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For your delectation, I reprint this correspondence (from Media Guardian):
On October 15, India Knight wrote in her column in the Sunday Times headline "Muslims are the new Jews" where she attacked the negative views of Jack Straw and feminists towards the Muslim veil. This email exchange followed shortly after:
To: letters@sunday-times.co.uk
From: Julie BurchillDear India Knight,
I dare you to walk into any mosque - after covering your filthy female head in the Islamist fashion, of course - and spread your glad tidings that "Muslims are the new Jews."
You'll be lucky if you get out alive.
Yours sincerely,
JB
PS: I see that your new book is a compilation of 'dirty bits' from novels. I'd love to know how this fits in with your new found love of feminine modesty and discretion.To: Julie Burchill
From: India KnightOh, for fuck's sake. I don't have a "newfound love of modesty and discretion" - I just don't despise people on the basis of what they wear.
Regards,
IKTo: India Knight
From: Julie BurchillWhat, not even the working class slags in crop tops you're forever slagging off, you hypocritical snob?
To: Julie Burchill
From: India KnightI do NOT slag off working class people in crop tops, you fucking loon. Where? When? Why would I slag them off? I am many things but I am not a snob. God, you're driving me mad. Go away.
To: India Knight
From: Julie BurchillI wrote to the letters page, not YOU, you stalking cretin. Why dont you fuck off and turn yet another of your husbands gay?
The more I think about India Knight's piece, the more I come to the conclusion that, even if she doesn't hate Jews, she has developed a remarkably good impression of someone who does.
MessageSpace
Begin once remarked that "goyim kill goyim and they come for the Jews." It is so true. When a Danish newspaper publishes caricatures of Muhammad, the Iranians retaliate by holding a Holocaust cartoon competition. When all hell breaks out over the wearing of the veil, a leading UK writer attack the way Jewish women dress and compares them unfavourably to Muslims.
Anti-Semitism really is a fucking (thank you Ms. Burchill) disease.
Stephen, thanks for logging into that site so I don't have to (I despise the Grauniad with a vengeance).
'fuck's sake'
'fucking loon'
'fuck off'
Is this what passes for critique between 'journalists' in a public forum? I'm more than capable of swearing with the best of them and do so *very* frequently, but I'd rather thought that people who make their living with words might want to create a more structured argument before going nuclear and calling their opponent a swyving simpleton.
Stephen,
If your going to have a dig at the "closet" anti-semites, why not do it more publicly?
Where has "keeping our P's & Q's" as Jews got us?
God I love Julie Burchill!
I have read Knight's piece twice. Where, precisely, do you locate the anti-Semitism that you are accusing her of?