Me too Sid. When I finally realised that I was an alien, it was a great relief.

Well that was a complete pain in the bum!

Sunny – With reference to the MCB, silly? yes, but understandably paranoid.

The Dude – If we were as successful as you think we are, we wouldn’t all be so paranoid.

Rumbold – I think the Tebbit Cricket Test applied to every one of us who isn’t ethnically British. And that includes all the East Europeans living here.

Depends if you think the same should apply when they write about British Indians or Pakistanis supporting those countries during Cricket. After all, the Tebbit Test was designed for them in mind. Why is it never questioned on that basis?

While Melanie Philips gets it wrong in many respects, she is onto something when she talks about the anti-Israeli bias running through much of the media. No other country has to defend their right to exist.

Slightly off the point for this thread, Stephen Pollard wrote in the Telegraph today on a variation of Lord Tebbit’s cricket test, on Jews choosing their side for tomorrow’s football match:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=243GGHDQJ05WDQFIQMGCFFWAVCBQUIV0?xml=/opinion/2007/03/23/do2302.xml

The BBC have something similar:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6486611.stm

Unfair or harmless?

For example, here I criticise her stance on multiculturalism.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/sunny_hundal/2006/06/londonistan_versus_londonstani.html

Here I criticise her absurd belief that the only thing to stop Islamist terrorism is a growth in Christian fundamentalism!
http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/877

Her silly book:
http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/776

None of these even cover her views on Israel etc, though that is another source of comedy.

Finally, you say:
Perhaps if you were part of group of people constantly criticised and demonised, you might start to understand where her paranoia comes from.

Would you apply the same standards to the MCB and their silly friends then?

“British universities are selling the pass on freedom of speech big time. The decision by Leeds university to cancel the proposed lecture by Matthias Küntzel on the links between the Nazis and Islamic antisemitism was absolutely shameful. As the Telegraph reported:”

and so on…
You get the picture.

Reaches the parts other Muslim-worriers don’t have the license to reach.

I agree with this completely, although I don’t agree with every point that she makes she is thought out and consistent.

If she was to put every arguement as Jewish people against the world, I’d have have the same contempt for her opinons as I reserve for Sunny’s biogotted Brown people vs White arguements that he regularly bands around here and on CiF.

TFI

Do you mean Dissent?