Rod Liddle's description of "Somali Muslim savages" has been criticised by leading UK Muslims, as has his insinuation that the Left do not criticise extremism.
Rod Liddle’s description of “Somali Muslim savages” and the implication that British Muslims and the Left are uncritical of practices such as beheading, stoning and mutilation – and seek to silence such criticism – have been brushed aside by leading mainstream Muslims.
Maajid Nawaz, Director of the Quilliam Foundation, told Left Foot Forward:
“If it’s offensive, it’s offensive, and it should be criticised and we’ll criticise it – and we’ll get criticised for that. But the people criticising us are themselves the extremists.
“Where Rod Liddle gets into trouble is when putting this together with everything else.”
Liddle, who’s in the running to be the next editor of the Independent – which Left Foot Forward reported yesterday – had written in the Spectator on November 19:
“Time for a quick update on what the Muslim savages are up to. Here’s a story from today’s Daily Mail, with a cut-out-keep picture, of Somali Muslim savages stoning to a twenty year old woman for the crime of adultery.“
He concluded his article with a sarcastic sideswipe at Somalis:
“Incidentally, many Somalis have come to Britain as immigrants recently, where they are widely admired for their strong work ethic, respect for the law and keen, piercing, intelligence.”
And on Saturday, in a column on the now-abandoned Islam4Uk march through Wootton Bassett, he wrote:
“F*** off back to where you’re from, then, you Muslims.”
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Polaris
Keep digging, you will hit bedrock eventually. Honestly your pejorative reporting makes the new-left, more right than the old one – look positively vindictive and intolerant.
Like it or not, not as it would appear, many ‘ordinary voters’ have sympathy with Liddle’s views – the inability of New Labour to engage with immigration and Islamic terrorism in a convincing and credible manner makes them look ridiculous. Implying anybody that does is a racist then refusing to discuss is a lazy rejection of the responsibility of politicians to engage with the electorate.
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Liz McShane
Polaris – i think LFF is right to expose and challenge Rod Liddle’s views especially as he is being touted as the next editor of The Indy.
The danger with people like him is that their lazy and populist analysis of things in this case
in this case Muslims is that he uses the extreme views and actions of a minority to tar the whole muslim population.
This happened to the Irish in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s and just encourages and panders to racism and racists . He must be the BNP’s new poster boy.
JamieSW
RT @leftfootfwd: Latest Rod Liddle outburst: “F*** off back to where you’re from, then, you Muslims.” http://is.gd/64LCQ