“Nakoula Basseley Nakoula doesn’t sound nice. He has even been in prison for his lies. He was stupid to make the film, and stupid to put it on YouTube (if it was him who put it on YouTube) and stupid to make a film that’s so bad. But on one thing, he’s right. ‘There’s an angry mob in the street,’ says a character in his stupid little film, as he points at a group of men in long robes, with long beards. Yes, there’s ‘an angry mob in the street’, and it’s getting bigger every day, and what it calls itself is Islam.”

Christina Patterson offers her thoughts on the Innocence of Muslims controversy.

Independent, 18 September 2012

This is the same Christina Patterson who last year informed Indy readers that there are “a growing number of people who are trying to turn whole areas, like Waltham Forest, into ‘Sharia controlled zones'”.