Obviously the Daily Express defines "Muslims" as this grotty looking bloke holding his stupid placards (or as they are technically known - A4)
The story is about a bunch (3 of them) of Muslim "fundamentaslists who heckled the courtroom after Roshonara Choudhry was jailed for life for the attempted murder of her MPStephen Timms after she was caught up in radical Islamism and decided to take "revenge" on Mr. Timms by stabbing him for voting for the Iraq war. Now I may be a cynic; but does that headline have a dual implication, not just that some deluded blowhards made absolute dicks of themselves in a free court that would be abolished if these planks ever got their way. But that by extension the British Muslim population often take the same attitude with the country as a whole? Because it seems like crass labelling to me, and a deliberate distortion of events to put a greater rhetorical point across.
There is no excuse for headlines like this. Roy Greenslade has often described Richard Desmond as a rogue proprietor, who blatantly obfuscates and insinuates with his headlines (think the more lurid "Maddie" headlines.). This headline is up there with the "Muslim Schools Ban Our Culture", a rhetorical device designed to highlight how these alien fifth columnists are nothing but ungrateful traitors who loath "our way of life", and can never ever meet any common ground with "us". This is the mindset that made a 21 year old straight A student throw her life away in a senseless attack on someone who did something she didn't like, and why a loner from a suburb of Burnley had a fucking cache of weapons prepared for a race war. And this kind of mindset, of monolithic, mutually irreconcilable "camps" is all being indulged on a national newspapers front page headline available all over the country.
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