The critic had better be pretty darned sure he has his facts correct. I am curently wading through the Kamm/Stuart A business over Chomsky. As for Gove, he always appeared to me to be a pretty reasonable person. Welcome back - I wasn't expecting it so soon so must add you now to the little Sunday roundup.

Take, just for example, these deeply offensive ramblings:

"Bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has written that the repressive campaign waged against the second intifada by Sharon in autumn 2000 provided Al-Qaeda’s opportunity: as the corpses of dead children piled up, al-Zawahiri realised that here was the rallying cry that could unify the Muslim world. All that was needed was a huge strike and the US system in the Middle East would begin to unravel. And so it has indeed proved, to the peril of us all."

1) Bin Laden mentioned nothing about Israel in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Later it was given as one of many reasons for the attacks. If anything motivated Bin Laden it was the presence of U.S. troops on Saudi soil.

2) The idea that 9/11 could have been planned in less than 12 months from start to finish is utterly risible.

3) He makes absolutely no mention of the many hundreds of Jewish dead deliberately murdered by Islamofascist homicide bombers. Indeed, he describes Israel's desperate campaign to ward off the genocidal campaign waged against it as an act of repression, one in which it was Israel which was deliberately murdering children.

4) His claims in 3 above together with his notion that it is the Jewish State which was responsible for 9/11 and every other Islamofascist terrorist outrage are grotesque blood libels. Indeed, these are ideas which would have been immediately embraced by Hitler.

Yet another reason why the Jews of Britain should leave without delay (the problem is not necessarily with the piece or even the Times but the rotten society which will nod approvingly). And if they're not convinced, here are a few more:

1) The genocide of European Jewry could not have occurred without the almost complete and willing collaboration of Europe including Great Britain.

2) At war's end and for the many decades that followed the nations of Europe actively protected virtually all of the very worst murderers of Jews. Nor did they do anything to return the vast bulk of the property which was stolen from the Jews who had been murdered by their gentile neighbours.

3) Europe actively works for the destruction of Israel both officially and through the media. The deligitimisation of Israel is easily the most widely popular political cause in Europe.

4) Anti-Semitism in Europe is going through the roof. In the UK, city mayors make openly anti-Semitic comments, major newspapers are full to the brim with anti-Semitic diatribes and Jewish girls are beaten within an inch of their lives on public transport.

How little Britain has deserved the enormous contribution of her Jewish "citizens." How very important it is that the Jews of Britain leave as soon as possible.

A final word about Dalyrymple. If at some point his three children are blow to pieces as a result of a terrorist attack in New Delhi and he and Ms. Fraser have spent the day trying to identify body parts, I would earnestly request that they please calm down and investigate their consciences as to where the real responsibility lies.

Most of what Dalrymple writes is an attack on Israel or Jews disguised as something else. This is no different.

As for his plea for Westerners to understand Islam, I haven't read Gove's book but I have begun Wright's. It's very good. It begins with Sayid Qutb's sojourn in America, which the Islamic fundamentalist found to be empty and corrupt.

So, by Dalrymple's own recommendation, we should read Wright's book. Wright, an excellent reporter, tells us that we are up against an enemy who hates us for what we are, not for what we do.

Which is the exact opposite of what Dalrymple believes.

Go figure.

Particularly if you are at work, I would advise against clicking on any of the Chinese characters above.