[nomadking]

Originally Posted by Hugh

So, when I point out that you are utilising hyperbole (people being rounded up), and you fail consistently to back up your assertion, I am a "twunt"?

All I can say is



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Liddle - speaking of hyperbole....

So your evidence is something written by someone, who is avowedly anti-Labour and anti-Muslim, about something his wife told him, that isn't documented anywhere....

Sound.....

I did check his political background before posting.

At 16, he was a member of the Socialist Workers Party remaining a member for about a year, and a supporter of CND around the same time. He attended the London School of Economics (LSE) as a mature student, where he read Social Psychology.
His early career in journalism was with the South Wales Echo in Cardiff where he was a general news reporter and, for a time, the rock and pop writer. He worked between 1983 and 1987 as a speechwriter and researcher for the Labour Party.

He voted Labour.

A couple of weeks back I wrote an article headed: ‘Call me insane, but I’m voting Labour.’ Among the many hundreds of people who reacted with the rather predictable ‘Yes, you’re insane’ was my wife, Mrs Liddle

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The Labour leader's pledge to redefine Islamophobia as an aggravated crime will be cheered by child sex-grooming gangs in Rotherham and election-stealers in Tower Hamlets
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“We are going to make sure it is marked on people’s records, with the police to make sure they root out Islamophobia as a hate crime,” said Miliband. “We are going to change the law so we make it absolutely clear of [sic] our abhorrence of hate crime and Islamophobia. It will be the first time that the police will record Islamophobic attacks right across the country.”

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Now in an interview with the Muslim News Ed Miliband states he would make Islamophobia a crime if he gets into power.
Of course any bias, or threat, or criminal activity targeted at anyone from an ethnic minority cannot be tolerated but we don’t need any additional legislation as there are, quite rightly, laws already in place to deal with such cases. What we do need is the ability to highlight the problems faced by a small section of British Pakistanis and demand they challenge it.

Just because you don't like something, doesn't mean it isn't true.

For a "non-existent" comment, there are an awful lot of people around the world who commented on it at the time.