Drawing lines in the dirt

Melanie Phillips on the firing of Dilpazier Aslam by the Guardian. Great read.

So Aslam was not fired because the Guardian thought -- as it said in its statement -- that his membership of Hizb ut Tahrir was "incompatible with his continued employment by the company". It had been perfectly happy, it seems, for its trainee to be a member of this organisation -- as long as no-one else knew about it. It was only when this fact became known that he was fired -- presumably to avoid further embarrassment.

AND, she ends,

So who were the ‘several colleagues and some senior editors’ who did know and yet chose to do nothing about it? What price the Guardian's anti-fascist credentials, when it is happy to be in bed with an anti-Jewish organisation that promotes religious fascism -- at least until this relationship is exposed? And what does this tell us about the Guardian and the role it is playing at a time of national emergency?

It is good for us to remind ourselves that this is a time of national emergency. We are at war. And the MSM, including the Leftwing Guardian are hiring our enemies to bolster their contempt for us.

Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom was even blunter, on "Why Rhethoric Matters:"

Here’s the thing: I am not blaming “the Left” en masse. But I am blaming those who are actively out to make political hay out of whatever the latest manufactured, ginned up outrage. And I think it’s time we started to forcefully push back against a political and media culture that is at least tangentially responsible for creating terrorists and their sympathizers based on false premises.

Read the whole thing.