Comments on: Saturday 9 July

by: Steve

Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:07:18 +0000

You may think "plan B isn’t really the place for this" but it was ET who made the following ludicrous claim in the first place:

"Obviously a life in Iraq isn’t worth any less than a life in London - and I find it extremely hard to accept Blair condemning ‘barbaric’ acts of terrorism when he’s supportive of George W’s indiscriminate killing - but it hurts a lot more, being so close to home."

Ironically my original anodyne post (with the link to the Nick Cohen article that the above two posts refer to) has been deleted. Hmmmm….

by: sam

Fri, 22 Jul 2005 07:41:38 +0000

i am pretty sure ‘islamism’ is the noun associated with the much touted recent adjective in the media "islamist" which many reporters now just use as a synonym for "totalitarian imposition of traditional islam."

as such, islamism has two heads, one wahabbi and one shia. but usually, the media is talking about the wahabbi version largely coming from saudi arabia and yemen.

i agree that now that fundamentalism has become the west’s problem, suddenly all these reporters front like they are ‘experts’ relating to islam, when we are lucky if they’ve even read one book about it… but believers themselves are often ignorant of the many subdivisions and how they impact the west’s perception of a whole ancient religion.

anyway, plan B isn’t really the place for this so sorry…

by: Manjeet

Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:58:50 +0000

Mr Cohen is in danger of being quite reactionary in his views also referring to "Islamism" of which I have never heard. I have read the article in it’s entirety but some lines stick in my gut.
He writes:
"At no point did they grasp that Islamism was a reactionary movement as great as fascism, which had claimed millions of mainly Muslim lives in the Sudan, Iran, Algeria and Afghanistan and is claiming thousands in Iraq. As with fascism, it takes a resolute dunderheadedness to put all the responsibility on democratic governments for its existence."
This is quite wrong - Islam is an ancient religion and has no relation to Fascism any more than Christianity. It is a pointless and incorrect comparison.

by: Joe Stannard

Tue, 12 Jul 2005 17:14:09 +0000

The intelligence we were given at the time suggested that it was THE Stevie Chick. As a matter of international security we had no choice but to act on that information.

by: THE stevie chick

Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:27:44 +0000

i’m afraid you are mistaken… it was A stevie chick, one of a number of cyborg decoys i have operating all over the world, to confuse would-be assassins!

by: Joe Stannard

Sun, 10 Jul 2005 22:03:07 +0000

After further investigation we can confirm it was indeed THE Stevie Chick!