“Political correctness is turning lethal. Stockport Council is now using resource packs provided by the Muslim Council of Britain to teach schoolchildren about Islam, an initiative which is to be extended across the nation.” Melanie Phillips in another frothing-at-the-mouth attack on the MCB.
Melanie Phillips’s Diary, 30 May 2005
Here’s a further reason why it would be a mistake to dismiss Robert Spencer as a politically marginal fruitcake. Mad Mel (whose views reach a mass audience via her Daily Mail column) not only bases her article on a post from Spencer’s blog (see here), she even borrows the title for her article from him – “Dhimmi Britain”.
Spencer, for his part, reciprocates with a tribute to “the incomparable Melanie Phillips”.
For a reply to Phillips by Yusuf Smith, see Indigo Jo Blogs, 30 May 2005