Melanie Phillips is inspiration behind Tea Party anti-Muslim leader

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“@leftfootfwd: Melanie Phillips is inspiration behind Tea Party anti-Muslim leader http://bit.ly/bTLQQY” Phillips must distance herself NOW!

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UK's Mad Mel is the inspiration behind leader of Tea Party's anti-muslim crusade. Just blogged: http://bit.ly/avXLMH

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I thought LFF was for “evidence-based blogging”. This post hardly meets that standard does it.

http://libertarianbulldog.blogspot.com/2010/10/association-is-all-evidence-they-need.html

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RT @jossgarman: UK's Mad Mel is the inspiration behind leader of Tea Party's anti-muslim crusade. Just blogged: http://bit.ly/avXLMH

I am no fan of Melanie Phillips and usually turn the page when presented by an article by her but you do rather prove her point

“There is now a real danger than anyone who opposes Islamic supremacism will find themselves vilified not only as ‘Islamophobes’ but also as BNP fellow-travellers.”

LFF doesn’t do irony does it!

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http://bit.ly/bTLQQY Tea Party/EDL ties developing. Worrying to say the least, though it at least makes both groups look even more stupid.

[...] now seem conducive to this. Dagenham MP Jon Cruddas observes that the English Defence League is coalescing into a movement [...]

[...] now seem conducive to this. Dagenham MP Jon Cruddas observes that the English Defence League is coalescing into a movement [...]

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I suggest LFF goes easy on this general topic,as north london suburban views are a million miles away from traditional labour voters, and the electorate as a whole.The EDL is irrelevant, but a huge swathe of voters are far from inclined to have the UK turned into a version of the US.

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Read this in the Observer and was totally unsurprised.

Talk about all in it together!

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Joss Garman – I thought you were the “Climate Change Alarmist” on this blog? Oh of course thanks to the coalition (not your precious Ed Miliband) you’re looking for something else to do after the closure of Heathrow expansion. Fair enough.

But to try to smear a woman entitled to an opinion is a disgrace. You don’t challenge her views or theories just try to link her to a far right bunch of nutters to write a highly speculative and false article.

The way you do this is typical New Labour – smear the messenger but never never engage with a counter argument of your own. It is typical of how you try to force your unproven and minority views on other issues – if someone doesn’t share your flawed opinion they must be mad.

Rupert Read is another one of those arrogant and unpleasant characters who do exactly the same – it is intellectually stupid and makes me wish the left still had thinkers in government – Charles Clarke is an excellent example. (And Ed Miliband interestingly). But not you Joss.

And finally this article shows exactly why the left in Britain* is completely clueless as to the needs of the working classes in this country…

*(With one or two notable exceptions)

Anon – what the working classes in Britain don;t need are groups such as EDL who exploit heir vulnerabilities and spread messages of hate, ignorance & bigotry.

I am glad you seem to be positive towards Labour’s New Leader though!

Liz I completely agree.

And, Mr Mouse, as I have said before, Runway 3 was a mistake by the last government and scrapping it was a good thing done by this government.

But as far as green issues are concerned, can you tell me any other things this government is doing that are green?

How is threatening the very existance of the Department for Energy and Climate Change green?

Liz – Begrudgingly positive I admit Liz. I have to say his speech got me.. not the content exactly but for once he speaks as if he’s human rather than the “Speak your weight” machine that was Gordon Brown.

Something else was his nasty ruthless streak by challenging his brother – for once Labour has a leader with some balls. Yes I actually think as long as he can get a grip of the unions he’s OK.

Regarding this article I agree wholeheartedly about the need to challenge fascists anywhere they raise their ugly head but NOT by attacking a woman who’s views you disagree with just because a political party in the States may or may not admire here views. That’s just plainly nasty and not needed – challenge her views but not her as a person please.

Mr.Sensible – Preventing numerous unnecessary government Jags being used instead of using the tube – there’s one for starters…

Anon – I think the post is valid because every thuggish movement looks for an intellectual and other parties to act as their fig-leaf and in this case EDL is looking to Melanie P. and the Tea Party. She needs to get her act together and disassociate herself pronto unless the EDL is the only constituency she wants to talk to.

Simon Landau

It is not for me to fight Melanie Phillips’ battles for her, but if you read the one article by her that this post links to in full (http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=689), you will find that she clearly condemns the EDL for pursuing the same demonisation of all Muslims as the BNP. It is not her fault that the person who wrote this post has so grossly misrepresented her views.

Anon – ‘begrudgingly positive’ – as that’s coming from you, that’s pretty complimentary!

Melanie Phillips relishes saying & thinking ‘the unthinkable’….& she should be challenged each time she does.

[...] nationality, evoking criticisms that at the heart of the movement is racism. Further still, reports have emerged that the English Defence League are forging links with the tea party movement, which [...]

Liz – Hard to believe but there is nothing in your comments I disagree with – quite the reverse in fact.

I’m off to sit down and have a cup of coffee to get over it!!!!

Simon Landau – Agreed but it’s smearing her for something someone else said and that doesn’t seem very fair…

I very much doubt if Melanie Griffiths agrees with muslims’ blowing up people on the tube or flying planes into buildings, even though it’s a sign of courage, piety and devotion worthy of enormous honour in that fine religion, so she sounds pretty right wing to me.

The mentally ill leading the mentally ill in to battle against more mentally ill. Our entire world is being pulled apart by mentalists.

http://bit.ly/bvvv5u <~~~Left Foot Forward – evidence based blogging

listen Gaarman, sir, you either an illiterate or a mischievous nutter, none of you say about Melanie’s correct, have you ever bothered to read what she says, ha?

This article is the biggest load of tosh I have ever read – on so many levels I cannot be bothered to try to refute it…

[...] me state catagorically for the record that Melanie Phillips, while fighting the fight has never been an inspiration for me or my work. Frankly, I never thought of her. She equivocates on the source of the threat in Islamic [...]

Is there a reason why you are lying about Melanie Phillips being behind Pam Geller and then lying again by suggesting Geller is some sort of racist or bigot? Or indeed that Geller has any leadership role in the Tea Party grassroots movement in the USA?

This is a disgusting post, shameful.

They don’t call her ‘Mad Mel’ for nothing.

Melanie Phillips has morphed from controversial UK social commentator to 24/7 propagandist for the Israeli Right.

She whiteweashes Israel by painting it as a defender of western values and defender against radical Islam, and in so doing she justifies every act of Israeli aggression and expansion, and repositions every act of Palestinian, Hezbollah defence as barbarity and provocation.

While the Spectator blog plays to similar race hate extremists, her veiled appearances on the BBC and writings in the Daily Mail present her as British to the core, with no trace of Jewish ancestry. She ensures no reference is made to her religion in her BBC or Daily Mail biographies, prefering neutral readers to think of her as an objective voice, instead of a paid up extremist.

She is no better than a fifth columnist, placing her undisclosed interest in Israel before that of the country she professes to represent.

[...] or that they also support the neofascist BNP party. Melanie Phillips is currently angry at being represented as an EDL supporter by a leftist blogger.  The main reason why Ms Phillips is being represented [...]

She’s a foaming Zionist, and as such, a massive supporter of the far-right as long as it’s persecuting Muslims and not Jews, so it’s hardly any surprise the Tea Party movement look to her for inspiration.

Gotta love how the EDL claim to be defending England. Israel more like.