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I'd like to see you relocate to bradford in the midlands, or southall or ealing in london and be so high minded. The telegraph editors, are as well, hiding away in wealthy communities where the results of their actions are not felt.
The press is considered, in the UK, to be a genuine mouthpeice of a segment of people, not a private mouth to spout crap... and the telegraph has betrayed the interests of its public.
I emigrated away from the United states after major television stations ran slanderous and liabellous material about my religious group that permanently destroyed my business reputation and my career by creating a climate of fear, hatred and paranoia. It broke my finances, and i could not afford to take legal action to protect my rights to free religion (and make a living)... so i left the country because freedom of speech was grossly abused to attack nonchristian fringe meditation groups.
I've paid dearly for the glib choices of some editors to screw with my life by printing shit. The telegraph is a crap newsapaper to chose voluntarily to print inflamatory rhetoric that is not news, not religous insight, but pure abuse of historical framing to bring about social unrest so they can carry out their christian-white-mans britain (ONLY) adgenda. You support them, good for you. It makes you rather low, in my view, not someone defending anything noble.
Britain is not america. Free speech has caveats to not create hate crime, to not be liabellous or inciteful of violence. This poor choice by the telegraph is the editorial equivalent of arial sharon's march on the temple mount that brought about the infitada and the horrible deaths of 1000's of palestineans and israelis. Sure it was his free right to do that, and he did it to incite and create murder.
The right wing will seek to do such things, and folks like you can sit about on other continents and be high minded while other people pay in blood for these bad decisions.
I would issue the telegraph an intense injunction, that they will lose their license to be a newspaper if they incite violence amongst the religious communities of britain. This whole tension is brought about by the bush-alliance and supporting americans (your government) which many british muslims are totally against. So what is it to be, ? Can we be circumspect in print, to unify rather than create strife?... And can we grow up and see that the british culture is not america by any means, just because america has licensed the language.
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