab slurs.

Remember when he said: “they (Muslims) are backward and evil, and if it is being racist to say so then I must be and happy and proud to be so”?
[The Daily Express, 15th January 1995]

Well, he has done it again. This time he has written an article entitled 'We owe Arabs nothing' in the Express on Sunday which simply serves to incite hatred against Arabs and Muslims. We are placing the original article at the end of this E-mail and we suggest that you read the article and take the following action immediately. If we fail to act then we would only have ourselves to blame when someone attacks us. So action time!

Course of Action

Contact Greg Dyke (greg.dyke@bbc.co.uk), Director-General of BBC and demand that Robert Kilroy-Silk is sacked. Highlight the following:

- Robert Kilroy-Silk has a history of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab slurs

- He does not differentiate between those who may have perpetuated a crime and the ordinary people instead he marginalises all the Arabs/Muslims

- BBC is a publicly funded body and must not be seen as supporting hate-filled bigots like Kilroy

- By employing Kilroy-Silk, BBC is endorsing Kilroy's racist & Islamophobic views

also

Contact Martin Townsend (martin.townsend@express.co.uk), Editor of Sunday Express and demand that Robert Kilroy-Silk is not allowed to write for this newspaper. Highlight the following:

- Robert Kilroy-Silk has a history of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab slurs

- He does not differentiate between those who may have perpetuated a crime and the ordinary people instead he marginalises all the Arabs/Muslims

- By allowing him to continue writing for the Express newspaper, you are endorsing Kilroy's racist & Islamophobic views

As always, be polite but assertive and please send us a BCC.

May Allah reward you.

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We owe Arabs nothing

Robert Kilroy-Silk, Express on Sunday, 4th Jan 2004

WE ARE told by some of the more hysterical critics of the war on terror that "it is destroying the Arab world". So? Should we be worried about that? Shouldn't the destruction of the despotic, barbarous and corrupt Arab states and their replacement by democratic governments be a war aim?

After all, the Arab countries are not exactly shining examples of civilisation, are they? Few of them make much contribution to the welfare of the rest of the world.

Indeed, apart from oil - which was discovered, is produced and is paid for by the West - what do they contribute?

Can you think of anything?

Anything really useful? Anything really valuable? Something we really need, could not do without?

No, nor can I. Indeed, the Arab countries put together export less than Finland.

We're told that the Arabs loathe us. Really? For liberating the Iraqis?

For subsidising the lifestyles of people in Egypt and Jordan, to name but two, for giving them vast amounts of aid? For providing them with science, medicine, technology and all the other benefits of the West? They should go down on their knees and thank God for the munificence of the United States.

What do they think we feel about them? That we adore them for the w ay they murdered more than 3,000 civilians on September 11 and then danced in the hot, dusty streets to celebrate the murders?

That we admire them for the cold-blooded killings in Mombasa, Yemen and elsewhere? That we admire them for being suicide bombers, limb-amputators, womenrepressors? I don't think the Arab states should start a debate about w hat is really loathsome.

But why, in any case, should we be concerned that they feel angry and loathe us? The Arab world has not exactly earned our respect, has it?

Iran is a vile, terrorist-supporting regime - part of the axis of evil. So is the Saddam Hussein-supporting Syria. So is Libya. Indeed, most of them chant support for Saddam.

That is to say they support an evil dictator who has gassed hundreds of thousands of their fellow Arabs and tortured and murdered thousands more. How can they do this and expect our respect?

Why do they imagine that only they can feel anger, call people loathsome? It is the equivalent of all the European nations coming out in support of Hitler the moment he was attacked by the US, because he was European, despite the fact that he was attempting to exterminate the Jews - and Arabs.

Moreover, the people who claim we are loathsome are currently threatening our civilian populations with chemical and biological weapons. They are promising to let suicide bombers loose in Western and American cities. They are trying to terrorise us, disrupt our lives.

And then they expect us to be careful of their sensibilities? We have thousands of asylum seekers from Iran, Iraq, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries living happily in this country on social security.

This shows what their own people think of the Arab regimes, doesn't it? There is not one single British asylum seeker in any Arab country.

That says it all about which country deserves the epithet loathsome.

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