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Originally Posted by Damien
It's becoming more and more obvious that the book was simply not considered good enough for the awards and the company behind it forwarded it to someone with a axe to grind and both decided to use the 'muslims ban xxx' formula to get attention and stir up anti-muslim feeling, andthe papers and public are more than happy to help
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The early reports suggested this book has already won some other awards, so I'm not sure you have any basis for saying the book was 'not good enough' ... unless you've read some commentary on it somewhere?
I think what has happened here is exactly what Littlejohn said happened, in his own unique way: a bunch of well-meaning idiots taking offence on someone else's behalf, without bothering to check whether said someone really would be offended.
It is genuinely unfair that the book was banned from being entered in the competition on that basis, just as it's now unfair that these well-meaning idiots, by the Law of Unintended Consequences, have simply handed more ammunition to those who despise the very people they set out to protect.
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Originally Posted by BBKing
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Like I said, London isn't England, it's almost a separate country now. Lot bigger and richer than Scotland too, eh?<snippage>
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What do you expect, when the Scots are running the place?
